R has Teeth

She has been working really hard this last week to get the two bottom teeth to cut through. N noticed the first about a week ago and the second wasn't far behind. Luckily, she hasn't really been ornery. Well, no more than usual.

K...again

Remember when K and I were playing wii and he wasn't doing so hot? He laid down and chanted "I am the ball"...

Well, today it was an almost instant replay. This time, though, he laid down and started saying...

"o-to-syn-the-sis...o-to-syn-the-sis"

over and over again, all the while peeking at me from the corner of his eyes to see my reaction.

Apparently, it is something he learned from Spongebob.

Wii

So, how do you know your kid plays too much wii?

Your youngest son (whom you worry about a little because he isn't talking much) says "fow baw" when your oldest son plays baseball.

White Girl!

This morning I told H to go upstairs and get dressed for school. She came down a little later and said, "I'm White Girl! White shirt, white shorts, white socks, even white underwear." Then, as if she felt she had to prove that last one to me, she pulled her shorts down. My first thought was, "Thank goodness all the whites are sort of the same shade." Then I remembered that she has art today. I made a suggestion that she add some color to her outfit. She refused, so I decided to let her be White Girl.

I was in the kitchen making breakfast and I hear her running around yelling things like, "I'm White Girl!" and "White Power!" She told me she needed to drink white milk for breakfast to "make [her] more white."

Now I start arguing with myself. I mean, how do you explain to a six year old why the words "White Power" are bad, especially when she doesn't make the connection to skin color. My kids don't know that we are 'white'. They think we are skin colored (and not because I have taught them that).

So, I ask N if we need to address this and he said yes. So, after breakfast we told H that there are some people who think that because our skin is lighter than others' we are better and they use the words "White Power." We explained that Heavenly Father made people with all different colors of skin and no one is better than someone else because of the color of their skin. N said it might hurt someone's feelings to hear her say "White Power" or to hear her talking about being "more white."

How sad is it that my little girl has to hear this because she wanted to wear all white today and be "White Girl?"

Rain Delay

Breakfast was a little late today because of the rainstorm we had.


(Let these pictures serve as a warning to anyone who visits us when it is raining...bring an umbrella or walk under the fountain that shoots off our roof!)

Too Much Sun?

Nah, just spaghetti night at our house. (a couple of nights ago)

K

K has made some pretty amusing comments to me lately.

Yesterday, at breakfast M decided to throw his Cocoa Puffs all over the table. I didn't get around to cleaning it right away and later in the morning K and M ate them.

K: Hey Mom! M and I ate all the Cocoa Puffs off the table. We cleaned off the whole table!

Me: Oh yeah?

K: Yeah. You should thank us.

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Today K and I were playing our morning Wii. I was beating him at tennis. After he lost another point he laid down on the ground, closed his eyes and said, "I am the ball. I am the ball."

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In the not so amusing category, he's also picked up on the whole "I know you are, but what am I" thing. I asked where he learned it and he said I taught him. I really don't think I have said that since I was 12, but I guess it is possible.

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K is suddenly REALLY into NASCAR. He doesn't have favorite racers, just favorite cars. When he is watching it all we hear is , "Go M&M's!" or "Go Home Depot!" Lucky for K, M&M's (I think it is Kyle Busch) is having a good racing year.

H

H has had a big couple of weeks. She started first grade, she turned 6 and she lost her second tooth.

Last week she came home with a work sheet they had done in class. It was about subtraction. It had some big words on it: minuend, subtrahend and difference. (Bonus points to anyone who can tell me what those actually are.) My first thought was, "Well, that's gonna come in handy." I mean, I can't tell you how many times those words come up in my daily conversation. I think I might have used those words (with the exception of difference) exactly once in my entire life...and that was when I was telling N about H's paper. Oh well. She loves school and I am very thankful.

H turned the BIG 6 last week. I've been asking her what cake she wanted for a while now and it seemed to change every time I asked. As her birthday got closer she decided on a Care Bear cake. Let me tell you, I've made one of those before and my hand was in a lovely cramped position for a week afterward. I was not looking forward to it.

Enter Tiffin's birthday cake. She let her kids decorate her birthday cake. When H saw it she told me she wanted one just like it. And she wanted to frost it. So, I made her a Care Bear cake and some frosting and let her loose on the cake. Here's the finished product.

She calls it Rainbow Bear. We also went to Chuck E. Cheese's for her birthday. The kids had a great time. H loved all of her presents and had a great birthday.

Okay, so the picture is kind of gross, but I wanted to get the full effect. H lost her first tooth at the beginning of August. Last week I asked If I could see if her new tooth was coming in yet. When I looked I discovered that not only was it coming in, but the tooth next to it was coming in behind the baby tooth that was still there. Luckily, the baby tooth was loose so I told her we had to work hard to get it out asap or she was going to the dentist to have it pulled. A couple of nights ago, N was wiggling it, heard a little pop and saw her tooth just flapping around. So he did what any good father would do and pulled it out. Now we're just praying that her permanent tooth moves where it should be all on it's own.

Dear Diary

H has a diary. It is really just a composition book I bought thinking she needed it for school. Anyway, she has started writing all of her "secrets" in it. I'm pretty sure they have something to do with Zander, but I haven't read it.

The other day she asked N if he wanted to see what was in her diary. He said yes and she said okay. So she opened it up to show him.

But...

She opened it up to blank pages and then shut it and said, "TRICKED YA!"

Overheard

The kids were playing wii and it was H's turn to bowl. As she started she tripped and yelled, "M!" So, K says, "What did you trip with?" and H answers, "M's help."