Massage addict

Tonight, Ryanne's tummy was hurting during dinner. She didn't eat much at that meal, but had eaten quite a bit during the day so I wasn't too worried. I asked if she wanted me to massage it.

We rubbed her tummy in various ways that I've been taught and she said it felt a little better.

Then she said it might feel better if we massaged her back. So I did.

Then she said that it was feeling a bit worse and trying to tell us that her neck needed a massage. Hmmm.

Eventually, she ended up with about a 45 minute full body massage. She was one happy girl. She said her body felt all loose. It was great for both of us.

The other side

Ryanne crossed some sort of mental barrier in the last week or so. She's finally at that (probably soon to be rather annoying, but currently incredibly cool) state where she can't stop herself from sounding words out and trying to read. She's grasped the longer vowel sounds and is starting to pick up on some of the oddities of written English. She was playing with "know" the other day.
R: Kuh-now. Mommy, what is kuh-now.
M: The "k" is silent on that one.
R: Why?
M: I have no idea. It's just how it is. English is weird that way.
R: So it's "now".
M: Well, actually, the "ow" on that one says "o" so it's just no.
R: It says "no".
M: Well, it says know, like something that you understand. Like, now you know how to spell know.

I giggled at myself. I *think* she might have actually rolled her eyes. Figures.

Kinder Round-up

Today, we registered RC for kindergarten. I made it through without crying...until I got to see Janna (my hair stylist) and she got me going. I cannot believe that's she's going to be in Kinder in the fall. It's crazy.

After that, I took her back to "church" (her MDO is at a church) and we stopped to see the animals for farm day. They had these two week old baby goats that were so.freaking.adorable. One of them kept standing up on the cage trying to get RC's attention. She would lean down and gently pet it and then move to another area. It followed her. She says she drew a picture of the goat that liked her very much, but I haven't seen it yet.

This afternoon, we took her for a hair cut. Her fine hair gets so tangly and she's been wanting it shorter. She elected to have it 'on her shoulders' so that's where it is. It looks really cute, as always. :)

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.