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Mama’s Holiday Wish List Meme

TodaysMama (link to: http://bit.ly/tmwishlist) and GameStop (link to: http://bit.ly/gamestop10) are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I’m sharing this meme with you.

1. What is your holiday wish for your family? For good health, happiness and lots of love to go around.

2. What is your Christmas morning tradition? Waking up opening gifts and stockings. Eat breakfast and hang out and play all day.

3. If you could ask Santa for one, completely decadent wish for yourself, what would it be? A spa day or a babysitter for our 5 little ones so Jarrod and I could go on a date

4. How do you make the holidays special without spending any money? We play lots of family games and go check out the Christmas lights.

5. What games did you play with your family growing up? Monopoly and trivial pursuit

6. What holiday tradition have you carried on from your own childhood? We open one gift on Xmas eve.

7. Where would you go for a Christmas-away-from-home trip? A week in a cabin somewhere

8. Check out GameStop (link to: http://bit.ly/gamestop10) and tell us, what are the three top items on your GameStop Wish List this year? A new DS for our oldest, Family Game Night 3 and MySims Secret Agent

One of my faves...

One of my favorite things right now is how Jude will say he "got for" something. Here it is in context-
Mommy- "Jude, did you turn out the light?"
Jude- "I got for to turn out the light. I go turn it off."

As a bonus, here's another funny story.
Yesterday the kids watched an episode of The Cat in the Hat Knows a lot About That. In this episode the Cat's friends helped a beaver fix her dam. So later on, Mia and Jude are playing. I hear Mia say "Jude, hurry and fix the dam!". Then, she runs off to go get something. Jude says, "I can't!". When asked why he can't he tells us that "There is no dayum here.". Then, after a little while Mia runs upstairs to go get something and I here Jude say, "Fiiiine, I'll fix the dayum." and he grabs his Handy Manny hammer and heads of to the corner to fix the dam.

Oh and here's one more. Last night Jude hit his head and came over to tell me and Jarrod. Jarrod asked if he wanted him to check it out. Jude said, "No, my brain is broken". So, Jarrod did a little touching and massaging of his head and told Jude he fixed it. Jude walked off holding his head and said, "No, it still broken".

Beard Watch 2010

Jarrod is on day 12 of Beard Watch. He decides to grow a beard out every winter and now that we are up north in the land of frigid temps but hardly any snow known as Missoula it works out well for his face. It usually lasts a couple of months and then it starts to annoy him and he shaves. So this year, I thought I would keep track of how long he lasts and update with pictures. The growing season started October 1st and we will see how long he goes. Maybe I can convince him to grow out his hair for me too! One can only hope =)

The skin on your elbow

During Emma's Birthday dessert, Kaitlyn asked if we knew what the skin on your elbow is called. We said we weren't sure and she told us it's called the Wenis. We looked at her and said that someone obviously told her that in order to get her to say it b/c it rhymes with another word. So, she came into the living room to look it up and prove us wrong. Here is how the rest of the encounter went:

K- "Ha! I was right. Here's the definition- The wenis is the skin on your elbow. If you pinch your wenis it will not hurt at all. If you pull it it will strech pretty far."
As she is ready this definition to us, Jarrod and I are almost dead we are laughing so hard. As she finishes up with the stretching part Emma adds her 2 cents from the living room- "Look, I'll pull my Wenis right now". As soon as that comes out of her mouth Jarrod and I are laughing so hard that I am in tears and he is pretty much maroon.

All in all it was a memorable conversation and we have learned something new- the slang term for the skin on your elbow is wenis, but the medical term is olecranan skin.

Little ones first day

At our house, the little ones get first day of school clothes too. They also will be going to Mommy school during the week. I started with Mia last week and will be working with Jude some this week and fully starting with him next week. Coen is gonna hang out and have fun.

First day of school

I know, I know, I am a little late, but so far thsi is only our 2nd full week of school (we started the Wed. before Labor Day).

This year Emma is in First Grade. She absolutely loves school (definitely my genes there) and has been asking to go back since August. She was so excited to go to school. I told her that we were taking them both the first day and she was not happy. Kaitlyn didn't start the whole not wanting me to walk her in until 5th grade and it's already started with Emma. So, we compromised and only I walked her in so she wouldn't be embarassed. Daddy stayed in the car with the other kiddos. Here are a few pics and if you notice the one at her table she is sooo embarassed (that's why she won't look at me and it was my last pic).

Kaitlyn started 6th grade this year. Unlike Emma, she has not been counting down the days to school starting. She was also not happy she didn't get to ride the bus, but since we were already taking Emma and she got to sleep a little later she let it go. She is in Band again this year (she plays the Clarinet) and she also has the chance to play a couple of sports with the school this year, so she will be playing Soccer in the Fall and running Track in the Spring. She may play Basketball in the Winter, but we haven't officially decided on that yet. Here are a few pics from her first day. We did end up with one of her walking into the school bldg. from our car (that was as close as she'd let us get!). She also showed off her new school shoes-she's in a size 7 now! That's the same size as me! It also means that when you go by soccer cleats you don't get the youth discount package anymore b/c the kids foot isn't youth anymore.

My new best friend....

is a 1st grader. I was helping E put up her backpack and another little girl needed help finding hers. So, I told her where hers was and then we headed back to the classroom. Along the way the other little girl was just chatting it up. She asked what neighborhood we lived in and before I could answer that question she asked if we lived by Chelsea (street/person who knows). I told her I didn't know Chelsea. She then said, "So who are you anyway, her aunt or something?". I said. "No, I'm her Mom.". She then replied, " Really? You look really young.". I Love Her!