When Vance was just a tiny baby my mom made these blankets for all the kids for Christmas. They are fleece blankets, you know, the kind with the fringes on the sides? Well, Vance became extremely attached to his and we are never allowed to lose this blanket. He has specific knots in the tassels that he wraps around certain fingers. He HAS to have those knots when he sleeps. If you move the blanket while tucking him in he yells "mom, you lost my knot!". He also likes to tickle the inside of his ear with the tassels when he's upset.... it instantly calms him down. He's always done this, from the time he was a baby.
Tonight was one of those inevitable nights... the blanket just had to be laundered. It got dirty at the Lake today, and I can't get over my OCD enough to allow my kids to go to bed dirty or with dirty blankies! The conversation went something like this:

Vance: Mommy! Please, please, please get my blanket! *sob*

Me: Baby, you have to wait until it's clean... you can have it tomorrow.

Vance: But I NEED it! *sniff*

Me: Well, here's a blanket with tassels... can you use this one for tonight?

Vance: (testing the tassels out on his ear) It doesn't work!! *more sobs*

He suddenly stops crying.

Vance: Mom! I have a great idea!! We'll clean the blanket and then I'll just never get it dirty again!!

Great plan, buddy. Great plan.

Playing Catch up

Every time I open my picture folder I realize that I have tons of pictures of the kids that I have intended to blog and haven't. So today I'm playing catch up. There's nothing particularly clever or interesting about this post... just some really cute kids!! :)

Why is it that with an entire yard full of grass, the kids always manage to find the one patch of mud to play in?

(I realize now I should have cropped out my shadow... but I'm too lazy to start over and upload again.. )

And the other day I was trying to sneak up on Lilah while she was reading... it's awfully cute because she gets really intense and pretends to be reading the words... but just as I snapped she looked up and gave me this cute "look at how adorable I am" grin. And she is! 

"Is this a good activity?"

My children are strange.

One of their favorite activities is to put on their 'feetsy' jammies and race down the staircase on their stomaches. I guess this is what happens when you're homeschooled and your mom doesn't let you watch much t.v. :p

But I don't mind them being a little strange. Because the sound of them giggling and laughing and cheering each other on as they thump-bump down the stairs is wonderful to me!