Man in a Dress

Marinn, "Mom! Come look at Shaw!"

Mom, "What is he doing?"

Marinn, "He is looking pretty, like a girl.  We dressed him up!" 

Shaw crawls out like this... 

I knew this was bound to happen eventually... he has 2 big sisters.  The funny thing is even though he's still little and cute he still looks like a man in a dress! 

Broom Master

Shaw loves my broom.

It's strategically hidden between the fridge and cabinet, but he always finds it. 

He gets it out and just starts pushing it all over the floor.

He laughs and screams and has a ball. 

I always wonder why my kids like to play with certain thing... why is the broom soo intriguing? 

The conclusion I've come to is its big and kind of shaped like a sword (what boy doesn't like a good sword?) and he can swing it around fiercely.

All my Babies...

I love my babies… I look at this picture and feel a since of accomplishment as a mom.

They are all growing up so fast and their personalities seem to be changing all the time. I love watching them change and I often try to imagine what might be next on their journey. 

I love how caring and loving they are towards each other and people in general.

They make me smile and laugh every day and their creative antics always surprise me.  

Even though they come with lots of smelly situations and ideas way to creative for their age that get them in trouble (as we speak Shaw is on his tippy toes trying to open the silverware drawer), days later when I look back I only seem to remember their sweet faces and laughter. 

*I got super lucky capturing this picture... about 1 second later Shaw was half way across the room. Notice Marinn holding everyone still : ) and still striking a pose! 

Baby Powder vs. Baking Powder

As I was making some homemade tortillas the other day, 

Marinn asked, "What is that mom?" As I was measuring out the Baking Powder. 

I respond, "Baking Powder."

She exclaims frantically, "Powder is for BUTTS mom!!!"

I laughed and explained, she still looked a bit confused but accepted my answer.

Silly turkey. Bucket Head. Apple Bottom Jeans.

Taurins three favorite silly sayings.... 

"Apple bottom jeans with the booty fur!"

Anyone who knows Andrew knows that he occasionally says random stuff.  Well he would sing the little phrase, "Apple bottoms jeans! Boots with the fur!"

Taurin picked up on it and made it her own. The way her little voice says it is hilarious!

"Bucket head!"

Andrew calls the girls silly stuff all the time. Taurin now will randomly just call people bucket head or just says it out load out of no where.  Yet again... hilarious!

"Silly Turkey..."

This is from a book called, Red Hat, Green Hat by Sandra Boynton. 

No where in the book says "silly turkey", but one day as Andrew was reading it to the girls whenever they would get to the turkey he'd read the "oops" and then say silly turkey. Taurin thought it was soo funny and started calling people silly turkeys whenever they were silly. The cute thing is she says it more like, "silly tur-tee". 

W*O*R*K

This morning as Andrew is getting ready Taurin mentions something about going to work with daddy.  

Marinn says with confidence, "You have to be really big and tall. And a boy to go to work Taurin."

(The previous morning Taurin was looking for her shoes to put on to go to work with daddy, and I had told her she wasn't tall enough. Marinn was reinterating my ideas from the previous day with her own flair. )

Then Andrew says, "Girls just stay home and watch movies huh?"

The girls replied with a, "Yeah!"

On the way out the door Marinn yells, "Bye Daddy! Have a good day at school!"

I ask, "Daddy is going to school?"

Marinn, "Yeah... he's going to work school."

I love the confident assurance in her answers. I think God wishes we would talk to him like that sometimes. Even when we are not 100% right. 

*I know the above picture would be perfect if Andrew was in his work uniform hugging the girls... but who takes pictures of that? Boring!  This one is much cooler. 

Mullet Attack

Yes... it happened again. The girls were playing in the room and things got a little too quiet.  All of you moms out there know what I'm talking about. There is the nice "oh the kids are playing quietly" quiet, then there is the "they are up to no good" quiet. I go to check it out and coming down the hallway is Taurin with a pair of scissors in her hand.

Then the interrogation begins:

"What did you girls cut?" 

Taurin, "Marinn did it."

Then I realize Taurin only has a portion of her pigtails left on either side! 

I make it into the room and find a pile of beautiful golden locks all over the floor.  I'll be honest, in that moment I wanted to be the calm pulled together mommy but  it didn't happen. I broke down and just started crying as I furiously picked up the hair off the floor.  

Then, I took the hair ties out of Taurins hair to assess the damage... on both sides there were huge sections cut about mid ear, and one long strip down the back... once again we have been assaulted by the mullet. 

So... this was my only choice. 

I cut it all by myself after a little youtube training.

She looks soo cute with this hair cut. As much as I hate that I had to do it I'm glad it turned out so well.

Sorry for no before pictures... let's just say I was a bit "emotional" and forgot to capture the horror that was the mullet.

Slap Cheese

This morning the girls were asking for a piece of "slap" cheese.  

Hmmmm.... I wonder where they got that? 

Feel free to sing along...