Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Halloween 2011

 the patch.

 the ragamuffins and their miniature masterpieces
 bang! pow! crash!
 the dynamic duo!
and our little hallo-weenie
 "I skirred mommy, I skirred!!"
and a little chocolate,
saved for a midnight snack.

and for the record char was "robin, wit a bat-man mask"
because he wasn't allowed to also be batman.
a small identity crisis never hurt anyone.

Saturday, October 15, 2011

i usually keep an eye on my kids...

 found this on our gross retro countertop
after chris, will and i finished a (maybe) 3 minute house project.
me:  "Charlie, where is all the gum?"
C:  "mom, da dum dough in my mouf!!!"

Thursday, October 6, 2011

mer-man

video
our little mermaid-man.
truth is he's way better than his big bro.
and he loves it.
he asks to "dough swimmin' 'day" every single morning.
video
he's also almost dying at the end of this video from inhaling h2o.
he was a bit frustrated and scared
and pouted and wouldn't listen to the teacher for the next 15 min.
but after 2 timeouts
and his lack of long term memory kicking in
he rallied and finished class with a big cheesy charlie grin. 

Monday, October 3, 2011

update.

well, the jeans in timeout worked like a charm.
the dude was a gem all weekend.
chris was out of town and the boys and i actually
had a really fun, no tantrum weekend together!
shocking.
and he was so excited to wear the jeans to school tomorrow
he's wore them to bed :)

Thursday, September 29, 2011

when they said "it's a boy" i did not expect this...

at least not at 4.
this dude is obsessed with what he wears.
i've said it a million times but he worships his BLUE jeans.
he's moved on to specifically "skinny" blue jeans.
getting dresses is a disaster every. single. day.
unless his skinny blue jeans are clean.
we've also been having a hard time with consequences for bad behavior.
he doesn't seem to care anymore about things being taken away.
or thrown away (which has worked like magic for us in the past).
UNTIL my genius hubby thought of throwing away his skinny jeans.
aahhhhhh!
now i'm not crazy enough to actually throw any of them away
but they are currently in "time out" until school on monday.
(see below :)
he may never get to wear them again...

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

stuff

 w:  "dad, what am i going to be when i grow up?"
chris: "i don't know bud what do you want to be?"
w: "what do you do dad?"
chris: "i'm a lawyer."
w: "i'm going to be a lawyer too, dad! (brown noser)"
peanut gallery (ie. char): "i goin' to be batman!" 

 2 year stats.
50th percentile weight.
60th percentile height.
90th percentile head circumference.
dude's got quite a noggin.
 
this is what happens when dad goes to picture day.
we get a group photo, a 5X7, 2-3X5 magnets and eight baseball cards.
and spend $38.
 and most of the info on his cards is made up.
it should read:
age: 4  uniform: too cheap to buy numbered jerseys
height:  i have no idea   weight:  maybe 40 pounds (def not 55)
position:  what's a position? this is t-ball.
bats and throws: right
fav pro: what?  he def. doesn't know who ichiro is.
but i do love that they voted to be called the volcanoes. fierce, right?
 this is what happens when dad goes to the mall. 
we come home with 2 hillbilly trucker hats.
and spend another $38.
 and now i'm stuck having to make up reasons
why they can't ever wear them in public
every time we get out of the car. 
my mom wanted to spend $149 on a linen bulletin board from pottery barn.
i made her this one for $23.
including the flower pins which would not have come with the one from p. barn :)
cute substitute, right?

 
my sister and her friend chelsey were in town
and took the kids to pump it up.
you can decide who had the most fun.
kid number one worships his dad.
and wouldn't mind if i never came home from work.

this goon won't even let his dad 
get him out of bed he loves me so much.
and i don't want summer to end 
because i want endless evenings like this.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

fisher-men

 We took Chris the kids fishing today.
Some genius from Metro Parks
thought of filling the out of commission
Titlow pool with trout
and letting parents kids come and round 'em up. 

Chris might have had more fun than anyone
and I was pretty sure he was going to head back to the pool
after the kids went down for their nap.
 We caught 5 fish
and ate them for lunch.
The best part of the day was that they had
kids there cleaning the fish for you!
Actually, the best part of the day was watching these two
and their dad enjoy their new favorite past time.
so much fun.