7-year old logic

My younger brother, Kleo(7) has an area in the boys room that he is responsible to keep clean. Well he doesn't like to keep it clean, and mom will go help him clean it up sometimes. So Christmas is coming and I come up with an excellent plan to motivate Kleo to keep his area clean. I go into his room where he is slowly cleaning up and I say "there is 19 days till Christmas and I will give you a stick of gum for everyday that you have your area clean." (sugar free gum, of course). "And on Christmas you will get a nice present." His eyes light up and he says "Ooo gum!  I wonder what my present will be! Maybe a hundred boxes of toys!" He laughs wickedly, than stops "No! I don't want toys! Toys are my worst enemy!!!" I laugh at him and look at Klement, who is supervising Kleo and I say "what?" Klement laughs and says "he doesn't like toys, because than he has to clean them up." 
*Laughs* Yeah, Kleo is a rather funny child. But that is his logic, if he has to clean it up, he doesn't like it. Lol! :)

Look out! Flying cows!!!

So I recently got an iPad. And it is really nice! Well one of the games I downloaded on it was called cowabunga. Lol. Sometimes I will let my siblings play and it is really funny to watch them crowd around the iPad and squeal! Lol. 
Basically in this game, cows jump off of a cliff (sometimes more than one) and you have to catch them using a life raft and they bounce on the life raft all the way to the other side. 
The kids really start to squeal when you are bouncing three or four cows at once :D 


So go bounce a cow! lol ;)

My orange tambourine

For dessert at lunch today we had tangerines. They were rather delightful on this dreary looking day. And my seven year old brother, Kleo (who had yet to finish his lunch) asks "i want a tambourine too." Lol!!! We correct him; telling him it is a tangerine instead of a tambourine. A tambourine is a musical instrument. But even when corrected he continued to call them tambourine's throughout the rest of the meal. So then Karmen (who is ten) starts singing "my green tambourine". 

Lol, just another day at the Monroe house :)

Collie :)

For those of you who know me well; know that I adore Collie's. They have such natural elegance, and a beautiful grace. Loyal and sweet, they are the dogs of dreams. Or at least my dreams :) It is on my bucket list to get a purebred Collie. And when I can afford to get one, I will :)

Pot-bellied pig

So today on the way to town, we saw a lady walking her dog and what looked to me like a baby pig. It was rather humorous.
Well that brought up a discussion in our car; I say "wouldn't that be the best? To have a little pot bellied pig that you house trained and leash trained? You could walk it around town and get the funniest looks from people!" Kelita in the back seat starts laughing and says "aw wouldn't that be so cute?" Than Karmen says "but Karis! I was going to get a pot bellied pig first! You can't get one!" I simply laugh as I picture people walking pigs around on leashes. Growing up on a farm; pigs were always outside animals to me. But oh the fun you could have with an inside pig! Lol! So today I leave you with this:

Do something fun and moral! :)

Millipedes :P

So it's is ten o'clock at night, everyone is asleep except for myself. I can't sleep so I get up to use the bathroom. I see this huge (two inch long) millipede on the floor. After I question to myself how it got inside, I think of a way to kill it. I set the trash can on it thinking that the weight of the trash can should squish it. Guess what? It didn't. millipedes are tough! Well it just so happens that there is a brick in the bathroom to keep the door open. I take the brick and set it on the centipede, I hear this sickening crunch. I'm feeling pretty good and start to wash my hands, when I hear another crunch from under the brick, followed by a few more. My thought's turn to the huge millipedes in  the new King Kong movie that I recently watched. Ick! Nastiness! But the millipede is dead. I am glad...

 <-- Ick!!