Crack Me Up

Only wore them for 2 minutes to watch 3D Shrek

My Lexi Can be Terrible

My precious Lexi has 'gone bad'--- she tells her mommy 'no', she screams, she yells 'I am SO mad', she hit her friend today and was shocked when after Mommy gave her multiple warnings that she was disciplined! When mommy puts Lexi on the potty and she poops Lexi says 'Let's call that done!'- even though she is far from done and then when Mommy says 'UH NO'-- she gets really mad. The other day when we were eating I said 'One more bite' and she said 'No it will make me poop!' (What the heck?!?!) What is a mommy to do!?

My Fear

I have to say that I have a huge fear of mice. I can handle mice that are 'caged' or dead, but I cannot handle mice that are in MY HOUSE or in any house that I may be in!!!!

This fear came when I was a child-- probably around the age of 7 or 8. (Give or take a year). We moved into a home that was near a creek. With the creek came mice-- BIG mice-- to a little kid--- HUGE mice and lots of them!

I vividly remember my mom and her husband putting 'rat' traps in our garage-- One day I peeked in and saw that the rat traps actually worked--tons of dead MICE/RATS. I remember my mom and her friend commenting that one day when they were in the garage a mouse ran up one of their pants leg. True? Not sure- maybe they were messing w my little head. I learned that mice can run and squeeze perfectly under a closed door, I saw a dead mouse in my dog's outside water bowl and was punished because I refused to dump the bowl w the dead mouse in the alley, I remember seeing 'rat droppings', and I have a scared memory of hearing mice under my bed-- maybe it was my active imagination, but I swear I heard little mouse finger nails scratching on boxes that may have been under my bed!

Last night- I was in bed watching television with my husband. We were actually RELAXING for once! The only light was the light from the television. ALL OF A SUDDDEN I saw something all too familiar-- a quick 'something' shooting from the hallway under our closed bedroom door. 'Oh my God- I think I saw a mouse-- Oh my God--- Oh my God' I could not stop saying those words-- I was in a panic.

My brave husband jumped up out of bed- grabbed some pants- turned the light on and was ready to take on the mouse. I was brave enough to turn the lamp on that is next to my bed. I pointed to the 'bed pillows' that are in the corner of our room. These are the pillows you are suppose to buy that make your bed look nice when it is made-- we never make our bed so they are piled on the floor! He tossed one pillow one by one and when he got to the 3rd pillow--- SCEAT SCAT--- it was on the run- back underneath our door.

My husband opened the bedroom door and it was gone. He ordered me to tell the boys to go to Walmart and buy some 'sticky traps'-- Surprisingly w/o complaint they did it.

When they got back-- I told them that I felt like the little rodent would be in the closet directly across from our bedroom door. This is a closet- as most of my closets are-- that is filled with STUFF- lots and lots of stuff.

As I sat on my bed w a towel underneath my bedroom door- the Fauci men- prepared a trap. They blocked the hallway off and had a bucket/bowl in hand. My husband opened the closet and began to empty the contents. All of a sudden I hear my husband say 'It's in here- dang it went inside a box!' Boy, was I happy to hear that they tracked it down.

I'm not sure what was said next-- but I heard chaos! Then I heard Ricky say 'I got it!'-- He trapped it w the famous pink barf bowl! Yipee- Praise God! They somehow scooped it up and threw it back outside. I was hoping they would have put it in our neighbor's mailbox! JUST JOKING (sorta).

I think that was a little mouse that may have gotten away from its mom and somehow snuck in our house. We planted some trees lately-- not sure if it came w the trees or maybe it snuck in while we did some handy work on our house. Not sure- we still have some sticky traps down and luckily they are still empty. I am confident that we don't have any--- I'm actually really hoping- anyway.

I'm Ready To

*Have a vacation
*Get a break
*Sit down and relax
*Eat something good
*Have my house completely decorated for Christmas
*Have my Market order paid for and complete
*Watch a good movie w/o interruption
*Stop having nosey neighbors
*Figure out what to get the boy's for Christmas
*Have my house clean 110% of the time
*Take a nap

Trick or Treat

Halloween 2008

Tinkerbell and Arial

We left our house around 5:45pm and walked to a nearby neighborhood.

Our neighborhood is (possibly) one of the worse neighborhoods for kids.
I believe it was meant to be a retirement neighborhood- so porch lights are out at 8pm and some were not even turned on.

The neighborhood we ventured to was a 'fun' neighborhood. Most of the neighbors were at the end of their driveway, dressed up, and ready to
hand out candy. The only bad part about this neighborhood was that if
the neighbors were not at the end of their driveway-
it was a really long walk to their door!

For the most part, the girls did really good. Lexi said her standard 'Trick or Treat' and 'Thank You', but she was very nervous about the scary decorations and insisted on being held and at times refused to go to certain houses. Gia did what she was told- no matter if the house had scary decorations or if the homeowner was dressed as Frankenstien. The only set back for her was that when the candy bowl was put in front of her she would go to grab for one and then drop it and then stare at the candies in the bowl. It was like she could not decide. The homeowners were very patient.

After around an hour- the girls were 'BEAT' and ready to go home. We threw them in the stroller and I made sure to run to each house that had a 'Help Yourself' sign and grab some candy-Once house had BIG candy bars--always very exciting.

I wanted to go to Chili's before we went home to grab some FOOD, but Lexi really wanted her bed. After spreading out their candy, opening a few, spitting out the candy they did not like- Lexi passed out! Gia, on the other hand, hung out with her dad in the backyard and waiting for trick or treaters-- I think we found 3 and insisted that they take a handful of candy.

I Just Wanted Some Dickey's

So after the last daycare child left- I decided that I was hungry. I looked around and realized that I was not hungry for anything in the house. I thought about making tacos, but then realized that it would only be Rick and I eating.

So I grabbed some cash, got my purse, and sneaked out- leaving Gia and Lexi to stay w dad while I ran to get some grub. Poor Rick- the girls FREAKED out when they realized I was gone.

As I was heading down Custer-- nearing my destination---I kept thinking--'This road sucks-- it is too busy and way too dark w too many headlights'. Then - up ahead- I saw a motorcyclist pull out a few feet in front of me. As he pulled out I thought 'Man, I'm glad he is way up ahead of me-- 'cause he is hard to see!' Then all of a sudden---BAM!!!!!!!!!!!!! Motorcyclist DOWN!

I don't think anyone was hurt, but I am sure the motorcyclist, the car(s) involved, any and everyone around them were scared to death!

After some crazy 'stand still' traffic- I got my Dickey's!!!!

I Am Really Bored

'

This is how big my belly got w Lexi. She was kind!




















This is what Gia 'the Monster' child did to me!