Something new to try

I’ll add some Valentine theme videos to YouTube that you can watch. Here goes. 

Valentine’s Day

is kinda like Christmas for us.  It started a week ago when the kids received Valentines and gift cards from Aunt Deb and it’s kept on going through today.  

  G’s smiling ‘cause he didn’t have to pay for the McDonald’s meal, and D’s smiling because that’s one less meal to cook. 

Everybody wins!  Thanks, Deb!   See?

Happy kids!

 

This week we made Valentines for the kids’ parties. Here’s CGirl’s mailboxes holding two Hershey nuggets.  We made a bunch of those.   

Here’re Gr’s.  These held two Hershey kisses and we made 20-some of these, also. 

SBaby’s for preschool were store-bought Lego Valentines with suckers glued on.  Gotta say those went together the fastest and were the cheapest! But I wanted each kid chose their own style, so they picked what they wanted to give.  There were only two other homemade Valentines in the whole bunch they brought home from their exchanges.

Other miscellaneous events this week:

• The actual Science Fair
• Kitchen outlets and covers replaced.  Pretty?

• Current state/arrangement of the living room, just thrown in there for no good reason.

Today, G and I watched a movie together at 7 a.m., How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (my review: not that great) and then he gave me my Valentine present, a new clock radio iPod dock, just what I wanted.  I was getting a little tired of having to stand in the bathroom to get clear reception from the radio while lying in bed.  Yep.  Try it. 

Oh, and a bag of chocolates, thus, I am very happy today.

 

My gifts to my sweetheart:  a new accessory to wear (I’ll get back with you on just how that goes over) and I have bbq ribs in the oven as we speak.  Caroline made this lovely strawberry and Skittles cake for the family.  The Hello biscuits are long gone.  Maybe they should they be Bye-bye biscuits?

 

Gr brought this huge heart balloon home from his friend Chris’ house along with a heart tin of Hershey kisses.  This would be the same gift giver that, over the course of our kids’ friendship, has given me an Amy Grant cd, a bag of oranges and Asian pears, flashy blingy necklace with earrings, my winter hat to cover up my “teenager hairdo”, and let’s don’t forget the flip-flops and tank top for G on Fathers’ Day.  So that we have this floating  3 feet tall balloon in our house is no surprise.  It is in the laundry area in order to minimize the hassle. 

Gr: “DO NOT touch the balloon!”

Balloon got sent to the laundry area after I had heard this same statement yelled 20 times.

Here are our Valentines on display.  The kids say thank you, Grandma and Grandpa!

 

Boys did some wii’ing today.  Gr has been enjoying some of his Val-Day candy as you might notice by the blue mouth and SBaby has designed his own take on the straitjacket.  And yes, J actually let his face be seen in a picture.  Happy day. 

 

This mystery note showed up today. 

From Cuped. Who brought chotlet. 

Gr asks a very good question:  If it’s really from Cupid, why did he misspell his own name?

 

My gifts to the kids are yet to be opened.  I can opener-ed the bottoms, replaced the fruit with a $5 Target gift coin, and then glued the bottoms back on so it appears they are regular pull-top cans of fruit.  I think they’ll like the surprise.  And then they’re going to get some new clothes.  Not so likeable, I’m sure.

Happy V-day to all those we love!

Today I'm asking
If you'll be mine.
Please say yes,
Be my Valentine.

Hello, Morning!

 

This morning’s funnies are brought to you compliments of CGirl and SBaby.  We’ll give Gr the day off.  And dadgumit, J is just too mature and grown up for anything goofy to come out of his mouth it seems. 

CGirl:  Mom, some day can we close all the curtains in the whole house?

Me:  OK.  Why do you want to?

CGirl:  Well, if we shut the curtains, then the light can’t go out and we should do it.  It’s for daylight savings.

 

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Today being Valentine’s Day, I made something special for breakfast, the famous hollow biscuits: crescent rolls wrapped around a butter-dipped, cinnamon and sugar coated marshmallow, baked until perfectly perfect, with the marshmallow disappearing into a gooey supersticky form of sugar goodness.  Can’t you just taste ‘em now?

SBaby:  Mom, can I have two more Hello biscuits? 

We may have just started a new name. 

