Injuiries and Insults

Here are the Injuiries, on Sunday, 9-12-10 Kylie was playing on her playground set in her backyard and thought she cut her foot, she went in to show her mom and dad and found out it was a splinter about 1/2' long and it went really deep into her foot. Nick and Julie could not get it out. It didn't hurt too bad, so they waited and called the Dr. the next day, he told them to take her to St. Clare's in Fenton to remove it. The Emergency Room gave Kylie a codeine/xanax cocktail and then preceded to remove her splinter, all is well.

On Friday, 9-17-10, Sissy was going to the bathroom at Mary's mom and dad's house, Charlie went with her, that is all that is known for sure, somehow Charlie slammed the shower door on Sissy's pointer finger on her right hand and broke it. Mary took her to an Urgent Care and they put a splint on it. Sissy was very proud of her splint.

Now for the Insults, on 9-14-10, while Bob was gone fishing for the week and I had my little angels all by myself, every morning I had to pack all the kids in the car to take and pick up Kylie. Of course, Kylie is the only one that can buckle herself up, so I have to buckle the rest, that means getting all the way to the back of the van to buckle Sissy, while I am doing that bent over at the waist, Dylan looks to his left and all he sees is my posterior, he immediately announces, "Grandma you have a BIG BUTT!" I immediately start laughing. I can't help it, he is just stating the obvious. I did try and tell him, while that is true, it may hurt some peoples feelings if you say that, he just looked at me and said "but you do have a big butt", I gave up, his parents can deal with that one.

This past weekend, Mary had to go to Texas on business, so Brian and the 3 kids stayed with us Thursday 9-23-10 and Friday 9-24-10 night. Saturday, was such a beautiful day Brian wanted to go somewhere, so we decided on Kimmswick. While we walking around and the kids got a few nick knacks, Leah proclaimed this was her BEST DAY EVER! I immediately thought of the money we spent on taking them to Disney World and she says this is her best day ever. I think we spent $7.00 on her. Now I know how to give her the best day ever and it won't hurt my pockets. We decided to eat at the Blue Owl and it was wonderful, the pics of the kids enjoying their desserts are attached. After eating Leah wanted to go to the Kimmswick museum so we were walking down there, in the street, because there are no sidewalks, and I told Leah, you walk on the inside so a car will hit me instead of you. Leah said "Yes, I am not old enough to die, I haven't even made my first communion." I started laughing and said "Yes, I guess I am old enough to die". She said, "Yes you are, your mom and dad are already dead and waiting for you in heaven." So, that makes you old enough to die, when you already made your first communion and your parents are already in heaven, just in case you didn't know the criteria to die. Where, where do they come up with this stuff. It has to be stuff we tell them and they twist it so they can understand it. Tooooooo funny.

Out of the Mouth of Babes

This week has been one of the funniest we have had in awhile. These kids should be stand up comics. Maybe they are only funny to us but they sure make our days. Here is our story this week.

On Wednesday we decided to take the kids to the "Whittle Train Station", it is a little place in Fenton/Valley Park that has tables with wooden train sets on them, they are about 2 feet off the floor and the kids can play with the trains for free, they love it. So we went around 10am when they open and let them play until about 11:15 when Sissy and Charlie had had enough and were getting hungry and Charlie had a load in his pants and was becoming very fragrant. So we headed for home. 5 minutes before we arrived home, Charlie fell asleep. That is not good. The problem with this is, even just 5 minutes gives Charlie new life and throws his whole routine off. We woke him up, went in and ate lunch and then around 12:30pm, Bob took Charlie to put him in bed. This is our normal routine. Then I put Sissy and Dylan in bed around 1pm. Well, I walked in to Charlie and Dylan's room and Charlie sits up and says "I'm up", I said no you are not, lay down and go to sleep. I put Dylan in bed and left. It was such a beautiful day, Bob and I took our rest out on the porch, with the baby monitor. We just get settled and we hear Charlie talking and laughing and hear Dylan talking. Bob goes in to settle the two down and Dylan looks up at PawPaw and says "Charlie has problems", Bob had to run out of the room before he started laughing.

On Thursday, Dylan and Sissy went to preschool. That evening when Julie came to pick up Dylan she was asking Dylan what he had learned that day, he said he leaned about Jesus. Julie asked him what he learned about Jesus, that he was kind and good? Dylan looked at Julie and said "He wasn't there." Julie ran out of the room laughing.

Later Nick asked Dylan about what he learned and Dylan told him about Jesus and He wasn't there and Nick said "Where was He?", and Dylan said, "He wasn't coming today". I guess we are all glad it wasn't the second coming today.

UPDATE: Saturday night (9-11-10) Julie, Kylie and Dylan went to church with us on Saturday night. During the mass, there was a young man in a red shirt, singing solo in the choir. Dylan looked at his mom and shouted, "Mom, look there is Jesus in the red shirt", Julie is trying to shhhhh him, when he turns to me and shouts very excited, "Grandma, look there is Jesus in the red shirt." We were trying not to laugh and tell him that was not Jesus. Julie showed him the crucifix and said that is Jesus on the Cross and Dylan says, "Why is he up there?" We have a lot of work teaching Dylan about Jesus.

Friday, was a nasty day so we went to the basement to play, Charlie found a pink crown and was putting it on his head and wearing it around. Later, Dylan found it and put it on my head and said Grandma you be the queen, I said ok, but Charlie saw this and said he wanted it. I took it off my head and said, ok Charlie, you can be King Charlie, his lips started quivering and he started crying saying "I don't want to be King, I want to be a PRINCESS". So I had to take a picture and send it to his dad, I am sure he is very proud of his Princess son.

Now, the next 2 stories were told to me by Mary.

Thursday evening, they went to GiGi's birthday celebration. Leah was very tired and told her mom, "I am going to sit my ASS down and watch tv", Mary couldn't believe what she heard and asked Leah again, what she had said. Leah repeated it. Mary said, Leah we don't say Ass, Leah apologized. She didn't even realize that Ass was a word we didn't say. It just came out so normal. Too funny.

Also, Thursday evening on their way home, the kids were watching the Wizard of Oz in the car, when the song came on where the scarecrow was singing I want a brain, Brian started singing along. From way in the back of the van, Sissy hollered out, "Daddy, I have a brain!" before they could respond, Charlie hollered out "me too". We are sooooo grateful they have brains.

This is why we are soooooo blessed. These precious children are our hearts. Whether it is right or wrong, they are MY LIFE!