Happy Halloween!

Wow! What a week.  Thankfully it is (almost) over.

I actually MADE a costume for Simon this year.  He really wanted it.  We went to the fabric store and found a pattern and fabric and I spent several hours sewing this tunic thing he wore.  He still doesn’t exactly know what he was, but he looked good.  There was a moment yesterday where I thought I was going to have to sell him to the lowest bidder though.  Just minutes before our halloween party at a friend’s house, I completed the finishing touches on the costume.  He refused to wear it.

All was well tonight though.  He wore it and even spiked his hair to look tough.

Here are the chipmunks and our honorary daughter, Anna, who is in most of our family photos.

Halloween 2008

Hair spiking was the big thing tonight, and we are now out of spiking gel.  Our next door neighbor told Simon he should spike his hair all the time, so now he wants me to go buy more gel.  Hmmmmm.

Once again, they all carved their own pumpkins.  Simon did his completely on his own (the one on the left), the others got a little help scooping out the guts.  The little guy up top is the last remaining small pumpkin from our trip to Cox Farms.  It’s the only one that didn’t grow the cool hairy mold.

Pumpkins 2008

Stephanie’s kids came over to trick-or-treat in our neighborhood.  They had heard about the 7 pound bags of loot the kids  got last year and wanted a piece of the action. Here’s the entire gang:

The Halloween Gang 2008

And no Halloween story would be complete with out pictures of the loot.  Ugh.  At least this year, the bags only weighed between 5 and 6 pounds.

Theodore’s Loot 2008

Simon’s Loot 2008

Alvin’s Loot 2008

November 1, 2008 | Filed Under Fun Stuff | 2 Comments 

Team Names

Soccer season started this week.  All three boys are playing this season, which makes for interesting schedule management (especially for Theodore who practices gymnastics 4 days (12 hours) a week).  Anyway, Ward Cleaver coaches two of the teams and he tries to get first pick of jersey colors when they are distributed.  Last season, both of his teams had blue shirts.  The teams chose “Blue Dragons” and “Blue Lightning” for their team names.

This season, Ward Cleaver asked Alvin what they would name the team if they got blue again.  He said “Aleve!”  I realized he was talking about the pain reliever, and I had this brainstorm.  They should call the team Viagra!  It opens up a whole new meaning for chants from the sideline like “Keep it up!” and “Go for the goal!”

September 7, 2008 | Filed Under Fun Stuff | 3 Comments 

Five Places I Have Lived

Geez, it takes a meme to get me off my fat ass and writing again.  BORING.

My buddy Meg at Get In, Hang On posted a meme that I thought was interesting, so I tagged myself (per her instructions).

The fine print:

Name 5 places you’ve lived. Be as specific or generic as you like.
List 5 memories associated with each of those places.
Tag 5 others.

Like Meg, I’m not going to tag anyone. Tag yourself and let me know if you do it.

I’m a bullet kind of gal, so here’s my list. These are the first five places I lived.

Fort Riley, Kansas (age 2 (second home, but the first home I remember))

– Duplex house (the family next door had 9 kids, we had 6 – can you imagine?!)
– Kid next door stealing the streamers from my tricycle handles
– Helicopters landing and taking off
– My dad coming home from work and sitting in the big green recliner
– The last family photo before my dad left for Vietnam (I’m the cute one in the blue dress)

Last Family Photo

Alexandria, Virginia (age 3-18)

– Playing the piano and imagining someone kidnapping me and forcing me to play for an audience (obviously I have issues)
– Playing Kick The Can, Ghost in the Graveyard, Hide With Them with zillions of neighborhood kids and no supervision
– Learning to ride a bicycle, cutting up my knees on the driveway next door
– Playing by the river, making forts, sliding down the cliffs to the water on our butts (again, with no supervision)
– Learning to drive a car (um, no, not legally)

Blacksburg, Virginia (age 18-23 (college))

– Playing backgammon at Top of the Stairs
– Playing darts at Ton 80
– Tubing on the New River
– My first apartment
– My first car

Madrid, Spain (age 20 (study abroad))

– Afternoon siestas
– Tapas and horchata
– Partying until 5am (the bars never close, or if they did, we never noticed)
– Traveling south to Malaga/Calpe, and north to Santander with friends
– Bullfighting – I found it both intriguing and disturbing

West New York, New Jersey (age 22 (internship at Citicorp during grad school))

– The “A Great Place to Live and Shop” sign at the town limits
– The commute to work - Bergenline Avenue bus/Lincoln Tunnel/Port Authority/E Train to Midtown Manhattan
– Hauling laundry 5 blocks uphill to the Laundromat
– Putting “No Radio” signs on my car windows (and having no radio)
– Hocker Pschorr Weiss Beers at The Brass Rail in Hoboken (Did we actually steal a parking meter? Nah. That would be illegal.)

