ok, so i’ve failed miserably at trying to keep up w/ posting everyday and i promise i will TRY to get better.  i have been trying to determine if i will continue with my personal blog that i’ve had for almost 3 years or if i will just move over here to make things a bit easier so i only have to update one blog…..which i think will be the end result.  i’ll just link my old blog in the sidebar somewhere so there is access to archives there. 

the week has been crazy hectic but the kids had some serious fun arrive on the doorstep one day right after school.  a little package from their "sissy" which is what they call their auntie kathleen who lives in seattle.  she had promised them a package before school started (ok, she’s about as good at getting to the post office as i am) they were stoked when they got off the bus and saw the package waiting for them.  they knew immediately what it was.  hudson had asked her to send him "webs" which in 5 year old boy lingo is silly string that inserts into a spiderman glove.  you guessed it. you push the little lever and out shoots spidey’s "webs".  it’s the best 60 seconds of entertainment a boy could hope for.  hudson tore into that package and in about one minute flat he had the entire box open and was hurdling the stairs to find his spiderman gloves. i had no idea the child could move this fast considering it takes him about 10 minutes to put a line of toothpaste on his toothbrush in the a.m. he quickly found his gloves and was back downstairs trying to insert the can of "webs" into them before brooklyn even found her gift in the sea of styrofoam peanuts that had spilled onto the living room floor. he immediately became frustrated when he couldn’t figure out how to get the whole contraption to work. with a little help from mom (i took spidey-glove-web-construction 101 in college) we had it ready to go before long.  before handing the precious commodities back to the little dude i gave the lecture…."outside ONLY" and repeated it at least 25 times.  about 10 seconds later this is what happened.

before i could even say a word he burst into tears terrified that i was going to take his new toy away before he even made it out the door.  i felt so bad because he totally did not mean to shoot blue silly string all over my lamp & walls.  he was trying to put the glove on and inadvertently hit the lever.  i felt so awful that i had lectured him so badly that he was now terrified he was going to be beaten and sent to his room never to see his little gloves again.  so of course, i quickly reassured him it was no big deal….all the while praying that this crap came off the wall before his dad got home and realized his upcoming weekend would consist of repainting and shopping for new lamps.  and it did….for the most part.  i mean, you can’t tell unless you look really hard…….

so a big shout out to "sissy"……hudson would like a new can of webs for christmas and i would like these