What Color Crayon?

This is a short but funny story. It really shows how kids think. So it is no big secret that mom colors her hair. Just look at her roots and you can see how dark her hair is. Well she does it at home herself. It saves time and money. It is only hair and will grow back if you mess up. So the day she was doing it she decides to scare the kids. It did not phase them, but Tristan told her how much he likes her hair dark. He could not really grasp the idea and very simply asked "Mom what color crayon are you using?".

The kids wanted to help, but that didn't last long!

Okay, So mom and dad have this crazy idea of switching the kids rooms around. They want to put Tristan and Gavin in Allyson's room and Allyson in Tristan and Gavin's room. Why you ask well, Allyson is in the larger room with a higher ceiling at the moment and with the boys having a bunk bed we need to put them in there. So it is a work in progress. One step at a time. We have started by taking the wall paper boarder down. Whomever created wall paper needs to be drown and quartered in public while their parents watch! (Mark's wording). Mom started while dad was gone. After about an hour of really no success she went online and found the wonder concoction of fabric softener, vinegar and warm water. Spray and let set and it comes off much better. But before we spray we have to remove the top layer. This is where the kids come in. They really wanted to help, well that did not last very long. They helped long enough to get some pictures and that is all. Mom was using a small paint scrapper. It was taking a long time. So when dad got home he came in with the big scrapper. He finished the room up. That was mom's plan all along. There is still this plastic like film left which we could not fully remove. We will just have to sand it down.

The moral of this story, Never use wall paper even as a boarder unless you plan to keep it up forever!!

Gavin

Tristan & Gavin


Allyson & Gavin

Gavin & Tristan

Allyson & Tristan

Boys will be boys!!

So Tristan and Allyson have had their own post so I thought I would do one for Gavin. He is growing up so fast. Just as soon as Tristan gets out of a size it is time for Gavin to wear them. That means he is in a size 4. He is 35lbs and to me has the chunkiest legs. Compared to the other 2 of course. He "Hates to take a nap", but will sleep for at least 3 hours on the weekends. He wants to play ball so bad. Any ball, soccer, football or baseball. It really does not matter. His speech is getting so much better and we can all most understand everything he says. The thumb sucking is winding down, well at least we hope it is. He must be going through a clumsy stage, because just last week he was walking and just tripped himself. He hit his forehead on the cement. We took a picture the day it happened and it was okay but a few days later we got a much better picture.

A few days after that he walked into the door jam. He could not do any more damage.

Not proud of it!!

Okay so I am not proud of this confession. It took a lot to post this.

I (Kami), became an adult today, Why you ask, well today just after I walked in the house from a long day at work, I was looking out the front door and noticed some kids walking up to the door. I just thought that they were selling something, that time of the year, Easter, Baseball, Softball, and so on. Well that was not what they wanted. Just as I reached to open the door one of them hit it really hard. Come to find out he kicked it. I continued to open the door and chased after them. That is right chased them. Up the street and down the next. They had the advantage, 2 girls were on skateboards and the 3 boys on bikes. I got lucky and one the the girls got scared and stopped. She did not live around here, but she was visiting the other girl and walked me to her house. So I spoke with her dad about the issue. He was very nice and advised me that he would take care of it.

In the mean time Mark was in his truck driving around with the kids, and got the name of the kid who did it, Kyle. Anyways he says he scared them. We never really got the reason why and don't think the girls really had anything to do with it, just in the wrong place at the wrong time. We think they intended to play ding dong ditch, which I would have just laughed it off. I have done that. I think most normal teenagers have. Luckily when we got home we noticed that the front door was just fine, and I realized how out of shape I am!

So that should answer the question as to why. I am not proud of it, but they made me really mad. After that I so hope that my kids don't turn out to be one of those kids. Only time will tell.

Allyson

We finally got some pictures of Allyson at Dance class. She loves it so much. So here are some pictures of her at her class. Dad gets to take her and he is not really good at taking the camera, so this last week I reminded him to take it. She loves to pose for the camera as you can tell. Since we take so many pictures and I can not decide which to put on the blog you get to see them all, well most of them as a slide show.

Allyson's Dance Class

Baseball

Tristan T-ball follies.

Saturday Mar 7TH was opening day for Baseball. The first day in his Baseball uniform. He looked like such a big boy, growing up so fast. Then we see him next to his team mates and see that he is still so small. He is #1 which dad tells mom means that it is the smallest jersey on the team. Well that was no lie. Tristan is the youngest and small player on his team. He was the first player up to bat and he ran to first. When the next player hit the ball and he ran to second, then third and then home. He played outfield and pitcher, no pitching of course, and catcher. Mom missed this part but one time as he ran from first to second he fell on his face. He got out at first base, and said that he had a great time. Although they don't really keep score at this age, his team had more runs. Allyson and Gavin played at the playground all day. They had so much fun and can not wait for another game.

The things kids do and say.

Well last week just after I plugged in my curling iron Gavin reached up as I was telling him that it was "HOT". Which at 3 1/2 he knows what "HOT" means, well in true boy form he reached up any ways and got his finger. Luckily as I said I had just plugged it in so it was not very hot yet. So on his way to day care he asked Dad that "When Jesus comes will he make it feel better?". Mark had fun with that one.

Tristan as we well know has bad dreams. He ends up on the floor next to mom. One day he woke up and looked up at me and said "Mom, I did not have a bad dream, I stayed in this world". What can you say to that?

Allyson got out of bed and made it all by herself. She was so proud, I thought it was great. Well it has not happened since. Oh well. With dance we have had to buy some leotards. Well she also wanted a tutu. So we bought her a ballerina skirt, but she calls it her tattoo. We get a kick out of it.