Courtney and bedtime

Courtney is my night owl. We usually put all of them to bed around 7:45-8:15. Courtney is usually very quiet and "reads." All of the books are slowly moving to her bookshelf. Well last night she was up doing stuff and making noise. Jon went up a couple times and told her to get back into bed. Around 9:30 he says to her "if I have to come back in here one more time you are getting a spanking." which she replied "Then dont come back in here!"

Smoking

This afternoon we were watching the old movie "white christmas" with Bing Crosby and Sydney says "what's that this in it their mouth?" One guy was smoking a cigar and the other one a cigarette. I told her what they were and she said "why?" Yes Sydney that is the question! I did think it was pretty cool that she had no idea what they were!

tub of stuffed animals

Each girl has a big round tub that they keep their stuffed animals in. (There are way to many stuffed animals in this house) Last night around midnight Courtney started yelling for me. I went into her room but she wasn't in her bed. It was pretty dark in there and I couldn't find her. Finally she says mom again...and she was all snuggled up in the bucket with her animals and she couldn't get out! Made me laugh for two reason 1) that she fell asleep in there woke up and couldn't get out and 2) about an hour before that I snuck in her room to get something and didn't even look at her to see if she was in bed I just assumed she was in her bed and I didn't want to wake her! I so wish I would have got a picture of that!

F#$@ing DUCKS

So back in 2008 Uncle Lex and Aunt Leah gave the twinks 100 ducks Jon replaced a couple toilets in 2009 in because of them. They all got thrown in the trash after the second toilet. Well for the past year Jon has been yelling at the kids that they are making to much of a mess in the bath and water is splashing down into his garage and the corner was getting wet and moldy. Finally I went and looked at it and I dont think it's coming from them splashing...especially since we have been doing morning baths so they havent really been playing. I think we have a leak under there. So Papa and Jon spent the afternoon tearing up the dry wall and sure enough it was a leak. Some how when Jon put the toilet on it didnt seal right and water has been oozing over into the ceiling and down through the walls. Lots of mold completely gross. he feels bad that he has been blaming the kids the whole time. Well now my dad and Jon have a pretty big project they are now in the middle of. Making new cabinets and cleaning up mold. Oh the fun of being a homeowner! I blame the damn ducks!

Gingerbread men

This is my first attempt to make gingerbread cookies from scratch. I go the recipe from allrecipes.com They puffed up a littl more then I would have liked but the kids didnt care, they did all the decorating themselves until I ran out of frosting we have a few more to do tomorrow!

love naps...sorta

Once every five or six days the at least one of twinks take a nap. This week is was Wednesday afternoon. They are so much happier afterwords but it then the bed time usually gets pushed back. They dont have to go to school on Thursday mornings so it worked out fine this day. Courtney stayed in her bed with Namy and read books quietly while Namy slept next to her. Sydney on the other hand kept getting up and coming into our room asking tons of questions and showing us pictures in the books she was looking at. She finally fell asleep around 10 pm! They sure are cute though when they sleep!

Namy was stuck when she tried to get up Sydney laid down on her lap.

"cut your legs off"

Courtney would not sit still at dinner tonight. She is probably the worst of the three these days mostly because she stands up on her chair and eats. Jon and I were getting mad at her. We told her she wasn't getting a Christmas cookie if she didn't sit still. That didn't work she was still standing on her chair. Then Jon said if she didn't sit down he was going to" cut her legs off at the knees!" She sat right down. Then about 60 seconds later she stood up again and looked at Jon and said "please don't cut my legs off!" and she sat back down!