I am going to be rich!!!

I love it when your kids come up with an activity all by themselves. We had been singing songs for FHE and then I sat them down for treats at the table. Spontaneous singing, the dynamic foursome. Notice the go-go dancer precariously strutting her stuff on the table, and also the life of the band with all of the arm waving and yelling. Then we have the band leader keeping things together in the chair with the groupie. All-in-all I think they could make me some major money with their talent. Recession, what recession!

Doggie heaven!!

I had E in her highchair and had let Maple in for the first time in a while. I hear E screaming with delight and I walk around the corner and this is what I find.

Apparently there is something in guy's brains that make them LOVE video games. Here we have three generations glued to the TV, too enthralled to even sit down and play. Then we have my dad with E, she doesn't look too sure about things does she.

"That's my girl!"

When Mark and I found out that we were going to be able to have six embryo's and that they would be Hispanic, I envisioned this gorgeous little girl with long dark wavy hair and always looking sooo cute! Instead, I have this gorgeous, feisty little thing with hair as wild as it comes, makes her brother cry and in the same moment wants to put makeup and lotion on like mommy. What a wonder, sooo different than my boys. Oh, and by the way her dad spoils her, she can do no wrong and when she does, like hitting him in the face, he laughs and says how cute she is. She'll probably drive a sweet car and give her dad "the look" that will melt his heart with her dark brown eyes and she will get anything she wants. He already lets her play with his wallet. I don't even get to do that!!! The first pic is of the kids in one of my cupboards, a daily occurrence. Why do they like squeezing themselves into tiny spaces? Then we have E delicately eating her yogurt. Note the "wild" hair I am talking about. Next pic is of E mistaking T's marker for chapstick. The last pic is of T, he was sick and up really early and apparently fell asleep like this on our dog's bed. Enjoy!!

"These are my days"

Okay, so here is a typical day with these two rascals. The first pic is of T making a mold of his ear with black play-doh. I then had to dig it out of his ear canal, he then made a mold of his mouth, nose(eww), and hand. He did ask me to make a side-walk out of the black color, and a cloud out of the white. The next pic is of them sitting in a tiny chair. E was throwing a fit b/c T was sitting in the chair and then T did a really nice thing and scooted over so E could sit there. He then put his arm around her and played with her. Sometimes your kids can surprise you. The next pic is of the evidence left by E in my bathroom. She has taken to unrolling the TP and then tearing small sections off and chewing them. As you can see she deserted her bottle and has several pieces of chewed and spit out TP on the floor. Yum. And that folks sums up a typical day with my kids. Sorry about the sideways pic but I keep forgetting to edit them!!

"Batmobile"

It was a family affair getting Zach's pinewood derby car ready. He decided to do the Batmobile and it was a fun choice. Mark really got into it sanding all of the parts and we painted it and made it awesome. He took 5th place which is a far sight better than the two previous years. Sorry about the sideways pic I am too lazy to change it!!

"It's not Scary" sledding, or so T says.

We went sledding with some friends at the Ucon hill. It was a pretty steep hill for me to watch my children plummet down. When T asked if he could go down by himself I had to try it out with him first. I screamed all the way down and he laughed and when we got to the bottom he says "See mom, it's not that scary." Zach went down a few times and then had had his fill. Mark took Evie to a smaller hill and went down with her. She didn't fuss once. Tristan went down again and again and was so sad when we had to leave for Mark to go on an emergency call.

Yeah for Christmas!

We were up at 7:00, no heat, crazed children, and no Grandma, Grandpa Bramwell and Lexie. It was snowing like mad outside and it took them a little extra time to get here even though Santa had no trouble. We woke up E who wasn't exactly happy about the whole situation until she opened a present that was a book and then she was happy! The kids got loads of good stuff and now we are watching them play Lego Batman while Evie is taking a nap. Maybe I will follow suit. We did get our heat malfunction figured out so no worries. The other pics are of us sledding yesterday behind a 4-wheeler. T lasted the longest! Merry Christmas!!!!