Poor, Starving Children

"Please, Mom, can I have something to eat?"

"Oh, I guess. You can eat the miniscule pieces of cheese that are left in the front of the grater."

You would think after going to all this trouble, she might actually eat some of her dinner. But you would have another think coming. Because dinner involved things, like pasta and cheese sauce, that might have some unknown poison in them. Better to just eat half a banana and hope breakfast would be better. It was -- waffles are safe.

And today, I found Kellen scrounging in the fridge for some (thankfully cooked) chicken that I was thawing for dinner. He looked guiltily at me and said the "bacon" was "just for decoration." But there is a big blank spot in the bowl.

I don't have a brother, so some of the things Kellen says kind of take me aback. Like, it never entered my mind that he might say something like that. Not that it would have if I did have a brother, but various people have pointed out that not growing up with boys means you're a little less prepared to mother one. Since Lisa started out the "car conversation" posts by posting that Ethan sings the Smashing Pumpkins, I'll share our little embarassing tidbit of the day.

We were in the car playing one of those games that are just hilarious to little kids (well, my little kids anyway. As Josh and I point out often, they are our kids, so maybe they're a little weird.).

K: My name is goober!
B: My name goober.
Me: No, MY name is goober.

etc. etc. Kids laughing hysterically...

K: My name is urinal!

Game over.

Emma inspired me to post some pictures of our Christmas decorations, since Christmas is pretty much the only time I decorate all year. First we have the view when you walk in our front door:And here, of course, is the tree:
And the mantle, complete with Josh's Scottish Santa:
This is my favorite part. These are the "My First Christmas" pictures. Bonnie is a January baby so she was pretty old her first Christmas. Kellen is September so he was still tiny.

A White Thanksgiving

Catching snowflakes
Building stuff with Dad, while the Cowboys play -- a perfect Thanksgiving

Today's School Report

Directly from Kellen's teacher's note:

"Kellen had a really great day! No issues at all! Yeah!!!"

I guess I'd failed to report that there had been some, um, issues. But I let him know that if there were any more issues I would come and get him and Bonnie would get to stay at school. I guess that worked for today.

In the meantime, we'll wait for his cortex to develop.

Oh, and Kellen's last words before I left his room tonight? "Mommy, can I have a really giant hug?"

I'll keep him.

Some pictures from last Friday night's football game:
(This is how Josh spends most of his time. Ha ha)

What a Day

We got home from the football playoff game at 1AM this morning, so to start off with we were a little tired. Some friends had made plans to treat me to an early birthday breakfast at Madden's, and I needed to leave by 8:45 to be there (thanks again, friends!).

Josh had a shoot-around at 9 this morning and graciously agreed to take the kids with him, since we didn't know about that until after I had made my plans. So, a friend dropped me off at the high school at 11:30 and I took the kids home for a quick lunch and nap.

I woke Bonnie up at 1 so we could make it back up to the school for the varsity b-ball game (they won big!) at 1:30.

The game was over at 3:30 and our family went to eat at Roadhouse (again, in an early birthday celebration -- thanks, Josh!). After that I "needed" to go to a few stores before we could get home and get the kids to bed early.

I hit Ulta (College Station got an Ulta! Woo hoo! And Grand Opening means cheap new makeup for Erin.) and Kohl's (I had a $10 off expiring today and not spending it was just not going to happen.) before we were rear-ended by another guy on Harvey Road.

Taking care of that didn't take too long so thankfully we could make it to Target before coming home to put the tired munchkins in bed. And by tired munchkins, I mean everyone but me because Josh is asleep on top of our bed. I think I'll go veg on the couch and watch a chick flick.

Have you thought about the next election?

http://randyalcorn.blogspot.com/2007/11/sacrificing-children-on-republican.html

This is a great article I came across today. I personally will be voting for Mike Huckabee in the primary in a few months.

My self-concious nature really wants to apologize for the political nature of this post, but I won't.

I guess I haven't posted in a few days, so I'll do a quick catch-up. Josh had a scrimmage all day Saturday, so I took the opportunity to visit Dad, Ginny, and Mackenzie in San Antonio. We all went to Sea World on Saturday, which was super fun. I've said it before and I'll say it again: San Antonio is a great place to have family. I ended up spending the night because we stayed at Sea World so long, and came back on Sunday.

I spent yesterday playing catch-up, and Kellen woke up with a fever this morning so the kids are home from MDO today (Bonnie has a yucky nose anyway). Josh has a game tonight, which he's REAL excited about because he will have a total of 7 players on his team, due to football being in the playoffs. Grad school is taking a lot of time for him right now so his schedule is full of teaching, basketball, kids (ours), and grad school.

My "little" sister turned 26 yesterday, so Happy Birthday, Lesley. I hope you got our message.

Well, that's the story here. Hopefully the kids will get well soon.

The Forty Dollar Nap

How much is peace and quiet worth?

Yesterday I bribed Kellen to take a nap with candy and a trip to the park. Today I upped the ante with a promise of going to the store for new dinosaur figurines (I tossed his dollar store dinosaurs because of the questionable paint).

(I can hear you thinking right now: "Is she SERIOUSLY blogging about this? And why do I read this blog anyway?")

Did he nap both days? Yup.

I bought 4 dinosaur figurines at $5 a pop, then went down to stock up on sippy cups which we needed BADLY. And those things ain't cheap. And I probably wouldn't have bought them (see previous post about me being frugal) if I hadn't been spending $20 on toys anyway.

Trip to Target...... $36
2 hours of quiet...... Priceless

P.S. I think there is a giant black hole of sippy cups and socks. Just my opinion.

Hard Core

I'm a frugal person, but today I went hard core and bought the ingredients (on sale and with coupons, of course) to make my own laundry detergent. I'll let you know how it goes. Oh, and don't tell Josh.

Overheard

(at Target, while I was looking at the dollar aisle)

K: Mom, I ate some candy!

Me: Where did you get candy?

K: I don't know. From here (pointing to the shopping cart).

(In fairness, he was staying right beside me as instructed. I didn't say anything about not eating someone else's reject candy.)

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K: Mom, what is this? (said as I was getting ready this morning and he was looking in my drawer)

Me: A headband.

K: Do kitty cats wear these?

You know, cause it was just Halloween, and girls/women who dress like cats always wear headbands with ears.

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Me: Kellen, do you want a burrito for lunch?

K (as nonchalant as you can get): Um, maybe I'll just have some candy.

Yeah, whatever.