Kids say the darndest! Bums

OK...so I decided that I am going to journal all the funny things my kids say so I can remember their little fun personalities!

The kids came in this morning and was snuggling with me in bed. Cambree had just slept in a T-shirt and underwear which is normal around our house....no pants!

So this is how the conversation went....

Me- "Cambree...you have such a cute little bum."

Cambree- "I'm not a cute bum."

Me- "No, I am saying you HAVE a cute little bum."

Cambree- (screaming) "I'm NOT A CUTE BUM.......I'm Cambree!"

Me--(laughing)

Ethan- "Hey... mom?"

Me- "Yes Ethan."

Ethan- "My bum is awesome!"

Me- (laughing some more!) "Yes it is Ethan...yes it is."

I'm a daddy...and she's a mommy.

The other day, Todd and I were at the computer paying bills while the kids were playing. Well we didn't notice that they had snuck into our closet and had shut the door. We started to hear loud giggles coming from behind the door. So I walked over to the door and listened and this is what I heard......(ethan)"Cambree....you be the mommy and I will be the daddy..ok!" (cambree) "ok....I am da mommy and I do like dis." I don't know what she did but I can only guess she was twirling cuz she does that alot when she wears a dress. Then...(ethan)"No Cambree......daddy is supposed to give the mommy hugs and kisses...like this".....(giggles and more giggles).....(cambree)"let's dance..ok?".....(ethan)"ok".

This is when I had to open the door and see what they were doing and this is what I found..... Ethan was wearing one of Todd's shirts and Cambree had gotten on one of my dresses.

They are too funny! I asked what they were doing and they said, "we are being a mommy and a daddy!" All smiles and giggling. I asked them what did mommy's and daddy's do and they gave each other a hug and kiss. Ethan then leaned in and gave Cambree a kiss on the cheek. Too sweet. Especially since most of the time he thinks kissing is gross.Then once they knew they weren't in trouble for getting into the closet they went lose running into the living room and proceeded to "dance" together and "hold hands", all things they think mommy's and daddy's do. We do often turn music on in the living room and dance with the kids so I think that's where they got that from.

It was hilarious watching them being a mommy and a daddy! I am glad they were huggin and kissin and dancin' rather than argueing or something like that. :) Oh boy....I have cute kids!

Hello to all Family and Friends of Niles Bartleson!

We are going to be having a Friends & Family Fast on behalf of Niles TOMMORROW Feb.20th.

As you may know he was diagnosed with a Meningioma Brain Tumor and will be going in for Brain surgery tommorrow to have it removed.

Please fast and pray that this surgery will go well and that Niles will recover well.

Sparkley fingers and toes

So Cambree came up to me the other day and said, "Mom........pretty princesses have sparkles on their fingers and toes .......so can I have sparkles to be a pretty princess.......pretty please mom."

Well how can you say no to that. So we painted her fingers and toes with "sparkles" and she loved it! She also then picked her ALL PINK outfit which didn't match but you couldn't tell her that because PINK is princess to her. She even wanted a PINK flower for her hair. She kept holding her hands up and putiing them on her face.

Here are her some pics of her blinged out fingers and toes.

Ethan sat and observed. Then very shyly came to me and asked, "Mom.....would daddy be mad at me if I painted MY toes?" I said, "of course not Ethan...daddy won't be mad." I could tell he felt very left out since I was painting my toes too and Cambree's toes were painted but he was convinced daddy would be mad cuz it's a girl thing. So we called daddy at work to ask him if he would be mad. Todd told Ethan that he couldn't ever be mad at him but to just choose a manly color. So Ethan picked blue and we painted his toes too. After we did I asked him if he liked his toes painted and he said, "Not really mom.......it's not that cool." So I don't think we will have to worry about Ethan wanting his toes painted again. He was mad that I was even taking his picture. What a silly!

Adalynn hangs out with her daddy

The other night I was really having a bad day. We had put the other two kids to bed and the baby was still up. I told Todd to take the baby and spend some time with her cuz I needed a break from kids. He was happy to do so. Probably cuz he saw "THE LOOK" that meant I wasn't messin around.....I really needed a break.

So he took the baby and I decided to watch a "chick flick" by myself which was fabulous! I walked back to go to bed after the movie was over and this is where I found Todd and Adalynn. At the computer playing video games. Adalynn was snuggled into him and was staring intently at the game. It was WAY past her bedtime but it was SOOOOO cute I couldn't resist taking a few pics.

Cambree gets a haircut!

So the other day I was giving Todd and Ethan haircuts as I usually do and as I was finishing Ethan up Cambree asked if it was her turn next.
She DID need a haircut BUT, was I brave enough to do it.
I thought to myself, " It can't be THAT much harder than Ethan's." (Uhmmm..looking back....maybe I shouldn't think too much :)
Todd was totally on board.....mostly cuz he hates to spend money on haircuts or other things that HE doesn't want to spend money on. A ten dollar haircut is something questionable......but an eight thousand dollar motorcycle definitely makes the list!
I though ok...maybe I will just trim 1/4" off just to see if I could do it and thought if I screwed up I would take her in to get it fixed and she would still come out ok.
So I started and took what I thought would be a good quarter inch all the way around. Then looked and one side was longer than the other. What!? How did that happen? So I tried to take a bit more off the one side to even it out. Then the other side was uneven. Seriously!!?? Now I am starting to get frustrated. And now I am MORE determined than EVER! I tried to even it up and then tried to do a lit bit of a layer so that you couldn't tell as much. I think I ended up taking off an inch and a half to two inches of hair. Whoops! I was a little disappointed that I cut more than I told myself but I think overall I didn't do too bad. The more and more I think about it, I get more prouder of my beautician skills! (more prouder??...maybe I'll start working on my English skills next)

Cambree was so excited and ran into the bathroom and looked in the mirror got a BIG SMILE and said, "OOOOHHH...I am so pretty....like a princess!" So I guess she LOVES it!!!

