...I finally had that conversation...

Yep, I am finally an adult now. Today my sons were munching on a bowl of chocolate chip cookie ice cream when Andrew asks, "Mom, did they have ice cream like this when you were a kid?". I laughed at the absurdity of it, and then I realized, no they didn't! So then flashes of stories about my dad walking to school uphill in the snow, blah, blah, blah just sail through my mind. I realize that I am standing on a precipice about to jump of into the land of, "when I was a kid...". And I smiled and jump. "Well, Andrew, we actually did not have cool flavors like this. We had flavors like strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate. We thought Neapolitan was really cool because you could get all three. I remember when Cookies-N-Cream was invented. I thought it was the coolest thing - cookies and ice cream! Still remains my favorite flavor today (unless you are counting Cold Stone's 'Peanut Butter Perfection' with Cheesecake ice cream).

The next book writer

 
Andrew walks in from school today and declares that he needs to use the computer. To this point, the kids have only used the computers to play games and watch videos. So I ask him what he'd like to use it for and he tells me, "I am going to write a book". So I decide (because I am taking care of at least one baby and trying to make dinner) that he will have to wait (10 minutes) until dad gets home. When Jeff gets home he helps Andrew with setting up the computer. Jeff reports in that Andrew's books will be about Ninja's and Knights, will have 130 pages and happens in America involving a Prince and Princess. Fairly creative if you ask me. Andrew spent until dinner time writing his book. Andrew would ask me fun things like, "Mom, how do you spell 'ja'". Thankfully I knew it had Ninja's in it, so I could give him the answer he was looking for.

I have many a book planned in my head, a few down on paper, but nothing finished. Maybe I will race him to see who gets it done first.

Dinner conversations at our house

 















AnnaLisa: The White house has 35 bathrooms in it. It also has 32 bedrooms.
Mommy: (Thinking maybe se could "redistribute the bathrooms across America), really?
Andrew: We could move in there.
AnnaLisa: You have to be elected to move into the White house.
Peanut Gallery (Also known as mom today) or you can buy your way in...
JJ: I want to move into the light house

such are the dinner conversations at our house

Get out of jail free

This entry is about MaggieMae. She tries to use this card (figuratively) every day. Round about noon is her nap time. This is how she works it. In the morning the kids must stay in their beds until 6:00 am (I am sure most of you are already laughing because your kids like to sleep late, and I am stuck with the early risers, hence the stay in bed until 6:00 rule). Maggie has learned that rule. So when it is time for her to lay down for nap time, she will occasionally, more frequently in recent days, come out and play her "Get out of jail free card" commonly known as the phrase, "It is 6:00". It took me a while to realize (remember I am still very sleep deprived because of the twins) that she was announcing that it was time to get up. So now I know that, "It's six o'clock", really means "get out of jail(naptime)". And all this time I thought she was actually reading the clock in the morning.

Turbulance

 
This is our plane ride home and MaggieMae is loving the turbulance. I guess someone should love it.

You can see that Rosi was snagged by the nice lady across the aisle who put her to sleep and held her for the second half of the flight. I was tickled, usually when people offer to hold a baby, the baby gets woken up or no sleep. This was perfect. I was able to hold and calm Andrew and Maggie during the last 45 minutes of turbulance...uh plane ride. When we arrived in Arizona they were having winds at 40 mph and heavy rain - almost an inch in 24 hours. There was a tornado touchdown sighted in Scottsdale. When Jeff and I were waiting for our luggage we looked out the doors and saw rain going sideways and trees bending over. Crazy weather!

The "Jeff's tired" pose

 
I laugh at this everytime I see one of the kids doing it. This is a pose that Jeff became famous for as a teenager (according to his sister Karilee). We noticed William doing it on our last day there. Maybe it has something to do with the house he grew up in as well as his genes.