Am I fat?

While leaving our ward Halloween party last night, I was informing Brooklynn that I would NOT be eating any of her candy this year because I've been on a diet. I wanted to assure her that her candy was her own.
I then asked if she thought I had lost weight, and she said "Yes". I followed that by asking if she's just agreeing or she really thinks so. She replied, "I really think so." The next part is where the wonderfulness of my daughter really comes in.
Me: "Do you think I was fat before?"
Brooklynn: "You weren't fat, but you are thinner now than you used to be."

And, I truly feel, there is no better response to that question than hers.

Calorie counting?

While leaving my company kid's Halloween party.
Brooklynn: Mom, so you've given up on that calorie thing?
LaDawn: Yeah, but I'm going to un-give-up-on-it next week.

Mullet

Erin: "Will ,we need to cut you hair, the back is kinda looking like a mullet"

Micklayla: "What's a mullet?"

Erin: "Its when it's short in front but long in back."

Mickayla: "oh, so like the opposite of yours."

Erin: "... yah I guess so!"



ha ha, never thought of it that way. Inverted bob = opposite of mullet

Candy Corn update

In response to Erin's recent post on Candy Corn... I had to post this picture from a recent Halloween party

like asian girl

At work currently have people visiting our office from all of our other facilities around the world. The following conversation occurred with Joy, who is visiting from our office in China.

Joy: "your hair look good. darker."


Me: "yes it's darker and shorter"

Joy: "yes, look good. pretty. like asian girl."

Me: ".... thanks"



It never occurred to me that my hair may change my ethnicity. What do you think?

Baby Rhino

This is from a blog that Lisa posted a few months ago but I just re-read it and laughed out loud so I thought that I would share (with permission from Lisa.)

"2 days ago in the car I had the following conversation with Will, Brett's 3 year old son:

Me to Brett: "Ugh, why did I wear this outfit. I look like a big beached whale, or a rhino."

Will to me: "Wisa, you don't look as big as a whale."

Me to Will: "Thanks, Will. How about a rhino?"

Will to me: "Just a baby Rhino I think."

Me to Will: "Wait...so I look like a baby Rhino?"

Will to me: "No Wisa, you look like a girl, but you are as big as a baby rhino."

Me to Will: "How big is a baby rhino?"

Will to me: "They are pretty big"

Then I cried.

Then I decided I was never eating again.

Then I forgot, and ate a burger."

ha ha, Lisa you are no where near as big as a Rhino, not even a baby one. But look how cute they are?!

Candy Corn

I always have a bowl of Candy on my desk at work. Naturally, because it's October, the current candy is Candy Corn. It's amazing to see all the people I work with come back for handful after handful.

Manan, one of my coworkers, just told me the following, as he took a few scoops,

"Candy Corn is like Crack Cocaine! It's SO good but it ruins your body!"

I thought it was actually a pretty good analogy.

answer to the security question

I e-mailed Blake about trying to get into his facebook and email account and told him the problem that I ran into with not knowing how to answer his security question. He told me the password but also enlightened me with the answer to the secret question. I wont tell you word by word but you'll get the idea.

Security Question: If aliens are invading your backyard how many pancakes can you fit in your doghouse??

Answer: Zero. Fish don't like ice cream!

Does this make sense to any of you!?! I'm gonna have to ask Reed when he gets home to see if he knows the background behind this.

Multipication

Brooklynn is now in 3rd grade. I know, when did that happen? Anyway, she's working on learning multiplication. We had worked on multiplication last school year and over the summer but have been working on subtraction facts since the school year started. She's pretty good up to the 5s, but 6s and beyond are tough for her (as for all of us!) She mentioned that she had gotten some of the 9s wrong on her "math minutes" that day. I reminded her of the trick where you use your hands to figure out the answer to the 9s.
I gave her some tough ones like 9x8 and 9x5 so she could practice and she got those right.
"Here's a hard one, 9x1" I said as a joke.
Still using her hands she said, "I got 45, I don't think that's right."
Then we had a lesson on estimation to verify your answer.