Life as a Hancock: Simplicity

Monday, August 18, 2014

Simplicity

Lately I have felt like I'm drowning in "stuff". I feel claustrophobic in my own house. It's time for a change.

We are simplifying. I'm not sure what all that is going to mean for us, but I can guarantee one thing-it's going to mean getting rid of some stuff. And a lot of the stuff that has to go is from the kids.

Mikayla complains that all we do is pick things up and that it's no fun. Welcome to reality. It's not my favorite activity, either. At the same time I've been wondering if we really need to be picking up the things that get scattered about. Do we really need them? Could we save a whole lot of time and disagreements about cleaning by just doing without some things? My kids will learn to clean and do their chores. Part of life is learning responsibility, of course. At the same time, I'm not sure we are doing them any favors by adding to the stockpiles of stuff they have the option of getting out each day. Stuff that only clutters our home and makes us crazy. Exactly where to draw the line is tough.

I don't ever want to seem ungrateful and we are trying so hard to teach my kids gratitude. We truly love and appreciate everything that has been given to us or that we have worked hard for and purchased. I'm just starting to wonder more and more how much we really "need".

I found an article (http://nourishingminimalism.com/2014/07/18-non-toy-gifts-for-children.html) last night and it really got me thinking about all the stuff my kids have. My kids are spoiled. I get that and honestly, at times I love to contribute to the spoiling. A little date with a treat or a treasure makes for a marvelous memory! My thoughts have kind of shifted a bit though. Instead of focusing on "things" I want to create memories and experiences for my kids. Instead of focusing on toys I hope to shift the focus to memories of zoo dates, vacations, picnics, making crafts, playing games as a family, dance classes, trips to the library, going to the museum, reading books together...gifts of time and love.

That being said, my kids are most definitely still kids. They love their toys! I am not planning on taking away everything as I know that playing is how kids learn and that it truly is important. My only purpose is to fill our home with meaningful things, things that we love, and get rid of the rest.

Now to figure out where to start.

Image from http://www.thenester.com/2012/10/collections.html

Here are some articles that got me thinking...

http://www.livingwellspendingless.com/2012/09/14/why-i-took-all-my-kids-toys-away-why-they-wont-get-them-back/

http://www.becomingminimalist.com/why-fewer-toys-will-actually-benefit-your-kids/

http://www.thenester.com/2012/10/31-days-nobodys-dream-job.html

http://www.missminimalist.com/2011/08/declutter-your-fantasy-self/

http://www.thehandmadehome.net/2012/12/the-lazy-gals-survival-guide-craving-simplicity/

2 comments:

Unknown said...: Too many articles to read. Get rid of some of them!; August 20, 2014 at 10:12 PM
rmb said...: You can also rotate toys in bins so there is less out but you can keep it fresh. But, I agree, I feel like that sometimes-I love our home but it's a lot of work and getting rid of more would certainly help!!; August 27, 2014 at 1:08 PM

Daxton-isms

11-23-2018 When asked if he wanted to be a shepherd or a wiseman for the nativity he responded "I'm going to be a shark."
11-15-2018 Maylee to Mom-"How come you're fancy?" Daxton-"Because she's an old lady." Mikayla-"You're not considered an old lady until you have beehive hair like Grammy."
11-3-2018 Grandad said Nana didn't like fires and you said "How could anyone not like fires?!"
11-2-2018 "My pants keep sneaking in my bum crack."
9-18-2018 After finding out boys ask girls to marry them he said "Well I don't even wanna think about it."
9-18-2018 "When it's Christmas I wanna get a real gun. Even when I'm still a kid."
6-18-2018 After hearing that having babies was hard work he told Mom "Maybe you should ask Jesus for no more babies for our family."
6-8-2018 When he went to a prenatal appointment with Mom he saw the female anatomy poster on the wall and asked "Mom why is there a picture of a dead tree?"
5-12-2018 When asked what Daddy does-"Work". What Mommy does-"Naps."
4-26-2018 After he said he was done packing for a sleepover at Grandad and Nana's house I asked him if he packed unders. "No." Jammies? "No." Boots? "No." An outfit for tomorrow? "No." Then what did you pack? "Two blankies, a bag and my chainsaw."
4-15-2018 After telling him he always poops a ton his response was "That's because I eat sand."
3-30-2018 "Mom I hope I could have real imaginary friends that come to me and talk by themselves."
2-28-2018 When asked if he sang in primary he replied "I sing with my mouth but my lips don't move."
2-11-2018 Describing a group picture they took in primary he said "The big kids were there too and it was like a BIG pile of humans!"
1-16-2018 "Is Jesus a magic boy?"
1-14-2018 When asked if he sang in primary he replied "I sang with my mouth, but my lips didn't move."
11-6-2017 On our morning walk he was arguing with Maylee over whether birds toot. Maylee said only horses and dogs toot, but he said octopi and birds toot, too.
10-19-2017 "I want to go on the mountain with Grandad and Nana and look for bears. I will take my gun to scare them away."
10-9-2017 While at family prayer he declared "There's two people missing to make a circle!"
9-12-2017 "I love home preschool. It makes me happy. A LOT of happy!"
8-18-2017 "What's that smell I hear?"
8-18-2017 "Mom if I eat my food without ketchup it tastes like hospital food." Mom-How do you know what hospital food tastes like? Daxton "Like BAD stuff."
7-13-2017 "Maya is growing up bigger like bigger than this house."
6-28-2017 "I have poop toots."
6-5-2017 "Pretend you are mom and I am dad and we have no kids because our kids are in jail. Because we like them in jail."
5-4-2017 "Mom do you want to see the tree I peed on? It's a pretty cool spot!"
4-4-2017 "The mud is hurting my eyes. I open them and it hurts. I close them and it hurts and I open them again and it's still hurting." (While covered in mud)
3-30-2017 Dustin sprayed down the powder dirt he was playing in the day before and when he came out to play in it and saw it was sprayed down he yelled "UGH NOOOOO! The dirt is already GONE! I don't want the dirt already like this!"
3-28-2017 When he was told the way something was going to happen he said, "That's not a deal."
3-27-2017 After I told him he couldn't have pizza at Costco for dinner he said, "You're a mean mommy."
3-25-2017 While Maylee was eating popcorn he said, "I don't like the smell of Belle Belle's popcorn in hers mouth."
3-15-2017 "I look like a Dad, but I'ms just a kid." (While feeling Maya a bottle).
3-9-2017 "I remember dat girl's name! It's Maylee!"
2-7-2017 He came out of the room where Maya was sleeping and said "Maya is awake now. Sorry about that."
1-11-2017 Maylee asked if he wanted to play getting married with her and he said "No thank you. I'm hammering." Maylee-"But look how pretty I am!" Daxton-No thanks. I'm hammering."
12-15-2016 Every morning when he comes into our room he says "It's morning time!"
12-15-2016 Pointing to his chest he said "Maya has hippos (nipples) like me!"
12-13-2016 While playing superhero- "Mine powers are broken. Maybe I ask Dad to fix them when he gets home."
11-21-2016 "My girlfriend is scared of spiders."
10-20-2016 Pointing to his boots "Dese my tenny boots" (like tennis shoes, but boots instead).
9-22-2016 "Hi! Mine's name is Howdy."
9-14-2016 The girls were playing Barbies and he said "Mom I wanna play boy things."

