SICK, SICK, SICK

Last night we came home and found cat puke on our carpet! Blah...I have such a hard time cleaning that stuff up. But I took one for the team and cleaned it up. Then a few hours later Brock woke up (shortly after falling asleep) puking ON THE CARPET! Gentry was the lucky one to clean this mess up.

Then this morning Gentry took the boys for a ride to get a Redbox DVD. On the way home Boston puked. Thanks again, Gentry for cleaning up that one. (I have to be honest, I don't know what I would do without Gentry. Just handing him towels to clean up the puke made me dry heave--is that how you spell it?)

So now I have two sick boys and a sick kitty.

A couple days ago Boston was eating an orange. This is our conversation:

Boston: Mom, try this orange.

Me: Why is it gross?

Boston: No, it's good.

Me:Ok, then proceed to put it in my mouth. I about gag and run to the garbage.

Saying: "Boston, this is GROSS."

Boston: I know it's a little bit gross.

Me: No, it's rotten!

Boston: I know it's way gross. (Just minutes ago he said it was good.)

Me: Uh, ya think???

Seriously I don't know why he tricked me into eating a rotten orange, but after the fact I laughed because I thought he was pretty clever.

Alyssa

Alyssa cracks me up. One time while she was at my mom's house she found one of my old gymnastics outfits from when I was about 11. Anyway she put it on and wore it to gymnastics. (I was out of town.) Since then she wears it about every week. It's fluorescent and awful but she thinks it's cute. I don't fight it anymore...not to mention it's so old it's almost in style again.

So last night Gentry sent me this video of Alyssa. She FINALLY dared to do her round off back handspring by herself. (I have memories of me in high school fearing the dreaded standing back-handspring...and actually doing a fake one in our competition...how embarrassing.)

I am so proud of her!

Now keep in mind the video is side-ways so tip your head to the left to watch. That's her in the beloved outfit of mine.

Boston's 1st

Boston has had a LOT of firsts...from first broken leg, first burn, first (and hopefully only) set of grey teeth, first MRI, first cavity, first hole in the wall made by his head...and now he is my first to have a tooth pulled by the dentist. (Thank you Matt!)

Boston's front tooth started turning even darker grey than all the others and he said it was hurting so my brother (and dentist) Matt had us come into his office for an xray.

He ended up pulling it out...luckily it was already grey or I would have cried. (I care way too much about teeth than I should.)

Boston was lucky enough to have the Tooth Fairy come and leave him a dollar and he even got to keep his tooth!

Hole in the wall...not the first time either.

Brock was playing in his room after bath time and he told me that he needed to wear these glasses because he could see "a whole new world" with them on. I laughed because he was really trying to convince me he needed them. He said his eyes hurt if he didn't have them on. I took a picture of him (shocked that he was wearing them because they are Alyssa's fake and also pink glasses).

Shortly after Boston said he wanted his picture with them on too.

They started acting silly and I told them I needed to put them in Alyssa's room before they got broken. (Or as they would say brooked.) They both wanted a last turn to try them on and Brock thought Boston had a longer turn so he got mad at Boston's taunting and threw Boston into the wall. Now leaving my walls with ANOTHER hole, from Boston's head.

The last hole was from Boston's forehead and it literally took YEARS before we finally fixed it. So I'm sure it will take just as long for this hole to be repaired....why is it so hard to fix this kind of crap?

The pictures were taken with my cell phone so they're not the best. Oh well, you get the idea:)

KIDS....

So my brother Alan was here for Christmas and when I was cutting his hair he did this little saying to me. I started laughing so hard! I made his daughter write it down so I could learn it. (You can tell he has all girls...I wish I had video of him doing it this.)

My kids learned it, and all day long I hear Gentry and the kids saying it over and over. I think Gentry takes it the most serious...just kidding Gentry:) But I wish I had video of him with the kids. It would be priceless. But he won't let me. So it's just the kids by themselves. They get way more in to it when the camera is off...but here is a glimpse into my day.




The saying goes like this (I know it's hard to understand other kids.)

DON'T MAKE ME SNAP MY FINGERS IN THE "Z" FORMATION
HEAD ROTATION
BUTT GYRATION (Spelling?)
ELBOW ELBOW, WRIST WRIST
YOU JUST GOT DISSED!

It makes me laugh every time I hear it.