We were sitting at the table getting ready to eat dinner! It was a rare occasion to have David with us! The kids were fighting over who got to sit by dad! Dexter and Toby won, and I'm sure there wasn't crying or biting involved! Dexter even went as far as to CALL to pour dad's soda in his cup of ice. David distracted by all the commotion opened his can and poured his soda in. Dexter screamed, "HEY I WAS GOING TO DO THAT DAD!" David said, "Sorry Dexter..." Dexter looked down at his plate and whispered, "dumb dad." David and I both started to laugh quietly, then David reached over and gave an empty can to Dexter and said, "I think there is some more in there to put in my cup." Dexter got excited and started shaking the empty can vigorously in David's cup. Not a single drop came out and Dexter said, "Hey its all gone....your still dumb dad!" And then Dinner started!

So it begins...

I was at McDonald's letting my children run around and get some energy out when a mom from Dexter's School walked in. She is a larger woman with the bust to match. She bent over and with her shirt hanging down and her girls hanging out started a conversation with me. I can push past what is in my face and visit. Mason walked up to ask me a question but stopped in mid sentence. It was then that I notice his eyes fixed on a loose hanging shirt and what wasn't being covered up. "MASON!" I said in a sorta abrupt way! He jumped about 2 feet off the ground. I giggled a little bit inside! Later after we left we had a long talk about modesty and how we need to respect girls even if they clothes are falling off and look away. I told David and of course his comment was, "That a boy!" I am surrounded by pigs!

The other day David was at work and he got asked by another Dr. how he was going to pay for 6 kids' college? He just laughed and said, "College? How about a lifetime supply of helmets, that is what I'm really going to need!"

When my mom was in town for the week she brought a huge suitcase of dinosaurs! One day when all the kids were out of the house she went around to the back yard and hit them throughout the yard! The kids came home, but she wasn't home yet! They kept bringing in the dinosaurs to David and he had not a clue where they were getting them! When my mom got home the kids burst into "Grandma we have dinosaurs all over in our back yard!" My mom said, "oh my who do you think could have put them there?" Tia said, "It was probably the Easter Bunny!" My mom just laughed and admitted it was her!

It has been over a week and the kids are still bringing in dinosaurs! Tia said, "Grandma is so magical that she could hide all those Dinosaurs!" Sure miss you Grandma!

Joey got mad at David and started to pout! David egged him on of course and Joey walked by and said, "you a bully dad." David could not help himself and kept going! Joey walked over and said, "You make me crowning!" With a WHAT look David said, "What is crowning?" "Its like this..." and he put his two fingers in the corners of his mouth and pulls his lips down. David and I just started laughing so hard, "You mean frowning? Or crying and frowning at the same time!" Joey stood his ground and insisted it was crowning! Oh he is a stubborn one!

I have been pretty hard on the kids with potty words lately...you know, like, butt, fart, stupid, the really harsh ones...oh and lying! I started out with vinegar, but Toby started a real liking to it, so I moved onto a dab of hot sauce, until they started loving that and I am currently on soap. The other night Mac said a potty word and I said, "Oh lets wash those potty words out with some soap!" He started to whine a bit! I put some soap on my finger and started to sing a little song, "wash those potty words out....washa washa wash those potty words out!" It's a catchy tune I admit! Mac stepped a couple steps away and smacked his lips and said, "Hummm, its not that bad!" Not exactly the reaction I was expecting, but the night continued. It was a couple hours later and Dexter had told a lie! I told him to come get some soap! I put a little dab on my finger tip and started singing my song! Dexter smiled and said, "YUMMMY that taste like candy canes!" I got some candy cane soap from my VT partner for Christmas! Guess it is time for a new kind soap!

Later that week I switched to the Orange AJAX...Same reaction from the kids! "Taste good, not that bad, Yum, taste good like orange!" I remember getting soap for saying potty words when I was little and it was NOT good! Guess they make everything better these days!

We were headed out the door to run errands and our first was to drop Dexter off at Preschool. I commented on them and how good they were at listening to me so we wouldn't be late. Toby said, "since we were good can we have some gum?" I'm not sure they were THAT good, but I gave them all a piece. I then put the remainder of the pack on the entry table in plain site. I did this on purpose to see if Dexter has grown any from stealing treats and stashing them for later! The day went on into the evening and I noticed that the pack of gum had disappeared. I asked Dexter where the pack of gum was. HE told me over and over, "I didn't take it mom." I told him over and over, "I'm pretty sure you did Dexter!" I told Tia to go check under his pillow which he followed right behind her. She came up with some wrappers...but not the same gum wrappers that that certain kind of gum came from! "Dexter I know you took it...just hand it over and you will be in less trouble!" With no response I motioned to David and said, "Lets go find us some gum!" We lifted his bed, his sheets, his pillow. Stripped his pillowcase and his backpack clean and NO GUM! I knew he took it...I just knew it, but I had no proof...UNTIL I asked David to lift up Mason's bed. Of course Dexter was in the middle of everything and I could hardly get around him at times. David went to pick up the bed and in the corner was a crumbled pack of empty gum. But, there was no gum inside. I counted how many pieces were gone, a total of 8. "looks like you get 8 spoonfuls of vinegar for lying and stealing my gum. He had a sorta look of panic in his eyes. Then he opened up his hands and there were 6 sweaty pieces of gum. Some how in between Tia coming back up with wrappers he got the gum out of its pop-package and hid them in between Mason's bed and box spring. Then when David lifted the bed up, he snagged them from his hiding place! I just looked at him and all the trouble he went to to hide his gum and the evidence and said, "well, you are still missing 2 pieces of gum...so that is 2 spoonfuls of vinegar!" The tears just started coming down!

After many "I'm starvings" from my children I got up and started making a mean pot of Mac n cheese with little sausages! Mac has been sick and was playing playdough while the others were outside riding bikes. They trickled in one by one...with complaints of starving but were soon distracted with the playdough! I found myself looking for requested toys and unclogging ones from the last time they played playdough. Dexter came up with a "soaker" toy that needed to be unclogged and I said, "Dexter, do you want me to fix toys or fix dinner?" He gave me a duh look and said, "fix the toys mom!" He was my main starver! I guess instead of sending food to China we should just send playdough...that should cure world hunger!

I was sweeping up Tia's room and Mason commented on what a good job I was doing. Tia piped in and said, "that is because she is AAAAMMMMAAAZZZZZIIIINNNNGGGG!" Mason then replied with, "That is CORRECT Tia mom IS AAAAMMMAAAZZZZIIIINNNGGG!" I am pretty sure they got the sarcastic AAAAAMMMMMAAAAZZZZIIIINNNNGGGGG from me!

It was a special day and the kids all earned a bubble bath with the JETS! I started the water for the little boys and told them when it got fuller we would turn on the jets. A couple minutes passed and I heard the motors running and Dexter yelling in between giggles..."FIRE IN THE HOLE...FIRE IN THE HOLE!" I ran in to the jets pointed straight up and spraying water everywhere! Good thing the glass doors were closed!

Joey was sitting by me drawing a picture. His picture consisted of Me and Him and a PB&J sandwich. He was explaining to me how he got into the jelly and made a mess and I got mad at him and tried to spank his bottom and he "runned away!" We were both having a laugh at it and I told him to draw another picture. He put his pencil up to his chin and started tapping it with a "ummmm." He pointed to David and said, "X" I busted up laughing and said, "did you really just X dad?" He thought he was hilarious and had some reasoning as to why he was NOT going to draw his dad in his picture! I may have been trying to spank his bottom in his picture for making a mess...but at least I got in the picture!