I said WHAT???!!!

Just carrying on the humor that I found on MckMama's blog and also Emilie's. This post was oh so fun to write!!

What silly things have you found yourself saying now that you are a parent that you would never have believed you would EVER say before you had offspring?

Here are mine that I can remember!


~Mommy needs privacy now... please do not ask me for a snack while I'm sitting on the toilet. Please leave the bathroom right now.

~No, you called me in here. You may have your own privacy when you do not need me to wipe your butt any longer. The sooner you learn to do this yourself the sooner you may have privacy too.

~What do you mean you need another piece of gum because you lost the first piece? Where is it?

~My favorite line from my sister who teaches kindergarten. This was said to a student who just shoved another student while they were all standing in line in the hall: You say excuse me before you shove someone!! (apparently saying "excuse me" makes it ok?)

~I'm still waiting for you to find that piece of gum!

~Take that out of your mouth! We only put food or a toothbrush in our mouths!

~Mommy needs peace and quiet for a little while... please sit down and watch some TV.

~(came out of my mouth while typing this post) Go and tell your brother that it does not feel good when he punches you in the stomach and you don't like it and he should stop.

~Did you find that gum yet?

~Go over there and pee in the bush!

~Why is this gum under your pillow?

~If you don't stop I'm gonna pound you! seriously?

~No when I was a little girl I didn't have Zach and Cody... or Hannah Montana. No, I wasn't sad. I had other shows that were just as funny. Yes, they were!

where there is life there is worth

Here is my Grandma:

On August 26th she turned 91!
We all traveled to the nursing home where she lives to celebrate her and her life. To honor a life of 91 years. A life where the first 85 years were spent taking care of herself and others. Now she can't get out of bed, or feed herself, or dress herself, or do anything to care for herself.

But this she does do:

She brings us together, to love, to care, to enjoy, to serve...

And when we leave, we do so knowing we have touched her life:

And touched each other's lives...

And we leave feeling loved and a little bit silly and definitely full of life.

After all, look at ALL the lives that ARE... because of her.

Here's to 91 years and counting!

Kyle's Day

*** The Final Update for today ***

When Todd got home from work today we asked Kyle where a 5 year old boy might just LOVE to eat dinner.

And he chose... drum roll please... BURGER KING!!! Ahhh nothing like the fine cuisine of Burger King to celebrate turning another year older.

Dinner was followed by a shopping trip to Wal-Mart where Kyle was fitted with a brand new Spiderman bike! Julianna and Drew just had to join Kyle out in front of our house with their bikes. Drew hasn't ridden his bike in so long that I was laughing to see how "small" the bike had gotten. It still had training wheels on it! He has never learned to ride without them. He scoots everywhere on his scooter (hahaha... my cooter, my pooter... that's a shout out to you Emilie!) and probably hasn't tried his bike in over a year. We took off the training wheels and WOW did he learn fast! I'll have to get better pictures of Drew on his bike tomorrow when it is actually light out.

Anyhoo... back to Kyle!

And when bike fun was all done... inside we went for ice cream! Yummy!
The kid party is Saturday so the cake will make an appearance then. The theme this year is Transformers. Should be interesting!

*** Update***
Kyle wanted to carry his own lunch to the playground for our birthday picnic. He got this little lunch backpack for his birthday last year and loves to carry his own stuff around in it.

Julianna and Drew enjoying lunch together!

Jake insists on feeding himself these days. Here he is feeding himself a peanutbutter sandwich. NO JELLY!! (Mommy does not like the mess!)

Just hanging out! What a cool dude, huh?

Have I ever shown you the royal canine? Here she is! Watching over us carefully :)

Don't you just love the static from slides?

Julianna and Kyle towering above me.

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ORIGINAL POST:

How did my third born and middle son get to be 5 already?

Seems like yesterday that we were moving into this house and waiting for Kyle to make his appearance.

Kyle has been SO excited to turn 5. He started asking 4 months ago, "How many days till my birthday?" At first it was one hundred and something days, then sixty some days... the excitement grew all summer as he kept asking and the numbers kept getting smaller.

Finally last week he couldn't stop giggling when I told him he had less than 10 days left!

Last night I asked him what a five year old wanted to do on his birthday.

His answer?? A picnic!! Of course!!

And of course cinnamon rolls for breakfast! No birthday is complete in our home without cinnamon rolls on the "celebrate plate" for breakfast!

Sooo... stay tuned! I will be adding pictures all day :)

(does that make you happy Meredith?)