Meet the Students

This week, iHN is hosting a “Meet the Students” round up.  Last week I missed out on the share your classroom because:
1.  My classroom didn’t change from last year
and
2.  It was so messy I didn’t want to share it. [I briefly thought about reposting pictures from last year, but didn’t].  And Mom before you email me, it’s only about an hours work to get it fixed, it just hasn’t risen to the top of my things I desperately want to do list.
oh and
3.  I want to rearrange it, again.  You know for the millionth time.

But, I love to brag on my kids.  I do it all the time.  So here they are from oldest to youngest.

Superman loves to play with Legos.  He’s taken to carrying around his box of Legos with him everywhere, you know, in case he doesn’t have anything to play with.  He loves to play with his brother and on Lego video games. Superman is going to work with his Daddy when he grows up and be a programmer, then he’ll come home and work on making things.

Batman is all of 2 minutes younger than his brother.  He’s my idea kid.  Batman always has a plan for something to do, and he wants to go and do it now.  Right now he wants to be an inventor when he grows up, but he’s not sure if that’s all he wants to do.

Princess is all girl.  She loves to play horses and “family,” and loves to be right in the thick of things.  You’ll frequently hear her crying out “Brothers” as she wanders through the house looking for them.  She’s my social butterfly and is 5 going on 13.  Start saying prayers for me, because when she hits 13, watch out.  She’s never going to give in to peer pressure, but she might be the one who leads the kids in a hair brained scheme.  When Princess grows up she’s going to do something with her brothers, but she doesn’t know what.  “There’s just so many things to do Mommy.”


Aren’t my kiddos adorable?

Come back next week and if I’m feeling brave I’ll show you a day in our life………..  Of course that requires I’m organized and actually write down what we do………..

My Memories of the boys’ party

I posted earlier my quick tips for our Carnival Party.  It was an exciting adventure, you see it was supposed to be an outside party, but this is what it looked like outside.

Yes, that is standing water.  And it was raining pretty hard that day.  So plans changed, and we scrapped some games that REQUIRED being outdoors (archery), and generally changed plans.

 

That morning we iced the cake.

No one will ever pin these cakes as examples to decorate, but that wasn’t my goal.  It was to let my kids have a blast decorating.

When all the kids got here we started decorating, I wish I’d thought to get a picture of all the kids waiting to head upstairs.  I was practically mobbed.

 

My sister in law kindly agreed to paint faces, didn’t she do an amazing job on that butterfly?

 

Everyone was quite happy.  The boys loved their presents.

 

And afterwards it was a “leisurely” afternoon of putting together legos.

Well, for the boys.  The Girl spent the afternoon playing with my secret weapon of little doggies for the afternoon.

 

And next week, I will hopefully return to a more normal posting schedule, but we took an impromptu Spring Break this week when I discovered we were having an inside party.

Superman and Batman are SEVEN!

How did they get SO OLD?

But, you know what?

 

I wouldn’t trade a moment of it.  Okay, maybe some moments…….

Do your dolls play hide and seek?

Because ours do……….

 

I went to unload the dishwasher and start the next mound of dishes from my being sick and discovered Manta Ray hiding up there.

 

I’ve been told to go look in the freezer, someone else might be hiding there.

Really Batman, you’re a baby?

I’ve been slowly working on my house and go back and forth on having 3 of the rooms upstairs under control (mind that was when I first worked on this draft, now the kids have trashed one of those because of Christmas), and started working on the kitchen with the small step of cleaning out one cabinet that hasn’t been cleaned out since the kids were babies.

How do I know this, well it was filled with baby bottles, filthy bibs, and various things you need when nursing a baby……..

He thought it was quite hilarious to put the bib on himself and start feeding himself water soup from the baby bowl using the baby spoon.  I have had more fights over the one functional bottle that was found this week than I would have thought.  But, it’s all boxed up and off to Salvation Army.

Okay, the bibs were all thrown away once I got them off of Batman's neck.

Guess what my boys are starting?

They might be a little excited about this.  And by a little, the day they started they spent all day asking “Is it time yet?”

Beware the salad monsters

Saying my boys like salad would be an understatement.  The little bandits are quite sneaky about it, or not so sneaky.

 

It started with a simple invade Daddy’s salad, and eat it all.  Then they started reaching across to mine…….

 

We gave in and gave them the last scraps in the bowl and that’s when the true fiendishness started.  TWO FORKS APIECE, and then Batman upped the ante with THREE FORKS.

 

Only problem is it’s not super effective for actually getting the food to your mouth.

You shall not pass

I AM the MEAN Mommy…….

who makes her children clean the bathroom.  And I bet you didn’t know it takes 3 FULL spray bottles of vinegar to get that tiny powder bathroom clean……

What is needed to sleep in my bed according to Batman

Batman got into trouble for talking too much to his brother last week.  So we sent him down to our room to fall asleep.  Here’s what I found on my bed when we came to get him out:

Hungry hungry hippo, jumping ring for toy ponies; lead Batman figure

bag of rocks in fancy bag; science textbook

book of sticky note airplanes you know for the paper you don’t have, dog

mini-foosball game

 

I’m surprised that was all.