Farming

Our nephew (who I need to come up with a nickname for) came over last week to farm with us for the afternoon. He loved everything about it and didn't want to stay out of a combine or semi or tractor for very long.

Ashley Tisdale

Stinkerbell just came into the room and said, "Excuse me, I'm bringing Ashley Tisdale in to play."

Hmmm, perhaps a few too many rounds of High School Musical???

I've found many things in my washing machine...kleenex, money, notes, even corn and soybeans. But today's find takes the cake...cards...playing cards...a whole deck of playing cards.

I vaguely remember seeing the firstborn take a deck of cards somewhere at sometime. Unfortunately, this thought didn't occur to me BEFORE doing the laundry.

Towels vs. Underwear

I just found myself saying the following to Stinkerbell...

"Don't dry your mouth off using your underwear."

And yes, she was wearing the pair she was trying to use.

My son, the traffic cone

Today was orange day at school...enough said!

Fancy restaurant

Dash and Stinkerbell are in a wedding next month.

Stinkerbell: I am so 'cited for the wedding. Can we go get ice cream after the wedding?

Me: Well, no, but there will be a party after the wedding. After weddings, there is usually a party.

Stinkerbell: There is?

Me: Yep, and we'll have to go to a party the night before too. We'll have practice and then we'll go out to eat at a restaurant after that.

Stinkerbell: At McDonalds?

Me: No not at McDonalds. It will be a nice restaurant.

Stinkerbell: Like Wendy's?

Me: No it will be fancy.

Stinkerbell: (excitement mounting) Ohhhh, you mean like McAllisters?

At least she'll be easy to impress on a date someday.

Staci's surprise party

Stinkerbell and Dash just invited me to Staci's surprise party, held in Stinkerbell's bedroom. They decorated a cake for her, and then suddenly she was at the door and we had to hide. Stinkerbell ran around and found someplace for the cake to cool, while Dash was manning the door to let Staci in. Stinkerbell and I hid...then Dash decided to climb under a blanket. I then pointed out that someone needed to let Staci in. So Dash went to the door and let her in. We all yelled, "surprise", including Staci's friends who were hiding with us.

Dash hopped up on Stinkerbell's bed and said, "Staci's friends love me. Get back, girls, get back."

So right now, I'm not sure if I'm more disturbed that we had a surprise party for an imaginary boxer...or that my 6 year old thinks he's a chick magnet.

"The Reason I'm not in choir is..."

Dash has been in preschool choir at our church for the last 2 years. He really seemed to like it and tried hard to follow along with and learn all the motions. He had lots of friends from preschool and church at practice and he enjoyed that part too. He talked about being excited to graduate from preschool choir to school aged choir this year. So, naturally when sign up time came, I promptly went to the sign up table and snagged a registration sheet. I was NOT going to be bad mom and totally forget to sign him up or anything like that. No, sirree, I had my boy signed up that first Sunday.

On the way home from church that Sunday, I told him that I had signed him up for choir. And he promptly told me that he didn't want to be in choir. After the shock wore off, I asked him why. I never really got an answer about why, just that he didn't want to. I waited a week or so and talked to him again...still not interested. So, with my head hung low, I went to the registration table and "unregistered" my child. Of course, I had to answer the questions: "Why isn't he interested? He seemed to have so much fun last year." And of course, my answer was, "I don't know."

Well, fast forward to tonight, about 5 weeks later. Stinkerbell is in drama mode because she doesn't understand why his choir had sign up already. Why hasn't her choir started? And why can't Dash go with her this year? But whyyyyyy? During tonight's whining session, er, I mean discussion, Dash informed her why he was not in choir.

"The reason why I am not in choir is because I didn't want to have to go to the bathroom in the middle of a song."

I did follow up to find out if this had been a problem last year. He told me it had been but just during a practice. Apparently, that one instance left quite an impression on him...and has ended all chances of an American Idol appearance in the future.