I'm serious!

Sydney was yelling from the back yard yesterday.
Just so you know Sydney and Kate yell for me all the time and now so does Paige. I have decided to ignore them unless they come and politely ask for what they need which obviously they aren't catching onto quite yet.
As my dad would say, "Unrealistic Expectations Susan."
So, Sydney was yelling from the backyard.

"Mom! Mom! Come HERE!"

I continued folding laundry.

"MOM COME HERE RIGHT NOW. I'M BLEEDING!"

I couldn't help myself I laughed out loud as I started walking out the door all to here.

"MOM I'M SERIOUS I REALLY AM BLEEDING."

Sure enough she had skinned her knee.
I held in my laughter while applying to band aids to the cleaned scrape.

Then heard Kate chime in...
with all the sass and knowledge of a 9 and three quarter year old.
"MOM that REALLY doesn't NEED a band aid."

Nope she didn't really need a band aid. But it was nice to be able to fix her up and send her on her way happy and proud of her new "injury".
Wish I could patch everything else up as easily as her knee.

I'm back!!!!

I spent my day encouraging this...

and this,

and this.

I think it was officially called "Peru's Popcorn Game" on my field day instructions. Three hours of hilarious parachute mishaps. Lost a lot of my voice by the end of the day. Now I feel like my legs and arms are going to fall off. No real winners or losers just a whole lot of fun.

I have been busy sewing an apron and shorts for Miss Kathryn along with other projects and layouts. Here is the apron. I have to say I learned a lot about sewing around curves.

These are my mother's day gifts. Kate had all of the girls dress alike and they went on a photo safari the Saturday before Mother's day. I love seeing all of the fun they had! Here are a few quick shots of Kate's Mother's Day Coupons. I LOVE them!

Now I promise to stay up to date. When I get behind it is too hard to start again without including all of the fun things I didn't get a chance to record. See you soon!

Jolly Holly Christmas

My girls make me laugh! I have a friend who sends out the best letters for Christmas that include "The Best of" Qoutes from her boys. I've never remembered to write them all down. Well Miss Sydney has been on a roll.

We caught her playing dress up and took a couple of photos.

A few minutes after John and I left the room we heard.

"Can I get a little help in here?" Look at who we found!

Sometimes a girl just needs a hand.
We still don't know why she was in the box.

Then John and I were busy,(ha ha ha) finding cool things on the internet. I heard Syd in the hallway, singing over and over,"Have a Jolly Holly Christmas its the best time in the WORLD." She kept singing and became more enthusiastic with each repeat. Gotta love little people especially when they don't get the words right and get the meaning anyway.


Today I laid down for 15 minutes until Kate got off of the bus. Sydney was told to be quite since John and Paige were asleep. When you're four it's hard to be quiet, hey my girls can't even walk quiet. So I expected her to wake Paige up at any second. I saw her go into the bathroom and then for a couple of minutes I heard a lot of jumping. I opened the door to peek in and see what was going on. She was doing the potty dance! Leotard on under her t-shirt....bouncing and saying "I hope someone comes to help me...I hope someone comes to help me!" Poor kid. After we took care of the major crisis I couldn't stop giggling. At least I know she listens sometimes!

My friend, Jean sent me a funny Utube video about Mom's. You may have heard it before but every time I see it I laugh more. Kate overheard me listening and thought it was sooooo funny. "Mom that's you!" I said, "No honey that's ALL moms." Thank goodness for creative moms who can let us all know that we are normal. So have a Jolly Holly Christmas and have a good laugh today. I know I did!