Why is the Lego man headless?

Because Deaglan put it up his nose. I went to Target on my lunch today and when I got back to work it was almost 2pm (still nap time). As I turn the corner towards my classroom, my co-worker is walking down the hall with Deaglan. She stops in front of me and asks what is different about my son...... then I see his nose. I thought I was going to pee!

I almost couldn't keep the laughter in to ask what happened. So our custodian saw me with Deg, came over, saw the foreign object up his nose, and asked if I needed a pair of tweezers. I told him yes and this is what he comes back with....

yes a pair of needle nose pliers and an adjustable wrench. He thought he was being funny with the big wrench but I told him not to show Deg. After a few minutes and a few good tugs the head came out and I threw it in the garbage. When asked how it got in his nose he said, "I was laying on my cot and it was on the floor and then it got stuck in my nose."

Is that from the Old Testament?

I start work at 6:30 on Monday and Friday mornings, so Chris and Ed take turns bringing the boys to school. Fridays are usually Ed's day. Driving to school this past Friday, the boys saw a VW microbus.

Joey: Gunga how old is that car?
Ed: Probably as old as me.
Joey: (pause) Is that from the Old Testament?

So Ed called me and told me after he dropped the kids off at school. Knowing how much my sister Jamie would get a kick out of it, I called her to tell her. She then started a text conversation with Ed.

Jamie: I don't remember reading about the Great Gunga in the Bible.
Ed: It's in the book of Sullivan
Jamie: I must have missed that one.

So I called him Methuselah all weekend. But, it doesn't end there. Joey was not Ed's favorite kid this weekend. Joe spent the night at Jamie's house on Saturday. They went to Taco Bell for dinner and when they were getting ready to order Jamie called me to tell me what Joey wanted to eat.

Jamie: Joey what do you want to eat?
Joey: 10 tacos please.
Jamie: Joey I don't think you can eat that many.
Joey: I ate 97 pieces of pizza once and another time I ate 10 tacos.
Jamie: Sweetheart, Uncle John weighs like 4 times more than you and he can't eat that much.
Joey: Well, Gunga weighs like 300 pounds.

So when I told Ed, he said "Great so not I'm not just old, I'm fat and old. Just call me Homer". In Joey's defense, I think he was trying to defend Ed's honor, the bigger the number the better the man, right?

Conversations from the top of the stairs

So Chris thinks I need to start a second blog titled "Conversations from the top of the stairs", because Deaglan keeps us in stitches. So here goes the first test, if you like this one I'll keep posting the conversations.


Deaglan isn't feeling well this evening. He finally gave in and threw up. Well every time his tummy turns he yells and runs crying into the bathroom to no avail, scaring the snot out of Padric. So I run upstairs to sit with him in the bathroom and tell Padric that it's OK and I'll be in by him in a minute. So on his third such run he asked why he was sick. I told him there was a little bug in his tummy and the only way to get it out was to throw up, thinking it would help.


(this whole conversation takes place sitting in front of the toilet in a very small bathroom)

Deaglan: There's a bug in my tummy!? (spits into the toilet)
Me: Yes baby a very tiny little bug.
D: In my tummy? What does it look like?
M: I don't know baby I've never seen one they're too small.
D: Did you have tiny bugs in your tummy when you were a little girl?(spits again)
M: Yes baby I did and sometimes I get them even as a grown up.
D: Oh. I think I'm ready to go back to bed.
M: OK you need to be quiet. I know it's scary when you need to throw up but you can't yell. When you yell you scare Ricky and then he cries. So when you have to throw up just come into the bathroom and I will hear you and come to sit with you.
D: OK mommy I won't yell but it is scary.


Well Padric, not to be out done in the neediness department decided that the tube top look was back in for the Holiday Season. He somehow managed to put both of his arms out the neck of his pajama top. Yes, I am an evil mommy. My baby is crying asking me to "fik it mommy fik it" and I stood there laughing looking for the camera.

