Lettie's turn to talk about mommy!

This is a fun quiz to do with your kids! This is what I got from Lettie:
1. What is something mom always says to you?
Eat
2. What makes mom happy?
Because we don't lie (I have a thing for not-lying)
3. What makes mom sad?
Because we lied to her (wow... I think they got the point)
4. How does your mom make you laugh?
By tickleing me!
5. What was your mom like as a child?
I don't know because I did not see you when you were a child (smart)
6. How old is your mom?
6 (7 kids at 6... Now I REALLY should be on Oprah)
7. How tall is your mom?
6 tall (I guess it goes with your age)
8. What is her favorite thing to do?
Clean (ugh... )
9. What does your mom do when you're not around?
Go Somewhere
10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for?
Because she is going to be a rock star (that's my girl!)
11. What is your mom really good at?
Teaching Nolan how to ride on 2 wheels (we did that the other day... he is getting there).
12. What is your mom not very good at?
Not good at driving (this is a running joke in the family... whenever I hit the rumble strip Levi has taught the kids to say 'mommy's a BAD driver'... I have turned it around on him a fair amount of times as well)
13. What does your mom do for a job?
Maybe run an ice cream shop soon
14. What is your mom's favorite food?
Spaghetti
15. What makes you proud of your mom?
She's good at cleaning (sigh... my life)
16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be?
A Rock Star Fairy (interesting)
17. What do you and your mom do together?
Go to Chuck E. Cheese
18. How are you and your mom the same?
Because we have the same hair (which is true, same cow-licks and everything)
19. How are you and your mom different?
Because my eyes change (that is her new thing, I do not know where she gets that idea from)
20. How do you know your mom loves you?
Because you help me find my shoes sometimes.
21. What does your mom like most about your dad?
Kissing him
22. Where is your mom's favorite place to go?
To the Bank (if I was making more money maybe)
23. How much do you think mom weighs?
6 (I am sensing a trend here)

Ruby Answers Questions About Me

This is a fun quiz to do with your kids! The language barrier made it a little difficult for her to understand some of the questions. But this is what I got:

1. What is something mom always says to you?

Be nice.

2. What makes mom happy?

When the kids share.

3. What makes mom sad?

When you watch someone push and hit.

4. How does your mom make you laugh?

Tickle.

5. What was your mom like as a child?

You were like everyone in our family. (Apparently I have something in common with everyone)

6. How old is your mom?

16 (7 kids at 16... I should be on Oprah)

7. How tall is your mom?

Big

8. What is her favorite thing to do?

To play a game in the computer.

9. What does your mom do when you're not around?

Clean (and clean and clean and clean)

10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for?

You would help people. (interesting)

11. What is your mom really good at?

At cooking.

12. What is your mom not very good at?

Making something with my hair (hahaha! Poor Ruby! We both know I am no good at doing hair!)

13. What does your mom do for a job?

Work at an ice cream shop (can you tell they are excited?)

14. What is your mom's favorite food?

Green Beans (just because I make you eat them does not mean it is my favorite)

15. What makes you proud of your mom?

When I can help you

16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be?

Dora

17. What do you and your mom do together?

We write sentences

18. How are you and your mom the same?

Our eyes ( haha, she said they both have grey... I think the similarities stop there)

19. How are you and your mom different?

We have a different coat and shirt (notice, no mention of skin color! I love kids!)

20. How do you know your mom loves you?

Because we are family. (awww)

21. What does your mom like most about your dad?

Because you are married to dad (I suppose I have to like him then)

22. Where is your mom's favorite place to go?

Disney World (Spot on!)

23. How much do you think mom weighs?

A lot (sigh)

Thanks Granny!

You picked the perfect present for Callie! Water stuff! Boy does this girl love water! And as soon as she opened it, she insisted on getting completely dressed in her new gear. INCLUDING the water wings! And if you wondering why she looks a little shiny and slightly dirty... that would be the Skittles, which she immediately opened up and devoured! But of course she drooled sticky Skittle juice all over herself! Seriously... she walked around in her swimsuit and water wings all night until it was time for bed! I would think it would be uncomfortable! Silly girl!

Enjoy the pictures of my water baby modeling:

Callie came up and saw the pictures I was putting on the blog, went and grabbed her water wings, and insisted I put them back on! So she is in a long-sleeve footed sleeper with water wings on eating her pancake. Haha!

This is the place...

In case you were wondering, here is "the location"! If you notice in the 2nd picture there is quite a large sidewalk on one side of it, which I will be able to put benches and possibly tables! I LOVE that it is a corner unit!

Here is a view of one side of the shopping center! There is a China Fun, Snap Fitness, EZ Ship, and cleaners there! It is going to be terrible being so close to Chinese food, but at least there is a fitness center by it to work it off ;)!
Here is the other side... a Harris Teeter! Apparently it does really well and a lot of people I have mentioned the location to know exactly where it is at, "By the new Harris Teeter". So that is good!

Here is a view of the Italian Restaurant and Vet that are also in the shopping center.

The inside. It is nice that it is new construction because the other places I went to had a lot that would have to be un-done in order to fix it up. This one just needs a sink plumbed in and a little electrical and design and I am good to go!

Here is the view from the back! It has a lot of light and very nice parking!

I really think this location is ideal! I sign the lease Monday or Tuesday! Woo-hoo!

Do you love me?... check yes or no!

So I was doing homework with all the kids and I saved Nolan for last. I opened up his homework folder and out came this --->


Click on the picture if you can not read it!


Apparently, someone left a "love note" in his folder!!!



