STORIES

I know I did a post just a few days ago, but I had to do another one, because I have some funny stories of my kids.
First off, on Monday night, Jon didn't have school because he had to take his test, which he took earlier that day. So, I decided to have Family Home Evening since we never do. The new Library near our house does family fun night on a Monday night every once in a while, so I thought that would be a great activity for our kids. Well, we got there and Abbie started running around and screaming and Kaylee started throwing a fit because she didn't want to do activities, she wanted to play on the kids computers. Then Abbie decided she didn't want to do the activity, and she wanted to look at books. We told them no, that we were doing the activities and they both started crying and screaming. I finally just told them we were leaving and we walked out. They screamed and cried the whole drive home. I was just thinking that was not how I pictured family home evening, but oh well.



My next story is: On Wednesdays, Jon has a Physics lab at 2:30 until 5:30, then he has class from 7:00 to 8:50. I had to take a test on Wednesday, and I didn't know how to work it out with my kids. So I asked Jon if I brought him Pizza at 5:30 if he would watch the kids while I took my test. He agreed, it was food after all. So I got there, handed over the food and the kids, and went to take my test. My test took longer than expected and I didn't finish until 6:55, and I was across campus. So I was booking it up campus to get to Jons building so I could pick up the kids so he could make it to class. As I got to the building he was standing outside with the girls and talking to his friend Dave. As soon as he saw me he went straight to class and I stood there talking to Dave for a minute. Abbie's new favorite thing at Weber State is that she has figured out how to operate the Handicap doors by pushing the button. So as I was talking to Dave, she would push the button and run in the door, then push it and run back out. She was doing this back and forth while I was talking. Well then, it was time to leave, and she realized I was going to make her go home, she ran back in, and I thought she was going to come back out. Instead, she took off down the hall. I had my hands full with their coats, the extra pizza, and a grocery bag. So I am running down the hall trying to catch her and she runs into a classroom. I noticed it was a full classroom and was dying. So I walk in to get her, and she is standing in the back corner with her nose against the wall. I heard one kid say, "she must know she is in trouble, so she is putting herself in timeout." I grabbed her, and turned around and everyone was turned around just staring at me. As I went to walk out, I looked up and Jon was standing there. I was like, "is this your class?" It was. Luckily the teacher wasn't there yet. I asked Jon if Abbie knew that was his classroom, and he said no. I was just glad she chose his. So then, he walked out to the car with me and helped me get the girls into the car.



The other day we were driving home. I was talking to Abbie as we were driving. As a reminder, Abbie is not quite 2 and a half yet. Anyway, I was talking to her and somehow she mentioned Mitchell. So I said to her, "Do you like Mitchell?" and she said, "no." and I said, "Is Mitchell your friend?" and she said, "no, Mitchell is my cousin." I just started laughing, I didn't realize she understood that. So, I asked her the same questions about Faye, and Mason, and Addisyn, which are all her cousins, and she gave the exact same responses. Only, she said she did like Addisyn.



Today I had to go run errands, and I was at Walmart, and we were walking out of the store. As you all know, Walmart has their Pumpkins outside their doors. So as we were going to the car Kaylee said, "Mom, look at all those Pumpkins." And I was just like ya that's cool. And then she said, "I wish we could get a Pumpkin, but they cost three bucks, and that's just too expensive." I was thinking how did she know they were three bucks, and I turned around and they had a sign that said $3. I thought it was funny. There was a lady in front of us that turned around and started laughing.


My kids sure make life entertaining. Even if it gets hard, they are a lot of fun!