Isn't it ironic?

Apparently, I am not a strict enough mother. How do I know this? My 4 year old informed me.
We use a discipline chart at home that is similar to the one at her preschool. Last night, I had to change Genevieve's "green card" (which is a good color) to a "yellow card" which gave her a 5 minute timeout.
This morning, as she is getting ready for school she informed me that I don't discipline correctly. She said, "At school, Mrs. Sullivan only gives us 1 warning and then changes our card, but last night, you gave me like 3 chances before you changed my card!"
Isn't it ironic that her honesty is now going to cause her to get stricter punishment?

Possible Occupations

Genevieve was talking to us about what we want to be when we grow up. We informed her that we are already grown up (much to her surprise) and that daddy works on computers and mommy cleans people's teeth. We asked her what she wanted to be when she grows up. Her response: A banjo player.
Where did we go wrong? :)

Christmas (Held on New Years Day) with the McCoy family

The McCoy family has 7 grand kids ages 6 and under! That's a lot of...little kids! :)

The video I have of all of them playing ring-around-the-rosie catches all of their smiles and giggles, but blogger.com doesn't like when I try uploading videos, so you will have to pretend you hear them while looking at the pictures.

The 2 oldest cousins Damian and Genevieve

Grandpa mistakenly thought that the pink chef's outfit was for him.

But the girls set him straight!

Sam's dream may eventually come true

When Sam and I got married almost 9 years ago (Wow! Already?) he had high hopes that we would have kids and be a family that skied together. He had visions of trips to Lake Tahoe and Aspen Colorado together. Unfortunately, I never really got excited about skiing. In fact, the last time I went downhill skiing was in high school, a good 12 years ago.

But last year, things changed a little bit. Genevieve wanted to go skiing like daddy. Maybe, just maybe, I secretly hoped that she would hate it. Ironically, she loved it! She only went twice but begged her daddy to take her on the "lift chair."

That's when the panic started.

She is only 4! She can't go on the chair lift to the top of the mountain! She might fall off! Sam tried reassuring me that he would hold her and take care of her. But he's not her mommy.

Suddenly, I took an interest in skiing. I decided that if my little girls were going skiing, then gosh darn it, so was i! :)

So here we are, introducing the sport to our children, who I must say, are enjoying it and picking it up rather well. Even Jocelyn, the girl who doesn't like sledding was all smiles and only got mad and frustrated when she couldn't go fast enough. Seriously.

This is Jocelyn's first run on the Poma lift at White Pass.

Riding the magic carpet, Jocelyn in the front, Jenna behind her, and Bridget and Jon in the back