sunday with afton

a few little stories before i get to work updating everything here in blog-land...

afton's become quite the little fashionista. yesterday at church she commented to me about the little girl sitting in front of us at church "mama, did you see her pretty dress, it's white and sparkly on the shirt, and spinny on the bottom. mama, i like her hairbow, it's got a bow on it. wow, did you see her heart ring, it has jasmine on it, jasmine's a princess mama..." she went on to describe the bracelet, shoes, and even socks in great detail. after primary class, she was telling me about another little girl... "mama, she's my new friend. did you see her hairbow? it's not a bow, it's a flower, and it has a shiny silver spakly jewel in the middle. mama, i want a flower bow like that..."
... and so it begins.

after church we hada quick dinner. it was just pieced together left-overs because we were in a hurry. afton volunteered to make her own healthy dinner, (and i knew i was in a hurry, and she wasn't starving, so why not?). she made a sandwich: hamburger bun, lots of sweet pickle relish, a little mayo, and some ketchup. all set! (BLECHHH!!!)

she ate the whole thing

(ps, the picture is obviously from a different day, they all are, but i liked them :)

after church yesterday afton told us all the picture she drew in class (below, it is from yesterday so i guess i lied about them all being from different days) it's our house. she told me all about it. there's a lot of bugs outside, and that's afton in the house. mama and daddy were taking a nap and afton went outside in the backyard and was playing, and when mama and daddy woke up she got in trouble for playing outside without permission, so this is a picture of her in time out. then she had to go to bed without supper...
--as far as i know, afton has never even been up alone when paul and i were napping, let alone playing outside by herself, so if that part's true she's really sneaky.
--she's had plenty of time outs in her life, but she's never been sent to bed without supper... does she even know what "supper" means? we usually have "dinner" at our house...
--did she tell a story like this to her primary teacher? cause it sounds more believable than i would have guessed, but it never happened... wonder what the teacher thinks of these poor parents? (i'm a little overwhelmed)


and last, but not least. we were in a hurry after dinner yesterday because paul was teaching an adult fireside at church. we brought the girls with us because nicki and naomi were coming down to babysit while missy listened to the fireside with us, win-win-win (presumably, since n&n said they wanted to come)... we got there a few minutes early (we were first to arrive), and as we entered the room the first thing afton said was "there's no fire" it took me a couple seconds to get it, cause i didn't remember using the term "fireside" to her, but i guesss she picked it up from other conversation, which was easy enough to do :) she's really smart :)