Aspen Hill, Maryland (age 24 (first apartment out of college))

– Wondering if I would ever find a job
– Having to turn left onto Georgia Avenue every morning during rush hour with no traffic light
– Commuting 25 miles each way to Reston, Virginia from May – December while they were widening the Beltway (yes, I finally found a job, just not in an ideal location)
– The squeaky butt sound of the fat guy upstairs taking a bath
– A burglar in my apartment

July 20, 2008 | Filed Under Fun Stuff | 5 Comments 

Herbies - The Love Bug

My nine year old, Alvin, is sitting on our bed watching some program on Discovery or some other normal cable station. I’m in the bathroom getting ready for bed.

Alvin: Mom, what’s herbies?

Mom: Huh?

Alvin: There’s a doctor on TV talking about herbies.

Mom: It’s a virus. There are all sorts of drugs advertised on TV.

Up next, erectile dysfunction. (pun intended)

Oooh I can’t wait to see what sort of search hits I’ll get now.

June 26, 2008 | Filed Under Fun Stuff, Parenting | 6 Comments 

Happy Second Blogiversary To Me!

Two years of sporadic posting about dumb stuff. Who knew I could keep it up this long?! And I’ve had almost 34,000 hits. Amazing.

A few weeks ago, some blogs I read were posting funny searches that lead people to their blog. I decided in honor of my blogiversary I would do the same.

  • What was june cleavers husbands name

Ward

  • Wepinds.com

I’m assuming this is an 7 year old kid trying to find weapons. At least, that’s how my 7 year old spells it.

  • Odds of pregnancy while nursing and on pill

100% and his name is Theodore

  • June cleaver (dirty pics)

Ewwwwww!

  • How do i stop my internal clocks

You can’t. Stop searching.

  • Homeschooling boys who can’t sit still in a regular classroom

They can’t sit still at home either.

  • Are homeschoolers weird

Depends on how weird their parents are. Are you weird? Were you homeschooled? Did you know any weird kids in school?

  • Where can i get permanent cement for teeth

At the dentist. Don’t even attempt that at home.

  • How should i punish my homeschooler

What did he do?

  • How to prepare a child for preschools interviews

LOL!! Don’t get me started. If you read my blog, you know what I think of this sort of thing.

  • How will a girl of eleven go out with me

If you are eleven too, wait until you are older. If you are older, get out of my blog

  • Show kids pictures getting dressed

I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt that you are a preschool teacher who wants to post helpful pictures on the wall in your classroom.

  • Why not just make ten louder?

These go to eleven.

Thanks everyone for visiting and commenting (and those of you who visit every day and don’t comment really should comment).

June 20, 2008 | Filed Under Fun Stuff | 9 Comments 

The Calm After The Storm

So, after the scary skies, we had the most beautiful sunset! This picture taken perhaps 1 hour after the scary sky picture!

Sunset After Storm

And then all good things must come to an end, and we returned home. The ride was mostly uneventful, which is amazing for a 5 hour drive with three small boys. I never thought I’d EVER say this, but thank God for Nintendo DS. And if we could figure out a way to put invisible shields between the kids, we could trade our 20 mpg (highway, but only 14 city) car for something more fuel efficient. The kids think that everything has been invented that can be invented (didn’t someone famous say that about 150 years ago?), but I think there is still money to be made here.

But all is well when you can leave home for a week and come home to this:

Strawberry Heaven

May 27, 2008 | Filed Under Trips and Travel, Fun Stuff | 3 Comments 

Spinal Tap Makes the Top 25!

OK, this is really funny (and it is Tuesday’s news, but I’m just so busy homeschooling my kids it takes awhile to post HA!).

Yahoo Music posted a list of the day of called The 25 Best Hair Metal Bands and number 9 was Spinal Tap. That’s pretty good for a fictitious band.

Spinal Tap

It would have been better if they made it number 11, don’t you think?

 

May 2, 2008 | Filed Under Fun Stuff | 5 Comments 

Boy Oh Boy!

Despite what I learned in biology class — that males determine the sex of a child — according to this study, I am the one responsible for our three boys!

“Oysters may excite the libido, but there is nothing like a hearty breakfast laced with sugar to boost a woman’s chances of conceiving a son, according to a study released Wednesday.”

So apparently it was all the Lucky Charms, Captain Crunch and packages of Neccos I consumed, not the Y gene. Who knew!?

April 23, 2008 | Filed Under Fun Stuff | 8 Comments 

Happy Daylight Saving Time

In honor of losing an hour of sleep last night, I have chosen a new theme for my blog.   Maybe someday I’ll figure out how to get my rainbow over the lake photo to show instead of a coffee cup.  Since I don’t drink coffee, it doesn’t really fit me.  Now if it were a can of Diet Coke, that’d be a different story…

March 9, 2008 | Filed Under Fun Stuff | 2 Comments 

I think I’ll stay inside today…

Needs a Fire

Brrrrr

February 13, 2008 | Filed Under Fun Stuff | 7 Comments 

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