The other day Charlie says to me, with great expression and raising his eyebrows and using his hands he says "If you take a pee egg and a poop egg, and you break them and then you mix them you get poop (a slight pause) No, wait you get shit, shit ice cream!" Now isn't that brilliant for a four year old?

Charlie says to me today, "So What Mom" so I reply "Sew buttons on your underwear." He says, "NO! wait are they spriderman ones?" So, I guess if they were spiderman buttons he may have chosen to do that!

Today the kids are playing a getting to know you game at my house. One person starts by saying something about themselves and then it goes to the next person. The point is to try to remember everything that the people before you have said. So, they start and when they get to Mary, she says "Lukas loves himself, Charlie's Mom is awesome, Kenidee's favorite ice cream is Chocolate, Sophie's favorite food is pizza, Jenna's favorite color is yellow, Kelsey has pets and MY DAD LETS ME DRINK BEER!!!"

Last night, while we are putting the kids to bed, we have a little fun with, "Guess What?", "Chicken Butt!". "Do you want to know why?", "Chicken thigh!" "Do you know who?", "Chicken poo!" So, practicing their "rhyming skills", Sophie says. "You know what to eat?", "Chicken feet!" and then Mary says, "You know what to lick?"......."Chicken dick!!!" I thought I would die! She was just using her rhyming skills, but Oh MY!!! I could not believe that came out of her sweet little mouth!!!

We went out for ice cream tonight after the game. All of the kids ordered my favorite ice cream so I had to take a taste of Charlie's before I gave it to him (I am of course trying to eat healthy hahaha) Well, I took a small taste from the bottom of the ice cream and it left a little point where I had tasted it. I hand it to Charlie and he looks at the point I left and starts laughing and says, "Look mine ice cream has a peiner!" He brought smiles to everyone around us because he said it loud enough for all to hear. God, I love these kids!!

As we are passing the cemetery today, on the way to Sophie's game, Sophie says, "Hey Mom, I just saw a lot of vegetarians!" I respond, "You did??" She responds with, "Yes, I know because I saw all the flags in the cemetery and those are for the vegetarians!" Another priceless conversation with my favorite 7 year old.

Heading out of town this weekend and we always pass the hospital that all of the kids were born in. So, Mary asks, the usual questions, "Where is the place we were born? Did Jenna get to hold me?" Did Sophie get to hold me?" etc, etc, etc. Then she asks, "Mom, when Charlie was born did we get to scrape the yucky stuff off of him?" I thought I was going to die! I immediatley responded, "NO!" as my husband is chuckling in the seat next to me. Then she asked that dreaded question that all kids ask, "How do babies get out of your stomach?" Now, my husband is really having a tough time not laughing and I know that he is waiting for my response. I respond, "Doctors help them come out." She says, "but Mom, where do they..." I quickly interupt her before she can say anymore and say, "...and that is all a 6 year old needs to know about how a baby comes out." Now my wonderful husband is laughing as I am glaring at him and Mary finally stopped asking anymore questions. PHEW!!!!

Today, Charlie was laying on the floor with his hands over his "bad spot" and so I say, "What's the matter, why do you keep grabbing yourself?" His response was, "because it won't stop standing up!" I just laughed and walked away from that one!

Mary, came home from school yesterday complaining that her ear hurt from her earring. Well, I knew that she had some very cheap earrings in so I told her to take them off. She of course, did what i told her (hahaha) and comes to me and says, "Mom I can't get this one out because its stuck and the back is already off." I thought it was probably stuck on there with the usual gook (you all know what i mean) So, assuming that she had already taken the back off, I pulled the earring out of her ear (it was pretty stuck, but I got it) Then I noticed there is a lot of white "gook in her ear, both the back and the front so I kinda gave it a little squeeze and Mary started really crying. I checked the ear again and noticed that the reason it was so hard and hurt so bad was because the back of the earring was stuck IN the earring hole IN her ear! YIKES!!!! I told her to hang on because it was going to hurt and I pushed the earring back out of the ear. She cried and cried and cried but I got that sucker out of her ear and there is no infection and not even a scab. What a relief that it all worked out. Then later in the day Mary syas to me, "I am never going to wear earrings again!" I honestly can't blame her if she doesn't!

