Things I don't like to hear in the car...

Just a quick post. But these are a few of the top things I don't like to hear in the car

Ian to Kolette: "I will say no, no, no and you say yes, yes, yes"

Ian "No, no, no.........................."

Kolette "Yes, yes, yes..................."

Mommy "Stop, stop stop!!!!!!!"

ARe you kidding me?

Corrin & Connor "Stop touching me, stop touching my seat, hey that is mine, hey give it back!" Repeat...

All things that make me want to use duck tape in large quanities. One day all things that will give me comic relief. For now I am tired and I would like to not have to figure out how to plug my ears while driving. So far I haven't figured a safe way so the duck tape route sounds easier.

Making birdhouses w/Papa

Yesterday my father in law asked if the kids would be free to work on birdhouses today. He had all the wood cut out and just had the kids nail them together. Some needed more help than others like the youngest 2 esp. My neice did one also. The kids had a blast and still need to paint them but not too much in one day. My father in law I think had as much fun as the kids. They will all be so proud to have them hanging outside. They all know what color they want to paint them. Kolette said hers will be pink (shocking!) b/c then the fancy birds will visit her birdhouse. The kids had a great time playing w/their cousin and building w/Papa. Thanks for the fun time Papa!

Fun in the snow

Corrin making the base for the snowman. A collander works well to make a big snowball.

The boys got out their dump trucks and tried to bury them. Actually one wanted to bury and the other didn't so they were arguing but decided to smile for the camera.

Love the snow!!!

Our "Snow Family" I only wish I had Donnie home so a neighbor could have taken the pic and we could have all stood behind our snowpeople.

The weather is predicted to snow everyother day until New Year's. This is alot more snow than our kids are used to. It snowed last night so their is more snow since the pictures. I remember when Corrin & Connor were little we went to McCall's winter carnival just so they could see snow. Don't tell Donnie but I "LOVE" the snow as long as I am homebound. He on the other hand is never homebound and has to be on the roads.

Amy Rocks!

These are pictures that we had taken by Amy Parsons. Isn't she wonderful. Too bad she lives so far away. She has been taking our family pictures since Ian was born. Thanks Amy!!!

Halloween

Here is a pic of the kids and I on Halloween. Corrin is a cowgirl, Connor is Bumblebee Transformer ( don't you dare call him a power ranger), Ian is spider man, Kolette is a pink Princess and I am Super Mom. It was perfect weather for trick or treating and the time not changing until after is wonderful for light. They raked in the treats just in our small neighborhood. We had a blast!

Busy Day

Today started out w/me walking the kids to school w/a crockpot in my arms. Then I came back home to head back w/Ian and another crockpot in my hands. Our parent teacher conferences were starting today and the CPT (like the PTA) provides soup, rolls & veggies to the teachers for dinner so they don't have to leave. So I set up the soups and headed back home to get Connor's bear he apparantly needed for class and headed back and went in to check on the soups and went back home for my 18qt roaster since we needed another one. (The teachers & Aids love it by the way!)

Donnie had stayed home to watch the younger 2 while I was jaunting back and forth getting my exercise for the day and Kolette was changing her clothes over and over. She was in a swimsuit when I came home, then a ballet skirt she was trying to wear as a dress(try again sister) I told her to put a shirt on, then she settled on the fluffy slip. I told her she had to wear a dress over it. I asked Ian where the cereal was and he said "In Kolette's room"(apparantly hidden under her bed. So get them both dressed by now and they decided the best use of their time is to take multiple dresses off of hangers and at least 7 quilts & blankets out of Kolette's closet and scatter them all over her bed! Ahhhhhhhhh!!! Get the put away and go downstairs to paint a frame for my heart sister, stain the stitching and make lunch. Also finish snipping a baby quilt. Try to attempt cleaning hoping that Ian & Kolette don't make more for me to clean. Get them in bed and have 1 hr before I have to be back at the school. We are home for an hour & a half and go back to the school for both conferences. Thankfully they went pretty well. Corrin does really well but apparantly has been kinda tired lately. Guess more early bedtimes for the 9 yr old. Connor is enjoying school so much and it is fun to see him learning to read and all the other things he is learning. I am in the class so much I feel like the conference is almost unnecessary. But what mom dosen't want to hear how great her kid is? He has 2 best friends and they are so cute together. They are like the 3 musketeers. Thankfully they both make friends well and they are good kids they choose.

