It Had To Happen On Earth Day, Didn't It?

Dear Earth,

I know it's your day today and that in celebration of you, I'm supposed to make extra efforts to conserve and respect the gift you are. 
I can only say I'm sorry for what happened this morning.  I only meant to let the shower water run for a couple of minutes to warm up, really.  But see, I got distracted by Cannon and his mucus and fever.  I didn't mean to let the hot water run for a half hour without me inside, really. 
Will you forgive me?

Sincerely, Julie (a fan)

Do You Ever Feel Like You've Been Blogging

...but you really haven't.  I guess that's been me for the last several weeks.  I thought I was keeping things pretty updated, but apparently that was only in my sleep.  I think I actually do write blog posts in my mind while I drift off to sleep at night.

I have every intention of picking things back up soon.  Really, I do.

I'm Sorry, What???

Brigham just opened the back door, stood at the threshold, and took a whiz on the steps. 

Wha???????

Conversations

Trying to convince Lily that it really was okay for her to eat her lollipop before we got home from church,
Lily:  Mom, no matter how many times you say it, the answer will still be,  "I can't."

Brigham:  Mom, can I be the real Spiderman one day?

Chloe, mostly asleep while I took her to the bathroom in the middle of the night :  If you want to catch the chickens, you, um, have to, um, be, um, really quick.
Must've been a cool dream...

Brigham flipping out as the toilet overflows after he flushes it:  Mom!!!!  My tinko got wiwwy wiwwy big and it was so so big that it came out of the toiyet and I'm so so sowwy.
Hey, at least he flushed this time...

Cannon:  Biggum (Brigham), Wiway (Lily), Woway (Chloe)

Dinner conversation...
Chloe:  I'll spell a word.  L-A-T-E
Stanton:  Late.  Okay, how about P-L-A-T-E?
Chloe:  Plate.
Lily:  S-T-A-R-B-A-R-S-T
Me:  Starbarst?  (pretty impressive spelling!)
Lily:  Starburst!!! 
Okay, how about T-U-T-E? 
Me:  Toot!  C-U-T-E!
Chloe:  Cute!
Brigham:  Okay, how about E-R-S-C?
Stanton & Me:  Ersc??
Brigham:  Cucumber!!

Brigham's had a cold with accompanying eye boogers...
Me:  You've got boogers in your eyes, Brig.  We need to clean them out.
Brigham in that, "Are you kidding me?!" voice:  We don't get boogeys in aye eyes, Mom!  We'ye supposed to have boogeys in aye nose!!!!

Brigham woke up with a bad dream....
Brigham:  I had a scayy dyeam.
Me:  What was it about?
Brigham:  Jokeyr and Pengin.
Me:  I'm so sorry, Buddy.
Brigham:  I don't want to dyeam about them anymoye, Mom.  I want to have good guys in my dreams, Mom, not bad guys.
Me:  Maybe we could say a prayer and ask Heavenly Father to help you dream about good guys, Buddy.
I pray....
Brigham:  Mom!  I saw da good guys why you weye pyaing!

Brigham:  Mom, I was about to fwow up.
Me:  Oh, that's not good!
Brigham:  Yeah, when I stuck my finger all the way down back there.

Lily:  Mom, what's the name of that big building back there?
Me:  It's called "Lowe's Hardware Store."
Lily:  Ewwwwwwww!!!!!
Me:  Why did you say "Ewww?"
Lily:  Because it had the word "ware" in it...Like underWARE!

Lily is extremely friendly and says hello to pretty much everyone she meets or sees anywhere.  After the Snoopy Carnival (skiing lessons), she spotted her teacher about 100 yards away...
Lily:  Hey, Teacher.  Hi Teacher!  no success getting his attention... HEY BILL!!!!
Bill:  Hi!
Lily:  Hi.  Then kept walking...

Brigham:  Mom, can I have all my candies?
Me:  Sorry, they're in the back of the van.
Brigham in a stern voice:  Mommy Allen.

Lily when we questioned her judgment on trying to jump while skiing...:  Sometimes I just wanna jump...and my awesome skills will help me.

Lily fell when we were skiing.  Stanton told me to ski ahead to Chloe and he'd help Lily.  As I passed her...
Lily:  Mom, when you ski past me it's like you're not even my mom.  Moms are supposed to stop and help and when you ski faster than me it's like you're not even being my mom.
The next time she fell, I stopped.
Lily:  That's a girl!  Good job!

Brigham noticed just now that he has brown eyes.  He was not happy about it.
Brigham:  I don't want byown eyes.  I want byue eyes because byue's my favut color.
Me:  But your brown eyes are so handsome.
Brigham:  Hey!  I know, maybe when He comes, Jesus could take out these eyes and put in byue eyes!