Two (not) birds, one stone (ice chunk)

 

Yes, I know it must seem like there is a Gr-focus on this site, but it’s not intentional. It’s just that he’s the one that seems to provide me with all my material.  Here’re two nuggets for you that totally cracked me up and maybe will give you a smile. 

Scene 1.   The other day, headed out the door for school. 

Me:  Gr, did you see that dead bird?

Gr:  Where? (practically stepping on it)

Me:  Right there!  Look down.

Gr:  That’s not a bird.

Me:  Why don’t you think it’s a bird? (Admittedly, it was in pieces but they were obviously bird pieces.  Thank you, some generous neighborhood cat?)

Gr:  No, it’s just some animal with feathers.

Me:  Um… Gr, so what animal has feathers?

(Sorry for the unappetizing visual but I just had to share how bird-like it truly was.) 

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Scene 2.  Today, minutes ago as we are standing at the bus stop, me shivering in the 12 degree air with really painful tingles all over my exposed face from the wind.  Gr is sliding around on the ice, cracking it for thrills.

Gr:  Mom, you are so lucky that you can stay out here as long as you want and crunch up the ice today. 

Yep, that’s what I was thinking would be a great day of fun.

Everybody, keep warm!!

Science Fair

This weekend, Gr worked on his 4th grade Science Fair project.  He wanted to see if dogs or humans experienced more reaction to pepper.  He used what we had in our kitchen: finely ground black pepper, cayenne red pepper, and freshly ground peppercorns.

Here you can see his new braces, by the way.  They’re on the bottom only and these are still part of his expansion treatment, just the next step following his full-time retainers, trying to create a bigger mouth. 

Sometimes I have to wonder if any of these kids need a bigger mouth.

So anywho, this below is Gr’s reaction to the cayenne.  It had his eyes watering and made his face contort a bit, but no sneezes from him sniffing any of the three types of pepper.  CGirl got it in her eyes.

Gr ended up with pepper going down into his throat, so he hoped drinking milk would help.  He described the cayenne pepper as the strongest, causing “really painful tingles.”

After each trial with Gr, giving five minutes to record any sneezes, Scooter was given his turn.  Gr hypothesized that the dog would sneeze more since the dog’s nose is more sensitive. 

Here you can see Scooter is quite eager to get to whatever’s on the plate.  Scooter, you are in for a surprise!

Here’s his reaction to the ground peppercorns.  No sneezes, but he did make this face. 

I just noticed the pepper visible on his neck fur. 

He came inside for the cayenne.  No sneeze, but he did do this: 

Major drool.

It turned out that only the finely ground black pepper that we use in our salt ‘n’ pepper shakers caused any sneezing.  ScooterDog sneezed four times with it. 

For being such a good sport, Scooter got some extra love and attention.  Rewards included licking peanut butter out of Gr’s hand, sugar out of CGirl’s hands, and peanut butter off Gr’s face. 

 

SNEEZES

dog vs. boy

IIII to 0

All in the name of science. 

Hey Jule

Thumbs up right back at ya!!

Congratulations!  We are proud of you. 

Scientific Discovery

   

By CGG

Today GDG Was Scientific he did a Discovery With  Thee  kinds of  Pepper. And  He Did It To  Scooter too. He  had 4 big sneezes    and  2    Small     Ones.           This      is Scooter  .                                                     

Announcing: the New King of Rock n Roll

I will say it right now that I am a Weird Al fan.  It dates back to the early 80’s when I was still a kid.  My Bologna, Another One Rides the Bus, Fat, Like A Surgeon.  Ahh, those were the days.  More recently I have enjoyed his Amish Paradise (yes, 1996 is still recent to me), and White and Nerdy with the supercool Donny Osmond~~awesome video!

So anywho, the boys are into Weird Al now and want to download some Weird Al tunes and we have been discussing it.  Yesterday Gr says this, with all the sincerity that is Gr:

“Mom, Weird Al is the King of Rock n Roll.  (pause…) Well, there’s Elvis but after him, it’s Weird Al.”

The King

No. 1

Close 2nd

My New Clothes

I got this outfit at Christmas and it’s very cute!  I am wearing it to school today.  It feels very comfy!  And with the bottom, it looks very cute.  Aunt Karen, thank you!