State Quarter Collection

So Little Princess developed an interest in the state quarters earlier this summer. We suprised her with a State Quarter Collection Book for her birthday!

She has taken her collection very seriously and has almost completed the series. On one of our recent hockey tournament weekends, she mistakenly put a five dollar bill in the quarter machine. It proved to be worthwhile, because she was able to add a lot of quarters to her collection!

You can find this book at Amazon. We actually discovered it at a Borders store that was closing.  Saw it and knew immediately it would be a great gift for Little Princess. 
Now we have a younger brother who would like to start his own collection.  Hint, hint Grandmas and Grandpas!  He put his allowance in the quarter machine at the ice rink this week to help start his collection. 

I also wanted to let all of you dear friends, family and readers out there know, I am creating a tab/page specifically on behalf of Little Princess.  This page will list the remaining quarters she is need of to complete her collection.  If you happen to come across one and choose to share it with her, she would be thrilled!

New Perspective on Bedtime!

Flutter Nutter just rushed downstairs with sooo much excitement and announced, "I get to go to bed! I am soooo happy! Daddy says I can go to bed. Now I don't have to be tired. I love him soo much, infinity beyond zero and all around the earth millions of times!"

Now I know, instead of saying "Go to bed." I need to say, "You can go to bed now, so you won't be tired."

Mystery solved.

Random Conversations!

The girls are loom knitting. A lot of loom knitting is happening here. Aunt Sharon has ordered 26 hats and scarves. So when they aren't sleeping, eating or doing their school work, their fingers are busy. We were in the car tonight and a discussion was started about making hats for babies at the hospital for next summer. Patterns, designs and colors are free for the imagination while their fingers are busy. This particular idea was about babies born on the Fourth of July and having patriotic hats awaiting them. Little Princess didn't want to exclude babies that were already in the hospital. What about the babies born on July 2nd or 3rd and maybe had wet lung?
Wet lung? Yes, she knows about wet lung. She has heard about her birth story and the day and a half she spent in the NICU. However, she doesn't know what wet lung is and asks me. But before I can respond, Flutter Nutter excitedly announces, "I know what wet lung is!"
Fun Mom, a lot quicker than her mom, responds with, "Tell us what it is Flutter Nutter!"
His response: Wet lung is when you take your shirt off and get wet all over!
Quietly, my shoulders shake and quiver and I compose myself before telling him, not quite. I then proceed to answer Little Princess's question. But I get his logic and I really enjoy learning about the world through his eyes.