It's just so sad....

We brought a bin of Elasta Girl's old clothes out today, to see if any of them would fit Roo.

Elasta Girl started to dig through and found one of her favorite shirts, held it up in front of her and said:

"It's just so sad."

What's even sadder, is that Elasta Girl grew out of said shirt about a year ago, and it's gonna fit Roo in about a year. They are not 2 years apart, they are 5 and a half years apart.



It's just so sad.....

It's all the rage....

Elasta Girl found a Chinese Jump rope in her Easter basket.




She was totally obsessed - for about 2 weeks.

Roo was more interested in the potato bug she found.

Very interested.

Mr Smith was VERY interested in jumping. What a good sport.

The bug. I think it's dead.

And another thing...

On my Pre-school graduation post from yesterday, I forgot to mention one tiny thing. Miss Amy went down the line of all the kids telling something about each one. When she got to Roo she said that whenever Roo would do something funny Roo would say: "Miss Amy, I'm such a dork."

I have no idea where she gets this stuff from.


Don't even get me started about the little boy that would help Roo with her jacket and back pack every day.

We're doomed.

The GRAD...

Roo "graduated" from pre-school on May 15th. She gets to go back next year but we celebrated anyway. This is her teacher, Miss Amy. She's married but writes "Miss" on all the papers she sends home so I'm sticking with it. She is the ultimate pre-school teacher around. Elasta Girl went to her when we lived in our Townhouse in Payson. She lived about 2 minutes from our house. She still lives in Payson and we commute so Roo can go to her too. I had to beg and plead and fester for Roo to have a spot cuz all her classes were full this year. Roo actually got to go because another little boy wasn't potty trained by the time school started. Sad for his mom, but happy for us.



You just have to have fancy hair for graduation. I was trying out the rag rollers, I could have done a better (and faster) job with the curling iron. Oh well, you never know until you try.

Why must all children pull silly faces for pictures?

Roo with her graduation hat on. Her hands were like this during the whole program.

Blurry, but cute still. And there are those hands again.

We will miss school and all the fun we had. Now Roo has to go do all my errands with me. And I don't have any more "alone time". Roo was so funny all year, every time they were making "surprises" for Mr Smith or me, she wouldn't tell me ANYTHING they did in class until she had given us the surprise.

We gave Miss Amy strawberry freezer jam for her teacher present. We saw her at the grocery store last week and she said she and her family had already eaten all of it. She also said that next year we could give her some more. We probably will.

Embarrassment...

So yesterday, Roo and I were politely strolling down the isles of the thrift store, when, we saw an actual "little person" looking at the children's books . I have to admit, I did a double take because I thought it was a kid without a mom. Roo saw her too. And she didn't just look twice, she looked, pointed and YELLED: "MAMA LOOKED AT THAT FAT GIRL" from 4 feet away from her.

I about DIED from embarrassment. I was so shocked and flustered that I swatted her cheek (not hard but enough for her to pout a bit) and said that isn't nice to say, and besides she isn't fat, she's pretty. Then I told her that we don't say mean things that would hurt peoples feelings. We just say things like: "look at that pretty girl, or "look at that nice girl" or "isn't she cute"

I thought I had her fixed when we saw the lady again, Roo pointed and YELLED: "MAMA LOOK AT THAT PRETTY GIRL"


Then, we went to the craft store. When we came around one isle we saw an actual fat woman sitting on the floor with her tank top pulled clear up under her boobs. It was NOT PRETTY. And don't ask me why she was doing it. Well, my daughter pointed and YELLED: "MAMA, LOOK AT THAT NAKED LADY"


I think I'm over shopping with children.

Reunited......

Now all she has to do is put away all the stuff in the bags.



Heaven help us.

The END

Meanest Mom of the YEAR...

This is not the face we saw last night. Last night, THIS face was nowhere to be seen. Last night, my patience was gone. Last night, I had threatened and bribed and begged for the last time. Last night, all of Roo's things got thrown into a garbage bag (two actually) and taken away. Last night, I was fed up, it was time to take action. And I did.

Roo won't clean her room. EVER. Sometimes when she feels like it she will, but she doesn't feel like it very much. Pretty much NEVER. I had told her for about 4 days (all day long) to clean it or I was going to take her stuff away. She didn't. I warned her last night, that after dinner I was going to take her stuff. She still wouldn't clean it. So I did.

The first to go was her blanket. In to the bag it went. That made her MAD. Her blanket is one of her 2 most favorite things. In fact, this is a common picture of her in the morning. All wrapped up and snuggley in her blanket. Not anymore. It's in the bag. Now she's cold.



Her other most favorite things is her "RUFF RUFF" . Yup, It's in the bag too. But only because she hit me with it after I took her blanket.

Her things are in my closet now where Mr Smith keeps stubbing his toe on them. I don't know when she'll get time back. I win the prize of the Meanest Mom.

So, All of you that thinks I as the best mom EVER. This blog's for you.

I almost forgot, as Mr Smith and I were leaving her room, Roo screamed at the top of her tearful, sobbing lungs "I HATE MY MOM AND DAD". Mr Smith turned and said to me: "well, at least you were first".

Follow the Yellow Brick Road...

Bailey came over to play on Thursday, we went to the Castle for a snack. The Castle is the convenient store at the bottom of the hill by our house. It's name is "the Castle" because when it was being built, and before the gas bays were up, Roo said they were building a castle for us. It had that Dental molding around the top of the building and a big opening for the doors that looked like a castle door could have been installed. So "Castle" stuck.