Christmas Carols..... According to Deaglan

Chris sent me this video of Deggy singing Jingle Bells. (sorry it's sideways)



Interpretation:

"Jingo bewls, jingo bewls, jingo awl de way...(swallow, breath)
oh what fun it is so why ina one sit down an pway.
HEY!"

Repeat (ad nauseum)

Husbands - Just a little side note

Sorry to post so much so fast.

It always amazes me how much you can truely love someone and not realize how much they love you. Husbands and wives are an absolutely perfect example of this. I was doing laundry today and after I finished I put it all away (a fairly rare thing in this house). As I was putting Chris' socks away I noticed a piece of paper in his drawer. Being the curious and nosey person that I am, I took it out. I unfolded it and chuckled. It was the very first paper I had written in college. When we were dating he found it in my room, read it, and asked if he could keep it. I had written it 2 years before we met. (The only reason I had kept it was because it was the ONLY A I recieved while in college.) It just helps me to remember, that after 10 years, it's the little things that count. It's remembering the look on his face after he read it and how flattered I was that he wanted to keep it, that makes it ok that he drops his dirty socks on the floor infront of the hamper.

Thanksgiving

Well, we have had alot to be thankful for this year. Joey's broken and healed arm, the boys playing soccer, and Ricky's trip to the ER. So I thought I'd share some pictures from Thanksgiving with you all. Ricky has leanred that we have a "dowstairs" and that's where we keep all the trains. The big boys play very well with him but they can't be down there unsupervised, so we brought a small track upstairs. He loves it! Deg is growing up soooo fast. He can now play on Webkinz all by himself. (we just have to help him log in) We all enjoyed the turkey, stuffing and of course the Punkypie (as Ricky would say it). My sister Jamie made a cheesecake and brought a can of strawberries for the top. Ricky really liked them.(I tried to upload a video clip but it must have been too long and it didn't work) My Aunt Sandy (my Dad's sister) made the boys this adorable blanket so I had to edit the blog and give her lots of thanks because they LOVE it.

So, Happy Thanksgiving to you all, We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Bath-ing not Batting

So we're all sitting at the kitchen table eating dinner. I've told Chris and my friend Ed that I'm going to go work out at 7pm, so Ed looks at Chris and says "You're bath-ing (he said bath ing not bathing) and I'll watch." Deg, who is sitting next to me says "OK but don't hit me daddy." We all look at him like he's nuts and say "what are you talking about?" He says matter of factly "Daddy's batting, Gunga (Ed) is watching and mommy's catching". Gotta love innocent ears!

Here's the boys's school pictures.

Padric Turns 2!

Well it has happened. Padric is 2. It seems like just yesterday he was one of three office babies at work. My boss helped take care of him, and 2 other teachers' kids so we could go back to work (My job rocks!). So we had a small "party" for him. My friend Amanda and her 3 kids came over. Her oldest is 5, middle is 4, and youngest will be 2 in December, (I know she's crazy). She and I scrapped while the pot roast cooked in the crock pot and the kids played. I baked a cake, it wasn't pretty but it was definitely tasty! He got a guitar from Amanda and the kids, a Thomas pop up thing, a new webkinz kitty, and a firetruck that scared the snot out of him. It was tooo funny. I wish I would have recorded it. When you push on the driver the lights flash, then it vibrates (to pretend the engine is running), then the siren starts, and finally it drives a few feet away. Ricky started screaming when it started vibrating. He wanted nothing to do with it. I couldn't stop laughing. I know, I know, it was wrong to laugh but it was too funny.

We also recently learned that he LOVES yogurt. He just can't get enough.



We are all doing good, looking forward to the holidays and all the fun and family that comes with.

Don't know what to call this one!

OK so Joey came home from school today with this picture: He said it's a truck and a mini-van that are going to crash. The truck is a milk truck and the windows on the mini-van are rolled down. The people in the mini-van are lactose intolerant and are going to get sick and blow up when they crash into the milk truck because all the milk is going to get inside the van.

I don't know about you but my brain hurts now.