Maylee-isms

11-22-2018 "Ants can never die if you pull them apart they stay alive. Eventually if you pull them apart they die."
11-15-2018 Maylee to Mom "How come you're so fancy?" Daxton-"Because she's an old lady." Mikayla-"You're not considered an old lady until you have beehive hair like Grammy."
9-30-2018 "Did you know W starts with a D?"
8-21-2018 When asked what she did on the bus she said she was "shitty chatty with Kinzie the whole time."
7-5-2018 While playing Barbies you asked Nana what the tag said and she told you "Barbie". You said "That's my Barbie's name!"
6-21-2018 Holding at a bug "Oh man! I just broke its leg off and I didn't want just a leg!"
6-21-2018 "Oh we have a dead plant growing!"
6-5-2018 "I have warts all over my mouth. Lots of them!"
3-22-2018 "I forgot about your birthday AND your birthday treat! That's a lot of things to remember!"
1-24-2018 "Mom where does George Washington live?" After being told he had been dead a long time she said "WHAT?!?! I had NOOOOO idea!"
12-22-2017 In her prayer "I hope Christmas can be super fun and not just a couple of things."
11-6-2017 On our morning walk she and were arguing over whether birds toot. Maylee said only horses and dogs toot, but Dax said octopi and birds toot, too
10-23-2017 Grandad said "I spy something green." She asked "Is it that blue truck?"
10-21-2017 "Can I go to Costco?" When asked why she said "So I can spend my money from the Marm to buy snacks."
10-3-2017 Grandad asked her what massive meant after she used it in a sentence. Her reply was "You already know. You're just asking to see if I know what it means."
10-3-2017 "Oceans are deep like ponds and bodies."
10-3-2017 "Why do moms and dads sleep together?"
9-29-2017 "Sissy do you want to pick tomato worms?" Mikayla declined and she said "That's because you're not a boy girl."
9-21-2017 "I don't understand baby Spanish."
8-21-2017 Mikayla read a sign that said "Be your own kind of beautiful." Maylee declared "My beauty is mud and jewelry."
6-19-2017 While pointing her middle finger in the air she said "Excuse me! Who wants to go to Circle K for my birthday?!"
6-6-2017 "Did you know that Grandad and Nana are your Mom and Dad?"
5-24-2017 While walking home she pointed at a shrine of the Virgin Mary and said, "Those things are a lady standing in a toilet. I don't know why she does that."
5-5-2017 Nana-"There's a lot of Cinco de Mayo going on in that store." Maren-"A lot of Bud Light going out of that store." Maylee-"Mostly just bugs. I saw moths and I don't know what bug light is." Nana-"Ummmm...it's bugs that light up in the dark." Maylee-"Oh. I know now!"
4-4-2017 "Mom I just accidentally bit my toe and made it bleed. Sorry."
2-27-2017 "Are all clothes supposed to have rips in them?"
2-7-2017 While holding a moth that was dying she said, "I think it's having a baby or something."
1-7-2017 She held her finger out with something on it and tells Mikayla "Look in your belly button! There's these little treasures!"
1-1-2017 She asked if she could sleep on the stairs and when we told her it was too hard she said "You just put a blankie on the hard part!"
12-30-2016 When talking about what a funeral is we tell her it's where people go to pay their respects and say a final goodbye and she added "And to CRY!"
12-29-2016 When Mikayla was teaching her about the resurrection and Maylee said " That's kinda boring that story is."
12-19-2016 When asked what Christmas was about she shouted "SANTA!"
12-17-2016 Singing a goodnight song-"We listen to our mom and dad like Jesus listened to His mom and dad, Mary and Jonah."
12-16-2016 "Mommy and Daddy horses check on their babies by smelling their poop." Grandad asked what they can tell by smelling their poop and she said "I guess you just don't understand about horses, Grandad."
11-30-2016 While in the bath-"Wow the water is warmy and is tickling my bum!"
11-23-2016 "I have to go poops and I fee like it's going to be a really owie one! I felt sad for a little bit, then when it came out I didn't feel sad anymore."
12-18-2016 While hugging Nana..."Your boobies squished me!"
11-16-2016 While living at Glen and Dixie Kartchner's house-"I don't like this house, but I like the neighborhood."
11-16-2016 "When you're sick you watch lots of movies and stay in the same jammies all day."
11-9-2016 "Text them and say I am so happy and it's the best day in my life and thank you. I am the beautifulest. That's all."
11-8-2016 While talking to Grandad she told him he could come over for Christmas and "play in the snow, watch movies, eat popcorn, and have Dr. Pepper."
10-20-2016 When asked if she only got one thing from Santa what it would she like she said, "Make-up. But if I only got one thing from Santa I would cry."
9-16-2016 While all wet and muddy-"I love the way I am!"
9-12-2016 Talking to her grasshoppers in a bug cage she said "Okay grasshoppers. Here's the deal. If you fight you don't get to watch a movie, but if you don't fight you can watch a movie. Got it?"
9-7-2016 "I like all my sunbeam teachers, but some of them have scary faces."
8-27-2016 I went to check on her in bed and she was crouched up with her face planted into the pillow. I asked if she was okay and she said "Oh yeah. I just have a lot of really big sticky boogies!"
8-15-2016 "You can't be at the party if you have a drama face."
7-30--2016 "Ooooh the cows poop is green. My poop is brown because my hair is brown."
6-23-2016 The kids were playing cats and she kept saying "Get in your glitter box!"
5-29-2016 "Dad I have something to tell you. Maren had an accident and made a fluffy pancake." Oh yeah? What did she do with it? "She ATE it!" I bet you would've eaten it. "No it's her problem."
5-7-2016 "I have 3 kinds of pee pee. Hot pee pee, owie pee pee and regular pee pee."
4-15-2016 "I have juicy toots, Mom!"
