Hey, anybody wanna make me a new icon from any of the pictures I posted lately?

[conuly]

Either in the last pic-post or this one?























Ana doesn't like licorice. She devours fennel, but licorice isn't her thing. Well, more for the rest of us.

Today, I desperately had to shower... and the cornstarch trick only made it more desperate, so I set them in front of TV for 22 minutes while I did this. Doors wide open and all that. Left the licorice where they could get it, because they don't like it.

Peek my head in, guess what Ana's trying to sneak?

And I *told* her, as I took it away, that she doesn't like it anyway, and do you know what that girl had the unmitigated gall to say? The nerve? The chutzpah, in fact?

"But, Connie, you have to try it more than once!"

Which of course is what we always tell her about carrots and eggwhites and other foods of dubious nutrition. NOT, I must repeat, NOT candies and licorice that we don't want to have to share anyway!

Well, I laughed. Aaaaaaaand... then I said she was quite right and here, she could try another piece just to see. They're kinda big pieces, too.

Well, she put the whole piece in her mouth, and she chewed, and she chewed, and she smiled at me and pointed towards the door... and me? I waited. And waited. And waited, as she kept nodding and smiling and waving towards the door, until I suggested that she try swallowing.

Gotta give her credit, she smiled right up until the point where, halfway through swallowing, she realized she couldn't fake it anymore and spat it right out. "I don't like this Connie!"

Well, that's why I didn't bother hiding it, Ana! Who'd expect her to sneak candy she doesn't like anyway? And it's not like I didn't warn her.

(On that note, she now likes cooked carrots in moderation. I'm thrilled. We always seem to have carrots.)

Evangeline doesn't have anywhere near that level of daring yet... unless you count the time she hid her sandwich under her leg so she could skip ahead to dessert, and got away with it because the other adults with me figured I knew about her little ploy and so didn't tell me what she was doing!

So her story is more cute.

I did her hair the other day in all asymetrically placed braids, lots of colorful scrunchies, very cute. (She's always cute.) Later that day, Jenn told me that their father had complimented her hair, and while I was smiling how nice, Evangeline turned with consternation towards me - "NO! CONNIE DID IT!"

So we laughed and explained that "complimented" doesn't mean "braided" it means "said nice things about".

That same evening, I believe, there was Chinese food for dinner. Evangeline got some rice right at her nostril. And when informed of this she went to retrieve it... with her fork. (Because we always use our forks to pick up food, right?)

Somehow, Jenn and I were able to gasp out a warning in between our paroxyms of laughter, but it was a close thing. She could've poked an eye out! Her attempts to get it out with her fingers were unsuccessful, and she was getting irritated at the hysterical reaction from the adults, so Ana saved the day by fetching some toilet paper for the girl to blow her nose.

Comments

[adina77.livejournal.com]

connie if you need icons made let me know. I've been wanting to make icons again for people and this would be a good time to as the girls are too cute for words. Just let me know if you want icons made from all of them or one that sparks you to have it made. Hope all is well!

[adina77.livejournal.com]

connie if you need icons made let me know. I've been wanting to make icons again for people and this would be a good time to as the girls are too cute for words. Just let me know if you want icons made from all of them or one that sparks you to have it made. Hope all is well!