So you think you can judge?

I've been letting Colin stay up late on Wednesdays to watch So You Think You Can Dance with me. He loves it.

Tonight, before the show came on, he was scurrying around, "getting ready". That made me curious. What he was doing was setting up a "Judge's table", and making himself look like one of the SYTYCD judges. lol He had his glass of water, and a scarf around his neck (?)

After every dance I ask him "What did you think of that?" and he says "I'm going to hold my opinion until I hear what Nigel has to say about it." and he always agrees with Nigel. (A smart move, I think. lol)

His off the cuff comments kill me. Like just now, when one of the dancers was dancing to a Bollywood number, he said the guy (who was wearing harem pants, a vest, and a gold necklace) "looks like a salesman". What?? lol

Oh, and while he LOVES all hip hop routines, he will NOT STOP walking around like a Ken doll after watching a routine based on that. lol

A conversation with Ella

Ella- Brother won't get my pillow pet for me!

Mom- Where is it?

Colin (from the other room)- She THREW it at me, and now wants me to fetch it for her!

Mom- Ella, get your pillow

Ella- But there's a spider over there, and it will bite me and make me dead, and I don't want to get dead just for a pillow pet!

Mom- You won't die, I promise, just go get it.

Ella- Do spiders bite?

Mom- Um....no, they don't.

Ella- They just bite bad people who steal cats?

Mom- Um...yep.

Ella- Okay.

Yep, I'm a pushover

So we went to Toys R Us this morning, to get Ella's unicorn pillow pet, only to discover that their shipment didn't contain any pillow pets. Doh. The next shipment? Next week, after the sale is over. Doh, again.

I came home, and did a quick search, and the next nearest Toys R Us is an hour away, in Grand Rapids. Doh, yet again. But to buy the Pillow Pet online and have it shipped to us would cost an extra $15. Doh.

So, we drove to Grand Rapids. I'd never been there before, and was a bit nervous, but we had fun, and Ella has her unicorn now. She's totally in love with "Rainbow". She keeps showing us the very complex system of strapping and unstrapping her middle, to turn her from pet to pillow. Its all very exciting.

lol

Today is the day!

Ella wants a Pillow Pet, a unicorn one, with a ferocity and determination that I've never seen her have before. So of course, it makes me want to get it for her. lol Its all she's talked about practically for over a week now, she's even named it already. (Rainbow Sunshine)

We went on Saturday to Toys R Us, because they were on sale, and had been actually for a couple days, but apparently there had been a mistake, because the shipment hadn't arrived yet, and wasn't due to arrive till Wednesday. In the words of the Toys R Us employee I spoke to "Somebody screwed up!"

So we've been waiting for Wednesday, and here it is! We leave in about an hour and a half so that we're there when the store opens. Ella could not be more excited. And I'm excited, because I have a really good motivation to get her to get her shoes on, a task which usually takes all morning. lol

Ella's introduction

Apparently Ella has graduated from introducing herself "I'm EllaGraceCunningham"

At the park just now she ran up to two boys playing near Colin and said "I'm Brother's Sister! My name is Ella. I'm a strong girl, and also I am beautiful!"

I think I like this introduction better. I love how she thinks EVERYONE calls Colin "Brother", like its his name. And strong gets first billing over beautiful.

Love her.

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.