Crazy Day

Today was fun. A bit strange. A bit crazy. A bit funny. A bit weird. But it was fun. This Thursday was the first of many that I will helping a family with 8 kids. I was really looking forward to it. Today was so much fun. First we went to gymnastics, because "J-man" and "Micky Mouse" take gym. All the rest of the gang came too {except "Cowboy", who was helping his dad at the house}. The "gang" consists of {in youngest to oldest, the oldest being 10 I think (nicknames to protect privacy)}:

1. "Miss Cool Shades" ~ 2 years old, cute, can't tell the difference between her feet {literally}, likes sunglasses, shoes, and pizza. Her catchphrase is: "Ew...gross...nasty!"

2. "Micky Mouse" ~ 3 years old, energetic {very!!}, sweet, likes my phone, my hat, my house, my mom....and trying to hide things when she thinks I'm not looking.

3. "J-man" ~ turning 4 years old, dangerous!!!! Energetic! Has the most cute, monkey-ish {slightly evil} smile in the world!! Apparently he likes butterscotch lollipops *makes CHOMP noise* and pieces of fuzz that used to be a deerskin blanket....? Oh, and his favorite activities may include swinging from chandeliers and climbing out windows {that happened a long time ago}.

4. "Manny" ~ 4 years old. He's the strong, silent type. I think he will be a good football player. He likes riding in between two moving grocery carts, making funny faces, shooting people with guns {his fingers}, and bouncing.

5. "Cowboy" ~ 5 years old. Likes guns and fixing things. I didn't get to spend as much time with him as with the others because he was helping his dad with something. I will say he's probably the hardest to understand out of all of them. Sometimes you simply have to resort to smiling and nodding while saying occasionally, "Yeah. That's cool." I hate doing that...not understanding them...kind of awkward.

6. "Gabby" ~ 7 years old. Likes dolls, books, dresses, and talking. She talked alot. But not unpleasantly a lot. She's very sweet. A good helper. Big, blue eyes. She told me her favorite Lord of the Rings movie was the third one. And she hated the second. *I-don't-agree-with-that look* But oh well. :)

7. "X-box" ~ 9 years old. Likes X-box, games, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, computer games, swords, now-or-later candies. He's nice to talk to and very intelligent.

8. "Sewing Machine" ~ 10 years old. Very responsible and a good helper. Likes to sew, cook, read, and play computer. She's very wise for her age and she's kind of quiet...well, not to my sister anyway {they're really good friends}, but she has very good self control.

Phew...I think that's everyone. Well, we went to gym first and I watched Tom and Jerry with the kids who weren't in class. I haven't seen that show in a while. Not much has changed. Poor Tom is still persecuted for merely trying to eat, Jerry is still ganging up on Tom with the help of his scheming dog friend, and that little "touche, pussycat!" mouse is still trying to become a mouseketeer.

After that we went shopping. This was a very new experience. We went to two stores. I have never had to shop with two carts. Ever. Cool Shades was riding in the first cart. Mouse was in the other cart. Manny had a foot on each of them, trying to keep his balance. J-man kept trying to switch from the back of one cart to the other. M&M talked to me, telling me stories and pointing out the abnormal purple tennis shoes of the man nearby. We got pizza {much to the relief of Cool Shades} and ate that in the car.

We went home and tried to get some of the little ones to take naps. The older ones played on computer or did x-box. I watched for a bit as X-box played a baseball game where he purposefully threw the ball at the batter's face. That was funny. Then Sewing Machine and I called out different body parts for him to hit. "Knee!" "Stomach!" Then his pitcher got kicked out of the game *scowl* but it was still fun.

I cleaned the cabinets {they were really grimey, grody, and dirty} because they were having some people stay at their house later on. Somewhere around this time, poor Mouse rounded a kitchen corner, stolen cheeto in hand, and stepped in the water bowl, knocking it over and falling on her face. Then when my mom came to pick me up, I watched with amusement as poor little Cool Shades tried to put on Mouse's shoes. She had them on the wrong feet. So then she took them off, switched them on the ground, and then put them on again ~ still on the wrong feet! "Cool Shades," I said as she picked up her left shoe and moved it over her right foot, "Wrong foot." She looked at me, blinked, put the shoe down, picked up the right shoe, and moved it over her LEFT foot! I laughed. She eventually got some help and happily trudged around the house.

And...then we left. We met up with Chair and Bear at night at a Bible Study and we watched little Bear. That was fun. We had some laughs. *Thinking* Well...Chair's never on, Will is *someone comes and muffles the next sentence; then leaves*, Marissa is having tons of fun at camp {hopefully} and who knows how long it will be before the Moonarrows get back to blogging...*narrowed eyes* So I don't really know who I'm blogging to.

... Ciao and have a good day! *To the wall* Thanks for listening.

~ Captain Bonnie Spinner

PS. So if I don't reply to anything you do on Thursdays...this is why. Oh, and Fridays I am working out with Marial. For a while. Yeah.