3-30-2016 "Mom if I wish I was an otter and I would drive a pink otter car."
3-18-2016 After seeing the UPS delivery lady she says "That lady really sells a lot of boxes for hers work!"
3-1-2016 "I don't like people. I only like kids."
2-9-2016 "Sissy says I can't wear my pink pants because she is saving them for her children!"
2-1-2016 "I like babysitters, but not torture boy Jake. Just girl ones be good for me."
1-2016 "Dishwasher"=restaurant
1-11-2016 After I came out of the bathroom she said "Mom you blow your nose and go potty at the same time like Auntie Mare Mare!"
1-8-2016 While playing school she informed her class it was time to line up for recess and says "Now we all know recess (Reese's the candy) is for chocolate!"
12-22-2015 When singing cowboy songs with Grandad she asks "Grandad why don't your glasses have any legs (they didn't have earpieces)?"
12-2015 "I be a little bit shy."
11-26-2015 "Mom will you do kiss-eltoe (mistletoe) with me?"
10-9-2015 While playing your dolls were fighting and you said "Girls! Stop it right now!"
10-9-2015 "Ooooh the cow's poop is green! My poop is brown because my hair is brown."
9-30-2015 "I'm trying to get my skirt out of my bum." Mikayla tells you "It's called a wedge wedge."
9-21-2015 I was taking our sheets off our bed to wash and Maylee asked what I was doing so I told her I was going to wash them. Very matter of fact she asks "Oh. Cuz you pee pee in the bed?"
9-21-2015 "Daxton's a tooter bum and I'm a pee bum."
8-29-2015 Slushy="flushy"
8-27-2015 While praying she asked to see Santa.
8-27-2015 When asked how preschool was she said "It was a little bit hard for me. The toys are hard for me."
8-19-2015 She wanted to go to the zoo and when told it was too hot she says "It's okay. I just wear mine cowgirl hat."
8-19-2015 Maylee talking on her play phone (calculator) says "Hi Huck (the girls nickname for Dustin) how's work going? Lisa's (my nickname) taking me to school."
8-12-2015 I told Mikayla we should ask Nana and Auntie Maren to save box tops for her school and Maylee says "I ask Grandad and Uncle Jake to save them for mine school?"
8-2015 Dress up shoes="clap shoes" (tap shoes)
7-2015 "I love you the world, Mom!" (Her version of 'I love you more than anything in the world.')
7-20-2015 "Mom my bum is owie. Can I have some lotion (Desitin)? Never mind. I scratched it."
7-16-2015 "Mom smell my hands!" After I smell them she says "I tooted on them!" And laughs.
6-26-2015 While I was cleaning the bathroom before her birthday party she asks what I'm doing? When I tell her I'm cleaning the bathroom for her party she asks "We having my party in da bafroom?"
6-14-2015 After the pediatrician looked in her ears and told her she had a butterfly in them Maylee says "I have a butterfly in my ear. It's my best friend EVER!"
6-7-2015 When asked what she learned in nursery she said "Song and snacks and BUBBLES!"
5-21-2015 In her prayers she said "Thank you for my birdie blankie that Mom got out of the dishwasher (washing machine)."
5-21-2015 "Who wants to watch a 'booby' (movie) on mine 'poo-ter' (computer)?"
5-21-2015 While sitting on the counter helping make dinner she pulls her finger out of her diaper and says "Look, Mom! I got all the dirt off my bum!"
5-7-2015 Do you need to go pee pee? "I okay right now."
5-6-2015 While hamburger was sizzling she says "Mom I don't want you to scare my ears!"
4-21-2015 "Hey, Dad? What's Grammy's name?" Dustin: "Mammy?" Maylee: "Oh yeah!"
4-17-2015 I was changing Daxton's diaper and Maylee went and got some "sour creams (Desitin) for his bum bum."
4-15-2015 "You got a seeping booty booby Gwanad?" (Sleeping Beauty movie Grandad)
3-13-2015 When asked if she was cute she says "Yeah. Little bit!"
3-9-2015 I asked her if she wanted to get fancy after her bath and she started crying and saying "NOOOOOO!!! I don't want one fancy! NOOOO!" Then she decided to wear "mine fancy clothes." Princess pajamas.
2-17-2015 "Yours got a HUGE bum Mom! I gots a little bum."
2-15-2015 Can I have some of your chocolate Maylee? "No way! You can lick-a my fingers!"
2-13-2015 "I lub boo, Mom!" (I love you, Mom)
2-12-2015 What does a horse say? "Yeehaw!"
2-11-2015 (In a prayer) "Thank doo dat (that) I tood (could) close mine eyes."
2-9-2015 (Blessing on the dinner-a cheese crisp) "Thank you baby cheese crisp, thank you mommy cheese crisp, thank you daddy cheese crisp, thank you lots cheese crisp. Amen."
2-1-2015 "Wanna go my kitchen and make cookie doughs at my house."
1-21-2015 (In her evening prayer) "Thank you pizza cups. I like pizza cups. Thank you pizza cups. Mommy like pizza cups. Daxton like pizza cups. Daddy like pizza cups. Sissy like pizza cups. Thank you pizza cups. Amen."
1-2015 "Boobie"=movie
1-2015 "Wah-toes"=french toast
1-5-2015 "You know what? I got boogies in my nose."
12-2014 "No wanna" is her response to almost everything (I don't want to).
12-6-2014 She is really into daddies, mommies and babies as a way to describe big, medium and small for everything. I had made her a mommy and a baby pancake for breakfast and her blessing on the food went like this: "Heavenly Father bess baby one and Mommy one. Jesus Christ, amen."
Fall 2014 When she would come tattle about something Mikayla was doing I'd tell her to "nicely ask Sissy to stop." She would go to Mikayla and say "Nicely STOP!"
10-2014 "Sickle bike"=motorcycle
10-16-2014 (Saying family prayer after we watched a movie as a family) "Dank doo (thank you) for show (movie). Mommy show, Daddy show, Sisssy show, Daden (Daxton) show. Amen."
9-27-2014 "Ha! I funny now!"
9-1-2014 "I like Pappy. I Pappy's girl."
9-1-2014 (She had a very soggy morning diaper) "Mom dipey not working!"
5-25-2014 Maylee can you say Mikayla? "Sissy!"
5-21-2014 Mikayla told her that she got to take a "relax bath" (candles and bubbles) while Maylee went to mutual. Maylee's response-"Oh good!"

