Funny Kids

My kids, in my biased opinion, have been so entertaining the last couple of days! I love days when they make me laugh and I am medicated enough that their craziness and messes don't really affect my mood!

I am not a morning person so the other day when Samantha and Will decided to start their day really early I wasn't down with it. I turned some cartoons on and sat on the couch with them while I dealt with the fact that I needed to wake up. They were watching Higgletown Heroes. In this episode the hero was a plumber who fixed the water so they could fill a tank with water and their pet Bob would be happy. Since we have a fish named Bob I said to the kids that is funny that their fish is named Bob too. They both looked at me and said..."It is a turtle Mom...where are your glasses?"

I had the kids help me deliver some Christmas gifts. The gift was a sand dollar so I told them to be very careful and if the people didn't answer the door to set it down softly because it would break. They were doing great and I noticed that every door Will went to he would say something when the people opened the door. This is odd because unless you see Will on a regular basis the chances of him speaking to you are slim to none! So I rolled down my window to see if I could hear what he was saying. He walked up the path, rang the door bell, the people opened, Will said "DON'T BREAK IT!" Great Will that is the true Christmas spirit!

The kids drew names within our family for Christmas. We took them to the store and let them pick out their gifts. On the way home Samantha told Dave she wanted to listen to some popular music. Dave asked her what popular music was and she said...."like hip-hop". Could somebody please erase the word popular from her vocabulary!

Samantha and Will were playing with some play cell phones. Samantha said my phone is ringing and it is really early in the morning so it must be Japan. Then I heard them talking about checking their emails on their phones and that it would just be better to text message each other. Since when do kids not talk on play cell phones....text messaging, please!

Ben Ben

Ben and I attend a playgroup with his Physical Therapist once a week. This week was a Christmas party for the kids and their families. So Ben, Samantha, Will and I went to his Christmas party.
Ben was right at home being his naughty self! He started out innocent as always!


Then he started to stand on the chairs and crawl on the tables!

Then while his brother and sister did their art projects he decided to put the glue stick, that is in his hand below, all over his hand and stick his hand into a bowl of cotton balls!


Ben, Ben Ben....what are we going to do with you? Why can't you just be content to sit and do art projects like your siblings?


Then came Santa...
Obviously he was a hit! The only one of my kids who would sit on his lap was Will. Samantha yelled that he was fake because he didn't have on real Santa shoes! I guess we don't have to go to the mall and see Santa this year since it would just be a waste of our time!

Pictures

Every time I try to take pictures of my kids I know why I don't have more pictures of them. It never goes the way I imagine it in my mind. This year I gave up on the family picture idea because it just wasn't working out and last year we didn't even send Christmas cards so I decided I would just take pictures of the kids at a local park and call it good. I guess everyone else in Utah Valley had the same idea because there were a lot of people there and of course I was in my pajamas! Dave was a great help and I don't know how I would have done it without him and still have my sanity and all three of my children! The picture above says it all..Ben wants to make it difficult for his mom, Will is praying it ends soon and Sam is just enjoying watching everyone else but the camera!

Sam and Will are old enough that it is not so bad to take pictures of them. It was just hard to get them to look at us not all the other people taking pictures and to do real smiles! Ben is a different story. I should get used to this child's evil nature but I keep hoping it will be different! We did finally get a cute head shot of him but we couldn't get it to fit into the space on the card!

Sam and Will decided to eat dinner in what they called Japanese style the other night. This involved sitting on the floor on the pillows from the couch.

Sam has also been working on boosting my mothering self esteem. She climbed on the counter to get a cup and yelled to me that is wasn't Halloween. I came in the kitchen and asked her what she was talking about and she looked at the light fixture and said I needed to take the cobwebs down. Then she asked if she had to go back to school after Christmas. I told her that Riley, Katelyn and Chad still go to school and she would be going to school for a long time. To that she replied so you go to school, then you go to work like Dad unless you are a Mom then you do nothing!