The 2008 Soccer Season is over

Well today was the last day of the 2008 soccer season. The boys did great! Deaglan’s team….. well that was more herding cats than keeping score. Deg played hard and had fun, that was all that mattered. He was very proud of himself for the 5 goals he scored in the last game, but the score was 3 to 3. (he scored 2 goals in the right goal and 3 in the wrong one)

Chris coached Joey’s team this season and Joe was the assistant coach for the first half of the season. They did a great job! They won most of their games including the last game with a score of 1 to 0. Joey learned a lot about passing the ball, teamwork, and strategy this season. He has a deep love of the game and is sad to see the season end. He is really looking forward to the next season.

At the end of the season everyone gets a trophy for participation and hard work. They all had so much fun.

And this is what happens when you've known the photographer the park district has hired to take the pictures since high school.

Warning!: Knitting content

Ok so I decided to knit all my friends at work something for Christmas. Brilliant idea?!? I should have started knitting in June!! I've knit 2 scarves, whatever they took like 8 hours nothing. I started my first pair of socks on the 3rd of October I'm almost done. It has taken waaaaayy toooo long! I have 3 more pairs to knit before Christmas. And I've been asked to knit 2 pairs of socks for a friend's sick husband. This is going to be nuts! I'm a reader, I can't tell you the last time I picked up a book that wasn't a pattern book. Chirs got me thenewest book in the Eragon series. I lent it to a friend's son because I knew that I didn't have time to read it before Christmas with all this knitting I decided I needed to do. Don't get me wrong, I love each and every one of the people I'm knitting for but man!, I really need to start planning earlier next year!.

Ok the rant is over. Happy Holidays Early!

30 is the new 21!

So My birthday was the 5th of October, but my party was last weekend. Not only have I decided that 30 is the new 21 but a close friend of mine told me that it's not 30 anymore it's twenty-ten. It was a great night and everyone had fun.

Now onto the family. Joey finally lost his 2 front teeth.

Ricky has made it to youtube.

Deggy is just Bear.

More to come with the holidays right around the corner.

Happy Birthday to Me!

So as many of you may already know, today is my birthday. I am thirty. There I said it. With that said, my boys have been awesome today. They brought me breakfast in bed and let me sleep in until 11. Shortly after breakfast they tried to sneak out (as quietly as a herd of elephants can sneak out of a place) to get my birthday present.

After they left I meandered downstairs, grabbed a can of Pepsi and sat down in front of the computer to check my email. I was there for about 10 minutes when the back door opens and I hear Deaglan. "Gunga," (a very close friend of the family. Joey couldn't say Uncle it came out Gunga) "Gunga, don't let mommy see the cake" in his quietest whisper. Any one who knows Deg, knows that he has 1 switch, off and really loud. To which Ed responds "Thanks, Deg...." "I didn't hear anything!" I shout from the office, so Deg won't think that he's ruined the surprise.












After dinner they "surprised" me with my cake, a Baskin Robbins Oreo icecream cake. It was frozen solid. They were only able to put 3 candles in. Chris was picking on me, telling the boys not to put too many candles in because I might get winded blowing them out in my old age.

So instead of blowing out the three little candles in one breath, I was laughing so hard I had to laugh the last candle out. To cut the cake I had to put the knife in a tall glass of hot water, stab it, and put all my weight into pushing the knife down to cut the cake.

I tossed one of the cookies onto the tray of Ricky's highchair instead of giving him a piece of cake. Well, Ricky doesn't like to have dirty hands so he had to show me how awful it was that his hands were dirty. After his hands were clean he wanted to say cheese for the camera and didn't want to share his photo-op with Deg.

For my birthday they let me sleep in, gave my lots of laughs, and the book Brisinger by Christopher Paolini. I'm really into dragons and sci-fi stuff like that. This is the third book in his Inheritance series. I've read the first two books, Eragon and Eldest and almost couldn't wait to get Brisinger. It came out September 20th, I told Chris I wanted it so i waited for him to get it for me.

In other news Joey lost his third tooth last night. So now he's lisping his "th's". Chris had him say "stupid thistle" and it came out "thoopid thithle". It was hard not to laugh!

