Today my dad and step-mom came to visit us and the kids. And how can the grandparents come without wanting to taking a trip on over to Toys-R-Us?? In the check-out line, after the kids each picked out a toy, Deby spotted some bubbles and decided to get those for them as well. When we got home, we all went out back to test out these new amazing bubbles…and amazing they were! There was no popping these suckers! They would land in our hair and stayed until you brushed them off. My dad demonstrated that you could actually BOUNCE them off one another! He also ran around the yard (being the kid that he is) to collect and stack his bubbles. I think he and Deby had more fun with them than the kids did! So here they are….the magnificent, incredible, unpoppable….”Catch-A-Bubble“!!! (On my dad’s fingertip, of course)

I came across this cute and clever video/song at Mama Says Om. It’s more fun to watch when you have a child on your lap!!

I couldn’t believe that Charlie actually wanted to put this on. Last time I tried, he totally “wigged” out….oh, SNAP! Man, I am so lame…

A few posts down, I blogged a picture of Scarlett in a shirt that says, “Bush is just like my diaper. Full of Poop!” I’d just like to spread the word about my friend’s (Rachel) business, Kustomized Kids. She is a stay-at-home mamma, doing this mostly for fun (and, hey, a little extra money on the side doesn’t hurt!). She has a wide-range of topics/designs including Natural Parenting, Seasonal, Babies and Kids with Attitude, Pregnancy, Wedding, Kustom Kids (for children with special needs), Birthday, and Personalized. She is also more than willing to take requests if she doesn’t already have something you’re looking for! Anyway, go check it out! They make GREAT gifts!!! Here are just a handful of her designs.

Kustomized Kids

Thank you Rachel!!!!!

Like this shirt? This is my good friend, Rachel’s, little store through cafepress. At Kustomized Kids you’ll find MANY designs and she’ll even take special orders if she doesn’t have what you’re looking for! Click here to order!

Wow, two of these in one day?! Actually, the firework utterance was spoken lastnight. This is a conversation I just had with Charlie:

Me: Charlie, did you know that you’re two years old, soon to be three years old?

Charlie: Three, really?

Me: Yeah, you’re such a big boy. You’re getting old!

Charlie: (VERY upset…yelling at me) But I don’t want to get old! And Scarlett (who was laying right beside us) doesn’t want to get old either!!

Anyway, I just thought this was cute, and of course I agreed with him and told him I don’t want to get old either (although, I did tell him it was fun getting old so I didn’t freak him out any further)! How does someone of his age know it’s no fun getting old?? I mean, sure it has it’s perks… but he was so upset over it like he all of sudden understood life/death/aging etc. (I know he doesn’t understand it all, but that’s how strongly he reacted).  Sometimes the things he says blow me away!

“At Kaylee’s, we watched the fireworks and they were sparkling in the night.”
(I think we read “The Very Lonely Firefly” way too much!)

So yesterday Charlie surprised me by bustin’ out with some pretty cool dance moves. Usually he just kind of moves from side to side or jumps up and down….but yesterday he had much more rhythm and booty shakin’. Which, by the way, I have no idea where he gets this from because Eric and I DO NOT DANCE. I may do an occasional little jig in front of the kids only (I wouldn’t want to expose anyone else to this frightening display that I call dancing) but nothing like what he was doing. He even had names for each move he did. Let’s see, one was called the “Shose-e-ha”, where he would do a little shuffle to the side with his feet and point/shake his finger all about. Another was the “Hoo-ha-hoo”, and this one consisted of walking like a duck and shaking his butt. I was able to take a few pics through my laughter. Nothing great, but it still gives you an idea of his sweet moves. (This one was taken while he was dancing on the coffee table) Oh, and when Eric got home I had to show him Charlie’s new passion for dancing. This time he spotted his reflection in the glass doors to the fireplace and kept doing these big pointing gestures at himself while dancing. And to top it all off, he had the straightest face while doing all of this like he was really focused on what he was doing…it was priceless.

“Don’t touch the water because it is wet.”