Just Braggin'

I made Easter dresses for the girls, and we took pictures to show them off. Leslie just wanted a skirt.

Camille

Miriam

Now this gives you a little idea of what our photo session was really like! Fun, silly girls.

Latest Invention

At breakfast this morning, Ethan unveiled his latest invention. In his words (as nearly as I remember them): "Mom, this is my new invention, its a laser. It can bring you breakfast in bed!"

This should sweep the nation! I am taking orders for him!

Weak Stomachs, turn back NOW

Last night, Ethan and Seth had just settled into a lovely bubble bath. It was late, and they were tired. I had promised faithfully that I would be the one to wash their hair, as daddy splashes their faces. I had just wet Ethan's hair, and rubbed the shampoo in, when I look into the water and see, floating among the bubbles, what appears to be chunks of poo! "Everybody Up!" I said, pulling Ethan to his feet and opening the drain. I turned on my hand-held shower nozzle to do damage control, and the panic began. Ethan started to wail and Seth abandoned ship, running and slipping toward the door. Camille was able to head him off, as I showered the soap from Ethan's hair, the din increasing every second. After I cleaned them both and was drying them off, Ethan looked very sadly my way and said, "Thats the way dad does it!" Poor fellow.

As I dressed the little boys, Camille elaborated on the origin of the floating foreign matter. Apparently, last time we had chili for dinner, Ethan used it to fill the toy canteen and wore it about on his belt. We think the chili dried there (instead of molded, lets take a moment to count a blessing) and the canteen was abandoned in the tub. Therefore, Sherlock continues, the reconstituted chili must have been what we encountered. GROSS!! Just our happy thought for the day!

There's a New Red Devil at our House!

I has finally arrived. My new, bright red Dirt Devil Breeze. ("With a compass in the stock and this thing which tells time." A Christmas Story--and another one for the quote board) This photo is the new vacuum staring down its next opponent, the grossy spaces where my kids like to snack in front of the TV. Yesterday, Ethan and Seth were giddy as we put it together, and Leslie had to help fight them off while I inserted the 4 screws. Then, my new vacuum and I tore around scattering cats and children and leaving NOTHING in our wake! Wa-Hoo! Three cheers!

Playing Tag

I have been tagged. I have seen other people say they had been tagged, but I didn't have any clue what that meant. I live here in the city, and that is what the police call it if a gang member marks your fence with graffiti! But now I am aware that I am supposed to pull up the 4th photo in my 4th folder and post it. A sort of random blogging. What if the photo is one of probably a hundred photos taken by my children and LAME? Oh well, this is how the game works, you have been warned, so here it is: Are ya happy?

May be this is more what you were looking for:

There's plenty more where this came from! (Just for the record, these are Jacob's feet, and seemed to be taken as a series of feet, possibly to commemorate the purchase of this pair of kung fu shoes.)

What we have learned by being tagged, is that it is time for me to go through the photos and clean them up. My poor computer has enough to remember with out all this silliness. Nanette, tag, you're it!

Talk the Talk

This morning as I let the carpool kids out into a snowy day, I called after them, "Be Brave, Piglets." Which Leslie recognizes from the Winnie the Pooh movie, but she turned around to make me aware that the other boy with her, "probably didn't appreciate that." Therefore, as an act of kindness to those close to us, I am adding a list to my sidebar of favorite quotes used around our house. Where I actually recall their origin, I'll add that too. Sometimes for our family home evening game, we take turns saying a movie line and guessing what movie it came from. I'd love to hear some of your favorites too!

Potty Talk

This is our Miriam. She is spunky and adorable. We are just beginning to understand her mischievious side. This was left on Nathan's pillow this weekend:

At least someone has the decency to apologize for such a heinous crime! :) While we are on the subject, we proudly present the newest contributing member of our household:

The toilet in this bathroom has been non-functional for over a year. We knew it was clogged, and tried snaking it, but it didn't help. Nathan wasn't too excited about dealing with it, so he turned the water off to it and left it for another time.

This weekend he put on his superhero suit and replaced the old toilet. After busting it open to see what had been the clogging culprit, we found a spring-loaded toilet paper holder had been flushed, and couldn't make it around all the bends. We chalk it up to Experiences We Wouldn't Have if We Didn't Have Children. Just think how good parenthood has been for Nathan's plumbing skills!