What's happenin' at our house?

Livie's new princess dress / The boys in San Diego with their buddy Parker

Where to begin.. I haven't posted in MONTHS! That is terrible. The fall is here, kids are in school, my days have a bit of free time every now and again so I'll be posting more frequently.

This house hasn't changed much! There is always a bit of drama and some crazy stuff to report around here. The most recent is that our little Brady has decided he's afraid to die and Heaven is dirty! I know this all sounds so silly, but the other night at bedtime he got hysterical about this. He was so worried that someone was going to die and he didn't want his life to change. Okay, first of all.. we are not a truly religious bunch {though we are faithful} and we do talk about all of this stuff just not in real detail. Well, let me tell you... I have been re-educated in the Bible! I spent an hour trying to console him that it was okay and life was fine, my talking wasn't totally reassuring so I resorted to praying with him. I am not against this at all, however it would add at least another 5 minutes or so to the bedtime routine per kid {don't judge, I like to have my evenings free!} that would be 15 more minutes ~ I just don't think I can handle that. But I will, if that's what he needs! Long, Long story short. We spent the next evening reading the children's Bible {skipped the entire Old Testament.. I did not have time for that!}. We started where God told Mary she would have a baby and ended after Jesus was resurrected. I think we about covered it. Oh man! Those are hard questions to answer for a 6 year old, especially when you have no hard core truth, nothing solid to prove your answers, just simple faith and while that's enough for me, it was not enough for him. Hopefully we have changed that and he can be happy with the answers he has got. Although he did ask if we could go to church and he wants to be baptized.. lets see how this all goes! We may be sending out baptism invites! This has also spiked in interest for Jack and since he's an independent reader he has been reading the Bible every night in bed.. for his home work he has to read 20 minutes per night and record it on a sheet.. this is what his sheet looked like this week.

Mon: Sports Illustrated Kids

Tues: Bible

Weds:Bible

Thurs: Sports Illustrated Kids

Hmmm... he's a man of big faith! Sports and the Bible ~ I just wonder which one comes first?!

All kidding aside.. I will make an effort to include more of this in our lives, I would be sad if Brady were nervous about this for his entire life.

As for the little miss.. she's quite the talker! She can say just about anything and says it all day/ every day! She sings, dances.. if it's girl ~ she does it! She is very bossy these days, often telling the boys what to do. This morning Jason let Jack play the Wii before school {ugh! so against the rules!} and when I found out at 8am that he was doing this I told him to get off! She quickly went in there and yelled "Jack off" hmmm.. that sounds a lot different in print, try to think of how she would say it.. not how it reads! And the other night I told her I needed to tell the boys it was time for dinner she turns around to yell ~ Boys Dinner! So funny.

Keepin' it interesting!

This week has been full of moments at our house. Mostly full of boy moments, Livie always has something to contribute but so far she's the easy one {yes, I do know that will NOT last.. let me keep the dream for now will you?!} ***Warning this is a long post!

