Pippi has recently learned how to get out of her crib.
She is as silent as a ninja, and is very attracted to my make up…hence the Painted Ninja.
Unfortunately, the paint doesn’t only make it onto her face.
Like today, it was all over her feet, legs and hands….and the CARPET!
After an hour of cleaning the trail of make up on the carpet leading into the family night room….I finally dealt with her.
But when I realized the Painted Ninja has ugly crying disease, and clearly felt remorseful, I just gave her a hug and some make up tips, and sent her on her way.
When the kids were outside playing, and I saw Pippi grab her shoes while begging to go out, I knew our Family Night plans needed to change.
So tonight — Family Night was an outdoor bike-riding, plane-making extravagana.
And sometimes, those are the best kind.
These three pretty much consumed themselves with every bike or car we have in the garage.
While Scout and Dad made and threw paper airplanes back and forth.
They were challenging each other to see who made better planes.
Scout dominated, while Dad’s kept bombing.
There is even proof.
Navy started to take score for the “Butterflier”, named by Dad for his amazing paper airplane.
As you can see, the Butterflier “failed and failed again and failed again”!
Sorry Dad….Scout just has the origami/paper airplane touch.
Just checking out the lunar eclipse tonight in our undies.
Minus Navy, who has a little pride.
Actually — she has the least amount of pride — why the heck wasn’t she in her undies?
For Micah’s birthday, we had a fun family afternoon in Julian.
We went apple picking, went to a rad pumpkin patch, bought a pie and stopped a few other places.
We all had a really great time.
Then we went home for Thai food, and more football than you can imagine.
Happy Birthday Babe — from those who love you most!
We are really trying to pump our reading time — and abilities, so this morning started off with a few chapters for everyone.
And Dash — his reading is to die for.
He says every letter out loud, and thinks he is the coolest reader that there ever was!
I don’t have a picture — only a video, but Navy pulled the most classic Navy of all time tonight. As all of the kids came out of the bath, she came out with a towel around her….blowing bubbles. At first I couldn’t figure out what was going on. But then I realized that she had somehow put a layer of soap around her mouth, and was touching her lips together to create bubbles. And I am not talking about two times — she blew them for ten minutes straight.
We were all amazed.
It was one of the coolest/wackiest things I have ever seen.
That girl is priceless.
Good thing we don’t have five kids — I don’t think Micah could hold another!
It was pretty fun to watch Scout play football tonight in some real fall weather.
This girl is so funny. She is so expressive on everything, it is hilarious. I heard that Great Grandma calls her the “little actress”, and I couldn’t agree more.
Pippi — go and get that Oscar.
Whenever we are out and about, and one of my kids acts up, I usually ask if they want to go to the __________jail.
Then I tell them about the awful and dark jail that the workers keep just for naughty kids.
As it is all in an attempt to get my kids to act properly, I usually can get the workers in on the ploy.
So basically my kids think there is an “Outback Steakhouse Jail”, a “Pottery Barn Jail”, and of course a “Disney Store Jail”, alongside a jail in every single establishment we have ever set foot in.
Today, at the Disney Store, I was just about to go into my jail speech.
You see, Pippi was caught stealing all of the stuffed animals off of the shelf, to make a huge mess in another part of the store.
Right after she was reprimanded for sitting in an inappropriate spot at the table.
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So it began, “Pippi….you want to go to Disney Jail.”
But I let my words trail off, as I realized that my threats were going to fall on deaf ears that didn’t yet know that “jail” is supposed to be a prohibitive thing.
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