Musical Talents.....

I caught this girl singing Taylor Swift today......she sang, "kiss me on the sidewalk, take away the pain..." from 'Sparks Fly'.

Oh boy!

Somebody get this girl some music lessons cause she clearly is musically inclined.

Speaking of music....
this boy will NOT stay still for a diaper change unless you sing the 'doggy' song to him. I guess he likes music too.

Seriously, at the doctor's office, he screamed more for being laid on his back than he did for his shot.

The Doggy Song
(my mom sang it to my kids-so we picked up on it)

"Once I had little dog, he used to sit and beg,
one day he tumbled down the stairs and broke his little leg,
oh, doggy, I will nurse you and try to make you well,
and you will wear a collar with a pretty silver bell."


Sing it to your babies, it will make them sleep. It will distract them from fussing at 3 am. It will hold them still long enough to wipe their bums before they stick their hand in poo.
You're welcome.

Rocket Pencil

I told Nathan to work on his homework......and he played with his pencil like a rocket for 20 minutes! Complete with sound and visual effects!
I love this kid. Low maintenance.
He is the best individual player ever....what more could a mother wish for?

Now, if only he would get his homework done!

V-day on the fly......

Some mom's I know put pictures up of the cute decorations and fun they were going to do with their kids on Valentines morning.....I was feeling guilty cause I hadn't planned anything. So I had to come up with something quick. The gel 'I heart you' was going to go on the mirror after I cleaned the bathroom to surprise Robert in the morning, but I never cleaned them! So I had to improvise. They ended up on the fridge. Incidentally, the kids love them and have been calling them jello, like jigglers. :)

Heart shaped toast for breakfast......they'll never know I didn't think of it until that morning!

Food is so much more fun to eat when it's a novelty!

As it happens on every holiday, I have nothing planned and then start thinking of great ideas I would do, so I have to run out and buy a bunch of stuff, and then, we don't even have time to do it!
For, V-day I imagined a clean house (not by my hand!), activities with the kids (sugar cookies, jello jigglers, and rice krispy kisses),a nice kid free homemade dinner (knock off Olive Garden soup, and lionhouse rolls), mini chocolate bundt cakes with cream cheese icing, and a beautiful V-Day decorated table. A tall order, as you can see. I went and bought everything I needed to make a magical day and rice krispies was as far as it got!
Oh well, kids were happy. Perhaps, I will do my grand Valentines later this week......right after I get more sausage from the store cause Robert cooked and fed the one I needed for the soup to the kids.....

at least a messy Valentine's Day has motivated me to clean up the house...

There!

Now, I don't have to do laundry for another month!
P.S. My kids have way too many PJs!
Okay, maybe way to many everything......