Joey and Carlie

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Starting February with a bang!

Ok, so my littlest gremlin is at that marvelous stage where he is repeating everything we say. I think we all know how fun that can be, right?
So he comes to me, while I was a little distracted and grabs my face so he gets my full attention, and tells me wants something that sounds very close to the very naughty F work...
So he has my full attention, and I'm thinking that I better figure out what the heck he wants before he has the other kids attention also! So after a few minutes I figure out that he wants to play "Star Fox"
Then I proceed to attempt giving him phonetics lesson on how to say FOX....yeah, we're still working on that one...aren't little gremlins great!?

Sunday, January 18, 2009

My January

Ok, so the other day at lunch I pull out this great looking salad my neighbor gave me...store bought, just enough for one, but a big serving. So I put it all together and I was gonna sit down and enjoy this yummy looking salad. So I'm sitting and my baby comes over and starts begging me for bite...fine, he likes salad, have a bite kid. I turn my attention to the tube for a second and back down for another stab at my yummy salad...my son is hovering over my salad spitting everything out, covering my yummy salad all over with his spit. The look on his face is the same look all my kids give me when they are very sick and throwing up helplessly over and over. It could have also been translated as,
"you're gonna spank me for this, I know, I'm sorry, but your salad is the most disgusting thing I have ever tasted." Then he motions to me, opening his mouth, with a look of...."please mommy help me get this taste out of my mouth."

I was really sad that I lost my yummy salad after only a few bites, but I was more sad that I didn't have the moment recorded on my camera.

Guess the kid doesn't like goat cheese

My January

So January found us once again without Joey for five weeks...three more to go. Thankfully nothing too terrible has gone down in his absence. Glory turned 8 and Gideon turned 10 and even though we were without our daddy they still had fun birthdays.

To be very honest Sundays are very scary without Joey. Something about never knowing what to expect of my littlest gremlin during Sacrament seems to keep my stress level high.
So the very first Sunday by myself I shuffle in too late for a side pew, and get them in their places. Our very nice and very young second counselor comes to chat...
"So going solo again? Hows that going? I was gonna ask if you wanted to say our closing prayer...would that not ....be possible then?

I might have given him my -I'm an evil harpy and will claw your face off- look but I hope it wasn't that bad..."I better pass this time...sorry"
"Oh sure, sure , no problem, I completely understand"

well if that was some sort of torture test, I failed, but my sister gave me a way out of my guilt...That was a lesson he needed to learn...I hope he won't forget it...ever.

So I've been a little stressed out over another issue...my now ten year old son had a loose tooth that has been hanging by rotting strands of skin for months...seriously, months...so finally one night I'm furious once again because he refuses to pull the stupid thing out...But I'm extra mad tonight...I'm so mad I wanted to break dishes...I was ticked...

"He's gonna get it now...when he falls asleep, I'm gonna rip that tooth out"
I had tried before but I guess I just wasn't mad enough...so I felt a little better knowing that I was gonna cause him a little pain for what he caused me.

So I cleaned my kitchen and an hour or so later I could tell he was asleep. First I had to move him on his side and give him a minute to relax again...I turned off the light...slowly stuck my finger in his mouth.. It took a push and a pull and it was out...and the little rebel didn't even wake up. I was happy it was out and felt a little empty that he didn't even feel it. The next morning went like this...

"Wake up guys...who want's oatmeal? Who wants cereal? Who wants to see THE NASTY TOOTH i RIPPED OUT OF THEIR MOUTH LAST NIGHT?"

That woke him up! So he's checking out his tooth and has the gaul to get excited that he was gonna get money from the tooth fairy!

"Not a chance twerp, I did the work, I get the dough...the tooth fairy's gonna transfer 50 bucks out of your allowance, into mine for all my pain and suffering."

Then he laughs hysterical at me like I said something terribly funny and walked off laughing as if the truth behind my threat was just not in the cards...but funny anyway.

I wasn't laughing or joking...

Saturday, December 27, 2008

My December.....and November

Our very own Rudolf inherited by Joey's parents...I told him there was no way in this life I would let him hang this thing up.....NO.....NO.....NO........No!!!!!!!

Ok then I changed my mind.....I figured it would be like Chuck E. Cheese in our own home, and If I wanted to make memories for my kids.....well they sure wouldn't forget this one. He sings and talks and you can plug him into your tv and ipods and he sings and talks along.

Joey earned his Wood Badge....beat my dad to it, but still working on beating him at darts.....and golf.

One of my most favorite pictures

Another fav

WHAT THE HECK IS THIS??????NOT VERY ABSORBANT IS IT.

Had a fun day together on Joey's day off

Ok, it's been a long time but seriously...it feels like yesterday. Even my kids said that December went super fast. All the Holidays came and went and even though I know they will, it still amazes me how fast they do. So we are doing great. We had a great Thanksgiving at my parents with Grandma, Sid, Jeff and Michelle and their kids. Everyone looked great! We had a great Christmas visiting my family beforehand, and just hanging out doing nothing after. We now have Jennie and Daniel Baxter here in Tucson with us and are loving it. They are so much fun. And even though we are a noisy bunch and our little levi is a brat to Aaron, we have had bunches of fun. We sure wish we could spend time with all of you during these special holidays but hope you all had a memorable time.

Our special Christmas traditions are

Keeping a Christmas Journal, which includes recording Thanksgiving and Halloween events. The kids get to write in it also. We keep track of the Who What Where When and Why's of Christmas. I love it. If I forget, I know where to find it. The kids will never wonder..."What year was that?"

Christmas Eve Pj's of course...from Grandma Bainbridge

Christmas Eve ornaments...The kids get a special ornament every Christmas eve and so they will have their own stache to take with them when they start their own families. They love to pull their own out every year and put them up themselves. We keep track of who got what in our Journal.

Individual gingerbread houses for them to decorate however they want.

Reading "The Best Christmas Pagent Ever"

Reading out of the Bible

And among others...eating tons of complete junk, and making ourselves sick.

And my own tradition of throwing the junk away when Joey's not looking................just kidding Joey! Hahahaha....ha.....that was funny right?

Merry Christmas!!! And happy New Years!!!

Thursday, October 30, 2008

My October

So, October is my favorite month...I love Halloween. Joey has been gone since the beginning of the month and except for the first week, which I call the week of Hell (Gideon broke his arm, everybody got sick, car broke down, doctor appts, hmmm i'm sure there was something else), we have been having fun. Renting Halloween kids movies and decorating and listening to fun Halloween music and stories. Staying up late on Saturday to watch "the very bad movie" movie...and then falling asleep and not watching it, only to try again next week and falling asleep again...next time we will do it. I'm sad it has to end, and that dad didn't get to have fun with us. I wish we could all be together on this heathen holiday...wouldn't that be bliss!

Halloween... so far....

Gideon look at my kitty face!

Levi likes kitties

Everytime I turned around...scarlett was eating.

party, party!

Um...I want a.....um......a......um.....butterfly....no a star.....um...no a .......um......a......um.......heart....no a ......pumpkin....wait no a .......um........um........