The flight of the bumblebee

I have about a million more pictures from our trip in August but these photo's were already loaded soooo.....

And who doesn't love seeing a lady in heels?

Pretty sure my favorite part about this picture is her little prissy hand out the side.

Do you know where she gets this?

I haven't a clue!  You don't see me pushing an empty stroller down the street in my pajama's and heels.

But hey when ya got it, flaunt it!

Little stripper, so young too!  Does anyone else find their shoes strewn across the house also?  I'm constantly picking my shoes up and I'm not the slob, what gives? They especially like to walk loudly on my hard floors, makes them sound more adult or somesing.

Doesn't get much cuter than this.

Curled her hair and everything.

Thank goodness for Pinterest because when the kids are driving me bonkers I can go on their for some fantastic (or fail) idea to keep them busy.

This one is good, so your welcome for testing it out for you.

Black paper-check!

Let the blue eyed babe color on paper with glue-check!  ( you see her little person in the left hand corner.  Kid art is too cute.)

Pour salt over glue.  Allow to dry.

Put food coloring in a bowl of water and let the littles paint their salt art.  The water crawls up the salt, it's rather cool.

Once upon a time like two months ago we actually got out on my day off and I took the midget children to the zoo.  

And the sisters even got along and shared a cracked egg.

This poor cat (aka a cheetah)  *(I can't wait to see how many people correct me on that.  Do you think they'll notice my sub thought here?  Naw probably not, they're too busy twitching over the fact that I called this cat a cheetah. :)*  was walking around like he lost his marbles.  Don't worry little fella, I can't find mine either!  It's a good thing he can run 120 mph.  (ahhh snap now they're really ticked.)

Just teaching our child the pyro ways.  Sparklers were kind of a bust tho, next year!

And who doesn't love looking at a sleeping koala.  Their best quality is their ring tail, if you look at it long enough you'll become sleepy too.

So if you made it through that post without having an aneurysm or falling asleep props to you! I have a story just for you!

One Friday morning I'm in the garage with the hubby and we've already kissed goodbye, the girls are in the car waiting to go, we're running a little behind and I realize I've left my keys in the house.

Tiff:  Clay can I have your van keys since I forgot mine?"

Clay: He makes a face, a face that says I don't want to give my keys to her but I also don't want to bother arguing with her.  He tosses me the keys.  (He's kind of protective of his keys.)

So it's a Friday and I get off early that day, we work through lunch so that we can get off early and party, it's our Friday system. 

I'm off, I've picked the girls up from the sitter, Zoey has fallen asleep in the car, Lucy has been a pill the whole way home and I've told her that she is going straight to bed for a nap because she is an awnry cuss.  We pull up to the house and Lucy is bawling, wailing because the nap is inevitable and I go to open the door, it's locked. Seriously!  Come on!  (This is not the first time I've been locked out of the house, I can count 3, it's just getting embarrassing.)  Clay locked it after we left. Why didn't I just go back inside and grab my keys? WHY?! 

He was going to be home in about an hour and half.  So I decided, that's fine I'll just go get lunch and we'll go play at the park.

We're eating in the car and Lucy tells me she has to go potty, for real?  You were just at the sitters?  To shorten the story my awesome neighbor let us borrow her bathroom.  And then we went to play in our yard.

So by this point I'm kinda grumpy but trying to suck it up and let this go because really tis not a big deal.

Zoey is whiny because she just woke up from a short nap.

Lucy is whiny because she needed a nap.

The dog is whiny because we've been gone all day.

I'm whiny because I just worked all afternoon, I just wanted to sit on the couch for 10 minutes and veg.

So this bee shows up and is harassing Lucy and I'm trying to keep her calm because I just see her flailing around and the dang thing stinging her.

So then the bee decides to buzz around me, you should have seen it!  It was a bad A bee, he was threatening me, using strong language, a true horror story.

So I grabbed the only weapon I had,

a yellow pool noodle.

I swung at that little yellow and black demon, he cried a little because he was so scared.

(You really need to be picturing this to grasp the gravity of the situation. I do apologize for the lack of photos.)

So I'm swinging this bright yellow pool noodle and hitting random objects, ya know like the pole I was standing next to. (that scared the dog)

um I think I even hit myself (it backfired, it happens when you have weapons.)

The real winner was when I hit Zoey in the face.

The look of complete and utter betrayal.

( in my defense it was a foam object that I really wasn't swinging that hard.)

But from the onlookers perspective "She's lost it! Yep she's lost it.  O did she just strike her child?!"

That bee won the battle but him and his little buddies are going to get sprayed!  Take that!  In your face you little stripey jerk!