Tooth Fairy bloopers

So AJ lost a molar maybe 2 weeks ago, and for some really odd reason the tooth fairy hadn't come yet by this weekend when he pulled out another molar. I think the tooth fairy was trying to figure out what the going rate for molars these days. Really she needs to keep a journal where she records what previous children got. Well we were at costco and AJ saw a bag of really cool gold chocolate coins in a bad he clearly loved and so I went back a day later and got it. By this time AJ was thinking the darn fairy needed some serious help. SOOO last night he put the teeth in a bag and taped it to the wall by his bed! I am not joking, 5 pieces of crinkly loud tape right by his head. So I stay up late, reading duh, and about 1 I go in there and start trying to peel off the tape. You have never heard such annoying loud tape, and of course it's late which makes everything funny, so I'm snickering, because there is no other word for the laughing I was doing, peeling tape hovering over Connors bed to reach the area by AJ's head. Finally the 5th piece I figured I was going to do it like a band aid and I ripped it off and up AJ sits, so I put my hand with the bag behind my back and I say " hey I just wanted to be the first person to wish you a happy birthday since it's past midnight" and he smiles and lays back down, whew. So I come back with the bag of chocolates and as soon as I step in the room he sits up so I say" hey just wanted to make sure you weren't too hot", he says no. So about 2 I try again and up he sits and I say "hey just wanted to see if you wanted your fan off". At that point the heck with it and I went to bed. So at 6:15 as I was waking him up I slid my hand under the pillow with the candy which of course scratched loudly up the bed rather than gliding as simple money would have done. But needless to say he is very happy and EXTREMELY happy with the generous tooth fairy.

Elles letter to AJ

Dear AJ I no (know) we are not giting (getting) good well. I wus theckin (thinking) thae we kod (could) be nes (nice) to eoh chuder (each other). But if you dot have to do it if you dot have to do it. (i think its trying to say you dont have to if you dont want to.) but if you dot well den you have to have to be yif (with) the enoen (annoying) Elle. From Elle
Pretty clear cut terms huh, be nice or I'm going to be annoying. reminds me of some letters I wrote Mom and Dad about my brothers.

Bedtime Energy

Ok it's 8:30 at night and all I want to do is curl up in bed and read and then sleep, but AJ and Elle have no such compulsion. Here is what they look like at bedtime!!

MMMmmm chocolate... ummm chocolate?

Was anyone worried that I would go a week without something embarrassing, bizarre, or annoying happening? Well have no fear it's happened again. I was standing outside my sister in laws house holding what was left of our cheesecake and a bottle of Hersey's syrup in a bag talking to my in laws for about 5 minutes when I felt something on my foot. I look down and my belt, thigh and leg are covered in Hersey's syrup. My belt is positively dripping with chocolate. It kinda looked like when you are at the beach and you let wet sand drip through your fingers to make a drip castle, but chocolate and it's of course everywhere. Everyone had a great laugh and I once AGAIN am forced to wash my jeans just when they were fitting perfectly!!!

School picture follies

Ok so I didn't buy AJ and Elle's school pictures and they turned out darling so I ordered Matt and Connors, and THIS is what Matt did. He finds it very humorous, it's going in the yearbook on his student id!!! I am making him earn and pay me the money for it! But I couldn't reprimand him at all because I kept laughing so hard. it is funny.

Post holiday mess

Ok so I love my jeans, really, I love them, why wear anything else? They are kinda expensive, not 7's or republic but still more then I want to have to go spend again for awhile. I heard that to keep jeans longer you wash them less frequently which I do, I go several wearings before washing them to ensure they last a nice long time. Now I wash my boys jeans almost every time they wear them simply because boys don't keep their jeans clean when they wear them, and I do. But I find myself washing my jeans for the THIRD time in as many days! I am not amused or happy about this. Halloween, just like every other holiday, the aftermath is the downside. Today I had to remove the pumpkins since it's trash day, it's been raining so they were filled with water and pumpkin goo and various bugs. So one at a time I rolled them into their garbage bags to carry to the curb for trash day, when one had the AUDACITY to fall through it's trash bag soaking my jeans AND my ugg slippers in pumpkin vomit like goo. SOO gross!! And so here I am washing my jeans, again, which means I'll have to walk around in too tight jeans again until they stretch out to their proper fitting. What a way to start the day!!

Music moments

So I'm sitting here a little mellow this morning, Kirk left for 10 days, I have tons to do and I'm a little you know overwhilemed and I have Pandora radio station playing on the computer, it's on the Bens Brother station (thanks Bex and Jameson) and I realize the song playing was TOTAlly playing into my mood, it was called By Myself by Roch Voisine, once I realized what it was saying of course I was laughing and finding it very funny. There have been some very funny music moments in my life one of my favorites was when Kirk was studying for the bar and he would be in the room for 10 hours or more just studying and once I opened the door and he had the radio playing and the song that happened to be on was "All by myself, I'm doing it, all by myself..." I laughed so hard, I mean really whats the odds!!! And then another time when Kirk was trying to get a paper turned in on time and Bard was visiting I think and we started singing "You aren't going to make it, no you're not going to make it". Good times. Matts recent discovery was the Beastie boys, You got to fight for your right, and I'm thinking, grrrrreeeaaat!