Christmas 2013

Christmas 2013

Deuteronomy 11:18-19

18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Deuteronomy 11:18-19

New International Version (NIV)

Funnies!! *NEW R Funny*

R came up to me yesterday, giggling, and pretended to grab something off the top of my head! She told me she was taking away my forgetfulness so I could remember things :)


Baby G loves to chat and some times nothing comes out
... looks a LOT like a fish out of water.. open shut open shut.

After lunch today I stood up and said that I felt 'a bit more human'
and R pips up.. Before I felt like a chicken.. and now I feel like a human!!'

J3 came to me holding his elbow and saying ow.I asked him "did you hurt your elbow?" NO says he. I said 'yes you did that's your elbow.'.. BOW? he says. So I went to kiss it better and instead of kissing it I growled and pretending to take a bite.. J3's eyes opened wide and he says EEK and giggles!! LOl.

Yesterday I was walking outside with J3 and laughed a big fake HAHAHAHAH laugh and he copied it wonderfully!! Papa was there and laughing so I did the laugh again and again J3 copied it!! Super cute!!

We had strawberries yesterday and when J3 was done eating his E was suppose to wash him and get him done as Baby G was nursing. She washed him and took his tray off so he could get down but he was MAD and screamed at her and held on to the tray with both hands when she took his tray..He really wanted MORE STRAWBERRIES!! He wouldn't get out of the chair either until I took him in hand and told him to obey!

R told me yesterday that when she was 3 she was cute, but now that she is 4 she is beautiful!
J3 came to me yesterday saying 'uck' them showed me the end of his finger! On the tip was a great big booger!
E says "Boys and girls rule...no one drools...except babies..they drool A LOT!"
R just told me her feet are named open and shut. Ok then!
R told Mr. C from home church that she was a princess and when she grew up she wanted a horse and a prince...and he was the prince!
J told me today after the calf had been sucking on his fingers..that now he knew what it felt like to nurse a baby! Ummm not exactly :)
J told me yesterday that 8 was close to 10 but it was too bad 9 was in the way because it was an odd number!


NEW 
  • J asked me today who I was going to leave my ipad to when I died!!
  • R was holding the kitten and tried to run. Papa told her to drop the kitten and she did, tripped over it and went FLYING!! The kitten got caught between her legs as she went down and they both FLEW!!! Papa and I were laughing so hard I could barely help her up. They were both fine.. just surprised. 
  • Bullseye the calf is now Steerseye.
  • J3 Dances and stomps just one foot.. apparently the other foot hasn't learned how yet?
  • J3 thinks every girl baby or toddler is Baby G.. and don't bother trying to tell him otherwise! 
  • R loves to 'play fight' with the boys.. we often hear her yell.. "SAVE THE PRINCESS!!!" then a beat later ' I"M the princess!!" 
  • E still walks on her toes a lot.. and we recently found out she can even walk on the top of her toes.. OUCH!!! 
  • L loves to make Baby G smile.. the other day he told me.. "She loves me as much as J3 did at that age..  I made him smile lots too.' 
  • The other day I looked out my front window to see my 4 oldest children lined up tallest to smallest, each with a Nerf sword or stick over their shoulders, MARCHING across the snow covered lawn. Soldiers on the move apparently. 
  • I woke up the other day with Baby G's little face right in front of mine SMILING AWAY. She apparently is a morning child and a night owl. (and no we don't co-sleep normally just when I fall asleep sitting up while she's nursing)
  • More to come soon.................................. 


