I love you, Honey pie!

 I introduced Neve to tis-tachios.  Really I forced her to try one and now she loves them.  I didn't think about the fact that now I will have to share them w/her.  Bad Idea on my part!

 I came in my bedroom to this the other night

 Ella had spent the evening at Emma's and made me a card.  

She was too excited to wait until my birthday.

I think it is darling that she gave me 5 bucks.  That's more than a weeks worth of allowance!

Really one of the sweetest girls on the planet.

Although after seeing how bratty girls are maybe that's not too hard of a feat.

She was born a sweetheart and I'm glad mean girls aren't rubbing off on her.

She had a swim meet this last weekend and a girl was making fun of Ella's dive into the water and Ella overheard her.  She made the mistake of telling me and it was all I could do the whole swim meet to not hold that girls head under the water a few extra seconds.  She is not a nice girl and as history proves when you are flat out rude to my nice girl, I am not a nice girl!   I didn't say a word though but it was tough!

A lot of parents are in denial about their kids but anyone who knows Ella knows that she truly is what I claim and I am very lucky to have that.  Fingers crossed on the little one though ):

Last night Rachel was kind enough to come teach my Laurels to make pies and man am I sure glad they were watching her crust making skills and not mine.  I mean, I have made pies a million times and while my crust is never oh so fabulous,

Carri helping Neve make a crust and learning it herself

 Look at this atrocity.  Yep for all the YW to see.  What a joke!  I have never made a crust that looks this bad but I always bring on my best skills for other people to witness.  Maybe that is smart so they never think I have any good skills and don't ask me to do stuff.

 So the kids have a fundraiser at school and I hate fundraisers.  Ella really wants to do this one though and it is actually one of the few I don't mind.  

So I went over to the school to buy a bag of candy bars for her to sell.

 I was getting gas and a car wash and turned around to see this pile of trash in the back seat of the car.

 and then her face with an evil grin and she is holding

 the last of 3 candy bars she has eaten while I wasn't looking.

I gave her a look and she said "Mom I won't get sick!"

I promptly moved the now bag of 47 candy bars to the front seat.

Sadly she is already sick but only her Mom would notice the puffiness under her eyes that signals ear infection.  One tube has fallen out and the hole has sealed shut so I suppose here this little rat goes again to have another short stay in the hospital so I can pay for one tube to just have the other one fall out 3 months later.  They should have buy one get one free surgery! 

A guy has come several times to attempt to fix our crazy water heater and last time Neve asked me his name.  Funny enough his name is Dave.  So he came today to install a part and Neve said "Mom, there are two Daves, one is a fixer and one is Dad!"    Makes me laugh.

Sam saying his prayers in all seriousness "please bless that Logan will get better at playing his clarinet"!

Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship

Tidbits of Sam
"Earth to Mom"   I am hearing him but not listening, all Moms know what I mean by that
"Mars to Mom"  still not registering to me
"Jupiter to Mom, Saturn to Mom"   at this point it finally registers.  I am not sure when he learned the planets in order.   Hmmm, thanks teachers, I guess or maybe T.V.

Sam and Neve are watching a cartoon (Third and Bird) and I am in the kitchen half listening.  I think there is a common theme here of me ignoring my surroundings.   Anyway, I know they are talking about a perfect picnic on this show and discussing all the fruit they had to make their perfect picnic.  Sam says to the T.V., "That's not a perfect picnic, that's like the stupidest picnic EVER!"    He seemed a bit miffed by the fact that they would consider all fruit a perfect picnic.  His perfect picnic would be chocolate Milk, hot chocolate, doughnuts, Doritos, Jimmy Johns Slim 6, and then maybe a Milky Wave for dessert.

I pick Sam up from school and he is talking about birds and asks "So Mom, like what if our country's bird was like trying to attack you, could you defend yourself?"   What the?  I said "I don't know, I guess you probably could."   He said "I asked my teacher that about the bird trying to attack someone and she didn't really know the answer."   They are probably wondering what we let this kid watch at home that his first thoughts when learning about our national bird is whether or not you can kill it in the event it is trying to kill you. 
I wonder if a good rule of thumb is to know that you are allowed to kill anything that is attacking you regardless of its importance in the country.

