February | 2011 | Six With Sticks

I had a long day at work today. I was at work until about 7:30. When I walked in the door an hour later, Maggie came running from the other room to see me. Daddy, daddy, daddy. Giggle, giggle, giggle. Hide behind Daddy, then run away giggling. With her little pigtails.

Maggie and Noah welcoming me home from work

Some days I get home and the dogs are barking. Well, that is a given. The dogs bark every time I walk in the door. Some days though I walk into a hornet’s nest, everyone grouchy, and it’s high tension until the kids go to bed. Well, really til they go to bed, and then finally go to sleep after several trips to their room or yells up the stairs.

But tonight, I walked in the door late, and everyone was in a good mood. Noah hugged Maggie. Then he lifter her up, she was giggling. Then Edie wanted in, so she picked up Noah while he was picking up Maggie. They were all smiling and giggling.

Then, Marcia let me have my little Lukie while she got everyone ready for bed. I sat him next to me while I ate my dinner. And we made faces at each other. He smiled at me a lot. It was some night.

(that melt my heart and make me laugh)

A lot has changed these last few months. Luke is getting bigger. And just the other day, he ate his first bowl of cereal.

Now Marcia is making her own baby food. She is a chef I tell you.

Liz got straight As in school. And she went to a lacrosse camp and won first place in a long distance shot competition; she won a stick.

Long Distance Shot Winner - Elizabeth Kennedy

Eden just got her third spelling test in a row back, 100% all around + the bonus words. Basketball coming up this weekend and Liz is in the all star game. Both the older girls are preparing for the lax season and finishing up basketball. We’re thinking about whether or not to start Noah this year, but probably not, he’s too young.

Marcia is a fiend on the treadmill. Her ass is so fine… damn.

Tonight, Noah got an awful hair cut. Marcia and I gave it to him. We used scissors and dog clippers. Geez, I hope he doesn’t remember. I clipped his ear and he cried. Even through the drama, it probably looks better than it did beforehand. A few more weeks and he would have been Justin Beeber.

Tonight I got home from work and Maggie was dressed as a hootchie mama. Yes. Her grandmother brought her some bootie-licious outfits. Leather pants for a three year old. And the jacket… seriously. Marcia asked her to put it on. It lasted about 2 seconds and Maggie took it off saying, “I’m too stressed to wear this.”

But the kicker tonight, the thing I really want to look back on and belly laugh, comes from the other side of town. It comes from a psycho known as Barbie Siecke. You see, Barbie had a crush on my older brother George in Kindergarten. I guess she never got over it. This week, Audrey took the kids out of town to go to Florida, and Barbie invited him out for drinks! Really Barbie, really?