Go ahead, Selah- give it your best shot!

Some of you may have heard, but if you didn't, we had a bit of an incident with Selah getting a bit, umm...stuck, in the fridge last week. Thankfully, her brothers were in the basement and heard her banging. We've tried the child locks meant for keeping kids out of fridges and freezers. They state "not a subsitute for proper adult supervision." As well they should. She figured those out long ago. So we've now installed real locks on the fridges and freezers. Here's hoping they are enough to keep her out. They say that childproof medicine bottles work on about 90% of the kids, I believe. Well, since she's in that 10% who, at the ripe old age of 20 months, could open them and eat the vitamins inside, it should come at no surprise that she can outmanuever fridge locks. But since she doesn't come with bolt cutters, I do believe we may be good on this one for a while. Let's hope. Now the question is, what will be her new adventure? Time will tell...

Fort!

Sorry, I forgot to post this Christmas Eve. This what the kids saw as they came down the stairs Christmas morning. We filled 83 sandbags and then made a fort for Jonah and his continual war scenarios. Of course the little two destroyed the fort a couple hours later when everyone was distracted but the boys have had fun building fighting positions in their room, the living room, the hallway, and outside...until the got banished to the basement. Didn't take long did it? Hey, 83 sandbags take up a lot of space when all over the place. Think 83 pillows...

Happy Birthday, Jesus!

Love

I sure do hope our 10 year realizes how much we love him. I could be in bed, but I've still 100 sandbags and 5 giant bags of stuffing to deal with. Thankfully, I know he will be overjoyed.

Merry Christmas Eve!

We went for traditonal this year and attempted to make gluten and dairy free pierogi. And they came tasty-if not pretty!

Something new

Came across the fact that blogger has an app for the droid. Seems cheaper and easier, in theory, than texting pictures to the blog. So let's see how this works.
Seems like I can even attach multiple pictures.
I can't really see the pictures but I think they were of the kids at Hell on Earth, yesterday. (Most of you probably call this place Toys R Us.) Yes, I took 4 kids, alone, to hell on earth when it was 40, raining, and 4 days before Christmas. And we all have a cold making everyone grumpy. We did, however, survive. And the only real problem there was Selah opening and eating a pack of M&Ms while I was checking out. Unfortunately, milk makes her stomach hurt and M&Ms have milk. And so, her stomach's been hurting. But it could have been worse.
WHY do they put candy where kids grab and eat it as their parents try to check out?? I can honestly say I have had to buy candy at least 10 times in the last year because of this. And since we do errands once a week (at most) that's like 20 % of the time! Very frustrating.

Selah, at it again.

I was quuickly making dinner in the hopes of a shower before Bryan got home...and Selah came SCREAMING into the kitchen, sending me into a panic in the inital seconds as it was fairly dark in the kitchen and I feared it may be blood (or worse like a chemical) on her face. No worries, it's "just" mascara. At least she knows where it goes?
She informed that Noah hit her in the head, that's what happened to her (Got it on video). Funny, since Noah and Jonah were playing Wii...
Guess I'll have company in the shower.

But since the only other trouble she's caused today (that I am aware of) is wrapping most of a roll of scotch tape around Jonah's schoolbook, I guess it's a pretty uneventful day!

Innocent???

I think not. I just caught them plunging a toliet. Thankfully it didn't need plunging, but still. Bryan's been on me to remove the toliet locks lately. Nope. We still need them!

Growing up!

In this kind of goofy picture of the boys...they are checking out Jonah's "wound" and stealing pumpkin seeds right out of the hot oven.

On December 6th...

The Christmas presents had been bought and WRAPPED. I love the years we seem to get it together...well, some things. Haven't even gotten a family picture much less gotten those Christmas cards going this year. Hopefully you'll get them before Christmas. And if you don't, hopefully you're forgiving!

If you let Micah help make crepes...

He's bound to do something like stick his bacon in the batter. Good thing he's cute.

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Sleepy Selah

If you're a mom long enough, you learn to do things that some people may not agree with, but are best for your family. Like taking your 3 year old to church in her pjs. Bedtime is 7 around here these days, so when Mass starts at 7, someone is likely to crash on the way home. Even when it's a 5 minute drive. Last night Selah was the lucky winner. Luckily she was all ready for bed, so we didn't even have to wake her. (Although we did move her to her bed. While I was tempted to let her sleep in her carseat last night- no trouble to find when strapped in there!- it seemed that temps in the teens were a bit cold for that.)

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