What made him do that?

I got a pressure cooker for Christmas. I pressure cooked a roast last week, using my pressure cooker for the first time. At the top of the pressure cooker there is this little knob thing, called a peacock, on the lid that will raise and let out steam and a little whistle to keep the pressure regulated.

My kids didn't know what to make of this. Mostly they just stayed out of the kitchen. Josh though, had to ask me something and ventured into the kitchen. Suddenly the peacock whistled and Josh covered his ears for a split second and then covered his crotch and ran out of the room. (sorry if I offend anyone) I thought, how the heck did he know to protect himself and why? I couldn't stop cracking up. I'm laughing right now and it happened before New Years.

Holly's answer

For dinner tonight we had teriyaki chicken over rice and stir fry vegetables. Holly inhaled her rice and asked for seconds. While she was gobbling down the second helping of rice I asked Holly, " You really love rice, huh?" Basic head nod yes. So then I asked, " Are you part Polynesian?". She just looked up and said, "No, I'm a sunbeam".

Is Wal-Mart evil or is it something else

This weekend was my big once a month grocery shopping. I was in Wal-Mart, one of my big four stores I go to this big trip, my last store. I had to get minutes for my phone and light bulbs and as I was cruising toward the grocery part of the store and I thought "Wal-Mart is evil. (don't you dialog with yourself while you shop?) hear I am just trying to stay in budget and get food for my family and Wal-Mart tempts me as I have to walk from light bulbs on one side of the store to food on the other side. I see you colorful bath towels. Yes, I would like a drapery rod and drapes." then I start thinking "I need a paper shredder and a new cricut and scrapbook paper....wait! I don't need that stuff. Oh... Wal-mart you are so evil trying to get me to buy other stuff while I am just trying to innocently grocery shop. Wal-Mart is EEEEVVVILLL. Stacey, get a grip! Wal-Mart isn't evil your the one that is losing self control, get it together. You're in charge her, not some store!" Yeah I had this monologue with myself in about 30 seconds.

So, is Wal-Mart evil or is my appetite to have more evil? HHHMMM

Blast off! and tubes

When you go to a doctors office and you see a scary chair you make it something else. No one wanted to sit in this chair at the doctors office, until mommy mentioned it looks like a rocket ship chair. Then they couldn't wait to get in it.

This was at Josh's nose, throat and ear doctor. It turns out Josh still has fluid trapped in his hears so he will be getting tubes put in his ears Jan. 21st. It is an in-out procedure that should only take 20 minutes. Hope he doesn't go hysteric. I am excited to see if he can hear better and in return have his speech improve. We shall see.

Sleepy girls

The other day Josh had a late afternoon drs appt. So thought pick him up from school and get Holly to sleep ASAP. Unfortunately, Holly didn't have the same game plan. She thought it would be better to sit in her room for an hour. Then she would come out like she had been asleep. When she cracked open her door after the hour, Josh said "Mommy that's Holly.". I just said loudly, "It can't be she hasn't taken her nap yet". Next thing your hear is the door closing slowly and Holly getting back on her bed. Well, the best that I can put together after that is she sat on her bed in the middle of all her stuffed animals and gave in to sleep.

Sad for her, mommy came in 20 minutes later and made her wake-up. It took a while she was in a deep sleep. The first picture was taken after I had been saying "Hoolllyyyy wake up" for five minutes finally I got louder, went and got my camera and got louder. The second picture is after tickling her feet. The third is after I said "Holly you have to get up now"!

She was not a happy camper. Lesson- Maybe mommies know what they're talking about! (from a mommy point of view). Lesson- Mommies make silly plans and then doesn't even let me sleep. (from a kids point of view)

Smarter than I think

Everyday when Josh gets home, Holly goes down for her nap and Josh and I do homework time. We always read 2 books. He picks one for himself and one for me to read. Then we do homework his teacher sends home. Sometimes on short weeks he doesn't get homework, or on days when he finishes early I will have him do some extra stuff.

Today was one of those days. We practiced writing all his letters lower and upper case. I know I am such a mean mom. ( I did it too to make a game out of it.) Then we went through all the flashcards of the words he is suppose to know by the end of the year. I was so proud he knows them all now. So, we took it to the next level. I told Josh we were going to put a sentence together. I gave him a pile of words that were pronouns, then verbs and so forth. This is the sentence he put together.
He then looks at me and says, "So, can I go play now?" He is smarter than I give him credit for!

The twist!

I tried to do this hairdo once before and totally failed. This time I thought it came out pretty well. Holly even slept with it during nap before church and it still looked decent. I was pretty stoked! (I know stoked. Looks like I had to go back to the eighties for that one.)