Pure and Total Awesomeness!

Well, we are pretty much all moved in and settled.  The boys and I all love the house.  Shane and Hunter are still trying to adjust to sharing a room but I think this will be good for them....eventually.  The kids have already met all of the other neighbor boys and they all run back and forth to each other's houses and play.

I did notice something odd.  The boys all seemed to spend an awful lot of time in my backyard.  It confused me because the most exciting thing we have in our yard it a tire swing.....so I thought....

Yesterday I had one of my AMAZING parenting moments I heard a loud pounding outside.  I didn't think much of it at first.  Then it his me.  This image popped in my head.  An image I had seen the day before of 4 little boys with their heads together AHHHHHHH!!!!!

It was this image

Some sort of warning should have popped in my head one of those danger signs or probably all of them....

But they didn't.  I just thought it was cute and most likely innocent, and I sat and thought to myself

hmmm.......

"What could possibly go wrong??"

WELL, That previously mentioned pounding, THAT is what went wrong.......

I went running to the window and saw those boys making something out of scrap wood from behind the shed....but what were they pounding with?  Well, let me show you:::::

That's right folks!  You guessed it!!  A Sawzall and and Axe.  My 6 & 2 year old and 3 of the 6 yr old's friends were chopping and sawzalling. (<----probably not really a verb but that's the word I'm going with today).  I went running out there like a crazy person, I'm sure my eyes were crossed, my hair was standing, my claws were out and my head was smoking!!  I started yelling and they all got quiet and just looked at me and said "look at the cool thing we are building

Queue "cool thing"

Next thing I know, some little kid is looking at me saying "Hey, Shane's mom, do you have anything we can shoot at the fort with??"

Needless to say it was time for homework, dinner and a bath for Shane and a Big Ol' Boot for the other little terrorists!

OH and if this isn't parenting at it's finest. I caught Hunter eating out of the trash today......

That would be a banana that he dug out of the trash!

Knock, Knock.....

So, I finally met a neighbor.  She took it upon herself to kindly introduce herself to us at 1:40 am while wearing a night gown and a robe with a cigarette in her hand and a housewarming gift.  It was a gift of accusations, but not just any accusations, they were FLYING Accusations. Sweet huh?  I learned something new from these accusations.  "What?" you asked.  I learned that Heath and I clearly scream and fight in our sleep so loud that it woke her up.  I was also informed that we have a little girl.

Yeah, I know!  I was surprised to learn this too!!!!!

Not only do we have a little girl but we were yelling and making her scream and then we hid her away when our neighbor pounded our door down.  Heath calmly explained to her that we were all sound asleep seeing as it is 1 freakin' 40 in the morning and we have a sick kid!! Heath then spoke to her in his most gentle voice and asked if she had forgotten to take her meds.  She was not happy about that question. We then politely told her to go to hell and then closed the door in her very poorly aged face. What a warm welcome to the neighborhood.
It was almost like it could have been a really bad Knock Knock joke.......
Knock knock

"who's there?"

"your neighbor"

"your neighbor who?"

"your neighbor Sandy"

"that joke sucks sandy go away!!"

YEP She shall hate me soon enough, I'm sure!