Would the real King please stand?

Hilary was telling us about all the things she is learning in class about Martin Luther King. I am amazed at how much she has taken in and remembered, considering how little she listens to me. Anyway, she said she put her hand up to ask her teacher a question.................How can Martin Luther King be the King? I though Elvis was the real king.

OK, so she maybe listening, but maybe not getting it all..... She's so pretty, good thing to!

What time is it?

I went to the school to pick Mike up one morning a few weeks ago. He was writting a test so I stood out in the hall to wait for him to finish. His teacher came out to 'talk to me about Mike's behavior'

She tells me that on the Monday before they had a substitute teacher come into the classroom. Mike and 2 girls in the class decided to play a practical joke.

One of the girls tricked the teacher to go out to the hall. Mike and the other girl took the clock off of the wall and changed the time ahead 15 minutes. What my smert son forgot about was that when the classes are done and it is time to move to the next, the bell rings, you don't go by the clocks, so after all that, it wouldn't have made a difference anyway. duh!

Only Mike would get caught doing this I swear. After being grounded for a week, and detension for 2 days, we can laugh with him about this (we were actually laughing right from the beginning behind his back).

So just to drag on his stupidity, we are constantly asking him what time it is, to which he screams "It wasn't me" and then turns 100 shades of red. I love being a parent! teeheehee

The Berenstien Bears

Zach - "Mommy, get me a drink"
Me - "No Zach, how about using your manners? Maybe after I hear a please and thank you"
Zach - as he is rolling his eyes and walking away "What are we now? The berenstien Bears? Jeesh"

A few funnies about each one (gotta keep it even!)

MIKE - The tall ships were in Halifax a few weeks ago. We were watching the news story about them. Mike looks at me and says "Mom, how did the tall ships get here? By truck?" I look at him, then Steve and say "Mike, you know the ships are boats, right?!?!" and he says "yeah I know but how'd they get here?"

Jake - We were driving down the road one day last week. Jake says "Mom, how cool are those lights onb that car, can we get lights that blink like that?" I said "sure" then turned on the blinker.

Hilary - She was in the bath tub last week and says I know why your tongue goes all the way down to here" As she points to her kanoli hopper (or vagina, whatever you call it, I prefer the technical term of kanoli hopper) anyway. I say what? She says, "well when you drink, it has to some out your front bum so that's why your tongue ends there"

Zac - We have a dog now and Zac loves him alot. He loves him so much he wants to be just like him. So now Zac has made it his life mission to beavle to go without a bath. He wants to lick himself clean like the dog does.

Flyers Spirit

Jacob and Mike play for the Sackville Flyers Hockey team. Our team colours are Orange, white and black. Jacob's team are in a tournament this march break (and doing surprisingly well). So, with having such great team spirit, the kids decided to die their hair. I am going to after this blond crap is out of my hair. I am afraid it will all fall out if I do it again with the orange. Anyway here are some pictures of the fools.

Oh and by the way, it does not wash out, the hair will grow, right? You only live once, might as well have fun while you are here!

Jacob before

After (he has a mohawk too now)


Hilary has an orange streak in her hair, right in the front. And for the love of all that is good, PLEASE tell her you see it if you see her. She is devastated that it is not bright enough. Heaven forbid someone else have more attention than her.



Zac looks like the kid on the Incredibles movie who wants to be Mr. Incredible. Ozone or womething like that. He just keeps staring at himself. He asked me if he could have it sticking up forever, even when he is dead. It is all about death for somereason right now.







Mike is too cool for school. He just has a regular hair cut. Someof you may not have realized Mike was actually a Michael not a Michelle from the long hair he has had the past couple years. I can't believe how old he looks now with his short hair. I want my baby back!

A few more pictures

Here are a few more.











We went skating last Sunday, I put a bandanna pn Hilary's head to hold back her hair. She was skating around the rink like this......


It fell over her eyes. Guess the hair might have been easier to see through.

Hilary's birthday party

Hilary's birthday is New Year's Eve, as you all know. It is so hard to do anything around that time of year, I think everyone is just partied out by then. So we waited until February to have her party.

