Sunday Funny

I have been a very bad blogger lately! I just haven't had time to sit down and write. I'm going to try to get better - if I don't write down what we do or the funny things the kids do/say I'll never remember them in 10 years. Heck, let's be honest - 10 minutes is about as long as my memory lasts these days! Anyway, not too much going on...big kids are tracked out of school. Two more weeks until they go back. Paul's been traveling a TON for work. So basically my days involve saying things like this about 500 times: "keep your hands to yourself" "use your inside voice" "why are you shouting" "are you tattling?" "don't stand on the train table" "did you wash your hands" "it's not my so no I don't know where it is" "don't touch anyone for the rest of the day" While trying not to lose it before bedtime. Solo parenting is not for the weak. Lemme tell you.

Julia's been really cracking me up lately. Her new thing is to call Paul "old man" and "old dude." It cracks me up every single she says it. It all started the other night when we were waiting to pick up a pizza. So what happened was (I totally love ANY story that begins with those words) We had been out with the kids and asked them what they wanted for dinner. Lily suggested pizza and surprisingly everyone agreed. We happened to be right by a Dominos so we stopped by to see if they had any pizza ready. They didn't and the kids were starving but we decided to order one since they said only 8 minutes until it would be ready. So Paul goes in to order and comes back to sit in the van with us while waiting. The kids were somewhat quiet and watching a movie. All of sudden my 3 year old shouts from the back "get me some pizza you old man." Cracked me up. Like to the point of tears rolling down my face cracked me up. You have to sort of know my 3 year old to totally appreciate how funny it was but oh my goodness it was funny. Paul laughed too. A lot. Apparently she loved that we laughed so hard because she has not stopped calling him "you old man" and has also added "you old dude" to the mix. This afternoon we were Skyping with him and she said "what are you doing you old dude." I laughed again. Which made her laugh and Paul laugh. So funny that little girl..so funny.