 Sam in some thinking poses.  This kid does a lot of thinking!

Broken down water heater and exercising do not go well together.  In case you were wondering!

I reflect on my reflection and i ask myself the question

 Neve on one of the few things she wasn't afraid of.  I don't remember what it is.  surprise surprise

  The carvings at the Animal Kingdom are pretty impressive but we didn't spend much time at that park since it wasn't the best minus a few rides.

  This being one of them.  Its a little like the Matterhorn.

 Kind of cute that the seat that Sam is in looks empty!

I watched a princessish show w/Neve and found that Neve might be twins w/Donald
w/her grumpy arm folding.

 She also loves Merry go rounds.  What kid doesn't right?

 Dave's worst nightmare came true while on Small world

It broke down while we were in it and we were forced to listen to the music 10 minutes longer than the normal torture he feels this ride is.  Neve and Sam liked it though.

 We have lots of Tiny Tim moments around here.

Sadly, I am never Tim

 The fireworks display gave Sam shock and awe.

 Ella and myself the first time on my favorite ride, Splash Mt.

 Ella, the second time. 

 I love stuff like this, Mikes little door.   The laugh floor based off Monsters Inc was really good.   Also top on my list might be the Simpsons ride. E.T. for nostalgia.

and this my friends is a joke stolen from none other than myself

This is Sam and Ella

 I figured out this funny play on words when Sam was a baby and I used to call my Dad and ask him if he could tend Sam-n-ella.   He of course would always respond with "as long as they don't make me sick"   ha ha, that Dad humor that we all end up using when we get older and lamer.

Flippers was a restaurant we struggled to find but it ended up being really good and worth the search.
It was either this or Golden corral so Dave and I were determined to find this.  We both hate buffets.

This is near the scene of my almost incident w/the lady in the Jazzy chair.

Short version:  She told Ella to watch out very rudely when Ella was there first and not in anyones way,  then chose to roll her eyes still w/in view of me,  mother bear that is pretty overprotective now of people being mean to Ella.  So I replied,  in my rudest way, that included my very dirtiest look "excuse me is a nicer way to say that you freaking hag!"   She scurried her lazy bottom away as fast as the Jazzy could carry her to then go to a corner to report to her friends and husband about what happened.  Of course in her story I am sure she painted herself to have been so sweet and not a lazy disrespectful slob.  I continued w/the stink eye, and trust me it stinks.  She hightailed it out of there.

I'm fine w/someone correcting my kid especially if they are doing something wrong.

I hate people who treat kids like they don't deserve respect!

I cannot control my mouth very often in situations of disrespect but I was not embarrassed that I had said something here.  Sure I could have been more kind but I thought she more deserved a taste of her own medicine.  If you are an ornery SOB, please stay away from places that attract children.  Idiots!

I will probably be shot or stabbed someday.

Sam is pretending to be as scared as that lady.

 Okay now that I have chilled the testosterone a little, back to the fun.

This is a great Dad, who is willing to go down a gross slide w/a screaming turd.

 We got Ella to try the HULK and we were proud of her for going on it.  I think Dave may or may not have paid her cash money to do it 

but whatever works.

 Doc was awesome.  This guy deserves a raise.  He was perfect!

 This is yet another one of those movies we all loved as kids so I have my kids watch it.  I learn just how much bad language was in our kids PG movies back in the day.  E.T. and Goonies, also being on that list.  Don't let your kids watch BIG either if they are getting close to teens, uuuuuncomfortable!

 Sam and Neve and I entertained ourselves while the others went on the MUMMY

Neve's favorite ride was SNEETCHES from Dr. Suess, it seriously was commiting suicide worthy.  Terrible ride, but I suffered through it twice anyway. It did have thing one and thing two in it though which kept reminding me of some twins I know.

 

 Logan wanted to eat at the NBA restaurant but We chose Hard Rock instead

 Neve displaying her Mac and cheese.  It was some good stuff though.

 On our way to the hotel the last night, Neve was having a laughing fit.  I think she was trying to counter act all the naughty she had been all week all within 20 minutes.  It was pretty hilarious though.

 Wiped out THUG!

 and a slug!!!