JUST CLARIFYING

Just wanted to clarify a few things...
These post all happened before what is dated on the blog!  I didn't really send them to school TODAY!  I am still trying to figure this blog thing out so I have several backed up post that I will post and they won't be true to date! :)
a

PUNISHMENT

Today the boys went to school all day... PUNISHMENT... last night Mimi came over to eat and well, how does the book go, "let the rumpus begin" - it began. They were terrible horrible very bad (I think that is from another book but it fits). So when poor Mimi left – who by the way is a trooper – she actually thinks they are cute, they were IN TROUBLE! They had to clean the kitchen, clean my room (that sounds mean but it WAS clean before the bed became a pirate ship and the room a place for lost treasure), clean their rooms (again, they WERE clean at the beginning of the day) and then put themselves to bed UPSTAIRS ALONE. That didn't really seem to phase them so next best attention grabber SCHOOL! They were shipped off to school at 8 am on a summer day! Let me say for the record, I had not been looking forward to starting school again but after today I am reconsidering. I decided to leave them until the end of the day so I roll in at 5:00 still a little mad and pick them up. They can tell things are not quite well because Grant quietly says, "you are stttiiiillll mad at us?" To which I reply "YES, VERY" and he says to the others "she has never been THIS mad". Of course that did not stop him from sticking his tongue out at Britt and when Britt does so in return Grant yells, "HE STUCK HIS TONGUE OUT AT ME SEND HIM BACK TO SCHOOL"! If you all know where the school is all of this happened before reaching the 2^nd stop sign. I ask them if they know why I am still mad and get a mumbled yes mam then I ask them why on earth they were SO BAD last night. Britt answers that he doesn't know and he is sorry but please don't make him go back to school again because IT WAS TEEERRRIBBBLLLE! This gives my heart a little bit of a flutter because there is nothing worse than sending them for punishment and them having a grand time. Grant tells me he was bad because his stomach hurt and it still hurts so it might make him bad again. The best excuse however it Ben... Ben tells me with the straightest face because to him this is THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH - "Mom I just had too much candy and it all came out". Surprised I ask him when did he eat candy and where did he get it? "You know mom I've been eating it since my birthday and it JUST CAME OUT". With that how can you argue with a 6 year old.... maybe he did?!?! After a long ride home and a lot of talking to – we have decided we will TRY our hardest to be good, not kill one another, and not drive our mom crazy for at least a little while.

This being said – 30 minutes later, which to some might seem like a little while or maybe a little while at the least – we are outside on they riding toys singing, "If you feel sumthin' funny and it feels kindu runny DIAREHA..." - I ask them not to sing this and Grant says u don't like the word diareha? And I answer no it is GROSS (because I am still a GIRL) so I hear the tune being hummed and then "if u feel sumthin' funny and it feels kinda runny … I guess u have to go poo poo or tee tee …. ARGHHH the life with 4 little fellas!

Just Another Day

Today like any other started by "Mom can you turn on my TV its just not working". From there, well lets just say today is going to be a very normal kind of day! I decided to let the chickens out this morning. This always gets the fella's moving. After the dogs were put up the chickens came out… As I'm weeding a flowerbed I hear "WE HAVE 3 ROOSTERS!" – "no grant we only have two so far", as if any day we will wake up and one of the girls will have morphed into a BOY! Just what I need ONE more BOY! Two minutes later Britt comes over to me carrying a silkie (white fluffy chicken) – 'fluffy pants' as it is affectionately known. Britt is showing me why he believes it is a boy when Ben comes up holding another. Together they tell me the differences between the two finishing by Ben saying "see mom this one has her hair back – like you mom. You have your hair like the chicken so it must be a girl". Note to self – fix hair so I will no longer be confused with a chicken!

So do you all think this looks like me?

Where to Begin?!?

Where to begin - - - A NAME… That's the question. So far I've come up with NUDITY – my kingdom, Mommy and her Men, Kids – Dogs – Chickens oh my!, Testerhome, The menagerie and me, and lastly The Fabulous Five & Me… So far none of them are real winners. So for now I have a blog with no name. Maybe it should be, "If you do that one more time you're … fill in the blank".

I am deciding to write this because our life is a true zoo. I am always laughing about things that go on here and meaning to write them in the baby book but never get around to it. Imagine that four boys and I just can't find time to sit down and write things down. I'm still trying to get thank you notes done from June and it is the middle of August.
A little about the boys right now:
Grant – described as SCRAPPY DOODLE DANDY. The instigator of everything; probably just like me, demands full attention and totally unhappy when it is given to anyone else. He can weasel his way onto your lap pushing the other guy out without you even knowing. Right now his is into MONEY! I can hardly pass a room without him saying Mom – do you have a dollar, mom how much did that cost, mom do you know that 5 dollars you had in your car? Can I have it?, Mom will you count my money?, Mom how much do I need to make 1000?, Mom can we go to the bank and get my money?. This has all been in the last 45 minutes. Honestly, Mix Larry Tegeler & Russell Rogas together and you get Grant Edward! The plus side is that he is learning how to count… and I mean really well! He asked me yesterday - "why people had to work at a bank,  they must be very unlucky.   I asked him why and he matter of factly said, "they always have to give away the money and never get to keep it"… This was in the same conversation that he told me papa was a millionaire. When I asked why he thought that he told me, "he gets to SELL all of HIS cows"!!! Kid still has a lot to learn doesn't he!
So now down to business. I think I've finally come up with a title. I'm only posting on word because I'm still not sure this is something I want to tackle.

 Right now the fella's are sleeping in the extremely large tent that is in our den. So much for the beautiful home I so dreamt about! 

Lovely huh? Oh well – I must be off to bed too. Tomorrow another full day awaits the mom of four little fella's!