Sunday, February 28, 2010
Hello, March, I'll See You Next Week
--I've been plugging right along in my reading the Bible in 90 Days. I'm about a day and a half behind right now, which is not too shabby if you ask me. I would like to be reading a bit more "attentively", but I'm doing my best.
--Harper's walking. Ugh. How is she big enough to be walking? Didn't I just bring her home from the hospital? We finally bought a gate for the bottom of the stairs, Brandon spent the better part of 3 hours installing it, and it lasted for almost 7 days. That's right: my children have destroyed the stair gate already. Harper put the nail in the coffin tonight when she ripped the gate from its' last remaining hinge and threw it on the floor. Good greif.
--I'm embarrassingly excited that the Olympics is over so I can get back to watching The Office and Law and Order, which have been usurped by curling these last three weeks. Really, people? Curling? How is that even a sport?
--Hot Brandon preached last week and knocked it out of the park, if I do say so myself. And I say so. I'm too tired (yes, it's only 8:52 pm) to link to his actual sermon right now, but you can follow the Northside Christian Church link on my sidebar to find it.
Have a great week!
Thursday, February 25, 2010
At the Dinner Table
Dane: I want water, with no ice.
Aidan: I want milk, with no ice. Hey, I've never tried milk with ice before.
Dane: Aidan, milk with ice is disgusting. The ice melts and becomes water, and water with milk is disgusting. It tastes like beer.
Aidan: I like beer!
Dane: No, you don't Aidan. It's so gross. It tastes like drain water.
Friday, February 19, 2010
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Saturday, February 13, 2010
The Latest in Home Fashions
Thanks to this little troublemaker, it has moved to a much less convenient spot.
About a month ago, when Harper started getting really interested in the stairs, we moved the ottoman in front of them to keep Harper off. (The side railing is rounded, and short of installing a permanent gate, which we still might do, the rounded rail won't hold a baby gate).
Then she started shoving the ottoman out of the way to get to the stairs.
Yes, my 10 month old is strong enough to move furniture.
So we had to rig a folding chair between the front door and the ottoman, wedging it in place.
How proud of herself does she look in this picture?
Please don't ask me why Aidan is wearing a sleeveless shirt smack dab in the middle of the coldest winter ever.
We think the folding chair-ottoman-stair thing is going to catch on. It's a very fancy look. And it gives you a convenient place to prop you feet for all of those times when you find yourself sitting on the stairs. Not to mention, the boys have loved having it there to catch them when they catapult themselves from halfway up.
Unfortunately, Harper has now figured out how to use the folding chair as a ramp to climb to the top of the ottoman and onto the stairs. What am I going to do with this girl??
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
All That's Missing is a Bedazzler...
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Mother of the Year
Friday, February 5, 2010
DTC!
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Mom Speak
--Get the deoderant out of your mouth. We don't eat deoderant.
--If you just leave it alone, it will go back to its' normal size.
--No, when Harper grows up she is not going to be a boy. Sorry.
--What does your hand smell like?
--Who peed in the trash can?
--Because I'm not the one who peed in the trash can, that's why.
--Did you just eat an ENTIRE cantelope?
Monday, February 1, 2010
Not Me Monday!
Last Wednesday, I did not let my boys eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for dinner while watching a movie, while I watched American Idol downstairs. They were not super excited about their "movie party" on a school night. Not me! I always prepare a healthy, made from scratch dinner consisting of all major food groups which we then eat while all sitting at the dinner table and discussing Jesus.
Last weekend, while Hot Brandon was out of town, I did not hear a weird buzzing sound coming from under his bathroom sink. I did not immediately call the kids into the bathroom, convinced they had broken something. I did not open the cabinet door and convince myself that the weird buzzing sound meant that the pipe was going to burst and flood my entire house and how do I turn the water off, which direction do I turn the little knob, and kids! Get out of the bathroom before we all drown! Now! I did not open the adjoining drawer and discover that one of the boys had turned on Brandon's electric toothbrush and left it to buzz inside the drawer, leading their mother to the brink of insanity. The electric toothbrush that did not come free with purchase of a Touch-n-Brush that Brandon ordered during an episode of insomnia. Nope, not me!
I did not invite Dane and Aidan to have a slumber party in my bed Friday night while Brandon was gone just so I could have someone warm to put my cold feet on. I did not fall asleep before my 4 year old and then proceed to get kicked in the kidneys all night by the kung-fu 6 year old. Not me! We all got a great night's sleep and were well rested the next morning. I did not let the boys have another Movie Party the next day because it was really cold and wet outside and I was too tired from the night of all the kidney kicking to think of something fun and creative to do inside instead. Not me!
So, what did you not do last weekend?