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can kids do this to themselves and not even notice…..  Not only does trey have a massive blue mustache…. he also managed to get a blue drink stained forehead. I don’t get it.

in the background…. that’s garret. He was telling me how he could run faster today…. only he’s not great at the talking…. so he said ” so what? i can wun bastard”  and i said… what did you just say??? and he replied… I can wun bastard….. oh. that’s what i thought you said.

i have a new phone…. i mean it’s the same phone…. it’s just a new one. Verizon replaced it with no questions. yippee! feel free to call me, i can answer it now…. i mean except for when i’m working…. or sleeping…. and i’m not gonna lie, that’s about 17 hours of the day.

that i love this show….. so you think you can dance….. but i mean some of it is just so….. guh

today’s field trip was the Fort Worth Zoo.  It was super hot (102….108 index) and we were there for 6 hours…. so although lots of fun, we were all pretty zonked at the end of the day.  Needless to say, all my kids fell asleep on the bus, should have been 50min but turned out to be 90min, ride home.  I was sitting on the edge of a seat with 3 other littlies. i sat with my feet in the isle and my knee on the seat across the isle.  Gabryel fell asleep laying on his back in that seat and his head on my leg.  Soon the girl sitting closest to me fell asleep with her head on my other leg, but so much on the edge of the seat that i had to reach around her and hold her on.  The girl in the middle then leaned over and fell asleep with her face on my back.  A few min later the 3 boys in the seat across the isle but a row a head of me fell asleep.  The kid who should have been leaning on the window turned around so he was laying on his back and his head in the lap of the kid in the middle.  This caused middle kid to slump over on isle kid.  This made isle kid nod and just about topple out of the seat with every bounce…. so, my inside leg that had a girl asleep on the thigh, was stretched across the isle so that my foot was on the seat holding isle boy’s rear to it…. he woke long enough to realize what was going on, and leaned over, his face somewhere between my shin and my calf and arms wrapped around my leg.  So i am now either the napanator, or the napster, i can’t decide.

My SIL Kelli was talking about a mom saying dirty words at the store…. you can read it here. And it reminded me of something that happened at the Y today.  We were leaving the park and i was counting heads… i should have had 11 little rascals…. but alas i was one short.  I quickly did a run over to figure out who was missing….. of course, Blake…. my favorite little red headed monster.  He cracks me up, but he is TERRIBLE. he’s not a regular rowdy-bad 4 year old.  He’s a thinker, and he can find a loop hole in EVERYTHING you say…. it’s kinda ridiculous. I look up and quickly spot him “hiding” at the top of a slide, unfortunately for him, his bright red hair was sticking out like a beacon giving away his location.  As i walked him, holding his wrist, towards the bus, i ignored all of his excuses as to why he needed me to let go of him.  Until he yelled that I had his water bottle.  (I did not, i had MY water bottle).

Blake (screaming) Hey! that’s my water bottle

Me(calm and only partly paying attention): No it’s not

Blake (still yelling): Yes it is! it’s MYYYYY water bottle and I want it

Me: Sorry Blake, i don’t know where your water bottle is, this is My water bottle

Blake: You know where my water bottle is, it’s in your hand, you’re a liar

Me (beginning to get frustrated): I’m sorry you’ve lost your water bottle, this is mine, not yours.

Blake (apparently even more frustrated than me): AAAAHHHHH THAT’S MY MOTHER FREAKING WATER BOTTLE!!!!!!

(i should note that he did say freaking, i’m not editing…. but still)

I flipped him around and got down on one knee so i could look him directly in the eye. and said that we do not talk that way to anyone because it is not nice… especially adults….. yadda yadda yadda

He immediately grinned from ear to ear and began giggling, because he knew he won.  AAAHHHHH! i hate when i’m out smarted by a 4 year old.

scene…. one of my kids, Trey, had a mole removed from his neck.  The doctor put skin glue on it, Trey had picked at it and it was coming off a little, another kid asked what it was, and his cousin, ReeRee decided to give the explination

Blake: what’s that on your neck?

ReeRee: that’s where Trey had his nipple taken off

Trey: IT WASN’T A NIPPLE!!

ReeRee: haha! nipple nipple nipple

Trey (to me): make her stop saying nipple

ReeRee: fine. mole mole mole mole

I love 4 year olds

I have a bad battery in my car.  I called to have someone give me a jump, and i went to walmart and got a new battery.  then, shaun, aka papa had a bad alternator and I followed him to the shop to look at getting it fixed.  I’m almost like a real grown up….. i guess i should be since i just celebrated by 24th birthday…. yikes!

we’ve been having a little bit of trouble on the beach this year…. we usually have a couple of days when we get some scattered showers… but it’s not a big deal because if you wait 30 min it’s usually sunny again.  However one day we had to go in because the wind picked up so bad that we were getting pelted with it.  in 6 min laying on the beach, my towl was literally about an inch and a half deep in the sand, and there wasn’t a part of me not coated.  And then it started raining.  So, we not wanting to give up on a whole day at the beach, decided to wait it out.  we sat in the garage in our beach chairs and beach attire.  it looked a little like we were in denial.

the moment you’ve been waiting for.  The pictures have been confiscated and i’m ready to tell the story…. except now i’m pretty sure it’s going to be a disappointment because it’s not as cool as i’ve built it up to be.   Anyway…. Ben and i were swimming in the pool rinsing off from the beach, and everyone else was out.  We soon decided it would be a good idea to jump off the roof and into the pool…. but as there was no easy way up there we stacked 8 flimsy patio chairs on top of an unstable table….. lol.   Ben said that i wouldn’t do it… and i knew better… and after i did it, he got brave enough to do it too… and we took pictures on dad’s camera and didn’t tell anyone, because we thought it would be funnier when dad went to download pictures and found them and was like… what is this???? what did those silly kids do without supervision??

building the ladder

i’m poised to jump

I’m flying!

ben broke the gutter climbing up….. the fatso. lol. just kidding…. he needed his tongue out to fix it

ben trying to be captain america

we had a lot of fun…. hehe… ben tore up his knee on the shingles… and i hit my butt on the bottom of the pool… but all in all, it was a good day.

I broke my knee….. ok, i just banged it really hard, probably bruising the bone.  I wasn’t even doing anything exciting…. i was just getting out of my chair at dinner for some more watermelon.  Cursed McGill extreme watermelon loving…. got me again.

Anyway…. this was my view while enjoying the sun on the beach yesterday.

And this is me in a pool chair because the wind was so stinking strong, that being on the beach was like being power sand blasted.  After 30 min, i was plenty exfoliated and had to head back to the house because much longer at the beach would have put me well past exfoliation and well on my way to giant popped blister.  You feel real bad for me don’t you?