It was obviously not done by any of his sisters... none of them write that well! And we do not have paper that small. And it was very deliberately placed.


When I asked Nolan about it he got all giddy! It was funny! He said he did not know who it could be from and was grinning ear to ear and hid his head in the top of his pajamas! He is getting to that age where he is getting embarrassed by things like that!


But look at the top picture! His eyes are glowing! I think he felt pretty special! I really do not think he knows who gave it to him, he just is flattered! He keeps coming up with theories about how it got into his folder that do not involve a little girl who might have a crush on him, but I am not so sure!


My Nolan is getting so big... he got his first love note! So in honor of his love note, I will play his favorite "love song", but the Across the Universe version because I like it the best!

I owe my neighbor...

A Flat of

Yellow

Pansies!

And it is not hard to see why!

My beautiful, pixie-like, mischievous :

Jovie-Lea!

She really was not trying to be bad! She has just entered the "flower-picking" stage! The kids were all riding their bikes along the cul-de-sac and I suppose the newly planted pansies at the bottom of my neighbor's mailbox called to her! And she picked them... for me! Sweet... well, she thinks so! Unfortunately I did not see her in the act until she single-handedly annihilated my poor neighbors pansy patch! She loaded them up in her hand and "drove" them all the way across the street to present them to me!

She adored those mangled petals! She stood there and smelled them for the longest time! Which afforded me the opportunity to take beautiful sun-soaked whimsical pictures of my little pixie! They probably are not ideal, but I love sun lines in my pictures! She was so sweet and so quiet about it!

I was taking pictures of some of the other kids when she was picking the flowers! I was glad I had my camera on me to capture her sweet (but obnoxious) gesture!

She found a basket and put her petals in there and carried them around all afternoon! Tomorrow I shall go to Lowes, and leave a few containers on pansies on my neighbors doorstep! Maybe I will buy a few extra for my Jovie-Lea!

The Mis-adventures of a Princess Teenie!

I think there is something under the bed?!

Is is a monster?!

Is it a Ghost?!

Is it the Boogyman?!

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Nope... it is just a teenie-tiny Princess Teenie!

She was sent to her room by the King for doing rotten deeds! And as evidenced by this photo those rotten deeds may have been done because we had a very tired Princess Teenie on our hands!

She went under her bed to sulk and did not come out for a few HOURS! I tried to wake her up earlier, but had no such luck! I ended up forgetting she was asleep under there until I remembered to wake her up and it was 6:00! Needless to say she had a hard time going to bed that night!

Then this morning I told her to get ready for school! I meant for her to get her backpack and lunch and wait for me by the door! She disappeared for a few minutes and came back all glammed up! She did her own hair and slipped my sports bra over her shirt! I was running so late, but I could not resist taking some time to snap some pictures! I removed the sports bra, but let her go to school with her hair the way she likes it! She was so proud of herself and she took a lot of care and time to di it that way! The pre-school teachers thought it was pretty cute!
She has eclectic taste, but she is always the Princess Teenie whom I love! I get to spend a lot of time with her since she is not in school yet and we have a good time together! She loves to help, hang out, and most of all... she loves being a princess!

Girls just wanna have fu-un!

(Is that the funniest look on Lettie's face or what?)

Levi took the boys out Saturday morning to look at sports equiptment, buy Bakugon's, and just have some male bonding!

The girls wanted to do something as well! So when I asked them what they wanted to do, Ruby said she wanted to dress up, put on some makeup, and go somewhere! And of course, Lettie agreed! They are girly girls and they love any excuse to put on make up! Even I had to wear a dress... and they deemed my church dress acceptable even though it was not a princess dress!

Then we went to the only sit-down restaraunt that you can sanely go to with kids... Panda's Den (of Katie's blog fame)! It is a fast and furious eating experience where you are seated 30 seconds after you get there, the waitor shouts your order, and your good is out before you can even blink!! And if you go during lunch it is cheap and always yummy! And now they have added little clip-on pinwheels to the straws, so the girls were sold on this place immediately! Plus, Lettie has been asking for Chineese food lately... she is a chip off the ol' block! And my picky-eater Ruby loved it as well!

Then we went to the grocery store, but it was Compare Foods and they only had latin candy and they did not want any of that and I promised them candy so we went to Walgreens and got some candy and a 99 cent stuffed animal! It was a fun girls day out and they were VERY pretty!

We'll see how this goes...

So I am trying to give Silas dreadlocks! It took me all of High School the Musical 3 and a Star Ward Cartoon Episode and a bit of Ben 10 to finish! They never look like dreds to start out with, but will eventually "lock" over the next few months. I did a "twise and rip" lock to start out with and we will see how it goes. He looks cool, even though they do not look like actual dreads yet. He was very patient and seemed pleased with the result. For awhile I am going to have to take a little time out of the day to make him sit as I re-twist them. You would think dreadlocks were easy, but they actually require a lot of matinence. We will see how it goes in the long run! If worse comes to worse I just have to cut his hair short, which is what I would have had to to do if I did not dread them since he was getting quite the 'fro!

The 2 baking boys!

For the Blue and Gold Banquet this year they had a father son cake baking and decorating competition! Since we had never been to one, we did not know whether or not people went all-out or not... so Levi went all-out! He researched ideas and then decided he nad Yonas were going to make a cake Capital! Our decorator frosting was more runny than we thought it would be, so they had to use Chocolate chips for the detail work, but I thought it turned out pretty good!

Then they got there and all the other cakes were sheet cakes, still in the pan, and everyone just decorated the top! That's ok though, they had a HUGE good-looking cake to show off!