Jared's Growing Up Way Too Fast

Jared was being too quiet, so I sent Sami to check on him. She found him on the love seat in the play room watching iCarly. She asked him if he liked iCarly and he responded, "hot." He is way too young to get girl crazy.

Devyn's Birthday Continued

I am not so good about having a cake with candles to blow out. Our family tradition is more along the lines of breakfast in bed with candles in your breakfast, while you family sings a horrible rendition of happy birthday. Devyn was lucky enough to get donuts in bed.

Happy Birthday to Sam & Devyn

This was the first year that we looked at Sam's birthday list and said "Holy Cow!" We are certainly getting closer to the teenage years. Here is her list:

1. Cell phone ($10 per month, plus cost of phone = $170 for the first year)
2. Nintendo DSI, so she can text message, have internet access take pictures and play video games (cost $180)
3. Clothes from Abercrombie or Hollister
4. I can't remember the official name, but basically it is a minature movie player ($100 plus each video $20)

Her dream was that she would sit in her newly decorated room and talk on her cell phone while she was wearing her new clothes from Abercrombie and play her DSI while she was watching a movie. Yeah, it so did not happen. We were able to down grade a little, but she was still happy.

Devyn was much easier. He just wanted Mario Cart Wii. Lucky for him, Chris was going to be gone for his actual birthday so he was able to open some of his presents early. I don't think that Chris could have waited another week for Devyn to open his BB Gun. I am not sure who was more excited about it Chris or Devyn.

As you can see Devyn was really happy.

Justin wasn't quite so happy. He thinks that he needs to be the coolest person ever with the coolest stuff ever. It isn't very fair that Devyn has a cool game and a cool gun. Even though Devyn shares, Justin thinks all things cool should be his.

Tanner

Tanner is such a ham and he loves to jump on the trampoline. He is pretty proud of his moves.

Lauren

I am in love with my niece Lauren. She has made several trips up here lately while her parents have been looking at houses. I am surrounded by boys, so it has been really fun having more girls around. Lauren loves getting her toe nails painted. She also loves getting make up on, fake earring stickers, bubbles and the slip and slide. We have had a lot of fun playing with her and teaching her new things. She is really sweet and I can't wait until she is back from vacation so I can spend more time with her.

Tanner's Jokes #5

Tanner thought it would be really great to add water to my hair spray because then there is more of it. My hair has a tendency to become very curly or frizzy when it gets wet. My freshly straightened hair didn't look so great after I sprayed water all over it instead of hair spray.

A Few Things My Kids Still Need to Learn

Apparently Devyn is still struggling with genetics. Back when I was pregnant with Jared, we saw a tv show where this white lady delivered twin African American babies. We also had cute little African American twins that lived across the street. Devyn was obsessed that I also was going to deliver two black babies also. I kept trying to convince him that wasn't a possibility. But he was obsessed, he kept saying, "well what if it happens." I finally had to tell him that it isn't going to happen, but if it does, then mommy would be in a lot of trouble. He finally dropped it when Jared was born and looked just like him. I thought he learned but I guess not.

Devyn's birthday was yesterday and he thought that he was part Mexican because his birthday is on Cinco de Mayo. I tried my best to convince him that he isn't and kids take after their parents, but he doesn't believe me. For him it is all about the birthday. I wonder what June 6th makes me, part summer?

Tanner told me yesterday that "there are two no fairs" that happened to him that day. Apparently he is keeping track of the "no fair" things that are happening to him. I guess I haven't done a very good job teaching him that life isn't fair and if only two "no fair" things happen, he should feel lucky.