Turning The Big 4-0 Today...

Here's how I basically feel about that!

A 4 Year Old's Product Endorsement

How's this for a product endorsement?

Ginny sidled up to me this morning and whispered in my ear..."Can I have some Sugar Babies? They tasted good; they changed my life...It was magic."

Now even I kinda feel like I should try some of those caramel candies at 8am!

Zombie Capture the Flag

Now, I know the title seems strange, but let me explain...

The zombie part comes from the fact that Aaron recently has been obsessed with an iPod touch app called Plants VS Zombies, where zombies are attacking your house and trying to eat your brain, and you have to defend it by planting zombie-attacking plants.

The capture the flag part comes from the fact that we signed Aaron up for flag footbll and he confused it with capture the flag.
The following conversation was like this:

Me: So in capture the flag, there's two teams, and they each have flags. They hide the flags, and then the other team tries to find it without getting tagged, because if you get tagged you have to go the their jail. If you get their flag then get onto your side, you win.

Aaron, confused then understanding: Oh! So it's like if a zombie breaks into your house, steals your brain, takes it to the other side of the road then eats your brain.

Well, I guess that's one way of putting it...

An Unexpected Day "Off"

Other moms may appreciate this throw-up story that is "too good" not to share. (The rest of you may just be grossed out, so feel free to stop reading here.) Let me preface the story by noting I made the kids a nice healthy breakfast of scrambled eggs and wheat toast. (These enter the story again later in a most spectacular fashion...)

So, we get to school in the "stop-n-drop" lane with the usual 3 minutes to spare before the bell. It's our turn for the kids to get out. The doors fly open; the kids start their daily scramble out of the van, when Ginny starts to throw up everywhere.

Since she's standing between her car seat and Chardy's seat, it gets on (here's where it is amazing, folks):

• the floor,
• Chardy's seat,
• Ginny's car seat (and yes, of course, by that I mean both her car seat and the van seat),
• Ginny's backpack (I threw that one away),
• Ginny's coat,
• Ginny's pants,
• down Ginny's leg into her Ugg boots (the name really fits now)
• and probably a few other places I am forgetting...

Consider this: We're in the stop-n-drop lane; the other kids are all shrieking trying to get away from Ginny and the puke, cars are lined up behind us...the scene was...rather funny. Anyway, 30 minutes later, after I cleaned all the throw up out of the car and Ginny, we are now back home for an unexpected day "off"...

Snowy Toes

Our Artist

Alli has such amazing artistic talent... Here's a sampling of her recent drawings and sketches:





She also just started working with pastels:





The artist:

Sudden Snow

Well, we woke up to an unexpected snow storm today and witnessed probably the largest snowflakes *ever*!



This, of course, called for snow cones, snowmen, and an impromptu snowday...


Good thing too, because I might have been able to get down the hill to take the kids to school, but would probably not have been able to make it back up!