What's in your tummy?

During dinner today Maria was ferociously gulping her milk down, in between swallows she managed to say that she was going to make her cauliflower float.

This kid is going to be a lawyer

We have been buying the 6 pack "Yo Baby!" yogurts for a long time. Joshua quickly developed a preference for the blueberry flavor, but it is paired with the apple cinnamon which has always been the last to be eaten in our house. In fact, sometimes it can be a real chore to get the kids to eat the apple flavor.

Today while the kids were devouring the blueberry yogurts Anna held an apple yogurt in her hand and reasoned with the kids: "if nobody eats the apple yogurts I am going to have to stop buying the blueberry."

Joshua quickly looked up and with an air of confidence that he had found the solution said, "Ok Mom, you eat the apple."

(needless to say we looked at eachother and could not hold in our laughter)

What was God thinking?

This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. I had no idea these creaturs existed, and I have a tough time understanding how this breed of goats ever survived.


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If you think this is funny please comment with your reaction.

Driving along in my automobile...

I would not appreciate it much if foreigners were driving around my city bumping into my car. Yes, it appears that our military has a hummer-driving policy designed to keep our troops from being "sitting ducks." They accomplish this by never stopping, and that involves them bumping into cars and driving like complete idiots. I am not posting this to say I am "for" or "against" the war, but this video caught my attention and I wanted others to see it too.

(watch out for the foul american language in the very last seconds of this clip)

According to rocketboom, the hummers our troops are driving do not provide adequate protection from ambush like other upgraded hummers. This weakness has caused hundreds of US deaths since the start of the war. The response: a driving policy that would make any body's blood boil.

Confidence

This weekend we were at our relatives house following a wedding. Maria was jumping between a big footrest and a couch. The distanc was not too great, but after a few close calls I told her she was making me nervous. She looked at me with great compassion and said, "its ok, you can go in the kitchen while I jump."

Winter Camping

The kids called me at work yesterday and asked if they could go camping in a tent then the snow stopped. I was so excited at the prospect of setting up a tent and braving the cold, that I set up the tent as soon as I got home. It was so much fun we slept in it all night. We had lots of warm blankets and we snuggled up close, because it was a bit chilly during the night.
We did sleep in the tent last night, and we did turn the heat down, but we set the tent up in the living room...but for the sake of journalism we thought more people would read a sensational story.

Math

Last night before bed Joshua's mind was full of math, he was counting the number of segments, or bars, that made up each number of our digital clock. "Eight has the most", he said.
So we started quizzing him on it: "How many bars does nine have?"
"Six" he corretly responed.
After that we asked him addition and subtraction questions, we used m&m's a our medium of exchange and after a few minutes it got pretty silly.
We started out with "Mom has 2 m&m's and you give her 3 how many would she have?" But then he kept adding them one by one, "if I gave you one more you'de have 6, and if I gave you one more you'de have 7..."
When he got to around 20 I tried to change things up and asked, "What if you asked foe them back Josh?" Without missing a beat he answered, "She would give them to me."
That non-math response was so unexpected it made us laugh. But Josh continued giving mom m&m's and adding up the total until he reached 30, then he stopped and said, ok the rest are for me."

Jelly Fish

Joshua's favorite creature is the jellyfish. He loves to learn about them on the national geographic website or from books we get him at the library. He has the most incredible imagination and will come up with detailed stories about "swimming with Iukandji jellyfish," or getting "stung by the Portuguese Man-of-War."

I came up with a craft idea and made some jellyfish with Joshua out of egg cartons and pipe cleaners. After we were finished I was looking for a pen to draw a face. I began walking away from Joshua when he spotted a pen near him and quickly blurted out, "there's a pen over here honey!" Kids are like sponges and they soak up everything we say...it's a good thing we don't have the bad habit of swearing.

Maria is 28

During dinner today I made a homemade blue frozen Margarita. The kids were totally engrossed in it and wanted desperately for a taste. Both Maria and Josh asked, "please can I have some dad."
I responded appropriately, "you can have some when you're 21."
Maria, not really realizing what than meant, but wanting a drink all the same, replied, "I'm 28."

Tractor-tipping with Lightning and Mater

Joshua really likes the Pixar movie "Cars", and so do Anna and I. Joshua loves to reenact some of his favorite parts including the tractor-tipping scene where Lighting McQueen and Mater have a romp in the cow field. The first video is the actual scene, the second is Joshua's version. I posted this at the request of my sister Charlotte, enjoy!





for another version of Joshua's acting, click here.