And I guess it was a good learning experience as well.

I guess we will see what everyone thinks!! And be honest please. I would rather someone say, "uhmmm...chris....ya...maybe you shouldn't do that EVER again." RATHER than my daughter walking around with one proud mother and one hideous haircut.

But nonetheless, good OR bad haircut, I have a BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER!

Fieldtrip with Ethans preschool

So I have done another year of joyschool/preschool with Ethan. We have only four kids and moms this year so it makes for a little less chaotic since last year their where eight! So the moms or teachers I should say are Me, Hiedi, Val, & JoLynn. And Ethan's class mates are Ellee, Dillan, and Alyssa. Ethan has had fun so far this year. He loves school and loves to learn!

So our first fieldtrip was to the Library. We had storytime and then picked out library books for the week.

Alyssa, Ethan, & Cambree reading books.

Here is the storylady reading the book to the whole crowd of kids. (Funny thing....I actually know the storylady. I went to college with her.) Kyle (dillans little brother), Ethan, Dillan, Alyssa, Dodge (Ellee's little brother) and Ellee all doing the actions that go along to the story.

Then on Thursday we went to Pizza Retti pizza store. I know the owner Annie and so she let the kids come in and learn how to make pizza! They got to play with the dough, put sauce, spread the cheese on, slap some pepperoni on , and put it in the oven! They all loved getting their hands dirty and making the pizzas! They got to take the pizzas they made back to Heidi's house to eat them. Annie had made us an "adult" pizza that she made so that we had our own not made by the kids. Big thank you to Annie for letting us come and invade her pizza store.

Here is everyone putting their hands in the dough.

Here they are spreading the dough around in the pan.

Here is Ellee spreading the sauce on the pizza.

They all loved spreading cheese all over the pizza. That was one cheesey pizza.

They all slapped some pepperoni on there.

Here is the group. Top Row: Heidi, Me, and Val. (JoLynn was missing this day.) Second Row: Heidi's twins Saylor & Linen, Ellee, Ethan, Alyssa, Dodge, and Dillan. I think Kyle is hiding in the middle.

My Little Thumb Sucker!

So Adalynn is determined to be a thumb sucker! Every time I see her sucking her thumb or fingers I pull em out. I turn around two seconds later and there she is again suckin away. Ethan and Cambree both didn't suck their thumbs or fingers so I haven't had experience with this yet and boy it's throwing me through a loop.

I have only heard bad things about thumb suckers so I have been very persistant to give her a binkie and not let her suck her thumb but to my dismay she finds a way. I give her a binkie and for the most part she is fine with it but if she loses it she finds her fingers or thumb! So at her doctor checkup I talked to the doctor about it and he advised me to just let her be. He said that the more a try to push her not to, the more she will need to fill that void and want to suck more and more. He said too, that usually by one year the start to grow out of it although I have heard horror stories about it lasting A LOT longer and becoming a very hard habit to break. But she seems to only suck her thumb or fingers when she is really tired and also when she wakes up she just finds her thumb till I come get her. So we will see how this plays out.

It's kinda nice sometimes when I can't get to her right away and she can self sooth herself by sucking her thumb. It also comes in handy when we are in public and she hardly gets fussy cuz she is suckin away! And I can't help but find it ADORABLE too!

I walk in every morning to get her and almost always find her like this. Then after she realizes I am there she unplugs and gives me the best little grin! She is so cute and such a GOOD baby!

After awhile of taking a few shots of her sucking her thumb and she unplugged and was grinning and I continued to get some cute shots of her. Then she got a little peeved after awhile of not picking her up and feeding her breakfast. Here's what happened next until I finally had mercy on her and put down the camera.

Here are some pictures of her that I took a couple of weeks ago sucking her two middle fingers. I totally forgot about her....(I know...Iknow...I'm not winning any mother of the year awards here!)....cuz I was just busy, busy, busy and she just found her little fingers and put herself for a nap in her swing. How adorable is that!

Gotta have me some Saturday Morning Cartoons

So my kids look forward to mornings....but only for the cartoons! Well...and to WAKE their mommy UP!! They especially love Saturday and Sunday morning cartoons. So this particular morning I got up and fed the baby and went to find the other two kids and this is where I found them of course. PLopped in front of the TUBE.

So they precedded to tell me that the baby wanted to watch cartoons too.

I insisted that she didn't.

But Ethan whipped out some imagination and said, "Mom.....she TOLD me she wanted to watch cartoons with me!"

Well...I guess if she said she wanted to. Last time I checked she didn't talk but whatever. One thing I have learned after having three kids that you have to choose your battles and this was not a battle I cared to win. SO.....we got the Bumbo and sat her down to watch cartoons! They both were so proud to have baby sis sitting next to them so I had to take a couple shots of them watching there cartoons. AND...YES...Cambree WAS naked as always so I made her get dressed before I took pictures! She is so funny!
And Adalynn had fun....of course....with all the attention she was getting! She appeherntly she loves her some mornin' cartoons in the bumbo!

So Sleepy!

I was really busy the other day as I am every day cleaning up messes and chasing kids around. I had put Adalynn in her Bumbo which she loves (thanks Brandi who let us borrow it!) and she was content just sitting there watching all the action unfolding in our home and playing with a rattle. I went downstairs to put some laundry in the washer and came back up and noticed that Adalynn was a little slumped over and bent down to help her sit back up better when I noticed she had fallen asleep. So cute is she asleep sitting in her Bumbo!