Families

"Families don't have to match...you don't have to look like someone else to love them. The thing that needs to be addressed here is that there are wonderful kids all over this country and this world that want a forever family. We believe there are no unwanted kids....just unfound families."

~Leigh Anne Tuohy

Your Gifts

My new favorite date night on the couch: "The Amazing Spiderman".....and i leave you with my favorite quote from the movie:

 

"i know things have been difficult lately and i'm sorry about that....ever since you've been a little boy, you've been living with so many unresolved things. well it take it from an old man.... those things send us down the road that makes us who we are. and if anyone is destined for greatness it's you son....you owe the world your gifts. you just have figure out how to use them. and know that wherever they take you will always be here. so come on home peter....you're my hero and i love you."

MONKEYSTORY #678

Driving home from church and Middle Monkey informs me she forgot to put her seat belt on.
So I proceed to launch into yet another lecture about why exactly it's important that she puts
her seat belt on before the monkeybus starts moving.
GPS pipes up with a very sad/dramatic voice: "Remember the accident Mommy where a truck/trailer full of pigs crashed and a bunch of pigs flew out of the trailer into the field...and some them died...and it was so so so so so so sad???!!!!?."
I replied, "yes, I remember." {middle monkey's eyes are getting very big}
GPS then reminds me with a very "know-it-all" voice that pigs don't wear seatbelts so that story doesn't really go along with the lesson I am trying to teach them....he just wanted to remind me of that story.
Oh thank the good Lord for little smartypants monkies.....these littles remind me every day that my life is sure to never ever ever in my long-legged life be boring...ever again.
Meanwhile....big brother's story hit home with the middlemonkey.....she clicked her seatbelt on so stinkin' fast and said she wouldn't forget to do that again.

I'm a Babe....

PapaMonkey and GPS were heading downstairs to play MarioCart. GPS stops and yells at me:
"Sooooo long Babe!!!!!" He then starts laughing and turns to PapaMonkey: "Hahahahah, I just
called your wife a babe!!!!!" PapaMonkey just looks at me...."Who's kids are these anyhow?!?!!?"

I can't smiling....MamaMonkey was just declared "a babe" by a 6 year old....dude, I'm nearing my 30th birthday....I'll go right ahead and claim that compliment!!!

My Wife

BabyMonkey: "Daddy!! Stop talking to Mommy!"

PapaMonkey: "What?? She's my wife, I can talk to her!"

BabyMonkey (hands on hips and a serious look)

"No! Mommy is my wife!!!! She's mine!"

 *uncontrollable laughing from all monkies in the kitchen*

BabyMonkey Talk

When the older 2 monkies go to basketball practice with PapaMonkey and
BabyMonkey is left alone....this is what I hear:

"Come come come honey bunny!!!
Mama right here honey bunny!!!
hmmm.....lalalalala....hhhmmmm.....lalalala
Come here little honey bunny....I make you a warm bed.
Honey bunny!!! come out of yer bed!
Eat your lunch supper!!! No cookies now!
Go to bed now little baby....bad guys won't get you.
No bad guys get you... little angel with you.
hhhmmmm......lalalalalal....ladaladadladadeedeedaa
Daddy be home soon! He read you a baby book
then a big kid's book. You stay here......
What? You can read? Ok honey bunny....you read book to me then!
You sit on my lap.....kids, don't step on us!!!
No bad guys get you sweetie peetie.
Baby, you take that crown off right now! You not princess!
You my honey bunny!!! No...you can't play compeetah!
I make supper now for all my sisters, all my brothers, all my daddies, all my mommies."

Complete conversation had by her and her babydoll :)

The Light

"Let nothing dim the light that shines from within." 

~Maya Angelou ♥