If looks could kill

This picture is deceiving.  He looks like he is plotting my death.  Actually, he was having a grand ol' time!  Scary.  

Alabaster week three

I am very annoyed because somehow I missed a day.  For the life of me I cannot figure out what day is missing.  Grrr.  Alabaster's week consisted of "fishing", taking a ride on a lamb on a cloud, hiding in the Christmas tree, playing in Brendan's  underwear drawer, hanging from some lights, and catching on his Nintendo game.  Lord knows what he did the other day.  We are on our final week now...

There will be a party in heaven tomorrow

Alabaster week 2

I am realizing now that you can't really see these pictures very well.  Use your imaginations a bit. 

Day 8 a boring day, he was hiding on the TV.

Day 9 he got ahold of a dry erase marker and drew glasses on Brendan's picture and a moustache on Brendan.

Day 10 he was found sipping some Starbucks coffee.

Day 11 he was building a marshmallow snowman.

Day 12 he made a campfire was was roasting marshmallows.

Day 13 he was hanging from the ceiling fan.

Day 14 he was zip lining thru the living room.

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Papa's troop

Ashley was home for a week and we tried to get pictures with all five kids cooperating.  It never happened.  Sad to say that this is the best we got of all five with my dad.  As you can tell, Owen was the most cooperative.  Typical.  

Just a side note.  This is my 400th post.  In case you care.  

Meet Alabaster Fluffer-Paws

Alabaster Fluffer-Paws is our Elf on the Shelf.  He showed up last Monday morning.  He brought snow covered donuts and hot chocolate for breakfast.  Brendan found him sitting on the kitchen table.  He's magical,  you know?  He watches the boys all day long and once they go to bed at night he goes back to the North Pole to tell Santa whether they've been naughty or nice.  When they get up in the morning he's hiding somewhere and they have to find him.  The first night Brendan and Owen were not going to sleep like they were supposed to so in the morning they were reminded to behave themselves.  Alabaster left a note on the dry erase board.  He was reminding Brendan not to forget to brush his teeth.  Day four was kind of tricky.  Neither Brendan or Dad could find him.  He was hiding way up high in the kitchen from the leaf mobile reminding me that fall is over and it's time to break out the Xmas decorations (I've yet to listen).  He had an elf/gnome pow wow one day.  I think he was recruiting help.  Saturday morning he was in fridge.  And Sunday he was hiding among the stuff animals.  I think he was watching E.T.!!

More adventures of Alabaster are to come over the next couple weeks.

So many books, so little time.

This is how I found Owen when I went to tuck in Brendan.

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Out of the mouths of babes

Babe is a really annoying word, just for the record. 

When we tell Brendan and Owen stories people often ask if we are writing these things down.  The answer is no, but I should be.  I often share things on Facebook but that's it.  So I decided to start a recurring "out of the mouths of babes" post of things they say for my own record.

The other night Jeremy tucked Brendan in bed.  Before he left the room, he checked to be sure Owen was covered up.  As he was pulling the blankets up Brendan said "You better not wake him up, Dad, or Mom will be PISSED!"  I don't know where he hears such things.

Yesterday Jeremy was singing Adele's "Rumor Has It".  The line is "now rumor has it she ain't got your love anymore".  To which Brendan asks "What does Uma have" (uma is our cat for those who don't know) "and if you don't want her to have it, take it away!"  Logical.

Last weekend Brendan played with Maddy.  When we got home that night he came in the room and said "Mom, did you know that last weekend the Big Bad Wolf huffed and puffed and blew Maddy's house down?"  I played along and gasped in disbelief and said "I didn't know that!"  He then said "YEAH!  Then she had to rebuild it again out of bricks ALL BY HERSELF!"  Poor Maddy!

To be continued...

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Saturday

Saturday morning was a lazy day.  We pretty much spent the whole morning staring at the TV.  Nothing like six hours of Team Umizoomi.  (for the record, I was the one glued to the couch the whole time.  Brendan and Owen watched a bit but spent the majority of the time playing.  BUT, every time I try to stand up or change the channel all hell breaks loose).

After we finally peeled ourselves off the couch we got dressed and went for haircuts.  Poor Owen, he has the thinnest, lightest hair ever.  Now that it's cut again he looks like he is bald.  Brendan's, on the other hand, is actually thickening up.

Me and my Maddy

On Saturday we went to Gramma's for a bit to play with Maddy.  Brendan took her for a spin around the living room in the Lego wagon.  I'm not quite sure how she didn't get her little rump stuck in that wagon.  Who needs Radio Flyer??

More fun than that, Uncle Tony was there too.  90% of the time he had one of the kids climbing on him.

I have no clue what Maddy is doing here, but I kind of think that maybe Brendan is considering a career in  hair?