It's only wrong to shake a baby, right. Not a 4 yr old?

Oh that Harley. She is going to be the one that causes my hair to turn gray. Or fall out. Or both.

I got home from work yesterday a little later than usual. I got dinner in the oven, told the girls to go pick up their Polly Pockets, and started cleaning the living room. Adrienne was fussing so I decided to sit down for a minute and watch Ellen (I DVR her show...).

I see a police car pull up in front of our house. I assumed they were going to our neighbors house as usual (long story). Instead, the officer walks across our yard and up to our front door. I answered and he said that he was responding to a 911 call from this address. I asked him if he was sure, was it #3918? He said yes. I was a little confused. I said it must be a mistake. He asked if I was okay, he said I seemed a little nervous. I explained that I was just fine but was wondering if one of my other 2 young girls called.

I called Vanessa and Harley down. I asked them if one of the called. Originally they both denied calling. Finally Harley fessed up. The officer talked to her (very nicely). He asked her if she knew when to call 911, she gave him the right answer. He asked why she called. She didn't know. He told her that if you call and nothing is wrong it will keep him from helping others. He told her never to lie to her mom.

She was a little scared.

Good.

Boy, you just never know what to expect at my house!

TODAY I AM..........

ELLEN DEGENERES!!!!

RANDOM THINGS

* We got Harley's school pictures back. I saw the 8x10 picture first. It looked great. She took a good picture. Then I looked at the others. There is a section of her hair on top that looks like a tornado has formed! Only Harley...

* We went to my good friend Lisa's house on Saturday for a Tupperware party. She has 2 boys. Trevor is almost 10 and Travis is 5. They don't get to see each other often. As we all know, kids are not always good with names. Or even gender. Travis was going to offer candy to Vanessa and Harley. Lisa told him he had to ask me first. Travis comes over and asks, "Um, can your thinga-ma-jiggs have some chocolate?" Thinga-ma-jiggs. How hilarious is THAT! So I told him my thinga-ma-jiggs could have some chocolate.

* Our neighbors foster children. When we got home from church yesterday they were also getting home from church. They had 2 new boys with them. We went inside and did the usual change, get lunch, etc. The girls noticed that the boys would run into our backyard at times. I told the girls it was fine and not to worry about it. Harley came and told me they were playing with a ball and they had gloves "or something" on their hands. I explained they were playing catch and it was okay. They were also hitting the ball. I found that out when the ball hit the side of the house and scared me half to death. Luckily they missed the wall of windows in the back! I wasn't very happy about the ball hitting the house. I was feeling a little tired and cranky yesterday. Unbeknownst to me the girls were in the playroom (it is at the back of the house and has windows facing our backyard) under the curtains and were talking to the boys. They even told the boys I was getting mad at them! Ugh.... The boys apologized over and over. I feel like a heel though!

BAD MAMA

Yesterday when I got home from work I was on a mission. I had to get the blender I bought and return it. Harley wanted to go with me so I said 'ok' and we ran out the door.

Next to the long line at the Service desk at Kmart was a woman selling picture packages for Olan Mills. She started talking to Harley. Harley told her all about dancing, her baby sister at home, her big sister Vanessa who had to come home from school because she had a fever but feels okay now. You know how 4 yr olds can go on and on and on.

We get up to the desk finally. I just happened to look down at Harley and her face is DIRTY. Apparently she had been eating ravioli shortly before I came home.

I was so embarrassed!

BRAGGING

Adrienne is only 8 months old and knows how to work the See-N-Say!

Pumpkin Show 2008

Another Pumpkin Show has come to an end. I absolutely love Pumpkin Show. My feet are liking it less and less each year though.

This year's biggest pumpkin was 1375.5 lbs. This is the girls in front of the 2 biggest.

Upon seeing me take a picture of Vanessa and Harley, Adrienne looked up at me as if to say "hey, why aren't you taking MY picture?" So here she is...

Here is Vanessa, Harley and Adrienne watching a drum corp concert.
Here is Tony with Adrienne and Olivia. Olivia is 2 months younger than Mo. She is the daughter of our oldest niece.
Here is a view from the big ferris wheel. I don't think the 3 of us (Vanessa, Harley and me) will be able to ride in the same carriage next year.

Here are Vanessa and Harley on the kiddie ferris wheel. Just before this picture some little boy snatched Harley's tickets. My brother grabbed him and got them back.

This year was hard because the girls are getting too big for the kiddie rides but are not yet big enough for the big rides. They want to ride them but I would have to ride with them. We have rode the big Viking Boat. They wanted to ride the Round Up. I never liked that ride so I'm dodging it. They wanted to ride what I call the 'Star'. It has enclosed cages, it goes around and around and you control whether it goes upside-down or not. Or at least that's what is supposed to happen. It was my favorite ride when I was growing up. Since the girls were tall enough I decided I would take them, one at a time, on the ride. I wasn't going to go upside down with them, I figured it would be too much. Vanessa was first to go with me. I wanted the bar to be as far down as possible for her safety. It was against my leg and stomach but not so tight I couldn't move. The ride starts off. She's okay with it. I was able to keep it from going upside down. It was a completely different story once they got all of the people on and it started going around fast. It went upside down, Vanessa freaked out, which made me freak out. It's a lot harder to control than you think. When I was a kid, I wanted to it go upside. My friend Kathy and I used to hold the lever so we be upside down on top and right-side up on the bottom of the ride. That didn't work with Vanessa. I yelled at the operator to stop. I yelled 4 times around. He got mad, stopped the ride and made everyone get off. What a nice guy! Vanessa has now sworn off the Star ride and most other big rides. I didn't take Harley on the ride. I was in a lot of pain. See, the bar was apparently TOO close to my legs and belly. I now have ENORMOUS, purple and black, bruises on my upper legs and across my belly. It looks like I was in a bad car accident. I have never had bruises hurt so much. I can barely have material touch my legs. To wrap things up, Mama ain't riding no more rides!

Only 367 days til the next Pumpkin Show!!

HARLEY'S SONG

The girls were making up songs last night. A lot of them made no sense at all. Some were cute. One in particular was very concerning. I give you 3 lines from one of Harley's songs:

"If you love ho's,

If you love 'em ho's...

If you love me ho's..."

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Naturally I asked her to repeat it. Several times. Finally she said, "hose, you know what we fill our pool with?"

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whew.

SPREAD 'EM!!!!!