WARNING

SOME PERV. JUST TRIED TO JOIN MY BLOG, SO I'M GOING PRIVATE. DISTURBING.

However, If I am mistaken and the dirty pervert would like to identify himself and you end up being someone I know, I'm still going private because I don't like to look at your "friends" and see naked people. Nothing personal.

Forced to be "green"

Our waste disposal company has instituted a new garbage system. They dropped off three new garbage cans. One for yard waste, one GIGANTIC can for recycling and one microscopic can for trash. And, by the way, they are now only collecting trash every other week.

Don't get me wrong, I think recycling is great and we already do it, so it's not a huge change for us except for one minor detail...I could fill that tiny garbage can with diapers in three days. If anyone dare suggest I start using cloth diapers, I will immediately delete you as my friend. I love the earth and I will do what I can to reduce reuse and recycle, as long as that doesn't include scrubbing out and laundering cloth diapers. I'm pretty sure I would enjoy this beautiful earth more sane, than I would from the barred window of a padded room.

That's not exactly what I meant

I was sweeping the kitchen floor and as always there was a giant pile of cereal, and half eaten this or that. As I was getting ready to scoop it up and throw it in the trash, I called the girls into the kitchen for their snack. They all came running in and sat at the table...except for Heidi who sat right in the middle of my pile and started picking out the cereal and shoving it in her mouth. Not the snack I was talking about, but whatever work I guess!

Family Pictures

We took family pictures last Thursday. For the most part, it went well. It was the perfect day, cloudy and overcast and at the end it started to sprinkle. Heidi baby didn't think it was a very good idea to take pictures, but she was a trooper and my friend got some good shots of her. Here are the first few she has showed me, I'll get more in a couple weeks.

Every coin has two sides

I was listening to a CD in the car the other day. One of the songs says, "...you can do what you want." Then I heard Yaya's little voice from the back seat, "I can't do what I want. Only if you and Dad died. Then I could do what I want."

On the flip side

Yaya recently has really been looking out for Lars. She will come into him while he is studying and ask him if he is hungry and then make him a delicious peanut butter sandwich or bring him a bowl of cereal. She very tenderly hugs him and tells him she loves him and misses him all the time. It really is quite sweet.

Liar Liar Pants On Fire

Just a couple more examples of Yaya's bold face lies :)

I needed to return a chocolate fountain to my friend that I had borrowed for a party. I loaded the stuff and Yaya and Heidi into the car and strapped the girls into their five point harness car seats. I ran inside to get something and when I got back to the car, Heidi was holding a piece of the chocolate fountain. I asked how Heidi got it and Yaya explained, "She unbuckled her car seat, jumped down and took it." Really? And then did she buckle herself back in? "Yup." Huh.


Today I was in the bathroom and Heidi was in there with me. Apparently Yaya needed to use the facilities, but instead of telling me, she went into the laundry room and peed on the floor. I went into the laundry room a few minutes later and noticed her changing her undies. So I asked her if she had an accident. "No," she corrected me, "Heidi came in here and took off her diaper and peed on the floor." So I once again explained what lying was, using her most recent one as an example and then put her in a time out. When I got her out of her time out I asked her if she knew why I had put her in there. She sweetly answered, "Because I forgot it was against the rules to tell a lie."

Another new obsession...will it ever stop?!

My friend just taught me how to make these super cute hair bows. Considering I have four girls who always beg me to buy them bows and then promptly loose them, this newly acquired skill may come in quite handy!

Eensy Weensy Spider

This morning I was sitting in the living room, when I overheard some ruckus in Leah's bedroom. "All for one, and one for all and one for the wall!" WHACK! "EWWWW! There are guts and legs all over my wall!" Poor spider. Never had a chance.

should i be worried?

Yaya, my little one horned devil, is a LIAR. She straight face lies to me hourly. I'll give you two examples from this morning alone!

1. There is a strict food stays in the kitchen rule in my house. Yaya came running into the kitchen from her bedroom yelling, "Heidi made a mess with yogurt!" So I went back to her bedroom and there was yogurt all over the bed and carpet. Sure enough Heidi had a cup of yogurt and spoon in her hands, so I figured she must have grabbed it off the table and taken it back there. As I was cleaning it up I noticed it was not only on the bottom bunk bed, but also on the ladder going up to the top bunk and on that sheet as well. I also found a hot dog on the top bunk with pencil holes poked in it. The more likely story was that Yaya brought the yogurt up to the top bunk and dropped it before Heidi got the yogurt cup and ran off with it.

2. Yaya was standing on the chair eating a broken off chunk of chapstick. I asked her to hand it to me. She innocently handed it over with the explanation, "Heidi did it." I then asked her for the tube of chapstick, which she also had in her possession. She handed it to me with the explanation, "Heidi had it." Really? Like I couldn't see you standing two inches from me chewing on the broken off chapstick ?

I don't want to give her a lot of attention about lying and somehow adversely encourage her to lie even more. I have explained to her countless times what lying is and why it's important to tell the truth but like everything else in life, she just doesn't believe the the rules apply to HER! Help!!