Mikayla-Isms

11-15-2018 Maylee to Mom "How come you're so fancy?" Daxton-"Because she's an old lady." Mikayla-"You're not considered an old lady until you have beehive hair like Grammy."
7-27-2018 "Seriously??I have a big bite in my bum crack!"
6-16-2018 The other kids were playing in the mud and you said "I don't think they'll see me in a muddy booty!"
3-9-2018 "Like I said-ice cream sandwiches always lighten my mood by A LOT!"
2-4-2018 "Nana has SUCH a weird curling iron. It has this handle you have to open and close to put your hair in."
2-3-2018 After being told she was spoiled rotten at a sleepover with Grandad and Nana she said "I am proud of it!!! Not proud of all the stuff, but proud that they love me so much!"
1-24-2018 After having to take birthday pictures she said "I looked in the mirror this morning and thought to myself it is so worth taking some pictures!"
1-24-2018 "I feel so fancy and important when my nails are done."
1-2-2018 "I love making good choices!"
12-8-2017 "I know what I want to do with all my money. I want to give it to somebody who needs it for Christmas."
11-16-2017 She told us her journal prompt today at school was "What makes a good citizen?" She told us her answer was "If you want to know what makes a good citizen, then watch a good citizen and see what they do!"
10-26-2017 She told us she had baked potato chips for school lunch, but that she liked regular ones better. When told that baked were supposed to be healthier she said "No wonder they're really not that good!"
10-3-2017 She asked for ear muffs for Christmas "so I won't have to hear anything while I read."
8-13-2017 "It's hard to smile when you're not happy." (When being told to smile for a picture)
8-13-2017 "Girls do all the work and boys just sit there and watch and tell you how good the food is."
5-29-2017 Doing scripture study she taught "There were 10 leprechauns and only 1 leopard said 'thank you'."
2-27-2017 After seeing a lot of brownies were gone she said, "Looks like you guys had date night!"
2-3-2017 "I'm pretty sure Grandpa's job in heaven is to watch over his family and see if we're doing good things or bad things and then report back to Heavenly Father."
12-19-2016 "Is Santa a Mormon?"
12-18-2016 "I lost the tooth that lets me talk normal so now I can't say things right anymore."
12-14-2016 "Did you know fairies are Mormons? They don't all dress modestly, but they still are."
11-19-2016 "I never get those kinds (chocolate frosted) of donuts cuz the frosting is the best part and once the frosting is gone they're not that great."
10-16-2016 She said the puffy sleeves on her dress "make me feel like Cinderella!"
9-17-2016 "Daddy took one for the team and got a Space Barbie movie!"
8-25-2016 "St. David is so much fun! I wish I never even hear of Tucson!"
8-25-2016 "Everyone came up to me and wanted to be in my PE group. It was like I was popular or something. Except for it was the worst group EVER!"
8-10-2016 After asking how her day at school went she said "Way better than Leman because Leman was exhausting. The work is pretty much like middle school. You have to add things like 12 and 16 together!"
7-25-2016 I couldn't find something and Mikayla said "Maybe you saw something that wasn't there because 'I hear things that aren't there all the time!'"
7-3-2016 When asked what she learned in church "You know I went through the whole long boring lesson and now I can't remember a thing!"
7-2-2016 "Remember when I was eating chicken salad and Grandad said 'Let's go to Cave of Wonders (drive through car wash)?'" Nana: "I can't believe you remember what you were eating." Mikayla: "Food is always my main memory. I love food!!!"
6-15-2016 "Evy camps out in her poopy diaper like I camp out on the potty sometimes."
6-1-2016 After bringing me me a fabric pencil case all excited she asks what the tag says. I tell her it says "made in China". She says totally devastated "OH MAN! I thought it was made out of China!"
5-24-2016 When asked how her trip to go check on the garden was she said, "All we did was walk around it. I think it was just a trick to get me to exercise."
5-14-2016 "I'm so sweaty even my undies are sweaty!"
5-1-2016 When we asked why the kids have so much energy she said "Because we eat SO much food!"
4-20-2016 She asked what year I was born and when I told her 1986 she said "I didn't know there were any years that didn't start with 2000!"
4-13-2016 "I love you as much as I love Bear Bear, Mama!"
4-8-2016 When asked what her favorite zoo animal is she says "A peacock, but I like libraries WAY better."
3-14-2016 While playing realtor she said moves can be hard on kids and these are the things you have to do to help them. You need to be calm, focused, ready, healthy, smiling, excited, and active."
3-14-2016 "I have something I'm really wondering about. I thought Pocahontas died a long time ago, but we saw her at Disneyland and I'm confused."
3-8-2016 "A Reese's is all you need to make your life perfect."
3-2-2016 "My tummy was feeling a little yucky, but then I had a juice burp and now it feels better."
3-2-2016 "My Spanish teacher knows everything in Spanish. I don't even know how she learned so much Spanish. She's not even from New Mexico."
2-29-2016 "Sometimes when I jump my head gets skinnier than it needs to and it makes my neck hurt."
2-14-2016 "If you're going to work in a beauty salon you have to work harder than a mailman and learn not to boss your customers around."
2-11-2016 "Cinnamon and synonym might be the same word."
1-25-2016 On the way home from school I asked how she did on her poem test. She said she didn't know because they hadn't passed out grades yet and I asked how she thought she did. "Oh I know I did good! I always do perfect on everything!"
1-18-2016 "Maylee did you steal my stuff?" Maylee-"Yeah. I'm sorry." Mikayla-"Please who steal stuff go to JAIL, didn't you know?!"
1-12-2016 "What animal does chicken come from?" I asked her what she thinks and she said totally seriously "A cow."
1-8-2016 After mentioned that Mikayla said she'd worn her pants for 3 days already she says "Yep. I put them back in my drawer and wear them again. I recycle them."
12-16-2015 "When I have a baby I'm going to send my husband to Costco for pizza and Molinitos for refried beans."
12-3-2015 "I'm the police that makes sure every single boy goes in jail."
11-24-2015 You said Nana buying chips for us was cheating. "You can't jip the work to someone else!"
11-18-2015 "I'm glad I don't have long privates so I don't get pee all over the place."
11-18-2015 "Maylee you're so smart! You're almost as smart as me! Well, no, you're not that smart."
