Maddi Gail

Maddi has been asking me to curl her hair for a while now. The problem is that every time I touch her head she cries and whines because I'm hurting her. Today she asked me again to curl her hair and surprisingly enough she was really good and didn't whine once!

Maddi's First Day of Pre-School

It's hard to believe that Maddi is already pre-school age. I still remember like it was yesterday when Laura started pre-school and now here we are sending our baby! Her first day went on without a hitch and she had a blast!

Watch out MC Hammer, here comes MC Maddi

Maddi is just a super funny kid. Last night I was watching tv and she just busted out a little beat and started break dancing. If I laugh when she does something she gets mad and cries because she thinks I'm making fun of her. So all the while I was trying so hard not to laugh but eventually I couldn't take it anymore. She got mad at me and ran off and cried. I eventually convinced her that I am laughing because she makes me so happy. I had her do it again but I got the camera first. Again the video isn't as good as the first time she did it but you get the idea.

http://s279.photobucket.com/albums/kk149/ozbirn454/?action=view&current=003.mp4

1st Day of School

Yesterday was the first day of school. I don't know what was wrong with my children this summer but they were just horrible kids. Fighting and whining all the time. I was counting down the days for them to go back this year! Laura is in 5th grade, James is in 3rd, Kenni is in 2nd, and Maddi will be starting pre-school next week. They all got off to school okay but when I picked them up the first thing Laura said to me was "I'm never coming back here" Now for those of you who know Laura, know that that isn't the first time she has said that! She said she likes her teacher but she doens't like the new principal, at lunch she had to raise her hand to get up to throw out her garbage, if the lunchtable isn't clean underneath everyone that sat there has to clean it up before they can go, and pick up was SO HOT! James liked his teacher and Kenni still wasn't sure about his. He is used to having younger teachers and this year she is older. He said she is kind of mean because she yelled at he whole even though he and his friend Haley were quite. So we'll see how today goes!

Laura's Apron

Laura has been wanting to use my sewing machine for some time now. I was always nervous because I didn't want her to break it. She has a friend who is a year older than her that has been making small quilts. We were over at her friends the other day and they were making "Barbie" clothes together. I thought maybe it was time Laura is able to use my machine. For her birthday we got her an apron pattern and some material. With my help at cutting everything out and some sewing, Laura was able to make this apron for herself.

Laura's 10th Birthday

It's hard to believe but our little girl has turned 10 years old. A few days before her birthday Aunt Lisha took the kids for 3 whole days. That worked out perfectly because Grandad had called and said he was coming out to surprise Laura for her birthday. The night we picked him up from the airport we had Aunt Lisha meet us at a restuarant. We got there first and while the kids were coming in Grandad went a hid out in the bathroom. After the kids got seated with us Grandad came out and stood a booth away to see who would recognize he was there. He was trying to get Maddi's attention but she was so busy telling me about everything she did over the weekend she had no clue. Laura finally turned around and saw Grandad standing there. Once she jumped up and yelled Grandad the other kids caught on! Grandad later on asked her what she wanted for her birthday and she told him that him surprising her was all she wanted! Grandad got here on saturday night and left thursday morning so we had about 4 days of jammed packed fun with Grandad. We of course had to go to Golden Coral for breakfast and make a shopping trip to walmart, we went and saw a movie and went swimming and we had the family down for lunch. The kids just had a blast!

Sitck Em' Up

The kids all built this Lincoln Log cowboy town one day. The next thing I knew they were all dressed up and taking pictures of each other. They did this all on their own with no help from me so I though the pictures were post worthy.

la cucaracha

About a month after we moved into our new house we had these cockroaches popping up in the kids' bathroom. It turns out they were sewer roaches. Our house had been empty for some time before we moved in and that is what caused them, so I was told. We tired everything to kill these nasty things and what ended up working was pouring pine sol down the drains. So for about a month or two the kids, girls especially, were terrifed of their bathroom. One night we were watching America's got Talent and Maddi started spouting off this story to me about the cockroaches. I just had to get the camera because her facial expressions just kill me sometimes. Of course the videos I got of her telling me the story isn't as good as the first time but is still hilarious.

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