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 ‘salsa’ sign at Moes Madeline says the ‘l’ is lonely. . . I was perplexed. Tracy had to explain it to me and now I feel a little slow. . Did you get it yet? There are two ‘a’s and two ‘s’es but only one ‘l’. So the ‘l’ is lonely. What an interesting way of thinking. Depending on who you talk to in our family they are either homeless, waiting to cross the corner and moving around because they are cold (and the music was from a loud car behind us), mislead and confused, or dancing and singing for money. Can you guess who said what? —–  Lander 12-30-13. It is now official. The foundation of our house is poured, hardened, and tagged (by us – see the pic). We all were doing our right-hands automatically until Madeline (she started to put her left-hand down). Tracy and I caught it in time and made her switch. However, Tracy is now second guessing that decision because that would have just fit her… she always tries to be different. We don’t have a good Toothfairy. Madeline lost her tooth four weeks ago and she still hasn’t come for the tooth. About two weeks ago I told Madeline that the Toothfairy was probably afraid of the Window and that she probably needed to sleep with her head on the other side of the bed. See, her bed is a bunkbed and the bedroom is arranged in a way that it makes it really hard to get to the pillow on the top bunk if it is by the window. But the Toothfairy evidently forgot that night and every night since even though Madeline has been sleeping with her head on the other side of the bed away from the window. So Madeline thought of something new to try. Madeline’s pillow and her tooth is on our bed tonight. She told me not to snore and scare away the Toothfairy. I’m betting the Toothfairy comes tonight! We ate at the Moe’s on Newberry Rd not too long ago. The routine always ends up walking around the fountain on the way back to the car. On this particular occasion the kids conned some change out of us to throw into the fountain to make wishes. After it was all said and done Tracy asked what people wished for. This was their answers: Annalise: I want to be on Steve Irwin’s team one day! Madeline: I want to be a horseback rider. Secily: I want to be a princess. Connor: I didn’t make a wish because it’s a scam.
We’re cleaning house. All of a sudden I realize that Madeline is just standing on the big love seat with a broom in her hand sweeping it back and forth. Not exactly sweeping tho. More like trying to use it to move the couch around. On the couch with her is a play rifle and a couple towels. I also hear her muttering, “Now that’s a BIG one!” “Hey, Madeline, whatchya doin?” She grabs the throw blanket from the ground, throws it onto the couch with a “Gotya!” Then she looks up and says with a big smile, “I’m playing Swamp People and I’m Liz.” These children of mine! Never a dull moment. A couple of days ago when we were driving home, we came up on a car that had run off the road. There was a sheriff’s deputy standing in the middle of the road directing traffic around the scene. As soon as Madeline saw him, she shouts “Everybody! Just act natural!” I really don’t know where she comes up with these things. 🙂 We were driving a way we normally don’t take with the kids in the car. It’s around a few houses and then comes out at the back side of a hotel. As we drive up past the hotel we hear from the backseat Madeline say, “whoa! They have a lot of kids.” I guess since that ‘house’ had a lot of bedrooms it equated to having a lot of kids. Take a wild guess what this is:
Give up? How ’bout if I tell you that the kids really love that nature show on the Discover Channel called Life. Still no idea? What if the latest episode they watched was called Plants. Still no clue? How ’bout if I give you the hint that this plant eats flies? Ok… that last one should have given it away. That picture up there was an out-of-the-blue shadow puppet that Madeline came up with one night while she was playing around not trying to be put to bed. “Look mommy, It’s a Venus Fly Trap.” Made me laff when Tracy told me about it. According to Madeline, “You’re boo-boo is lost.” |
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