Kid Comedy

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary as recited by Honey Bunch:

Mary, Mary, quiet and scary
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and taco shells and pretty May's all in a row

Holy Smokes Batman!

I washed all the towels today and forgot to bring them back upstairs after they were dry. I remembered, of course, when it was time to get the girls out of the bathtub and there weren't any towels. Lucky for me, Doctor was home so I asked if he would run downstairs and get the towels. He was gone forever. When I went to holler at him and make sure he was okay, I heard quite a bit of ruckus in the basement. He came up and informed me that we had a house guest. There was a bat in our basement! My all-star husband smacked it with an empty Wii box and escorted it outside. His comment when he came back upstairs was, "I hope he doesn't freeze out there." What? Sympathy for a home invading bat? Sorry, none from me. Good news though, I have an excuse to not do laundry tonight. :)

Move Over Martha!!!!!

My mom calls Princess "little Martha" because she is so like Martha Stewart. This last weekend Princess announced that she was throwing a disco party and gave us all invitations. She then made decorations complete with a homemade disco ball. She then told me that I had an appointment with her to "get fancy." She did all of our hair and even picked out our clothes. She made Dude wear a tie, but somehow it got lost before the start of the party. When the time of the party arrived, she had us sign her guestbook. Then we rocked out while she sang disco music. We had a blast. I'm sure this is the first of many parties to be planned by the amazing Princess. I can't wait for the next one.

(side note)Princess reluctantly allowed Dude to hang this poster during her party.

Go Broncos!

For an early Christmas present Doctor bought a Boise State flag. Since we don't have a place to hang it outside, we hung it in the window. We got all dressed up in our blue and orange for the last game of the season. Everything was great....except for the game. :) We're still fans, though. Here's a picture during the last game of the almost perfect season.

Look Who's Standing!

Megaman is a mover and a shaker. He was born ready to move around. He's been crawling for awhile now, and within the last week he's started pulling himself up on the furniture. He gets super frustrated because he thinks he should be able to walk and is constantly falling down. I'm pretty impressed considering he is only 7 1/2 months! Here is a picture of him "helping" with the dishes (apparently a theme lately).

The Innocence of Youth

I know, I know, its been two weeks since I have blogged, but I have plenty of excuses. I have several "blogs in waiting" (i.e. Christmas, New Years, Princess rockin' party, Dude's school play), keep watching in the coming days for those. For now, I have to blog about the innocence of children. This morning when I was checking my email Dude came in the room and saw a picture on Yahoo of the fighting in the Middle East. He asked me about it and this is the conversation we had.
Me: There are some people in different countries that are fighting.
Dude: Why?
Me: Well, there are two groups of people who each think that they should own a piece of land. Kind of like if you and your sister each thought that a toy was yours so you fought about who's toy it is.
Dude: You would tell us to share and find a way to get along. Can we send them a letter and tell them they need to share and get along?
Me: I wish it were that simple. They've been fighting for so long I'm not sure a letter would help.
Dude: Maybe no one has tried. I'll write them a letter.
I wish the rest of the world saw everything in such simple terms. Maybe then we could all remember to share and get along.
Then, later today Dude asked me if he could do the dishes. Um.....Yes!!! He ran to Princess and said, "I can't believe Mom is trusting me to do the dishes! Wow! This is SO awesome!" Yes it is. :)

HO HO HO!

Here are the promised pictures with Santa. Maybe I'm a little biased, but they are the cutest kids I've ever seen.

Fa La La La La.........

I'm a true choir geek at heart, but unfortunately I haven't made much of an effort to keep singing after having children. Recently a friend of mine who was feeling the same way decided to start a ladies choir. I am so grateful she did, I'm having a blast singing with these amazing women. We sound great together and had our first performance last weekend.
I hope every mom who reads this remembers to make time for the things they love.

Kid Comedy

My kids are so funny, here's proof.
Dude -
It never ceases to amaze me that the same phrases pass from one generation of kids to another. Here are some things that Dude has said in the past week:
*You're not the boss of me!
*Finders keepers, losers weepers!
*It's a free country!
I remember saying all of these when I was his age.


Princess -
We went to see Santa today (I'll post pictures later), and poor Princess lost her letter outside in the rain. I told her that I bet Santa will see it and take it back with him to the North Pole. She said, "Oh, is he a good eye man?" Yes, Princess he is.

She's also very creative. At preschool the other day she discovered a way to make paper flower bouquets. All the other kids liked them so much that she spent time with each child teaching them how. She's a good helper with Megaman, too. This is how I found them after I answered a phone call.

Honey Bunch -

When it was time to go after seeing Santa, Honey Bunch shouted, "Mom! You forgot!!!" When I asked her what we forgot she said, "My presents!" Poor girl will have a hard time waiting until Christmas.

HB loves to sing. Here's "Skip To A Lou, My Dolly" (aka: skip to the lou my darling)

Megaman -

MM has started to crawl! Yikes! He loves "keeping up" with the big kids and chasing them around the house. He also loves the Christmas tree.

When I was growing up I hated our Christmas tree. I thought it was so ugly. My mom insisted on placing every ornament/decoration my brother and I ever made from birth on up. She loved her memory tree and I always swore that I would have a beautiful designer tree in my adulthood. My mom would just smile. Now, I get it. Our tree is covered with memories, and I couldn't imagine it any other way.

Now You Know

My Dad is famous for finding "treasures" at auctions. During his last trip out here he gave Dude a recent auction find. It's a handheld video game that probably made its debut a decade (or longer) ago. Dude loves it. Shortly after giving it to him, it began having minor technical difficulties. My Dad's response was, "Well, it's old technology." Since then, Dude has thought that that is the name of the system. He'll say, "Can I bring the 'old technology' with me?" Or, "Hey, would you like to play my 'old technology'?" He was telling his friends at school about his old technology and to his surprise none of them had heard of it before. So, he drew a picture for them. I found this in his backpack. (If you click on the picture you can see it in better detail.)