Louder than words!

Happy Halloween!

Here are some pumpkins we carved for the contest at scouts. We call them Puke-O-Lantern and Jack-O-Cannibal. I wish I could claim them as original designs but of course we saw them online and copied them.

We love living near the coast. I personally think that it's madness to play in water so cold it makes you cry out in pain. Well, I cry out anyway. I am happy to stay on the beach and out of the water. Not my boys.....they were born to boogie! I can't keep them out of it. They ride those frigid waves on their boogie boards. This year we added skim boards and Cairan and Haydn tried surfing. They're hooked! What can I say, we love the beach!

So this has been quite the week. I think I'm averaging 2 come-aparts a day! Not the little teeny, tiny get choked up kind but rather the big, brilliant explosive kind. The other day I drove over to Papa Murphy's to get pizza because, well I just couldn't deal with dinner because we had pumpkin guts all over the counter due to the pumpkin carving contest we were participating in at pack meeting (Is it ok to detest scouts when you have 4 boys?) in an hour. I get there and don't have my wallet so I get to drive home and back again in rush hour traffic. I'm finally in line to pay for our pizza. Alek is of course climbing all over the counter trying to watch the main attraction (a bunch of pizza faced teenagers constructing our pizzas and those of a dozen other hungry customers). Jonah who doesn't want to miss out on all the action is screaming to watch. I ask Haydn to lift him up so that he can see what must be the greatest food assembly line ever, which he kindly does. Haydn leans him up against the counter where Jonah proceeds to throw himself back and yell. Haydn quickly puts him down and throws his hands in the air looking at me as if to say, "I'm innocent, I didn't do anything". I look down at Jonah who is doubled over and in his clearest, loudest voice he booms, "YOU HURT MY WIENER!" Ahhh, my favorite vulgar slang word. Just another reason I love being a boy mom. So many opportunities make other people laugh........at me!

Oh for the lazy days of summer!

I was sitting here at the computer and Haydn walked up and started rubbing my shoulder. I sort of subconsciously realized that he had just walked out of the bathroom and his hands were neither wet nor damp. I instinctively questioned whether he had washed his hands. His face took on this huge smile and he said, "almost". What does that mean exactly? "Almost!?!" was my reply, "what do you mean, almost?" "I almost thought about it," he said over his shoulder as he headed back into the bathroom. I wish you could have seen his face. He is killing me with his ever expanding sense of humor!

Thanks Corrin for the inspiration! I'm back!

Here's Cairan story. We watched Oprah's primetime show on opening the school in South Africa. I had already watched it and wanted my boys to watch it. Not to see how great Oprah is, but to see the stories of those amazing girls and how life can be much different than the life they know. It certainly had a profound affect on Cairan. He had a hard time controlling his emotions....I refer to it as an overabundance of empathy. He looked up at me through his tear stained face and said, "I just want to do something!" Oh, how I know the feeling. Wanting to make a difference in a big world but feeling so small. We worked through all of the emotions and he decided that he wanted to sleep on the floor "to know how that girl felt". And so he did. I am convinced that he is going to "do something" one day!

From Cry the Beloved Country
"My friend, your anxiety turned to fear and your fear turned to sorrow. But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich....Fear is a journey, but sorrow at least is an arriving...when a storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house...but when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house."

Another great Alek story......
Alek attends a mermaid party at which he is the only boy. As they are cutting the cake, Alek looks that mermaid cake up and down and says, "I want a breast".
He's 5!!!

ONLY IN INDIA ! CRAZY STUFF ! INSANE !

this is watsup... the worst traffic you could say... but see how the traffic keeps moving without an accident. -> www.be-dumb.com Right now, this is what life feels like!

In an attempt to get out of going to school:

Alek says: I love you more than school.
So I say: I love you more than light sabers.
He says: I love you more than movies.
I say: I love you more than legos
He says: I love you more than pizza and ice cream.
I say: I love you more than Peanut Butter and Chocolate!

I win!