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The Slushie Debacle of 2010

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Yesterday afternoon the girls and I hit up Sonic Happy Hour for slushies. I downed my Powerade slushie before bedtime, but the girls both had about half of their watermelon slushies left. We stuck them in the fridge last night and I promised them they could finish them today.

At 7:00am this morning I was sleeping soundly in my bed when I heard the thundering of two little feet, running through the house. And I’m not talking about the pitter-patter of little feet. I’m talking about full on sister war. I could hear them screaming, thrashing and throwing elbows as they thundered through the house screaming, “MOMMY!!!”

I sat straight up in bed as they burst through my bedroom door. Aubrey was hysterical. “MOMMA! Emma threw my slushie away!!!” She hiccuped.

Emma was screaming and clutching her slushie in a death grip.

“Get out of my room and go to the kitchen now! If y’all wake Sadie up you are going to be sorry!”

They ran to the other side of the house a little more quietly. I got up and followed them to find them laying in Aubrey’s bed, sharing Emma’s slushie.

“WHAT THE HECK JUST HAPPENED?” I asked.

Aubrey: Well Emma threw my slushie out.
Me: Emma what did you do?
Emma: I frew Sissy’s swushie out da door…
Me: You threw it outside? WHY?
Emma shrugged. -I dunno. But we ahre shawing mine now Mommy. Here Aubrey…
Emma shoved her straw in Aubrey’s mouth and she slurped happily.

REALLY? I don’t like to speak or be spoken to before 10am. If they were going to work this out on their own did they have to wake me up? And what the heck Emma?? She actually went outside and dumped Aubrey’s slushie out before 7am.

FOR. THE. LOVE.

They just don’t know how lucky they are that their Daddy had already made coffee before he left for work!

How’d your kids wake you up this morning?

Emma’s 12 Course Meal

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Last Friday I had to have a liver biopsy. My friends arranged to take care of all three of my kids with some creativity and kid shuffling, so that I wouldn’t have to pay a babysitter. (Because they are awesome.) The plan was for Sadie and Emma to go to a Mother’s Morning Out program (whole ‘nother post about how mom’s NEVER do anything fun while our kids are there,) so in preparation I prepared lunches for both of them.

I had recently gotten Aubrey and Emma new Hello Kitty! lunch boxes for the new school year and Emma had been begging me to pack her a lunch so she could go some where with her awesome lunch box and new thermos. I used this opportunity, and packed both of their lunches into one GINORMOUS lunch box: TWO sandwiches (turkey and cheese, cut into triangles and crustless,) TWO bags of Doritos, a package of chocolate pudding for Emma and applesauce for Sadie and TWO spoons. Emma’s thermos was in the lunchbox and I sent a sippy cup and a bottle of milk for Sadie. (She has to suck a bottle until she starts kindergarten or I will be forced to have another baby, which my husband says is not an option.)

I knew Emma would be psyched about going to “school” if she had her lunchbox and I was trying to keep her from being upset about being away from me and not being with Aubrey for the day. Aubrey was headed for a play date with one of her friends.

I got in the bed as soon as we got home from the doctor’s appointment and Hubs picked up the kids and fed them dinner. It was bedtime before I got to ask Emma how she liked eating her lunch out of her lunchbox.

Me: Emma, what did you eat for lunch today?
Emma: TWO sandwiches, TWO bags of chips, pudding and applesauce!
Me: You only ate one sandwich though, right? (I was confizzled.)
Emma: No. Dere were TWO sandwiches, TWO bag of chips, pudding and applesauce.
Me: But, honey, that was for Sadie too!
Emma shrugged.-Welllll, her was in the highchair…
Me: What did she eat?
Emma: Uhhh, a popsicle. Some gummy snacks.

I collapsed on Emma’s bed. This meant those nursery workers assumed I packed a 12-course meal for one of my kids and NOTHING for the other one? They fed my baby GUMMY snacks for lunch while my 30lb 4-year-old consumed her caloric intake for the day in one meal.

It didn’t cross my mind to write a note explaining I had included food for both of my kids…what’s that they say about common sense?

Momma’s Medical Mystery: The Saga Continues

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My gallbladder is gone and I feel WAY better than I did before, but it turns out my liver enzymes are still elevated SO, the Hubs and I are driving to Jackson tomorrow to have a liver biopsy. I am not thrilled about this, seeing as how I now have so many holes in my stomach I look like a human colander. But turns out your liver is kind of crucial to existence so we have to find out what’s wrong. Prayers appreciated!