Crazy For Her…

Today I took the day off so that I could work on some non-work related projects like blogging for a change!  I had to drag Maddie’s butt out of bed this morning.  The time change is not setting well with her.  I looked at her in bed this morning and realized that her hair was in her eyes and I should probably cut her hair.  Then I remembered the disaster of the last haircut that I gave her and quickly reminded myself to leave it to the professionals.  I told Maddie that I would take her to get her hair trimmed AND we would go out fo breakfast.  She sat up, her eyes closed and in her sleepy voice said “We will go to the place you get your haircut and then we will go to McDonalds?  Cheeseburger!  I want a cheeseburger.  Okay Mommy?”

After eating breakfast Maddie had to use the restroom.  As I have documented here in the past, Maddie likes to talk in the bathroom.  Today was no different than any other time in the bathroom except the conversation was a little strange.

Maddie:  (Noticing the baby changing station on the wall) That is where you put babies to change their diapers.  I am not a baby and I don’t wear diapers.

Me:  That’s right.  You are a big girl so you don’t have to wear diapers anymore.

Maddie:  Yeah.  Some babies are weird.

Me:  Babies are not weird.  Why do you say that?

Maddie:  Well, some babies are scary and you don’t want to get to close to them because they are like….scary.

Me:  I have never seen a scary baby and they are not weird.  Now go to the bathroom so we can leave.

Maddie:  Mom, some babies are weird and scary.  They are boy babies and that means they are weird.  And you don’t get too close to them.

Me:  (Thinking I can work this to my advantage)  Well, you don’t have to be scared of babies as long as they are in diapers.  After they are big boys they are a little weird and scary.

Maddie:  Yeah.  Boys are yucky and they smell bad sometimes.

Whew!  Now I just have to keep up the act for another 25 years before she requires therapy to get over her fear of men or becomes a lesbian.

My Mom bought a motion activated ghost about 3 years ago for Halloween.  Of course everything she buys these days are for the grandkids.  She would have never bought anything like this for us when we were young.  The ghost comes out every year at the end of September and for the last 3 years Maddie has been terrified of him.  Not this year, this year she loves it and can’t get enough of it.  In fact she has asked on several occasions if she could go visit the ghost.  Not Nana but the ghost.  So when we visit the ghost she kicks him to make him talk which means she is still a little uneasy about him.  Not brave enough to actually touch his arm or get close enough to activate him, she just kicks him from a distance.

A couple of weeks ago I went shopping at Holly Lobby (or as Aunt Pilly refers to it – Holly Bobby) on my lunch hour and they had all their Halloween items half off.  I was looking for something obnoxious to entertain Maddie which in turn usually entertains all of us.  I found a cool ghost that you hang from the window that is voice activated and says random things like “BOO!  BOO!  Did I scare you?  Happy Halloween!  BOO!  BOO!”  It lights up and moves up and down on a string.

Maddie was thrilled with it and couldn’t wait for me to put it together.  I put it in the picture window of our dining room and Maddie loves it.  Me?  Not so much.  The damn thing has scared the living crap out of me on several occasions in the middle of the night because it is also motion activated.  Which means every time the guineas fly around the window the darn thing starts talking.  Every time Chris sneezes (20 times a night) the thing starts talking.  And every time I get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night the damn thing starts talking and moving.  Did I mention there is no OFF switch?  Well there isn’t and I dare not take the batteries out.  Why?  Because every day when we get home Maddie runs into the dining room and at the top of her lungs she screams BOO! and stomps her foot for good measure.

You would think I could get used to this day after day but I can’t.  So I am tortured by the ghost that will surely live in our house until they stop making AA batteries.  That is the only good excuse I could ever come up with.  Sorry Maddie, they no longer make these batteries so there will be no ghost this year.  It would be much like telling Maddie that Santa Claus does not exist.

Maximo, originally uploaded by CrazyForHer.

Congratulations to my friends Ramon and Mini who produced this little angel. His full name is Maximo Trinidad De Jesus, try saying that 10 times fast. I call him Max. I wish he lived closer because I want to kiss his little red cheeks.

I haven’t been able to update my blog for several reasons. The main reason being that the computer at C & M Gearworks is constantly crashing while running IE6 and this is the only computer that I have regular access to. Tonight I downloaded Firefox and I have had absolutely no problems thus far. Let’s all thank the Lord for Firefox Amen.
I have signed up for NaBloPoMo and you should too. It will be fun, just like a big blog party in the month of November. Plus you can watch me scramble to find an internet connection every. single. day. That will be fun for you but it sucks for me. I have found that my latest bout of misfortune brings a lot of people great joy. Now that I have Firefox this might actually work.

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 While visiting Branson over the weekend we witnessed something that I found very entertaining and Chris said I was “Cruel”.  Before I became a Mother I would have loved to jump out of airplanes, ride motorcycles, 4-wheelers, racing Go-Karts on a dirt track and there wasn’t an amusement ride that I wouldn’t enjoy.  The faster, the better and the more dangerous made it more thrilling.

There is a ride in Branson called the “Gyro Bungy”.  Basically it is a spinning orb attached to bungie cords and they fling you up several hundred feet and all the while the gyro is spinning and spinning and spinning.  After the ride is over, they are supposed to lower you down but guess what?  The bungie that pulls you down, well, it snapped in half stranding this poor couple hundreds of feet in the air spinning and spinning and yes, more spinning.  At first I am sure they were thinking it was kind of fun.  But what they didn’t realize is that the eighteen year old operating the ride had no idea what to do.  They were stuck in the air for an hour and half, spinning and spinning, probably having no idea what was going on.

 

 

The fire trucks came and guess what?  They didn’t have a ladder tall enough to reach them.  This is what I find amusing, well actually I find it all very amusing because I am a thrill seeker and what a thrill that would be.  Well, except for the spinning part, that would make me hurl.  But still very fun to watch.  The ladder couldn’t reach them but the funniest part of the story and also where the future lawsuit will state that the dumbass teenager operating the ride didn’t know that there was a safety feature in case of such occurance that the “Orb” can be lowered with out the bungie.  So basically these poor (*hee-hee*) people were stuck up there for no good reason.  Unless the teenager thought it was so darn funny that he couldn’t stop laughing long enough to press the big button that says “LOWER THE ORB”.