  • ** We call E Pete and R Repeat!! :)
  • ***J figures he's got 'fisherman blood in him' He loves to fish so much!!
  • *** E told Uncle K "WOW you are SO good at that!! They just fell to pieces!! While using her finger as a pointer as he was chopping wood at the campout!
  • ***One of the names for our new calf is Bullseye!! We're still trying to talk Papa into it :)
  • ***J and L are doing any and all chores they can find these days with a smile on their faces.. chores = muscles you see and they need more so they can "beat up Mr. B" :)
  • J is outgrowing some of his clothes again and makes a big show of 'giving' them to L' every time!
  • ***R has a funny 'fake' laugh that is really loud and she loves the attention she gets when she does it. But it's SO FAKE!!!
  • ***Poor L is a sympathy puker.. anything that looks the least bit nasty and off he goes..
    • ***E and R like to repeat.. E says something and R repeats her over and over and over!!
    • ***E told me today that her head was hurting for chips.
    • *** Little Miss T told J the other day that she's changed her mind.. she will marry him after all!! J was glowing for a least a day!!
    • ***We have a Thank you book that we write in on the nights we do family devo's and E is always thankful of some kind of FOOD!!! Which is funny because she eats like a bird. I've started telling her that she won't grow until she EATS!!!
    • ***R is figuring out farts and will go up to just about anyone and say FART!!! LOL. If you ask her "Did you fart?" She looks all smug and says Um HUM!!"
    • *** E to J. J Momma said HELP ME!!!!
    • *** E told me the other day "Mom I want a birthday again!!"

      • *** R screaming at J SEE BUM!! SIT BUM (she even stood up to show him what she ment and said BUM and sat on hers) when he stood on his chair to reach something on the table. She's not allowed to stand in her chair and she makes sure they don't either!!
      • ***E wanted to help bring something to the truck on our way out one day. When I told her there was nothing else to bring she asked if she could bring Papa's purse. I told her that Papa didn't have a purse. Why not?? Papa's don't carry purses I told her. She looks shocked then says "That is SO sad!!"
      • ***L brought me a handful of raspberries and begged me to make jam!! I had to explain to him that I could not make jam with 10 raspberries!!
      • *** Bindy has been a BEAST lately and today a neighbor showed up asking me if I missed my cow yet... she'd been at his house again. That's the second time this month!!!
      • *** R has start to mimic everyone and it is surprising what all comes out of her mouth!!
        • ***E got a trim front and back of her hair and shows it off to everyone saying. I got 2 haircuts!! Uh hm TWO!!!
        • *** J has decided he loves Little Miss T of the T family and might marry her some day!! :)
        • ***R 'prays' with the other kids talking when they do and saying Dear Jesus and Amen!!
        • ***L was playing "James Harriot" the other day and giving his plastic animals meds thru the plastic cast hole...which just happens to be... Under the TAIL!!!! Yup he's a famer!!
        • ***E says "I just done!!' when she wants off the toliet!!
        • ***L is very winter weary!! He asks almost daily when we'll see grass again. The kids have a little chant they like. NO MORE SNOW!! NO MORE SNOW!! NO MORE SNOW!! (and no I did not teach them that!)
        • ***I'm reading Charlotte's Web to the kids and today I asked J what manure was (Wilber sleeps in a manure pile) and he said, "it's that stuff we make cake's with that we like to stick our fingers in a lick off!!' He was thinking 
          • molasses!!
          • *** When your 2 year old and your 9 month old wear the same size diapers!! Size 3!!!
          • *** When the wood trailer is in the carport, where it got left after unloading wood, and you get a foot of snow with the travelall out in the weather!!
          • *** Baby R has a little cold and today she sneezed and blew a snot bubble!! Very funny!!
          • ***When you vacume half the house before you realize the filter is gone and you are spraying dust everywhere.
          • *** I changed Baby R's bum after getting home from homechurch on Sunday only to find out her diaper was on backwards. No wonder T. Joyce said it was so hard to get on!! :) :)
          • ***When you leave a pile of firewood to be stacked later and realize later that it's under the roof line.... and now covered 
            • with snow.
            • *** When you sit on the toilet seat and instantly realize that someone did not wash their hands after a meal before going to the bathroom... because you stick!!!
            • *** The look of total surprise on the kids faces when they see it snowing.
            • *** You get everyone ready to go out. Boots and jackets on and your practically out the door and someone has to go to the bathroom!!
            • *** The way E says Milk. Milmp.
            • *** Pushing a full wheel barrow full of firewood and running into a stump!!!