Erin Franco

7 Quick Takes Friday

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I’ve been wanting (read: thinking a couple of times about it and knowing I won’t actually do it for a while) to start some kind of “Cute Things My Kids Said/Did This Week” linkup. Because we all need to be writing down at least some of those priceless everyday interactions with our hilarious little kids! I have some friends who seriously have the funniest kids on the planet (Sheri, Nicole, I’m talkin’ about you!:) What do you think? Yay or nay?
My 7 Quick Takes this week are devoted to my three darling children, Gabe (3 1/2), Faith (almost 2), and Gianna (3 months). Enjoy our silliness, and don’t forget to check out Jen and other bloggers linking up with her this week.:)
– 1 – 
It’s funny how many times I walk into a room nowadays and there is something surprising going on. 
He went through half a cantaloupe in about 10 minutes while I was in the back of the house switching laundry and putting a couple of things away. He went on to eat (by sneaking behind my back!) probably 3/4 of that cantaloupe in one afternoon. I had no idea he loved cantaloupe this much. I was a little worried he would get sick, but he is just fine.:) 
– 2 – 
“Mommy, you’re a sweet girl like a grandma.” 
Gabe came out with this one while I was helping him pull his pants up after a successful potty trip (#2 at that!). What a cute little compliment to get right after helping him do a little cleanup back there (wink wink:). 
Making a picture of our Guardian Angel (why yes, I do attempt to do legit crafts with my kids every eight months). I taped Gabe’s up above his bed, but he ripped it off the next day during naptime. I think some of the angel’s little white feathers are still under the bed. I should vacuum that mess up sometime. 
– 3 – 
I LOVE this pic of Gabe.
“Mommy, I love you.” – This was the very first time my little son has ever told me he loves me without being prompted. It was the sweetest, most spontaneous thing. He had just woken up from his afternoon nap. He walked over the couch, threw his arms around me, buried his little head on my chest and said it while he hugged me. 

– 4 – 
Somebody get this girl a kitchen already! We were over at a friend’s house for a playdate, and she couldn’t get enough of their play kitchen and all the accessories. Like mother, like daughter–I wear my aprons all the time while I’m cooking and cleaning. 
– 5 – 
I love my space saver high chair! My grandmother and mom bought this for me as a baby gift when I had Gianna, and I’ve been loving it. You can recline the back in order to put itty bitties in there to hang out with you while you cook and clean the kitchen. Gianna is more than happy to just be with me while I’m in the kitchen. I sing to her, roll off plenty of sappy, goofy, flirty Baby Talk, and occasionally go over and tickle her or rub her little head. She just sits quietly and watches me and smiles at me until she gets bored and falls asleep (see above). Perfect baby, anyone? 
(Spittin’ image of her big brother, anyone?)
                                                                      – 6 –
Stimulating their artistic sensibilities
Gabriel came to me today and asked to paint (which he NEVER does, All Boy Little Boy that he is), so naturally I dropped what I was doing and made a big darn deal out of it all. I taped some butcher paper on my kitchen table and hunted down my crusty-but-still-usable little kids paint stash. My kids were entertained for about eight minutes. I really am not exaggerating. That’s sort of the reason I don’t try to do crafts all that often with them right now. All that work for lots of mess and only eight minutes of distraction before they are asking me for a cup of water with ice and getting (albeit washable) paint all over the walls and floor while they climb over each other to get to me, all the while chanting “all done!” and “Can we watch a movie now? How about the Rescue Robots movie?” 

– 7 – 
Thank you, Kroger.

One checkout lady in particular at Kroger loves my kids. Her name is Josephine, and she always oohs and ahhs over Gabe, Faith and Gianna, and gives them lots of stickers. This is also the same checkout lady who literally ordered me to let the Bag Boy help me to my car when I was shopping while four months pregnant or so and almost fainted on her during checkout. She followed me and the mute little Bag Boy outside, and made me promise to go home, find a babysitter for the big kids, and “rest.” Anyway, on this visit, Faith started crying dramatically about something ridiculous as soon as we walked into the store, and while I was trying to navigate the situation, Josephine came over with those little Kroger stickers and gave one to Faith. Then she gave her another one. And another. Faith starts to giggle and so Josephine starts to put stickers all over her. Then Gabe feels left out and voices his concerns about the fairness of it all, and so he gets stickers too. What was I supposed to say? Please stop putting stickers all over my kids now because it’s probably a little weird that you’re putting like twenty stickers on them? I just rolled with it, people, and nonchalantly pushed two kids covered with stickers all through my shopping trip and home again. I probably didn’t get any more attention than I usually get pushing three children under four around the grocery store in a humongous, hard-to-push, poorly-designed grocery cart with half of a kids’ car bolted to the front of it. Behavior-wise, though, I’ll admit that this was one of our better grocery store outings so far. 🙂 

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