Peanut

Some mothers push their babies on a walk. Others drag them.

10 is ENOUGH!!!

So a couple of weeks ago Nickel brought home 2 pet mice for Peanut. I was less then thrilled but didn't put up too much of a fight. Nickel and I had a pet rat when we got married. Bebee was a sweet little rat and Nickel cleaned out her cage and all was good. Bebee died before Peanut was born. This morning Peanut was commenting on how fat the black one was. I told her she better not be pregnant because we don't have room for baby mice. Well, that's just too dang bad. After sending Peanut to get me a Kleenex she came back almost hysterical.

"MOM!" she exclaimed. "My two mice are married!"

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"They had babies, they're grown ups now and married now!"
"What do you mean they had babies?"
"Come see, they got married and now they have babies!"
Yep, 8 babies. I'd say they're grown ups. Oh, and the cat that Peanut's been holding hostage since she came home three weeks ago, she's pregnant too. Probably have her litter within the next few weeks. Guess we're gonna need to build on to the house now.

Here's the proud daddy keeping his babies warm while momma got a drink of water.
Did you know they were born bald? I didn't. Now I need to go google mice and see if there's anything I need to know.

She's 8?

Peanut's birthday is next month. She's going to be 7 but everytime someone asks, she tells them she's going to be 8. She's quite convincing at it too, I had to actually pause and think about it the other day. She doesn't understand why she can't be 8 yet. So my question is, why can't we be what ever age we want to be? Why do we have to follow these stinkin rules that say we have to go in order!

Dove Promise: There's no excuse not to dream.

Peanut 6:28-29

And it came to pass in the 7th year of the new Millennium in the first month and 28th day that the Peanut cried out unto the Lord saying,

"Oh Lord! My heart is sad for my cat has been missing for days. Please, dear Lord, send my cat home that I might feed her and pet her and make her play with me in my room."

And that day the Lord heard the Peanut's prayer. And on the day of the 29th, as foretold by the Prophetess named Momma, when the Peanut returned to her home from a long day of school and after-school care the cat awaited her at the back door. And the Peanut did rejoice because the Lord had heard her prayers and sent the cat home.

South Carolina

Peanut, as you know, has lots of wisdom to bestow on us mere mortals. The following is an actual conversation I had with her this morning.

Mom, I want to go to South Carolina.
Okay. Why do you want to go to South Carolina?To see the Penguins. Duh. I really should've known that!

To read more about penguins and other animals from Peanut you can go here to last May.

This is the way we brush our teeth...

The B&W one is baby Peanut. She took forever to grow her hair!!!

This is true love!

Candy Cane (on the left) and I thought it was lots of fun fixing my dad's hair when we were 4.

Peanut thought so too... 20 years later.

SWC

No, Uncle Joe, that title of today's post does not mean 'Single White Cow' or 'Solid While Cold' or even 'Seen With Catwoman'. But thanks for asking.

Actually SWC means Strong-Willed-Child. I have one of these said children. Have you ever met a strong willed child? I have. I know one quite well. If there were a picture in the dictionary next to Strong Will Child here is what it would be.

Strong willed children are very intersting. A prime example would go something like this.

Once upon a time there was a strong willed child. She loved playing with her baby dolls, her friends, and her dog. One day the strong willed child was playing with a baby doll when her beautiful mother told her it was time to do her homework. The little girl did not want to do her homework because she wanted to play with her doll instead. After the third time of telling the strong willed child to do her homework the beautiful mother took the doll and stroller away. The strong willed child was quite upset and began throwing a fit. She screamed. She yelled and she stomped through the house. The beautiful mother tried to talk calmly to the strong willed child to get her to calm down but the strong willed little girl could think of nothing except playing with her doll and not doing her homework. Time went on and the screams got louder, the yelling got longer, and stomping became hitting and kicking. The beautiful mother held the little girl until the patient father could stand no more and put the strong willed child into the shower. The water was cool and not what the strong willed child wanted. After a few moments the patient father turned the water off and the beautiful mother and patient father walked into the other room. The strong willed child was still focused on getting her doll and not doing her homework. The parents of the strong willed child finshed up fixing supper and ate their meal. The strong willed child was offered her supper but she refused. The lights went out and the strong willed child went to bed. The homework was not done, but she did not get the doll back either. But have no fear, the beautiful mother and the patient father still have her homework and it will be done tonight because even though the mother is quite beautiful, she also has quite the strong will herself. The End.

So, do you have strong willed children in your life? Are you a strong willed person yourself? How do you deal?

Lady Gas

*Peanut went with Daddy last night to get me a drink from Sonic. Later he told me what she said.*

Daddy!!! My belly hurts. I think I'm going to throw up! OoooooOooOOooooOooh, my belly!

*burp*

Oh, I guess I just had LADY GAS.

Peanut the Mechanic

If you haven't had a chance to watch the video in the below post make sure you do that before leaving today. It's something!

