oh, mother

We found these at the library today. As you can probably tell they had a very poor selection-- YES even worse than the southlake public library. Please take notice of the fangs in the worm.

Lately, mom has been a little potty talker. I don't quite know what has gotten into her. But me and Ashlie decided she always thought potty talk was funny and didn't admit in front of people she knew. So let's just hope she doesn't read this post... let me just give some examples:

In England there is a city called Tooting where most of the people in our ward live. And we were talking about it on the way home from church and how it is a very odd name when we realize mom isn't talking because she is laughing so hard she can't even talk...

AND THEN there is this huge dog poop on our sidewalk. Who knows why it is there and why a policeman hasn't noticed it by now. But mom hates it. And every time we pass it she warns us not to step in it and then complains about why no one is cleaning it up.
The next day, she is asking dad to get her some DP because we have none left. And of course immediately decimal percent came into my head and i blurted it out because that is just what i do... and mom laughs and says DOG POO!! And laughs her head off for FOREVER. But the best part of this story? The poop has been there for almost a week and today, mom forgot to warn us about it on the way home. Then all of the sudden she goes "AHHHHHHHHHHHH! I JUST STEPPED IN IT!" she was very unhappy.

Mom has just been plain happy lately. Some more examples here:

The other day mom got out some pistachios and dad was like, "Did you bring them over from Utah?" and mom laughs her head off and says, "Yeah, honey, i got them from utah. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" in case you didn't get it... she got them from the grocery store down the street. Not from Utah. and for some reason she thought that was hilarious and laughed for like ten minutes.

AND THEN, mom let us have a cookie today. she made some yesterday and let us have ONE for lunch. She stressed the fact that we couldn't have more than one very thoroughly. But she gave corinne the burnt ones and me the non burnt ones and when corinne realized spit it out right as mom gave us coasters for our diet cokes. So, of course we thought mom was crazy giving us coasters for our cookies! But we let it slide. After eating our cookies mom points out that out cups AREN'T on the coasters she gave us and me and Corinne laughed and said "oh, i thought you gave them to us for the cookies." then mom laughed super hard. she was red in the face and said she was going to pee her pants. Me and corinne laughed so hard at the fact that she thought it was soooooo funny that we couldn't talk either. We had a pretty good day today.

And then we decided to go to dance. We had a jazz class and then a ballet class. The jazz class we were going to ended up being canceled so we had to go to ANOTHER jazz class. Let's just say that jazz in the U.S. is very different from the jazz in England. Me and corinne didn't have a very good time... It was like a very poor broadway dance. Corinne and I had a very good time making fun of the dance and will probably not go to that jazz class next week. But the ballet class was great and we had a wonderful time. But my favorite part of the day was the walk home. We sang lots of songs including "Mercy" and "Flightless Bird American Mouth" where we only know one line (Now i'm a FAT HOUSE CAT) and the chorus and "Pumped Up Kicks" I decided it was nice not knowing anyone in England where i won't get embarrassed. But i do have to say, even if i knew people here, i would probably do the same things anyways... And I have finally gotten used to the sounds of the tube and the screeching noises and not having to hold on to a rail ALL of the time. Pretty impressive if i do say so myself.