our tooth fairy

Simeon has come to the conclusion that we must have a really sorry tooth fairy, as he or she has forgotten to come about 4 out of the 8 teeth he has lost. When I told him I actually saw the tooth fairy, he asked me to describe him. I looked over at his dad, and said he was tall, good looking, MALE, and had an orange shirt and no wings....and I kissed him! He was very disappointed

Fwd: Simeon

Simeon filled his cheeks up with juice and spit it in the bathroom sink (and all over the bathroom mirror in the process) and yelled, "Help! I'm bleeding!" He was required to clean it up of course.

Fwd: Elvis

We were telling stories last night of our lizard and how many times he's been lost. There were only 5 times that he was SERIOUSLY lost. Once we found him up in a tree, once in the garden, once, high up on a bookshelf (?!), once hanging onto the back of the mane of the little wooden rocking horse, and another time he got left outside all night in freezing temperatures. He was stiff as a board but he thawed out nicely under running water.

Food For Jesus

While sitting at the table, Jude said, “Momma, we are eating food for our heart, so Jesus can eat too.”

He realizes that Jesus lives in his heart and that He may get hungry from time to time.

New Words...

Hope can now say:

 

“Ah Oh!”

 

Irresponsible Tooth Fairy

After waking early the other morning and eagerly looking under his pillow to see what might have been left there, our 7 year old, Simeon was quick to ask “Why has the Tooth Fairy forgotten 4 out of 8 of my teeth?

Charissa asked him if he wanted us to hire a new one since the one we have is doing such a horrible job. I guess 50% just isn’t good enough for him.

$12.95 A Bushel

I eagerly jumped at the chance to purchase 1 bushel of good old July corn on the cob. The kids had been talking about how good the corn was just a few days before.

Well, today they said, why do we have to eat corn for every meal Mom? I guess they didn’t like it as much as I thought.

I guess I lost my fresh fruit market hunting job.

Liesel's honesty

After a short experiment withholding sugar from our children last week (no positive results noticed) the kids enrolled in Vacation Bible School. So last night Liesel was crying in her bed and I went to ask her what happened. She said she was sad that all the other kids got to eat snacks but she didn’t. I asked why didn’t she get a snack. “Remember? Daddy said we can’t have sugar?” Come to find out, she had turned down snacks offered to her, telling everyone she is not allowed to eat sugar. So dad went and got her a popsicle to reward her honesty.

Big News

Hope crawled up the stairs today!

Jesus in the sky

Looking out the back seat window, Jude commented that he could see Jesus up in the clouds, and that Jesus was waving to him. When I asked him what he was saying, Jude said, He said, “Jude, can I come live in your house with you?

 

Liesel showing honor

Two weeks ago I put a new rule in place to limit the amount of sugar intake for all the kids. Well, only 1 kid took me seriously. Liesel.

 

On our way home after the second night of VBS, Liesel was crying and we couldn’t figure out why. After mom investigated and asked all of the right questions she found that she didn’t get a special cookie at church. Mom asked, “Why?”. Liesel replied, “Mom, don’t you remember? Dad said we can’t have any more sugar”

 

She had been faithfully denying sugar for 2 days in the midst of a sugar invested environment. She made me proud. I ended up giving her a popsicle stick to show her how much I appreciated her faithfulness.

Sunday School Teachers note...

As reported by Judes teacher:

 

-        He liked playing with play dough

-        His disposition was cheerful and Mischievous

-        Very nice but made dog poop a lot with playdough

Wal-Mart 2

It was another hecktic day and time to go to the store and get some groceries. Once again, Jude proves to be the guy cracking all the good ones.

This time, at the checkout was a rather large lady that had large fore-arms. One glance at the lady, and Jude says real loud, "Wow mom, that lady has big muscles, right?"

Wal-Mart 1

We were at Wal-Mart. Our 3 year old had just had a good talking to about not commenting on people's weight. Well, wouldn't you know it, the only check-out line available has a rather large person working the cash register.

So, Jude leans over to mom and says in a voice loud enough for all around to hear, "She's big, right?"