Dinner Convesation

We've had a lot of dental work around here lately. TC got braces yesterday, Titus had a tooth pulled today and Tanner and Tobyn had cavities filled. (We really do brush our teeth around here, just that time of year to get all the dental work done) Anyway....we we've been eating soft stuff: yogurt, pudding, eggs, mac and cheese. Tonight Todd made Chinese noodles and I was going to make deviled eggs as a snack for later.

This was the conversation at the table.

Tate -"Mom?! do I have to eat my noodles?"

Mom- "Yes"

Titus- "Don't you want the eggs?"

Tate- "we're going to have demon eggs right?"

TC- (looking all sorts of confused) "Demon eggs?"

Titus- " I think he means deviled eggs."

Tate- "Oh-yeah DEVILED eggs!"

few minutes later....

Tate- "Mom, do I HAVE to eat my noodles?!"

Mom- "Yes Tate!"

Titus- "c'mon Tate the noodles are better than you think!"

Tate- "Well my taste buds do not agree!"

I love the stimulating conversations around here.

Idea

I wonder if we could hook up bikes as a generator to run the A/C? I have 5 boys here with WAY too much energy and WAY to high of an electrical bill from running the A/C 24/7.

I figure with bikes the boys can burn off their energy, and my electric bill goes down....everybody wins right?!

A Close Shave...

I was giving the boys haircuts this morning. I had done Tanners, Tobyns and was working on Tate's when the clippers dropped. I messed with them for several minutes and couldn't get them working right. I finally decided that I needed to find another pair. I walked into my bathroom, looked around for a few minutes, and came back out to keep working on Tate's hair.

Tate was looking at Tobyn and says "What happened to your hair? Or did you mean to do it like that?" I looked up and saw this:

Tobyn had taken my peanut shears (not the broken ones, but the ones that are meant to do the very bottom of your neck. The part that has all the little hairs and is meant to shave really close) and shaved some chunks from his newly redone mohawk.

Needless to say we were 20 mins late to church because I had to fix the hair cut. It's a good thing he is a boy and it was really easy to shave short. As far as the broken clippers go. They didn't get fixed...shhh..don't tell the boys I finished up with Max's clippers :-)

It's a Party!

We had a combine party for Tate and Titus on Thursday. I think they had a lot of fun. This year is an even year, which means friend birthday parties. We had the boys make paper rockets and blasted them with launchers made from soda bottles, bike tire tubes, and pvc pipe. The kids had fun chasing their rockets around. We also did a donut eating contest, opened presents, and had cupcakes. It was a lot of fun to have their friends over for some fun!

Later in the day we went swimming. the pool lately has been pretty empty, I guess people figure it's too hot even for swimming. Anyway, we had the pool almost to ourselves for about 2 1/2 hours. The kids LOVED it! Todd took a nap, and I hang out with my friend who had her kids there also. What a great day!

Digin' in

Gathering to launch their rockets!

All of the boys waiting to start the contest!

Admiring the goods.

Happy "late" birthday to Tate, and early birthday to Titus. I hope you had a great day!

Can you say HOT?! I knew it would be hot here, everyone warns you about the Texas heat. But recored breaking heat for 3 weeks straight is pretty insane! I guess we moved here on a record breaking year for everything. Most storms in one month, recored lows, recored highs, recored drought...I hate to find out what's next.

Overall the summer hasn't been bad. Figuring out what to do with 5 boys when it's a 105 and 52% humidity outside so they stay inside all day is a little rough. There is only so much Nintedo playing, tv watching, craft doing, card game playing, fort building, one can do in a day....week...month....We do still swim quite often. But with the heat, the pool is hardly refreshing. At least it's wet and not just sticky humid.

Todd finally is holding a line so that's a great thing. Even though he is back to working weekends, we know when he's leaving, when he's coming home, and where he is going. It's more hours and more days off. I sure hope we're on the up swing now! He is still loving his job and we are all adjusting pretty well. The days he is gone are going by faster and I don't feel like I need to gear up as much for the next 4 days he is away.

I started school last week. It is going well. I am sure glad I only signed up for one class at a time right now. For those who don't know I decided to go with Interior Design. I will earn a Bachelor Degree with the Art Institute online dev. With the kids demanding the computer (because of lack of activities) and just the plain old busyness of summer, it was a good choice. The first class is a little boring. I can't wait to get into the more fun classes. I just received my Adobe Suite set, which has all types of Photoshop and such in it. I am a little intimidated. Those programs always seem to have SO much to them.

We get to spend a little extra time out in the heat. Our dryer is on the fritz and so we get the opportunity to line-dry our clothes. Nothing like crispy, hot, fresh smelling clothes :-) It's not bad, just get pretty hot standing outside to hang them up. But it saves a ton on the electrical bill.

Well on to enduring the heat, more fort building, computer playing, school working, flying fun!