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Grace Marjorie Javadi was born on Tuesday May 27th.  She is beautiful and perfect...More to come soon!!!!

In honor of Mother's Day

One of the funnest things about being a mom is the crazy, funny things my kids do and say...Carolyn puts the iPod in her ears and sings away, totally off tune...Hannah has an obsession with anything wild...just today we were in mid-conversation and she wandered off to catch a grasshopper. Guess talking to me was a little less than stimulating. I love listening to and watching Katie pretend for literally hours. She sings and talks and does entire plays with her little people or dolls that provide me with daily entertainment. And, of course, Sam never gives me a dull moment (even at this moment, he keeps coming up to me and trying to cut my sweater with scissors then laughing his head off when I say no, no). So, this morning, the morning after the BIG DAY, I was thinking of funny things I have heard my children (and other children who are visiting my house) say over the years. These were my favorites.

When Hannah was little she hated to get buckled. We tried to explain and discuss it with her telling her we wanted her to be safe, etc. etc. Still every time we got in the car it was a wrestling match with Hannah that usually involved a few kicks to the face. Finally one day, Cyrus just said he was going to drive with her unbuckled. Hannah looked at him in total disbelief and said, "NO! Mama thinks me special."

Carolyn was almost two and she had a little buddy named Enoch who had lots of play guns. Cyrus and I looked over and saw her, huddled up with Enoch toting some play gun shooting it out the screen door. We asked her, "Hey Carolyn, what are you doing?" She replied, "Oh, I'm just shooting that boy chocolate." We looked out to see one of our black (or chocolate, to a two year old) neighbors little kids.

Zane, our buddy from church, was over at our place for our weekly date, and I had a Mac laptop. Zane, it turns out has a special place in his heart for Macs. After a whole night of fiddling with it and turning it on and off, he ventured to ask Cyrus how much a Mac laptop would set him back. Cyrus explained that they are about $900. Zane looked real concerned for a minute and then asked, "Do you think Santa has $900?" Oh how we laughed. His Mom was in the know though, she told us Santa did not have $900. Good to know.

The absolute funniest thing ever said by one of our children, is not for tender eyes. When Sam was born, I was changing his pants in the hospital and Katie leaned over and said to me, "Mommy, the baby has a finger on his vagina."

That is why being a mom is not for the faint of heart. The faint of heart would die from laughter on some days and that other stuff on other days.