Friday, November 10th

I am convinced that when you have a cold aliens come down, remove your brain and replace it with snot. How else could that amount of mucus come out of your head? Where does it come from? How can it possibly fit? It seems that no amount of blowing my nose improves the situation. The good news is that I feel pretty good, I just sound like a man....wait, is that really good news?

We had a lovely day of Jaden and Rachel trying to learn how to share with one another. Toddler toys that Jaden hasn't touched in a year now seem to be the best toys on the planet since Rachel wants to play with them. And since she doesn't play exactly how he wants her to it's turns into World War III. I'm sure my mom never went through this because Jeremy and I were absolute perfect angels all of the time. All of this behavior must come from the Rivers' side of the family, I'm sure of it. (smile, smile, wink, wink)

Gretchen is still working herself out of her cold and shots. She's funny...she'll be her perfectly normal happy self for an hour and then for no reason screams at the top of her lungs. It just must be one of those days. Bob brought me chocolate when he came home and that can fix any day.

Ok, now for the fun part of our day. Curt and Vicki were gracious enough to come and watch the kids so we could go and help some friends move. I know you might not think that moving and unpacking someone might be fun, but it was great. We moved boxes, unpacked and pulled off wallpaper while the guys painted. Their house is gorgeous and I can't wait to see what it looks like after the whole thing is repainted, the new carpet is in and all of their new furniture is delivered. We are going to try to figure out how to get over there and help again. We may have to lock all of our kids in a room with a movie. Not too much can happen with seven kids locked in a room, right?

Ok, it may seem like my day was horrible with crabby kids all day, but that is not the case. Any day at home with them is better than not being at home. Amidst the crying and tears we all laughed really hard. The kids love to play chase and they all have the best giggle, Gretchen included. She laughed at Jaden dancing for the longest time and there's not much better than a baby laugh.

One of the reasons I wanted to do this blog is to chronicle all of the funny things that Jaden says, and there are many. Of course he hasn't given me any new material in the last couple of days, so I'll give you an old one...We're sitting at the lunch table and out of the blue Jaden says, "I don't want my bones anymore." I said, "What do you mean you don't want your bones?" "I just don't want them." "Well, without your bones you wouldn't be able to eat your sandwich or sit on your chair." He just looks at me. "Without your bones you'd be just a big pile of goo." "What's goo?" "Well, goo is like a big pile of pudding. Do you want to be a big pile of pudding?" "Well, no. But I don't think I need my bones anymore." End of conversation. Where does he come up with this stuff?