"Peace on Earth"

After a chaotic week last week.Who could resist a picture like this?.......Need I say more?

The "Joys" of parenting

Its been quite the week in our little household and expensive I might add.First of all "pumpkin" decided it would be entertaining to find out how far the arms on mommy's glasses would go before they broke.She found out...

Unfortunately the frames I had purchased were discontinued so I couldn't just replace the frames so I had to replace everything.I can't even claim them this time with Blue Cross because these ones are only a year and a half old and I can only make a claim every two years.(She could have waited another 6 months).

I think I am going to have to send both girls to hair dressing school since they enjoy doing it so often.At least that way when they decide to give each other hair cuts it might look half descent.Pumpkin cut her hair twice that I know of,possibly a third time but I'm not really sure whether it was her or big sister.It looked so bad we just shaved it all off.One day she might have some hair that is longer than 1/2 inch.Then Monkey got a hold of the scissors (how? I don't know) and went on a cutting rampage.At first I thought they were just having some nice sister time.The girls were in their room laughing and jumping on the bed (not out of the ordinary).What alerted me to the fact that they may be doing something that they shouldn't be was the sound of beads pouring all over the floor.The discovery?Where do I begin?

The first thing I noticed was a big pile of hair on the floor."Monkey" had cut her hair into a charming "mullet" style reminiscent of the 1980's.Well hey,leg warmers and stirrup pants are back in fashion, why not this charming hair do? Blood pressure rapidly rising.Next I discovered what it was that caused me to go in the room in the first place. "Monkey" decided to find out what was inside a "beanie baby" yep...lots and lots of tiny little plastic pellets,which I STILL keep finding everywhere.Blood pressure still climbing.By the end o this whole incident she had cut her hair,a beanie baby,Pumpkin's blanket,her blanket,her stuffed lion's mane and her sister's pajamas.Blood vessels ready to EXPLODE!

All this was on the heals of last Saturday's little incident of getting acrylic paint all over my living room furniture.Which did not come out(DH was babysitting while I was out and didn't discover it until an hour later)!

It is simply amazing that more kids don't end up in the orphanage LOL!

And the winner is...

I now have my Christmas card photo.Not that I was trying to hold a contest for my pictures,however this one seemed to generate the most responses when I posted it on Facebook.I must admit its one of my favorites too.So all you lucky people, to whom I send Christmas cards, you will receive one of these adorable little pictures and a wish for a very Merry Christmas!(They were only in it for the candy!) What??? Me? Bribe my children with chocolate? Never.

Was Dat??

So my little "pumpkin" up until lately hasn't had too much to say.The usual mama,dadda and that was about it.Was I worried.No,not really."Monkey" was a late talker too.She babbled and responded to simple commands and was quite aware of what I was saying.So whatever.

Well now the flood gates are opened.....WIDE! Her first real word (or at least the one I care to record)was apple.(I didn't think poo poo was something that deserved to be recorded for history!) Now she has been saying things like spoon,car,book,papa and cheese.

Just to take a slight detour (as it is relevant to the story) I have been very grateful that "Monkey" has not hit the "WHY?" stage.At least not yet.She just doesn't seem to care.She does ask questions but not so many that you want to exit stage left and bang your head on the wall a hundred times.With that being said we will return to "pumpkin".At the moment her favorite phrase is "was' dat?"She puts out her chubby little finger and points at everything (and I mean everything)."was' dat?,was' dat? was' dat?This goes on from sun up to sun down.I had to laugh at my sister (H) who was looking after the girls the other night she said she just about went crazy because "pumpkin" kept asking "was' dat" over and over for two hours straight!Yep that would do it.

Now I don't want to discourage her, but wow it gets to be a little much after awhile.Then you go to bed at night with the words circling in your head for hours on end.Oh well.I guess I must just repeat to myself...."It does not last forever".
Thank heaven for that!LOL