My Ben

" My brother and sister are the BEST!" all because they picked out Bakugans for his birthday gift. Truth be told Madeline wanted to get him a princess lawn chair and Andrew choosing these was totally self serving. He hoped that if we bought Ben these 6 new Bakugans Ben would give HIM one of the old ones....

Captain Temper Tantrum getting reading to toss a fit when we jokingly told him he was not going to get to open any presents that night( his actual birthday!)

Good Morning Sleepy Head! Woke everyone up and dragged them To McD's for a birthday surprise breakfast.

That was one Windy Saturday.. Look at that amazing sky. Ben was standing on the picnic table and the wind was pushing his shirt.

Just to make things much easier...

I ate the last ice cream bar.. Problem solved!

The many moods of Andrew

This boy is so silly. The first picture he was SO mad at me. I locked the van because he kept getting into it looking for gum and honking the horn. SO when I locked him out he was so mad he tried punching the van door.. Like that really showed me! LOL

The next picture he was so happy daddy rubbed green hair paste in his spikes.

Lastly this is a picture of "wrestling" They all want to do it. Strip their shirts off and knock each other over and pin someone down.. ususally goes on until someone starts crying. Then I get to say. TOLD YOU SO!

Throwback to the 80's

As you can see Maddie is all ready for a night of roller skating.. She has on her velour leotard, her princess stickers/tattoos, single knee pad and spiderman roller skates.

Injuries..

This will be the summer of injuries.. I have no doubt. So far Maddie scraped her chest by playing in the neighbors massive over grown bush. She still has abrasions on her rib cage and of course the tape marks from the band aid she reacted too.. Then tonight she walked by Ben trying to hit a baseball and he actually made contact.. the ball slammed into her ribs.. add that to the blister on her ankle.

Andrew walked into Ben's path tonight also and got cracked with a bat to the mouth.. We will see how fat that lip looks tomorrow.

Ben- so far so good.. guess it pays to be the aggressor?

There is only one ice cream bar left in the freezer...

We were outside playing in the yard this evening and Andrew comes up to me as asks for a Popsicle. I told him we had none( which is true). He tells me I am wrong that there in fact is one left. I tell him I am sorry but we have no Popsicles in the freezer BUT I will buy some at the store tomorrow. "Yes there is mama!( stomping his little foot), it is long, and skinny and bwown and has a stick in it!"..... AHHHH! I know what he is talking about now... so I tell him that THAT is an ice cream bar and we only have ONE left. Since there is only ONE left I cannot let him have it because that will not be fair to his brother or sister OR the two neighbor boys who are playing with us. Andrew looks at me and replies " If they go back to they owns house and daddy and Ben and Maddie gets lost.. then I will be only one and I can have the bwown thing!"

Smart boy!

Why now?

I would like to know WHY, now that I am in my 30's, I suddenly am affected by seasonal allergies? I check the weather and there is a flashing banner that reads. "High pollen counts" TRUST me.. I did not need to read that banner to KNOW that fact. My nose is pouring, my head is throbbing, my eyeballs ache- I only wear my contacts for absolutely necessary things then rip those suckers out. I chased 1000mg of tylenol today with a mouthful of childrens allergy meds b/c I was too miserable to look for adult benadryl. Trust me.. that stuff tastes HORRID!