GUM
Well, we had our first experience with gum getting stuck in hair, Kennedy's hair, I am actually surprised it wasn't Mason's. Thankfully, Peanut Butter works wonders. I think she thought it was funny, she was trying not to smile in these pictures and act appropriately upset.

A funny gum story...

My niece came down stairs one day and had a chunk cut out of her hair and apparently had gotten gum stuck in her hair and didn't know what to do so she cut it out. Her Mom told her that they could have gotten it out with peanut butter. So, some time later the same thing happened again, she came down with a chunk of hair missing and her Mom said, I told you we could get it out with peanut butter and my niece started crying and said, but I didn't want peanut butter stuck in my hair. Kids are so funny.

Family Photo Attempt
Sooooo pitiful....but kinda funny

Communication

Communicating with toddlers is so interesting, isn't it?

Mason has 3 girl cousins that live close to us and he LOVES them. The last couple of times that we have been over there they were painting their nails and he wanted his done as well so they painted his. (Thankfully he did choose green, instead of purple (his favorite color).) I didn't really say much about it then and wondered if I should be the one to tell him that boys don't do that, but thought it didn't really matter and he was excited about it.

So fast forward to this afternoon....one of his cousins came over and brought nail polish with her. We didn't have time to do nails while she was here so she left the polish and I sat down to do the kids nails. First we painted toe nails and I figured I would just have Mason wear shoes instead of flip flops to pre-school tomorrow.

Then he said, "Okay, do my fingers now please."

Me: "Usually only girls paint fingernails."

Mason: "Okay." and he keeps sitting there while I'm doing Kennedy's and I thought, wow, that was easy.

Then...

Mason: "Okay, do mine now."

Me: "Remember, usually only girls paint fingernails"

Mason: "Ya. So can you do mine now?"

Me: "Well, since usually only girls do nails are you sure you want to do yours?"

Mason: "No, you do it."

Me: "So since only girls paint nails you want me to do mine."

Mason: "No, you do mine."

So then it finally clicked. He thought only girls could do the actual applying of the nail polish. I realized I was not wording things the correct way and so what other conclusion was he supposed to draw. I guess I need to work on my communication. His nails are now green. I wonder what the kids are going to say at school tomorrow.

Sleeping Beauty

K was sick the other day and I got her out of the tub and laid her on this chair while I went to get her some clothes. I got sidetracked and folded a load of laundry and when I came back she was sleeping. Don't you love watching your kids sleep? I love it but it doesn't happen much with her because she always sleeps in her bed and wakes up so easily that I rarely go in while she is sleeping. I just want to pick up and squeeze all 23 lbs of her.

Oh What Do you Do in the Summertime...
We have had such a fun summer and I haven't even been blogging about it, what a shame. I will just blame it on the broken camera. (Even though it broke towards the end of the summer. I guess I just don't take as many pictures as I should.)

Our summer staple is the pool. The kids love going (they like it best when they don't have swim lessons), I love going, so we are all happy. We don't usually go on the weekends but thankfully Don did take the kids one Saturday so we do have a few pictures that he took.