Need a good laugh?

There is not one dirty word in it, and it is funny.

The Smiths were unable to conceive children and decided to use a surrogate father to start their family. On the day the proxy father was to arrive, Mr. Smith kissed his wife goodbye and said, "Well, I'm off now. The man should be here soon."

Half an hour later, just by chance, a door-to-door baby photographer happened to ring the doorbell, hoping to make a sale.

"Good morning, Ma'am", he said, "I've come to..."

"Oh, no need to explain," Mrs. Smith cut in, embarrassed, "I've been expecting you."

"Have you really?" said the photographer. "Well, that's good. Did you know babies are my specialty?"

"Well that's what my husband and I had hoped. Please come in and have a seat".
After a moment she asked, blushing, "Well, where do we start?"

"Leave everything to me. I usually try two in the bathtub, one on the couch, and perhaps a couple on the bed. And sometimes the living room floor is fun. You can really spread out there."

"Bathtub, living room floor? No wonder it didn't work out for Harry and me!"

"Well, Ma'am, none of us can guarantee a good one every time. But if we try several different positions and I shoot from six or seven angles, I'm sure you'll be pleased with the results."

"My, that's a lot!", gasped Mrs. Smith.

"Ma'am, in my line of work a man has to take his time. I'd love to be In and out in five minutes, but I'm sure you'd be disappointed with that."

"Don't I know it," said Mrs. Smith quietly.

The photographer opened his briefcase and pulled out a portfolio of his baby pictures.

"This was done on the top of a bus," he said.

"Oh, my God!" Mrs. Smith exclaimed, grasping at her throat.

"And these twins turned out exceptionally well - when you consider their mother was so difficult to work with."

"She was difficult?" asked Mrs. Smith.

"Yes, I'm afraid so. I finally had to take her to the park to get the job done right. People were crowding around four and five deep to get a good look"

"Four and five deep?" said Mrs. Smith, her eyes wide with amazement.

"Yes", the photographer replied. "And for more than three hours, too. The mother was constantly squealing and yelling - I could hardly concentrate, and when darkness approached I had to rush my shots.

Finally, when the squirrels began nibbling on my equipment, I just had to pack it all in."

Mrs. Smith leaned forward. "Do you mean they actually chewed on your, uh...equipment?"

"It's true, Ma'am, yes.. Well, if you're ready, I'll set-up my tripod and we can get to work right away."

"Tripod?"

"Oh yes, Ma'am. I need to use a tripod to rest my Canon on. It's much too big to be held in the hand very long."

Mrs. Smith fainted

Reviews and recommendations...

During the last 2 weeks Bob and I have had the chance to catch up on just hanging out with each other. Her has been so busy at work getting prepared for even more layoffs (he works in the building industry) and I have been busy with the kids, spring break, testing season, being a mom, etc! We decided that we needed to sit down and just "be" as a family! So we rented a few, borrowed a few and bought a few movies and enjoyed each others company. If you have not seen any of these, definitely worth picking up:

All good family movies:
Once
August Rush
The Ultimate Gift - LOVED this movie!
Little Manhattan - we have seen this many times - if you have son 9-10 or older, this is a must see movie, lol!!!
Simon Birch - an old family favorite that I love
The Peaceful Warrior

Books:
The Same Kind of Different as Me - (true story) Xander and I both loved this book. He said that this is his all time favorite book so far, which says a lot since he has read hundreds, if not thousands of books.
Marley and Me - is being made in to a movie - Xander and I laughed, cried and loved this book.
The Christmas Jars
Any of the Sohpie Kinsella Books - "Confessions of a Shopaholic" series - easy fun reads when you don't want to have to think but just enjoy!

We have lots of others but these are a feww good selections for the entire family!

Freedom....

Yes, I know, I have learned that I am so busy that it is hard for me to blog everyday. I am coming to realize I have a weakness and that is remembering to blog, lol! Actually, April has been such a busy month that I will have to catch up on posts not only for you but so that I'll have something to look back on an remember. SO, bear with me, my momentary lapses in posts and realize that I too, am human and I am trying!!!! :-)

I think the biggest thing to happen to us during April was during spring break. You see, Christian is as tall as some 5 year olds and commonly gets mistaken for being older than he is, especially now that all his beautiful, blonde locks have been shorn. However, I know he is still my adorable boy that is never far from mommy's side, he is whole-heartedly a mamma's boy!!! In his quest to hang and keep up with big brother and all the other "big kids" on the block, he decided that those bicycle training wheels were coming off. SO, I brought out my handy dandy pliers, took those bad boys off and gave him a push. That was all it took. Within 5 minutes he was off and flying!!! He was loving every bit of his new found freedom.......until it came time to stop, start, get on, etc and so forth. As long as he is in motion, all is good in the world however when he is ready to stop, you'd better be there to catch him or he gets sad that no one will help him, lol. He is quickly learning to jump off the bike before it topples on him and big brother is teaching him to use the brakes but for a 3 year old to apply all that he is learning can be a bit frustrating. But anyway, he is doing great and we are very proud of him. He definitely took this big step long before our other 2 kiddos. Where of where is my baby going? Why can't he just stay little for a while longer?????

Here is a day in the life of learning to ride a bike......

Getting a push from Xander, somebody stop me, NOW, thank goodness I am off! Can I get back on now??