Costume Heaven!

My six year old decided that he was going to use his birthday money to buy him a Mario costume for Halloween this year.
We go to our friendly Wal-mart to purchase his ultimate dream costume. They are sold out of his size and of course this translates in to the end of the world as we know it!

I tell him to calm down we will go home and order it on the Internet. So I have single handily saved the world from a meltdown of the century.... your welcome! Five days later it FINALLY arrives. I was in the bathtub when I heard all this excitement in the family room, followed by the sounds of three voices at the bathroom door informing me unanimously that the costume was just dropped off by a guy in a brown van that dropped the package and left. Just in case you wanted the play by play. Sweet niblits!

For the past 2 days he has worn it non stop I had to convince him that he could not wear it to go get his flu shot, but he did wear the hat! Needless to say he is in his happy place with his new found love (for this month anyway), MARIO!

New Baby!

We have just recently found out that we are expecting our fifth child! My husband and I apparently can't wash our underwear together! Aw, yes pretty soon it will be heart burn, gas, stretch marks, and out of breath from walking up the stairs! I can hardly wait! Tee Hee!

We told our kids last week that they were getting a new sibling arriving next April! They were so elated! My eight year old is still trying to wrap his head around the fact that it takes nine months to grow a baby... apparently he slept through his little sisters pregnancy. Who,by the way is 14 months old. I know I am nuts! Any who, my five year old is into the Mario Brothers Wii this month who knows what will be his (thing) next month. Well he looked at me and asked," If the baby is a boy can we name him Mario?"
Fat chance of that happening. Then he says." Well if it is twins how about Mario and Luigi?" Sorry buddy boy, but that just ain't happenin'!

Can I have an arrow on my head?

My five year old is into Avatar the Last Air bender right now. He asks me everyday if I will shave an arrow on the top of his head and have the rest of his head be bald. My answer every time.... NO! So last night I am helping him with his homework book from school, and it asks him to look at pictures of himself as a baby and recent photos. Then point out things that are different.

First thing he notices about his baby picture is that he is bald. Then he says," Look how bald I am in my baby picture!" " You should have put an arrow on my head then mom! "

Want to hear a funny story?

We are eating dinner last night and my four year old was in a rather chipper mood. Considering that he has decided naps are no longer part of his life. So he has moved onto whining, and crying over everything until it's bedtime. I love it! It makes me sooooo happy! If you believe that then you you'll also believe that pigs fly, and chickens have lips!

Any who, last night he actually made it through dinner with out crying over something. He was eating his dinner, and with a mouth full of food he looked at his dad and said;" do you want to hear a funny story?" " Knock, knock a little boy farted! " Then he goes onto laugh his head off. Well I guess that it's better then listening to him whine..........

Clint's chocolate cake

For those of you that LOVE chocolate cake as much as I do! Here is a recipe that my husband came up with and it is divine!

Clint's Chocolate cake

1 3/4 cup flour
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup cocoa
1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp. Salt

Combine dry ingredients. Then add:
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup oil
2 tsp. vanilla
1 cup boiling water (add this at the end)
Add the boiling water after you beat the milk, eggs, oil vanilla with the dry ingredients.
The batter will be thin.

bake at 350 degrees for 30- 35 minutes

Emily's frosting

half a bag of powdered sugar
1 cup shortening
1/2 cup cocoa
1/4 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla

I like to taste it as I make it to see how much cocoa I want in it. You can add as much or as little milk that you want depending on how you like your frosting. Thick or thin.

Smell my hand....

Leave it to my kids to come up with the most disgusting thing they can think of that I always end up being the smeller, taste tester, and wiper of things that should just not be in my job description.

I get my three year old out of the bath tub the other night, and I wrap him in his towel. Then he goes into his sister's room to wait for me to get his clothes. I am dressing him in his sister's room because they have to share a dresser. Any who, he is sitting there with this look on his face as I am pulling out his pajamas. He has his towel on still, but then I notice that one hand is missing under the towel. HMMMMMM.......... " What are you doing honey?" I asked for it! " Smell my hand mom." Okay, you just know that this is not going to be a good thing. He had stuck his fingers in his bum crack and wanted me to smell.
Delicious I know. Yes they stunk like butt, and I had to go wash his hands!!!! EWWWWWW! I am just so excited for the next thing I have to smell or not smell.......

School shopping

Mommy's blog star date number 6782 rounded to the nearest decimal point.
Aw, yes it's that fun time of summer when you realize that all good things must come to an end. It's time to drag your hoodlums to the store for a fun day of fighting,and crying over having to go to one more store. I love it! We get to the store and I pick out pants for my five year old who is going to be starting kindergarten this year. I take him to the dressing room to see what size will fit him best. He looks in the mirror then at me, back in the mirror and asks," mom do these pants make my butt look big?" SERIOUSLY! Your five. I had to reassure him with every pair he tried on that his behind looked awesome! I thought that this was something that only girls worried about........