A look into the hilarity

Things like this happen in our house on a daily basis.  Enjoy!  (there is no audio but you can use your imagination)

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Alice was very concerned this morning about our trip to Town Hall.  She was all worked up because she said she did not know how to row.  

Me: "Alice, what are you talking about?  What do you need to row?  Why do you need to learn to row this morning?"  

Alice: "Because we are going in a boat today to get a President."

It is so funny when kids half listen and make up the rest.  

Cooper the Dancin' Machine

The Halloween that Almost Wasn't

A lot of you have heard stories about my awesome nephew, Nate, so I will start with pictures of him.  He is such a character and when he wants to be something, he gives it all he's got!

 We do not have photos of Alice in her Halloween costume….let me paint you a picture instead:

When John and I arrived at school to pick up the kids, her teacher was clocking out.  I asked how Alice was that day, she laughed and said, “I promise, I only let them have two pieces of candy today.  Alice is bouncing off the walls!”  Alice was dressed as a cupcake and wore the costume most of the day until she drooled green lollipop down the front of it.  She decided on the way home that she wanted to be a princess for trick or treating.  We got home, ate dinner, and I started getting her layered up so she would not have to wear a coat over the dress/costume.  Meanwhile, Ben and Cooper were running around naked as John was trying to get them into the bathtub. 

Tights, socks, windbreaker pants, undershirt, long sleeved shirt, purple princess dress.  Her neck was bare so I went to the basement to find my purple scarf.  She followed me and discovered last year’s winter coat and hat which apparently is a princess coat and hat.  So she gets the coat and hat on, with the crown on top of the hat with the poof on top.  I tell her to go get her shoes on so we can go.  She comes back into the living room with her water shoes on.  Um no, sorry Alice you are not wearing water shoes outside go put on blank, blank, or blank.  She goes back to the mudroom and begins a full-blown meltdown because the water shoes were the real princess shoes and the only other princess shoes are sandals and I won’t let her wear them…. This goes on for about 5 minutes.  I told her that if she did not stop, trick or treating was cancelled.  She stopped crying when I started taking my coat off because “oh, here are my princess shoes, these are the ones I wanted the whole time, mommy”.  Of course there are only two houses on our street with lights on so we head down the block.  At the first 6 houses, she thought it was a candy exchange because she kept trying to give each homeowner her candy. (it was pretty cute and funny)  She had a lengthy conversation with a woman about the lollipop Alice was trying to give her.  We got about 5 blocks away and we had to turn around and go back  (she kept zigzagging across the street from house to house instead of doing one side then back on the other side but then she forgot so she did not understand why we were skipping so many houses on the way back).  So, 5 blocks to reach home and she tells me that her feet hurt…..yep, you guessed it.  I carried her all the way home.  We had only one knock at the door all night.

The boys were in bed by the time we got home – about 7:20, I think.  She had a bath and bed.  Then crawled into bed with us around 1:30.  And it was one of those horrid sleep with a kid nights, she spent the night kicking one of us in the head and smacking with flailing arms…it was rough.  In the car on the way to school yesterday morning she was whining that her chin hurt.  “Mommy, do you know why my chin hurts?”  “No Alice, why does your chin hurt?”  “My chin hurts because it did not get enough sleep last night.”  No fooling, Alice….

I MIGHT ask her to put the costume back on tonight to take a pic but I doubt it.  I am ready for Halloween to be over.  

Alice ended up wearing her cupcake costume all weekend and I managed to get a "happy" snapshot.