Mr Miyagi

Did you ever see the movie Karate Kid? Mr Miyagi spends half of the movie trying to catch a fly with a set of chopsticks and finally succeeds at the end of the movie. I spent half of my day today trying to catch (even though I am using a fly swatter, Wyatt says I am trying to "catch" the fly) a huge fly that the kids let in to the house early this morning. Tonight right before bed Wyatt actually CAUGHT the fly with his fingers and brought it over to me while it was struggling and buzzing trying to get away. I have no idea how he caught a live fly with his fingers or even how he managed to keep it alive but it was a little Mr Miyagi-ish for me... so we ate it! Just kidding. He let it go and it flew away and I finally got it with the fly swatter after the kids were in bed.

We have had a few rainy days this week and decided to make cookies yesterday to kill some time. We used Grandma Kathie's cookie recipe and the ingredients that she left for us last time she visited. I have never made sugar cookies with all three kids. We usually make snickerdoodles or chocolate chip cookies or something that doesn't require rolling dough and using cookie cutters. It was a little stressful. The kids love sticking their fingers in freshly rolled-out dough.They also love using their cookie cutter about 89 times a minute like a miniature jackhammer to make their cookie. But, what they especially love is shaking their sprinkles onto the cookies so that each sugar cookie has a tiny pile of sprinkles that looks like a volcano resting on top of it. The cookies were delicious though and we might attempt making sugar cookies again in 2011.

Last night when it was storming at bedtime there was tons of thunder and lightening. Wyatt turned to John and I and said "Mom, why is it taking a picture outside?". Do you think that Mom takes too many pictures of him?

Finally, tonight Wyatt ran head first into the corner of the wall in the family room and really whacked himself hard. He cried for a while and then looked up at me finally and said "Mom, I almost cracked my head open...and then I wouldn't be able to see because my eyes would be gone!"