The Change From a Girl to an It.

On Friday Tiny got spayed. She is acting fine now but when we picked her up on Saturday and brought her home she walked funny. I put her outside to go to the bathroom and instead of walking down the stairs normal she would pick up her back legs and walk  down on her front. I always wonder how they spay a dog. I know how they neuter  a dog, and that doesn't sound fun. I told Alma what they do and he just looked at me and said "Ouch". That boy is funny.

Big Rewards

Alma's school (Washington Online) does an incentive called the 10% club. Each month that you make progress of  10% in a subject you get a little reward and your name in a drawing for a prize at the end of the semester. Well Alma has been working his butt off and got his name in the drawing A LOT. Today at the Poetry and Art Festival they announced the winner for each class. Alma won for his class. He got $20.00 to Wal-Mart. I'm so proud of him:) We went to Wal-Mart tonight and he spent his money. He got a couple of toys and he bought his own Valentines to pass out at the Homeschool party in a couple of weeks.

Thee Cup Runneth Over

Alma went to the fridge to get some water. He put his cup where the water comes out of the fridge. He turned and was talking to Jere and me. Just about the time Jere was going to say that should be enough water, Alma's cup was full and spilling on the floor. When I said " That is totally going on the blog." Alma responded with, "No, I do that all the time."  Alma always keeps us laughing.

Poison Dinner?

 I was excited to make a nice dinner in the crock pot. I put frozen chicken, onion, bell pepper, and some potatoes. I left it and went back to doing school with Alma. A couple of hours later I went to stir it and smelt something foul. The light on the crock pot was on but the pot was cold. The chicken was thawed and smelt bad. When you lift the lid all you could smell was the onion but walking into the kitchen you could smell bad meat. We didn't know if cooking would "kill" any bacteria but we didn't want to risk getting sick so we throw it out. Instead we had Burger King.

Other funny things:

Jere Told me that the other day he was at work. He stood up and his chair moved back without him knowing. He went to sit down and fell hard on his butt. Falling when you think a chair is there is always funny.

We were watching a movie tonight and Alma was bugging me so I bit his ear and he screamed. I said "You scream like a girl."  His reply was " That's right. One time at park day I was on the tire swing and screamed. They told me I scream like a girl."

This is from the beginning of the winter.( I wanted to see how to add videos to a post.)

Google Oops

Today Alma was trying to Google "dogs and cats". He must have clicked something before he was done typing it into Google because he got "d&c" instead. I walked by the library room and show pictures of uterus's on his screen. When I looked at the Google bar it said "dogs&". When I asked what he was looking at he ran from the computer and started to cry and say,"Stop bugging me, leave me alone." I told him it was ok, he isn't in trouble. After a few minutes of alone time in his room he was better.  Poor kid didn't need to see those drawings. I told Jere and he said he would recheck the safety settings on Alma's computer.


Off Topic:
Last night I went ice skating with the youth. I am not as young as I once was. I was sore when I got home, my thighs were sore. When I woke up this morning I was fine, so I guess I'm not that old yet.  :)

Three Times the Goodness.

So this morning I was going to bake a cake for Jere's birthday. I put the mix in added the oil, eggs and water. Well I saw 3 1/3cup water. As I was mixing it I thought it look really runny so I looked at the box again and it was suppose to be 1 1/3 cup water, oops. So I had to run to the store and buy two more boxes of cake mix. We ended up having a 9x13 pan, a 9x9 pan, 4 mini loafs and 12 cupcakes. That is a lot of food.

To help us eat it we had Ellen, Naamah, Dev, Krys, and Michael over to have a "party". We ate cake and played a game.

Update: Alma woke up again insanely early. He came into our room at 2am. My mom said he heard Alma showering before he came into our room. When Alma came into our room he said " I get so confused".
Jere took him back to his room and showed him the clock and said if it is before 6:30 it is too early to get up. Lets hope he sleeps through the night tonight.

This bowl is huge and it just barely fit all the mixes

ALL the cake made

This was suppose to be the ONLY cake

"lego" cakes made with the left over cake mixes

It's not morning?!?!?!

