Good times...

Ah, life at the Rich home just continues to get more entertaining as time goes on. Madison gets sassier, Nolan gets goofier, Coulson gets crazier. Apparently I'm still the meenest mom on the planit. Madison and I got into it pretty good the other day before school. It all started over Jamba Juice. I guess every so often Jamba does a fundraiser at her school. She wanted me to give her $3.50 so she could buy one. Well, I'm a big advocate on working hard and earning money for things you want even if its as simple as a smoothie. What can I say...I'm kind of a Hitler parent. So making a long story short... she was having this huge fit. Throwing things, making messes, crying, yelling, the whole fit shebang. Me being a stubborn mom and always creating an antagonizing situation for my own entertainment, made her sit on the couch until she calmed down. Well, the school bell had rung (we can hear it from our house) and she was so upset... but still, I was steadfast and immovable :) and I drove her to school late. Here is my note to the office...

Dear Office Staff,

Madison is tardy because she decided to throw a huge fit before school. Please let her go to class so I can enjoy the rest of my morning.

Thanks,

Kristina :)

I will now turn my focus to Nolan. He is a funny kid. I mean really goofy. He makes these weird faces. His new name for me is Cartoon because he looks like some kind of animated character when he makes these faces. He gets in these phases. Lately its been soccer cleats. He thinks they are the coolest things ever. He wears them to school, to the store, to play in the back yard. He thinks they make him look cool and that they make him run really fast. This is very important to him now that he's trying to impress the ladies. He has become a little Casanova. Every time a girl of any age comes over he tells them how beautiful they are. I was doing a lady's hair the other day and this was the conversation...

Nolan "you look very beautiful"

Lady "thanks! your mom did a good job on my hair"
Nolan "I mean you look pretty with your boots and skirt and black shirt and your hair too"

So anyway.... wearing these soccer cleats have become somewhat of an image booster. He decided to wear them to Madison's fun run at her school. He gets out there, flirtin' with the ladies and as he rounds the first corner...BAM... he face plants because his cleat got caught in the dirt. This is a perfect example of a male. They think they are so cool and have something to prove. They all face plant eventually....

I had Madison's 7th birthday party at my house a couple of weeks ago. That's right, she's 7 now! She wanted to have a pajama party and her only request for an activity was to play freeze dance. So I gathered together all the Miley Cirus music I could find and we had a blast. I also found an idea to make hair clips out of felt. I used a dye cut and punched out a bunch of flowers. They mixed and matched their own flowers and sewed little buttons in the middle of the flower. Teaching 6 and 7 year olds to sew is kind of scary but we made it through without any injuries. It was a pretty fun night.

Another cool thing happened. We all know how Madi loves to draw. Well, she ended up winning a drawing contest for her school! She won a breakfast with Santa and her drawing was on display at a Christmas party for the town of Gilbert! I'm a proud mama!