Joker

This morning the girls were sitting around the table eating breakfast and telling jokes. After Leah and Naomi had told every possible "Why did the chicken cross the road?" joke they could come up with, Yaya decided to give it a try...with a twist.

Yaya-"How did the cow cross the road?"

Naomi rolled her eyes and said flatly, "He walked."

So much for that!

The girl who cried wolf

This morning Yaya was playing on the computer and chewing some gum.

Yaya-"Mom, could I have another piece of gum?"

Me- "What happened to your other piece?"

Y-"It fell out of my mouth."

Me-"Out of your mouth into your stomach?"

Y-"No, onto the floor."

Me- "O.K." I responded, immediately knowing she was lying again, "Get down from the chair and find it."

Y-"I can't."

Thankfully Lars was in the kitchen as well. We exchanged a silent look, ensuring we were on the same page, but I still couldn't pull it off with a straight face.

Lars-"Yaya, turn off the computer and find your gum."

Immediately Yaya's lip started to tremble and her eyes filled up with tears. For some reason it's not as easy to lie to Daddy.

Y-"I can't (sniffle) find it (sniffle)."

L-"If you just admit that you swallowed it, you can turn the computer back on."

Yaya's whole face lit up with excitement for this unexpected easy out.

Y-"Ok. I swallowed it."

At that moment I had to turn around and hide my face so she couldn't see me laughing. Lars then sternly reprimanded her for lying, and then took the time to tell her the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Maybe it sunk in this time???

Pumpkin Carving

Leah, Naomi, Heidi and Yaya on their pumpkins

falling off their pumpkins!

Heidi baby

Leah and Yaya

Naomi's slimy pumpkin hand

Leah digging and Heidi...helping

Heidi

Heidi

the finished pumpkins

Leah, Naomi and Yaya by their respective pumpkins

(Heidi was one tired little pumpkin)

Last night for Family Home Evening we carved pumpkins. Leah tackled hers all on her own this year. She cleaned it all out and cut out the design on her own. I was rather impressed with the finished product. Naomi drew a picture of the face she wanted and Lars carved it. We asked Yaya to draw a picture of the face she wanted on hers, so she drew a circle, two dots for the eyes, one dot for the nose and a big thin line for the mouth. After we explained that was virtually impossible to carry out on a pumpkin, she revamped her design and came up with Bucky here. I took the artistic liberty from Heidi's scribbles to come up with her pumpkin design :)

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."