Last night/early morning Alma comes into our room asking about his DS that Jere put on the charger for him because Alma went to bed and instead of going to sleep he played it until it died. I looked at the clock and it was 2:20AM! I told him to go to bed. He wanted to go watch t.v. I told him "No, It is too early." He was still bugging us.  I told Alma to leave now and go to bed dad has to get sleep because he wakes up early. Alma said " It is night I thought it was morning!" I still don't know if he went back to bed. I asked him and he wouldn't give me a straight answer.

So today as Alma and I was driving to Jere's work Fireflies by Owl City came on. When the line "cause I feel like such an insomniac" Alma said, "Dad says that about me." " After last night we truly believe that." I was reading the lyrics to Fireflies and it is totally Alma.

So we parked and was walking to the building and Alma says I know a show dad would like to watch it is on Qubo Night Owl. "What? Did you go downstairs and watch t.v. after I told you to go to bed?" "No, when I woke up I went straight down stairs." " Then you came up and bugged us?" "Yes" " How many shows did you watch?" " I don't know"

At lunch Jere asked Alma if he ever went to sleep and Alma wasn't sure. I wonder if he ever went to sleep.

Off Topic: I was cleaning sticky stuff off scissors and slid my thumb cross the edge of the scissors. They are still sharp:) My right thumb is now in a splint so the cut stays close and can heal.

Splish Splash

Today I got home from my church meetings and Alma walks up to me and says" You might think this is gross but I was peeing and where I was standing was wet and I slipped and fell in the toilet" "Did you wash off?" "Yes, I took a shower"

After talking to Jere  this is more of the story. Alma was peeing and he was leaning forward supporting his thigh on the toilet. His feet slipped out from under him, behind him and his arm fell in the toilet.  Jere says he heard a splash and went to the bathroom to see what it was. He found Alma with his arm all wet, laughing. Thank goodness Alma was in a good mood because it could've thrown his whole day off.

Rub-A-Dub-Dub

Today's "adventure" was giving the dogs a bath. It is always fun to give them a bath, good thing we have a deep tub. It makes it a little harder for them to jump out.  My favorite part is after the dogs are all done and put in their crates to finish drying I will throw the cat into the water. He looks like a deer in headlights. After the shock wears off he is gone, out the bathroom and down the stairs.

Alma funny: I asked him why he named Spy ( his dog), Spy. His response was because he looked like a dog. He was meaning to say a dog that would be a good spy. But he paused funny and it came out wrong.

Spiked Cookies?

Jere loves to bake, the most common thing is cookies. He has several types he makes. Recently we got a secret recipe from Kari that is so so so good. They were my favorite in college and they are still my favorite to this day. Everyone who tries them loves them. Well Jere was making a batch of these cookies today and as he was getting the ingredients out he was reading the labels. On one of the bottles of extract it says it is 40% alcohol. Jere's comment after reading that was " Is that why we like these cookies so much?" The alcohol cooks off so the cookies are fine but maybe I should stop eating so much of the dough :)

Search for the Perfect Gift.

Alma went to see Yogi Bear with Grandma Danna, Uncle Robby, and Uncle Nathan today. Since Jere and I had some time without him we decided to go shopping for his birthday. He is so easy to buy for that he is hard to buy for. He would be happy with anything, that makes it hard to decide what to get him. Going shopping with him he wants anything and everything. Once you buy it for him he loves it for awhile and then it sits on the shelf. There are a few gifts he really wants. One is a Bakugan super toy called Maxxus Dragonoid, however it is $40! After looking at several stores we came home with one little toy.

Once we got home and started to talk to Alma he said he wants a new DS game. That should make buying him a gift easier.

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A Name for the Blog

I've been thinking about doing a blog for a while now, I'm finally doing it. Coming up with a name that fit my family  proved to be quite difficult. So I started to look up the meaning of words. I found the perfect words to describe us. Here is what the blog title means. " Mischievous" a: able or tending to cause annoyance, trouble, or minor injury b: irresponsibly playful. "Adventure" a: an exciting or very unusual experience. b: participation in exciting undertakings or enterprises.c: a bold, usually risky undertaking; hazardous action of uncertain outcome.

I look forward to sharing our experiences with everyone.