September fb updates

9/7
Last night Tristen and Charly performed in their first play. ALL the kids were adorable and did a great job!
Thank you Emily Roeth, Krista DeLespinasse and Janet Clawson Shumway - you guys are incredibly talented and made this special for the kids. Thanks again!

9/11 @ 10:45 pm 
Me: will you tell me a story? 
Simon: Princess or Super Hero? 
Me: Princess, please. 
Simon: Ugh. Fine. Once upon a time, there was a pretty pretty princess who wanted to marry a prince. But the bad guy didn't like the prince, so he camed into the castle and shot the prince in the heart with a bow and arrow. The prince didn't die, but he turned into a half-dog, half-rat. And the princess grew wings and flew on the rat-dog. And she sucked out the venom and he turned back into the prince. And the bad guy was mad and wanted to kill the princess. But the prince ate special green pills that made him fart missiles. And he farted all over the bad guy and he blowed up. And then the prince and princess started dancing. And then they got married.
Me: Most romantic story ever.

9/16
Just before bed---
Simon: mom, I might need to go to a new family real soon.
Me: why? Don't you like our family?
Simon: yeah, but there are a lot of families without a Dad.
Me: why don't you want to have a Dad?
Simon: cause I'll need to BE the Dad. 
Me: oh. I think you'll be a great dad. 
Simon: yep. I will. I will take all my kids to really fun places like the duck pond and cafe rio. 
Me: do you know how to get to those places?
Simon: um no. But you can come with us and point, "that way! that way!" then i will drive that way. But I will never take them if the house is messy. I will come home and say "clean up so we can go places!"
Me: that's a good idea.
Simon: and I'm gonna move them to a really cool house. We're going to live at Chuck E Cheese.
Me: wow.
Simon: yep. I'm gonna drive my kids to chuck E cheese and if there's people there, I'm gonna scream "Hey! Get out of our house! We live here!" and then I'm gonna bring millions of quarters. And bring in bananas there too. For a snack.

9/29
Things I'll probably forget if I don't write them down--- 
*Simon said his primary teachers told him that "if you stab pigeons to death, Jesus won't let you into heaven."
*Roma won't ever let me wash her dirty face. She screams bloody murder. However, if I pretend I'm a puppy (by barking and sticking out my tongue) she will lay down and allow the wipe/rag to "lick" her face for as long as needed. 
*Ben attended his first youth dance and had no problem asking four girls to slow dance.
*Luke made an origami paper camera. He "snaps" a picture and then shows you a digital print of what he took (which is a real magazine clipping scotch-taped to the back of the camera.) Today I was Katie Couric with a milk-mustache. Ben was a baby with a beard. Simon was the red M&M.
*Zack clicks his tongue everywhere he goes... It's so annoying. He'll eat a bite of dinner, click several times and then take another bite. I told him he can no longer speak to me of he clicks in between his words. I have no patience for this.
*Aaron will be on crutches for another two weeks. Life without a handicap parking sticker will never be the same.
*I can feel the baby moving and kicking all day long. Pregnancy is exhausting but it's amazingly beautiful too.