Well, the girls have been in school for a little over a week now and they both seem to be enjoying it. I haven’t gotten the complete report yet, but it seems as though they like their teachers and they both have friends in their classes. We took a few pictures while walking to school on the first day. Hailey and Mallory were both excited and Jack was ready to fight crime and keep Gotham free of super-villains.

A couple weeks ago the girls went to play with their friends down the street and they came home with their faces all painted up. Their friends mom is an artist apparently and I guess they somehow talked her into painting them up. Of course when they got home they refused to wash their faces until I had taken pictures.

Emily found some “cute” fabric and decided to make the girls some new Sunday dresses. Here they are doing their modeling thing. I think posing for the camera is their favorite part of new clothes. We definitely have a family full of posers (as I’ve mentioned before).

Being that it’s conference weekend, I thought I’d share a quick post about praying. It’s funny how certain “prayer phrases” are adopted by different families. I know that my family has several that are incorporated into almost every prayer. But Hailey and Mallory have invented a few phrases of their own that I thought I would share.

One that Hailey frequently uses (I think it started when we told her to include more in her prayer than blessing the food) is to pray for our house. Now, this in itself is fine, but the thing I find amusing is how she says it:

“Please bless our house so we can live in it.”

I guess that’s the purpose of our house though so it’s hard to argue with it.

Mallory, on the other hand, has adopted a phrase that we’re not quite sure what it means. Initially this came out of some confusion as to what we were instructing her to say. Early in her praying career, we were leading her in a prayer one day and told her to say “thank you for this day”, but what she heard was something else. She now knows to say “thank you for this day” but she still uses the “incorrect” phrase quite often. But I suppose there’s nothing wrong with saying:

“We thank you for this pray.”

I suppose the opportunity to pray is indeed something to be thankful for. Silly kids.

This past Saturday evening I decided to run and fill the fuel tank in the Jeep because it was basically empty and I didn’t really want to have to worry about doing it Monday morning on my way to work.  It was getting late-ish, but we had just arrived home from dinner at the neighbors and the girls were anything but tired so they decided to come with me.  We drove down to the nearest Maverik and I hopped out to start the pump.  I got things started and then jumped back in the jeep because it was rather chilly and I’m a cold wuss.  As we sat in the Jeep waiting for the tank to fill Mallory very seriously asked me if gas came from trees.  I was a tad confused about how she would have come to that conclusion until I looked over and noticed the Maverik sign…  

Mallory had obviously deduced that gas came from trees because there were trees on the sign.  I chuckled to myself and then tried to think of the easiest way to explain where gas comes from without getting into an incredibly long and frustrating conversation with a 4 year old.  I decided to oversimplify a bit and said “well…  gas comes from petroleum that comes out of the ground and petroleum is made from dead dinosaurs.”  There was a little bit of discussion about how dinosaurs could turn into oil, but once the girls were satisfied with my explanation, Hailey’s mad deductive reasoning skills kicked in and she made the following observation…

“So that means when we jump over the oil spots on the garage floor, we’re really jumping over dinosaurs.”

Hard to argue with that.