You gotta see this!!

My sister sent me this link and I think it is funny. There are days when I am sure every mom feels this way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXT6Hs113ZA

Smile and enjoy your day!!

Newspaper games

After I was finished reading the paper on Sunday I left it on the floor in a nice neat pile and got up to find out what we coud eat for dinner. When I came back in the living room, it looked like a miniature bomb blew the paper up. Actually, My dear husband was playing, "Let's make angels in the newspaper." They (He and the 2 kids) had thrown every piece of the paper onto the floor and scattered them about. Then they decided to lay in the papers and try and make angels. Good times. The next news paper game they played was wad it all up and have a newspaper ball fight. Yes, very much like a snowball fight only a lot warmer and insde the living room. Then Ryan decided his favorite game would be to eat the newspaper. I don't think I ever thought I would say, "NO!! Don't eat the newspaper." not just once but many times in the space of 10 minutes. When I brought a trash bag in to clean up the mess they pllayed the last game; Newspaper basketball which meant mom was used as a backboard. Again, I say, "Good times!!!"

I shouldn't complain, right?
I never knew my husband to be such a creative man. And he kept both kids occupied and not killing each other for a whole 20 minutes. No one got hurt and the mess was a relatively easy one to clean up.

Such is life.

P.S. We took a friend home from church on Sunday and after he got out of the car Reese said, "That's incredible!!" about nothing in particular.
I don't know where she gets these things.

Things found in my bed

This is a list of things that I had to clean out of my bed last night before I could climb in and fall asleep.
1. Towels. A stack of clean folded towels somehow ended up on my bed. Don't ask me how or why because it was Sunday and we were at church all morning, had lunch there and came home for naps. When I went into my room there they were, 2 full sized green towels, 1 full sized blue towel, 3 hand towels of differing colors and an orange wash cloth. Maybe the towel fairy has been sneaking around.
2. A match box car. Yes it belongs to my daughter and not my son and she picked it out from the box at church. Why is there a toy box that the kids get to pick from at church? I don't know. She comes home everyu week with something that she got to pick out of the box and yesterday it was a matchbox car. Yes it ended up in my bed as well.
3. A grocery list. O.k. this one might be my fault but i certainly do not remember taking it into my bed.
4. The pen that the grocery list was written with. Yes probably my fault as well.
5. A visitors guide for upstate New York. Don't ask me.
6. A 5 inch wooden truck. This one belongs to the boy. He is a total of 27 inches tall and I don't think he can reach the top of my bed, I can't quite figure this one out. (Maybe the fairies again)
7. A pair of purple snowflake pajama bottoms size 4T.
8. 3 remote controls. One for the t.v. one for the cable box and one for the radio.
9. A 3 foot bendable pencil. The last time I had to bribe my 3 year old to get her hair cut she got a toy which happened to be this pencil. I am not sure what she was doing with it in my bed.
10. A pencil sharpener. Now I know what she was doing with it in my bed.
11. No pencil shavings. (WHEW)
12. A hanger from my husbands church clothes that he mysteriously left on the floor when he got home from church. Maybe he couldn't find a hanger to hang them on.
13. A bottle of water. Because everyone needs to stay hydrated, especially when they are sleeping.
14. And last but not least (Possibly most importantly) No food or bugs.

As soon as everything was properly taken care (read: thrown on the floor) I climbed into bed to rest my weary head or watch Iron Chef.

My first shower

Last night when mommy asked me if I was ready for a bath I said, "No, I think I'll take a shower." She said that it was o.k. so I got naked and waited. When it was my turn (I had to wait for little brother to finish his bath) I got in. It was the funnest experience of my short little life. I just started running around in the shower getting wet and "staying warm." When it was time to wash my hair daddy helped me with the shampoo and I started to rub it in my hair. When I got some of it in my mouth I tried to get it out by licking the shower curtain. When that didn't work Daddy told me to just let the water rinse it out. I put my moutn under the water and for some reason it decided to go up my nose. The water that is. Daddy couldn't stop laughing. I still can't figure out what he thought was so funny. After we got the whole shampoo thing taken care of Daddy said that I could play some. Mom and Dad went out in the hall and I ran around some more. Mom and Dad came running in all of a sudden when I fell and almost ripped the shower curtain down but I was o.k. Finally Daaddy said it was time to get out so we could read books. Over all a really good experience. Got to go now and finish threading my beads onto the string. Reese

The second day of school

Reese woke up yesterday and was really excited to go to school. She had to take some family pictures to her teacher. When we went to visit the school last week Mrs. McNally said we could bring carrots for Henry the guinea pig. Reese was so excited to take some carrots to Henry. Today, the 2nd day of school, Reese woke up and wanted to know what she was going to take to school today and I said, "I don't think that you have to take anything today" and she said, "Well, I don't think I want to go."

WOW!! It is only the second day and she already doesn't want to go. I thought that wouldn't kick in until spring. When I told her that she could still go and she has lots of things to learn and do she said, "Well at least can I have chicken nuggets for breakfast then?"

I don't know where she gets these things.

We will see what happens on the second day of school.

AHH... The smell of Burning Plastic

There is nothing like the smell of burning plastic. There is nothing like being woken up in the middle of the night by your husband frantically saying, "WAKE-UP!!! Something's burning." Then groggily goping through the entire house just trying to find what is burning and finding out it was a lid to a sippy cup that fell on top of the heating element in the dishwasher and is being melted into a puddle of blue and black who knows what. What a great smell. And it doesn't go away after you carefullly reach over all the other dishes to remove the hot drippy plastic from the heating element, no!! Every load of dishes that you do for the next 2 weeks will come out smelling like burnt plastic. Trust me I know. I have done the same thing twice now. Once a couple of weeks ago and again last night. That just really irks me. Not to mention that now I have 2 perfectly good sippy cups with out lids. No i'm not talking about the flimsy throw away cups. I'm talking about the sturdy ones that come with the expensive insulated cups. What is a gal to do??? I got to go, I think I smell something burning!!

The first Day of School

Today was the first day of school for Reese. It was not a real day. We just got to go and look at the class room and meet the teacher again. On the way to the school Reese asked me 3 times what we were going to do and I kept assuring her that it would all be o.k. She said, "But are we just going to look?" About 5 times. I am not sure what she was afraid of. Maybe just being in a new situation and not quite sure what to expect. By the time it was time to go she started crying because she didn't want to go. When I tried to tell her that we would come back tomorrow she yelled, "NO!!!" I told that we wouldn't come back tomorrow and she yelled, "YES!!!" I can't figure the child out. All in all it was a good day and I think she is excited to go back tomorrow. Now if I can just convince her that she really doesn't want to be a pineapple for Halloween.....