The Stats on Sleepover Saturday

The participants

1 Mom, 3 - 6 year old girls, 1 - 4 year old boy, 7 - 9 year old girls

Survivors - 12

The food

6 medium pizzas, one cici's pizza coupon - $21.00

One homemade chocolate cola cake

6 bags of microwave popcorn

2 liters of soda

1/2 gallon chocolate milk

1/2 gallon of white milk

1 doubled batch of plain pancakes

1 doubled batch of chocolate chip pancakes

1 pound of bacon

leftovers - 0

A final sleepover for my girls with their best friends from school.

Priceless

Now - that is enough blogging - it is time for me to sleep

Three Fresh Faces

I Heart Faces - Slice of Life

I Heart those two - that is for sure!!!!

The post in which I completely crush on the Imagination Movers (in a good Mom - we had a great time sort of way - not a creepy way - I promise)

First off - hello my bloggy friends - I have pretty much been in the weeds and my blogging has been quite sporadic - so sorry - so sorry.

That said - we have much to discuss!!!!!

I am going to start with a wrap up of the best Children's concert EVER!

Now - my friends - please do not take this lightly because - well

This is not my first rodeo.......

I have been to the Wiggles

I have seen Elmo rock it out (on land and ice)

I shouted for the Rescue Pack with the best of them at Diego

Dora and Backpack and I - we are old friends

I have heard Who's and searched for tooth fairies......

I have been to a gazillion plays over the years, seen Santa come back to town more than I can even bear to say, and yes - The Greatest Show on Earth - we have also - been there - done that to the point of it really not seeming so great.

So when my 4 year old came in to tell us that "the Imagination Movers were coming to a select city near us and that he felt that we should call up the ticketmaster and get seats soon because shows are quickly selling out....."

Darn people marketing to my children - maybe I should turn off the TV - anyway - that is neither here nor there.

The point of the story is - we went for it - we bought the tickets from "the ticketmaster near us" and let me just tell you....

WE HAD A GREAT TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are SO glad that we did!!!!!!

Those movers were great! Mover Rich went all the way up to the Nosebleed seats (which were - amazingly - for once - behind us) and shook as many hands as he possibly could - I mean - I wanted to go give that guy a bottle of hand sanitizer I tell you - he shook A LOT of hands.

This would be my son making a break for it and following Mover Rich up into the stands trying to get a little face time.

The long haired child with the pink and black ribbons is my child - chatting it up with Mover Rich. He could not have been nicer!

Nina was a big hit with my middle daughter and man - that girl can really sing! They did a Black Eyed Peas song and my oldest felt that Nina could totally have taken Fergie.......

Here is Rich in the crowd again - he genuinely looked like he was having the best time ever!

The music was GREAT. We were rocking out!

Of course the concession etc stuff was a total rip off - I put my foot down that we were not buying any food (I swear that is half of what is wrong with America is that we can't go one hour and 15 minutes without eating something) but we did get talked into two warehouse mouses.

All in all - I HIGHLY recommend. We had the best time together and it is a memory that my family will always have. (Which is good since we are all still recovering a little bit from "The Great Barney Debacle of 2002")

Today we welcomed to our family.....

A Pug named Frank

and we are very happy to have him!

The long story short for anyone interested in why the crazy lady would get another dog with her house on the market and about to move to another state is....

As soon as we found out that we were staying in the states we said that we would get Penelope Anne a brother.

We wanted a rescue.

We did not want a puppy.

We wanted a boy.

We needed him to be good with kids.

And so - we walked into Petsmart today to buy Penny some dog food - and there was Frank. Three years old and the perfect pug for us.

I called my Mom and said,

"Well - we just did something insane."

She said

"What?"

I said

"Well - we just got a pug named Frank"

She laughed really hard - for a long time.

It was pretty great.

Out of the mouthes of babes

6 year old to 4 year old

"Did you know that Mommy can GROUND (pronounced GWOUND) you???? Yep - that's right - it is possible!"

Mommy

"Do you even know what ground means?"

4 year old chiming in

"I think it might mean put little children in cages."

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Daddy to Mommy (while driving as a fancy yellow sports car drives by)

"Hey Babe - can I get a car like that when I have my mid-life crisis?"

9 year old chiming in from the back seat

"Daddy - aren't you already middle aged????????"

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Mommy to kids trying to get them loaded up and to school in an incredibly high pitched and borderline hysterical voice

"OK everyone - I really need you to cooperate."

6 year old to 9 year old (in a whisper)

"Why is her voice getting so high?"

9 year old to 6 year old

"Oh - it's ok - she is just trying not to shout - better hurry though"

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