Only my kids

I don't know whether to laugh or scream.

I was in the middle of telling Colin that his Mighty Bean ramp isn't a sword (to which he replied "I'm not using it as a sword" "Okay, what are you using it as?" "A whip" "Well, its not a whip, either.") when suddenly Ella appeared with a Barbie, which she began to use to sword fight with Colin.

And chaos reigns, Mom is ignored, and the great Barbie battle rages on.

The deal

Buwahhahaha! I cleverly tricked my too-smart son into doing a new chore. And the best part is, it was HIS idea!!!!

Colin got two dollars from the tooth fairy, and it was burnin' a hole in his pocket. So when we went grocery shopping today, the boy got a lesson in "nothin's cheap anymore" lol He couldn't believe that Legos were more than $2. He kept saying "I can buy this, I'll pay for half and you pay for half." Um, boy? a) Momma never said nothing 'bout paying for your purchases and b) it wouldn't be half. So he quickly got the point that it was a $2 limit, and that was it.

Finally he found a small pack of his new obsession, Mighty Beans for $3. He said "Can you pay the $1? Please?" and I asked "What are you gonna do for the $1?" and he said "I'll do a NEW chore for two days!"

I jumped on that deal! lol So, today he did some dishes. And tomorrow he'll do a few more, and then he's paid up, and in the meantime, he got 2 Mighty Beans that he didn't have (one of them was a RARE!) and 1 he did. He's happy. I'm happy. That's a good deal.

Sound effects

Ella was trying to convince me it was thundering outside (a common misconception of hers) and in demonstrating the sound she heard, she slapped her buddha belly. lol "Like that. Hear it? *slap* That sound."

Okay, I was typing this up when the power went out. EEEEEEKKKK!! It came back on right away, and I stepped outside to discover that we're in the middle of a storm! Ella was right!

How did I get so oblivious? Between children's programming on tv (that they don't interuppt to tell you the weather) and the AC, I had no idea.

Well, it'll be fun getting Ella to sleep tonight. Sigh.

My first blog post!!

My very first blog! How exciting! For me, anyway.

The entire purpose of this blog, that probably only me and my mom will read, is to tell stories about my kids that I will probably otherwise forget. And also, to have somewhere else to blab these things, so I don't overuse my Facebook Status Updates anymore.

So today Ella made Oliver (the black cat) dance while singing a New Kids on the Block song "Oh-oh-oh-oh, the right stuff!", refused to bounce in the bouncy house at the school picnic, and instead tried to force everyone else to STOP bouncing. Every. Single. Time. She stood in line 5 separate times, just to sit in the middle of the bouncy house screaming "STOP BOUNCING! STOP BOUNCING NOW! WHY WON'T YOU LISTEN TO ME?!?!?"

Colin told his teacher, at the picnic, "This is my sister, she likes to introduce herself with her whole name, but you can just refer to her as Ella." His teacher thought it was so clever that he used "introduce" and "refer", and I just thought "*shrug* That's nothin'. He's the only 7 yr old I know that can use 'juxtaposed' correctly."

Victoria came home and announced "Mom! We did drugs in school again today." Um...she meant, the covered drug use in one of her classes, not that she and her friends were up to nefarious business in the girls' room.

That's all the kid stories I have for today. I'm sure there will be more tomorrow.