Dish Soap?

So who knew how much fun some milk, pepper, food coloring, and dish soap could be?


Fill a bowl with some milk, sprinkle some pepper, and add some food coloring drops... (but be careful not to drop the whole food coloring bottle IN the milk... Buddy... OOPS!)

Dip a toothpick or other small item (pumpkin carver?) in some dish soap, and then dip in the middle of the bowl.

Watch in amazement what happens!


Be sure to mix it all up when you're done, just to be sure it is as beautiful as possible!






It also works with water!


Buddy found this in his science card kit... what a find!

What to do...

Sometimes on Christmas break you can get a little bored, my suggestion would be finding a new play place. Maybe something a little like this....



All in all a super fantastic, wish I didn't have to work tonight, day!

Red Alert.... Red Alert....

Just so you know, if you let me watch your kids....



They'll have a good time, but they may come home picking their nose!...


The day was filled with lots of playing, and lots of begged stories of what I do with my boogers. The booger sandwiches, booger pies and booger cars I have made in my day! My boogers are just practically amazing, just ask Buddy who makes flying boogers and while we are sleeping apparently places boogers on Shane's head (and yes we were just making up stories, which I had to continually assure the kids who were leery of their boogery filled food). Buddy is such a good boy, his cousins loved the boogers but absolutely refused to pick their noses for a picture, seriously, are those kids even related to me?
So all in all a "boogertastic" day!

I've got my good eye on you!

Be afraid, be very afraid!
All in all a super fantastic day!

I'm not free...

Followed by a little reading from a little book I call the Dictionary(sadly or not so sadly I've found myself reading from this book to Buddy too, although I do refuse to read it as his bedtime book, you'd be surprised how many times he's requested it)...

Then came the part where I showed my true fancy mama skills and tried to sell him for a small fee (don't worry I'm not showing the pictures of when he had a leash tied to his leg, that may get me in trouble with DCFS)....

Although the first person to put in an offer looked a little shady(I think we'll hold off and see if we can get some better offers). Then off to do a little window (or not so window) shopping to end our day...

All in all a super fantastic day!

A few of my favorite things...

Today is Christmas, although in the life of a nurse, sometimes you have to compromise holidays and things get switched up a bit. So last night at about 9:35pm, Santa appeared and left a plethora of gifts for all who believed, the rest of us got a pregnancy test, hmmm, Santa is so on my bad list....

And yes, this was all I got from Santa, not sure if that means I've been naughty or nice.
So here are a few highlights of some of my favorite things....
First Buddy and Shane running to the window to see where Santa must've gone so quickly....

Then Buddy's older brother in on the ruse, I mean, telling us he never saw Santa, just heard a loud thunk (Santa sure is loud when you're trying to get the attention of a 5 year old)!

Then, the dramatic show of falling over with joy from a crazy rabbit game!

Of course there is the marking your territory, otherwise known as mine, mine and mine...

And nothing could be finer, than having the exact same toy as your cooler, older brother...

All in all a super fantastic Christmas, we're going to repetitively make toot noises with our noise putty until someone screams uncle, day!

The Aliens have landed....

And it appears, they may have a lot on their hands....
All in all a super fantastic 3 days till Christmas, day!

Child Labor Laws....

Look at the concentration on his face, raised by a true OCD mamma, I'm so proud!
All in all a super fantastic, oops I slept all day after working all night day!

Mother of the Year....

What's that old adage, it's always fun and games until someone pokes an eye out?





Should have listened to my mother! At least it wasn't his eye, just a juicy fat lip, what a tough guy!

All in all, ready to receive my reward, day!

Working our way through the recession...

So we've been helping Buddy everyday learn a life skill so we can have him prepared for the future. First construction work, obviously there is more of a need when you're naked...

Next, we've been working on our air show modeling (watch out Vanna White, there's a new kid in town)...

I think he'd look good modeling those oversize checks too, don't you think?
Then there is the travel industry. It's especially helpful if you can draw all the exciting features a location may hold for the "to be" traveler...

(By the way that is a picture of the volcano that Buddy wants us to
move next to in Hawaii, with this cold weather, it sounds good to me)
Lastly the career path of constant head stander, sure to be a crowd pleaser and money maker in every way. I'm so proud...

So all in all a super fantastic, it's never too early to prepare for the future day!

Hey, who's that phony with the beard?

Today Buddy had a Christmas program at school, so after some hugs from his friends...


(That's Lilly by the way, his newest girlfriend at school, they pretty much tackle each other while they are together)
Then some fancy singing with hand motions (it was just like a Broadway production as you can see)...



Then for the moment all preschoolers anticipate (as you can see in Buddy's eyes)...

There was the anxiously, eagerly waiting in line...

Then there was the expressed disappointment about, "who was that guy wearing a Santa suit and mask?"

Oh well, at least he's a polite kid, he said he held his fart till he finished sitting on fake Santa's lap. So today other than having our Santa dreams smashed, we tinkered some more on the family airplane (in the meantime providing Buddy with some life skills)...

Then let Jerry tinker on the tree...
All in all a super "we've got an eye on you fake Santa" day!