Here are some more pictures of my mechanics. She and her daddy are working on my 1979 Z28 Camaro. The motor and transmission are both shot so they are pulling stuff off to be able to pull the motor out and replace it with my father-in-laws motor (don't get me started about how emotional I am about having the motor he built put in my car just know how touched I am).

Of course Daddy did all the hard stuff. Here, Peanut is using a ratchet to loosen up some bolts that were holding down the carborator and distributor. She had already removed all the plug wires.

Peanut the Mechanic

Peanut getting the practice she needs for when it comes time to rebuild her 1972 Chevelle....

A Square Peanut?

So the other day I took the Peanut to the doctor for a check up. The nurse came and got us, weighed her, 44 lbs, and took her height 45 inches.

"Oh look," replied the nurse, "you're almost square."

I'm kinda glad she's not.

*I was going to upload this funny picture but blogger won't let me*

Peanut

Photo Guy, Nickel's cousin, was here last week. He came in the day before Pops died and stayed the rest of the week for the funeral. Photo Guy is an amazing photographer but he's also an amazing person. He came over to the house a couple of times to hang out with Nickel, and I really think he made a huge difference for all of us this week. Photo Guy took tons (I'm guessing well over a thousand or two) of pictures and I managed to get 150 of them out of him by threatening him with bodily harm. Here's just a taste of what he took.


Peanut and her daddy. I think this is one of my favorites because of the look on her face and how Nickel's looking at her. It's their personalities in a nut-shell!

We've had some amazing blue skies lately. It must be getting close to October, because you know that's when the sky is the bluest!


Peanut bought an old camera at a yard sale a couple of weeks ago. Of course when Photo Guy showed up she had to impress him with her camera skills! I'll have to see how well the picture I took of him taking her picture of her taking his picture turned out.

Hay

We went to the grocery store today. I let Nickel and Peanut pick out food they wanted to eat while I was gone. I won't even begin to tell you how much of it was junk food. I guess they'll survive though. As we were heading home a large truck carrying hay passed us.

Peanut: Why does that truck have a bunch of grass?

Daddy: It's hay.

Peanut: It's grass.

Daddy: Sorta. Cows and horses eat it.

Peanut: Cows and horses eat grass.

Daddy: Ok.

Peanut: Oh, I bet it's going to Egypt for Baby Moses.

High Speed Chase

ENID-- It appeared to be a routine traffic stop. The siren sounded from the Enid police cat as it pulled behind the red Dora Bicycle with no training wheels. What happened next, police officials said Saturday, highlights the police department's commitment to avoiding dangerous high-speed police chases. Minutes earlier, Enid Prolcat Flower said she observed the bike crossing onto the wrong side of the road a couple of times. Flower said she had the dispatcher check the license plate on the bike and was told it belonged to a black '79 Camaro. Flower was unable to turn on the emergency lights but sounded her siren. The driver of the bike pulled over, got off the bike and began walking toward the patrol cat, police claim. Flower meowed for the driver to stop and return to her bike, she said, but the girl allegedly kept approaching. Flower said she yelled again for the girl to return to the bike. The driver stood at the rear of the bike, Flower said, and the girl said, "No, I'm right here." Again, Flower said she ordered her back to the bike. The girl obeyed, she said, and walked along the driver's side of the bike. Seconds after she got on the bike, Flower said, the bike wheels spun in place as the tires attempted to gain traction. As the bike gained traction and drove off down The Street. Flower said she jumped and pursued after the bike with the siren on. The bike turned left onto Drive Way, according to the police report. Flower said she continued to follow the bike in an attempt to pull the driver over again. The driver refused, she said, and continued up Drive Way toward the intersection of Garage and House. The posted speed limit in the area is 1 mile per hour. The bike driver traveled at 2 to 3 miles per hour, according to Flowers report. "It became obvious to me that she had no intentions of stopping," Flower wrote in her report. "As I passed BasketBall Goal, I disengaged siren." The bike was last seen on the entrance ramp to Garage. Enid Police Sgt. Nana said Flower's handling of the situation followed the department's policies. They do not engage in high-speed chases, according to Nana. They can pursue the person as long as the pursuit does not become dangerous. Flower said she initially observed the bike backing out of the driveway. Flower later identified the driver through a photo line-up as Peanut. Police said she will face new charges of eluding a police cat, right half of roadway violations, operating without a license, and operating an unregistered vehicle.

Strong Willed Child..pttthh

They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!

They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa

To the funny farm.

Where life is beautiful all the time and I'll behappy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they'recoming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!!!

Lessons from a Peanut

Hope ya'll aren't too tired of my Peanut stories, but this one is good. She's sitting here at the table teaching me all about stuff that I need to know and I thought to myself, 'This is really good stuff, I wonder if my readers know this stuff...I'll blog it for them!'

