santa and the tooth fairy

 A few years back Andrew was asking about santa, we figured telling him the truth and the real meaning of Christmas was much more important.   After loosing his first tooth, the question about the tooth fairy came up and we had a talk about the tooth fairy.  The funny part about all of this is that he knows the truth, put still likes to play the part of not knowing-which is almost funner for Jas and I.  I mean really, we wake up on Christmas morning and see the cookies that were laid out, cookie crumbles, and a cup of milk that is partially gone- whats not to believe?  Well back to the tooth fairy, he lost this tooth on Monday morning, but forgot to put it under his pillow-so the tooth fairy couldn't come that night.  Last night the tooth fairy just plum forgot-anyway who wants to get out of bed and go upstairs in the middle of the night and exchange it for a few coins?  I'm sure he will try again tonight and hopefully we will remember.  I mean what are you supposed to do with those teeth anyway (after saving the first one). Jas tried to throw his last one away and I about had a coronary -I mean really, you cant save all of those teeth YUCK-hopefully he never puts away our laundry, because I have a stash of teeth in my underwear drawer.

Conversation Between to Brothers

Last night as I was preparing supper, Andrew was emptying out the dishwasher, and Tyse was setting the table (see below) Andrew starts up this conversation out of the blue.

Andrew: (very serious)--Tyse, you just wait until you have a little brother

Tyse: huh? (really has no clue that Andrew is talking to him-he's occupied with setting the table)

Andrew: When he comes then you will start getting into lots of trouble

end of conversation

It makes me laugh when Andrew is having a conversation with Tyse, because he talks to him in a super serious way (we dont see that alot) and Tyse will start to get real serious too. FUN FUN

Merry Christmas

Ok, so every year I decide that we are going to send out christmas cards. This was going to be the year, I had my mind set, we were really going to get a great picture. It didn't even have to be great- just one that looked a bit civilized (like just letting the lights peacefully dangle over them instead of sticking them up their nose)....here was our failed attempt. Anyway, Merry Christmas to everyone!!

Smelly Markers

I'm sure some of you get a bit tired of seeing pictures of the boys....well just stop looking then, because that's about all we have on our camera :)
Anyway......
Crayola makes some markers that smell, I thought they would be fun for Andrew to guess what they smelled like. Tyse doesn't realize that there are only a few in the package that smell...so he will smell a few and then go to the bathroom, look in the mirror and say uh-oh.

Happy 18th Birthday Jill!!

Jill (and Doug) celebrated their birthdays on Sat., what a great time we had. Happy Birthday Sister!!

A full week off.....

Jasper had the week off, it was great to have an extra hand around the house. Here are a couple of the things he accomplished.

He made a guitar for Tyse. Im really not sure who loved it more, him or Tyse-he was especially proud of himself for making it!!

No, this is not milk that they are drinking out of a bag............its white chocolate. I was going to make some chocolate covered pretzels and Jas decided that it would be fun for him and Tyse to do together............I went out to check on them and this is what they were doing. Luckly they were done with the job.

We had a fun week with Jas home all week, but the time has come-you must go back...

Copy-Cat

Andrew was SUPPOSED to be making his bed-all of a sudden I hear "DRAMA" happening upstairs. I ignored it at first-we seem to have lots of drama around here. It started sounding a bit more serious than the usual- so I thought I'd better check it out (with my camera) and found this. I'm really not sure what he was trying to do-crawl through the window of the tool bench, I guess. We got all calmed down and Andrew back to making his bed. I head down to start supper and all of a sudden I hear Andrew yell this...Tyse your going to kill yourself...I run up the stairs as fast as I can (at 35 weeks pregnant, not a pretty sight) And I find Tyse trying the same thing......Oh Dear......are you serious....did you not just see your brothers problems when he tried this trick? You know Tyse was thinking just like any other man---Im going to try the exact same thing and hopefully get a different outcome...:) Love these Boys!!!!