New Year's Eve

Ouch.

Came out from a nice-ish shower (during which Buzzy threw a cup of freezing water on me - that's my boy!) to find tape across the bathroom door. Scrawled on it: "Keepout! Bewere! Despecbl and Ugle!"

Newty sez:

(Pointing to Buzzy's corned beef hash)
"I want some ass!"
0_o

2+3

Buzzy sez:

"Dad, today Newty and I both wanted a Rudolph cupcake but there was only one and all the others had brown noses. So, then Mom affected the plot and changed a brown nose to a red one."

Newty sez

"Hello, Police?! Can you please attack Buzzy?!"

Buzzy sez

Me: "Ready for your favorite? Spaghetti & Meatballs?"
Buzz: "Those days are over."

Buzz @ Halloween

Newty @ Halloween

Geo @ Halloween

Buzzy sez:

Me: "Hurry up, Buzz... You have less than 5 minutes to finish your breakfast!"
Buzz: "Like, 4."
In a few years, that'll come with an eyeroll...

Another kid sez:

"Which would you rather be: a penguin, a robot penguin or Miss Piggy?"
Hmmmmm...

Gearing up for the Monster Mash...

1+3

Newty sez:

"one little sippy, two little sippy, three little sippy, four little sippy..."

Happy Birthday, 6 year old!

The apple in my eye

YAAaarrhhh!!

$4 for paper bags, 59¢ for white paint and one potato. 60 kick ass goody bags, if I do be sayin' so me-self. Avast, me hearties!

...and the cups

Breakfast "sushi"

'cause all the silverware is in the dishwasher...

Buzzy sez:

I felt cool-ish in school today. The was simeone staring at me. He got a check brcause he was staring & staring. He thought I was very professional. And tough. Because if all of my muscles. I didn't bend them, though, so I wouldn't get a check, too.

It's a conspiracy

Apparently, everyone is conspiring to ruin my snooze. Everyone.

Brekkie kabobs

Take that, pinterest!

1st day of 1st grade!

Newty sez:

Me: "who moved the diaper wipes?"
N: "Not me again."

Newty sez

"Hey Buzzy, you wanna get punished with me?"
And then:
"I know some baaaaaaad choices!"

Newty sez

Public restroom. Daddy is 'preparing' the toilet.
N: "It's pooping!! It's pooping!!"
D: "Oh God, OK!"
Newty sits and examines his finger.
N: "What is this?"
D: "ughh...I have only one guess what that could be."
N: (thinks for a moment) "Maybe it's, poop."
D: "Why do you think that?"
N: "Because it came outta my butt."

Newty ck

Newton is sitting at the breakfast table unleashing every three-year-old swear word he knows. Hoooo-boy...

Purple Dinner Pics

Purple cauliflower, purple potatoes roasted with red (shhhh!) onions, roasted beets, blackberry glazed porkloin or tofu if you're so inclined- which I currently am- grape juice and grape jello. We collected everything purple in the house to make a centerpiece and bounced on the trampoline with purple balloons after.

Then comes marriage...

After our Purple Dinner Party, I heard a big wet smack next to me. Buzzy and Ana looked over sheepishly.
Me: "Oh, my gosh! Did you guys just smooch!?"
Ana: "No."
Buzzy looks at Ana, wondering what to say. She shakes her head at him & blushes.
Buzzy: (grins) "Yes."

Buzzy sez:

Jumping into the van:
"Whoever gets in the van first gets to get in Newty's seat."
Ahhh...brothers.

Newty sez:

Sitting at the table. Empty plates in front of Mommy, Daddy, Buzzy AND Geo. Newt's is 3/4 full.
"Am I in the lead?"

Children's Museum of Saratoga

Bicycle Gang

Newty sings

I sing: "You're my sugarplum, honeybunch, pumpy-umpy-umpkin, you're my sweetiepie. You're my cuppy-cake, gumdrop, snoogums-snoogums, you're... the apple of my eye!"
Newty sings: "You're my sugarplum, honeypUNCh! Pumpin' yunkin yunkin! You're my peanut butter cupcake gumdrop candy cake! The apple in my eye!"

Niagara Falls

Trail Ride in New Era

Buzzy managed to stay awake on his horse this time!

Happy B'day to Mom.

Daddy: "Mommy's birthday is coming up. What are some nice things we can do for her?"
Buzzy: "I know! When she mops, we can help her mop."

Buzzy sez

At the Canada/US border, the Customs & Border Agent asks Buzzy his name.
"My name is Buzz. I speak English."

Newty Yellz

"EVERYBODY RUN!! THERE'S A MONSTER INSIDE THAT MOVIE!!!"

96 for b's graduation

Welcome to Mombai

Newt comes to get me.
"Mom, I can't find Buzzy's watch!"
"Oh, it's on the changing table next to the wet wipes."
He dashes away. I hear him get the watch and give it to Buzz.
"OK. Thank you for finding it. Here's your dollar," says Buzz.
Outsourced.

Newty sez

"Hey, Buzzy! I gotta baaad ideaaa!"

At least we know how he feels...

"I punshed the wipcreem outta that beetle!"
"I turned that ant into dirt!"

Newt does not love bugs.

Kitchen Tips with Daddy

Out of breakfast cereal but still in the mood for something in a bowl with milk? Popcorn!

Sweet and sweaty baby!

...yeah, it's hot.

Even more Hoffman's

...maybe too much Hoffman's...

Xray Delta One, this is Mission Control...

Mobile Unit 3 is on the move.

More Hoffman's

Hoffman's

newty's 'nastics

buzzy's 'nastics

chlocolate

Amer. Mus. of Nat. Hist.

Good to know

Newton arrives, wrapped up like a present. A present I must repeatedly open and I be surprised.
Take 7:
Me: "Oh, a present! For me! I wonder what it is? ... Oh! It's a Newt! Just what I wanted! I wonder what I should do with it?"
N: (stage whisper) "It likes lollipops!"

Kids these days!

I just picked up Buzzy from school.
He's rammy.
B: "I'm SO hungry, Mom!"
N: "I'm so hungry, I can eat a whole deer!"
B: "Ugh! That's hyperbole, Newt!"

I'm tickled silly!

(sigh) but, eight is too many, so 2 of the ladies will have to go...

Guess who...

Guess who was very impressed by the Spartans at the Greek Festival.
Hint: Buzzilonius

Checking one off

Took the boys to see Yellow Submarine in the theater.

Strawbellies

newty sez

"my hair is sticking up like a birthday cake."

nyc aquarium

guitarifier

molly's b'day party

motorsike

playing house

B: "OK, Newt. Let's play mommy & daddy. I'm daddy and you're mommy."
N: "OK. (high voice) Do you want snacks?"

newty sez:

"Buzzy... catch! one-a-baby.... two-a-oney..."

out like a light

a very ketchupy after-school snack

Jack's Drive-in on the way to a new park...

just hangin'

awww, man... rough night, huh?

No more gummy smiles...

...geo cut his first tooth!

Newty sez:

Upon seeing a McDonald's sausage and egg sandwich: "It's a egg hamburger!"

shaving cream + tubby

Let me have my moment, dammit!

Buzz: "Mom, you're so beautiful!"
Me: "Awwww.. Buzzy tha-"
Newt: "No one likes a suck-up, Buzz."

roadrash

my baby 5 year old took off on a 2 wheeler yesterday. i'm in pieces. how am I gonna deal?