So... unfortunately I don't really have much picture-wise to share with you, but I do have a few cute stories that have accumulated over the last month or so, that I REALLY ought to document. It's important to get this stuff in writing, so that I can tease my kids about it as often as possible for THE REST OF THEIR LIVES. I'm so grateful for blogs.
Enjoy... if you dare!
...............................
Despite the fact that everyone is under the delusion that my house is always clean and in perfect order, it is occasionaly NOT, as Lena discovered in a rather unfortunate way the other day...
She was running happily around the toy room, minding her own business, when she tripped over something, (possibly a brother or two) and slid and landed in a pile of sharp pointy Lego. She shrieked and cried and grabbed her foot, and insisted I examine it. It was cut up pretty badly, and her brothers were highly impressed by the amount of blood.
Lena was feeling pretty proud of herself too, as she announced, "Look! I got the colour red on my foot!"
(Congratulations...?)
................................
Breakfast time... it's been awhile since I went grocery shopping, and as a horrifying result, we have nothing buy a few crumbly bits of Cheerios to eat. Toast is not an option, because it requires too much effort... so I shout out to the kids, "Who wants some porridge???"
Three of my kids are happy with that, but one is definitely not... Conner (he hates porridge). He comes running up to me and says he has a secret he needs to tell me. So I lend him my ear, and he whispers the following...
"Mommy, I can't have porridge... it makes me throw up."
"Does it really?" I reply politely, not buying it of course, because I have the advantage of so many years.
"Yeah... do you know why?" he asks.
I humour him, "Why?"
"Because," he explains, "it is the colour of throw up... so it will MAKE me throw up."
Interesting...his convincing act won him the crumbly bits of Cheerios that day. And he was as happy and as throw-up free as could be.
.............................
Onto Jarom. He's an interesting kid to homeschool. He comes up with some really great random stuff, and sometimes it can get impossible for me to follow his train of thought... but it is super fun to try, and can get pretty funny.
He can even take something as DULL as grammar and make it... well...
I'm just going to have to give you some examples.
He had an assignment to complete some sentences... what were they missing? Their nouns of course. What fun! Here's a couple of the sentences he had to work on...
Sentence one:
Five ______ eat grapes. Five what eat grapes? Jarom's answer was this:
Five old men eat grapes.
(Okay...)
Sentence two:
The _______ shines all day. I know what you're thinking. I was thinking it too. Apparently Jarom wasn't thinking it though, and answered it this way:
The golden cup shines all day.
What goes on in that cute little head is a mystery to me sometimes, but I'm sure glad I get to witness the cuteness.
............................
All right now, I can't resist... a little more Lena...
She has become really good at enterntaining herself while her brothers are doing school work. She really loves to draw on the white board, but unfortunately doesn't really like to put the lids back on the white board markers, WHICH unfortunately leaves us with a lot of dried out non-functioning markers. When she happily ran over to draw on the board one morning, she unknowningly picked out one of the dried up markers. She tried to write on the board, but to no avail... it just wouldn't work. She then shouts out to me, "UH-OH MOMMY!!! It won't WORK!!!" She then hands me the marker and says, "It needs new batteries."
I don't think it's at all obvious that she's a product of a technology based world.
.............................
I guess I've covered pretty much everyone... except of course for Reid. But you know what? He's just way too grown up now... he's past the age of funny little slip-ups, silly remarks, or just plain old goofy behaviour.