Eat it or wear it

Looks like he chose "eat it".

Necklaces from Grace's Pretty Princess game.  Not quite sure the point of stuffing four necklaces in his mouth, must have been bored that day.

LET'S CELEBRATE

Yipee!!

Can I get an amen??  School starts today!!  Shhhh, don't let the kids know I'm excited.

Thomas is in town

Thomas and his friends showed up around Christmas time.  They have been quite entertaining for the kids this week.

He keeps asking me to "chug the engines" with him.  That's what he does the entire time.  He sits and says it over and over.

Just thought I'd share the pictures so you all could see that your contributions to the collection have made one little Shupe boy VERY HAPPY.  Thank you again.

He's even been nice enough to let sister play with trains too.  I guess it's more fun when someone else can help with so many engines to run. 

Even John and Emily got in on the action at times.  They set up John's big train set in the basement.  We have rail yards all over this house. 

Just call me Mrs. Topham Hat!!

That reminds me....when we were at the zoo one day this fall, I asked a little boy playing with Grant what his name was.  I didn't understand his answer so I asked his mom what he had said.  The reply?.....Mr. Conductor.  She said he was NUTS over Thomas stuff.  The little boy was two years old.  Too cute!!

Mom's Midnight Musings with Mountain Dew

Otherwise titled - Up  All Night

MIA for four days.  We've been living large at the farm.  Rang in the new year there.  Fun times.  Fun.

Anyway, .....lots to record, lots of Mountain Dew tonight.....this may get long.

No pictures from the farm because I left my camera at home...sigh!  Anyway, we did not do much, just hung around and ate and slept and ate some more.  We did play some wickedly competitive card games at night after the two little ones went to bed.  We played Skipbo, Swap, Spoons and the newest favorite is Pictionary Jr.  That one got a little bit lot loud and competitive as the night went on.  Some people in our family are serious cheaters, but the names have been withheld.  We stick up for family you know, even the cheaters.

And, Grace has a new pet...two in fact.  While at the farm we adopted two new pets. (reminder here, no pictures due to the whole forgot the camera thing)  She found two lady bugs and played with them all weekend, or at least until they "fell asleep".  (They're still sleeping.) Grace named the ladybugs.  The first one she named SunshinePolkadot. (Have I mentioned that naming things is not our strongest talent?)  AND she named the second one......SunshinePolkadot.  (Big weakness with the naming thing!!)

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 GRANTISMS

Hey, wanna hear some funny stuff????

(While playing with Playdoh with sister)....."Oh, this is my dream!!!  It's coming true!!!"

(about anything getting less than favorable reviews from him) ........... "I DON'T LOVE THAT!"

(in answer to his Dad's question of when Santa would bring him another present)........."in twenty years."

(to his sister who had just gotten in trouble with Dad)......... "Now CRY!  Cry HARD!!"

(much to his father's dismay)......"I LOVE Barbie.  I love playing with Barbie!"

(after giving Grace a tongue lashing) ............"Mom, do we say that stuff?"

(pausing by the office while running circles through the house on his horse)....."Mom, is my leg broken?"

HA HA HA!!!

Hey wait!  That wasn't funny!!

 

Stop laughing before I use my gun on you!!

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 Just Kidding!!!

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Look for the ball David threw at me in this picture!!  He missed me....lucky for HIM.

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Six sensationally special successors of Shupe stock

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 Grant just rolled out of bed onto the floor.  I went to check because he eventually started crying.  I found him curled up in the rocking chair in his room confused and cold.  Not one to pass up a good snuggle, I sat with him and rocked for a while.  Nothing in the world is sweeter than the weight of a sleepy child with arms slung around your neck rocking in the dark of their room. 

Now don't get me wrong, by the third,fourth or fiftieth trip in there in any given night, I absolutely turn into Cruella DeVille.  Once in a while though, it's a gift that I'll take and treasure.

Rocking took up any more blog time.  Off to work more tonight.  I figure the Mountain Dew is good for at least another hour or two of work before I crash.....as the quote goes,

"this blog is lovely, fun and neat

but I have piles of laundry heaped

piles that need the iron's heat

ten piles to go before I sleep"

........you know, or something like that!!

Good night!!  Still not posted any Christmas pictures yet, I know.