Very, very punny!!!

Hahahaha!  You know you have been watching too much of the Muppet Show when your oldest child turns to her brother (who just sat down next to her with a giant bowl of popcorn) and says, "Make sure you don't try to go to town on that!"  When we all look at her to start objecting, she just smiles and points out "It doesn't have any tires." Hahahahahaha!

Caelen cracks me up!!!

Hahahaha!  I've just gotta say, my son's imagination cracks me up!  He lost a tooth last night, so we put it in an envelope to put under his bed (to make it easier for the Tooth Fairy to collect) and out of pure habit I licked and sealed it.  He was cranky at me "because the Tooth Fairy is tiny, how is she supposed to open it mom?!"  Well, we kind of fell asleep working on things last night and missed the switch...so when he came out from checking to see if she came, I apologized and said that daddy and I must have scared here away.  He said, "Nope, she came all right...but I told you she wouldn't be able to get that open!  There is a tiny tear in the corner of the envelope and even a little fairy dust...we just need to open the envelope for her before tonight!"

The other hilarious part: the last two teeth he lost (including the one last night) were his canines.  So after all this about the Tooth Fairy, he came back out sucking in his lip and saying "I get to be the Easter Bunny!  My new name is Bucky!"

Where does this kid get these?!  Hahahahahahaha!

Christmas Traditions 2011

This year has been full of so many changes for me personally, and for our family in many small ways...loudly shouting or whispering softly.  Especially since I started preparing to teach about so many different winter holidays to my elementary school kids (I got a part-time job working at one of the local elementary schools in the mornings as a literacy aide (think, part-time teacher of specific programs) for kids ranging between 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade), I found myself learning more about the sources of so many of the traditions that I personally treasure as well.  It has gotten me to thinking about which ones I would like to add to our own list of things we like to do to help make the holiday a magically memorable event that is felt and experienced far more than just one or two days.  I'll have to post about it later (I'm all out of time for tonight), but I would like to extend a challenge of sorts to those few who may read this: please take a moment to sit down and look through your own traditions and the reasons for continuing them....are they carrying on simply because of enjoyment, or do they actually mean something to you?  Have you shared that with your own little flock of loved ones?

Buppets?

Hahahaha!  I just have to share the cutsey chuckle....today when I walked in the door from work, the first thing I saw or heard wasn't "Momma!", wasn't "Wuv oooo!", wasn't "eat unch?" or any one of the normal phrases ready to great me.  It was "Buppets?" complete with remote controls in hand! :D  Hahahaha, that kid is SERIOUSLY muppet crazy!

Heap Big Mighty Bug Hunter

I just have to share the funniest thing that happened with Damon earlier.

With how cold things have gotten around here (we're talking below zero a couple of times this week), and with how early this is in the year, the bugs have been doing their best to find a warm place to hide.  So we've been finding and killing bugs right and left, though the kids are generally soo freaked out they don't accomplish much except for scaring themselves and yelling for Mom or Dad.  (Can I just say...ugh...)

Along with that, Damon has begun talking more and more (probably picking up anywhere from 3-8 words a day now).  His little baby talk is sooo cute to hear, though hard to understand at times.  And like most other totally "unbiased" parents, we are convinced it is a sign of his future genius, lol.

Having said all that, when he turned around the other day to start his usual gibberish while we were working on getting his shoes taken off after being outside for something or other.  He kept lifting up his foot and saying something insistently....we just couldn't understand what.  But we smiled and encouraged (brilliant translators that we are, we kept saying "Yes, good job..that IS your foot"), and tried to move on.  John laid the little guy down to change his diaper and all of a sudden he (John) flinched and yelped slightly.  When I started to look/watch, all of a sudden I heard (clear as a bell, really) in Damon's little toddler's voice "Bug...kill....ewwwwww, slimy!" at about the same moment John growls about finding a squashed earwig.  lol, Damon was sooo proud of his moment of triumph!  He had killed the thing even daddy thought was too ewww to not flinch at!

Needless to say, ever since then Damon makes us giggle by lifting his foot to show everyone how he squished the nasty little thing....and runs every time someone yells about having found another bug!  My heap big mighty bug hunter...he is so very cute!!! :D