11-12-2015 She made a pasta necklace at school and asks "Tomorrow can we cut up my necklace and cook the noodles for dinner cuz they are my favorite kind!"
11-11-2015 After seeing a doll she really wanted for Christmas she said "I hope you can text Santa!"
11-11-2015 After yelling something she said "OOPS! I guess that had an exclamation mark at the end!"
11-9-2015 To me she says "Maybe you should have gone to college to learn Dairy Queen so you would never have any problems with it and you'd get it for free."
10-29-2015 She was telling her Dad the life cycle of a pumpkin and I said she was going to be a plant expert like her Dad. She said "I think I'm just gonna stick to being the ruler of Mikayla's imagination for now."
10-25-2015 "Wouldn't it be cool to be me and have all the great ideas?"
10-22-2015 While singing a song where she spelled a bunch of words she said there was a girl named "Spellalena" and that girl spelled her name "s-e-m-e-n".
10-22-2015 "Mom did you know uni means one? That means I'm a uni-headed girl."
10-15-2015 "Please help us to know that there is a white road with commandments and a black road. Help us to choose the white one. Help us to choose the gate for the white road. Thank you for all your hard work in making the earth. It’s better than a piece of art. Some people might not think that, but I do."
10-15-2015 "Can there be more than one of the ladies who say 'Please leave a message after the beep?' Because that's what I want to be when I grow up."
10-2-2015 "Mom can you imagine if Grandad and Daxton were apostles and they tortured everyone at conference?"
9-30-2015 Maylee said she was trying to get her skirt out of her bum and Mikayla said "It's called a wedge wedge."
9-29-2015 (Panicked) "I had a lot of poop on my bum so I had to use a lot of toilet paper..." (major clogged toilet)
9-27-2015 Describing the lunar eclipse "It looks like an onion turning to an orange."
9-26-2015 Teaching Maylee about traffic lights she says "You see that yellow light? That means quick catch up! Sometimes we can't catch up so we have to stop."
9-17-2015 While doing homework at Nana and Grandad's house "I can't concentrate when it smells like dog slobber. When Missy (the dog) makes that sound it sounds like Grandad snoring."
9-17-2015 While doing homework at Grandad and Nana's house she says "I can't concentrate when it smells like dog slobber. When Missy (dog) makes that sound it sounds like Grandad snoring."
9-16-2015 "Mom when you were a kid did everyone live in cabins?"
9-15-2015 "I had such a busy day at recess today. First I hung on the monkey bars. Then I hung on the other straight bar. No one would seesaw with me so I couldn't do that, but then two girls from another class asked me if I wanted to be in their girl club. It's a great girl club. You just hang out in all the shade."
9-11-2015 The girls were sleeping in their tent and Mikayla came in and said "Maylee is gassy and she knows that means she needs to poop and she's not doing it!"
9-10-2015 While talking about having to do exercises in class because it was raining during recess she said "They were so hard I was sore by halftime!"
9-7-2015 In her evening prayers "I really, really (said like 10 times) love Daxton. Please help him to feel better. If there is a way we don't know how to help him feel better please help us to know. Even though I don't play with Maylee and Daxton, I show them I love them because I take care of them."
9-7-2015 "I'm Listiana and Maylee is Pissediana."
8-30-2015 "Thunder sounds to me like clouds are flushing the big toilet of all the rain."
8-28-2015 "I'm going to tell you a secret. Don't tell anyone. I know it will be a little hard for Grandad cuz we all know Grandad can't keep secrets. I told him a secret and he spreaded it."
8-19-2015 "Dad's hair is like a bunch of long grass with weeds in it that needs to be lawn mowed."
8-17-2015 "Capital is another word for bigger case."
8-12-2015 "I don't want to grow up because then I can't have gummy bear vitamins and dress up in my dress up clothes any more."
8-5-2015 She was having a really hard time adjusting to kindergarten and one night she was crying and telling us all her woes..."How many more days until school is over? I wish there were more Satrudays in my life. I miss the days where I can stay home and have fun all day. I just thought there would be more Spring breaks."
8-4-2015 "Let's just say friends are confusing to me sometimes."
8-2-2015 "I think my teacher will love having me in her class because I'm so smart!"
8-1-2015 In her prayers she said "Please help my body to forget to do sins and help me to be forgiven if I do them."
8-1-2015 After telling her about our miscarriage in her prayers she said "Please help Mom to have her baby safely if she has one again. Please help her baby to come back."
7-29-2015 After eating some dessert "It's fabulous and divine and more than that!"
7-29-2015 "I went to Molinitos with my Mom last night. Do you know what the special is when there's only a kid and a parent? I got my own small salsa bowl!"
7-22-2015 "My brother and sister like to torture me all day while I'm trying to be lazy."
7-7-2015 "Mom I saw on a commercial that Dumbo is coming out in 2006 in case you want to buy it."
7-1-2015 She dressed up for the movies as Elsa and when she got back I asked her if anyone said they liked her outfit. She said "No. They ALL thought in their heads that I looked fabulous, but no one said it out loud."
6-20-2015 "How can you tell the difference between a girl baby and a boy baby since they are both bald?"
6-18-2015 She made me a business card and said, "It's your home business card. You work at home and that's a big business so you need a business card."
6-16-2015 (In her prayers) "Please help my Mom to not get better because she already does a good job at being a mom. Help me to not worry about going to school. Help all the kids to be nice and the teachers, too."
6-12-2015 "My feet are out of breath from running so much!"
6-7-2015 "Daxton looks like the King of Egypt or George Washington or something. I don't know what it's called because they are both from the same country."
6-7-2015 She asked Dustin to make a curtain for a talent show and after seeing it she said "I knew I could count on you!"
6-5-2015 (While holding up one finger on each hand) "One plus one equals two or eleven."
6-5-2015 After doing her hair and make-up for a date she said "You're the best ever. I'm so glad you're my Mom. I love you more than anything in the world!"
