Angel of God by Kale

Sweet Kale saying his prayer:

So you know I'm getting a new camera. I'm so sick of this this one not working well. Any suggestions?

God is mad!

As I walk in the door tonight I am greeted by crazy man Kale. I am no more than one foot in the door when he launches into this conversation:

K: God is mad.
M: What?
K: God is really mad.
M: Why is God mad?
K: God is mad at Lucas.
M: Why is God mad at Lucas?
K: He stealed a peanut?
L: I gave it back to Daddy.
K: He's on the naughty list.
L: When did God get a naughty list?
K: Not God, Santa.

You don't tick of God and Santa all at once. It is over for Lucas.

Logan was quick to fill in missing pieces of the story and rat his brother out. Apparently, when they stopped at Harps on the way home and Lucas used the 5 finger discount and swiped a peanut out of the peanut bin...and that is stealing. God does not like stealing and that puts you on Santa's naughty list.

In case you are wondering, Kale is on the nice list and he will tell you that if you ask him.

Sir Mix a lot Kale is potty trained!

I like underwear and I can not lie.

You other brothers can't deny,

When a boy walks in with itty bitty buns

And an attitude on his face

You freak out!

Wanna pull up front

Cuz you notice those buns ain't stuffed.

Underneath those jeans he's wearing...

Big boy undies and I'm staring...

Oh, baby I wanna get near ya

And take your picture.

My brothers tried to tell me

But in the those undies

Me so dry now!

Another one bites the dust!

Tooth number 7 came tumbling out. By tumbling I mean a slight tug to a dangling tooth with a lot of whining and crying and freaking out for no reason. One step closer to braces.

Beefcakes

Who would have thought that fat little baby would have a hard time hitting forty pounds? Luke is stuck at 38 thus still not in a booster seat. Forty, where are you?

Lazy Morning

Today we had the benefit of a lazy start to our day. No draggin' kids out of bed at 6:15 am and then for the next 45 minutes broken record requests to just accomplish getting dressed, eating breakfast and grooming. Today we could move at a slower pace and it was nice. Here's how the fellas started their morning:

Caught!

This is apparently what my children were doing this morning while I as in the shower. I had about 16 short videos of pretty much the same thing on my camera. Did they not think that I would know that they were playing with my camera?

Naughty Note #2

Oh Lucas, my dear sweet Lucas, what are we going to do to with you? Waiting in the Houston airport I get an e-mail on my blackberry. Being the dedicated employee that I am I quickly check to see what it was. Come to find out it was in my personal e-mail and it was from Lucas' teacher. It was barely 10:00, what could he have done already? Turns out quite a bit. He had flooded the boys bathroom. Why you ask? To make Dwayne laugh... and it worked. Dwayne did laugh as well as get in trouble with Lucas. How do you flood the boys bathroom you ask? Rapid repeat flushing of the urinal until it overflows. No need to try this on your own, Lucas has already proven it works. I floods and it is funny. Of course, he would tell you it was worth it even thought he lost all of his recesses and had to sit by himself at snack. Then I made him right an apology note to the janitor that had the joy of cleaning up his mess. He promises never to do that again. Let's not bet the farm on that just yet! Anyone want to borrow his shoes?

Nugglin

In order to avoid bedtime all 3 boys needed to nuggle with me. How can you say no to that? Obviously I didn't!

Houston

As most of you know, traveling for work is not my favorite thing to do but often a necessity of my job. This week the boondoggle business trip took me to Houston. This made traveling not so bad...not because it was Houston but because it gave me the rare opportunity to see Jeff, Allison, Charlie and Henry. I don't think I have seen them on Texas turf since before I had kids. The other rare element was that there was no one I had to share myself with or the boys with....ahhhh, nearly 6 glorious hours just playing with Chachie and Hen. The Highlights:

• Hide and seek - they have a very giggly and wiggly blanket there!
• A multitude of different games involving a jump rope - Tug of war, snake, swamp fishing, etc.
• Many secrets were told to Thumper
• Colored pictures
• Made it halfway through a puzzle
• Read books
• A bike ride
• Enjoyed a delicious home cooked mean courtesy of Allison - so you know, never challenge Charlie to a bite race. He is a very thorough chewer and you really have to fake chew forever to let him win!

I'm sure I'll end up in Houston again in the future and I now know that Next time I need to take a bigger backpack to fit Charlie in so that he can come back with me.

To think I will get to see those kiddos 3 times in just 4 months this year. I love it!

THANKS FOR PUTTING UP WITH ME!