Where?

Buddy is blending in very well these days!!! Maybe we'll start publishing books like Where's Waldo. Except they'll be Where's Buddy, that or we could rename Buddy, but that might be strange. I'm ready to make my million, now if I could talk Buddy into posing for pictures in odd places....Ummm, nevermind, I think I'm ready!
So all in all a super fantastic, where's Buddy, day!

Creature from the black lagoon...

This surfaced at the beach today...

I'd steer clear from the beach if I were you!
So all in all a super fantastically freaky day!

Eclosed?

You know, there's ebay, email, ecommerce and now our family has had an episode of eclosure?

At least that's what the "experts" at google called it when a butterfly emerges from it's chrysalis (and I always believe everything I read....what, the earth's not flat like in the pictures, strange). Anyway, back to the story, my son who is part Native American (unbeknownst to me, if you don't believe me, just check out his war paint), completed his butterfly releasing ritual. First the butterfly must conquer his captor at a game of Don't Blink...

Believe me, there are some seriously dire consequences if the butterfly blinks! Then the butterfly practices doing a half nelson to make sure he will survive in the wilderness (wait was I talking about Native American rituals or have I sunk into another wrestling post?)

Lastly the ancient practice of sharing with a friend, you wouldn't believe how difficult this one is to complete...

So all in all a super fantastic, eday!

Love....

Buddy wanted to use these pictures for his blog today, I'm assuming he wants to show his tigeresq moves...now that he's a tiger cub. That or he wants to show you my awesome dental hygiene, quite impressive if I do say so myself!
So all in all a super fantastic, clawing our way to the top, day!

The fearful daredevil...

This morning, I knew I was going to be in for a doozy of a day when Buddy declared he wanted to change out of his shorts and into pants "so [he] could be a daredevil". Somehow I forgot 10 seconds after I helped him change, that he was my kid when he fell and started crying...

Yep, that would be a "stunt" fall with fake crying for me to send on a video to my mother. I believe he spent most of the time at the playground posing with fearful faces trying to frighten my mother on his "daredevilly" attempts. First up, the slide of death, a terrifying four foot slide down to a scary cushiony bottom....of death of course...


For the encore...


Next up the swing of horrors...so horrifying...

Lastly the terrifying tree of torture...

It's such a shame he's always so serious...


We should really work on that!
So all in all a super fantastic, devilly day!

Handyman...

No big deal today, we invited over a neighbor and built a house...

Of course, Buddy was gung ho on crafting all the things for the house, but wouldn't be caught dead in a picture of it...cause houses are for girls! He was so excited about building things he even volunteered to make a doll for the house, although when I asked him if he wanted a doll he dry heaved a little. The neighbor's dream house included Justin Bieber and Buddy is definitely a dream builder...

I'm just wondering when Buddy is going to step in and replace Ty Pennington on Extreme Home Makeovers? I mean, he even includes a free cake with each home purchase, I haven't seen Ty do that!

So all in all a super fantastic, making dream(s) (houses) come true, day!

Thankful...

We are thankful for friends who will still pick us up, when we are feeling down...

We are also thankful for nice neighbor's that share their turkey, when one of us doesn't know how to make one. We are perhaps even more thankful that they are super smart and had one of these in their front lawn...

So after I tore Buddy away from the neighbor's house, seriously I'm pretty sure he's ready to move into their house, we called Shane's family. He was sporting his famous Buddy McPhee look and with a little encouragement from aunt Hayley, he pulled his tooth out live, on face time...

Buddy the ever pleaser, got so many high praises for pulling out the tooth on camera, that he tried for a good 10 minutes to pull the other(not even nearly loose) tooth out(without success mind you). I'm pretty sure he'll be going to bed tonight wiggling the other tooth to work it out of it's precarious position so he can record it for more accolades!
Now that Thanksgiving is over, we can concentrate on that lesser celebrated holiday...you know the one we decorated for a week ago and already have presents wrapped and waiting under the tree.
So all in all a super fantastic, very thankful, day!

Rancid...

What's loud and stinky and you can't see it?

Do you not know this kid at all? He stayed home sick today with his dad. Really there is nothing worse than a sick man...except perhaps two sick men (OK, one's still a boy and can eek by on his charming looks)...

Especially when his charming looks pretend he's dead and laying in a coffin box. How sweet....ly disturbing that is. So neither of the boys did too much today, other than whine and ask for food (yep, that'd be both of them whining). Buddy did do some pirating...

That'd be illegal pirating or downloading for you laypersons that don't understand my joke (I'm talking to you mom). The good news though, is that during our huge day of rest/death, Buddy found a new cartoon called Kick Buttowski, think farting cartoon, now think AWESOME!!!
So tomorrow is turkey day, we're going to hang with some neighbors.... some neighbors that luckily have plenty of kids to play with, cause that's what we're thankful for. That and poop, but we already covered that.
So all in all a super fantastic, resting up, day!

Nanny McBuddy...

Buddy had his yearly checkup today. While we were waiting in the exam room (over an hour, not that I was watching), he showed me a new look he's been sporting lately...

He calls it the Nanny McPhee, next thing you know he'll be sporting a hairy mole (he wishes...I'm sure his little brain has been trying to come up with something). As for the checkup, he's in tip top shape, especially his mouth. I'm pretty sure the doctor didn't have a chance to get a word in through the whole thing (same goes with the nurse, the receptionist and the others in the waiting room). Seriously, that boy can talk, maybe when my sister breastfed him she passed on her jibber-jabber gene by accident?
So all in all a super fantastic, talking our ears off, day!

