hilarious trainwreck of a conversation

this is one of those had-to-pull-over-the-car-because-I-was-laughing-so-hard-and-wanted-to-write-it-down-before-I-forgot-the-exact-words conversations

Hailey "you are your husband's wife"
Mommy "uh, yeah"
Riley "when did you get married"
Mommy "almost 13 yrs ago, in June"
Riley "why can't you make babies until you're a grownup?"
Mommy laughs really loud.  eventually I'll have to come up with a more appropriate response :)
Hailey "how can you make babies when you're a grownup?" (Riley "that's not what I said Hailey")
Hailey "how did you get us in your tummy?"

all, btw, in the 2 minute drive from the YMCA to our house

oy.

He's onto you, preschool television!

We were watching Jungle Junction just now, and as usual, a character asks the viewer for help.

Riley "I just noticed something cool.  If you don't say anything, they will say the answer themselves!" LOL

Peter Pan chips

We used up all the pita chips eating hummus.  Later when I was putting together a shopping list Hailey pipes up "don't forget we need Peter Pan chips!"

Riley's 6th birthday party - cupcake lessons

to match Riley's Mario birthday party theme, mommy had the fun idea of making cupcakes shaped like the mushrooms in Super Mario (red=makes you bigger, green=1up, small blue=makes you small)

unfortunately, the cake mix tastes good, but makes very strangely shaped cupcakes in the normal size.  the mini cupcakes came out with a nice even dome:

I was able to pick a few normal size cupcakes that had a dome and hadn't overflowed, now contemplating whether to bake another batch or buy nice shaped cupcakes or muffins from the store and then ice them to match.  The few I was able to do came out cute:

The other thing I didn't think through was the frosting. I forgot to pick up a can of frosting when I bought the cake mix, so I "whipped up" some buttercream frosting which was surprisingly easy (and of course yummy).  Except buttercream frosting melts and sags when it's nice weather, and probably shouldn't be left on the counter until tomorrow's party.  doubt I have that much room in my fridge...

the dots were supposed to be white candy melts btw, you can see on the green one that the scale is wrong, so I guess I'll just make dabs of white frosting.

-Deirdre

Color Explosion Explosion - 0 Oxyclean - 1

Oxyclean has vanquished yet another foe.  Turns out that not only does Oxyclean take baby poop out of clothes, grunge out of grungy lovies, and sharpie permanent marker off of microfiber upholstery, it also takes dark blue ink off everything.

Color Explosion products are a crayola thing where you start with a black piece of paper, which you draw on with a special marker that magically dissolves the black layer and shows the multicolored pattern underneath.  If you touch the paper with wet hands, you'll discover the "black" is actually very dark blue, and that water takes it off too, though not as effectively.

Evidently, if you rub a baby wipe on a sheet of Color Explosion paper (like that Riley got for his birthday and seemed like harmless fun) you can get the wipe to turn dark blue/green.  Then the wipe can be used like a paint brush to draw on walls, carpet, sheets, doors, and of course can get it all over your clothes and your hands, etc.

(Silly mommy was trying to clean the dining room table and psych Riley into starting his homework when Elliot made this discovery.  Small wonder I'm losing the battle keeping the house clean!)

The "good" thing is finding out that a solution of Oxyclean powder makes the color just disappear.  Off the walls, the kids' hands and feet, the carpet, the clothes, the sheets, and the door.  *sigh*

deep topics and other things that make me laugh

the kids come out with the funniest things, or sometimes very unfunny things that make me laugh none-the-less.

In the car today, Riley asks (completely out of the blue) "what happens to our skin when we die?"  I almost spit out my lunch laughing, then begged him "can I please answer that question later, like after lunch?"  He didn't bring it back up, don't really know how to answer that one.  (he's previously asked things like "when is (someone) going to die?" which is ironically much easier to answer.)

In the same car trip, I was explaining to the kids why we were going to a doctor's office.  "mommy doesn't sleep good right now" Elliot replies loudly "oh no!" then he wanted to know "why you no sleep good?"  At the office where they were fitting me with the CPAP machine Hailey tells me reassuringly "you're going to be okay mommy!" then goes to tell Elliot "don't worry - mommy's going to be okay" :)

Hailey keep cracking me up by formally saying things about "your husband" - like "you miss your husband" when I'm trying to talk in kid terms about how many days 'till daddy's home.

She has recently drawn characters with a heart in their tummies, which I thought was her way of representing pregnancy in her stick people.  Evidently she is sure that is where your heart is (in your tummy) and she even argued with me when I tried to explain that no, your heart is in your chest :)

the funny Elliot story I keep forgetting

I was doing homework with Riley while Oma was here. We're all sitting at the dining rm table, nibbling on snacks and the younger kids are coloring while Riley does his homework (one double-sided sheet of writing + one double sided sheet of math + 20 minutes of story time).  After we finished the writing, I said "ok, now it's mathtime!"  A split second later, Elliot runs over to my chair, stripped down to his diaper and very excited "I ready!" - he thought we said "bathtime!"  so we ran a bath for him and Hailey, how can you say no to such sweet enthusiasm :)