My Kids are Sooooo Smart (aleck)

Josiah made me a card the other day. He's very into that right now. I'd say I get an average of 10 cards a week, sometimes more depending on when inspiration strikes. This is the card he gave me two days ago.



Did you read that correctly? Why, yes, yes, you did! What a nice, sweet, back-handed way to let me know he thinks I'm a BEAST!!! :)
(If you can't read it, you can click it to see it bigger, but what it says is: I Love You Mommy. You Our The BEAST. )

He made up for it today. This is one of the cards I got today.



Not only the BEST, but the BEST, BEST, BEST, BEST. (That's FIVE 'best's, mommy!...Micah, always trying to outdo his brother, told me he would have put SIX bests on my card. Why, oh WHY is everything a contest?!??)

Speaking of Micah...Josiah was practicing calling our home phone number this weekend, so he was on John's cell phone in the living room while John was talking to him on the home phone in the kitchen. Micah kept trying to get Josiah's attention, "Josiah! Josiah! Josiah!" I pointed out that Josiah was on the phone and he needed to please wait until he was done talking to daddy. Micah said, "Yeah, but he's not using his other ear!" How true...

Playing Dirty

No one can say that this girl minds a little dirt.



Yes, that is mud ALL OVER her...check out her backside:



How did that happen? Well, there's been some work done in our yard with dead trees. Some of the trucks that have been back there have torn it up a bit, and some of what they've done has left large "holes" such as this:



And those holes fill with water when it rains, the rain becomes mud, and the mud becomes a place for my kids to play. What does Emilia do? Why she sits in it, of course! Did I mention she even got it on her nose??

Cleaning Up

Last night at dinner Josiah said:

"My fork is the broom and my spoon is the dustpan and it's dumping it all into the trashcan that is my mouth."

Life at the VCR

The boys went to VBS this week. It was the first time they've gone to one, and overall they had a great time. Like me and my sister, Josiah and Micah seem to be opposites in many ways. Josiah was scared to stay the first day, but excited every other day and Micah was excited the first day and cried about staying all the others (even though he always had fun). Since it's the first time they've been to a VBS program, it took them a little while to get used to what it's called. Micah kept calling it VCR. "Mommy, do I have to go to the VCR again tomorrow?" and Josiah was calling it BSF 70 (I'm sure this is thanks to our time at the beach and being lathered up with SPF 70 sunscreen). "I had fun at BSF 70."

One day when we were leaving the VCR, I started to back out of the parking spot and Micah yelled out,
"Duuuude! I'm not buckled yet!"

Micah was really against me leaving him on Friday. So, I agreed to hang out with him until the puppet show (at 9:20, the day started at 9:00). I sat and watched most of the puppet show with him before Emilia got squirmy and we had to leave, but apparently he was good to go after that, anyway. Later, when I asked him what his favorite part of VBS was, he said, "When you came to the puppets with me." Awww....

Josiah spent most of yesterday singing songs from the VBS program. He has a favorite song from it that he sings most of the time, but every now in then he'll sing a snippet of another one.

And I gotta tell you, I am a B*I*G fan of these VBS programs that are in the morning! Most of them around here are at night, some going as late as 9 p.m.! That's waaaay past my kids bedtime! But this one was from 9-noon and ooooooh, was it nice for me!! Uh...I mean, ooooh, did the kids have fun!! ;)

Our Beach Trip Slideshow