While visiting with my family today another story came up about my remarkable mothering, I thought I would share with you. Last year, at the New York State Fair, I had brought my 3 girls to see Drake Ball (from Drake & Josh). It was a free concert and there were a ton of kids with their parents. We sat through about half of the show, way in the back. But with the help of my own mother, we asked the kids if they wanted to get up to the front of the stage. Well, I convinced my kids we could do it and I proudly taught my then, 9, 6, and 5 year old's how to sneak their way up to the front of the stage. I sent my then 9 year old through the crowd saying, "Excuse me, I am trying to get to my brother up there." and I followed behind her with the other two girls in tow, saying, "Excuse me, just trying to catch up with my daughter." Let's just say we spent the second half of the show at the very front of the stage and got some amazing pictures of Drake. It was a great experience for all of us!!!

It was a perfect Mother's Day today!!! I had to advise my 3 year old son, before I even came downstairs, that he was not allowed to yell at Mommy today. I told him, "If you yell at Mommy on Mother's Day they come and take you away to naughty boy camp where all they feed you is broccolli. "His response was, "Me hate broccolli!" I said, "I hate broccolli honey." (correcting his english of course) "So make sure you don't yell at Mommy anymore today!" Just a little tough love is all :) He was an angel all day and I have not been yelled at since this morning!! I know I am not the only one that has done this before, Right?

My kiddos were complaining today that they don't want to go back to school tomorrow! My 6 year old says to our neighbor, "why do we even have to go to school anyway?" Our neighbor, who is around 8, says, "Because if we didn't we would be stupid." The she continues with, "Did you know in the 1800's women didn't go to school?" My 7 year old chimes in with, "Mom, is that true?" So I respond, "Yep, she's right women didn't go to school back then." My 7 year old says, "Wow, you were lucky then Mom!!" She actually thought I was THAT old!!!!

So, I sit down with a nice warm cup of coffee today, after getting all of the kids off to school, and I realize....I never washed my 6 year olds face!! Usually not that big of a deal BUT she had decided yesterday afternoon to paint whiskers and a black nose on her face to be a kitty!! So, now I have sent my daughter to school with the leftover make up on her face!!!! UUUGGGHHHH!!!! A few minutes pass of me going over and over in my head on how "I can't believe I did that" when I realize...she is going to a friends house for a play date right after school!!!! So now I have not only sent her to school with the remains of whiskers and a black nose but I have also sent her to a friends house where she will be able to show off those nice whiskers and nose to her friends parents!!! And that is why, I AM THE MOTHER OF THE YEAR!!!!!!

Listening to my children play house today and my 7 year old is the mother. The other kids keep calling, "Mom! Mom! Mom! Mom!" and my 7 year old yells back, "wait a minute I am having a little meltdown!"

My husband was quizzing myself and my 10 year old about general social studies. One question he asked was, "How many continents are there?" I of course knew that answer so I let my 10 year old answer, she says, "There's Hawaii, Alaska, umm...." I stopped her there and said, "North America, South America......" She says in return, "Oh, I know, North America, South America, that one that starts with U....." I again stopped her, this time laughing out loud at her and said, "Do you mean Europe honey?"

While writing the last post I thought of another priceless moment at the store with my kids that I thought I would share! It was about 3 years ago, So my 7 year old was about 4 and my whole family was walking through the store and at the time my brothers and Mom were walking with us. Well, my sweet 4 year old at the time, called her Uncle a douche bag. I was absolutely appalled but also chuckling under my breath because it caught me off guard. Well, my husband was furious and says, "Where did you hear that word? Probably from the punks that live nearby?" and her response to him was, "No, from you in the parking lot!" Well the chuckling under my breath turned into a burst of laughter, she showed him!!! He had showed a little road rage towards someone in the parking lot and had called someone a douche bag and as you all know, little ears hear everything!!!

Last night, while taking a quick trip to the store, after baseball practice, my husband told my 3 year old NO about something. Well, that just made my 3 year old so mad that he runs to me crying and says, "Daddy's being a meany weiney!" My response, "He is?" My 3 year olds response, "Yesh, (with his little lisp) I am going to pee in his bed tonight!" My response, "hahahahahahaha!" Then he must have realized that Daddy's bed is also my bed because he says to me, "but not on your blankets or your sheets Mommy!" Another priceless moment!!

This morning we are getting ready for a mini vacation and the girls are so excited so they are all up early and a little wound up. Then their little brother comes down the stairs and my 7 year old starts right off by chanting that he is a butt head. So I immediately say do not bug your brother, he is not a happy camper when he wakes up. Her response was, "OK Mom!" and then she starts chanting "I love my brother because.....he is a butt head!"

My 7 year old (she was 6 at the time) came home and said to me, "i love our house Mom, it's the best house! I mean I like the white house too, but ours is the best." I asked her what white house she was talking about and she said, "You know the one where the president lives." Absolutely precious!