Anyway, Bailey introduced me to my first taste of Funyuns. They weren't awful. In fact, they were delicious. I should have never tried one. Naughty Bailey.

The girls started playing dress up, which turned into a fashion show, with me as the audience. Little Jessica knows all about these shows. Her and I have been invited to many. The first fashion show looked like this:


Bailey as Scarecrow, Elasta Girl as Dorothy with a Toto in her basket and Roo as the Wicked Witch of the West. They were so cute and creative with our dress ups.

I didn't take any more pictures of them but the fashion shows soon turned into mini skits. One with EG as a pirate and Bay as the beautiful rich girl that the pirate stole from then made walk the plank - a cardboard box lay ed out flat. Another skit was Bailey as a Celebrity and EG as a crazed fan. They were pretty funny. Bailey and Elasta Girl are the best of friends, EG and her are all giggles when they are together. I'm so glad they have each other. I hope they are friends forever.

Roo thinks those two are WEIRD.

Oh, by the way, I painted this red, it used to be white I think it needs something more though. Maybe a black rub over the top. Any suggestions from anyone crafty?

strange and delightful all in the same day...

We'll get to these 2 pictures later...ignore them for now.

Yesterday morning I probably asked Roo 7 different times to "PLEASE GET DRESSED". Finally, I jumped in the shower. When I got out (like the very second I got out - HELLO PERSONAL SPACE) Roo came in the bathroom and informed me her leg hurt. What I said might shock you, I said: "Oh, I'm sorry, GO get dressed". When I got dressed myself I found this.

Now, I am not very brainy sometimes, and since my Visiting Teachers (and their 4 kids) were coming over in 30 minutes, I just said: " your friends will be here soon, you better get dressed" and went about my business doing my hair and make-up. after a while I started thinking that it was very quite in her room, so I checked again, and found her exactly the same. Only then did it dawn on me that she was asleep! So, long story short, Roo took a nap and is obviously sick.

Roo and me making faces. Strange.

And now for Delightful...

This is our very first garden harvest. Mr Smith planted hoards of cold weather seeds a while ago and then put up his walls of water (the first two pictures in this post are his walls of water and what he planted inside of them- Blogger is not cooperating). They are designed to protect your not so hearty plants (tomatoes) from the wind and cold, keeping a nice greenhouse environment for them. The lettuce seeds that were planted under the walls of water grew like crazy and he had to pull them last night because they were choking his poor little tomato plants.

There isn't much Mr Smith like to eat more than a nice green salad, that is, unless it's a nice green salad he grew himself - in APRIL - in UTAH. This is his second bowl, he ate it too fast for me to get a good picture. By the way, he informed me that I should blog about our salad. The man is obsessed, I tell you.

This is Roo counting down the 5 bites of salad I told her eat. With ranch dressing on her nose.


PS Mom, I didn't tell her to eat her salad with a spoon. She's an original.

A worm excuse...

I have many excuses why I don't blog more often. Sometimes, this is what I get when I am blogging and not paying enough attention to my family.



Mr Smith sends in Thing 2 with treasures from the garden.


Or maybe, it's just because I've been telling people that they have worms, since I was in high school. But I don't think that's it.


YES, she was outside digging in the dirt in her jammies. And more importantly, Yes, I did french braid her hair like that. I'm awesome.

This week's happenings......in pictures

When you're sick and going to the Doctor, what do you wear? Elasta Girl gets decked out in her most fashionable attire.


And red shoes.

I took her to the doctor for the 4Th time in 5 weeks on Monday. She had a nasty strange cough and someone at church had me paranoid about pneumonia. The Dr didn't think it was pneumonia, but he couldn't tell because Elasta Girl couldn't take a big enough breath for him to check her lungs. Good thing those tonsils are coming out on Thursday.

Hi there.



St Patrick's Day 2009

Elasta Girls sneakiest leprechaun looks. Her red nose is a cold sore gone north.

Roo's sneakiest leprechaun looks

Mr. Smith's birthday extravaganza.

Cute cute Elasta Girl while Dad opened presents.

Crazy Roo while Dad opened presents.

Mr Smith with one of his presents. A mini green house to go on the back patio. Roo thought she could fit inside.

My parents and the girls while the green house was constructed.

How do you get rid of the RED EYE...

Like this...

I don't know what Elasta Girl thought was so stinky. But it was the last picture I took so I thought I should put it on.

Pee-you

The End

The rest of the silliness..

More cute girls.

Elasta Girl showing us she really lives up to her name. This hurts me.

Roo showing us how bendy her neck is. Not her body, just her neck. Have I mentioned she wants to do everything that Elasta Girl does?

Ppsstthh on you. From: a cute little unibrow.

Just us Girls...being weird

We were just playing around with my camera the other day, and this is what we came up with.

Roo not looking in the right place, Elasta Girl being crazy and my eyes closed. We're keepers.

Cute Elasta Girl and her Mom

Better.


Elasta Girl doing "Urkel" Remember, from that Family Matters show? I don't even think she's ever seen Urkel but she knows how he wore his drawers. She even sticks her tummy out and walks funny. It's pretty hilarious.

One crazy gal.

The reason for all the pictures was that I went to Savers Thrift Store (which is no were near Little Jessica's house *sorry Little Jessica*) and found this cute skirt for Elasta Girl ( it was from the GAP and 99 cents ). Here she is doing her best super model pose.

I got this dress for Roo. It was not 99 cents. The picture doesn't show how stinkin' cute it is. It's actually navy blue with white polka-dots. This is her super model pose.

I like this pose of hers better. Man, she's cute. You can see I am in complete concentration to get the perfect shot.

And that's all folks.