Five for Friday: I don't even know.

I really don't have time to blog anymore. 

I feel bad because this is my main source of recording memories since I've taken a hiatus from scrapbooking.  You know, because I didn't have time to do that either.

We won't mention the fact that there is so much random shit stacked up in my scrapbook area that I can't even access most things.  Oh...and the paid bills that need to be filed and the old bills I pulled out to shred to make more room for the paid bills that need to be filed.  This could go on and on and on...but I won't bore you with the details.

Anyhooters, I feel like I should atleast update y'all on all the crazy junk that goes on at my house.  As if you care about that. :)

• Jayna has been sick.  She has a sinus infection.  I was home with her most of the day on Monday.  Since Halloween only comes once a year, we let her go trick-or-treating to about 10 houses.  She'd had enough after that and she had a really bad night.  I ended up staying home with her on Tuesday also.  When Chris came home on Tuesday, he went STRAIGHT outside to clean up leaves.  I, on the other hand, remained in the house with the kid.  Jayna wanted to go outside and since it was 70 degrees outside...I LET HER.  SICK AND ALL.  We were going crazy.  Seriously.  On Wednesday, I went back to work.  I was ecstatic.  While I enjoy the fact that I have a job that is flexible enough so I can stay home with a sick kid, after a few days with Whiney McWhinester, I'm ready to cry.  When I picked Jayna up from school, she threw a fit before we were even out of the parking lot.  When we got home, I set her up in the living room with her toys and a show and then I promptly lifted the glass in the screen door and went outside to rake leaves.  I had to be away.  Just...away.  When Chris came home, he made fun of me for using a regular rake instead of our leaf blower/mulcher/vac.  He said, "Just go in.  I'll finish this."  I looked him right in the eye and said, "I'M NOT GOING IN THERE."  He apparently understood what was going on and quickly showed me how to use the leaf vac. I stayed out there until 6:30pm.  And I vacuumed a pile of leaves into the shape of boobs.  Don't worry...they had on a bra.
• Jayna got a Fisher Price kid's camera for Christmas last year.  It was...well, let's just say that it doesn't work the way Jayna wants it to.  It doesn't have a flash and the lighting in our house sucks, so most things she takes a picture of (read:  the black and very quick dog Ollie) just look like a blur.  Also?  The button you push to take the pictures fell off and we have to keep putting it back on.  Also?  I have to change the batteries in it after every 15 pictures or so.  Well, last week, she was trying to take a picture of a bug on the screen door.  It was dark outside.  She kept taking the picture and then looking at the screen of the camera to see if she got a good picture.  They all just looked like black pictures.  She got so mad that she couldn't even form a sentence.  She threw the camera down on the floor and this is what I got from her:  "Mommy, that dang camera!!  It...I can't...all my pictures don't work.  I can't see the bug...I...THAT DANG CAMERA!!!  It is....the button broke....and the batteries...why are the batteries out?  You changed 'em 1 day ago...THAT DANG CAMERA, MOMMY!!!"  It was really sad and really funny at the same time.  I simply said, "Yes, I know, Jayna.  That camera hasn't worked right since you got it."  She looked up at me very satisfied and said, "Yeah, mommy!!!  You're right!!  I'm gonna tell that to Santa."  I'm glad I can be there for her to help her express herself. :)
• Jayna thinks that the singular of ear wax is ear whack.  This is the most hilarious thing I've ever heard.  Seriously.  She tells me, "Mommy, I think I have a whack in my ear."  And I die laughing every. Single. Time.  That is all.
• Jayna's new speech patterns include "I would like..."  or "Would you like..."  It makes me proud because I've been trying to teach her that for sometime.  Instead of, "Mommy, I want a snack!!!"  I make her ask me again like this:  "Mommy, I would like a snack, please."  Now, I don't expect her to do this all the time or anything, but I think it's important that she know how to speak in a proper way.  And she's learning.  Now she says everything that way.  "Mommy, I would like pizza for dinner."  "Mommy, would you like to color with me?"  "Daddy, would you like to dance with me?"  It's pretty cute. :)
• Jayna has been making the decisions of which toys she wants to "give to the babies" when she gets some new things for Christmas.  I have been explaining to her that she is getting bigger and likes different things than she did when she was little.  And since she doesn't play with some of her toys anymore, that maybe she could give some of them to other kids who would actually play with them.  Well, she interpreted that to mean that all the toys she gets rid of are going directly to little babies.  She regularly brings me things and says, "Mommy, I don't play with this anymore.  Can we give it to the babies?"  It's pretty funny.  I'm glad she's learning the idea of charity, but I'm not sure how to explain to her that all of her things aren't going to a rogue group of babies.  I think I'll leave that one alone for now.  There will be time to explain all that when she's older.

That's all I have.  You?