A little laugh

True story…. This morning I noticed my children have been on the computer way too much.  So, I declared it a no computer day for them.  Anyway they are running around the house and I hear Michael say “Hey, I was playing with that!”  And Nicole replies with “We are playing on multiplayer!”  A few minutes later Nicole goes “Michael, your dead now.”  Then he says, “No I’m NOT, I just logged out!”

Michael was watching me paint my toe nails.
"What ya doing?"
"Ah, painting my toe nails." I said.
"To make you look pretty?" He asked.
"Yeah, I guess.  Do you like it?"
"Yep, you don't look so ugly anymore!"

Picture This....

You know the video of the cat stretching and rolling off of the TV.  I'm sure everyone has seen one. 
Well picture this.  A Great Dane sleeping on the couch.  He stretches and rolls backwards off the couch.  Very much like the cat but not as graceful.  Now add a clip of a body wrestler body slamming someone onto the coffee table.  That's my puppy.  He flipped the coffee table on its side this morning and sent everything flying.  I wish I caught it on video.  I laughed so hard I almost peed myself.

pesky squirrels are at it again

Let me tell you these things are waging war on me.  It must be because I cut down all the sun flowers before hurricane Irene came to town.  I wanted to save as many seeds as I could.  So I cut down all the large sun flowers down saved the seeds that I wanted for next year.  I spent a whole day picking through the damn things to pick out the worms and save the good ones for roasting.  So now the squirrels are pissed at me.  They keep digging up my bulb that I thought were going to make it to next year.  They also started digging in the spots that I just planted seeds for a fall.  I don't know how many times I've reseeded the lettuce and they only seem to dig in the spots that have the new seeds in them.  Get this they appear to be so mad at me that they are now attacking me at work.  I have to thank Bob my supervisor for saving me from one of the little rodents.  I was not so lucky with the second.  As I was pull a box of candy off of a pallet one of them came flying at me and tried to gnaw on my leg.
Seriously the baby squirrel fell off of a box and one of his claws caught on my pant leg although that is not how I saw it in my mind.

lesson learned

  I think the I said something like don't you dare put that anywhere near your sisters hair.  So what does he do he puts it on his own head.  These things do not stop.  There is no off button on them.  And when it can't go forward anymore the wheels start going backwards.  We had to cut it out of his hair.  It's a good thing his hair is so long.

Funny Kids

My daughter like to draw and I mean a lot!  She is into mass production or something. 
I can always tell who is in the picture by the colors she chooses.  She is always in pink.  I'm always in red.  Her teacher is always in purple.  Her best friend Emma is always in yellow.  It took me a while to figure this out.  I don't want to get her upset by not being able to tell who her pictures are of.  Yes, I have brought her tears by not getting them right in the beginning, but she has finally taught me how to decipher who is who and I am so glad she did!

So a couple of days ago she gave me a card.  My twelfth one for the day, I think.  I tried to take a picture of it but it would come out. 
Anyway,  It was a typical picture of her and I.  Of course I have to try and find something different than the last eleven. 
"WOW Punkin look at the hair.  You did a really good job.  I like how you added the yellow for the highlights this time."  I said.
"How about the pencil?" she asked.
"Um????"
"Yeah, I couldn't find the gray so I added lots of pencil for your hair."

Mom when can I get a phone??

Yes my 5 year old son asked me when could he get a phone?  The same boy who refuses to talk to anyone including his grandmothers on the phone.  When I asked him what he needed it for he said so he can call his cousin Ben on his phone.
We had gone out looking for beds last week.  We figured it's about time to get this same five year old out of our bed.  He starts school in a couple or weeks so it is  - Yes WAY passed time to get him in his own bed.  So we were talking about the beds and if we got him one he would have to actually sleep on it.  So as the conversation went on we asked him when he would be ready to sleep on his own bed.  He said and I quote "When I thirty!"

Mo and his dreams

Mo loves to tell me about his dreams first thing in the morning.  I think he even adds to them when he's awake.  Yesterday he woke up crying.  I figured he had a nightmare.  So it took me awhile to rock him and try to get him to calm down and tell me about it.  I was not expecting to laugh my a$$ off.  BTW is that possible??  Can someone laugh their a$$ off because I would really like to try it?  Anyway, it was not exactly what he said as the look on his face.  He was sooooo serious when he said he was mad at the sun for making it bright and waking him up before he could finish his dream.  When I started laughing he looks at me so sadly and said "But Mom I only had one more page left!"

Supervisor in Training

We stopped by to bring the guys some lunch and check up to see on what they're working on.

Michael " Drew I found this lady bug and it talks"

Drew "Yeah, What's it saying?"

Michael  "Get back to work!"

the storyteller

Ed is no longer aloud to tell the kids stories. . I mean it! I really loved his Irish pirate voice he used to use when he would read books to them. It was cute he'd start with is grandmothers brogue and it would morph into a pirate along the way. Somewhere he stopped reading and started making up his own stories. Some of them where really cute, some not so much.

I truly believe when I was reading the What to Expect the First Year baby book, Ed was studying and learning to parent from the Calvin and Hobbes comic books.

This morning Moe asked if I remembered when Daddy and I found them under a rock and brought them home to stay. Of course that started Nicole (miss knowitall) to argue with him on how they got here. I over heard her telling him that they started out as peanuts and mommy ate them and that was how they got into my belly.