I think I'm gorgeous

Finn and Jack were preparing to scare Aunt Sarah. Jack hid in the corner with a sword and Finn was going to wait by door to distract her. Finn had her glasses on and said this - Wait! I look too cute with my glasses on I have to take them off.
Apparently she was too cute to scare Sarah.

Sniff, Sniff

In our house we say butt burp instead of fart. When Grace was little, one day she said, my butt just burped, and we've used that term ever since. Fast forward to Finnley, every time she passes gas she says, because I just butt burped. She owns it. Today she sat next to me and said 'because I just butt burped.' Then she got up and said, 'I smell it! People say you can't smell your own stink but I can smell mine.' 

She was very happy about that. Maybe a little too happy. 

Thank You For Being A Friend

I have been watching Golden Girls, and the kids have started to watch it with me. I am surprised they actually like it. The other day I was watching it in my room and Jack came running in and said 'I knew I heard Blanche'.
One day, I have a feeling my kids will tell their friends or spouse, I learned about sex from the Golden Girls.
They are a naughty bunch.

Shots

On our way home from getting the kids from school today, I told them that I had taken Charlie to the vet. I told them that Charlie had gotten shots and that just as they get shots growing up so does Charlie. Then Jack asked if Charlie would get shots before going to doggy school? This little boy is way too adorable - sometimes.

Besides, No One Looks Like That

There is this mythical creature I hear about. They call her Wonder Woman. This ‘woman’ who gets it all done. But I don’t believe in her existence - no one can do it all. No one. Not without losing something. And I find in trying to do it all, that something, is you. 

Hook, Line and Tears

Lately we have been enjoying introducing Grace and Jack to movies that we watched as kids. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has been a huge hit, as has Mary Poppins. Today we decided to give Hook a try. I forgot how much I like that movie. In the middle of the movie Peter Pan tells how he ran away from home when he was a baby because he didn't want to grow up. Close to the end of the movie Jack comes over to me and asks why Peter left his mommy and daddy? I explain to him that he just didn't want to grow up. He looks at me, the corners of his mouth turn down, his eyes get very sad and fill with tears, and he tells me in a shaky voice that, that is the sad part of the movie and he climbs in my lap, tells me sometimes his eyes get filled with water, and he cried.

He was so emotional over this part of the movie. When we tucked him into bed he began to cry again and said 'I keep hearing the sad part about Peter leaving his parents in my brain and why did he leave? Why didn't he go back to them? Because they never stop loving you.'

No little man, we will never stop loving you.

Magic Carpet Ride

Somewhere near Fresno there is what I think to be a Hindu Temple, that we pass everytime we travel south. Grace believes it is Princess Jasmines castle. Every time we go by it she asks if we can go there for just a minute to see Princess Jasmine. I do not want to ruin this magic for her, but I am quickly running out of reasons why we cannot stop - even for just a minute.