Squish Squish Snuggle Snuggle

Quinn told and Jake told Claire,
"Let go sit in the big comfy chair."

Squish, squish snuggle snuggle.
Will there be enough room?

"Wee" said Quinn to Jake and Claire.
"I'll beat you to your seat in the big comfy chair."

Squish squish snuggle snuggle.
Will there be enough room?

Here comes Jake and tag along Claire.
Both on their way to the big comfy chair.

Squish Squish

Snuggle Snuggle

Now their all in the big comfy chair.

Based on the book "Chicka Chicka ABC"

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A Good Rule to Follow

There are really not a lot of rules to follow at an indoor play place.

For the most part, you just have to keep your socks on and be under a certain height to play.

Oh, and you must run around, yell and scream and have a good time.

But I think that they need to add one more rule.

And this rule would state,

Don't rub your forehead on the netting until it produces a raw sore.

Yeah, I am thinking that would be a good rule.

Especially for this boy.

"Mom, I was just rubbing my head on the net. You didn't tell me I would get an owie."

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Got Oatmeal?

Nope.

Not when Quinn is around.

'Cause when it comes to oatmeal, that boy can eat!

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Smile Pretty

She was playing so nicely in the pretend garden.
Picking the flowers and then planting them again.

She was so cute sharing the flowers with me and her brothers.
I just had to take a picture of her and her flowers.

I asked if I could take her picture.
"Come here and smile pretty," I said.

And she totally did.
Or at least, she tried.

Not really the smile that I had in mind.
But that will do.



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Not My Best Idea

I am full of ideas.
Some of are good ideas.
And some are not so good ideas.

Being that it is the holiday season, I am just bursting with fun holiday event ideas.
Every where I turn there is another fun holiday thing going on.

For example, one of our local malls has this huge model train set up.
There are four trains driving all around.
It is really cool.

And taking the kids to see the holiday trains,
was a really, good idea.

They were fascinated by the trains as they zoomed around the track.
I have never seen my children be so still.

Now this next holiday activity, not really one of my best idea.
I thought it would be fun to take the kids to a ceramic shop to paint ornaments.

Sure they look sweet and cute sitting there in the photos painting
and they really did enjoy themselves.

But I took three 2 year old's into a store where everything was breakable
and to top that, I gave them paint!

I should have just let a cat with a lit torch tied to its tail lose in the store.
That probably would have caused less damage.

By the end of the session, the kid were covered in paint, I was sweating, my throat hurt from whisper yelling, Jeff was threatening divorce and we had broken more ornaments than we painted.

Yeah, probably not my best idea.



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How Much is that Doggie in the Window?

I want something.
But I know that I am never going to get it.

I want to get a dog.
I think it would be really, really fun to have a dog around the house.
But this is never going to happen.
Jeff is a cat person through and through.

No exceptions.
End of Story.
Done.

But that doesn't change the fact that I still would like to have a dog.
I think it would be fun.
You know, for the kids.

Well, the other day when we were at the store, Jeff agreed to us getting a dog.
I was floored.
Completely blown away.
Especially when he added that each kid could get a dog.

I about fell over in shock.
But then the reality hit me.
How in the world were we(I) going to be able to care for four dogs?

Then Jeff showed me what he had in mind.

Four balloon animal dogs.
"Perfect", he said,
"They make the kids happy.
No having to walk them or clean up their poop
and in a couple of hours, they will all be gone."

Yeah, perfect.
Not exactly what I had in mind.
But the kids loved this idea.

They all loved and played with their doggies until each one popped.
Tears where shed by them all when the doggies were no more.
But thankfully, these dogs can be easily and cheaply recreated.

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Ready. Set. Go!

This is the chosen entertainment while I make dinner in the evenings.
Its just too much fun!

There's not a lot of words here but there sure are a lot of giggle.
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Past and Present Pumpkin Processes

We don't usually do much in the way of Halloween preparations or decorations, much to Hayden's chagrin.

He really thinks that we should decorate the house, top to bottom in all things scary and spooky.
Me, on the other hand, I am not so convinced.

But when though, we don't decorate or even make fun Halloween crafts,
we do do
PUMPKINS!

And I thought it would be fun to take a trip down memory lane and look at
Pumpkins of year's past.

Here they are, our little pumpkin family of three.

I thought they were cute but Hayden well, he wasn't quiet convinced.

Then again, maybe he was crying because the next year brought these guys.

But not to worry, there were still pumpkins.
Just a lot more pumpkins.

But we carved them all the same, expect for the tiny ones.
Jeff and I deemed them too small to carve.
So the next year, we bought six good size pumpkins and the plan was to have a whole
Jack 'O Lantern Family.

But even with the kids help, there were just too make to clean and carve.
So the 'mommy and daddy' pumpkin, well they were just 'shy' and had no face.

