Inequality

I have been a little worried that I post too much about Sophia and not enough about the other kids, but she is 3 and offers some hilarious perspectives on life. I have also tried to make sure I don't divulge too much information about my older kids who might not want the world to know about some things they do that I think are hilarious. Well, yesterday I got the question from an older child, "Why aren't there more posts about me?"

How to Make Your Kids Cry Before School

You can totally overreact when their newish dog jumps up and scratches Luke in the face. (No broken skin, but tears because it did hurt and scare him.) You can tell them that if we don't get this jumping under control we aren't going to be able to keep the dog. Yeah, that will do it.

MOTY Award #3.

Just Swinging

I will put this picture in Sophia's photo album. (No, not a scrap book with pop up pages and pull out dancing ballerinas with her voice saying, "Mommy, I lub you." Just her plain jane 3 for $20 photo album from Sam's.) Omar was home and captured a little moment between Sophia and me. It was fun. We were swinging, and singing, and the sun was warm. It was heavenly!

When she is a mom and looks back at her album and thinks, "Oh, my mom just used to sit and swing with me all day," I will lessen her mom guilt and I will reassure her that this was a blessed moment. This was not the norm. Most days I was working trying to fix the past or trying to be ready for the future, but every now and then, I slowed down and I took a little time to enjoy the present.

Go Getter

Hannah's latest projects. She is so lovely.

Hannah and I made pies for the teachers, she did most of the work.

She really loved it and made two more apple pies for our extended family, all by herself.

She organized all of her Littlest Pet Shop Toys to try to sell them on Craig's List. She spent a great deal of time cleaning the different sets and then meticulously setting each "house" up and taking a picture of it.

Story Time

Luke asked me to read to him tonight. As he is getting more competent with his reading, he is needing me to read to him less and less. He still loves it though, and so do I. I love snuggling up to him and sharing those few moments before sleep. I learned more about Star Wars and Marvel comics versus DC comics than I ever cared to know when Joshua was young. Luke's interests have been different and just as foreign. You never know what it is he will request. There was a long time when he only wanted to read about Disney World and roller coasters, I actually found that phase really fun. Then, he moved onto pirates and knights. I think I could have lived my whole life and been ok not knowing different ways pirates tormented their victims. Tonight it was a fiction called Bionicles, Chronicle 1, The Tale of the Toa. Tonight I learned about Lewa, the Toa of the Wind.

All She Wants for Christmas

Grame was asking the kids what they wanted for Christmas.

Without missing a beat, Sophia piped up and said, "An ipod."

Omar's Movie Pick

I am starting to think maybe you should let 13 year old boys watch ridiculous, inappropriate movies so that maybe they will get them out of their systems. Otherwise, you might have faithful, hard working, loving, totally responsible late-30's men saying one of their favorite movies is "Dodgeball."