You must at least this obnoxious...

Most nights, after the kids are in bed, Chrys and I put away the laundry that was washed that day. Usually we end up getting to putting away the kids' stuff long after they are asleep. Tonight, Ryanne wasn't. I went into her room to steal hangers.

R: Mommy, what are you doing?
M: Getting hangers so we can put away your clothes. This is the kind of exciting stuff that mommy and daddy do after you go to bed. Put away the laundry.
R: Oh.

We said I love you's and I left. Chrys took clothes in.
R: Daddy, mommy already got the hangers.
D: I know, I'm putting away clothes that are already on the hangers.
R: Oh.

I took the next load in.
R: Mommy, NOW what are you doing?
M: I'm putting away the rest of your clothes.
R: Oh, have "fun" with that.
M: ...

I must confess to laughing when I relayed the conversation to Chrys. A lot.

Can't wait til we get to discuss vinyl...

R: Mommy, what's a video "tape"?
M: Uh, well... before we had DVDs, they used to put videos on magnetic tape and you would play them on a video tape player.
R: "Before"? we had DVDs?

Right...that's a totally foreign time frame to her. Oy.

Weather is confusing

Today we had hail... LOTS of hail. Big hail.

First, Ryanne was scared. Then, she wanted to go play in the snowballs. Then we let her hold one and she decided it was cold and hard and would hurt. No more wanting to play.

After the rain was over, the sun actually came out (damn Texas weather). She came to me totally freaked out. "MOM, the sun is coming out. We didn't go to sleep. It's morning. We stayed up all.night.long!" This was actually very concerning to her. We were going to be so tired, etc.

I explained that just because the sun was coming out didn't mean it was night; it merely meant that the clouds were going away. Chrys took her outside and explained how the sun comes up on one side of the house and goes down on the other. She seems ok with this now.