random tales from the herd. (what do you call your children as a group?)

(background story) with the recent rain a bunch of the stuff we moved here but didn't have a place for got rained on to the point of ruin. my boxes of letters and papers i had stored and movedfor the last 10 years, got either wet and became garbage or salvaged. some of the salvaged stuff was found by the kids. today they brought me cards from our first Valentines day together as a couple. they can read. and felt free to do so.
ONE card said ....

I love your angelic smile, your sensuous lips, your sparkling eyes...
your willingness to have sex at the drop of a hat.

and I quote"OHHHHHH,it said sex! " they were all giddy and in my face about it this morning. I am officially rad for the day. the card was from me to Lance. yeah i am going to have to look harder at what they found and make sure there isn't anything else to surprise me with.
and no we have not had "the talk " with any of the kids.

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Monday night we were going to family night at my brothers house. some snowbird was driving incredibly slow in front of us and Lance was doing something to freak me out. and i at some point called the other driver a L.A. instead of just say LAME A$$! LA is my latest favorite phrase, almost as satisfying as saying the real thing but not quite saying it all the way. SO, Peyton pipes up in the back saying "L.A.? you mean lame..... butt?" he isn't allowed to say a$$. Lance laughed and told him he had figured it out. I am a rad example to my kids. i thought L.A. wasn't so obvious but he does know what LMAO means too. so i guess my code wasn't all that sly.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Tuesday before school i was bathing Hope, really fast, i wasn't bathing Pierce, he was still in bed. at some point while she was in the tub, Pierce woke up, and wandered into the bathroom. she is resisting getting out, I've got the towel ready, Lance came to the stairs and said something to me so I'm talking to him at the door, and waiting for Hope to stand up so i can get her out. and in 1/2 a second of Lance's conversation i turn back to find this.....
in the Tub fully dressed.
check out the huge scab on his nose and the green crusty. looking good buddy.

and the red plastic thing in the tub? yeah it's a replacement part to cover the spring on the hobby horse. they think it's a rad bath toy.

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this morning, i laid out all the kids clothes for them to get dressed, so i can hang out in bed a couple minutes longer. Peyton had a plaid button up shirt to go with the pants , olive chinos (that is what i found before i went to bed at 2am i was going with it) from my bed i could hear the following interaction between Joy, and Peyton. Joy saw Peyton's outfit, and apparently thought it looked dressy , she said "is it Sunday? Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday ... why are you wearing that? it isn't Sunday?" Peyton is normally pretty casual for school, jeans, and t shirts, he had issues in the past with wearing no button ups to school, and no polo's . today he was fine whoohoo! but it confused Joy, obviously. and Paxton was peeved he didn't get to wear that shirt , he'd rather wear button up than the long sleeved one i laid out for him.

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Hope made an executive decision and wore underwear to preschool. she isn't potty trained all the way. and still craps in her panties regularly. so i normally have her wear a pull up or a diaper. she wanted to wear them. and they said she could at the beginning of the year, so hopefully she does OK. i called to alert them to the change in SOP (standard operating procedure) today. and sent some bonus jeans and a pull up. Just in case.


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i just remembered this one... the other day i stopped at a friends house for a minute, chatted , and when i got back in the car and was driving away i heard a slurping sound coming from Pierce in the back seat, i turn to look, and discovered he was sucking on his upper lip, slurping the snot that had collected there. EWWWWWWWWWWW! i had to pull over IMMEDIATELY to wipe his nose! so gross.

!~~~~~~~~~ in other news.

I love the fact you can all hack the potty talk. and i'll try to refrain from the F-bomb.

oh and Peyton knows what teh F-word means too. Lance explained it to him. we're excellent parents. he said it is a crude term for sex. and he already knows shit is another word for crap, and ass is the crude version of butt. he also knows he's not allowed to say them but oh yeah, the middle finger has also been defined for the kid. AND he knows about what Gay means, and which family member is gay. seriously can't we shelter the kid a little bit? he is 9. well all the bad words he has heard from me but why define them? i had the rule you can't say it if you don't know what it means . well now he knows! thanks for that honey. but the # 1 rule for the kids in our house is still..... "you can say anything I say but not anything mom says" ! that is Lance's #1 rule. fabulous!


and i need to know........

is it odd that my kids have only worn black for over a week? black and jeans, black and red, black and khaki, (the black clothes are all clean hanging in the laundry room.) so that is what has been chosen , and worn all week when i have laid out the clothes. it is odd i have them wear black clothes? i kind of stock pile them, and I've discovered they don't stain, and they don't fade if i don't dry them in the drier, so i hang all of them out. AND i bought shirts and sweaters for my herd, for Christmas, and the color? black all around. odd?

what descriptive word do you call your kids?

posse?
herd? (probably my #1 used word) " I have a herd of small children."
troupe?
chilluns?
pack? (as in "pack of wild hoodlums")