She does always put a smile on my face

My kids are driving me CRAZY today. They have been fighting and throwing fits all day. Even in all that Brooke is laugh out loud funny sometimes.

I was loading the dishwasher and I went to put the crock pot in and it slipped out of my hands. It made a pretty loud crash.

Brooke walked up to me and said "Mom, I think your suppose to put that in there, not throw it in."

Yea Brooke, got that, thanks.

We were all doubled over laughing.

Laundry

I came upstairs last night and Hunter was out in the hall (no big surprise there) and he was staring at the washer. I asked him what he was doing and he said waiting for the washer to be done.

I had to stand there and think for a minute because I didn't remember putting clothes in the washer. I asked him about it and he went on to tell me that he got dirty clothes out of my closet and started a load of laundry. i asked about putting the detergent in and he said he forgot. That was ok, cuz I have a front loader and putting detergent in can be messy.

I told him to go back to bed cuz their was still alot of time left. He went back to bed and I went to work out.

After 45min of working out I walked back by the laundry. Hunter's laundry basket was out of his room and he was still awake. I asked him and he said the washer finished so he put them in the dryer and put clothes from his closet in the washer.

This time- he used detergent.

Great, I'm having to have a discussion w/ my 6yo about not doing laundry on his own.

Brooke the cat

Brooke is a kitten. All the time, no really all the time.

She has decided that she is a cat. Most of the time she only responds if you talk to her like a kitten. She pretty much crawls everywhere. When we take her to school or church we have to tell her she can't be a cat, she has to be Brooke. Its ended up requiring "Kitty, pretend to be Brooke while you are in church."

Ashly babysat the other night while Scott and i went out and when we came home she even commented about Brooke being a cat all night.

It was cute at first...

Oh and she meows at us then we have to touch her neck and then she will use words.

again

This one will be short because the picture really says it all.

I went up tonight to check on Hunter in bed and he was asleep...

BUT he had taped 2 nerf darts to his chin.

Really, what more is there to say?

only you

Hunter truly believes that Smokey the Bear is pointing at him on all the commercials that are on.

Everytime Smokey says "Only you can prevent wildfires" and points, Hunter gets all excited and says "He pointed at me mom!"

Silly kid.

backwards

Does it seem backwards that I have to have a talk w/ Brooke about how she needs to be nice to her brother and thats its not nice to pick on him.

Shouldn't it be the older child that is mean to the younger one?

phone call

So, tonight Scott and I were talking on the phone. I heard a click then we got disconnected.

The next thing I heard was music, which I thought was strange. Then i heard a little kid talking.

I was like "hello"

The tiny voice said "you called me and the phone rang. I have the phone in my room."

I got suspicious and said "who is this?"

The voice said "Its Brookie. Mommy, I'm not tired, I don't want to go to sleep."

I still don't know what happened to my call w/ Scott but leave it to Brooke to add the twist.

time out

So, the other day Brooke threw a flashlight at Hunter and hit him in the head. I sent her to time out and of course she went into meltdown mode.

She did go sit on the stairs (that is where we do time out) but was screaming and yelling the whole time. I was ignoring her as she yelled that she wasn't gonna play w/ us anymore ever again.

All the sudden she walked down the stairs and peaked around the corner. She says to me "I'm not staying here forever!" and turned around and went back to time out.

Truthfully, I'm not sure if she meant she wasn't staying in time out forever or our house forever. :)