Morton Madness

Producer and Consumer... this is what Jonah is talking about in school. His homework was to write three producers and who the consumer of each would be. His first attempt is pictured below... Needless to say, I made him change it for obvious reasons! Then notice the second pic. Thats my boy :)

So Sophia is not the most cuddly little thing. When she is tired she likes to be left alone so she can get comfy and fall asleep. I am not sure if this is because from day one I would put her in bed while she was still awake and would put herself to sleep. She has never been the type to put her head on your shoulder and "relax". The other day she was really fussy and kept coming and sitting in my lap and putting her head on my shoulder. She laid there for over 30 min. wide awake and then fell asleep for over an hour. I knew Justin would never believe me so I took a picture and sent it to him :) So a couple of days later Aunt Carlie came to watch her and while I was gone I got a text from her with the picture below. She crawled in her lap and fell asleep... WHAT WHAT? So then last week when Sophia had her first sleep over with Mimi and Papa Justin and I were out to dinner celebrating an early birthday and we got a text from Mimi with the picture below. Let's just ...

All three kiddos went to mom and dads to spend the night. This was Sophia's first time to spend the night away from Justin and I. She did great. Of course Mimi did not let her cry, she fell asleep on Mimi's lap and when Mimi went to put her in her pack n play she whimpered so Mimi put her in her bed and laid down beside her. When Mimi tried to get up to put her jammies on, wash her face and brush her teeth she whimpered again so Papa brought Mimi her jammies and she did not wash her face or brush her teeth. Mimi and Papa you better look out because it looks like little miss has you RIGHT where she wants you :) Justin and I took advantage of our free night and went to dinner at Mignon. We had a wonderful steak dinner and mommy got to enjoy her favorite drink. mmmmm It was so nice to wake up the next morning and just lay in bed and not have to worry about feeding anyone or breaking up any fights. Thanks Mimi and Papa!

Luke is THE fart and burp boy... He is the gassiest kid I know. From the time he was little he would toot and burp ALL THE TIME! Now a days it is out of control. We have been trying for a couple of years, yes, years to get this under control. We as parents have F A I L E D! We take things away, send him to time out and nothing has worked. I think he really cannot help it some times. After school I was cleaning out his backpack and found this assignment. I started reading it and found his famous word on the first row right column. I guess we will have to wait and see if he ever grows out of this...

"The Boat"... where do I even start? I can remember back 5 years or so ago that Justin and Brian decided to get a hunting boat. They were so excited about this boat, they sanded it, repainted it, got a duck blind for it and Daph even put her sewing skills to use and made a duck blind. Of course every time they wanted to take the boat out they had to "work on the boat". Daphne and I would just laugh and say, "whatever". We spent many a nights watching the guys work on the boat getting it ready for the next days hunt. We noticed this becoming a pattern, they want to hunt... they have to work on the boat. We continued to laugh... for a few years in fact. The boat stayed in our driveway until we got a notice that it needed to be moved so we moved it down to The Caravellas lake house on Holy Lake. Then hunting season started back up so they guys had to go get the boat so they could work on it so they could then take it out to hunt... ARE YOU SEEING A P...

Today was lunch with loved ones at the boys school. Basically it was a nice way to let the parents know that you should come have lunch with your child and then head on down to the book fair and get ready to spend some money! ha ha ha Sophia and I headed up to the school and had lunch with the boys and then proceeded onto the book fair so I could see everything they wanted from posters, crazy pens, pencils, bookmarks and whatever else they can get away with selling at this thing. Jonah picked out the Star Wars Dictionary Book and Luke picked out Guinea Dog and an animal book. Of course Luke did not want his picture taken but mommy made him.

I thought it was just a phase but boy was I ever WRONG! For as long as I can remember if we ask Luke to do something as simple as take a shower, brush your teeth, put your shoes on he comes back with one of the following excuses. 1. I'm itchy 2. I'm soooooo tired 3. My legs hurt 4. I'm thirsty 5. Ouch, your hurting me (this is when you are drying him off after a shower, he says that the towel hurts him because it is so dry) WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN? or when I am shampooing his hair or brushing his teeth. We say that if he was a Garbage Pail Kid his name would be Lazy Luke. So today after school Luke was walking home from the bus stop... (EIGHT houses down from ours mind you.) He looks at me and says, "mom, can we move to a different house on Heritage Green?" I asked him if he meant Druid Hills and he said, "yes". I asked him why and he told me that he does not like walking that far from the bus stop. I could not help but laugh and grab him a...