Transformative

My boys are obsessed with Transformers. Te-totally, irrefutably, undeniably, irreversibly, uncompromisingly OBSESSED. Here is the extent of their obsession:
Exhibit A:
I have about a hundred of these pictures on my computer because Jacob loves to set up his transformers and take pictures of them. He does this about every three days. I remind him that he already has pictures of his transformers, but for some reason this does not discourage him in any way.

Exhibit B:
Last year Jacob was unfailingly unfocused in the mornings before school and I had to constantly remind him of what he should be doing. No more. This is what Jacob and I came up with as a "to-do" list in the mornings before school. It is Star Wars Transformers doing Jacob's chores - get dressed, eat breakfast, pack lunch and backpack, do job (he picked out a dog that looked like Colonel because twice a week it's his job to feed him), and brush teeth. I laugh every time I look at this thing. We glued magnets on the back and it has a place of honor on the fridge. I LOVE it.
 
Exhibit C:
Beau has been brainwashed into the Transformers club. That is why at least once a day (if I am lucky), I wind up being "Bad Wheeljack" and he gets to be "Good Wheeljack" and we have to fight each other in a very specifically choreographed way that always involves me dying at the end. And that is what I do every day, people. Anyway, Jacob got a transformers shirt for the first day of school and Beau really wanted one. But I knew that they didn't sell said shirt in a size four (and I was being very cheap), so I bought a plain red t-shirt at hobby lobby and busted out the Silhouette. Of course they don't make transformer designs, so I drew my own and cut it out of vinyl to make a stencil. He wanted Ratchet and the autobot symbol. Here he is painting his Ratchet with black paint mixed with fabric medium.

 


Jacob was a little envious and talked me into drawing him a Megatron. Here is my super happy husband modeling the Megatron shirt. Rus likes to make a game out of looking as ridiculous as possible for any picture I take of him. Sometimes he tries to look as zombie-like as possible just to throw me a curve. Not tonight, lucky you.

 And just for fun I thought I'd let you know that Marianne is a CRAZY climber! She LOVES to climb the bunk bed ladder - I have to put it up on Jacob's bed first thing in the morning everyday or else I'll find her there, just like this, when I get distracted and realize the house is too quiet. In truth she goes to the bathrooms first because it is SO fun to play in the toilet and unroll all the toilet paper. But Jacob's ladder is a close second.

 And this is the face she gives me when I say, "no, no, no, time to get down!"

 Such a tease. Gosh I love this crazy girl!