Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Home OMG I'M IN LOVE WITH HER!!!

"One day I'm gonna whistle?"

*gush* *gush* *swoon*

She makes my ovaries hurt lol

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

*slaps forehead*

{Scene: A mother and her two sons, aged 8 & 10 are finishing up their lunch at a quiet restaurant on a snowy day. The only other patrons are a pair of elderly friends meeting for lunch}

     OLDEST SON: "O.M.G. I'm soooooooooooooooo full!" *moaning*

     MOTHER:  "Shhhhhhhh!  Please don't be rude, there are other customers!" *nodding in direction of the elderly ladies in the booth right behind him*

     YOUNGER SON:  *scolds his older brother loudly* "Yeah!  Those old ladies are trying to enjoy their lunch! Geez."

     MOTHER:  *slaps forehead*  "Check, please!"

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

WW-11 for my 10 on 1-11-11

MY FIRST BABY...
THIS BABY...


TURNED 10 TODAY! 


HE BECAME A BIG BROTHER AT 19 MONTHS


AND TOOK ON HIS ROLE AS THE BEST BIG BROTHER IN THE WORLD


HE'S A LOVER OF FUN, AND SILLINESS


AND A PLAYFUL SOUL WITH A CACKLE THAT COULD MELT THE HEART OF ANY


HE MELTS MINE EVERYDAY


HE'S MOM'S HELPER AND LOVES HIS LITTLE BROTHERS


HE'S GOT A MATURE SENSE OF HUMOR AND IS WISE BEYOND HIS YEARS
SCHOOL SUBJECTS CAME EASY TO HIM EARLY ON


SO EASY IN FACT THAT HE SKIPPED 2ND GRADE (Mama's gotta brag a bit)


HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUDDY!
YOU CHANGED OUR LIVES FOREVER
AND EVERYDAY IS A GREAT ONE WITH YOU


WE LOVE YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH
<3

Sunday, January 9, 2011

What, you were expecting Santa??!?!



My 4yr old had a doctor's appointment recently. We were at a specialist that he'd never met before, so the doctor was trying to make smalltalk.

DOCTOR: "How was your Thanksgiving?"

JAKESTER: "Good."

DOCTOR: "Did you eat lots of turkey?"

JAKESTER: "Mmhmm."

DOCTOR: "Do you know what's coming up?"

JAKESTER: shrugged

DOCTOR: "You don't know?! Who's the big guy coming to your house dressed in a red suit?"

JAKESTER: "Ummmmmmm...a lobster?"

(In his defense, he did have lobster on Thanksgiving...so maybe that's where that came from LOL)

We were 2 hours from home for the appointment, so we decided to make it a Mom & Jakester day.

He requested lunch at "Friendly-Fire." HUH?! Took me a minute to figure out Friendly's.

Then my sweet little innocent baby boy told our waitress that she talks like Lois from "Family Guy." Ummm, yeah...I don't think the older boys are watching Nickelodeon before bed anymore...naughties.

A couple weeks later, I had his first Parent/Teacher Conference. The teachers showed me a poster that they made the previous morning during circle time, in which they asked each child, "What makes you happy?" and wrote their replies on the poster.

Jakester's reply: Going to lunch at Friendly-Fire with my mom, she had buffalo chicken salad and I had chocolate milk.

(DISCLAIMER: He had hotdogs and macaroni, too, but I'm thinking chocolate milk was the highlight.)

Thursday, January 6, 2011

I was gonna redo that bathroom anyway...

I know I'm supposed to like, "embrace their creativity" or some shit but when their creativity causes them to use toothpaste and shaving cream to stick cardboard, maxipads, christmas paper, hot chocolate wrappers and pieces of the bathroom border (that they ripped off) to the side of the bathroom sink, I start to question that.

So, I did...question that.  They're reply?!

"Cuz we're leaving messages for Perry the Platypus."
Photo from google images
 The next day, the bathroom bandits struck again......... Yes, those are q-tips coming out his ears.  And yes, I got my phone to take a pic of the little bugger before I scolded him.  That's how I roll.



Wednesday, January 5, 2011

WW-Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Monday, January 3, 2011

The Case of the Missing Laundry Detergent

I have 5 boys.  You know that.  You have kids, too.  You also know that kids = laundry.  5 kids = a mountain range of laundry that make the Rockies look like an anthill.  *sigh* I wish that was an exaggeration.

It all started about 3 weeks ago.  I'd run to town for a quick grocery trip and grab a jug of laundry detergent.  I would of course, procrastinate accidently forget to do the laundry once I got home, so I set the jug on the washer.

When I finally got a chance to do some laundry, the jug was almost empty.  What the...?  Didn't I just buy that like 72 hours ago???!

Husband is usually good about doing his own laundry when he's out of jeans a load or two here and there, so maybe it was him, I thought...but the musty smell coming from the washer told me otherwise.

Fastforward another day or two and I grabbed another jug at the store.

Repeat.

Where the flip is all the laundry detergent going?!  I asked the inhabitants of my house.

No answer.

I again bought laundry detergent at the store and this time...just to help prove my sanity...I asked my husband for "help" bringing in the groceries.  He set the jug on the washer.

The next morning I get up and go to start a load of laundry.  Empty.

Arrrrrrrrghhhhhh!

So I dial my husband.  "Husband, I'm going to ask you something and I want you to really...think...about...the answer...before you give it to me...Did I or did I not just buy a gawd dayum jug of laundry detergent?!"

Husband, point 2 seconds later:  "Uhhhhh, I don't know, did you?"

FML!

I campaigned for my sanity for a day or two (I even used the sitter as a witness sounding board, joking the kids were probably dumping it down a heating duct or something) and sooner or later the laundry issue was once again forgotten for a couple weeks.

Until yesterday.

Husband started doing some after-dinner dishes, so I decided to conquer a laundry mountain or two.  I donned my ipod and tuned the crazies kids out and tuned Adam Lambert and The Black Eyed Peas in...Imma be be be be...doing laundry.

Soon, the kids were running amok and I was dodging icy stares from the dishwasher my husband, so we tried to settle them into the living room for a quick game before bed.

But someone was missing.

*slam* goes the washing machine lid.

"Grady, what are you doing?!"

3 yr old:  "Ummmmmm, nuffing."  And he joined us in the living room.

Upon sending the kids in to brush teeth 15 or so minutes later, they screamed, "Bubbles!! woohoo, bubbles!"

What the........*crickets*  Who the f is Bubbles?!

Well, let me tell you.  Bubbles is the result of a 3 year old dumping numerous bottles of laundry detergent into the washing machine and once spin cycle occurs, bubbles appear.......in every.single. toilet, sink, tub, shower, and drain in our house.

Mystery solved.

And the toilets took a little less elbow grease to clean this a.m. :)

Saturday, January 1, 2011

NEW YEAR, reNEWed ME

I was feelin' a little fat old (hence the reNEWed ME) to go out for New Year's Eve, so we decided to rock out at home with My Many Men.

An attempt at a group pic...

Decorations were hung,
and of course, there was snackage...apple nachos, yum!
Mom made us pose for pics in our pajamas attire.
Here's Mr. Fever......he was in bed early, but got up just in time to see the ball drop.
Play that funky music...
They loved it!

But our "tupid" glasses wouldn't stay on...
So we all got naked and drank champagne!
JUST KIDDING...it was only Sprite, I swear!
Oh, Waiter!
We hope your 2011 is grand!