Kid "isms"...

I've gotta share these so that I don't forget. One of the "perfect" moments I enjoy as a mom is hearing the clever, wonderful things my kids say. Buddy Boy isn't talking a ton, but what he does say is adorable.

Buddy Boy

-Picks up a block, a purse, or a phone and says "Hewwo? Hey guys!"
-Started saying "Excellent!"
-Occasionally, out of nowhere, will look at me and with the greatest of influction will say "Of course!" (the of is said normally, but his voice rises at least an octave when he says "course")
-He now signs please when he wants me to sing the alphabet to him. He loves it when I sign it and sing. Laughs his head off EVERY time.

Munchkin

For her, I chose some recent quotes to share:
-"I just love eating; it's my responsibility."
-"I just love you, Mom. I'm so happy and lucky to have you and Dad and Brother in my family!"
-Do you know how much I love you? Guess! Infinity!!"
-"I love these circle crackers, I'm PASSIONATE about crackers!"

Sigh...I just love em!

Birthday Month!

This is our family's month for birthdays! Munchkin is turning 7, and Buddy Boy turns 3...

SO, to celebrate, we'll be doing a combined party with family for both of them. That's probably horrible, but they're young enough to not care. I swear, I'll make it up to them when they're older.

Yesterday we had the fun of throwing a party with friends for Munchkin.

It was awesome! And y'all know how I'm a frugal nerd. I calculated our cost, and it was $16. The kids, fortunately, had a blast! Here's what went down:

-We started the kids off with a craft. They decorated foam paper with glitter glue and foam stickers, and we made picture frames out of them. While they were decorating, I took a picture of each of them, and later printed them up on our computer so they'd have a framed picture to take home. SO cute!


-After that, we did "carnival" games. A bean bag toss, balloon volleyball, and cotton ball blowing races. Dad oversaw that while I did pictures, but I heard they had fun. We then opened presents and did cupcakes and ice cream. We bought a bunch of toppings from Winco's bulk food section and had the kids decorate their own cupcakes. Most of them put so much crap on that they couldn't eat the cupcakes. One kid said, "If I eat this whole thing I'm gonna puke."


-Then we did a treasure hunt with clues hidden around the house. While the kids ran around, I snuck into my room and dressed up as a clown. Once the treasure hunt was over and the gold coins were found, I came out with my makeup and balloons. A GLORIOUS friend of mine GAVE me a clown costume and taught me how to make balloon animals, so it was fun. Big shocker, the boys all wanted swords, and the girls wanted puppies and kittens and stuff. Each kid went home with 3 or 4 balloons, it was so funny watching them try to haul all of their stuff home!

Anywho, it was awesome. The kids had a blast, and I feel very grateful that Munchkin has such good friends. Buddy Boy even enjoyed himself, and was sad to see everyone go. And get this: He actually SMILED at the camera when I took his picture! Yes, he did. Need proof?

Afterwards Dad and I tried to take naps, but alas, the children were coked (sp?) up on sugar and yellow dye #2. We went to Wienerschnitzel for dinner too, just because it was a special day! We've never gone there (well, not since getting married), so it was fun!

There. I updated. Told you I would.:-)

Name Change

Okay, random post here (and after we've been so bad about posting):

We're henceforth changing our children's names. From this point forward, our oldest shall be known as Munchkin and our youngest as Buddy Boy, because I'm not creative with nicknames. I will simply be Mom, and well, there will also be Dad:-)

Random, I know, weird, perhaps....but I've had some weird people on my personal blog (where I don't use our names either) and people posting comments that are kinda creeping me out. And I've received negative feedback about going private, so I'm trying to avoid that.

And I swear, updates are coming!:-)

Halloween

For Halloween Munchkin was Hanna Montana, and Buddy Boy was a Pumpkin. Munchkin just loves Halloween. She loves dressing up, looking at everyone's decorations, making decorations, carving pumpkins, trick and treating, and handing out candy. Buddy Boy liked being in a stroller and walking up to people's doors and trying to walk inside. I was not able to make it to Munchkin's school dress-up and walk around, but I was able to make it in time for lunch. Here is some pictures of the fun. ~Dad

Love Abounds

Yesterday Munchkin wanted me to pray and ask that she and I could be sisters forever (okay, she wanted us to be identical twin sisters)...I prayed that we could be sisters, period.:-)

After the prayer, she smiled and said, "Heavenly Father answered our prayer. I know because I can feel His love abounding."


WOW!!

So I asked her what "His love abounding" felt like. Her response: "Well, like, it feels beautiful. Also it feels like my heart is beating fast because it is so happy, and I can feel that my body is warm all over. Feel my hand and how warm it is!"

I think I know why we are admonished to become like little children.

Four years ago

It has been four years ago since my Dad passed away. I've been meaning to get everyone's pictures together and make a slide show, and I finally have the computer and software to do it, but now my scanner went out. Hopefully I can get it fixed. He is sure missed.