A post for Lisa M

Baby G was quite impressive (8-ish feet tall) until Daddy came out.

Football Fun

Alex blocking.

Andrew ordering the twix around.

The twix ignoring Andrew's orders and doing their own thing.

Pumpkin Carving

Ryan and his dinosaur pumpkin.

Andrew's masterpiece (all by himself!).

Mark and Ryan with their monster (see the bolts and stitches? It's Frankenpumpkin!).

Seany and Mommy and our ghost!

Alex and his scary monster (again all by himself!).

Zoo day!

Meet the cute little "Pigwidgeon" inspireee.

The chicklets waiting to go in (Andrew, Seany, Alex, and RyGuy).

YEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAAW!

Seany was all about the Yee-haws last night. Alex and Andrew went to a party. So I took the twix to Wally World to pick up some last minute stuff for the big night approaching.

As we walked by the boys section. They'd marked t-shirt costumes down to $2. Seany LOVED the cowboy and chanted and giggled with his hand over his mouth about his cowboy costume non-stop. "Yee-haw!" hahhahaha. "My cowboy costume real cool, Mom." "Howdy." HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Ryan quietly picked the pirate version and put it in the cart.

As they were buckling into their seats, Ryan exasperated said, "SEANY. IT'S. NOT. A. COSTUME. It's a t-shirt. Its a shirt, Sean."

School Pictures Retake or Keep?

My vote is for both to retake. I can take better snaps than these!

Cast your ballots!

Economics Fair boasts results

Alex came home from the economics fair with 3 guns: marshmallow, rubber band, and a sling shot (which might as well be a gun).

This morning, "Mom. You know what I learned at the economics fair?"

Mom asked, "What did you learn at the economics fair?"

"This is a true fact. Violence sells, Mom. Violence sells. Its a true fact. Did you see what I bought and that was just the stuff that was left. I had to mark my drums down to 25 cents. And the foam swords went for $2.50! $2.50 and one was broken! Mom, when Andrew is in 4th grade he needs to make a gun or a sword."

America, land of the ?

Ryan expands

Ryan having used his fingers to count 3 people, expanded his repertoire. Yesterday, he used his fingers not to count but to show his family. When he filled up one hand, he felt a moment's panic. How would he show the remaining member of his family. He then realized he had another whole hand! And keeping all 5 fingers outstretched pointed to the lone remaining member of his family.

Ryan can count to 3!

At lunch today. Ryan showed Mark his 3 fingers.

"Wook Dad. Andrew 1, Daddy 2. (pause, pause, pause) Ryan 3! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"

Pumpkinland!

Andrew and Daddy at play.

Alex going down the slide.

Seany climbing.

And RyGuy on top of the slide!

The chicklets and my friend Sheila's girls.

Birthday present from Auntie Erin

Seany and Ryan opening and playing with their awesome dragon castle!

While Mommy's busy with someone else...

Seany gets into trouble.

Andrew begged and pleaded all week long to play on hotwheels.com. I relented today. While he and I were logging him in (yes, Andrew has his own username and password at 5 years old), Seany and Ryan were supposed to be watching Go Diego Go.

Instead Ryan was screaming, "Sean MOVE! Sean! I can't see! Move Sean MOVVVVEEEE!"

Then I heard a bang and Seany maniacally laughing as he thundered up the stairs to cause mayhem in Alex's room.

"MOM! MOM! The TV is OFF!!! Seany blahhhhhblahhhblahnnnhblaflhhhhh TV!"

I came out tried the remote. Nada.

Couldn't press the power button because Seany pushed it into the TV (yes without a remote our TV is useless).

So I pulled a what would Mark do?!  I unplugged all the components and then spent 24 minutes reprogramming the TV. Can't figure out how to get the time to stop displaying but we're back in business baby!

(And speaking of my most fabulous hubs, he rearranged the garage so we can park BOTH cars in it again!)

Where's your boss?

Yesterday, drama at work led to the three youngest chicklets hanging out until we resolved an issue.



I asked them to be quiet while I talked to my boss about it. When my boss and I got back, Andrew asked, "Mommy, I don't see your boss. Where is he?"

"Andrew, this is him standing next to me. Boss, Andrew. Andrew, Boss."

Boss waved at Andrew.


"Mommy, that's not your boss. That man doesn't have red hair (yes, yes he does). That man has yellow hair. I want to see your boss with red hair."

Stand up

Ryan fell face first out of his car seat and onto the pavement yesterday. I was trying to put something in Alex's backpack and as I said, "Ryan you need to sit in your car seat," out he tumbled face first 4 feet to the ground.

We called the doctor, we got the all clear, and home we headed.

Mommy, "Andrew, what do you do when I say to get in your car seat and put your straps on?"

Andrew answered, "I sit down and put my strap on."

"Seany, what do you do?"

Seany answered, "I sit and staps on."

"Ryan, what do you do?"

Ryan cried, "I stand up and fall down and get big OWIEEEEEE!"

The little singer

Seany has a very deep and warbly singing voice. One night last week he sang the following while Ryan and Andrew ignored him playing with toys.

"RYYYYYYY-annnnnnnn, I want you to loooooooooooooooooook at meeeeeeeeee and then weeeeeeeee can play. Please Ryan just loooooooooooook at me so we can playyyyyyyyyyyy."