Our family has been hit very hard this winter with sickness....I believe it was just a few short weeks ago that I said, "Wow! It's been a great winter, we haven't had one sick kid yet." BOOM!!! I shouldn't have said it out loud, I should have kept quiet. We have gone through the stomach bug, the weird fever bug and strep throat, all within 3 weeks. I've become really good friends with the doctor and the school nurse. I talk to them more than I talk to members of my own family. BUT as I look ahead to the rest of this week, I think we are all on the mend. Of course I say that after I wake up with a really sore throat. (I stole some antibiotic from the kids...so hopefully that will catch it) shhhhh!!! Don't tell anybody.
ANYWAY, the reason for this blog entry is the:
TOP 10 WEIRD THINGS MY KIDS DID IN THE LAST 3 WEEKS WHILE THEY WERE OFF SCHOOL SICK.
1. Joey made up a game using a Rubik's cube. He would mess it all up and than ask me what pattern he was making (meaning, I had to guess what all 9 colors were on the side he was looking at) This took a good hour because you know there are about 50 gazillion combos of colors that could be on that one side of a Rubik's cube....To make it even a little more confusing, if I guessed green, white, red, orange, red, black, white, green, yellow he would tell me which ones were right by saying green if they were right and red if they were wrong....I was so confused.....It was NOT fun.
2. Kemp & Emma decided one day it would be a good idea to talk in alien-chicken voices all day. I can't even explain the pain felt during this one.
3. NEVER EVER leave a Sharpie anywhere close to where your 3 year old can get ahold of it....you could end up with your own personal KISS member in the household.
4. NEVER EVER leave red food coloring anywhere close to where ANY child can reach it...they like to put it on their hands and come screaming to you that they cut themselves. In the process dripping red food coloring all over the floor.
5. Kemp decided to make brownies for the family one day he was off. As he was putting the brownies into the oven he sneezed... ALL.OVER.THE.BROWNIES.
6. FYI - the curtain rod in the family room will not hold a 30 pound child.
7. All 3 children somehow obtained the ability to stand 2 feet away from me while looking right in my eyes and still not hear a word I said.
8. Joey and Emma decided to play a game of "Eagle versus Puppy" Joey was the eagle and would swoop around the house screaming Caaaaaaaawwwwwww Caaaawwwwwwwww while flapping his arms madly. Emma would crawl around on all four's barking like a dog trying to get away from the evil eagle that was trying to snatch her up with his talons.
9. The bathtub became a swimming pool unknown to me...Unknown until the water started seeping into the hallway
10. As my husband and I were putting the boys to bed last night, Kemp gives us a very sheepish look and says, "Here mommy" And he hands me a pound of hamburger he took out of the freezer to thaw behind his bed.... *There's not even any kind of explanation I have for this one.*
