Documenting life...: Kix...Kid Tested

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Kix...Kid Tested

Mother not approved. WHY does Tanner feel the constant need to dump out boxes of cereal and then walk all over it until it is dust? At least once a day....so I sweep and sweep some more. And now his new accomplice Taelyn is now learning just how to drop food on the floor and then stomp on it. How pleasant. So here is my brand new box of Kix, on the floor. Goodbye cereal...I'll miss you, I really wanted to eat you.

10 comments:

Michelle Arnett said...: You make me laugh. . these pictures make me laugh harder!; October 14, 2007 at 1:06 PM
Emily said...: I'm so proud of you for taking a picture instead of getting mad! Good job! One day, you're going to look back on these pictures and absolutely cherish them!; October 14, 2007 at 10:02 PM
Meredith said...: And the things my kids do drive me crazy....I don't think I'd have any sanity left in me if Jackson did that kind of thing!!!

But good for you putting up with it. It really helps to take a picture and tell the world about it, doesn't it? Very therapeutic.; October 15, 2007 at 9:07 AM
Sandy said...: I love those days. It seems like they do that right after you just mopped or vacuumed too. It's like as your putting the vacuum cleaner away something inside them says "go get the cereal ! " Someday I think I'm going to join in and leave it for Brody to clean up! Yeah right, it would be there for weeks!!; October 15, 2007 at 6:54 PM
A day in the life of the Campbell's said...: at least it's not on the carpet mixed with maple syrup!! So cute though.; October 16, 2007 at 10:36 AM
Emily said...: Jen - HELP! - How do you take such great pictures indoors? I really like the softer look of the natural light, but I can't figure out how to get the shutter to close faster. All my indoor pictures, without a flash, turn out blurry. What do I do?; October 16, 2007 at 1:55 PM
Anonymous said...: That adorable Tanner can get anyone to do anything...even his little sister! I can see that the two of them will have fun together growing up and getting into things! Good job not yelling at them and getting great pictures to always remember this day!; October 17, 2007 at 7:20 AM
Aaron said...: Invest in some tupperware containers for the cereal. They are my sanity, because they are too hard for little fingers to open. Aha! Take that munchkins...touche!; October 17, 2007 at 8:57 AM
Jana said...: Ever thought of putting a lock on your pantry?; October 17, 2007 at 10:22 PM
MoM K said...: OR, how about putting the cereal on the high shelf in the pantry? Or does he climb up them? He just wants his picture taken each time! the two little stinkers look so cute.; October 18, 2007 at 12:54 AM

Out of the mouths of babes

5/11 Tae: "My dad is bigger than my mom and my mom is mini-er than my dad"
5/11 Tae: "Don't coffee me!!!" she and paige seem to think the word for copy is actually coffee.
05/11 Tae: After going in the front yard after me telling her not to.. " oh mom, I accidentally thought the front was the back"
03/09: Maddie: " Why do we have to pay taxes? Why do they have to have laws...like pay your taxes? Or don't stand on swivel chairs?" Ha ha!!
12/08: Tanner: "mom, don't pick your nose and throw it on the ground or you will slip on it like a banana peel. So you have to put it on a picture, or a high shelf"
Tae 3/09: Today she was looking for little scab on her hand and noticed it was gone. So she said "Mom, my owie went home!"
2/09 Maddie: Kimi is eating a burger, Mad hates red meat. "Mmmm, that looks good" Me: "But you don't even like hamburgers!" Maddie: "But if it were the only food left on earth, I'd pound it."
12/08 Tanner: "Mom, when can we get out our bean stocks?" I realized he was talking about Christmas Stockings. :)
11/08 I'm in the bathroom, alone. But never really alone. Maddie comes to the door and says "mom what was your best moment?" Uh, can we talk about this later?
11/08 Tanner: "Mom, is my bones warm or hot?" later that day..."I wish our house was made of nachos." Ya, me too.
10/08 Me" Well Maddie when I was little I only got a quarter or 50 cents for a tooth" Maddie" Ya, well that was in the OLDEN DAYS mom! The tooth fairy hardly had any money then."
9/08 Tan:" Mom, when you have the new baby, will we sell Taelyn?"
01/08 Maddie: "Guess what Mom, when I lose my front tooth the tooth fairy brings me $20" What?? Who said that? "A girl in my class! I'm so excited to get my very own $20!"
10/07 Madeline: "Mom I remember what it was like to live with Jesus before I was born" Oh really? "Ya, it looked just like it does here, but it was on clouds."
09/07 Tanner: "Mom sometimes your mean to me, but Sister Castleberry (nursery teacher) is always nice to me...like this many times ( he holds up his little 5 fingers right in my face)" How cute is he??
Just the other day Madeline came to me after practicing some intricate dance moves with Jaren and said "Mom, I just wish I could marry Jaren because he dances with me, he does whatever I say, and he's such a gooood guy. Why can't I marry my brother? " I then explained just why we don't marry our siblings. Hopefully she'll have no problem finding a guy just like Jaren in 20 years.
"Shake your bootie, shake your bootie..." This goes along with a mooning of sorts by the 3 yr. old Tanner
“Do you wish you were Dad so you wouldn’t have to change Taelyn’s diaper or do all the work, and you could be at church on time?” -Maddie
"I'm the last number strong" -Jaren

Deep Thoughts...

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.

I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.

When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges.

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.

We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.

Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.