Canopy Bed?

We had movie night last night since dad is out of town for a few days. I let each kid pick a movie to watch so we started with Regan's, "The Secret Garden" and ended with Riley's "Ghostbusters" (which was a little scarier than I remembered it). I made the ultimate comfort food, grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup!

But, while watching Regan's movie, she mentioned that she loved the bed the little girl had. I said, "Yeah, that is a beautiful canopy bed, isn't it?" And she says, "Yeah mom, I want a can opener bed like that! But why do they call it a can opener bed? Does it open cans too?!"

Regan is Funny

That's not exactly news. But she has said some funny things the past couple of days, they made me laugh.

She doesn't like the outlet mall because it's "outside". She wants to go to the mall that's the inside mall. But I told her we were going to the outlet mall and she said, "No mom, I want to go to the INLET mall!"

Then I overheard her telling one of her friends, "When you grow up, you don't want to be a Dumb Alex, you want to be a Smart Alex!" I think she totally misses the concept of the term "smart-aleck."

Today her school had a cheer camp, and the cheerleaders taught them cheers so they can help cheer at the homecoming game next week. It took her a few minutes to warm up to it, but now she's cheering all over the place. It was so cute! They even lifted her to the top of the pyramid, and she was in heaven. I think she found her calling.

Funny Sayings

The kids crack me up on a regular basis. I try to remember what they say. It helps to write it down.

So Regan gets in the car after school and says, "Mom! This kid on the playground tells me, 'Hey Baby!' and that means he wants to 'make sexy'!"

Another day, Regan wants to go to McDonald's, bad, and when I said no, she went to slam her pencil down on the seat, but kind of stabbed her leg with it (no puncture) and Riley pipes up, "Regan, you're so EMO!"

I guess it's good I can laugh, and not cry!!

My Kids are Clowns!

April Fools!

What a crazy day!! First my kids make a HUGE mess, they spilled cocoa ALL over the place, it was a horrible mess...
Then after they cleaned that up we ate dessert for dinner!! Big fluffy cupcakes, with yummy bright blue icing, they were so light and moist and delicious!!

And then, for dessert, we had sushi! The kids weren't too sure about sushi, but hey, you only live once, right? So they were brave, they tried it, and surprisingly enough, they LOVED it, they kept going back for more! And they want to eat like this every night!


And of course, APRIL FOOLS!! I made the cocoa mess out of glue and brown paint and marshmallows a few days ago and left it on the computer desk and really got them good with that today when they got home from school! I was yelling at them for having drinks by them computer when they aren't supposed to, the look on their poor little faces, until they picked up the cup and the "mess" came with it, was priceless!

The cupcakes, were meatloaf with mashed potatoes on top, with blue food coloring. Regan was kind of mad, she really was looking forward to dessert for dinner! And she took that first bite, and the look she gave me, I'm surprised I didn't melt right there from the heat of her stare!

And the sushi was rice crispy treats wrapped in fruit roll ups, with gummy worms inside. Those were a big hit though, Tristan was wanting to hit those hard!!

And of course the pranks were out in full force, I got Alex with the rubber band around the water sprayer trick, sprayed him good, it was great for me to get someone for a change, usually I'm the one that's on the receiving end of the pranks.

But the day ended too soon, I had many more tricks up my sleeve. Maybe we can extend it just a little bit?? They really won't see it coming then!!

More Christmas!

You can never have enough Christmas!!

Christmas Memories!

Brings me back...

I'm dreaming...

I just ADORE this song and this video. I send it around every year, I just dare you to watch it and not crack a smile (and I've watched this a million times!) It's so cute, and keep an eye on the white reindeer, he's super talented.
White Christmas

Outtakes

How is it that one small family of four can not get it together enough to SMILE for about 5 minutes??? OMG this was one of the more frustrating 5 minutes of my life. Trying to get dad to agree in the first place, then get him to stop holding his head to the side like he's a big pimp, not stare lifelessly into the camera, or give me rabbit ears, then to get Riley to stop copying his dad, and stop making silly faces, stop trying to make his sister fall off the chair, I just hope people enjoy it cause it's more than likely the last time you guys will see a picture with the 4 of us in it until maybe Riley or Regan get married. Here's an outtake for you...

Speedy and Mr. Yum Yums

We have house-guests!! Riley has been doing really good in school lately, and his reward (if you can call it that) was to get to bring the hamsters home for fall break. David fails to see how this qualifies as a reward. Riley has wanted hamsters for a long time now, and I had a hamster when I was about his age, so I'm game (of course) and you KNOW Regan's on board, but Dad is the lone hold out. Of course, I can't say as I blame him, they are rodents, they do smell like pee, and I would be the one taking care of them after the first week or two. The things we would do for our kids though, right?

So, we have Speedy and Mr. Yum Yums for the next 3.5 weeks for fall break. One of those weeks we will be in Ohio, so I had to find another foster home for that week. But tonight was quite the adventure. First of all, I should state that we are also dog sitting for my in-laws who (and I'm so superman jealous) are in San Francisco right now. Their dog, Sasha is old and frail and persnickety. She has special medication that must be rolled in peanut butter and licked off one's finger. She needs mineral oil mixed with chicken broth to get the bowels moving, and a special kidney diet of soft food mixed with crunchy kibble to keep the kidney's from working overtime, if you know what I'm saying...

Now, add in two neurotic hamsters and a cat that thinks we just got him the tastiest snack in the world, all he has to do is figure out how to get said snack. It's a conundrum, an enigma wrapped in a mystery, that he is bound and determined to figure out before they go back to school. So tonight, after all their begging and pleading and whining and crying, I decide to let the kids put a hamster in one of those plastic exercise balls so he can run around and heck, tease the cat a little. I thought the cat would get a big kick out of getting his lunch "to go"! We grab a random hamster (turns out it was Speedy) and put him in the ball. Hilarity ensues. Cat is mesmerized, doesn't even try to swat him around too much, old dog is shaking like an F5 tornado is bearing down on us at any minute, our dog Bailey is kinda checking things out, what the heck is all the ruckus about, you know. So after about 10 minutes in the ball it's time for Speedy to go home.

Well, me being the grown up, and with faster reflexes, my vast experience with the rodent family, I open the ball, dump little Speedy into my hands, and then learn how he got the name Speedy. That little thing flew out of my hand, hit the dining room chair, and took off like a rocket! And my first instinct is to grab the cat and get him out of the way before Speedy is Meow Mix. But before I can do that, Bailey, good ole trusty Border Collie Bailey, steps in and grabs Speedy with his mouth. All you could see was two back feet sticking out of Bailey's lips, running in place like a Scooby Doo cartoon. Riley has an INSTANT meltdown, crying and fearing for Speedy's life. I just yell at the top of my lungs, BAILEY DROP HIM! And David is yelling at us, I TOLD YOU TO PUT THEM IN THE BATHROOM (as he's on his computer playing armchair quarterback to my little dilemma) and thankfully Bailey spit him right out. After a tense few minutes of racing around the dining room and nearly knocking myself out on the table legs a few times, Riley managed to scoop him up, I took him to examine him for teeth marks, and other than being a little more moist than he was originally, he was still in tact. And oddly enough, Ricky just sat there and enjoyed the show.

So, who said my life isn't a zoo??

My Favorite Commercial!