As soon as conferences are over we are home for 1/2 hr before Church carnival. It is chaotic but the kids get money from the games they play and get to buy toys. Just what I need more things to clean up. Our school is having a carnival in 3 weeks and you spend your own money to get junk kinda silly huh? Here's hoping the 4 day week go very calmly. Yeah right!

Telemarketers

Yesterday started out quite interestingly. Besides the normal bickering between for starters Corrin & I over hair or clothes or why it takes her soooooooo long to get moving in the morning. Then after getting them off to school. Ian & Kolette find reasons to argue. Grrr... Anyhow Kolette decides she is going on the truck w/her dad. She finds a red sweatshirt w/a snowman on it and puts tights on and then puts her red pajama bottoms back on since red matches. I then said she had to change. So she insists on wearing the dress she wore w/Kelsee's tall sister when she was a princess. I asked her what Kelsee's tall sisters name is and she smiles and says "Kendee". So we get that accomplished.

Then the phone rings and says "Out of Area" which can mean the school and I am thinking oh no is one of the kids sick since we were so close to the pukey flu zone this weekend. Fatal mistake I took the call and it was not the school. They ask for Amy like we are friends and I said "Yeah" and they tell me they are Car Craft magazine. That my subscription for "Robert" is about expired and the price is going up to $40 a year and they can give it to me for $20 if I get it right now. Donnie is still home so I ask him if he still wants it. He said it was susposed to be for one of the boys. I tell her it was susposed to be for my son and that it has only been 6 months since ordered and I don't see how it can be ready for renewal already. So she drops the price to $16. Donnie says they didn't even get some of the issues. I tell her that she drops the price to $14. I told her since I don't think it should be expired yet and since we aren't even getting all the magazines unless she wants to give it to me for $6 a year I am NOT interested. Thinking this is the end of the conversation she says I can give it to you for $6.99 a year. SOLD!!! I am slightly amazed at myself.

I am currently trying to see how many more cans of worms I need to open. I feel that you should always stand up for what you believe in and then you have to decide how handle it. Corrin's big stress is kids in her class who want Obama for pres. I didn't think 3rd graders worried over these things. So I am trying to help her handle herself. Yesterday no one said anything to her so hopefully it will be the same today. All I can say is I am proud of her for standing up for what she believes in.

What's that smell?

Ok, last weekend there was a bad smell in my coat closet. I asked Connor to pick up all the disgarded coats and see what we could find. Other than the coats it was 2 backpacks. I had no idea where the smell was. I was getting ready on Monday to walk the kids to school and Corrin needed help putting her stuff in her bag. Ding! Ding! Ding! we have found our smell. It was rotten carrots in a ziploc. Gross! So I scolded her and we went to school. She had a book in the bag and it even smelled. I put a bowl of baking soda in the closet and plugged all my Scentsy's in. I walked up to her room later that day and the second I get to the top of the stairs it reeked. I made her come up and help find the smell. We found nasty broccoli and a moldy sandwich that Marie Currie could have used to make her penicillian. I am so disgusted that a 9 year old didn't throw out the food after coming home from school. Ugh! I guess what I am saying I would rather clean up Ian & Kolette's cereal than anything that stinks and is moldy. Granted they were in ziplocs but that didn't keep the smell out. Here's hoping for a sweeter smelling weekend.

Flu Shots

Today the kids got their flu shots. Now out of all 4 kids who do you think would be the bravest and the most upset? Well if you guessed that my boys were brave you get an A if you guess that Corrin would be the most upset you get an A. If you guess that Corrin also gets the award for crying when her sister gets a shot (before her I might add) and then makes her sister who was dealing very well w/it cry you get an A+. Now it would be fair to not mention that my boys got the Flu mist. The girls since they both has asthma can't get it. Ian however smiled right after he got his. Connor just sniffed. Connor did however have a sudden urge to go to the bathroom when the girls were going to get their shots. Becca (the best nurse in the entire world) had given Kolette hers but not Corrin by the time he got back. So he decided that he was going to hang out in the hallway. This isn't all that suprising to me since he saw Kolette get poked enough when she was a baby. He is such a tender heart. They all are. I am so getting mine A.S.A.P. I got the flu on my birthday last year and didn't get to go to the kids Christmas parties at school b/c I had a fever. I am NOT doing that this year. My wish for my b-day & Christmas combined is no sickness and esp. no more hospital stays for Kolette. I told Kolette that if she got the shot it helped her stay out of the hospital.