Rock Star

I picked up Dane from school the other day in Tyler's car, so there was a Rick Springfield CD playing, I cranked it up and Dane started playing air guitar in the back seat, and then he said "This is just what I always dreamed about...being a Rock Star!"

Another time, on our way to school, we were listening to a kid's music CD and the song "The wheels on the bus" was playing. I told Dane that this used to be his favorite song when he was little and then I asked him what his favorite song was now. He said "Well, I like the Star Wars song and Bon Jovi. All Bon Jovi songs are cool." That's my boy!!! :> We were listening to a Bon Jovi CD on the way home from the hospital when he was born...do you think that has anything to do with it? :>

When Tyler asked Dane "If you were in a band would you rather play the drums or the guitar?" He said, "The guitar...DEFINITELY the guitar!" Then he preceded to jump around the room playing air guitar like a crazy man.

My little alien

Here's baby boy Thomas #3's first picture. You can see his face, torso, and part of his arm. I think he looks like an alien or maybe a baby llama! LOL!

It was bound to happen

Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. I was sitting on the couch in the family room and noticed Cody and Joelle playing in our formal front room. So I yell "Get out of the front room you guys!" I looked back to see Cody standing up on the arm of the couch with his hands on my glass doll case (hutch). I'm just about to tell him to get down when I  hear a sound that doesn't sound good and he says "Mom, what happened to the glass?" Noooooooooooooo!!!! (He didn't mean to do it, he was just swinging his foot the way little kids do). Oh, well! As my niece Emily once said, and I have always found it to be very profound......"It can be fixed!" And besides...it was just a matter of time!

My demur daughter

My sweet little daughters newest thing to do is to fake burp and then say "Burp-burp...excuse me!" She also says "Toot toot!" after she passes gas.......she is learning such wonderful things from her older brothers!

SHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

While sitting in church listening to the speaker, Dane, who is leaning against me, asks me in a not very quiet voice, "Mom, why do you have boobs?"  My response..."Dane! SHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" I keep meaning to get back to him on that. LOL!

So I come out from the office tonight after working on my blog, thinking the kids are quietly watching the new DVD they got for Christmas, to find them all jumping on the couch.....completely NAKED! (Well, except for Dane who was still wearing his socks!) Never a dull moment!

My little helper

I came around the corner to find my little helper "organizing" my cupboards for me.

Like herding chickens

The kids looked so nice on Sunday all dressed up for church. I wanted a nice picture, like my parents used to take of us occasionally, all dressed up for church. But this is the best I could get. What a bunch of monkeys! Seriously, it was like trying to herd chickens.

Doing what they love

Here's my boys out doing what they love to do best...ride their bikes. It must be genetic!  Two chips off the old block! Tyler always laments that by the time they are old enough to go mountain biking with him, he'll be too old. It's nice to know we've trained our boys right...the other day when Cody saw a boy riding his bike without his helmet he said "Him's not a good listener! I'm a good listener 'cuz I wear my helmet!"

Pics from Christmas Eve

Here are some pictures from Christmas Eve 2009. We have a tradition of everyone getting new pajamas for Christmas eve. We also let the kids open a new DVD to watch, in an attempt to calm them down, because by Christmas Eve they were bouncing off the walls! It's a lot of fun to have little kids at Christmas time...their excitement is contagious.

My little funnyface

My little funny face!

Police woman

Joelle came into the office a few weeks ago dressed in her brother's police costume. She was so proud. In the last picture I said "Let's take a pretty picture!" and that was her "serious" pose. What a cutie!