Funny Things

I know it's been forever since I posted, but here are two different funny things Brinley said to me last week that I don't want to forget.

Last week I was driving carpool for something and it was just Brinley and I on our way to pick up kids and she said to me, "Mom, which dude am I going to marry?" I replied I don't know. She then said " I think it might be Noah." (Noah is our neighbor he's in the pirate post pictures)

Then on Saturday we had a couple of neighbor kids over and the boys were in Chandler's room and the girls were in Addie's room. I looked in Brinley's room and she was sitting on her bed with a very sad face listening to Michael Jackson all alone. I asked her why she wasn't playing with the kids and she burst into tears and said "I wish I was a teenager!"

Turkey or MMMMmmmm Ham

Here is a Turkey story Chandler had to write for school. November 2010

Ham, ham, ham, humans love ham. Ham is delicious. Aww fine, I'm a turkey who HATES ham, but people LOVE ham. Oh, you think I'm tasty, well, I'M NOT! I'm absolutely disgusting. You would NOT want to eat me. You know Wilbur, from Charlottes' Web? Well, he was meant to be Thanksgiving dinner!

Ham is delicious, Ham is delicious, turkey is disgusting, but ham is delicious. Sorry, I felt like singing. Ham is good with stufing and potatoes, so is beef. They taste better than me. Most of the turkey meat comes from my BEHIND!! Look at that delicious slab of ham. Now look at that disgusting, salty, and runny turkey. Disgusting aren't I right? Surely you would like ham for Thanksgiving or you'll soon be in the emergency room.





Too late for us! We had turkey...although I do LOVE ham! Hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving!

I'm a workin'!

Today I started my new job. It has brought back a lot of sweet memories....and makes me miss those wee baby stages. I am babysitting for a family who lives on my street. A sweet little 2 month old baby boy. I got to change a diaper today......been a VERY long time since I did that. I got to rock and feed him. Get him dressed....and then try to juggle a very curious 4 year old, who I might add is used to being the queen bee. I could tell she was a little frustrated when I was warming a bottle for baby and she REALLY wanted scissors, glue and paper. She of course was forced to wait....not very happily I might add! It should be a fun adventure for all of us!

Pirates.....(I went a little crazy with posts today.....keep on goin!)

She knows the drill for the pictures, but it kept making my laugh because she kept saying, "Cheese" and you can't even see her face except her one little eye. She of course decorated this all by herself. If you look closely you can see all of her little "Peace" signs she drew herself.

Today was pirate story time at the library. I let Brinley pick out a bandana at JoAnn's a couple of weeks ago and she chose the "peace" one. So, I coined her the "Peaceful Pirate." (Thanks to Addie I have my 4 year old decorating everything with peace signs) We went with my favorite neighbor and partner in crime and her cute little kids. Brinley's best bud is her son, Noah!

(This is a side story, but last week I caught both of them peeing outside together under a tree......Gross!!)

Brinley's First Day of School!!

Here's her little preschool group. She is the only one who is pre-k the others are only 3!

I am pretty sure that I bought happy meals for each of my kids after their 1st day of preschool....so I HAD to carry on the tradition for Brinley...plus I really needed a diet coke after all those kids running through my house!! :)

I've postponed as long as I can preschool for Brinley because I just can't stand the idea of being home alone! I'm not quite sure what to do with myself!! I am doing a co-op preschool with a couple of friends from church and in our neighborhood. I taught last week, their first week...so we'll see what this week brings for Brinley. Hopefully she'll still be as happy as she is at home. She sure has some issues with being away from me!! I guess I know who to blame for that one.....ME!!

Soccer

Here's some pictures I've taken of Chandler this season playing soccer for the middle school team that Derek is coaching! I am not much of a photographer....but you get the idea....Chandler is number 4 on the maroon team. They are called the KQA Trailblazers.

Labor Day

We spent Labor Day with some good friends of ours...the Parks Family! We've been friends for I think almost 9 years now....They moved 2 years ago to Kansas City, KS and recently moved back to Ft. Collins, CO. We've missed them!! We decided to take our families up Poudre Canyon. It was a beautiful view, although we didn't last too long because it was sooooo windy and cold! I thought if we all wore jeans and sweatshirts we would be plenty warm considering the day before it was 97.....I thought wrong.....:)