stupid girls and mean guys

I have been empowered by the Power of Moms weekend and you wouldn't believe what I've gotten accomplished in the last 48 hours.  More about the projects I've started later.

I had good reason to be grumpy tonight.  My baby is teething.  My husband was gone for 14 hours today... but I was just so productive that I felt happy despite everything.  The littlest three went to sleep easily and I stayed up reading Catching Fire to Luke and Ben until Aaron got home.  They missed our lunch date with Daddy today and wanted to see him, even though it was waaay past their bedtime.

Aaron and I stayed up talking about the funny things the kids said and did.  He told me about work and I talked to him about how I want to organize our house and our schedules.  Then we watched a video on his phone and we laughed and laughed and laughed.  I was there when he recorded it (after family home evening last night) but watching it in past-tense made me so happy...because we bottled up an every day thing that will now be a treasure we can now keep for always.  You probably won't love it like we do, but I will share it anyway.  Ignore Simon crying and pay close attention to Ben's awesome pelvic thrust.  We have no idea where this dance move came from, but he's totally innocent and it's especially entertaining when put with this particular song.  Oh man, these five kids are the coolest ever.

Because we knew it was going to be a day without Daddy, the three little piggies and I met Aaron for lunch. When Simon couldn't drink the shake from the straw, he used other measures to get it to his mouth.

 brain freeze.

After Simon attempted to clean his face, he pointed to a man sitting a few inches from our table and said really loudly, "That's a mean guy!"  We tried to pretend like we didn't hear him, which was a mistake because then he continued to point and say it over and over.  I decided to take a picture of Zack and the "mean guy" who was really just a dirty construction worker with a goatee..  Zack is such a cute big brother...

This little 2 year old had us at Hello.

My facebook posts today:

A woman at the store told Simon he was a cutie. Zack quickly responded, "Not really cause he makes a bunch of messes at home."

Zack: "I got the perfect bowl to throw up in. See, Mom? It matches my shirt and my socks."