Kids say.....

Yep, this is one of those posts where I record silly things the kids say so that I can remember them. Like it or not, here it comes.

Story #1:
E, J boy and I were in the kitchen doing a crafty project. C was doing dinner dishes, which usually mean he turns on some good tunes. We had on some Feist. Then this song came on....




E and J boy were intermittently dancing the whole time but when then this particular song came on, after a while E's body begins to "jerk" as she says...."Mmmhh! I just can't help it. I have to dance! This music is just so moovey and groovey." (I agree, it is a very "groovy" song) As she then let it all go and busted out into full body convulsions! Picture Elaine from Seinfeld's "dance moves". It was one of those "You had to be there" moments and it was hilarious! So I wanted to record it. She cracks us up.

Story #2:

We get home from church and I ask J boy if he can go up to his room and lay his Sunday shirt on his dresser and I tell him that later I will hang it up in his closet as he is too short to reach and if he does "reach" it means he climbed up on his dresser which I do not like. He says to me "No, Mom, I can do it." I sigh and figure he'll give up after a while, or at least that is what I was hoping he'd do.

A few minutes later he comes down stairs and says "Look Mom I got two "hookers", see I can do it." as he produces in his hands two hangers (no he did not produce two actual hookers) C and I could not help it we just busted up laughing. Then we quickly composed ourselves, knowing how J boy reacts to too much attention on him.

He then continues on, not even knowing what he has said or how silly it sounds "I just know how to get hookers.....I'm a big boy see I got two hookers....etc. etc." all the while C and I are trying hard to not laugh so he doesn't, one, get mad at us as he does when we laugh at things he says or does, and two, so he doesn't continue to use the term hookers thinking it is funny and one day completely embarrass us in public. I could just hear it, J boy piping up in Primary on Sunday "We have lots of hookers at our house......" etc. you get the point. I did not want that to happen.

After composing myself enough I quickly explained to him that those are actually called hangers NOT hookers, and hopefully he remembers that come next Sunday in primary :)

I love it when kids say those things that just take you by surprise but give you a good laugh, it's great, it really is!

I wonder what this C-u-t-e little lady will some day say to crack us up?

He's pretty Super!

I always thought my boy was pretty Super.

I had no idea he was actually Superman.

Ha ha! These pictures make me laugh so hard. Yes I made him put his underwear over his pj's. In my defense when he saw pictures of the actual superman he was more than willing to amuse me.

I have never seen him have so much fun playing dress-up! It was entertaining to say the least.

Thank You Auntie Whitney and uncle Joey for the awesome superman PJ's. Can you tell he loves them?!
He was even more excited when I reminded him he had a superman cape to match, there was no stopping this kid last night!

Little Eskimo

Did you know she is part Eskimo?

She is, I can prove it.........

See, that's her auntie :)

OK not really, but she sure would make the cutest Eskimo baby ever!


P.S. That sweater Lou Lou is wearing was made by my Mother-in-Law Celia. I know, right?! It is AMAZING and beautiful and I love it! She made it for E but when we received the sweater it was not quite the right season for the size so I think E wore it just a few times before she out grew it. I was SO excited to be able to put it on my second daughter because I LOVE it and wanted to get lots of use out of it.

Home sweet Home!

We're back! Ahhh Home sweet Home.

Oh wait you didn't know we left? Yeah I know I've been slacking on the blog here, but with the holidays it gets busy and my priorities change.

Yep, we left for our Christmas Break, the WHOLE break. We were gone for three weeks! Yikes, I know! We spent the whole time at my Folks in Spokane, with the exception of C going up to Canada to see his family for a few days. It was long, but I was glad to be back in Spokane with Family for a while.

I was going to write this post before Christmas about "No place like Home for the Holidays" because we last minute (meaning in October) decided to purchase flights to go to my Folks Home (the home I grew up in) in Spokane for Christmas. I never got around to writing it, let a lone posting it.

You see, I had torn feelings about going "home" for the Holidays. I mean I LOVE my family. I LOVE getting together with my siblings and being....us. To me, some times there really is "No place like Home for the Holidays". But that being said it's always, at the same time, stressful for me. You know the whole traveling with children thing, that's never fun, but also just living away from what is now my new Home, out of my element and my kids' element can be hard and stressful for me. I find it's worth it though, to be with my siblings and Mom and Dad during this special time of year.

It's just that this year I was hoping to stay put for Christmas and see what it was like to be in our home here with just us and what traditions we could do/start. Then I realized we have so much time to do those things with our kids in the future, they are still so young. But we won't always be in a situation like this (poor students, living far from family) where we get to spend Holidays like this (traveling, living out of suitcases for weeks,spending time away from our home) with our kids while they are so little. We're in a unique situation and time in our lives and we'll never have it back, so I figure we need to make the best of it while it's here because I don't want to regret anything. Does that even make sense? I'm just rambling now.

I did want to say, THANK YOU to my parents. I mean I already did say "Thanks for letting us come, Thanks for having us" but I mean really THANK YOU! I know they love having us there, the kids mostly but yes, C and Me too ;) But I also know that it's not easy on them to change what is now their new lives as empty nesters, to accommodate us, a family of five for three weeks! Not only do they accommodate us by giving us beds to sleep in, food to eat, even a car of our own to have three car seats in, but they make us feel so welcome and loved. So THANK YOU will never feel like enough for what they sacrifice for us each Year we come for weeks at a time. Thank you thank you! I love you.

Any way.... So if you were wondering Yes, we went on vacation. We had tons of fun with family; we laughed, we cried, we injured ourselves on our ski/snowboarding trip, we ate too much and my kids were spoiled rotten (it's a traditions, really). More stories and pictures to come about all the fun we had during those three weeks.


I'll share just one fun story with you.....My sister Kim and her husband Tyler have been married for not quite three years and they announced at Christmas that they are expecting their first baby! This is exciting news especially for me because that means that my kids will finally have some cousins on my side of the family. Yes my kids are the only grand children for my parents, it about time some one else start contributing to the grand child pool.

Kim and Tyler actually spent Christmas Day with his folks this year. So Kim told me a week before we left about her exciting news and asked if I would wrap her gift to Mom and Dad and video tape them opening it so they could see my Mom's reaction, because lets face it, my mom's reactions to news like this are usually priceless. Their gift being a picture of the ultra sound in a frame with a note that said "Baby Muir due June 19th 2011". Very cute!

It was hard for me to keep a secret like that from my Mom, Dad and siblings but I think I pulled it off, no one suspected anything, right?! It's very exciting news for our family. We are all so happy and excited for them and we can't wait to meet baby Tim or Kyler, ha ha just kidding, Kim.

And for those of you who care......I will try and post pictures of the fun times we had over Christmas break, soon, very soon. Just as soon as my kids are feeling better, yes they are sick again, looks like the flu this time :(