This is what a note I received from my 7 year old says, "Dear Mommy, I love you more than my sisters!" I think that is so sweet!

I have recently found out that the kids don't know how to us a "real" manual can opener. So, while teaching my 10 year old and her cousin how to use the can opener and laughing at them as they are having to work as a team to get the can of Spaghetti O's open (another healthy lunch for us) my daughter slices her thumb open, bleeds through 4 band aids and her only concern was why they would not put her to sleep to get stitches (by the way she didn't need stitches).

The simplicity of truth

My 7 year old recently had her pinky finger closed in a bedroom door. It was an awful mess that called for a trip to the Emergency Room. While waiting for the doctor she was a little nervous about the whole thing and when we were talking about how her Dad used to work in that hospital, she says, "If Daddy was my doctor that would be ok with me Mom." Very sweet and innocent BUT...my husband is not a doctor! When the doctor finally did come in to visit and looked at her finger he had explained that she would need an x-ray to make sure that the finger was not broken. Her response to that was, "I would be OK if it was broken. Really I just told my Mom that I wanted to break something the other day!" I have to admit she did tell me that! Again very sweet and innocent. Then we waited, and after three hours of waiting, we had the radiologist, the nurse, and the Doctor come into the room to tell us that they were waiting on the official radiology report before they could discharge her. (no bones were broken, Phew!) The doctor was the last to come in and tell us this and as he was leaving the room my daughter says, "Why do we keep having to hear the same thing over and over again!" She was saying exactly what we, as adults, were thinking the whole time. We could never say it for fear of being disrespectful!! I love the innocence and simple truth that comes out of the mouths of children!!

making-up

After a very long weekend, my husband and I were lying in bed mid-afternoon, taking in all that had happened over the weekend and the kids were sent downstairs to get ready to go outside. My 10 year old says to her sisters, "Where are Mom and Dad?" My 6 year old responds, "They are making up." My 10 year old then asks, "What are they making up for?" and the response from her 6 year old sister was, "You know they are kissing and stuff!" Needless to say, we were not "making up" but that conversation did make a happy ending to the otherwise stressful weekend we had!!

The Tooth Fairy

My 7 year old had lost her third tooth! She misplaced the tooth and so she wrote a note to the tooth fairy explaining what had happened. Well, that tooth fairy forgot to stop that night. At first she was a little upset but I explained that sometimes the tooth fairy just can't make it every where in one night. The following morning she wakes up and checks under her pillow and guess what....still nothing from that darn tooth fairy. Now she was just getting mad and so I explained that maybe the tooth fairy just forgot and that she should leave that note under her pillow for one more night!! The third morning she woke up, came down the stairs with the note in hand, tosses it on the table in front of me, and walks away rolling her eyes.......I had no explanation this time. I just couldn't believe that I had forgotten three nights in a row! So while my 7 year old was at school, my oldest daughter came home and reminded me that the tooth fairy still needed to leave something under her sisters pillow so she wrote the note for me. She kindly explained that the tooth fairy had been sick for three whole days but she was feeling better now so she was able to leave her some money!! How smart my 10 year old is!!!! So everyone was happy with the explanation from the tooth fairy and she was forgiven for taking so long. Well.....my 6 year old lost her tooth and placed it under her pillow last night and that darn tooth fairy forgot AGAIN!!!! Can you even believe that!! But the best part is my 7 year old says to her younger sister, "It's OK, but I hope that she isn't sick again!"

My 3 year old son brings me the top to his McDonalds cheeseburger today with all of the onions on it and says "you want this, its yucky?" I answer,"sure honey you don't like it? I love the onions" So he hands it to me and I take a couple of bites and then my 3 year old nephew comes up to me and says; "That's yucky Aunt Mol" so I say, "You don't like the onions either, I love them." My nephew responds, "No, it was on the floor!!"

My 6 year old had a beautiful black kitty she had received for her 5th birthday! Her kitty's name was Jude and she loved her so much. Well, last week Jude chased a squirrel into the road and ran in front of a car and was hit. I had a really hard time deciding how to explain to my daughter what had happened to Jude kitty but when the time came I told her exactly what happened. She was devestated and heart broken. After less than 10 minutes my 6 year old was calling her Aunt and left her a message that Jude Kitty had died but it was all OK because now Jude is with Grandma Donna and Grandpa, and Grammy's dog Scooter. That is when I realized that it was all OK and that she was already at peace with it. What a sweet little girl she is~I had a part in that :)