Picky, Picky

We had a wonderful Christmas vacation. After a week in Texas, we flew back on a friday and left that Saturday to Greenville, SC to see Jeremys brother Andy, his wife Kim and Grandpa and Lulu-who made the long DRIVE from Dallas. Saturday morning, Jeremy's other brother Matt, his wife Babe, and their kids were driving from Greenville back to Ohio where they live. Since we missed them during the visit, we decided to meet at a Chic-fil-a in Gastonio. There we hear the story of their boys Isaac (7 1/2) and Ian (4 1/2) playing with silly puddy and throwing it on a wall in Kim and Andy's house. Now, the thing about Kim and Andy's house is twofold.
1. It is NEW (clean) 2. there are no kids (though this will change this summer:)

So Uncle Andy walks in sees the greasy marks left on the walls from the boys throwing the puddy and...well is not too happy about it. The story told from Kim's viewpoint was even better....I believe there may have been a quote along the lines of "did you WANT to ruin walls????!!!!"

So we all got a good laugh at this. Luckily, I am a seasoned enough parent to NOT think "my kid would never....."

We arrive in Greenville, love their new new clean clean place and get settled in.

Naptime. I tell Keller goodnight, close his door, go downstairs. A couple of hours later, I go upstairs and enter the bathroom my family is sharing. I see a NEW CLEAN soft white bathmat....with a huge brown stain smack dab in the middle. Keller, apparantly, used the potty, wiped with not alot of passion, then sat down on the rug to put his underwear on...leaving a nice reminder of where his butt had been. With the story of Isaac and Ian running through my head, I descend the stairs with shame to tell of yet another kid stain in the house....oh and did I mention they just moved into this house? New paint, new walls, new EVERYTHING...and now will need another new bathmat.

Fastforward to bedtime. Jeremy and I are putting the boys down, Jeremy is singing to them then stops mid-song...

"WHAT IS THAT??? KELLER!!!"
We all look to see the offense.

"IS THAT A BOOGER!!!!"

keller "yes."

Keller in desperation during his nap, could think of no better place for his booger to live than on the new walls at Uncle Andy's house. Jeremy, in desperation to scrape it off, not only removes paint but part of the wall as well.

I was mortified. Keller apologized "I am sorry I put my bugga on de wall uncle andy"
Andy and Kim were counting down the minutes until we left.

The White Boys Christmas Pagent

This is what I overheard this morning:

K "Coleman, let's play the christmas story."
oohhh how sweet, usually they only act out the bible stories that involve some sort of fight
C "I want to be a soldier."
K "There are no soldiers in the Christmas story!"
C "BUT I WANT TO BE A SOLDIER!!!"
K "you CANT!"
C "ok, i'll be a shepherd-soldier-with-an-ax."
hmmm dont recall that character.
K "ok"

This should have been my first clue that this was not going to be the typical Bethleham, birth of our saviour story.

K "I"m King Herod. Come kill me!"
K "Dont REALLY ax me, just pretend ax me!"

They then proceed to alternate between the roles of Herod and the soldier-shepherd-killer-with-an-ax parts. My presence was requested upon each killing, where I would witness "Herod" slayed on the couch with his eyes closed.

I think this version may be somewhere in Luke, but I cant recall....