5-23-2015 While sounding out the letters for "before" she says "wa wa WAHFORE!"
5-21-2015 "Did you know there is a fairy for everything? Even lemons and fruit flies."
5-21-2015 In her prayers she said "Thank you for my beautiful Mom."
5-20-2015 "I am going to take Maylee to the lie doctor so she can figure out why she lies so much."
5-10-2015 "Grandad I have a friend called the Exercise Fairy. Maybe you need to have a visit with her!"
5-6-2015 "Mom do you know why I keep sneezing so much? It's because I have a tickley booger that I'm allergic to!"
5-4-2015 She woke up from a nap and asked for French toast for breakfast. Must have been a good nap!
5-1-2015 "I'm roasting like a marshmallow!"
4-30-2015 "I'm roasting like a marshmallow!"
4-24-2015 "When you see a sticker that has lots of dirt and is fuzzier that means it doesn't work."
4-21-2015 "Every boy can't stop fussing so you just have to make them stop. It's every woman's job. You just gotta do it."
4-15-2015 "Sometimes I feel like you and Dad need a date for a day or two to go to Africa. But Dad says crocodiles don't live in cages there so you might not like that."
4-10-2015 I asked her if she will always hang out with me? "I always will for sure. I will never get tired I hanging out with you."
4-10-2015 "Do you think wishing stars ever get rid of wishes or do you think they are so big they keep them all inside?"
4-9-2015 She pushed her play shopping cart full of our picnic dinner to the park tonight. It sits really low to the ground and caught on every rock she drove over, which makes the cart start to tip over. She told me "Sometimes I just wish there were no rocks in life. Sometimes they are just a pain!"
4-7-2015 After seeing saw dust on the floor of the garage she asked why there was garlic powder everywhere?
3-31-2015 "Daxton is so a man. He just leaned over to get something and tooted."
3-27-2015 "We gave Bear Bear a bath yesterday and the water from the bath was so dirty it looked like diarrhea!"
3-20-2015 "Maylee is saying lots of potty words! She's saying pee pee a lot!"
3-13-2015 "Mom I have great news! I caught a bug!! It's a dead bug, but at least it won't fly away!"
3-6-2015 While telling stories about her daughter she says, "You know what? Sometimes kids can be a pain!"
3-1-2015 "I went on a mission to where I learned to speak Fancy."
2-26-2015 "I have a gazillion pictures of parts of my family. My husband and my 10 kids."
2-26-2015 While visiting Nana she got a roll and from Sunday and asked how many days ago Sunday was? When Nana said four days she said "I hate to tell you, but rolls aren't very good after four days."
2-25-2015 "Every lady needs a purse."
2-25-2015 While reading to Maylee she says, "Jesus came down to visit the Nephites and God said 'This is my Beloved Son'. The children were gathered around angels and fire. There was no fear because it was a fire of joy. The not nice fire is called fire of fear. The nice fire is fire of joy."
2-24-2015 "Your hair doesn't look like it's flying. It looks nice. The back looks like a monster mouth though." (said to Mom)
2-18-2015 "You can't even see your burps. They are just a burst of air that sometimes smells."
2-15-2015 I told Mikayla she did a good job on her talk and she said, "I know! That's why I think we should have a celebration with a candlelight dinner!"
2-10-2015 "I want to be a fairy princess when I grow up and not a mom."
2-9-2015 "Maylee when you are in ballet I want to hear that you are the best dancer in the world because I will probably be in first grade then."
2-5-2015 She was looking at an Ace ad this morning when all of a sudden she got SO excited when she saw a picture of Scrubbing Bubbles. She said, "This is the thing we need Mom! I saw it on a commercial and it says it works hard so you don't have to! Can we go get some today Mom? Where is this place in the ad? Do you know where Ace is? It's just what we need Mom!!!!"
2-3-2015 "High heel boots are even better than cowgirl boots because they have more speeeed!!!"
1-31-2015 "Wanna know a secret? My dolls come to life when I say the magic words!"
1-29-2015 While listening to the workers talk at the horse arena next to us she she asks, "Why are they speaking Spanish? Is that the way they learned to talk on their mission?"
1-23-2015 A song came on in the car that talked about Christ in Calvary and she asked what Calvary was? I explained it was where Christ died and about some of the mean things people did to Christ. She kept saying "owie" over and over. Then she asked (about the "mean guys") "They were so bad they even had to go to time out?"
1-10-2015 "I thought flies went away in the winter because they don't have fur to keep them warm?"
1-1-2015 (In her nightly prayers) "Thank you that I could go swimming, but only in the Spring and Summer. Thank you for the snow in Tucson. Thank you for making my wishes come true."
12-29-2014 "I am kind of an expert at everything. Except dog poop. I am NOT an expert on that."
12-28-2014 "Kinda cool that Santa knows I am a grown up and brought me all grown up things for Christmas huh mom?"
12-15-2014 She colored in four different colored circles on a piece of paper and said, "Maylee I saw this on Pinterest and it looked so fun and I thought you'd like to do it! You match the pom poms to the colors on the circles and glue them on. I just saw that on Pinterest and thought you would like it."
12-10-2014 "You can't wear what you just did after a bath, except for ballerina clothes."
12-10-2014 "It's so hard for me to stay where you want when I know how to walk."
12-9-2014 "Whoever is in charge of the food is the mom."
12-9-2014 (at zoo lights) "This is the best night ever! Even better than Disneyland and Thanksgiving!"
12-8-2014 "Thanksgiving was even better than Disneyland. I know Disneyland was a lot of fun, but Thanksgiving was even more fun!"
12-8-2014 "I taught Teddy (our dog) how to sit, kneel and first position."
12-7-2014 "I always look fancy wherever I go. I must never wear pants. My favoritest thing to wear is long dresses with velvet."
12-2-2014 After coming home from preschool where she played with her friend Amber she said, "Bear Bear was my best friend. Now I have a real friend!"
10-26-2014 "I know what I am going to get Grandad for Christmas. I am going to get him some hair to cover up his bald spot."
10-24-2014 We saw the state fair while driving through Phoenix and Mikayla asked what it was. We told her it was like Disneyland, but a lot smaller. She asked "So then you don't have to be happy all the time there?" (We had told her Disneyland was the happiest place on Earth and you had to be happy there)
