It's All in the Family

Funny little story from last night. The kids were all in bed asleep and Chuck and I were ready to go to bed ourselves. I went to the laundry room to get something. As I passed Adaline's doorway I heard something that sounded like crinkling plastic. Initially I thought maybe she woke up and was climbing out of her bed (even though that wasn't the same sound.) As I looked into her doorway, it looked like a figure was standing there, but it was dark and my eyes weren't adjusted to the dark. As I looked closer, Stewart emerged from her doorway and started down the hall. He was clearly sleepwalking and immediately I knew what I had heard. I asked Chuck who was also now in the hall to steer Stewart to the bathroom, while I turned on a light. Sure enough, while sleepwalking, Stewart had gone into Adaline's bedroom and peed into the trash can (remember- I heard crinkling plastic- yep.) Unfortunately his aim wasn't so hot, but we got it cleaned up off the wall, dresser and carpet.
So why is this all in the family? It reminded Chuck and I of the stories of his brother Cletus who would sleepwalk and pee into the toy closet. I'm grateful Stewart was trying to at least aim into a trash can instead of a closet full of toys!

Kids' Connections

There's so much I would have loved to post over the last few months, but true to my word, I knew I wouldn't be anything close to regular about this. But for my own records I do want to post something funny that Adaline said last night.

She is recently potty trained and needed to use the bathroom, so I was in there helping her. I'd just seated her on the potty when she took both her hands and pushed her hair out of her face and said,

"Me have long hair. And you. And Jesus."

Hilarious! But, why, you ask does my daughter choose to include Jesus in this list?

A day or two earlier in the week I was fixing her hair and I can't remember if she she asked to have her hair like the boys' or their hair like hers, but whatever the question my answer was, "we can't because just girls have long hair." Immediately she looked up at the picture of Jesus on her wall and said,

"Uh-uh!! Jesus has long hair. Him a boy!"

She got me. I couldn't argue with her. And while the initial incident was funny to me, the recall last night on the potty was even funnier!

PS-I have lots of these little funny comments and you may start to see them more on my blog. It is one of my favorite parts of being a mother getting to hear the amusing things that come out of my children's mouths. I try to write them in my journal and in theirs, but I'm thinking that my blog may become my place of choice for recording them.

My First Post!

I just posted these pics on the extended family blog that my sister set up and decided to see if I could cut and paste it into my own blog as my first post. It worked! Yea! I can't promise that I'll be posting very regularly, but now that I've done it once, I at least know I can do it again. These are just a few of my favorite pictures of the kids from the last few months.

Look what I can do! Chuck's sister, Cerah, showed me how to do this braid on Adaline back in June, but I thought I'd never be able to do it. Finally in August I tried and was successful. After the first time going out with this "do" Adaline loved the attention she got so much that she'll willingly try to sit still for her hair to be braided these days. I don't do it often, but it's a lot of fun when we do.

The kids were looking for ways to have fun while we were shoe shopping. I thought it made a cute picture. Just clowning around!

The kids planted and watered their own sunflowers this year with amazing results! We loved these enormous flowers. I had to measure them because I was so amazed- they were 11-12 feet tall!

I get the biggest kick out of Adaline's expression as she watched Chuck lick the drips off of her ice cream cone. We got homemade frozen custard from a local place after FHE one night.

I just love this picture because it's a classic.