Last Friday I got a phone call, when I looked at the caller ID it said Salem/Keizer Schools ~ my first thought was "oh crap what has Jack done?!" But in reality he had just bumped heads with a boy on the playground and was in the office with an ice pack and going to be just fine! My first reaction was to run to the school and scoop him up {that's what we do ~ right? I'm the Mom.. or as my loving husband calls it the "Smother"} I remained calm, asked some questions and was assured by the school nurse that he was just fine, all of this after she called me DR. ~ yep, she did. My kids have this wonderful way of spinning my employment.. they love to tell people that I am a dentist ~ Nice! I always have to explain it.. and it's never as pretty when I'm done. They will be so disappointed when the find out the truth {that I am just the assistant.. and I suck up blood and pieces of tooth.. sometimes gums ~ on a bad day for me! Okay.. I realize for some of you that is TMI ~ back on track}. But in this case the nurse looked at my employer and instead of reading the name Megan she just assumed it was me and that a DMD was a Dr. no nurse.. it's not ~ I hope you will someday know the difference. So that was my first experience with a call from the school. The second happened yesterday when I got a call from Jack's teacher. She had called to talk about an "incident" NEVER a good word to use when calling a parent, it sounds so awful! And don't get me wrong, it wasn't good, but it wasn't awful either.. I guess it was sort of awful. You see there was an "incident" with hand sanitizer and water bottles at school yesterday and because the teacher was out of the room she was not totally sure it involved Jack or his level of involvement but because my son was the only 1 of the 2 accused at the time that had sanitizer and a permission slip to carry it ... the arrow was pointing right at him! UGH! This does sound like he's guilty as charged doesn't it? So we decided that we would sit him down and calmly ask questions about what happened. At first he gave us some line about being in the bathroom when that all happened {Pu~lease, he does not know me yet.. bit will know soon enough that I am the master!} so we asked again and the second or third story he came up with was that Reid {kid #2} punched him in the stomach and twisted and grabbed his arm to make him put the sanitizer in Reid's water bottle. Seriously Jack? Reid is smaller than Brady, maybe as tall but he's skinny as can be. Jack is at least a head taller than Reid.. does he really think we are buying this? Oh he must because he's still going.. okay let him finish and then tell him how crazy this sounds! OK ~ all finished. Point out how completely insane this is. Jack decides to re-tell the story {I know you're surprised... stick with me here} and this time we get the truth. I only know this because he told it over and over with a level of consistency that I believed. If you had only heard the other stories in person... man this kid thinks I am stupid! Even better.. he thinks his dad is too! ;-) So here it goes... Jack came up with the "idea" and told Sam and poor little Sam will do anything Jack says, Sam tried his water with sanitizer and didn't like it.. but naughty little Reid {I know this because he's always in the Learning Chair or at the office} didn't seem to mind it until a little girl saw and ratted them out! So there it is.. my kid is the evil mind behind this master plan {take note that he's not dumb enough to actually do it to his own water.. it is poison for crying out loud!} and the kid packing the sanitizer! My journey today will land me in Mrs. Hildebrant's class after school to see how this all played out. Wish me luck! I have to say that I am proud of the way Jack told the truth, that is never an easy thing and while it was a bad choice it is not the end of the world and it won't be the last dumb idea he has {I assure you}. And he will not be armed with sanitizer for the remainder of the year... maybe in 2nd grade!

Brady has learned something new this week, he has learned to take Military Showers. Some of you are asking what? Well let me tell you. He gets in, gets wet, turns the water off, soaps up {really good I might add} then turns the water back on to rinse off.. all of this because it is good for the earf {earth}. They are studying earth day at school and the teacher was talking about ways you can help keep it together. He is also very adamant about me recycling the cans this week! Funny, funny kid. I just never know what will come out of his mouth.

Livie is growing and changing everyday. She loves the head nod ~ both ways you can get a yes or a no out of her and they are very, very definite. She is super in LOVE with her Daddy and is always at his side when he is home.. I think she gets bored of me! ;-)

We are getting ready to start the baseball season and I will have some pics to post then! For now I need to get ready for my meeting with the teacher.. oh goodness, I know this might not be the last!

♥ The Muths

Happy {belated} First Birthday Miss Livie!

Well year has passed and we have all been blessed by the presence of this little girl. I cannot tell you how much she has changed our lives. It is a little {okay, a lot} crazy around here. My mornings are busier than ever! I work 2 days a week and my office is literally 10-13 minutes from home but I spend 45 minutes in the car on these days shuffling kids around. I never thought it would be this crazy! Thank goodness she is a sweet, sweet little girl. She goes with the flow and rarely ever complains about it! She is now walking like a pro, is into EVERYTHING! Her favorite place to play in the morning is in the wet shower, it's quite a challenge to keep her out! Some mornings she has 2 sets of clothes on before I even have my first set for the day! She talks... baby babble. But a few words like: Dada or even better {his personal favorite} Hi Dada - of course when she's pretending to talk on the phone! Mama, Bobby {Brady}, Jack, dog~dog, ni-night and of course she says nack.. for snack. She's really quite expressive, she can even {almost} whistle. When you ask her to whistle she puckers up and blows air out of her mouth.. one of these days she's going to get it and make us a $100,ooo on funniest videos! That's our master plan!

Our house has been completely taken over by PINK! There is so much pink in this house it's not even funny! Almost all of her toys are pink and of course she has a pink convertable car. What little girl doesn't?! Her brothers are still nuts about her and I think Brady is finally getting told off when he's not giving her enough space... I see a future full of girl screams when it comes to him! He is so funny with her.. actually it gets frustrating, but you can NEVER deny his love for her!

Here are some pics of her with her first cupcake! So cute!

She loved it! Have a great day!

♥ Love,

The Muths XO