Oscars Survey

Every year my brother runs a Oscars survey to see who can come the closest to picking the results.  If you are a movie buff, here's his survey- you could win bragging rights. 
http://kwiksurveys.com/online-survey.php?surveyID=LHMJMN_611bad15
Since it's s survey designed for people who don't see many movies he does include extra information to help you make educated guesses.
Have fun!

lullaby

Friday night, James attended a lazer tag birthday party that went late (well, late for kids.)  When it was over it was half past 8 and the van was full of cranky kids who really just wanted to go to bed.  Rachel was the exception.  She was full of gusto.  So she decided to sing the big kids to sleep with one of her favorite songs: Good Night, Ladies.  Unfortunately, she only knows one line of the song, the part that goes "good night, ladies!"   So she sang it over and over again, pausing occasionally to shout a self request: "Louder!"   A few verses would have been fine with everyone, but this went on for miles and miles and one of the older kids lost patience and told her to shut up.  She was rightfully offended and hollered her hurt feelings for everyone to hear.  So everyone had to tell her what a great singer she was so that she would quit crying.  As soon as the crying was done, she was back to singing "Good Night, Ladies" in her best one year old way. 

macaroni cheese

Everytime we have a babysitter, I plan for the kids to have macaroni cheese for dinner.  I don't like it at all so I am happy to miss out.  I was at the store with Simon and Rachel on Friday, making preparations for the weekend.  When I started dumping boxes of macaroni cheese in the cart, Rachel cried out in an excited voice "OO babysitter!" and she was right.  We had a sitter scheduled for Saturday night.  Though I am not sure whether she made the connection between macaroni cheese and having a sitter OR if she calls macaroni cheese "babysitter." 

Park Day

Saturday I was looking for something fun to do with the kiddodiddos.  Since the weather was nice, I packed a few snacks and we headed over to a nearby park for some silly time.  Rachel and I did the slides (she is definately not independent at the park yet.)  Jonny and Rachel did the swings.  James and Jonny did kickball, football and basketball.  Amelia ran around doing slides with me and Rachel and invented games for herself and Simon to play.  There are these awesome bushes at this park.  They are about 3 and a half feet high and they look really solid but they are hollow undernearth.  Simon, Rachel and I played under there until I was told it was not for grownups (Simon's idea, but I was okay with it.) 
After eating a snack of bananas, Jonny collected the peels and lined them up on the ground.  Then he repeatedly ran across them, yelling updates as to whether they were slippery or not.  (I didn't slip!  I STILL didn't slip!)   This idea was not a new fascination, he frequently brings home drawings of people slipping on banana peels from school.
At one point, we were all on the teeter totter and James decided to show off his balance by doing that Russian dance on the center piece while we all went up and down.  You know the dance where the guys crouch down low and kick their legs and shout HEY! Maybe it's not Russian, but I associate it with Russia; also large black fuzzy hats.)  
Nice day, I hope for many more this spring!   

first grade musings

Jonny seems to bring home a lot more writing papers than my other children did in first grade.  I always crack up when I go through them.  Here's a recent sampling from my stack (the kids always complained when I recycled their old school work, so this year I am saving it all in a stack.  The stack is now almost 6 inches high.)

My fish can swim.
My fish can fight because he's a bada (betta)
My fish can do trix (tricks)
My fish can be asam (awesome.)

What doz (does) Owen eat?
Owen eats raps (wraps.)
What doz Logan eat?
Logan eats sushy (sushi)
What doz the class eat?
The class eats thar (their) bugers.
What doz Wes eat?
Wes eats bugers.
(this one made me wonder why I home schooled last year)

It was the time of the pie war "Pozon Bary at 3:00" (can't tell if he meant poison berry or boysenberry)
The pie war part 1
Said Jonny "troop fight!"
"I will make pies!" yelled Jacob
troop coming soon.
Pie war part 2
Gard the casl (guard the castle)
Jonny brakoe in the bakerary (jonny broke in the bakery) and flooded it.
(I like this one because it sounds adventurous and it was written in purple and red crayons to look more like berries)

and a book of random musings:
What does dracula eat? (with an illustration of a dracula with long rectangle fangs)
What does bunnicula eat?
Did vikings throw pie?
Does wind blow house tops off?
Do whales use their blow holes when they are next to a house? (picture of a whale squirting water at a house)
Do unicorns live?