She had 6 friends come for the night. They made their own English Muffin pizzas, decorated cupcakes, made a craft, painted nails and watched a movie then went to bed (notice how I didn't say went to SLEEP)

We started with 6, ended with 4. A couple went home around midnight, which I thought might have happened to them all, as it was everyone's first sleepover.

Here are some pictures.

Jesus

Z - Daddy can I say Jesus?
D - nope
Z- Can I say Christ?
D - Nope
Nanna - You can only say Jesus Christ in Church
Z- OK, then I can say I can say it at preschool because it is a church.
D & N - No you can not.

Skip to today at preschool.
Z - (to one of the kids) My Nanna and Daddy told me I am allowed to swear, but only at preschool.

Can you imagine what these parents think? Oh boy.

The Whos down in Whoville

It was the week from hell this week. Our world was rocked, shook and thrown around. But out of all the shit that has happened (can I swear on here?), I have learned so much.

1) I have grown balls bigger then most men. I have gone into places that I should not have been in, talked to people I was scared to death of, talked back to police officers when they were asses and stuck up for my family when needed. Then went home and changed my pants because I had somewhere along the way shit in them!

2)I have the best family in the world. We will stick together like no-body's busimess when we have to. There is nothing in this world that is more important to me than my family and I thank god (or whatever it is I am talking to) everyday that I have them. I am nothing without them. The complete me. Ok, enough of that.

3) I can go a week with about 2-3 hours of sleep a night. Well, except last night when I did not sleep at all.

4) The world at night can look so peaceful from my son's bedroom window and yet you know the monsters are still out there. It is the craziest thing. I can look at Zac's angel face (remember he is sleeping) and look out into the night and feel a moment of pure bliss then a car/truck drives by and the fear is back again.

5) 6 people can sleep in a queen size bed, not comfortably but it can be done to calm my nerves.

6) You can feel every emotion there is all at once. It is not the easiest thing to understand, and it feels weird but it happens. Shitty.

7) 12 year old can become cops. Really! One of the police that morning looked like he hadn't hit puberty yet. I bet his gun was of the water type!

8) My Daddy can still make me laugh even when my world is falling down around me. His hug can cure the world of all evil in my eyes.

9) My mom is my hero. She is one of the strongest women, no, people I know. Where most would crack and give up, she has marched through it all with her head held high and hair and makeup pefect. I think I know where I get my balls from! Through all this she stands by her kids. Unconditional love. It is amazing what love a mother has for her children. If everyone could feel just 1% of the love my parents have for us, the world would be a better place!

10) The Who's down in Whoville are alive and well, only they are known as the Sackville Mafia now. As we were cleaning up glass last Tuesday I realize the Grinch did not get us down, we still came together, we over came the evil that is those awful people. We stood side by side, together, supporting one another, singing like the Who's did in the movie. Only someone called the police on us because they figured we were on drugs. Just kidding. We didn't sing and noone called the cops, they were already there. But we did get through it (so far) together and for now all in one piece. I just hope the grinch's heart grows and grows. And grows and grows and grows until it pops inside his slimy chest and he dies a long hard death. Oops. Sorry got a little off track.

I just wish the world could be peaceful. As peaceful as the look on my son's face sleeping with his teddy bear his big brother gave him, and his hand down his pants. That is my wish for all.

Did you know, we only have 3 fingers on each hand?

Hilary had her birthday party sleepover a couple weekends ago (I'll post pictures tomorrow). One of the things we did was paint their nails. We did Zac's also (And Jeff and Will's too!!!).

The other day Zac asked me to put blue nail polish on his nails. I said no, daddy doesn't want you to have nail polish on your finger nails.

He looks sad, then a HUGE smile comes across his face, he looks at me and sticks his thumbs in my face. "THESE are thumb nails, not finger nails Mamma"

So we painted his thumb nails. Then he looks at me again with his pinkies in the air. "Mamma, I think these are pinkies, not fingers!"

So he now has his thumb and pinky nails painted blue. And Daddy cannot say a word, we didn't paint finger nails after all!