Family Pics

We took some family pictures yesterday. Not bad for taking them ourselves I think. Doctor's sister graciously offered to photo shop them for us, so I'll probably post again after they've been "doctored." Here's my favorites.

Happy Halloween!

Our town has several activities to celebrate Halloween and the first of them was yesterday. We have an Anakin Skywalker, southern Belle, cat, and M&M.

Megaman finally has a thumb he can suck. :)

For the Swingin' Sweethearts

My grandparents sent some darling clothes for the kids and I couldn't get these videos sent via email so I'm trying the blog. Thanks again Grandma & Grandpa!

Cheaters Never Win

When I was in the first grade I made a choice that has haunted me for over two decades. My teacher, Mrs. Browning, would give a spelling pre-test on Wednesdays. If you got 100% on the pre-test, you didn't need to take the actual test on Friday. I always got 100% on the pre-test. Always. During one pre-test towards the end of the year I couldn't remember if the word yellow was spelled with one "l" or two. I knew that all the colors were written on posters that were hung on the ceiling. I had a perfect record of 100% pre-tests on the line. What would I do? I looked at the color posters. The minute I did it I felt horrible. My guilt was compounded when Mrs. Browning announced that I was the only student who received 100% that week. As a reward she bought me a bag of popcorn. I never got up the nerve to tell her that I cheated, and I have felt horrible about it ever since. Now, with this background, you might be able to understand my over-reaction to poor Dude's recent spelling test.

Dude brought home a spelling test with a 96%. Good, right? Only I know that he knows how to spell all the words. As I examine the test, I notice the word "bat" circled in red. It was spelled correctly so I couldn't figure out why he had missed it. Then it occurred to me that bat wasn't one of the spelling words. When I asked him why he spelled the wrong word he explained that he had accidentally written one of the words on the wrong line. During the time he was erasing and re-writing the word on the correct line the teacher had moved on to the next word and he wasn't sure what it was. So, he decided to look at one of his classmates tests to see what the word was. At this point in the story I began a crazy lecture about how cheaters never win. I won't give the lecture, but I will say that I will be very surprised if poor Dude ever looks at another child's paper again.

Kid Comedy

I was driving the kids home from school when Dude told me that one of his friends had invited him to join a club online. He told me he needed to go to www. bff.com. I asked him what the site was and he said, "You know, mom, how we say U.S.A. but it really means United States of America? Well, my friend says B.F.F. but it really means 'best friends forever'. Does that makes sense to you?" What a great explanation.

When we were getting ready to get the big kids from school I put on some shoes that I occasionally wear to church. Honey Bunch gave me a funny look and said, "Are you wearing sacrament shoes today?"

Princess had her 5 year check-up today. The pediatrician was asking her some questions and then remarked that she was a smart girl. She looked up at her and said, "I know. I really am!"

Fun Stuff

Megaman loves to look at the computer with Daddy. Ahhhh, legos. :)





The other day I was getting Princess ready for school and hollered at Honey Bunch to get her jacket. When she came in I noticed that she had buttoned it all by herself. I've never shown her how, but bless her heart, she figured it out without me. :)


Yesterday we were driving in the car and Honey Bunch started yelling at the moon to move out of our way. She's hilarious. I think she's probably the only kid on the planet that would think of the moon as being in her way.


Dude is an advanced reading group that meets once a week at his school. He came home the day after the latest class and announced that he had learned about the word "askew" during his reading group. I know its advanced but holy cow, I think that was a vocab word for me in junior high. I have to keep in mind, though, that he came home one day last year and told me that he needed to find a career path. School is definitely different nowadays. Must be the new math. Okay only a few of you will get that last part, but trust me, its funny.

Five, really?

Our sweet Princess turned five on Friday. Where has the time gone? She's actually been celebrating for awhile now. When my mom was here she spoiled her rotten and she's been convinced every day since has been her birthday. On Friday morning she woke up and ran into Dude's room. She said, "In the night I felt something. You know what it was? I was growing cause today is my birthday!"

The preschool she goes to was part of the Homecoming parade for the high school and Princess was so excited, I think she thought it was a birthday parade for her. She decorated her bike and talked about the parade all day. When we got there though, she got scared. She is so like me. Long story short we never actually walked in the parade, but here we are all ready to walk.

Doctor is now in his late 20's.................

............so late that he's really 31. :-) Doctor's birthday was a couple of Fridays ago but since I was sick I didn't get a chance to blog about it. The gals at the office gave him a cake and a shirt and Bubba at the cafeteria made sure everyone knew it was his birthday. The hospital rented a corn maze for the night for the residents/doctors and their families, so we ate cake and ice cream for dinner and then had hot dogs at the maze for dessert. They had a small maze for the kids, a corn cannon, bounce house and haystack to play on as well.



Then silly us decided to venture into the corn maze at sunset. Yes, our entire family (and 3 other families as well) went in. At sunset.
Poor Princess was against it from the start and screamed the entire way that we were lost and would never make it out. Dude was certain he and his friends would be the only ones to find the way out, and they kept venturing from the group. Honey Bunch loved every minute of the chaos. Doctor kept jumping ahead to find the best route. Me? I just kept yelling at everyone to stay together. Not my proudest moment. The good news, we made it out just in time for a hayride in the dark. Not everyone was excited for it after the maze but we had fun.

Happy birthday, babe!

I'm back!

I'm recuperating from my bout with shingles, thanks for all the well wishes. Lets just say it was a lot more painful than I thought it would be. Since I wasn't able to do much I spent quite a bit of time reading with the kids. They love to read stories from The Friend (a magazine for kids published by our church) but we couldn't find our October copy. I decided to get online and print some of the stories to read. What an awesome site! They have scripture stories that you can watch, interactive stories, activities, and you can have all of the articles from the magazine since 2001 read to you. Oh, and you can listen to songs as well. Its been a great resource. If you have kids, check it out! http://www.friend.lds.org/

What?!?!

I have so many things to blog about... Doctor's birthday, our family going to a corn maze, the Homecoming parade, Honey Bunch learning to button her jacket all by herself....but all these things will have to wait. Why? Because I have shingles. What?!?! I asked Doctor if he's sure, I've only heard of old people in nursing homes getting shingles. He's sure. I'm trying to follow the counsel given by Joseph B. Wirthlin in last weekends General Conference to find humor in things but I'm coming up short. I can think of one thing, though. Last night Doctor asked me if I wanted my steroid shot in my arm or my bottom. Dude (who I thought was asleep) hollered out, "Mom! Is Dad going to shoot you in the butt?" I'm moving a little slow right now, but keep your eyes out for fun blogs a comin'.