Evan

I was just thinking about how Evan is not getting his due time on my blog. So, here is an entire post for him! (Hi, Evan, I know you're reading this). As many of you know, Evan has been taking bagpipe lessons for the past seven months. He's getting in touch with his inner Scots-man (okay, he's not really Scottish, but he can pretend). Anyway, he has been playing on a "recorder-like" like thing called a chanter since last June. He was supposed to have a year of chanter lessons and then begin learning the bagpipes (or wrestling with the bagpipes as pipers like to say). Well, my highly musically inclined child progressed so quickly on his chanter that he is now ready to spend hundreds or dollars on a real Scottish bagpipe. On Tuesday he finally got his very beautiful set of bagpipes. He is totally and completely unable to play them yet (Chris couldn't even get a sound out of them); which is totally normal for someone just starting. Because he can't get much of a sound out of them our house is still relatively quiet (okay, our house is NEVER quiet except right now when I am the only one up), but soon the noise will begin. I have already purchased earplugs (no, I am not joking) and I am looking forward to spring when he can serenade the neighbors and play at the park. Okay, here is a picture of Evan with his pride and joy (since he doesn't own a kilt yet his plaid pjs will have to do :)

Dogs and Children Should NOT Mix

For those of you that haven't read the Christmas Letter of 2005 (http://lettersofchristmaspast.blogspot.com/), you need to know that Raelea has struggles these many (3) years, not knowing if she was a girl or a dog. That's okay though because our dog struggles as well, not knowing if she is a dog or a girl. Well, we thought that every thing was clear in her (Raelea's not the dog's) mind until tonight....





What can I say? She's a quick learner!

Nina's New Blog

I would like to introduce to you Nina's new blog. If you read this and Molly's blog you will have a munch better understanding about why my screen name is crazymom :)

Here it is
http://coolnina2.blogspot.com/

Enjoy and come back and visit some time!

Introducing Molly's Blog

Okay, I know that several of you (maybe most of you) only come here to my blog to see what funny comments Molly has posted. Because of that Molly has started her own blog, which will by way funnier than mine. I suspect my blog will slowly die now that I have competition for your time....

Okay, here is the link to Molly's incredibly funny blog
http://mollydolly2.blogspot.com/

Enjoy and don't forget to come back and visit me sometime....

Butter Sculptures

So, I know it's not State Fair time, but apparently my kids wanted to try their hand at butter sculpting.

Perhaps a lion getting ready to pounce...

Or maybe a rhino?

Would somebody tell these children to just take the butter off the ends of the stick??????

Read the Comments

Just a little suggestion - if you're looking for some entertainment while reading this blog, try reading the comments to the posts. My children are way funnier than I am!

Here's the guilty party now! Isn't she beautiful.

Dishes

So, it's Thursday which means it's Aidan's day to do the dishes. While he is standing at the sink he states, rather emphatically, "I LOATHE doing the dishes! I LOATHE doing the dishes so much I would give up all my clothes if I didn't have to do these dishes. I would let you shave me hair off if I didn't have to do these dishes!"

Let's just say that Chris finished the dishes and Aidan is sporting a new haircut.

***Clarification (for Molly's sake) Aidan did not truly get his head shaved - just a haircut which to him probably constitutes a shave.