Fun with a 9 year old

I hate to admit it, but tormenting B is one of my favorite pastimes. Here's how I did it this afternoon. I made up the following song and got it stuck in his head.

Bom, bom, bom, bom - bom, bom, bom, bom
I like my lizards, when they're roaming free.
I like my lizards, when they are running away from me.
Bom, bom, bom, bom - bom, bom, bom, bom

Silliness abounds in our house!!! :)

B swimming revisited

I know that you all have seen this before but I finally have "the song"... part of the fun of creating montages is putting the right music with the pictures. I haven't felt like this one was done because I was missing the song - now it is done, and I think it's great... just like B!

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PG13

Watch this slide show at your own risk. After the kids finished eating last night I still had the camera so I snapped a few pictures of my favorite guy over the age of 9... here is what I captured. :)

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Turkey Day in slow motion

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope that your Thanksgiving was as fun, enjoyable and full of love as mine. We decided to capture A's first Thanksgiving on digital camera in a play by play manner. So here it is:

B & A relaxing before breakfast

I had forgotten about the all important breakfast fun foods so we had to survive on some Honey Nut Cheerios. As you can see Jason took over that portion of the days festivities.


Max was so happy to have us home.
Here he is hanging with his favorite 6 month old.

K and I making Jason a pumpkin pie... just like his G'ma used to make (sort of, Bonnie we excluded the ginger too).


Z helping out with the can opener.

A hanging out watching the action. I had to include two pictures of this, in one you can see her cute little socks falling off and in the other she's sticking out her tongue at Daddy.

Since I bought my (frozen) turkey the night before Thanksgiving we had to defrost it in the bath tub. Due to this we didn't have our meal until dinner but I started baking in the morning and got really bored around noon - so we made sugar cookies! Um Yum!!! K&Z enjoying the beaters - although Z will tell you "I not eating beaters."

Here are my two pies. I did not make the crust like my G'ma used to, but K & I made the pumpkin pie and I bought a really cool jar of pecan pie stuff and you just have to add eggs and butter - it was DELICIOUS! My family will attest to my first attempt at a pecan pie and why I didn't attempt that again on my own. (For those of you who don't know the story it was a faux pecan pie made with pinto beans - I made it about 18 years ago so no mean comments allowed, it was when I was young and dumb.)

Here I am acting like a complete imbecile - but the turkey looks good, right?!


My constant companion during this Thanksgiving adventure. What a true loyal friend I have... in Max! :)

Here we are my babies (excluding the one taking an evening nap) with our Thanksgiving feast.


Just a cute picture of my little two year old.



A woke up almost as soon as I was done eating and said, "tators please." Don't you love the little potato mustache?


Finally we ended our day with a little holiday movie, Christmas Vacation - oh how my mind is slipping. It is rated PG13 for a reason.... we watched it last year and I said the same thing. Maybe next year I will remember!

Mixed up in this day were phone calls to our loved ones and lots of love. I have to say that I missed my G'pa Jess, Mom, Dad, Debbie, Michael, Mark, Cheryl, Shawn and last but NOT least Justin, it wasn't the same without them all. But just like the old saying goes, if life hands you lemons make lemonade - so that is just what we did and it was GOOD.

Home for Thanksgiving

I have a little quiz for you. What do a Honda Odyssey, Nike tennis shoes and a game boy zipper pouch all have in common?

Answer:

Sir Pukes-A-Lot (aka B) has administered his own unique brand of acidic justice to each of them!

Sadly B got car sick on the way to Arkansas... since he had a stomach bug a couple of days ago we decided not to risk the health of our loved ones. So we are home again celebrating Thanksgiving as a "small" family.

Manners

Z is in the process of learning the correct way to ask for something. Usually we get one of the following, "I want..", "Give me..." and then we ask, "What do you say?" and Z says, "please." So yesterday Jason gave a tutorial on the correct way to ask for something. When he was done this is what we got from Z.

"May I have blah, blah, blah, please?" We couldn't help but laugh - Jason then had to try to explain to replace the blah, blah, blah with the particular thing that you wanted. It's a work in progress! :)

Sibling Love

I have to share this story. My K has one of the sweetest dispositions of any person I know, I realize that sounds like a mother who loves her daughter but seriously she is truly a kind person. Here's an example. Z has developed a unnatural love for Toy Story and with that a small obsession with Buzz & Woody. He's convinced that when he goes to Christmas he'll get his very own Buzz & Woody, so almost daily now he says, "I go now to Christmas and get Buzz & Woody?" (Obviously, we have some teaching to do about Christmas!) Well today K earned enough points (for good behavior) in her class to get an item out of the treasure chest. She chose a Woody figurine for her brother! She was so excited to give it to him and to see his face light up when he saw it was a true pleasure. Now isn't that sweet?