William Tell Overture for Moms

I saw this on a blogger friend's (lifeinfitzville.blogspot.com) site today. I laughed until I cried. Enjoy!

Wild at Heart Family takes to the road

It was a beautiful sunny Fall day today. We had a great time outside with the kids and their bikes. Mr. 4 yr. old got a new bike today and passed his "Pooh" bike down to baby guy. Tuba has this great special needs trike for about 7 years. I think we can squeeze out another year and then he will have to get a bigger version.

Is it Thanksgiving yet?

We've been counting days on the calendar to see "how many days until Halloween?". Our 4 yr. old is VERY excited for Halloween and wants it to "hurry up and get here". He wants to be a ghost and is asking every morning if we can go to the fabric store and make his costume, or....can he just take his sheet off his bed and cut eye holes in it. He's got a long wait ahead of him and NO, he cannot take the sheet off of his bed and cut eye holes in it. But, it's an even longer wait until Thanksgiving. We are getting in the mood early with a delicious dinner tonight. We're having turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberries, broccoli and....oh yes....pumpkin pie! Yummy. If anyone wants to come on over for dinner or dessert....please do!

Play Date

Yesterday I took a day of rest from painting (since the kitchen is done and I'm not ready to tackle the hallway yet). We stayed in our pj's and played all day. The little boys and I did Play-Doh while Tuba played his video game. We had such a great time. After play-doh we made some real dough (chocolate chip cookie) and had a delicious treat:)

Even Mom got in on the play-doh fun.

Baby guy loves cutting the doh and later was using a butter knife!

I don't know if you can see the blue drool on baby guy's mouth...."stop don't eat the play-doh". I only said it about every 3 minutes.

This picture is for my sister-in-law/best and most fun Auntie who bought the play-doh. It only took 2 years....but the colors have been MIXED! I calmly allowed this to happen without as much as an eye twitch;) He's making a space ship and then spent at least an hour flying it, crashing it and recreating it.

Questions, questions, questions!

I felt pretty happy that so far we have escaped the "why?" faze with our boys. But.....now we have entered The Question Faze with our 4 yr. old. Here's a list of questions he asked yesterday. Let me say how tired I was....I went to bed about 15 minutes after the kids (8:15)!

What does God look like?
How did God make people?
How come we can't go to the rocket ship store and buy a rocket ship?
Where do aliens live?
Where is their planet?
How come we can't go there?
How long does it take to get there?
Why is it so far away?
Why are stop lights red?
That's all I can remember right now but there were dozens....no.....hundreds more of them:)

Our new command center

I've been busy the last couple of weeks working on our new command center in the kitchen. First I had to strip wallpaper....hideous...it's the third and final room in our house that I've stripped wall paper from. I will NEVER buy another house with wallpaper! Next I painted the kitchen. I'm still painting trim but should finish today. This morning I put up our new white board calendar and press on cork board. I'm not finished yet. I'm going to add an area for the kids "to-do" chart at the bottom of the area. The top area is to display the kid's art projects.

Here's a "before" picture of the wall.

The "after" picture! Isn't it much improved?

Distorted Body Images

My hubby and I were standing in the grocery checkout line this week when he commented, "this is insane". He was pointing to a magazine cover picture of Britney Spears wearing a bikini during her recent MTV performance. The headline read, "I look like a fat pig" along with accounts of her failed performance. My hubby's point was that she looked fine, in fact quite in shape. Britney does have her share of problems lately...train wreck comes to mind.....but she isn't fat....not even a little bit! What does this say to women and young girls when this is considered fat? Can I be this fat...please?

Also, I was reading a magazine interview with America Ferrera yesterday. I love America and have since I saw her in Real Women Have Curves. In the article she is being asked by the interviewer about being the new role model for plus size women. She answers the question politely and then says that she is a size 10 on the top because she's really busty and a size 6/8 on the bottom. Only in Hollywood is size 6/8 or 10 considered plus size! She is gorgeous and curvy but not even close to plus size. What is wrong with the media?