Where does he get this stuff????

Ok, I love shoes! What women doesn't? So it's really bad when you have 5 boys and only 1 girl....the boys just don't share the same love! Thats ok though because my boys will have an appreciation of good shoes if I have anything to say about it...after all their dad likes shoes so I'm really not doing anything bad..right?? With that said I was in the mall last week and the Vans store was calling my name. Well in my head it was anyway. You see Aiden didnt NEED a new pair of shoes I WANTED him to have really cool Vans. End result....really cool Vans

Well it turns out those really cool Vans were a really bad idea. The only one of our children that is obsessed with the velcro! The second he is hooked into his car seat, off come the shoes and he chucks them at me! REALLY! But that's not the funny part...somewhere along the way he has learned about sock puppets. So once the shoes come off so do his socks. On his hand they go and for the entire ride to child care his sock puppet says "Hi Mommy, Hi Daddy.....Mommy Hi, Daddy Hi" over and over and over again! I guess I can be thankful he isn't screaming!

I love my little man!

8 is enough....no no 6 is good for me!

I love to see the look on peoples faces when I say we have 6 kids....mouth open, then the look. As if looking at my stomach will tell them something spectacular when what they really want to know is "did you give birth to all of them?" Answer....NO and yes I am happy that not all of their cute little heads came from my body. Sorry three was good for me. Anyhow, that's not the story. After years of the same responce I got the best one on Saturday. We went to lunch at he Elephant bar and on this trip only had Aiden with us. As we sat down I could see that we had caught the eye of a woman sitting with her husband and two boys...one of the boys with his new bride you could just tell. The mom had the look of when are you going to give me a grandchild like that one written all over her face!  So without disapointment she anounces I'm waiting for them to give me one of those, pokes her son and say see isnt he cute! In comes my response...."he's the youngest of 6 you can borrow him any time you want! She stops turns around gulps her wine then looks at the now terrfied girl at the table who whispers something to her then she looks back at me and says "his, mine and ours right" Yep you got it lady. She then looks back at her daughter-n-law and said "see I told you nobody looks that good giving birth to 6 kids"..................that my friends is not something I will be challenging.

IKEA kinda day

So today was an IKEA kinda day. Oh the joy of shopping with only one child. I had forgotten what that was like. We loaded up the truck...just the 3 of us. Me and my two favorite men on our way to fight through a large amount of CRAZY people just for a 14 dollar and 99 cent easel!!! What was I thinking?? For those of you that know me well you know I 1. I hate shopping and 2. I hate large crowds of people! Again I ask what was I thinking?

So let me paint the picture for you....IKEA, crazy people, me, Eric and the one person I truly believe was sent here to keep me grounded and sane...my Aiden! That kid kills me. There we are looking at stuff we don't need when I here a women announce "oh he is kissing himself...how cute!" So I look to find my son folded in half like a taco licking his leg like a dog! Yep I said it...LICKING and not just a cute little lick a full on I'm trying to get the last of the ice cream out of the bowl lick. Yes folks we are teaching him to be a dog! If only I could get away with that kinda stuff in public without getting arrested.......Hmmmmmmmm