Today 3-28-2013

These things happened today:

Fynneus fell backwards into a creek.

Tucker helped pull him out.

Rollin threw a baseball that hit Tucker in the shin.

Tucker threw a baseball that hit Rollin in the face.

Fynneus kicked the wall. Hard.

Koda fell off a brick wall.

Sucralose sells

This morning I was making sandwiches to take with us to our homeschool co-op outing and I only had rye bread to use because one of the loaves of bread I brought home from the grocery yesterday was, on second look, full of Sucralose.  I told the boys we couldn't eat it because its was full of poison. "What why would anybody put poison in our food" Rollin asked. Tucker answered "Because it sells"

How Old Do You Think I Am?

Tucker and Fynneus had their first baseball practices tonight and luckily they got moved to the same field.  It went well even though it was really cold. While we were trying to find Fynns' team I stopped a gentleman with a similar sized child and asked if he was on the White Socks team. He said he wasn't sure and while he paused to look through his phone for information another little boy walked up. He proceeded to show me his sweatshirt, his undershirt and his belly. Then he asked "How old do you think I am" but before I could even open my mouth he said "five, I'm five."  "Oh" I said "well how old do you think I am" and another little boy said "what?" I repeated "how old do you think I am?"  The boy tilted his head and said "twenty four!" Of course that made me smile and I told him he was sweet but that I was a little older. Then he tilted his head the other way and said "sixty-six?"  I told him I was thirty one and then both boys began to tell me how old each of their parents were. fort-one, thirty nine, twenty nine,.........and then they played baseball.

you just go sit and rest

I made dinner tonight for the family.  We had baked talapia, a southwest style salad and quesadillas. As we were all finishing up the boys each thanked me for dinner with such sweetness.Then someone asked what we should do next. I said "I think its sit and watch a movie time." Some of the family really like the idea but Fynneus said "I think we should be the parents and you two should just go sit and rest."   then he said that he and his brothers, to their dismay, would clean up the kitchen and bring us desert!  I said "I don't think we really have anything for desert" and Fynn immediately replied in the sweetest voice "oh we'll find something. Now as I sit here and write this I can hear klinking and clanking and water running and whispering and plans brewing for a "show" a "breakdancing show".

A Fynntastic 6th BIrthday!!

December 21 2012

These things were actually said at my house today.


Rollin : "Fynn thanks for helping me find the matches."

Fynn: "It was my pleasure."

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Tucker : "Actually I think I do need scottage tape."


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Fynn to me "thanks toots!"

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 Rollins newest creation is a home made scope with cross hairs.

 Tucker and I spent some time today trying to perfect paper fletching on a home made fire hardened arrow.

 Rollin tried to run away from my camera! Gotch ya Rollin!

 Fynn, with his orange ball.

A little piece of metal treasure Fynn found in the back yard.

Sellin a house while three boys live in it

I mean it is a lot of work having three boys or trying to sell a house but trying to do both at the same time pretty much crazy! I actually was feeling like I sorta had everything "under control" for the open house that our realtor is having tomorrow, but then........well The boys are always hungry for second supper so before anyone even asked I threw a bunch of super healthy frozen chicken wings in the oven cleaned the kitchen did a bunch of laundry took out the trash remembered that the chicken wings were in the oven and got them out before they burned!  Turned out no one was really hungry. Or they just didn't want chickens wings, but when I announced that it was either time to eat them or get in bed they all decided to eat. So Fynn accidentally grabbed one of the "HoT" wings and immediately started to hyper ventilate and run in circles and back and forth in the kitchen. He drank some water and continued to pant, complaining of fire in his mouth, so I suggested more water. He chugged another glass of water still completely frantic. So i quickly grabbed a piece of super healthy bread and super healthy peanut butter and made a super healthy sandwich that I was sure would fix the problem.  I said "here Fynn take a bite" he looked hard at the sandwich and said I think I'm okay now." But I had just made a peanut butter sandwich in record time so I insisted "Here just take one bite" He continued glaring at the sandwich then said "my stomach hurrr,,,I'm gonna be sick" and he immediately put his hand over his mouth and ran vomiting all the way through the house until he got to the bathroom.  Luckily Thadeus is a carpet cleaning genius!  I think Fynn is fine now but Rollin definitely had a fever when went to sleep!   So for now I am just hoping everyone wakes up healthy in the morning and our buyers fall in love with this place tomorrow afternoon!


p.s. we had red and green pancakes this morning for the first day of december!