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Maddie has occupied this bedroom for 3 years now. The blinds were never tampered with.

Lyndon has occupied this room for 3 months and now the blinds looks like this:

any questions?

Maddie came to find me tonight and said in a high-pitched sober tone, "Mom, I have some bad news...every time I ask Lyndon to hold my hand and he won't, it breaks my heart."

I should receive a medal for holding in my laughter during perilous times such as these.

Out of the blue one day Maddie says, "I don't like aliens, they creep me out." o-kay. I wonder what she's been watching? Speaking of watching, her favorite show lately is "Phineas and Ferb". Am I crazy, or is that show really funny? I find myself laughing out loud at least 3 or 4 times each episode. ..."I know what we're gonna do today, Ferb!" Yes, I can even quote lines from it.

After Maddie and Lyndon were in bed Maddie came out, acting as the spokesperson for the two of them. They wanted some chocolate milk in a sippy. I told them if they could stay in bed for 10 minutes and NOT get out, even once, I would bring them up some chocolate milk. They agreed and I closed the door. After about a minute I hear Maddie say, "Lyndon! NO! Don't do it! She really wont' bring us any milk if you go out!! STOP!" He must have listened because he didn't come out. So 10 minutes passed and true to my word, I opened their bedroom door with 2 sippies of chocolate milk. As soon as I walked in Maddie turned to Lyndon with a smile and said, "See what I mean, Lyndon?". I can really get used to this Maddie enforcer girl.

Lyndon was sitting at the island eating and out of the blue said, "ah-poo-dee-zee" and then lets out a big laugh. What? I'm clueless. So I asked him to repeat himself. Again, he says, "ah-poo-dee-zee". I'm still not catching it so I turn to his interpreter, Maddie. "Maddie, what did he just say?" "Oops-a-daisy". Oh, of course.

Thank goodness for Maddie. She's helps me out all day deciphering Lyndon's words. She's right pretty much every time. I should start paying her by the hour.

So here's what we've been doing this summer...

turning on the hose and playing in the water. Sadly though, even the water from the hose is warm.

(it's been over 100 degrees for something like over 50 days now. It's sickening.)

classic Maddie.

classic Lyndon.

This is how the fun ended... Maddie thought she saw an ant.

Calling all e-mail addresses!! ...we're going private, people.

After much thought we decided to go private. There's just too much crazy stuff and scary weirdos out there for me to keep our blog public.

SOOOOO.....all of you who read our blog and want to keep up with our two silly monkeys (because let's face it, it's really all about them), just leave your e-mail in the comments section or send me an e-mail at:

katie_perkes@yahoo.com

P.S. To those of you who read our blog and are like, "Oh, she doesn't really know me that well maybe I shouldn't ask to be added to her private blog..." Get over it and send me your e-mail anyways. Just let me know how I know you. Oh yeah, and you can't be one of those creepy weirdo's either.

(and mom, I have your e-mail don't worry.)

My Buddy

I'm glad a picture is worth a 1000 words because I'm not sure how to describe the absolute love and adoration I have for this little guy. (Yes, even after he cut my hair...) So here it is 5000 words all about us...

When the dogs bite, when the bees sting...

These are a few of my favorite things: (not just your average whiskers on kittens and warm woolen mittens, I might add...)

grape bubble bum
Robert's Craft store
hotdog on a stick
Sunny crisp Thanksgiving days
rice crispie treats with chocolate chips
cycling class
the smell of Tide
hospitals (I know, I'm weird)
nesquik chocolate milk
driving in the car with my music really loud
seeing Maddie and Lyndon hold hands
samples at Costco
eating junk food and camping out in the living room while we all watch movies. yep. I love that one. especially tonight. i hope Maddie and Lyndon will always want to join in on the family fun. even when they're 50.

(I just realized that about half my favorite things are food related. It's no secret. I love food.)

Of course I had to throw in a few pictures.

Sunday afternoon Lyndon was wayyyyy too quite for an extended period of time. This is how we found him...

What happens while Mom is out of town...

I can't sing enough praises for Jonathon. Not only did he WANT to stay home with the kids while I was in Idaho but he did such a wonderful job on top of it. I had no doubt of his amazing father abilities. He gave me a play by play throughout the week but seeing the pictures he took was the icing on the cake for me. Isn't he great? ...

He did this craft with them. It started out as a pinwheel but the final product turned into a Chinese Throwing star. Not surprised. :)

I couldn't stop laughing at these pictures of Lyndon. Silly boy. What makes it even funnier for me is that HE KNOWS he's being funny. He likes to make people laugh. Jonathon said he kept these goggles on the whole evening in hopes of getting more and more laughs.

This is the best...he made mac-in-cheese with cut up hot dogs. :)

And could it possibly be true? They both made their beds everyday while I was gone.

(yes, poor Lyndon has a purple sheet on his bed. But in my defence I only have one boy sheet and it was in the wash!)

Thanks to one awesome Dad Maddie and Lyndon had a great week while I was gone. But happy for me they were also super excited to see me when I returned. I just love being their Mom.

I've never let the kids listen to the primary songs on cd.

I can't do it.

The high-pitched whiny voices are enough to send me to an early grave. I'm so distracted by the noise that I can't possibly feel those warm fuzzy feelings that I should be feeling when I listen to uplifting music. It makes me feel guilty to have mean thoughts about the singers while I'm listening to "I'm Trying to Be like Jesus". So I just eliminate my guilt all together and pursue the course of never listening to the cd's.

I admit, I do feel as if I'm doing a disservice to Maddie and Lyndon by not introducing them to all these wonderful songs but I guess they just have to wait until someone like say...Jason Mraz decides to make a remix of all the primary songs. Here's hoping...

BTW, Maddie has picked up on several Primary songs while at church. She started singing, "I Love to see the Temple" while taking a bath last night. Thank you Stony Point Primary! I owe ya one.



I've been saving diaper boxes, cereal boxes, egg cartons and milk jugs for the last month or so because I just knew I was going to think of an awesome project for the kids...well, I couldn't really think of anything amazing but the boxes were taking over the pantry so it was either throw them away or make something out of it. So I introduce to you Maddie and Lyndon's castles...
I've been amazed by how much they have actually played with these. It keeps them entertained for hours...

Lyndon like to eat his snacks in he castle.

"Mommy, more candy, pweeeeze." How can I resist him when he says it with such sweetness while looking up to me with those big blue eyes?

Here they are playing "store". Lyndon has just bought some eggs from Maddie. Apparently he likes to drink his eggs immediately after buying them. To each his own...

I had to throw this picture in. This is one of his new favorite shirts. His other all time favorite shirt has a skeleton on it with two skateboards as crossbones. He is his father's son.