I wanna be a rock star

The other night at dinner Max said nonchalantly: I sung Happy Birthday at school today. That's cool, I said (thinking someone in his class had a birthday and the class sang together) Did your class sing together for one of your classmates? No, he said. I sang. Hmmm, well okay. Who's birthday was it? The whole schools, he said. The whole school? So your class sang happy birthday to the whole school at assembly (they do a monthly happy birthday) ? No, he said, I did. Hmmm, so YOU sang happy birthday to the whole school at assembly? Yep, he said. All 600 of them and I even had a microphone!

So the word from other sources is that Max belted the song into the microphone with no fear. Apparently he even signed up to do it! Andrew's response: Now that was embarassing!

The Ice Queen

We had an ice storm the other day. It was beautiful - everything covered in ice. Driving home the sun was shining and everything looked like it was made out of glass. It was so brilliant I have never seen anything quite like it. When I got home (the boys had the day off of school) I made them get in the car with me to go for a ride. I couldn't let the moment pass without sharing it with them. They were thrilled, I am sure, but I made them go none-the-less.

Today, Max said that if I wanted to see the sparkly ice again, all I had to do was watch him play StarWars Battlefront (apparently there is a winter scene.) He said: it's really beautiful and sparkly, just like you like it, mom. I mean, people are getting shot and killed and stuff, but you can just look at the sparkly stuff if you want. So, you want to do that with me after school today?

Is that swearing?

The other day Max was doing something crazy as usual. I looked at him and said "oh Lord, help me!" He said "mom, that's swearing!" I said "no, that's praying!"

All Grown Up

A friend of mind sent me this video. I laughed so hard because it is so easy to picture this as Andrew and Max all grown up. Can you tell who would be who?

Why did God make mothers?

Every now and then you get a cute little email about the funny things kids say. So I took one of those emails and asked my own kids the same questions. Here are some of the good answers I got...

1. Why did God make mothers?
To keep Him company.

2. Why did God give you your mother and not some other mom?
Because daddy wanted her to take care of the kids.

3. What did mom need to know about dad before she married him?
That he didn't steal her money to get what he wanted.

4. Why did your mom marry your dad?
She thought it would be a good idea.

5. What's the difference between moms and dads?
Moms can make babies come out of them and dad's can't.
Dads have breasts, mom's have boobs (!!!!)

6. What does your mom do in her spare time?
Help her children with their work.

7. What would it take to make your mom perfect?
Andrew says: Max, you go first on this one!!