Things You Wouldn't Expect (Or Maybe You Would. I Don't Know).

While I've pretty much decided to "expect the unexpected" (thanks, Big Brother: The TV Show), I must say that there are still moments that I find wonderfully adorable, strange, quirky, or blog worthy. So of course I take pictures of it all in the hopes that my family who live far, far away will have a better understanding of why I would up in a looney bin, sucking my own toes and rolling around on the cement floor in an infinity pattern, my straight jacket ties dancing behind me like some rhythmic gymnastics routine gone horribly awry.

So here are some "things you wouldn't expect" around here to tickle your funny bone and solidify one more notch in my gradual ratcheting up the kooky ladder.

#1: BEST FRIENDS FOREVER (Direct quote, there. And yes, I'll be sure to show them this when they are 13/15 and freaking the Hell out on each other).

#2: Avery's hair in pig tails!!!! It's finally growing!

#3: "MOMMY! I am so mad at you and I'm not gonna take this anymore! This is ridiculous! I'm LEAVING!" (Said because I wouldn't let her look at the pictures until I was done). What's unexpected about this attitude? I laughed at her.

#4: "But I wanted to push the buttons to make it hot! Now it will taste awful!" The unexpected? I ate the soup. Too bad.

#5: A child who climbs dangerously high up on the furniture and then devilishly Evel Kneivil's her 30 lb self halfway across the family room in a blaze of glory? Yeah. That's Avery. The unexpected? She's not wearing any pants.

#6: A child (dressed to the 9's, of course) who curls up on the floor clutching a water bottle in a seemingly cranky fit of fury? Nope. It's our new "kitty" named cupcake who likes to fetch.

Cupcake sitting and waiting for me to toss the bottle. Her movements are strangely canine, but she INSISTS that she's a cat. I don't even like cats. Where did she get this game?

"Fetching" said water bottle.

TA-DA! I'm a proud, proud mommy.

#7: A child who randomly runs in and out of the kitchen like this?

And like THIS?

#8: The girls take "gummy" vitamins, and love to play with them before they eat them. So here they are on the kitchen floor (love the style, I know), getting ready to eat the gummies.

And then this happened.

And this.

#9: It's late July. And the girls aren't wearing these coats to play. It really WAS FREAKING COLD OUTSIDE! For real. That's a real fire going in the pit.

#10: 6 chairs aren't enough. To make a regulation sized fort/barn/stable/maze/obstacle course/mess, apparently we need EVERY chair in the house.

#11: Avery won't go to bed. She's figured out how to talk to the camera (me), and even after a gazillion and one trips out of her room (I gotta tell you a question, but Mommy, I need to brush my teeth, but Mommy I have to pee more, but mommy wait I have to tell ya another question, but I need more water, but I want you to lay with me a little bit, but I want a different show, but I......), she still finds more things to do to prolong the inevitable.

Here's a video of her playing with her puppy. Please notice that she's NOT SLEEPING!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7OanIhDbhA



#12: They actually stop moving every now and then, in the middle of the day, which is a freaking miracle! Morgan passed out at 5 and I wound up carrying her up to bed, where she stayed!

#13: Morgan loves ponies! NO WAY!!!!!!

#14: Avery created her own spa, complete with hair styling, yummy food, and a foot soak!

#15: Avery likes Brussels sprouts. Really? What WON'T this kid eat?!

#16: The girls get along! Especially when Avery is a little girl named Abby and Morgan is a big girl named Kaitlyn. Yup. They even gave me a pretend name. I'm Lillia. Just so you know.

Kaitlyn feeding Abby

#17: But when Avery is the kitty named Cupcake, she likes to eat right from the bowl.

#18: Avery can be found in small boxes/spaces/things. She's some kind of contortionist. Or maybe she just has a Freudian desire to return to the womb? I don't know. She's kooky!

Here she's the "kitty" in a box and I was supposed to be a little girl who went to the pet store to go buy a kitty and I found her. I don't know why the pillow was necessary. I think because we couldn't close her in the box all the way.

And in Syd's crate. It's the faces that make her more interesting that your typical "kid in a dog crate funny pic"

"OOOOOOOOOOOO"

"EHHHHHHHHHHHH"

So there you go. 18 of the real weird happenings around this place, and of course I'm going to document them all!