Drunk, Drunk Baby

The other night, we were all sitting around in the living room. Now we all know that you cannot leave your drink unattended in this house for various reasons, not the least of which is because Blaise will take it and drink it or dump it all over you/himself/the floor/nice guests. It's also very likely that Daddy will dump it out, Toby will drink it all (and it will most probably contain apples in that instance), or (when we were in Ghana) the ants would be in it when you picked it up again.

Well, someone (and I will not point fingers here, but those who know will know;), left their Black Russian unattended and Blaise took a sip.

So my 2 year old took a sip of vodka mixed with Kahlua. And I, being the calm and collected person I pretend to be, laughed and lightly scolded the person who left said drink out.

And then didn't sleep at all that night.

An Apple A Day Puts Toby in the Sick Bay!

Maybe you remember when Toby looked like this:

And that lead to this. And us learning that he had been deaf for 18 months of his 3 years.

Then several follow ups.

Which in turn lead to this:

Which indicates that he has a very mild allergy to apples.

So, immediately, we stopped giving him apples, apple juice, anything that contains apples, stopped allowing him to lick the apple trees in the garden AND stopped all of his medication.

He has had a runny nose and sneezing exactly one day since then.

He had Scooby Doo fruit snacks that day.

Guess what they contain.

Wordless Wednesday

Okay, I know I said that I was going to have crafty Wednesday JUST LAST WEEK, but this is too adorable of a picture not to share.

The One Where The Tooth Fairy Gets Her Money!

Seth – I know where the tooth fairy gets her money.

Me (‘cause I’m a bad mom) – She sells the teeth.

Seth – NOOOO!

Me – Does she get it from Santa?

Seth - No! She gets the money from God. Does God have lots of money?

Me – I don’t think God needs money.

Seth – If He had lots of money, I know where He’d be. At the store, buying ice cream.

Free Samples, With Your Movie

Does this happen in the States?

We went to see Wall-E over the weekend. When you walk into the movie theatre they check your tickets and then usually hand you some sort of sample. The day we went to see Wall-E it was this:


I'm guessing they give you coffee so that you don't fall asleep during the movie. A movie that's entire dialog consists of "Wall-E!?" "Eva!" Which, when written, doesn't make the movie seem all that interesting.

In the past, I have also been given cereal (which made a nice snack during the movie), a variety pack of cleaners that Nivea makes (maybe you're supposed to clean yourself up before you go into the theater?), Coke Zero (which was actually a very popular giveaway when they introduced it here - McDonald's was also involved in the Coke Zero giveaway - I'm pretty sure, in true European fashion, they are fazing out Coke Light and making us switch to Coke Zero) and women's razors.

Do you usually get free samples at the theater in the States? Or anywhere else in the world for that matter?

Pimp Like Me

Just a quick one for y'all today.

My sister in law has started a blog. She's got three girls close in age to my three boys and she's writing the wild (mis)adventures of a stay at home mom. Dawn's Day, check her out!

And have you checked out Coming Home Again yet? No? Well, what are waiting for? Go now. I'll wait.

BIG Visitor Revealed!

Heeeeeeeerrrre's Poppy!

Papa has come to stay with us for a few weeks and the kids are uber excited! We'll be running around for the next few weeks so my blogging will be on and off (but I've been totally off all week, so maybe my writing will improve when I take a break).

But I'm sure I'll have many stories to tell;).

And this is for AnnaKay: