This morning I sat my kids down and talked to them all about random drug testing. I told them that when people are known to do loser things, they get surprise tested to tell important people if they are still losers. I then told them they were going to be randomly tested.
They were confused.
Then I told them I was pretty confident that none of them were taking drugs, but I was also pretty confident that they were all being a little “loserish” in one aspect of their life. Then I handed them each a dark purple pill, to expose all of the plaque they left on their teeth after “brushing” just minutes before.
Navy was our best brusher — with only a few minor spots at the gumline.
Pippi has the front tops and bottoms down to a science. I explained to her that there are also teeth that need attention on the sides of her mouth.
Dash…oh Dash! I’m glad he had a few clean on the top. His bottom adult teeth looked like they had been plucked from Barney — the big purple dinosaur’s mouth!
And the biggest embarrassment to our family comes in the form of our oldest child.
Is he kidding?
Since we were trekking down to Papa’s place, we decided to make it extra fun by visiting the nearby water park. Truth be told…I actually went to visit a sick friend, and Tristen took my kids and Blush to Papas. About an hour into it, she texted this picture, and said there was the hugest hail storm EVER, and the water park was closed fora few hours for safety purposes.
When I finally got to my dad’s place, the kids were all in his warm dry stuff, while their wet stuff was in the dryer.
For his new place being just a few days old, my kids certainly christened it.
Poor Pops…who couldn’t have seen this type of crazy coming!
I think his face says it all.
Rose, Navy and Pippi (surprisingly — all of the girl cousins) were baking up a storm today.
And to make it extra cute, they put a sign out that said, “It’s Cupcake Time”.
Their offerings were impressive. Almost as impressive as the state they left the kitchen in — spotless! The boys who were all swimming, devoured these delicacies up!
How fun for Navy to have a girl cousin her age…and the best part is that they totally click!
Lucky them.
Healing is a marvelous thing. Only a month and a half ago, Navy literally had no skin on the inner part of her current wound. But somehow…slowly and miraculously, her skin has formed, and covered an open wound the size of a large marble. We are pretty sure she is going to sport a forever scar. But I hope when she sees her future scar, she sees a battle wound that she never complained about, a painful mistake she immediately fixed, and a mark that didn’t put one hesitation in her fun-filled summer.
I remember playing a get-to-know-you-game at camp once, where we each had to pick a scar on our body and explain the story behind it.
Navy, you are going to have a great get-to-know-you story.
In my list of things I wanted to be when I grew up, Interior Decorator was somewhere on that list. Not because I had any sort of talent for it, but I really enjoy doing it. That being said…my first big project was my dad’s one bedroom place in his new independent care facility. I took a few pieces from his house, found a reclining couch that wasn’t 100% hideous, and tried to run around town to make it work in a 24 hour slot. I wanted to make it simple (to help him get around with poor eyesight at the moment), clean looking, and timeless. I added in fresh flowers, his favorite snack of nuts, and of course a model replica of his favorite car!
Who knows if I hit the mark, but when he walked in to seeing it for the first time, he seemed so happy and said, “It looks exquisite.”
I’ll take that!
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