New Extreme Sports and Hair Cuts

It's quiet at my house ... a rare thing, yes! Troy and Cody went to the Bump N Run with Grandma and Grandpa, Shantel is at a friend's, Robby and Savanna are playing nicely together (for once) and the twins are sleeping. I'm supposed to be studying for the lesson I'm teaching tomorrow, but I'm sitting here reading blogs and posting to mine.......

Introducing the new extreme sport of: Loaded Lazyboy Spinning. Riley was having a blast spinning Cody covered with: Scott, EmmaLece and Kyle. Laughs all around!

The extreme sport of: Fridge Climbing..... went upstairs after someone (I'm sure) and came back down to this! When asked what she was doing INSIDE the fridge, she said, "I am thirsty!" Notice the cup? It has milk in it!

Cody and Scott get hair cuts ... aren't they cute?! I was not sure Scott would go for this kind of cut since it involves the clippers, Cody convinced him that he wanted it cut just like his. Well, we got 'bout half way into the cut and he started telling me he didn't like those clippers and were we done yet? I painstakingly convinced him I would be finished with his hair "soon". He survived and it looks cute.

Have You Ever Had THIS Conversation?

Ok, first off, am I the only mom who NEVER gets the chance to take herself to the potty? So, it's 4 pm and the last time I got to use the resting room it was 6:30 am... and the conversation goes like this:
Mom "Are you done, Scott?"
Scott " No, I want to try and do a poo poo."
Mom "Well, could you let Mommy go and then try?"
Scott "No, I want to try NOW."
Mom " Scotty, Mommy really needs to go, please get off."
Scott "Do you need the stool?"
Mom "No, I think I can reach without it thanks... now get off PLEASE!"
Scott "Do you need the potty seat?"
Mom "No, my bum is way to big for that... please Scott get OFF!"
Scott "Ok"
He gets down and the conversation continues:
Scott "Do you need toilet paper, Mommy?"
Mom "Yes."
Scott "Let me get it for you."
Mom "No, that's OK I can get it."
At this point Scott takes the toilet paper and rips off the corner of one square and hands it to me with his biggest 'I'm such a good helper" smile.
Mom "I don't think that will do."
He then proceed to get me more paper one square at a time until I finally get it from him!
Tomorrow I'm gonna find 5 mins to take only me to the potty!

ACM Awards re-run on GAC

Last night we were watching a re-run of the ACM's (because the twins took late naps and were just waking up around 8pm!). EmmaLece was SO funny she got her cowboy hats out and for every artist who was wearing a hat, she would hold up either the black hat or the white one depending on the color of their hat. This morning we turned the TV on to country videos... first it was the black hat then the white! Guess she likes cowboy hats whether they are holding water or on a musician! Here's a picture of her waiting for the next performer.

Cheerleaders

Savanna was supposed to be cleaning the front room but, when she called my name and I came to see ... she was making pyramids with her sisters. She had cleaned the front room, so I guess she deserved a bit of playtime.

Never A Dry Moment

Another adventure in twin land..... I've learned even if I could keep my eyes constantly on these two, they would still find a way to escape me and get in to something. Laughing is always a sure sign they are up to something. Lately they have found that the bathroom is the best place to play. Upon hearing the roaring laughter coming from the bathroom, I figured they were once again flooding it. As I enter the room, Scott says, "see my new hair do?" and EmmaLece pours a cowboy hat full of water on the floor! I didn't realize that they held water so well! The hat is now drying in the shower (because that was the closest place to toss it while I escorted the twins out of the bathroom, so I could mop up the water (it was not the first hat-full to hit the floor). No photos of this, sorry. I guess I should go to investigate with the camera, huh?

naps

Sometimes this is the best way to enjoy your kids! How come it's the dad's and the kids that get to nap and not the moms?

Where's the humor?

I would love to say that I view all my children's escapades with humor.... but that would be untrue. Just this morning while I thought they were playing nicely in their room, they proved me wrong yet again! EmmaLece comes down and narks the boys out with, "they're throwing pretzels!" What?! I run up the stairs and sure enough they are throwing pretzels and stompin' them into the floor! The whole tub of pretzel twists is strewn all over the floor and there is hardly a whole twist in the bunch..... what are the boys doing? laughing their heads off and thinking this is the best game on the planet! Needles to say, I left my humor in the front room and they got the "naughty kids" lecture. Afterwhich I got a chorus of "naughty kids" from the 3 boys. Now, I'm sure that EmmaLece was involved, in fact I'm sure she is the one who brought the pretzel sticks up to the room....... stinkin' little instigator!