HICCUP

I love it when Mackey gets the hiccups.
He is always confused but thinks it is so funny!

This is how you give yourself a Heart-Attack...

Spray a fine mist of thisover every piece of living room furniture that you own,
without realizing it when you intended to pickup this instead.Thank goodness the heavens happened to be shining down on me at that moment because for some unknown reason it did not bleach a SINGLE spot on the fabric.

And I sprayed a lot.
Seriously nothing short of a miracle in my book.

And I even manage to survive all of this after barely getting over*The Dry-Erase Marker Incident of '09, in which Darling Mackey, age 2, thought it would be fun to draw on EVERY cushion and pillow (for a total of 16) of the furniture mentioned above with a lovely, blue Dry-Erase marker. I was so horrified he was lucky that he looks like this
I was so applaud at the sight that I did not take the time to document his handy work with the camera, but don't worry the image is still burned into my mind. And all I can say is thank goodness for Magic Erasers. With their help most of it came out.
*This is not to be confused with The Dry-Erase Maker Incident of "07 in which Darling Emily, also age 2 at the time, decided that drawing on the couch with a lovely blue Dry-Erase Marker would be a great way to show off her budding artistic abilities and send some attention her way on the day after her new baby brother came home from the hospital.

Who keeps leaving out the Dry-Erase Markers anyways?

This is how you give your mother a Heart-Attack

Today we are headed out to my nieces birthday party. It made me think about her birthday last year, which I never got around to blogging about at the time, but the events of that day definitely deserve a post.So this is Rachel.
She is the middle child.
She is the sweet, creative child.
She is the emotional child.
She has 3 sisters.
I can understand Rachel and the lot she has in life.
This is Rachel's dad.
He is cheap. Very cheap.
He has 4 daughters.
This is Rachel's older sister Coral.
She is the firstborn.
Last year for her birthday she got to have a party at
Hollywood Connection.
She got to invite whoever she wanted.

Rachel didn't make the cut.
And for some reason their parents went along with it.

Rachel was sad.
Rachel was emotional.
Rachel's dad, in an attempt to console his middle daughter told her that when it was her birthday, he would take her to
Wal-Mart and she could choose anything she wanted.

Did I mention above that Rachel is smart?
No?

Rachel had 3 months to make her plan.
And when August 2nd rolled around,
Rachel chose this....

And the only thing her dad could do was buy it for her.
And I laughed.

And now just for kicks...can you believe how young my babies looked just 1 year ago?

GROSS!!!!

If you were outside weeding the garden and your 4 yr. old, tomboy of a daughter beckoned for your attention, and you turned around to see this:

Would you-
a) gag a little on the contents of your stomach which are now in your throat.
b) laugh to yourself at how your 11 yr. old son looks like he is going to faint before he quickly snaps out of it and launches into a tirade about how disgusted he is and how he would NEVER allow that.
c) go grab your camera and capture the slimy moment before plucking the little nasties off, tossing them over the fence into your bad neighbor's yard, and giving the Snail Queen an antibacterial scrub down while listening to her lament about the loss of her 5 precious friends.
d) All of the above


I chose D.

Another Note to Self

If your 2 year old brings you a jar of pickles and a popsicle while you are on the computer, don't open the popsicle, give him a pickle and continue checking your email, read several new blog post in Google Reader, or pay a few bills for the next half an hour to 45 min. Instead, it might be a good idea to go upstairs and check the doors to the fridge & freezer because there is a good chance that they are probably standing wide open.

Note to Self

The next time you get the urge to make lemon bars simply because they sound scrumptious, resist.
Especially if:

a)Ryan is working a double shift,
b)Isac is away at scout camp and
c)Mack & Emily are too young to really appreciate them

Because if you do you will probably end up eating at least half of them, maybe even 3/4 of them, all by yourself.

And then you will regret it.

And you probably won't want to eat lemon bars for a really, really long time.