10-21-2014 "The only way I can write w's is to write an m and turn the paper upside down."
10-21-2014 "I keep losing my mind! I must stop forgetting it!"
10-20-2014 "I believe in magic and sparkles."
10-20-2014 In her morning prayer she said, "Please bless that I must have a magical day!"
10-17-2014 "Is anyone going to steal my best friends?" What?! "Is anyone going to steal Bear Bear, Princess Bella (stuffed dog) and my pink blankie?"
2014 "Incest"=obsessed
10-16-2014 "Ugh I still have that creepy cough! I figured out why I have a creepy cough. It's because your brain gets stuck because I was eating too much food this weekend. I ate too much food and that's why I got a bad case of the creepy cough."
10-15-2014 We spell things we don't want Mikayla to hear and the other day she said, "Hey Mom-do you want to BSE today?" Me: "What's BSE spell?" Mikayla: "Play-doh."
10-10-2014 "When I'm a grown-up I'm going to feed my kids cereal and lay on couch."
10-7-2014 "Look at those band-aid skeletons, Mom!" (mummies)
10-5-2014 "I think Maylee has a tooth told (cold). She has a real bad case of the tooth told."
10-2-2014 "Mom whats something really big that you want for your birthday?" Me: "Ummm...a bed?!" Mikayla whipped out all her change and gave it to me and said, "Now you can buy your new bed for your birthday!"
9-27-2014 "Mom can you put yellow dye in my hair and do Rapunzel braids?"
9-13-2014 She requested "Heavenly Father do you remember me?" ("A Child's Prayer") for her goodnight song. When asked if she thought Heavenly Father remembered her she said, "He remembers everything because He is the most specialist."
8-21-2014 "The Big Dipper doesn't look like a spoon. It looks like a shopping cart more."
7-29-2014 "When Jesus comes to Earth again will Heavenly Father come, too?" I told her Heavenly Father would stay in Heaven and she said, "Oh good because it would be super hard to tell them apart because they both have mustaches and they both have white hair and wear the same outfits."
7-29-2014 (After I bought the cheap bread) "Thanks for buying good bread. The kind with nuts gives me toots."
7-22-2014 She saw a picture of Elder Holland giving a talk and his finger was pointing in the air as he spoke. When she saw it she said, "We have to get off that one because it looks like that man is picking boogies with his finger."
7-7-2014 "If I was a garbage girl I would want a pink garbage truck."
7-7-2014 "How about you call me Sprinkle Princess? I want my middle name to be Sprinkle Donut."
7-3-2014 I told Mikayla that the next day would be the 4th of July and she asked, "Are there any secret fairies or animals that come tonight-like the Santa or the Easter Bunny?"
6-24-2014 "Oops! I thought my bug bite was a boobie because they are both red and I kept trying to cover it up!"
6-18-2014 (Talking very loudly at Wal-Mart) "Mom why do you keep stopping to look at so many things if you don't have any money? We are supposed to put all our monies in the Disneyland jar!"
6-12-2014 "We need to wash Maylee's blankie today. It's full of little girl love."
6-12-2014 "Mom did you know that you and me and Maylee are fairy princesses and Dad is the king butterfly?"
6-2014 She always says "I laughed/coughed/jumped/burped a toot right out!"
6-2-2014 She was trying to tell Maylee that "you are what you eat" as Maylee was trying to sneak some sugar, but instead it came out "you are what you are and you don't throw a fit."
6-2014 "I have a wonderin..." (any time she had a question)
5-30-2014 (While looking at the dresses in her closet) "What color princess do I want to be today?"
5-28-2014 "I don't need you to pick my nose. I can do it myself because I'm a big girl!"
5-21-2014 "Relax bath"=candles and bubbles in the bath.
5-13-2014 "I growed up and became a yard sale lady."
5-12-2014 "You wanna know my favorite thing in the world? That I love to spend time with my family!"
5-12-2014 "Mom I watched the Joseph Smith movie at Mammy's house and it was kind of scary." Oh yeah? Why? "The doctor cut through his skin and it was all black when Jesus came."
5-9-2014 "This is the how to be a fairy princess book (reading True to the Faith). According to the book you must never take off your fancy jammies."
5-5-2014 "I'm not funny. I'm right."
5-5-2014 (After telling her I was tired because I didn't get much sleep) "Maybe your brain was telling you it wanted to read instead of sleep."
4-16-2014 "Some people I was teaching went to the dollar store to get married. Isn't that crazy?!"
4-14-2014 "I was going to the bathroom and I was wiping and I tooted and it blew the toilet paper right out of my hand and into the toilet!"
3-27-2014 I asked what her favorite thing to do is and she said, "Go on adventures with Grandad and get princess drinks."
3-26-2014 I asked Mikayla if she tooted and she said "No and it's not my breath, either." .
3-18-2014 "Dear Jesus, thank you for all the fun things I have." (said randomly while playing)
3-18-2014 While looking at a cookbook she said, "I'm trying to find a good meal, but they are all desserts!"
3-17-2014 "Bossias" (Gracias)
3-3-2014 "I'm jealous of myself sometimes."
2-27-2014 After Teddy ate one of her glove she said, "At least one of them is still alive!"
2-17-2014 "Did you know nephews are girl nieces?"
2-17-2014 She was taking a booger to the bathroom to throw away and I thanked her for taking care of it. She responded "We don't take good care of boogers!"
2-12-2014 When asked how she could show Mom she loved her-"I could shower for you!"
2-4-2014 (Before first day of dance class) "I put on my lipstick and flossed my teeth and I am good to go!"
1-27-2014 "I need an eye mask to sleep with because sometimes I have bad dreams that come out of my eyes."
1-21-2014 "Mom am I old?" Me-Yes! You are almost 4! "I don't want to be old and have gray hair!"
1-12-2014 In primary the Sunbeam teacher was telling the kids that Heavenly Father has a body just like ours. She told them he had a nose like ours and asked Mikayla what she uses her nose for. She replied, "To pick boodas (boogers) out of them."
12-30-2013 "Does my body make milk, too?" Me-Not until you are a mommy! "When my tummy makes noise at the store that's my body making milk."
12-2013 Ballon="Baboon"
12-3-2013 She accidentally kissed me on the lips instead of the cheek and said, "Oh no! I think I just married you!"
11-2013 Whenever Dustin and I hug she says "You are smashed together!"
11-17-2013 On the way home from church she told me she was going to be Little Mermaid for the next Halloween and then said, "Here's what I'm going to need. A mermaid tail and boobie things. You can look online to see what kind of boobie things."