He's not broken anymore!

After 4 loooong weeks, Joey finally got his cast removed Wednesday morning! He was soooo happy to have it taken off. He had a hard time wrapping his brain around a saw that could cut the cast but not him.

We got to Hope Children's Hospital at 6:45, got a cup of coffee for the security guard (not only did I used to work with him, but I currently work with his wife), waited for the Dr.'s office to open, and I took some pictures of all the signatures on his cast.

When we got into the examining room the nurse brought in the saw. He just couldn't figure out how it was going to cut the cast but not him. So the nurse turned on the saw and put it on her hand, she told him that the blade goes left to right not all the way around and that was why it wouldn't cut him. I then decided to tell her about the quarter. What quarter you may ask, The quarter (turned out to be a nickel) Joey decided to stick into his cast..... the second day he had it on! He thought the whole cutting off the cast was just sooooo cool. He never took his eyes off the saw.

He didn't really lose any muscle tone in his arm, we could tell that because the nickel never moved....... See?

I didn't keep the nickel, I didn't want to touch it, neither did the nurse.

He can't play in gym until he gets full range of motion back. His arm is still really stiff and he has exercises he's supposed to be doing. The Dr. said it may take up to 3 weeks to be back to normal. Trust me though it's not slowing him down. The cast didn't either! At soccer practice on Tuesday one of the other players tripped Deggy (on purpose), Joey came to Deg's rescue, and shoved the kid to the ground! I was so proud of my big boy! I told him that he shouldn't have pushed the boy but that I was proud of him for looking out for his little brother.

My first family post

Well, since I've decided to use this as a means of keeping family updated, I guess I should start with Joey.

Joey decided to break his arm on August 27th. Yes, that's 3 days before his 7th birthday. He was in gym class, the P.E. teacher was testing the kids agility. He rolled a hula hoop past the children and they were to jump through the moving hoop. Well, he jumped and broke his left radius close to the elbow. When the doctor and nurses asked how he broke it, he tried to explain the situation. They looked to me for an explanation, to which I replied, "they were practicing to be circus seals". So he has been the school celebrity, having the first broken bone of the school year. Deaglan realized that he hadn't signed it and asked me if I would help him write his name on Joe's cast. Then they posed. I couldn't stop laughing!

Deaglan started soccer for the first time. He plays very well for a first timer. He was really good ball control for a 4 year old. (I think it's from practicing with his Bobo.) He took it upon himself to make sure when the ball went out of bounds that no one could kick it back into play until the ref/coach put it back in play. He dropped to the ground and fell onto the ball. I cried I was laughing so hard. The parents around me couldn't stop laughing either. He just kept going. There was no stopping him. His coach called him on it a few times. "Deaglan, you need to stop or you're not gonna be able to run anymore." "Bear, (that's our nickname for him, but I told coach he could use it because he kept pronouncing Deaglan's name wrong) slow down." I told him "Coach, there's no stopping him. He even moves in his sleep."

Padric (aka: Ricky) is doing just fine. We had a small scare back in June. He had a febrile seizure that got us a ride to the hospital in an ambulance, an IV, an overnight stay at the fabulous Hope Children's Hospital and a follow up EEG. He's fine there were no complications and we don't think it will happen again. It was by far the scariest thing that has happened to Chris or myself. I wasn't home when it happened Chris was. He called Ricky's name and Deggy said he was just shaking on the floor. Chris came in and found Ricky seizing on the front room floor and called 9-1-1. I pulled up right before the ambulance and was able to ride with him. He couldn't move. I was so scared. They gave him a nebulizer treatment in the ambulance and that helped bring his pulse ox up (his breathing was labored so there wasn't enough oxygen getting to his blood). They gave him an IV in the ER and that really helped. After about 2 hours of IV fluids he was talking and trying to move. He was absolutely adorable in the tiny hospital gown he had to wear!

Chris is still working for Verizon (if anyone needs a new phone or to renew their contract.... hint, hint) and doing well. I'm still working at the childcare center and that's about it.