The Cutest Things about Kids!!

It's amazing how kids act. One minute I have two very good boys, then the next one is screaming at the other.

The boys love each other, oh, I love the way Damien takes care of his little brother. Always wants him to sit on his lap, hugs him when he's hurt, I just wish it would last forever!

But then.... You hear.... "You don't tell me what to do!" and "Yes I do!"
"No, Don't bite me, Christopher, stop!" Meanwhile, Christopher's chompers are ready and aiming. Can you tell who the bully is?

But the things they say are funny too! Last week, the boys were in the kitchen while I was getting ready for work. I really couldn't hear what they were saying, but could hear them. Christopher was talking and then I hear Damien say "Ooooohhhhh, you said a bad woooorrrrdddd!" "No, I did not!" "Yes you diiiiiiidddd! Mommmmmmmyyyyyyy! Christopher said a bad word." So I go in there, to find out what happened. Damien again said "he said a bad word" and when I asked which one, he looked at me all puzzled.
But then he said " F - O - M - O -N!" He looked at me so seriously when he said this, as if he knew he was spelling a bad word. All I could do was tell him that he was a good boy for not saying it, and for catching the fact that Christopher said a bad word. He hears us spell words all the time, to prevent the kids from knowing what we say. Course, the girls can spell now! But Damien knew that he was not supposed to repeat the bad word, and spelled it (who knows what the word was, but I think you understand what I mean.)

The other thing is, that Damien talks about going to school all the time. "When i am five, i go to school, and ms murphy will be my teacher, and i ride the bus like the gurls." Ms Murphy is Alannah's teacher. He knows he is only three, but I have told him several times that he has to be five in order to go to school. He remembers that. He has quite a memory, and learning capability. What other three year old can name cars? The VW bug, is a fun car! All vans are vans not SUV's, he will correct you. He knows the difference between a truck and a SUV too. Please don't get them wrong either!!! These are simple things, but when it comes to sports cars.....

He knows what a Mustang is, even though Ken and I call them Rustangs. Camaro's he knows those, and Porsche's... those too! And the best.... Corvette, Ken calls them a sexy ride, so Damien calls them Sexy! It's not a vette, it's a Sexy!

He remembers what kind of car people drive. Christine drives a CRV, we saw one at a friends house, and he said that they have two cars like Aunt Teen's car. Grampa drives a Vue, knows how to pick them out of a crowd. Maureen drives a Neon, granted those are called fun cars, but Mo's is a dark purple as opposed to Miss Mary drives a bright purple one. He knows the difference. Ken's boss drives a Cavalier, and every Cavalier, "that looks like Rebeca's car." Now that we have a Suburban, he can spot them, and will still spot vans like the Villager, and state " that van like my van that died."

It's amazing how kids' brains work!

Happy Birthday Maureen!!!

Fifty...WOW, that's how old my sister Mo just turned. She had a party at her house for the family to help celebrate! We had so much fun.
Xander loved Uncle Danny (Uncle D to most except my kids). Danny kept giving him little tastes of his beer. Except this one, even though it looks like Xander is totally enjoying it, the can has not even been opened!
I got Christine off guard on this one, she looks a dazed in this one!
I love taking pictures like this one, but some people hate getting their pictures taken. This is Kevin, and notice that his eyes are closed. I really love my family sometimes! As you can tell, from the one below, I like these pics. This is Stacy, the oldest grandchild (the only one older was married into the family).
There's the birthday girl! Maureen Jean and Caroline Jane, who will turn 50 next year! That'll be a celebration, cause she doesn't ever think she is older than 29!
I was taking random pictures, cause that's what I do. I like getting snapshots of people when they least expect it. Pictures are good, they create good memories. Even though most people in my family really hate pictures.

But all in all, it was a great party. For something that was supposed to last from 5 - 7, we left her apartment at 9:30...and no one fighted. Which is pretty amazing for our family. Maybe it's a new beginning, cause nothing happened at Christmas either. Maybe we all grew up!

Snow - February 2009

This top picture was taken around 7:15am, after it had stopped snowing. I can't wait until later when it's actually light outside and I can take pictures without the flash. It'll show how bright it is outside!



Is that not the coolest thing? Snow was falling for the second time in 2009. This is after we came home from the ER, for Ken's eye. This was about 2:20am. Weird thing though, it was barely even coming down when we left about 12:15am. It started coming down hard when we were at the hospital. It was sticking to the cars and bushes, but not the street.







Here's the difference between taking pictures at 2:30am without a flash...

You really can't see anything, but I could, and it was so beautiful!










And with the flash...
This is the same view as above. I love how it caught the snowflakes coming down.

It was about 37 degrees when we left the pharmacy with Ken's prescriptions, and by the time we got home, and I'm talking like 5 miles maybe, it was 33 degrees.







But just to let everyone know, Ken is fine. He went out with the neighbor on the 4-wheeler, and Lynn pushed some branches out of the way, Ken grabbed them as they drove by them, but one was a little longer than he thought and it got him IN his eye.
The neatest thing, besides the snow, was that I got to see the scratch in his eye. Dr. White put the dye in his eye, and used the UV light to look in his eye. Bright green spot on his cornea showed where the scratch was. So he got a prescription for some ointment and some oral pain medicine. I feel so bad for him, he really had to trust me last night, cause he could not bear to open his eyes, I was leading him around the hospital. And I was nice, I did NOT make him walk into anything.

Snow Day January 2009

Jumping on the trampoline with snow on it...it is so much fun! I did it several years ago, we are talking in 1995, it was at Tammy's house off Lynn Road. Had to let the kids do it. Alyssa is in the pink, Alannah is wearing black. Damien is standing and poor Christopher could not stay standing!
Christopher really didn't know what to think, he went out to the yard and said " the no is on my bike!" I love how he talks. Trust me, there is a FisherPrice bike under all that snow...
January 2009...The first snow of 2009, and the first acummalitive snow at our house. Got the kids ready to go play in the snow. This is the first real snow that Christopher is old enough to know what it is, it snowed about the time that he was 6 weeks old. Yep, if you look close enough, we have the redneck gloves.... mix-matched socks... they work so well, really they do!