A Very Rude Robot

Ok, today, day 6, Saturday, we got ready early and did some garage sale shopping. It was harder with 4, but still fun. I bribed the big kids with a little spending money so they were willing to cooperate. The little mouse rode happily in the sling, and the little monster was unusally tame. It might be a regular Saturday thing while J is gone.

Not only did we have fun (I love garage sales) but I was also very successful! At the very first house, I found the fisher price dome tent that I've been searching for-- they don't make it anymore and they're SO expensive on ebay. It will be great for the little mouse at the pool and the beach:

Then, princess found a purple "big girl bike"

Next, I hit a stash of 2T gymboree fall clothes for the little monster. And we had a few moments with the big brother over a stuffed snake that I said "no" to--stuffed animals from strangers gross me out. He's having some arguing issues lately, but in the end he walked away.

And he found what might be the best find of the day! We thought we were buying a cool robot coin bank, but when we took it home and added the batteries, it was not your ordinary robot coin bank. It was a farting, grunting, burping, rapping, austrailian robot coin bank!!!! Here it is in action:

and the robot rap:

Now tomorrow is our first Sunday to make it to church on time without J, and our first Sunday to eat dinner at Point Pleasant without J. . . I'll let you know how it goes. . .

360 Skittles

I put 360 skittles in the jar, 120 each for the 3 big kids. I think I overestimated how many we'd need, so I'll take the red ones out and send the bag to J. I guess it's good to remember that our last deployment would have filled 3 of those jars for three kids and God was so faithful! I thought this blog might be an easy way to keep a Daddy up to date on his kids. and maybe add the grandparents too.
Day 2 & 3 really really stunk. Days 4 & 5 got better. Here are the kiddos this week.

Sweet little mouse:

Big Sis+Lil Sis = Love?

this big brother loves to sleep in a zoo of stuffed animals

the little monster decorated his legs (and the kitchen table) with markers.