Thanksgiving Cheese

Thanksgiving is one of those times my entire family gets together.  So many people you can barely find a place to sit down.  But this year a lot of people were sick and only about half the people were there.  It just didn't feel the same.

As I was taking pictures of everyone and it was Topher's turn, I tried to get him to stand in one spot by himself long enough to get a good shot of him in his little sports coat.  But he was having none of it and screamed and ran away and fought Rob when he tried to put him back, both of us telling him we just wanted to take a picture.  He runs off through my mom's house.  About a minute later, he comes back with a little folding chair (pink, leftover from the when the girls were smaller) and sits it down where I had tried to get him to stand for the picture.  He unfolds it, sits down and gets himself settled, then gives me this amazing smile and says "Cheese!"

I hope everyone had an amazing Thanksgiving full of family, friends, and good food.  I know what I'm thankful for this and every year and continue to feel truly blessed.

It's the little things in life...

"There's a few things I want in life mom, and this is one of them."  Riley, in the check-out line, talking about a Lindor Truffle.

How Politicians are Born

He hits me, I hit him.  It's a process. 

All kids fight, don't they?  When I was little, my sister and I fought all the time and I was constantly left out when my cousins came over because I was the youngest.  Today, our own children are much the same and they like to leave out Chloe, which we all try out best to discourage.  Don't want the poor thing to end up warped like me, now do we?

  Riley and my nephew Taylor love each other to pieces.  But they're just like any other 7 year old duo and when it comes down to who started their scuffles, it's always a matter of he said she said.  

Pictured: Riley and Taylor at their
1st grade basketball game last year.

The kids were playing outside today at my mom's when Riley came in crying, holding her stomach, showing me how red it was and saying my nephew had kicked her.  "He just attacked me!" she whined.  Knowing that wouldn't be the whole story, I didn't baby her too much.  A few minutes later, he comes in and shows me his lip, which had been bleeding.  According to him "She started it."  They were both fine at that point so no need to hash it out.  At dinner, I asked Riley "so what happened first?  You busted his lip or he kicked you in the stomach?"  Her very vague and political reply?  "I hit him, he hits me; he hits me, I hit him.  It's a process."

Typhoid Sitters

I'm learning my nursing skills by my surroundings.

We've all been sick around here.  It's been 6 weeks now and stomach bugs and strep have made the rounds through our house, more than once.  Everyone's on the mend, including me, but Chloe's still very sick with scarlet fever.  As Chloe first started to feel bad and get a fever, Riley began to describe the symptoms for me.  "She was 99, then she was 99.8 and then she was 99 again.  It was the cold cloth." :pause: "Hey, I'm kinda like a nurse already.  I'm learning my nursing skills by my surroundings."


We're keeping comfy camped out in bed with cartoons and movies and games.  Thanks to everyone who's been helping out and for all the get well wishes!

Thanks for the title Lisa.  :-P

Randomly funny

Riley brought me her poor decapitated Ken doll and asked me if I could fix it.  I told her I would try.  She said "Good. He needs plastic surgery."

Topher climbed up next to me today and wanted to look in my mouth.  He rolled my head all around looking in my mouth from different angles.  He put his eye right up to my mouth and said "Nemo?!  Where's Nemo?" 

Megan was at the ER Saturday with a migraine.  She's a big baby when it comes to shots.  The nurse came in with two shots for her.  The nurse asks "are you allergic to anything?"  Megan replies "Needles."

And that's a Wrap! A week of Halloween - Day 7

We didn't get to have any of the kids for Trick-or-Treat this year.  It was Toph-Anna's mother's weekend and Chlo-Riley wanted to go with their dad.  Halloween is also Anna's birthday, so Sunday night when everyone was home we had a little birthday party.   




Topher the shark!

 

Anna as Tinkerbell

 Chloe the little devil (minus her horns)

 

Riley the snow princess

Megan didn't dress up.  :-(  She did last year as a bumble bee.  Hope everyone had a happy halloween!