Oct 2, 2009

Friday Foto October 2, 2009


We are a wrestling family. I guess that is inevitable with a bunch of boys. We LOVE wrestling. There is nothing better than spending the whole day at a gym full of stinky boys and whiny kids watching your kid get his face smeared into the mat. Ok, maybe there are a few more interesting things, but this comes in at a pretty close 2nd!

When Caden was 4, he was all set to wrestle a boy up in Virginia. We told him to put on his game face, so he went out there and growled at the boy as he shook his hand. The boy ran away crying and forfeited to Caden! Caden is a tough competitor. He is a scrawny, scrappy little wrestler. Usually both Joe and I are yelling, I mean encouraging, from the sidelines. We get very into it. I am sure that we are embarrassing parents, but they can never say that we don't support them in all that they do!

Oct 1, 2009

No Candy for You!

I forgot all about this, but thank goodness I wrote it down on a scrap of paper and found it today in the bottom of my bag.
A couple of weeks ago we were grocery shopping and we finally got to the checkout. The kids had been so-so. Abigial kept asking to get out of the buggy to look at the candy and I kept telling her no. I was putting all the bagged groceries back into the buggy, and I heard her ask me, "Do you want me to be a happy girl?" I thought to myself, "Oh, she is so sweet, trying to be good." I told her that would be very nice. She then comes back with, "Well then, you better let me get a piece of candy." EXCUSE ME MISSY?!
I thought that kind of manipulativeness didn't come until they were teenagers. No candy for the next 10 years girl!