Maybe you’ve had too many....

February 17, 2008 - Sunday

Maybe you’ve had too many.... Category: Life Last night, we got out the new (to us) ping pong table and got it set up for the first time. Ethan played a bit with Joe, and absolutely loves it. He's not bad, either. Just a little short for the table! So, after dinner, I finally had a chance to play. If you ever want to laugh until your sides hurt, come and watch me play ping-pong. I LOVE it!! It's so much fun. I, however, am spectacularly HORRIBLE at it! I'm so bad I make myself laugh at me! Really, I laughed until my stomach hurt last night! Somehow, if the ball goes to my right AT ALL, there is this blindspot in my brain. I swear, there is just a hole of nothingness, and if I have to reach over there with the paddle to try and hit the ball, I am always confused. I can't tell where I need the paddle to be, I can't tell where the ball is going to be, I can't swing the paddle and try to hit the ball, I end up (EVERY darn TIME!!!) just blindly reaching out to a spot that is not even close, holding the paddle in that spot, cringing, and waiting for the ball to COME and hit the paddle. It's really funny to watch, I'm sure, because I really can't do more than that. If the balls comes in front of me, or to the left, I'm fine, and I can usually hit it (sometimes wildly into the ceiling, the light, or some other crazy spot), but at least I can usually hit it. So, it goes like this: Ping-pong-ping-pong-ping- CRINGE and let the ball go by. WHAT is up with that? Well, Ethan, the expert advice giver, was watching Joe try to teach me how to play, and just couldn't quit talking. Mom, do this. Mom, you have to do that. Meanwhile, Joe is explaining all the 17 different rules in scoring the game, and keeps telling me that you play it like tennis. I'VE NEVER PLAYED TENNIS! Really, honey, when in the last 12 years have you ever seen me play or watch tennis? Seriously, he did a really good job explaining it to me, and being patient with having to start a new serve every 2.4 seconds, but it was REALLY hard to concentrate with Ethan yabbering away on the sidelines too. Eventually, after about a half dozen times of me just cringing and letting the ball go by to the right, I was explaining the "black hole" to Joe and laughing at myself. Ethan offered up this priceless explanation: Ethan: Mommy I think you've had too many drinks! Joe: Did you hear that? He said you've had too much to drink! (We're both laughing because I really am playing as bad as if I'd had too much to drink!) Me: Yeah, I've had too many sweet teas! LOL That's not what he said though.Say it again, Ethan. Ethan: I said Mommy you've had too many DREAMS!! That's why you can't play so well! So I guess that's the kid version of you've had too much to drink?? Priceless!!

OLD MYspace comment:

How fun!! My husband is like a regular Forest Gump at Ping Pong! When he tried to teach me, he said the SAME THING about tennis. When in my life have I EVER played tennis???
I did crack up at the "black hole" in the brain. I have that too!

Posted by Christina on February 21, 2008 - Thursday at 10:51 AM

Do you ever wonder...

February 13, 2008 - Wednesday

Do you ever wonder... Category: Life Do you ever wonder about things just as you're ready to fall asleep at night? These are the strange questions Ethan wanted answered as we were falling asleep last night: "Mom, do flies bite people?" "What about ladybugs? Do ladybugs bite people?" "Why are there stinger bugs (wasps, etc) in Texas?" "Mom, what are dogs afraid of?"

That’s the bestest...

February 12, 2008 - Tuesday

That’s the bestest... Category: Life We were reading bedtime stories last night, and Ethan chose An Underwater Alphabet. We get to the F page..... "F is for Four Eyed Butterfly Fish" and Ethan cracks up! "Mommy!! That's the bestest fish I never hear-ed of!!" Needless to say I cracked up over that! I was laughing so much that he put his hand over my mouth and said, "mommy, don't laugh so much!!" I always kiss him and tell him thank you for making me laugh, which makes him smile. Before that when I was giving the boys their baths, Ethan was talking about how he could do something or other that Nick couldn't do. "I can do that because I'm 5-er than Nick. You know, like I'm long-ER than Nick, that means I'm more long than him. I'm 5-er than him too!" Can't fault his logic on that one. He IS more 5 (older) than Nick. Not his fault English doesn't always follow the rules!

OLD Myspace comment:

If he only knew how many other people "laugh so much!" :)

Posted by Christina on February 21, 2008 - Thursday at 10:53 AM

You’re taking a movie.....of what?

February 8, 2008 - Friday

You’re taking a movie.....of what?

Ethan may not like jumping in the leaves with the dog, but they do enjoy this together:

(Trying to eat the water coming out of the sprinkler)



Yes, it was almost 80 again today!


Oh, and at bedtime/storytime Ethan pointed to a map and said:
"My new grandma lives here (in Georgia) and I'm from here (Nevada) and my little brother lives here (Mexico). My brother didn't DIE!! He's here now (nevada) with me!!"

Slightly disturbing, right?

How is it that...

February 7, 2008 - Thursday

How is it that...

Warning: This may make laugh until you cry or pee your pants (or both!)

But first.....How is it that guys can spending hours in the bathroom, making their own stinky messes (with the heater on to make the smell worse) and then have this reaction to a little tiny diaper?

What doesn’t belong?

February 6, 2008 - Wednesday

What doesn’t belong? Category: Life This afternoon I opened the dishwasher, and realized that after I ran it last night, I had started to fill it again with more dirty dishes. Yeah (Happy Dance!) That means I don't have to unload it right now! So, I start to pile in more dirty dishes, silverware, etc that those pesky dirty dish elves left all over my kitchen today. Those nasty little elves just love to visit and make a mess when I'm not looking, and to top it off, the "Dish Fairy" (you know, the one who sneaks in and DOES the dishes for you when you're not looking) well, the Dish Fairy either A) Doesn't have our new address, or B) is not legally allowed to cross state lines. I'm not sure which, but she never comes around anymore! So, I'm loading stuff in, toss a spoon in the silverware caddy, and do a double take. Now, what doesn't belong here? Yep, that is a full size, partially eaten carrot right along with the spoons and forks! Well, I think, how did that get there? My first thought is that I'm losing my mind again. Did I really put a CARROT in the silverware caddy? Then I think, okay, I'm really losing it. That's Baaadddd!!! WAIT! Maybe it wasn't me. But who EVER puts stuff in the dishwasher? Hmmmm.....well, let's ask anyway, on the .00008 percent chance that I'm NOT losing my mind. Me: Ethan, did you clean up your dinner stuff last night? Ethan: Yep! Me: Did you put it in the sink or the dishwasher? (Please, please, please say the dishwasher, even though you've never put dirty dishes in there after dinner, EVER in your little life!) Ethan: The dishwasher! (With a big grin like aren't you so proud of me?!!!) Me: Hey, GREAT JOB!!! (Woo-hoo!! I'm not a total nutcase!) Way to go buddy! Thanks for helping! Ethan: (Just smiles and goes back to playing games...) I'll tell him when he's older about the time he put a carrot in the dishwasher and made me think I was crazy!!! :)

Ethan hates it, but the dog loves it.....

February 5, 2008 - Tuesday

Ethan hates it, but the dog loves it.....

So Ethan hates playing in the leaves, and always has (sad since we have 5 dozen trees worth of leaves in the yard...) BUT the dog LOVES it!