Now that brings us to this year.
We learned our lesson and got just enough pumpkins to cover the kids.
And Jeff and I were excited because we thought the kids would be gun-hoe about helping us clean them out, like last year.

I mean what kid doesn't want to get all dirty and make a mess.

Hayden, he jumped right in, almost literally.

Jake was all to happy to help.

Quinn, well, he really couldn't be bothered to help with the pumpkins.
The dinosaur stickers were just too much fun.

And Claire, she was all about helping clean out the pumpkins.
She took her shirt off so that it wouldn't get dirty.
She got up on her chair and was so ready to jump in until she saw the inside of a pumpkin.

Then I couldn't get her to touch it with a ten foot pole.

But who can really blame her, pumpkin guts are really slimy.

But not to worry, once I gave her a spoon she dug right in.

And we were able to successfully carve pretty awesome pumpkins.

If I do say so myself.

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The Lesson of Reponsibility

There once was a boy who's parents decided to teach him about responsibility.

For his birthday, they approve of him getting a new fish for a pet.
The boy was very happy, for he loved animals so.

The family as a whole took the pilgrimage to the store to help the boy pick out just the right ones to bring home.

Each tank was studied with care.
And after many, many, many minutes the boy finally chose, three fish to be his.

He loving named them Treasure Chest, Coral and Goldie

With the new pets in tow, the family head for home.
The first order of business in being responsible for pets is to build them a home.
So with the help of this father, the boy did.

The boy was proud of his work and his new pets.

Beaming from ear to ear, he introduced his little sister and brothers to his new friends.
It was a match made in heaven.

The boy took great care of his new pet fish. Each morning upon waking he would feed his fish and each evening before bed he would feed them again.

His parents were proud of responsibility he was learning.
They smiled and congratulated each other for this good parenting move.

But there was one lesson that they did not plan on the boy learning so soon.
For you see, fish are finicky creatures and sometimes, well most of the time, they die.

Death is said and a hard lesson to learn.
The boy's mother expected tears and much sadness when the boy learned of the terrible news.
But instead the boy just looked at her and said,
"Tomorrow can we get new fish? I was kinda sick of those ones anyway."

Wordful Wednesday Birthday Recap

"Hey Hayden? Did you have a good birthday?"

"Yeah!!!"

"What was the best part?"

"Getting a 'dollar' for a present and...."

my CAKE!"

That's right folks, my husband, the ace of cakes, was at it again.
He made Nemo last time, this time it was Aang from Avatar, the Last Airbender.

I am starting to wonder if we should put his talents to good use?
Maybe a part-time job as a cake decorator?
I see some more shopping in my future.

'The Greatest Show on Earth'

The Circus.

What a wonderful place.

Where else can you see,

an Elephant painting a picture,

a motorcycle on a tight rope,

clowns being silly with bubbles,

a lady twisting in the sky by her hair,

a man that can sit on his back,

animal right protesters,

and eat a sucker as big as your head?

I guess they weren't kidding when they called it 'The Greatest Show on Earth'.




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The Siren Song of Golf

When a person goes on vacation, there are lots of things that can make you happy.
Just being away from the pressures of everyday life is one.
Having someone wait on you hand a foot is another.
And having a chance to relax and do somethings that aren't normally part of the daily routine is probably the biggest lure of a vacation.

For me some of these activities include, reading a good book, going for a swim, getting a message or if I am really lucky just sitting and staring at the wall.

But for a man the activities of vacation are a little different. For a man (I am totally making a general assumption here) the most prized activity on a vacation would be a round of golf.

I am convinced that it is just in the male DNA to want to play golf.
Jeff is not a big golf player but that didn't stop Hayden from answering the call of the (putt putt) golf course.

He even wore the appropriate shorts for the occasion.

Now, golfing is not an easy sport to manage. Is it actually quite difficult to try and get that little white ball into that hole way down there.

And it is especially difficult when you are dealing with these 'handicaps'.

Your younger brothers who too can't resist the siren song of golf.

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I Wonder if He is Ready?

Hayden is going to start kindergarten next week. I am really happy for him (really I am, in between crying I am happy for him) and I know that he is going to love it (I hope he won't love it too much, maybe he will miss his Mommy just a little bit, maybe).

In preparation for kindergarten, Hayden went to Safety Town, a day camp with his fellow 'new friends'.

At Safety Town Hayden,learned all things safety. He got to meet a police man, a fire man, learn about bike safety, how to ride the bus and all kinds of other really good things to know.

Here he is showing off all he learned.

Isn't he cute?

Well, at the end of safety town, the class put on a little program to show all they learned.

Lets just say that this is not really Hayden's thing.

There were so many things that he had to do besides sing the songs.

He had to play with the vent.

Make silly faces at Daddy.

Check out an electrical outlet

But at least he sat still when asked. Thank goodness.

I know that Hayden is going to love Kindergarten, I am pretty sure that he is ready but I think that preforming in the school plays is not going to be his future.

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