Another Abbey gem: I'm so proud of Silas because I am so mad at him.

About 5 minutes later, there was more of the same. I could tell she was tired and told her, "ok Abbey you are tired and you need to go to bed." She said, "Oh not AGAIN! Waaaaaaa." uh huh mom's right. nap time.

Abbey in real life

This is a conversation Abbey and I had when she woke up from her nap in a sour mood:

Abbey,  "I was going to puke on my bed but I didn't want to. I kind of don't like anybody, but my heart is really really really hard. I will never go to church because there is puke in my life. And I need to go to the doctor because there is sickness in my life. And Nana is going to put me in the bathtub, or the hospit-dentist and I don't want to go to that place. The doctor is bad because he takes all my life out of my tummy. He pokes it in half. Mom, I got my thumb red because I bumped it on the table and bumped it and rolled it. Because of a roll of a God. Because God helps us not puke, because I'm gunna puke. He's not here because I'm going to puke on my leg because I don't have anything to do. I have nothing to do in my life. I don't have anything to do, momma. I have no heart because I cut my heart into half. I'm so impressive because I don't like anybody because I want to play purple palace. I'm so sorry."


BTW -

Abbey is not sick, has not been to the doctor in a very long time, colored her own thumb with red pen, I'm thinking this is just girl behavior.

Adventures in Parenting

 

Elijah wanted to go on a hike with his new backpack. He had an hour or so before dark and went on a 8 mile round trip hike to the reservoir. Well, darkness fell and Mom and Dad got scared and went looking for him. We found him 2 miles from home wondering why we were there.

At least he showered

In the attempt to teach children to pick up after themselves, we asked which child left their towel on the living room floor. As usual no one claimed it so we did some investigation and discovered Abbey had left it. However in the process of questioning children about their towel usage we found something else to teach to.

Mom asked, "Silas, what towel did you use and where did you put it?"

Silas honestly answered, "I used your bathroom rug and I left it behind the toilet."


I see.

Christmas Dart Gun

Ferocious!

Abbey and Rosa at a Pool Party next door

The Albin Pool

Here we are at the pool in Albin. It is about 20 minutes from our house. For $12.50 a month you can join the community center and have access to a gymnasium, fitness center, and pool. Most days there is no lifeguard on duty and also no one there. So when we go we usually have the pool all to ourselves.  We get a key pass and can go anytime of the night or day. WOW!

Finishing the Lord of the Rings

After several years of night time reading we finished the series The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

 

 

To celebrate we got a projector, darkened the living room and spent the weekend watching the directors cut of all 3 movies. 11 hours of movies. We started with a cartoon for the little kids.

We ate pizza rolls, yogurt, pudding, mozzarella sticks, fruit roll ups, jello cups, granola bars, cheese its, applesauce cups, taquitos, and chicken nuggets. (All health food in Dad's opinion, All junkfood in Robin's opinion)

It was one of our favorite weekends of the year. : )

What do you think happened here??

Family Picture Time

parenting win

there were some leftover beans in a thick creamy brown bean sauce. dad hatches a plan.

he dumps the beans into the toilet and yells at the kids, "who didn't flush the toilet! everybody get in here now!" he proceeds to reprimand them for several minutes about how disgusting it is to leave this messy diarrhea unflushed...how lazy the kids must be to just walk away without flushing, etc. just look at this mess. get in really close and look how disgusting this is. all of the kids are making really gross faces as they see how revolting the contents of the toilet really are.

then when they were all leaning over to look at how gross it is, dad says, "oh, wait a minute. this piece looks kind of tasty." and he picks up a bean out of the toilet and eats it.

all of the kids screamed and ran away. i win at parenting.