Crazes that are driving me CRAZY!

We have a couple of obsessions in our house these days....

The boys are obsessed with Silly Bandz. They love them and trade them. I think they are rather harmless until they bug me to buy them more;) The first ones they got were Believer Bands from vacation Bible school...very cool.

Harry is completely obsessed with the Volkswagen punchdub game. You've seen the commercials. Used to be punch buggy. But now I am driving along and I hear..."Red one. Blue one. Juicy fruit." shouted out. Then they bicker over who saw what first. Seriously, watch this...it is my LIFE! I am sort of forbidding it in my car right now as it is putting me over the edge.

Kate is obsessed with Jesus dying on the cross. She talks about it constantly. She draws pictures of it. She reads about it in the Bible. She tells everyone she knows about it. See her painting from her party...

It is Jesus' cross. She did not paint him because she was waiting for the cross paint to dry. When we go to restaurants and they bring her crayons, she draws Jesus dying on the cross. She also told us to go to church last Sunday because she felt as though we had not been there is a LOOONNNGG time. (We had missed a week or two). I love her heart for Jesus but I do worry about her obsession with Him dying on the cross.

She is also obsessed with being 4. She tells everyone she is a PM child now. They look at her strangely but what she means is now she is old enough to stay at school for lunch (they are PM children). She also only wants to wear clothes that have a 4 on the tag. The other day she refused to wear a dress because the tag said 3. She even asked if her shoes are a 4T (they are a 9;)

Finally, she is a little obsessed with Indiana Jones and not in a good way. They boys were watching it one day and she slipped into the media room. Dave and I had not noticed as we were doing things around the house. Well, we are BAD parents because she is TERRIFIED! She had bad dreams. She asks about Indiana Jones all the time and she is afraid she'll see him at Disney World when we go this Fall. Seriously, the girl has some serious Indiana Jones anxiety.

I know all you Moms with only one kiddo probably think we are the worst parents in the world. I would have too back in the day. But seriously when you have a 13 year old boy in the same house with a 4 year old girl, this stuff happens. It is life.

And I must admit, I am a little obsessed with that darned diet (remember the one my doctor had me on for 6 weeks for a health condition?). You know I loathed it at first and I complained daily about no wine, no cheese, no sugar, no carbs, no vinegar etc. But then something magical happened....sometime during week three the weight just fell off my thighs and my butt AND I was not hungry anymore. Yes, it is true (please don't hate me). I have always worn a small size but I have always had chubby thighs. No more, people. Clearly, sugar and flour take up residence in the thighs and buttocks. So now my small size clothes are really loose in those areas and I am terrified to eat normally again. I don't hate my thighs for the first time since I was 13 years old. I don't love em but I sure don't hate them.

This week I am allowed to begin adding in regular food and I am extremely hesitant to do so. It is Thursday and I still have barely added anything back! I am afraid that once I eat a little of the foods that were forbidden, I will lose control and those chubby thighs will re-appear. I know, I am a little crazy. And I know, I could exercise. I just hate that too. The thing is...I don't even crave sweet things anymore or carbs. I do however really want a glass of wine:)