Saturday, March 31, 2012

Sucka!!!

I went out the other night and got a spray tan for the first time.... (FYI....it looks AWESOME!!!)

Anyway....E had the girls at home. Now, I know most moms would critisize me for this, but I still let Meredith drink out of bottles. It's the only thing in this whole world that actually calms her down, and, so what? It's not like she's going to walk down the aisle drinking a bottle. So, Eric gave her a bottle before bed, and she decided that she needed another bottle from me. Well, since I wasn't there, he gave her another one. The next morning, she woke up wet. I asked what she had to drink, Melanie told me that Daddy had given Meredith 2 bottles. He explained to me the reason, that she needed a bottle from Mommy and Daddy. I looked at him and said, "Wow, you are a sucker for these 2!" Meredith jumped up on our bed in her Hannah Montana nightgown, got right in Eric's face, pointed and screamed, "SUCKA!!!!!!!!"

I don't want to get boo-booed...

Melanie calls all of the holly bushes in our yard "boo boo bushes". We were out on our front deck tonight and she blew her nose, and, thinking she was funny, threw the tissue over the deck. Eric told her she had to go get it, and she started to cry, saying, "But it fell really close to the boo boo bush, and I don't want to get boo-booed!"

Really? How can I not help but laugh at that?

NOT a business girl!

Yesterday, the girls and I drove down to visit Daddy at work and have lunch. So after lunch, we went in the office, and Meredith walked around like she owned the place. She had to bring her Pinkie Pie My Little Pony in, and so I propped it up on Daddy's desk and said, "Meredith, we should let Pinkie Pie stay and work with Daddy." She looked at me (completely straight faced) and said, "No Mommy. Pinkie Pie is NOT a business girl!"

Boomer Has It

The girls love listening to Radio Disney, and they have been playing a lot of Adele lately, especially "Rumor Has It". Driving in the car with them, they are singing in the back, "OOOOH Boomer has it, OOOOH Boomer has it..." and Melanie said to me, "Why is she singing about a dog, and what does he have?"

Almost drove off the road....

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Tear......

So, I finally had to do it.....my first baby girl is officially registered for kindergarten at Indian Knoll Elementary School. Melanie was nervous, but once she got in there, she was really excited about it! She doesn't want to leave Ms. Tracey or her friends, but I think she's feeling a little better after going in the school. Look at that face!!

Friday, March 23, 2012

Melanie's first sleepover!

Melanie had her first big girl sleepover with her friend Katelin! They are too cute together!!!

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Wow....


Just when I think they can't get any crazier.....this is what went on while I was cooking dinner!

The Black Ghost and Black Jesus

This all happened on this past Sunday.....I woke up to Meredith crying because she drew Daddy a black ghost and he didn't like it. It wasn't that he didn't like it....it was where she drew her black ghost.
As you can see, the black ghost is on the wall of the playroom, in Sharpie. Really cute, but I can understand why Daddy wasn't completely thrilled with it.
So we move on from the black ghost issue, and go to church. Now, we just got all of these new statues in our church, and one of them is of Mother Teresa holding a black baby. Now, we really try and make sure the girls know that the color of your skin doesn't matter, and they understand that. Melanie even understands that you really shouldn't bring the color of someone's skin up, because it doesn't matter as long as they are a good person. Meredith doesn't get that yet. She sat there through the entire mass shouting, "Mommy, dat's black Jesus. Why is Jesus black? Technically, Jesus is white!" Now, maybe if she had said it once, it would have been okay. Maybe if she had been whispering, it would have been fine. Maybe if there wasn't a black man in the pew in front of us, it would have been all right. But NOPE! She said it LOUDLY at least SIX times with a black man in front of us, who moved seats halfway through church! The guy probably thought we were the biggest racists! There's a proud mommy moment for me!

Sometimes, I just don't know....

I am so impressed with Melanie and everything she has been learning at school this year, but I am afraid she is using it for evil instead of good....she is getting so good at writing and sounding out words, but this is what I find when she is writing by herself...

Am I proud? Yes!!! Do I wish she would sound out other words? Yeah, I guess.... Is it HILARIOUS? YES!!!!! Would I expect anything else from my kid? No, not really!

And Meredith....a picture is worth a thousand words:

Yes, she got her dress stuck in the blinds. Yes, she got out of said dress. I don't know what else to say other than I have no idea how we got such crazy children, but I wouldn't trade them!

My poor husband....

We have often made the joke that our house is going to turn completly pink one day with all the girls we have here! Now, the girls and I try our hardest to not do everything too girly for Daddy, even giving him the entire 3rd floor of our house as his Georgia room! Unfortunately, Daddy has not been able to escape the entire wrath of the girls......we were watching t.v. last night, and something came on. E looks at the t.v., looks at me and says, "That guy plays Sharpay's brother in 'High School Musical'." It wasn't a question, it was a statement...
We love you Daddy, and we know you wouldn't know things like that if it wasn't for all of us girls!
And think about it this way...I often say you remind me of Phil Dunphy, so here is a quote of his that I am sure will one day apply to you when the girls are older:
“I’m the cool dad, that’s my thang. I’m hip, I surf the web, I text. LOL: laugh out loud. OMG: oh my god. WTF: why the face. I know all the dances to High School Musical.”

1, 2, 3 Magic

1, 2, 3 Magic is a book that I use when the girls aren't behaving their best. It works GREAT, as long as Mommy and Daddy keep up with it! As long as we count when they aren't behaving, it's awesome. Sometimes Mommy slacks off and then wehave to start all over, which is what we had to do a couple of weeks ago.
Well, according to the book, it may backfire and the kids will start counting you. All you have to do is count them back, and then if they get to 3, it's time out.
There is NO chapter in the book for what has been going on at our house! Meredith has started using counting to get what she wants. It works on Daddy, not so much on Mommy. She came downstairs one morning last weekend, plopped on the couch with Daddy and said, "1, you get me a bottle. 2, you put on Disney Junior."
Awesome.

Small Potatoes


Meredith has been going to my mom's a lot lately while I have been subbing at Melanie's school, and of course, loves it because she gets spoiled rotten with attention and whatever she wants to do! I'm glad she gets that time, because Melanie got it all before Mere was born, so I like that Mere gets a little something special. Anyway, Mom Mom has to have a coffee cake every morning Meredith is there, and she gets to put on Disney Junior as soon as she walks in the door and steals the iPad. There is this little short on Disney Junior called "Small Potatoes". Mom made the joke one day that "those small potatoes creep me out 'cause they got no feet!" Well, that was all Meredith needed to here. Now she makes sure everytime Mom is around that she brings up Small Potatoes, even making me find them on YouTube to show her! She can be such a little butt! When they come on at home, she runs to me saying, "Call Mom Mom! Small Potatoes is on! Dey ceep her out!"

Fitz Randolph

For anyone who doesn't know, I love the Olympics. Especially the summer ones....every 4 years when they come around, Eric knows that our t.v. will be tuned to whatever is going on in the games at that point....he says it's because I'm part Greek. I really just like the song (kidding.) Anyway, in the mail the other day I got a thing from the U.S. Olympic team looking for money to support their trip to London this summer, so I assumed E signed me up for something...he says he didn't, they just know....
They had stories of different Olympic athletes, and I laughed because one of them was named Fitz Randolph. Meredith used to call herself "Fitz" and "Merefitz" for some reason. So I showed it to Eric, and he said, "Fitz Randolph? Is that you?" and she looks straight at him and said, "I didn't runned off. I right here!" Really funny!
And I also have an Olympic jacket on the way. It's what I get for my 20 dollar donation....totally worth it :)