McKinna said...

Today while we were having dinner, we were all talking and Liam said, "what the heck?!"  and McKinna looked at him and said "don't you mean "what the hell?"".

I am sure that she learned that from her father!

Has he been beaten?

This is another stolen picture from Kade's phone.

Liam had quite a day on Thursday.  First he had a soccer game and I think that he got a black eye within the first five minutes of the game.  Then before he went to bed he asked Kade to flick his tooth out.  I think that we are lucky that his teacher didn't call CPS when he showed up at school the next day.

The Melting Pot

I stole this picture from Kade's phone.   We took the kids to the Melting Pot for dinner the other night and they were thinking that they were looking sophisticated.

Our plan was to take the kids with us and get the same amount of food for just two.  I thought by doing it that way we might actually leave having eaten the right amount rather than being so full you're sick.  I was wrong, next time I want to go with two extra people that actually eat more than just dessert.

Found some pics

These are pictures for my previous post.  I took them on Kade's phone and then forgot about them, they aren't that great but you get the idea.  Kade isn't really in skating attire and one piece of advice to future skaters don't let your daughters wear a skirt to go skating.

Liam and Alex had a great time!

By the time we left McKinna managed to get herself grounded for three days but I guess she looked cute doing it and I think by now she would tell you that she had a great time.  I am hoping that Ali would think she had fun too.

Roller Skating

The picture for this post is in my head but trust me it is a good one!  The other day I thought it would be a good idea to take the kids roller skating.  They had never been before and I can't skate for a whole list of reasons( I am sure that I could be the real patient in the "I've fallen and can't get up!" commercials).  So I recruited some friends to join us and we went over Kade's lunch so he could also come for awhile.  I was impressed by how willing all the kids were to get out there and try it,  they all seemed to have a good time. Throughout our time there, the announcer would come on and say that they were going to have a game or dance or a race.  Well when they announced the race Liam said that he wanted to be in it.  I didn't want to discourage him from challenging himself so I told him to go ahead.  This was the point where I would have paid to have a video camera because I was laughing so hard tears were pouring down my face.  It looked like a scene from a cartoon, when the character runs in place and never goes anywhere.  Although Liam did go somewhere it was usually down!  Then he would get up and run again (in place) then fall.  He somehow finally got going and made it to the end but far behind the other kids.  When he got to me (I had wiped my eyes and pretended that I had not been laughing hysterically)  he said "what was I thinking?!!  and the worst part is I got in the wrong group, that was the 5 and 6yr olds!!"

Not her finest moment

I had to start this post with a sweet, smiling picture of McKinna to remind myself that she really is a sweet girl(most of the time).  Anyway, the other morning I woke up to the kids fighting,  which isn't fun to wake up to on a good day but this day I was also sick.  So I took a deep breath and went in to see if I could help them work things out.  McKinna started out looking like the victim because Liam was being rude to her but as the story unfolded I realized that she had started the conflict.  Well, by the time we got to this point I was loosing my patience because I felt like I had been lied to and I said "okay well you are grounded".  And then I had a moment when I realized that my child does not fear death because she proceeded to scream and then picked up the nearest thing to her (which ironically was the "Friend" magazine)  and throw it at me!  It was as if in slow motion the magazine held tightly together and flew end over end until it hit me.  Let me just say that I am not a morning person and I was sick, so this did not set well with me.  Before it was all over there was a lot more screaming, crying, thrashing and the grounding became a lot more extensive.  Surprisingly it was all over in probably fifteen minutes but it seemed at the time to be hours.  Now if I were McKinna I would never bring up the incident again because I would never want to remind me mom of such terrible behavior  but apparently I am not McKinna.  About three days later I was working at the computer and I said "McKinna what is the date today?"  and she said "I don't know, let me get my calendar."  A few moments later she showed up by my side with a big wall calendar opened up to September  and said "now let's see,  what day did I throw something at you?" and that is how she was going to calculate what the day's date was.  Sometimes I worry that she may have more balls than brains!

Liam said...

A few Sundays ago Kade and I took seperate cars to church because I needed to stay after.  When I got home we were having lunch and Liam told me that when they were on their way home they saw some policemen that had pulled a guy over.  Then he said "...and the guy was sitting criss-cross applesauce on the sidewalk.  What do the policeman say?  Do they say get out of your car and sit right here criss-cross applesauce?!"  I couldn't stop laughing about it,  when we were growing up that was called sitting Indian style, which is probably not politically correct anymore but at least it sounds tougher.  Who came up with criss-cross applesauce?  When Liam first said it to me after he had started pre-school I had no idea what he was talking about.  Are they now making all the bad guys sit in that style to humiliate them,  it probably wouldn't be humiliating to say sit down Indian style but no man wants to sit criss-cross applesauce!