Dragon

 (2011) Tonight at dinner, Grammie asked Lily if she was a "good girl."  Lily thought a minute then shouted, "NO!  I AM A MEAN DRAGON!  ROARRRRR!"  We all about cracked up!  She's definitely her mother's daughter!!!

Heaven

 (2013) Poor Papaw!!!   Dylan went over to his house today to play for a while (and to give Mom a break!) and Papaw ended up pitching him 300 wiffle balls AND playing a few rounds of basketball with him in the three hours he was there!  I'm sure Dylan was in HEAVEN .... Papaw, not so much!!!  :)

Good Night

 (2013) Lily Claire melted my heart tonight.  When I tucked her in bed and was leaving her room I said, "Good night sweet girl.  I love you."  She answered, "Ok.  Thank you for loving me, Mom."  So precious.

Hunk

 (2015) Oh my gosh... I can NOT quit laughing! One of Bran's baseball buddies came rushing up to Skeet tonight and said, "Mr. Taylor! We learned about someone today in history class that looks EXACTLY like you! I couldn't believe it!" Guess who it was?!! PRESIDENT TRUMAN!!!!!!!!!!! I about fell out laughing! Someone, hold me back from this hunk! 

Punch

 (2012) Lily Claire just told me that if I don't wear green today, a leprechaun will PUNCH me! I said, "No, he won't!  That's not nice!"  Lily Claire insisted that's what her teacher said!  Then it dawned on me she meant the leprechaun would PINCH me! For a minute, I thought we had an violent leprechaun running around here somewhere!  :)

BSOL

 Those of you who know me are aware that I'm not really known for having extensive baseball knowledge (ok, none), and I've been known to erroneously scream "good cut" from time to time when Bran catches a ball in the outfield. I basically sit at the games asking Skeet "What happened?" after each play  and just clap for whatever Bran does. HOWEVER, I was never fully aware of my complete and utter lack of baseball knowledge until the other evening Brandon Taylor and Robert Skeet Taylor were on either side of me  rehashing a recent game. Believe me when I say that they talked for over twenty minutes saying stuff I'd never even heard of IN MY LIFE that apparently did or didn't happen in the game. Y'all, I literally had NO IDEA what they were even saying! It was like a weird, secret "man code" that I'd never been privy to until now!

Here's what the conversation sounded like to me ..., "The southpaw dinger brushback pickle set-up-man with the seeing-eye-single shoestring catch in the hole flashed some leather on the hot corner who had a safety squeeze on a sacrifice bunt with a slice foul sinker in the backdoor breaking ball bad hop balk for the closer in the clutch and the mop up with the BABIP ERA WHIP, don't you agree?"

Ummmm .... yes??  .... 

I've now decided that instead of being ESOL, (English as a Second or Other Language), I am what you would call BSOL,.. (BASEBALL as a Second or Other Language).  And after hearing all their jibberish, it will be a PERMANENT condition for me, I am quite sure. Unless maybe there is some Rosetta Stone software that could help me out. 🙂  #lifewiththeTaylormen

Birthday

 (2011) Just had a FUN birthday dinner with my family at the Japanese restaurant ... cracking up because after spend the night parties and a baseball car wash this weekend, both my boys pretty much slept through the whole thing!!!

DMV

 My dad took a friend of ours from church to renew his license at the DMV.  They walked in and not a SOUL was in the place (how lucky!)  The walked up to the counter and said they needed to renew.  Now, mind you, NO ONE was there but them.  The lady said, "I'm sorry, You have to take a number."  Laughing, they went over and pulled a number, number 12, and then returned to the lady.  The lady then said, "I'm sorry.  You'll have to be seated until your number is called."  THERE WAS NO ONE ELSE THERE!  As soon as they sat down in the waiting area, the lady caled out, "Number 12." They took their number to her at that point and THEN she proceeded to help them renew.  I was cracking up envisioning this scene ... it's like something from the Carol Burnett show!  

Advice

 Today's free springtime advice .... never coat all your birdseed with "Coles Flaming Squirrel Repellant Sauce" and then hang your feeder from a very high branch on a super windy day.  Though it sounds unlikely, a big piece of flaming seed WILL fall out of the feeder right into your eye.  Unfortunately I am speaking from painful experience.

Snow Day

 Another installment of “Jen and Skeet are complete opposites.”

SNOW DAY 

Snow pouring outside. 

Skeet: I think I’m going to get the laundry done, go for a brisk walk, then go to the gym for a long workout!

Jen: I think I’m going to wrap another fuzzy blanket around my head and sit by the fire with Buddy and my massive mug of hot chocolate with whipped cream and eat another biscuit.”

We both successfully completed our goals for the day!😂😂😂 

Bedtime

 (2015) It's about two minutes before bedtime and Lily asks me if she could tell me just one more quick thing before bed. 

"Sure," I said sleepily. "What is it?"

"Will you listen to my top 100 laughs and tell me which is the best one?"

Ummm ... no, Lil. Let's save that for your next spend the night with Grammie!! 

Mirror

 (2011) Found Lily Claire singing and dancing and talking in front of my full length mirror in the bathroom.  When I asked her what she was doing, she pointed to herself in the mirror and said, "Playing with this new friend!"  She's definitely MY girl!

Cinderella

 (2013) Lily Claire just said to me, "Mom, you are just like Cinderella." As I was basking in the glow of such a sweet, heartfelt compliment thinking maybe I had Cinderella's beauty, or grace, or kindness, I replied, "Oh how sweet!  How is Mommy like Cinderella?"  Lily answered, "Because you clean all day."

Cherry Day

 (2015) Lily Claire and I went outside a minute ago and she sighed and said, "Well, it's another cherry day."

"What?"  I asked.  "What is a cherry day?"

"The last time it looked like this outside, you said it was a cherry day," Lil answered.

Thinking a minute, I realized, "Not a CHERRY day, Lil!  I said it was a DREARY day!"

Hee! Hee!  I think we may call it a "cherry" day from now on ... that certainly sounds happier!

Witch

 (2015) Lily hugged me last night and said, "Mommy, sometimes you are just like a nice witch."  Huh?!  Is that good?!