Peguins:
They love the cold. They love to eat fish. People feed them fish actually. They love to swim. Some penguins live in Nebraska. Nebraska is warm and cold. One part is cold and always stays cold. Half of it is just like it is in Enid. Some of them love to be in the warm and lot of them love to be in the cold. Some penguins live at the zoo. This is the sound they make "hon hon honk". They love little goldfish (she holds her fingers about 6 inches apart). They don't like to be bothered. They love to swim. African penguins love warm and cold. They live in Nebraska too. Some penguins live in South America. South American penguins love to eat any kind of fish that they catch. African penguins love to see people. Some African penguins live in Africa. African penguins sound like this "renck renck renck". They love little child because these penguins are very nice. You cannot feed penguins chocolate. The mommy and daddy penguins take turns diving in the sea and taking care of their child. Seals and Humpback Whales love to eat little penguins. Sharks are very very mean to any kind of creature. Penguins worst enemy are hawks. Hawks love to take the penguin eggs and eat them.

Sharks: They eat any kind of fish. They cannot break through metal. And if you swim near a shark they will eat you without any metal and some people catch a real shark and hanged them from in an aquarmium. That's serious! They're favorite food is seals. Whenever they loose a tooth another one grows in. It doesn't take all night it just pops in. Hammer Sharks have hammers. Hammerhead have hammers from their head and that's why they're called hammer head sharks.

Monkeys:
Monkeys love to say "agh agh agh". Monkeys LOVE fruit. But one of their favorite fruits is bananas. They are very friendly.

Ducks:
Ducks says "rent rent rent". If you get near a duck and stick your finger in their face they'll bite. Their poop is very stinky. You can feed ducks bread but don't stick your fingers in their face! And another thing, they love to stick just their head in the water, not their whole body.

Bunnies:
Bunnies love to hop. Some of them scratch and some don't. Bunnies can be white, pink, blue, white with black polka dots. Bunnies don't make any sounds.

Here's a little poem:
Here's a little bunny
That hops so funny
Here's his little hole in the ground
When he hears a noise he picks up his ears
And he hops to his hole in the ground.

I got a phone call yesterday from Peanut's school asking me if I could come get her because she wasn't feeling good. I had tried to talk her into going home and taking a nap instead of going to school before dropping her off at kindergarten but she was the treat person and insisted the 5 minute power nap she got on the way to school was just what she needed. Little Liar.

So we spent the rest of the afternoon vegging on the couch. I spent most of that time holding her. I like being needed.

Later I called Nickel and asked him to pick up a movie for her. He had wanted me to skip church, just this once, and the three of us go to the park but settled for watching movies all night.

For Peanut we watched The Chronicals of Narnia. She had seen it in theaters with friends but I was too cheap to buy a ticket and we finally got around to renting it. I really enjoyed the movie. I thought the special effects were awesome!

After we sent Peanut off to bed we put in a scary movie. I don't like scary movies. I talked Nickel into watching Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back which was in our DVD collection instead. He can watch the scary movie after Peanut goes to bed tonight.

It was a nice, relaxing evening. It meant more to me then he'll ever know, I'm sure.

Her name is DOCTOR Peanut

Ok, I know this is my third post of the day but I've got lots and lots to say!!!
This has been career week at school for Peanut. The class was visited by a Mail Man, two Police Officers (the girl talked more then the boy I was told) and today they got "physicals" from their nurse/teacher. All three of the teachers were dressed in scrubs and looked quite comfortable. The kids made Dr kits today (you can see it on her bed by the baby) with a REAL band aid, cotton ball, and tongue depressor. There were a couple of other items in their kit but I'm not sure what they were. The kids also made flashlights to wear around their heads, "like real doctors".

On the way home she told me when she grows up and becomes a doctor she'll take care of me. EVEN if it's a Saturday! And she'll drive me to her hospital! Now that's what I call service.

Ha ha! Doc Pontious, you have some competition coming up! As soon as we got home Peanut got out the rest of her doctor supplies that she got as a "we're-sorry-we-had-to-put-you-through-that-as-such-a-young-age" present from me and dad when she had tubes put in her ears two or three years ago. Sometimes she's a doctor and sometimes she's a nurse. Just depends on the day.

Another story of Peanut's love life

I love it when 5 year olds are in love.

As you may recall back in December Poke's Fan proposed to Peanut. She turned him down flat, but they've remained amiable (though from time to time they fight like brother and sister). Today it seems that he has given up on Peanut ever changing her mind and has asked Hallie to marry him. She has agreed. They plan to get married in Jamaica and then attend Texas Tech. (I'm not making this up! This is what he told Peanut on the way to kindergarten today- thier bus driver retold the conversation to me). Peanut, not wanting him to think she'll die without his attention was quick to point out that two boys in her kindergarten class have crushes on her. One sits next to her.

I might have to have a conversation with the teacher.

I asked Peanut this afternoon if either of them or if both of them were her boyfriend. She said no. I think she's playing hard to get. I asked her if she liked anyone. Again, she said no but her best friend Curly Hair Girl has a boyfriend in her kindergarten class. I don't know yet if a boy will ever cause her to settle down. I'll keep you posted though.

P.S. I think Peanut is the only kid on the planet that jumps up and down excitedly when told we're having meat loaf for supper.