Mud Bath March 10, 2009

 

My daughters are a little weird. They are girly and sweet one minute, and the next minute they’re naked and muddy.  While washing the car this weekend, two of my sweet, pink-loving, tutu-wearing, sparkle shoe-coveting daughters decided they would strip down and give themselves a mud bath.

 

OK.  We live in the country.  No one can see us.  

 

But is it really necessary to run around NAKED and covered in MUD?

 

 

 

 

 

Apparently it is.  Once in awhile.  When it’s the first warm weekend day in months.  And you just can’t help yourself.  

 

We plan to blackmail them someday with these pictures.  Or at least scare away potential predators…er, boyfriends.

Kids are losers March 5, 2009

This is one of the best ideas EVER (so why didn’t I think of it?)!

 

 

Personalized labels of all types for your kids stuff!  My kids are constantly LOSING things – maybe if I use these labels, some of their stuff will eventually make it back home…

 

So get ready for daycare, school, camp, the trip to Disney World, and go to http://www.mabel.ca  They have every possible labeling need covered – sticky, iron on, shoe labels and bag tags, to suit every possible item that needs personalizing.

 

The one thing I really love is the “411″ – this is a water-sun-sweat-chlorine-proof wristband you can place on your child when you travel to a theme park, swimming pool, etc to ensure a happy reunion if they happen to lose you. 

 

 

And Mabel will donate 10% of the proceeds of the 411 wristbands to Autism Speaks – an organization that promotes research and awareness about autism.

The New Do February 28, 2009

This is Ellie’s new do…so it’s not too bad…

 

Yes, she did give herself a mullet (use your imagination), and we had to go to the extreme and cut all the length off, but now she has a cute little bob that will grow out eventually.  Just another example of how we really aren’t in control of things, are we?

Scissors February 27, 2009

I have just been informed by the day care director that Ellie (the 3 year old) has cut her hair.  

 

Stop.

 

Breath.

 

I have gone through all the emotions…

 

shock  (*what* did you say?!)

 

anger  (why weren’t they watching her, why didn’t they STOP her!?)

 

fear  (what on earth does it look like, what is Eric going to say!)

 

and finally…

 

acceptance – it’s just hair right?  It will grow out. 

 

I need to contemplate the deeper meaning of this. 

 

Or, alternatively – she did have a lot of split ends…maybe this is a good thing <eyeroll>.  

 

The one bit of information I didn’t need to hear from the day care director was that it looks like a mullet…oh lordy.  Did she HAVE to say that? 

 

I am trying to be nonchalant about this.  Honestly, the girl was way too narcissistic anyway – she needed to be taken down a notch on the cuteness scale for awhile.  I just hope her sisters don’t get any bright ideas about what they can do with scissors…

 

I will take pictures.  It will be funny someday.  Just not today.

 

note – here is what she looked like before she decided to cut her own hair…

Josieisms February 25, 2009

 

OK, so I am officially blogging now!  Wow, this is so much easier than keeping an actual journal, ain’t technology grand?

 

My husband says I use too many exclamation points and it’s like I’m on Prozac or something…sorry but that’s just me – I must have too much natural seratonin in my brain, or too many receptors or something.  So, just know that, and get over it.

 

OK, I’ve been dying to put this down so I wouldn’t forget it – my first blog story! (love those exclamation points!)…

We were driving to church on Sunday and listening to The Garden Song (Inch by Inch) and singing it at the top of our lungs – Josie sings the loudest – in a bit she says in her earnest tone…”Mommy, what is that…is it a spice?  Do you cook with it?  At first I couldn’t understand what she was asking…then she exclaimed “OREGANO! Is it a SPICE??”    Then I burst into laughter and realized that she thought he was saying “All it takes is oreg-ano” instead of “All it takes is a a rake and hoe“…oh how totally cute! 

 

That, my friends, is a “Josieism”.  Get used to it – there will be many more.

 

 

 

Here’s the song in case you want to sing it at the top of your lungs right now: 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYHliyjh29k