11-17-2013 When the Bishop asked her if she payed tithing at tithing settlement she told him "I've been doing it for years!"
11-12-2013 (On a call to Grandad) "I'm the boss of being busy. It's hard to keep up with it."
11-1-2013 "Mom can we have a candy day for our plans?"
10-31-2013 Someone asked her who she was while we were trick-or-treating and she said "Mikayla Mae Hancock".
10-16-2013 (While I was leaning over loading groceries into the car) "You look really pretty today Mom, but I can see your boobies."
10-11-2013 Payson, my parents dog, passed away and Mikayla suggested that holes be poked in Payson's grave so that Payson could tell us what heaven is like. She then requested to sing "I am a Child of God".
10-5-2013 "I just had a Mickey Mouse burp!" When asked what a Mickey Mouse burp was she said "Because it wasn't a Minnie (mini) one."
10-4-2013 (Her evening prayer) "Thank you that I am awesome and that I know every time I pray."
10-3-2013 (Her evening prayer) "Thank you for the prophets. It's so nice to have family all around me and have a baby in Mom's tummy. I love the water and help me to dream of it. It makes me so happy."
10-2-2013 After seeing some African Americans at the library she says "If they are chocolate does that mean we are vanilla?"
9-18-13 (Maylee had made a mess with a bunch of wipes) "Look what your child did! My children will never do this and they will go potty on the potty."
9-12-2013 "You have to be careful with dip dip, make-up and dirt because they are really messy."
9-10-2013 We were headed to the pet store and she asks "Can we go to the make-up store instead?"
9-8-2013 "I am wearing two kinds of lipstick. Watermelon and Sleeping Beauty."
8-2013 "Once uba time" (said as all one word)=once upon a time.
8-2013 "Yay-ha"=yeehaw!
8-26-2013 "Mom-when I was going potty I picked my nose and there were lots of boogies that came out with the Mommy booger!"
8-2013 Hardware store="hardway store". Pizza Hut="Pizza Hood".
8-2013 "Maylee always sticks her hand in the potty and shakes it all about."
8-5-2013 After getting out of the car with her giant red purse she says "I'm pretty much foxy."
7-25-13 "Mom my breath hurts." (sore throat)
7-9-2013 After only asking for us to sleep good in her evening prayer she informed us that "sometimes when it's late you only ask one question".
7-7-2013 Sometimes when I have wedgies I have quiet toots.
7-5-2013 {After having bad dreams during the night} "I saw scary monster eye shadows on the wall!"
6-30-2013 Someone at church asked her what her name was and she told him it was "Princess".
6-16-2013 (Holding the Temple schedule card) "This is my temple ticket so I could go to the temple."
6-2013 When asked how much something costs while playing store she replied, "Too much 88".
6-4-13 I was taking a nap while the girls were asleep and wake up to Mikayla standing next to my bed saying "I am your Prince Charming and I am going to kiss you". Then she planted one on my forehead.
5-30-13 "Mom can I watch another movie?" No. "Can I ask Grandad?"
5-21-13 "Usually I don't listen, but I love you very much!"
4-23-13 Mikayla was playing the piano and informs me: "Mom I am playing pretty songs instead of crazy songs so Jesus can come and make Maylee feel better."
3-21-13 After eating tons of bread and butter at a restaurant someone told her she was full of beans and she said, "I'm not full of beans! I'm full of butter!"
3-20-13 She saw an oil spot on the driveway and said, "UH OH Mom! Someone pee peed on the driveway!"
3-8-13 Mikayla comes in the room with a sequin on her finger and says, "Look, Mom! It's a little CD on my finger!"
3-6-13 Mikayla wanted to watch a movie at Nana's house and when the Disney castle and fireworks came on before the movie she said "That is a Barbie temple!"
3-5-13 "I'm not silly, I'm not crazy. I'm just FUN!"
3-4-13 She was playing beauty salon and informed Mom, "This is the place where we get our hair done. Like at Wal-Mart."
3-13 Maylee was crying while I was trying to fix dinner and I asked Mikayla to help her feel better. She said "It's okay Mom. I will wipe away her tears with Bear Bear."
2-22-13 Mikayla: Maylee-what is your whole name? Maylee: (Silence) Mikayla: Your name is Chunky Munk Hancock.
2-13-13{Yelling from the bathroom} "Mom! I'm going lots and lots poops cuz I love you SO much!"
1-25-2013 She asked if she was 2 anymore and when I told her she wasn't she asked if she was 3. I said yes then she asked "What happened to my 2?"
1-23-2013 When questioned why she unwinds tons of toilet paper and leaves it all over the bathroom she said "It be long like Rapunzels hair, Mom!"
1-12-2013 When asked what kind of cake she wanted for her birthday she said "A princess cake, probably with no nuts."
12-2012 When I told her she needed to wait until Maylee woke up to take a bath with the both of them she said, "But I only want to take a bath with one of me!"
12-6-12 She asked Santa for "paper and diamonds".
11-2012 What do you want for Christmas? "Paper I could hold in mine hand-like a notepad!"
11-17-2012 "Mom you carry me to car? I not heavy anymore. I all better now."
10-31-12 What kind of face should our pumpkin have? "Scary-like Mom's!"
10-17-12 "You can hold this, but NO touching!"
10-15-12 What do you want for Christmas? "Something I can hold in mine hand."
10-8-12 What are you going to be for Halloween? "Poop!" (Maylee is going to be a pea)
10-2012 "White butter"-mayo
9-27-12 "May May (Maylee) not sleep in new bed. Too little. Need grow more hair first."
9-23-12 "No poops in undies. Just toots!"
8-25-12 Me: "Mikayla, what do we say when Mom asks you to do something?" Mikayla: "I do, like Nephi!"
7-29-12 I asked her after she tooted if the chair tooted. She pointed at her bottom and said "No, bum bum toot!"
2012 (Summer) Each week when we ask her what she learned about in nursery she replies "Boys. Two."
6-2012 "Dude it"-meaning "do it" or "I'll do it myself".
6-2012 Jabbering on and on to "read" a book, then at the end almost always she'll say "AMEN!" Randomly she'll say "kneel", kneel down and pray throughout the day, too.
3-12-12 She worked on a dirty diaper for the longest time, then said, pointing to her bottom, "There it is!"
8-24-2011 Nanny Jill singing the primary song "I love Daddy (Mommy, Grandad, etc.), yes I do" then sang "I love Payson (the dog)" and Mikayla says "NO, NO, NO!!!"
8-19-2011 Dustin: "Mikayla-eat your chicken." Mikayla's stone- faced response: "bawk-bawk" (the noise she makes when you ask her what a chicken says).