Writer's block?

Buddy has two new playmates over right now, they've already had a marshmallow fight and constructed their fort (not at the same time, that might be a little messy), but they are in the middle of creative genius land (and I wholeheartedly approve). While I was waiting outside Buddy's classroom this afternoon, patiently waiting for the dismissal bell to ring, he came out to read a book to me that he had made for Thanksgiving. He and I sat out on the bench outside his classroom and giggled up a storm, which of course made the other kids curious and join in. Pretty soon Buddy was reading his book to 5 hysterically giggling first graders, oh yeah and one mom who acts like a first grader. His teacher came out to see what all the commotion was about, here's the commotion....

They say you can't judge a book by a cover, but you can from this one. Here is the hero of the story walking into a pole (a la yesterday's post picture)

Sweet, innocent, thankful for presents? For a second I thought I must have raised a spoiled child, then I saw what he was really thankful for...

What can I say, he's hungry for knowledge?

If people can wear fur, shouldn't wearing a turkey legged shirt be socially acceptable too?

OK, this one may need translation...I am thankful for the people that I live in (he better be cause his host body had to get some corrective surgery due to the big headed people(person) that lived inside.

Nope, not a doubt in my mind this kid has inherited my sense of humor...poor kid never had a chance at being a snobby aristocrat.

Translation for the fuzzy picture.. I am thankful for the poop that I love. Hmmm, I love a good poo too, but I'm pretty sure I won't be hugging it anytime soon!

Here's Buddy's shout out to the turkey's that are frequently crossing the road around here (insert corny joke here, after all this talk of poo, I'm kinda drawing a blank).


Glad he made a note in his comments that he loves himself!

This is the back page cover art of all the people living inside of people saying bye.

Here is the back jacket cover page, if you can't tell what it is....well, you must not hang out with us potty humor folks if you don't get it, but it's Shane on the potty and Buddy nearby farting and waving the stink away!
So after his teacher read it, she told me she was glad I read it first, cause if she had read it, she would probably have made him redo it. Oh, the sadness of having regulated/regimented schools. I was actually surprised she would have made him redo it since she lets him eek by with doing comic strips for his writing assignments instead of journalling, but I guess everyone has their limits...Well, other than me....and apparently Buddy.
So all in all a super fantastic, writing our hearts out, day!

Gobble gobble?

Tomorrow is Buddy's "special" day at school. Which means he not only gets to turn on and off the classroom lights (woo whee, exciting), but he gets to provide the snack...

Hey, I may not know how to bake, cook, or basically do any domestic chore (other than cleaning, cause my OCD has that down pat), but I can sure impress a first grader (pretty sure I won't pass muster in second grade, but I'll take the kudos while I can)!
Or maybe if he keeps running into these...

anything will pass the muster?
So all in all a super fantastic, using our heads, day!

Crazy Horse...

Today Buddy invited his favorite neighbors over to do a repeat of yesterday's fort building. Since he had a fort, he decided he needed a horse to traverse the distance to and from the fort...or actually, he decided to be a horse! I did my usual job of taking pictures to commemorate the occasion and when we were looking at what pictures we were going to use today in our blog, I found these treasures...


When I pointed out his eyes in the picture, he said, "What? It's cause I was a crazy horse". So there you have it! In other news, we made a marshmellow catapult...cause you never know when you're going to be attacked by a chocolate bar and graham cracker...



Who knew pencils and a shoe box could be so lethal?
So all in all a super fantastic, anybody seen my horse, or is a snowcone?, day!

When you give a boy a caterpillar...

I'll be honest, sometimes it's hard having just one kid. I'm always the designated playmate, and playing cowboys for the bazillioneth time in one week kind of gets a little stagnate. So while the Budster was at school I ran across this little jewel...
http://www.allfortheboys.com/
Heck, I was so inspired, I made a list of all the cool things we could do today (ummmm, my list had 20 things and we only did 3). I told Buddy all about our awesome crafts we were going to do while we were walking home from school, so we started immediately collecting leaves and flowers to do a hammering project. I think it was our lucky day, cause did we not only collect a leaf, but we collected this too...

When we got home, we started making some crafts, of course with our side kick, well at our side...

I think this caterpillar must be a boy, cause he immediately inched over to this...

So we made some straw rockets...


Built a fort...


After we were done with that, we noticed that the caterpillar must be close to making a chrysalis, cause seriously it was pooping and eating up a storm (which made someone have a case of the giggles). So being the Eco friendly people we are, we took the caterpillar back to where it came from... so we could get more leaves (come on, you wouldn't think we were that responsible to put it back did you). So of course when you go for a walk with your caterpillar, you have to walk past your favorite neighbor's house. Now when you walk past the neighbor's house, you have to stop and talk. So when you stop and talk, you have to invite them on the walk, or that would be just plain rude. Then after you get home from the walk, you have to continue the fun, or that would just be plain boring...



So to end your fantastic day, you climb into your fort to sleep (with your lantern of course), invite your favorite dad in to join you, and then read to him from your ridiculously large edition of "The Sailor Dog" that you found in your school library....

So all in all a super fantastic, can't wait to do it all again tomorrow, day!