I Big

 

This one is pretty self explanatory. 

 Big Brother is playing a really cool game 

with a really big gun.

I big! 

 I play! 

Collin turn. 

I play!

 If you remember from the previous post

"wants it his way, always"

(This immediately happens when it is not going his way.)

What? 

 Two guns?

Yes!

Mom says "Let mommy help"

But I do it.

 I big!

See.

 I do it. 

I big!

 I do it! 

I do it like Caden! 

See!

 I big!

Mom says,

"almost little man. 

almost."

It’s A Christmas Miracle

 
All five 

are looking in the general direction of the camera

No one is crying

No one is screaming

I was able to crop out the candy cane bribes

(that kept the two above mentioned things from happening)

They are all staying in the near vicinity of where they were placed

No one can see what Ryan and I were doing 

to get the above pictured children 

to do or not do 

the above mentioned things

While not all are smiling, 

the majority don’t look like they are being tortured

I count this venture a whopping success.

Merry Christmas to me

I survived the adventure with my sanity intact

Well, mostly intact anyway.

The Giggle Pile

The straight faces and nice smiles don't last long

Because once one person starts giggling,

the whole pile starts to wobble 

 

and thats even funnier

and with every person laughing 

How could the babies resist 

such a huge pile of happiness

They didn't really get the point of the game

But they knew they wanted to be part of it.

And they laughed alongside the giggle pile

Because like I said

How could they resist.

The mood from a pile of happiness is contageous

Discovery Park with the Family

I love that

Family

in our little World

means so much more 

than just my brothers and sisters.

So when I say that the family went to the park

that means that

Logan

Silas

my sisters sister in law and her kids

Michael (pushing) and Carter (in Blue)

her brother and his kid

My sister

 and her husband 

Brynley Bug

 and kid

Vienna

India

and my sister in law with her two kids

Jovan, Cali and Hayli

Bryan

one of my very bestest friends and her kids

and Ryan 

 and I

 

and our kids went to the park,

 

oh, and one of Caden's friends from school.

Pretty safe to say we DOMINATED the park that day.

The weather was PERFECT and we had TONS of fun.

 Yay for the park in the springtime!

 P.S.- It is a really good thing

I decided not to bring my bow and arrows

or my horse

to the playground

because they are NOT allowed

This sign seriously cracked me up

Thanksgiving Point

One of the  

best investments we make every year

is a pass to Thanksgiving point

My kids never get tired of the dinosaur museum.

Never

 

They never get tired of 25 cent ice cream cones after either.

The babies have reached the

ripe old age of being able to eat dairy

so they got to have their first cones. 

It may be putting it midly 

to say that they loved it.

If it even looked like I was reaching for the cones 

they would shreak 

and arch

and clamp on with both hands

so that I could not take them away.

Collin made a huge mess

by eating the bottom of the cone first 

so whatever stayed in the top of the cone when upside down

then melted and ran out the bottom when turned right side up.

I don't know if Keegan spilled a drop. 

He ate every last piece of the dang thing.

I took this on the way out.

Cute kid huh?

I am such an observant mom 

that we were there for two hours

and as we were leaving

I noticed this.

Awesome 

What do you do huh?

I chose to laugh and move on

but secretly I was wondering how many people

were thinking 

"how the crap could his mom

let him leave the house that way."

But that quickly left too

and I just laughed again.

and got in the car

Need a good laugh?

Our family night treat was Popsicles

They had riddles on the sticks.

To be silly I read mine out loud to Ryan



Caden looked confused
and Ryan said he didn't know


what?

Caden still didn't get it
But wanted Ryan to read his


Before I could even guess
Caden yells

What?

Where in the crap did that come from?
Cracked me up.
The real answer was


Kenna had no idea what was going on
but Ryan and I were laughing so hard
from the Greg comment
that she wanted in
so she handed hers to me



Caden thought for a minute and said


I liked his answer
even better than the real one

Which was


Of course Cohen,
who was laughing
just because the rest of us were laughing,
but still didn't get it
handed over his stick


and of course,
with his literal little 6 year old mind
Caden says

That bird was banging on the tree so loud...

Who even thinks the real answer is funny anymore?



It never occurred to me before
that the "real" answers
to the riddles that my kids came up with
could be even funnier
than the play on words answer.

I am so looking forward to the rest of the Popsicle box!