The Life Cycle of a Butterfly

There was a lot of discussion yesterday after school. A lot of it had to do with me getting Kyle up to speed as to why Brenley was grounded from her iPad for the day. A full day.  (And I wasn't about to go through the play-one-parent-off-the-other game!)

Anywhoo... Brenley pipes up,

"Yeah! Well you treat me differently than the other kids in class!"

"No, I don't. When you're not paying attention or up and about out of your seat, I call you out on it just as I would anyone else in the class... Would you have done that last year?"

"... no..."

"The year before that? .... the year before THAT?!..."

Brenley retorted with the utmost disdain,

"... well, it's not my fault this is the year the butterfly decided to break free from her cocoon!"

To which, Kyle and I both rolled our eyes...
"Spare me!" Kyle said.

Then I noticed a snapchat coming in on the ipad & I may have threatened to read it, which totally put vinegar in Brenley's wounds and she stormed off to her room and slammed the door.

Little Mr. I-Love-When-My-Sister-Is-In-Trouble starts to sing from side stage:

"Butterfly fly away..."

Then as we're laughing, Madden says,

"WHA? Butterflies fly out of their racoons!"

Oh we laughed!

Thought I'd post some videos...

Brenley, of course, lives to be like Hannah Montana. However, she can't be serious when she's singing, just like her father!



Here's her tribute to Gordie Sampson's "We are Young & So is the Night":


and here's one of her dancing when she was only young:


Hope you like them!

I thought I was going to pee my pants!

So, Brenley started back at the babysitter today after me being on mat leave for a whole year. She had that nervous-excitement thing going on this morning as we left, and was quite visibly annoyed (with her rolling eyes) when I asked for a hug before I left to go to the school! (IMAGINE!)

I picked them up this afternoon, and they were no worse for wear... thanks to my great babysitter! (God, her house ALWAYS smells so good and looks so clean... I have NO idea how she does it!)
So, on the drive home, I was asking her how her day was, etc.
She says,

"You know that big brother kid that's there?" (there are two other little boys there, who are brothers)
"Yes...."
"Yeah, well, he had bad breath & kept blowing in my face... like REALLY CLOSE... like this" (she demonstrates from the backseat)
[I start to laugh... well... roar, actually]
"Well, did you tell him he had bad breath, Brenley?"
"Ugh... Mamaidh... NO! That would be so, like, RUDE, you know!"

I did think I was going to pee my pants! LOL

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And on another note...
When we came home from church & sydney yesterday, Monty was barking and barking at our truck, which annoyed the hell out of Kyle.
He complains:

"Oh, Monty?!?! Why the hell do you have to bark?"

And Missy pipes up all sarcastically from the back seat:

"Maybe because she's a dog?!?!"

HAHAHAHHAHHAHAHA. LOVE IT!
Kyle said quietly to me then, "I guess that's telling me to F-off in not so many words, eh?!?!"