Dance Like Noone's Watching

Dance like no one's watching.

Dance like you are Mikhail Baryshnikov. Because in your mind, you are.

And if you're not, who cares?

Owen told Ken that he had the moves. Apparently he does. And if he doesn't, he really doesn't care. :p



God I love that kid. :)

An Apology...Kid Style!

I've been cleaning up the backroom. No snarky comments necessary!

So I have a pile of things (shocking!) that I have set aside to scan in for the blog. I found this little gem from Shane. I'm not sure what he did (probably sassying me and I sent him to his room) but I love the apology note.

Note he dated it.

He wanted Owen to shut his yap. lol

Note I accepted his apology (with a smiley).



I love how he made me into a figure on the TO: Mom. The funny part is that he put me in a dress. That's probably the only time I wore a dress in 2009. :p

He really tried to lay it on by saying "thank you" in advance of the answer....adding a smiley face definitely helped I'm sure!



This is a keeper for sure! :)

How to Make Money...by Shane

I was in the kitchen yesterday afternoon and Shane came down and asked me if he could sell something on ebay. He completed the question with the fact that you could sell anything on ebay.

I asked him what he wanted to sell and his response was his extra bed from his room.

When I asked him why in the world he wanted to sell his bed for his first response was that he wanted more space in his room because it's too crowded.

Ken piped up and said that he could rememdy that by cleaning up his room. :rolleyes:

He said no (shocking!) and then made up some other lame excuse which Ken responded that it wasn't even his bed to sell anyway.

When we finally got out the real reason that he wanted to sell it, it is because he wants to buy a TV for his room. :rolleyes:

WTF?

I told him that if he wanted to earn some extra money, I have lots of chores and things that he can do around the house to earn the money rather than selling off our property.

Aside from the fact that he wasn't getting a TV in his room regardless if he sold off his bed on ebay and bought one.

Which he wasn't going to because it wasn't his property to sell.

He rolled his eyes at me and walked off in a big ol' huff. :-|

Ken and I just sat there and looked at each other. :confused:

Man. Good thing that child is smart because he's already trying to figure out how to do the least amount of work as possible to achieve his goals. :-|

Good lord. I only hope he uses his brains for good and not evil.

Meanwhile, Down at the Farm

The boys, being the quintessential city mice, love to visit their country mouse cousins at their farm. They can't wait to get down there so they can go and collect the chicken's eggs and play with the little baby chicks.



Mary Mayken and her favorite chick.

"I will love him and SQUEEZE him and call him Georgie..."



"She's so cuuuuutttteeee, mommy!"





You can't collect eggs without having a basket. Or you favorite stuffed "hossey."



I'm sure that the chicks loved to play in the sandbox. Oh well. It entertained the kids for about 4 minutes exactly. :p





Owen really didn't believe us when we told him that the rooster was mean. Even when we pointed out how fast the rooster could haul a&* across the yard. The "rooster beater" stick wasn't enough to convince him either. He got lucky that's all I'll say. I'm sure that he'll get taught a lesson before it's all over and done.

I also took some videos of them trying to get the chicken's in the hen house at night. Unfortunately I took them sideways and I can't figure out how to flip them. Just flip your computer monitor. It's easier than figuring it out! :p





The boys had a great time but apparently, they do need some work on their chicken wrangling skills.

An Elvis Sighting

Shane sings in his school's chorus program. They have a concert for the parents in the spring. The music teacher did a medley of fun, popular music from the 1950's to the 1980's. This time, he got to do a solo performance and he rocked it. :)



Who knew that Elvis rocked a mullet? :p



I was really proud of him for even going out for the solo. That is really stepping out of his comfort zone but I thought that he did a great job. :up: