Thing that go bump in the night!

Well, Jaden's nose is almost healed. His nose had an unfortunate "run in" with the teeth of a cute little girl in his nursery class. (I'm going with the theory that she was leaning in to kiss his cheek!) Ethan, my forever smart alec boy, wanted to know why she bit him and asked "is she a vampire?" (Sorry, um... little-girl's-mommy-who-will remain-nameless-who-reads-my-blog!! Feel free to smack the back of his head on Sunday!)

Tonight's funny comes from who else, but Jakey! He was using the downstairs half bath and he couldn't get out. Sometimes the door sticks and so he started yelling for help "I'm in the downstairs bathroom and I can't open the door, help me!!" Bryan was already walking down the hall (from right to left) and he didn't even pause in his walking as he opened the door. Out pops Jake and he looks to the right to say "thanks dad!" and no one is there! So he looks left and Bryan has already disappeared around the corner of the living room. He KNOWS it was his dad that opened the door, but he couldn't see him so he yelled out "thanks Papa Ghost!" as he headed back to the kitchen.

Prayers, solos, and a whole bunch of new words

We have had a busy night, as usual. We took the kids out to eat for the stellar report cards that they both earned and then we headed over to the elementary school for the 4th grade concert. KAYLEE SANG A SOLO!!!! She did so well! She went first too! The start of the song was a series of short solo's and Kaylee was the first one up. Of the six girls that sang solos, she was one of two that managed, despite looking like they were lined up in front of a firing squad, to sing on key. She sang really well and we are proud of her! Jake is today's comic relief, of course . In his sweet and heartfelt, albeit hysterical prayers, he never fails to amuse and/or shock us. The last several nights it has been "and please bless Emma that she won't yell so loud at Jaden". Those who know dear, sweet, authoritative "Princess Emma", will laugh and knowingly shake their heads. Tonight little Emma was passed over in Jake's prayer (for the 1st time in at least 2 weeks) in favor of Jaden's speech class that he has tomorrow morning. Jake said, "Bless that Jaden can learn a whole bunch of new words like 'turn on the fan' and 'help me open the door'". Yeah, those phrases are at the top of my "I wish he would learn to say " list!

Crystal Lite is evil...

Well, as much as I like crystal lite, it may forever be banned from my house!! Jaden, the wonder-kid, was at it again. He made a huge mess in the living room in the 2 minutes I was upstairs putting some clean laundry away in the drawers. He thought it was great fun to toss the piles of clean, folded laundry that I had stacked on the couch up into the air. Confetti clothes... gotta love it! Anyway, I chased him out of the living room and sent him upstairs to play in his room. You know, the room that already looked like a bomb exploded in it. Only problem was that he slipped back down stairs into the kitchen. About five minutes later I walk into the kitchen and there he is, in all his crystal lite glory, sitting on the counter. He had pushed a chair up to the counter and was sitting on the counter. He had gotten the little tub of Fruit punch flavored Crystal Lite powder OPEN!!! He was having a blast mixing bright red powder into Kaylee and Ethan's leftover milk in their cereal bowls from that morning. He even added a little fiber with some wheat kernels from the jar on the counter. Whole wheat fruit punch and milk soup anyone??! There was powder EVERYWHERE! I stripped him down and hosed him off in the bathroom sink. Then I tackled the kitchen. If you have ever spilled that stuff on the counter then you know, it takes bleach to remove it. I figured my Lysol kitchen cleaner spray, with bleach, would be best. I scraped up as much of the dry powder as I could, then I started spraying. Well, the powder is kinda pink, but once it's wet... let's just say that I am glad no police stopped by my house as I would have been arrested on the spot for the murder that had obviously taken place in my kitchen! Questions would come later! Red liquid covered everything; the front of the cabinets, the counter top, the cookie jar, the chair he used to climb up on, the floor, the cabinet handles, there were red finger prints (and yes, I do mean fingerprints, ridge detail and all!) over every conceivable (and a few inconceivable) surfaces in the kitchen. The more I cleaned and sprayed, the more red there seemed to be! When I finally managed to clean it up to the point that my rag was only slightly pink after wiping the counter down... yet again... I gave up. I walked back into the living room to finish putting away the laundry that I had already folded... twice, only to find Jaden sitting in the middle of the rug, surrounded by unfolded laundry. Some of which, he is attempting to put on. A leg thru an arm hole, an arm through a leg hole... you get the idea. Nap time could not come soon enough, for my SANITY and his LIFE that is!

Wow!! Bad guys, blood, beans, and boogers.

Were to start. Today has been… well, let’s just say that I have no desire to repeat it anytime soon. Kaylee, Jake and Jaden all had a horrible restless night last night because they all started to get a cold. Today it is a full “blow”, if you’ll excuse the pun, icky-yucky-no-good-very-bad cold. Jaden keeps sneezing and of course the boogers reach from his nose down to his chest. He’ll just stand very still and fuss a little till you clean him up. He has no desire to try to wipe it away himself! Jake, who is so picky about his nose and absolutely hates for anything to be running out of his nose, sniffs so hard that I am sure that the next sniff is going to suck anything he happens to be holding in his hands straight up his nose. Its gonna be a long week I can already tell.
For dinner tonight, we had hamburgers, corn, beans, carrots, and watermelon. Yum! Jaden was in his high chair, of course, right next to me. When about three quarters of the way through dinner he dropped his fork I leaned over to pick it up. Jaden chose that moment to dump his plate over the side of the highchair tray… directly onto the back of my head. I had bean juice and corn stuck in my hair. To make matters worse I look up at him and he shrieks in glee and scrunches up his nose and gives me the laugh that we have named the “evil genius laugh”.
Jaden said his first word, sort of. He says “wow” when he thinks something is cool, but he whispers it. He will not say it in a normal speaking volume. I guess that counts as a word though and since he is more then 18 months old, we’ll take it!
We have talked a lot about Daddy’s deployment to Iraq and what he does while he is there and why it’s important for him to be there. We told Jake, the 3 year old, that Daddy was there to "help the good people of Iraq to build their country". When he wanted to know why Daddy had to carry a gun, we told him that part of Daddy’s job was "to protect the good Iraqi people from the bad Iraqi people". This seems to have back fired. At bedtime all the kids say their prayers and they always pray that “daddy will be safe-t in Iraq”. Safe-t means safe in Hutcherson kid speak! Well, imagine my surprise to hear, “and bless the bad guys that they will lose their hearts and that their blood will come out” FROM OUR 3 YEAR OLD!!! Whoa! Hold the phone here! I explained that we never want bad things like that to happen to anybody. I explained that Heavenly Father loves those bad people too, they are just making bad choices. I told him that I still loved him when he makes a bad choice (all to frequently I might add!) and that Heavenly Father always loves his children even if they are bad. He finally got it and so we said another prayer and this time he said “and bless the bad guys in Iraq that they will turn into good guys so Daddy can come home”. Amen, my little man. Amen.

blue stuff and throw up

It's an unusual day here in good ol' AZ. IT'S RAINING!! In fact the office roof is dripping like a sieve. Today's funny comes from poor little Jakey. On the way to church today he all of a sudden exclaims, "Mom, the clouds are stuck together!!" "oh?" I answered, "they are?" "yeah", he says. A few seconds later he shreiks, "MOM, WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THE BLUE STUFF!?!?!" It took me a second and then I could barely answer with out laughing out loud, "the "blue stuff" is still there, Jake. The clouds are covering it." Well, it was nice to have a good funny from him today as he hasn't had a good day since then. We went to church and he made it through sacrament meeting with no problems at all. In fact he was actually really good. I thought it was great! The big kids went on to primary and I took Jaden to nursery. About 45 minutes later, Ka'lani (my friend) came and found me to tell me that Jake was throwing up. I went out into the hall and his teacher was with him and he was white as a ghost and throwing up, again, into a garbage can. His teacher is Sister Miller and she told me that he had been really good and had sat still the whole time he was in primary. In fact she had leaned over and told him that he was being such a good example and being so reverent! She said he was just sitting there one second and then throwing up the next. No warning, no complaining, no indication that anything was wrong. He threw up all down the front of himself and onto his lap, but even then Sister Miller said he just sat there and didn't say anything. I brought him home and cleaned him up and he has dozed on and off laying on the couch, waking up every half hour or so to throw up again. Poor Jakey!!

Just a quick note about the new video. This isn't Jaden. This is Raspberry Boy, Jaden's superhero alter ego.

Nursery. To be or not to be.

Well, even though children have to be 18 months old to start going to nursery, they took pity on me and said that I could bring Jaden in as long as I stayed with him. My back and my patience readily agreed. The result? Jaden is so ready for nursery. Nursery is so NOT ready for Jaden. He loved it. Will have NO problems staying by himself when I leave (only 4 more Sundays to go!), but he is going to be a handful. While doing puzzles, his gnat like attention span would only let him do his own puzzle for no more then 2 seconds before he just had to "help" the child next to him! Then when it was reading time, he rolled around on the floor, "yelling" because it kinda sounded cool. Snack time was interesting as he shoved all his goldfish crackers into his mouth at one time, then turned to grab the goldfish belonging to the little girl next to him. He then poured his little paper cup of water all down the front of his shirt. When he let it be known through pointing that he wanted more water, they gave him a small amount. Their mistake. Let's just say that it is good that it was a "small" amount as he poured it over little Sarah's head and then took her goldfish crackers. I'm not sure they are going to let him come back!! Actually, that is not totally true. I think that they will let him back in if only for comic relief. Couldn't stop laughing.

Lost your Oreo?

Well, Jaden has discovered a new favorite food. He got to have an Oreo cookie for the first time ever and he is in LOVE. He looks like he got into a potted plant and ate the dirt. He made such a mess with his Oreo that I firmly belief that he got more of it stuck on his face and hair then he did in his tummy!
Yesterday our little cousin Aubree had her 5th birthday party. Grandma took Kaylee, Ethan, and Jake down to Maricopa for the party. When they were getting ready to go, Kaylee couldn't find her other tennis shoe. She pouted and whined and hollered and worked up to a tantrum... over a shoe!! Grandma was not pleased. She told Kaylee that she would have to wear her other shoes. Kaylee didn't want to and was very put out to say the least, but finally put on other shoes because Grandma threatened to leave her home. Once they were in the car and on the way, Kaylee calmed down and told Grandma, "I'm sorry I lost my impatience with my shoes."