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Same here!!!

I just realized that we have on demand and that there are a ton of free programs on there, one of which is Dora's snow princess, so soph has been watching it everyday......

Good idea! I'll have to get something other then the snow princess one though. My daughter hates that one. She says that it scares her because there's a witch in it, or at least she says there is, I haven't watched it. She's a big scardy cat though. She won't watch any Dora with Swiper in it either because he scares her too!

It's one of those days!

She's a big scaredy cat though. She won't watch any Dora with Swiper in it either because he scares her too!

Im glad I am not the only one! We do not have ondemand I do not think. We have dish network...



Oh we love Swiper!!! The dr always asks if swiper is in DD's ears LOL

LOL....my daughter is intrigued by Swiper. Every time we drive past a forest she'll tell me Swiper lives there. She also likes to run up to me screaming "Ooooooo Swiper behind you!!" but if I do that to her she flips out. I am guilty of *on occasion* getting her to eat dinner by telling her Swiper is going to come get it.

LOL....my daughter is intrigued by Swiper. Every time we drive past a forest she'll tell me Swiper lives there. She also likes to run up to me screaming "Ooooooo Swiper behind you!!" but if I do that to her she flips out. I am guilty of *on occasion* getting her to eat dinner by telling her Swiper is going to come get it.

Oh I have comcast, so I am not sure. We have had it for a while and just last week I discovered that we have on demand My hubby sure got a laugh out of that

Soph loves to yell at Swiper!!! She screams, SWIPER, NO SWIPING!!!


I would do that too.....actually I never thought of that, I may have to start that

How old are your girls navy and ariel?

Mine is going to be 5 in less than a month. Seems like just yesterday she was born!

My kid just said LOOOK princesses!!!!! LOL.

Cute names!

I had the same problem and the only thing that would help me was being on my hands and knees.......of course that brought a lot of unwanted comments from dh.......

The spot you erased can be replaced with "someone smacking their kid"

I would win this bingo everytime I go to WM... but not at KM, there aren't too many people there

FOREST — Scott County Sheriff Mike Lee blames wickedness - not potential financial gain - for the starvation death of a 4-year-old boy.

Lee said he believes Austin James Watkins was starved over several months by his paternal grandmother and aunt before he died Nov. 9. The women have been charged with murder and felony child abuse.

Scott County Coroner Joe Bradford said a preliminary examination of the boy's body ruled out any pre-existing medical condition as a cause of death. The autopsy results likely will not be available for two or three months, he said.

"We think they were giving him liquids because, otherwise, he would have died in a matter of days from dehydration," Lee said.

He met with the district attorney about the case Wednesday.

"The more and more we look at (Austin's death), we see how this was done and methodically thought out. They (the grandmother and aunt) always had an answer on why the child looked ill. They kept him out of the public's view," Lee said. "I wish we had more of a motive than this being done by horrible, wicked people. They both have shown very little emotion since their arrests."

Deputies learned last week that a $10,000 insurance policy had been taken out on Austin Watkins and was kept attached to the wall of the boy's room in his grandmother's home. However, they ruled the policy out as a motive because it was outdated and no longer valid, the sheriff said.

Janice Mowdy, Austin's grandmother, and Stephanie Bell, his aunt, are being held without bond at the Scott County Jail. They do not yet have attorneys.

Their case could be referred to the next grand jury meeting in December.

District Attorney Mark Duncan could not be reached late Wednesday afternoon.

Meanwhile, investigators have interviewed family members who made statements to media earlier this month that indicated they may have known the boy was being abused.

Lee said those statements were exaggerated. "They knew a lot less than they originally stated (to the media)," he said.

No more arrests are anticipated in Austin's death, and Mowdy and Bell could face stiffer charges as deputies continue to investigate the homicide.

Investigators also have subpoenaed Austin's medical records from 2007, when they say he was admitted to a hospital. Lee said investigators will study those records along with Austin's autopsy results to determine whether there was a prolonged pattern of abuse. The women's charges could be upgraded to capital murder, based on the findings.

Mowdy told investigators that Austin was sick when he died, Lee said. The sheriff said he believes Mowdy and Bell were using a false illness to cover up the starvation.

Lee had said another possible motive investigators were exploring is that Austin's extended family was not close to the boy.

"The grandmother has said she always thought he was not her son's child, not her grandson," he said.

Investigators also believe Austin was dead by the time his aunt called the Sheriff's Department on Nov. 9.

"We got a call saying the boy was found unresponsive and not breathing," Lee said. "When first responders arrived within seven minutes of the call to provide emergency medical services, the child was deceased and rigor mortis had begun. That takes time."

The Mississippi Department of Human Services had removed Austin and his three siblings from their mother's home in 2005. Their father has been in and out of jail and was not a stable person in their lives, the sheriff said. The father currently is in jail on a probation violation charge.

Mowdy was granted custody of the four children in 2007 by a Scott County Chancery Court judge. No one had alerted DHS or the Sheriff's Department about any possible abuse or neglect since then, the sheriff said.

Austin's mother, Tammie Watkins, filed for custody of her remaining three children Tuesday. Those records are sealed in Chancery Court.

Tammie Watkins could not be reached Wednesday. Chancery Court records show she had been the subject of a custody battle between her mother and paternal grandparents. She ended up in state custody until she turned 21 in July 2005, according to the records.

Lee said he and DHS want Watkins' other children - ages 9, 6 and 2 - to remain in protective custody so they can continue to be monitored for trauma.

"Anything they need, we want to be able to give to them," the sheriff said. "There is no doubt in my mind that the children, especially the 6- and 9-year-old, would have had an idea of what was going on."

Lee said he believes it was possible for Austin to starve without anyone noticing because Mowdy lived in a rural, isolated area of Scott County near the Leake County line.

"There were tenant workers on a poultry farm," the sheriff said. "The home is in a secluded area that is not regularly visited. They kept to themselves."

Even though Austin's two older siblings were in school, the children did not say anything about what was happening to their brother, the sheriff said.

Hmmm....

I do not know ye that well, so I shall spare ye!

Now, if this were ArielA or skynsam, it would be ON....

WTF happened to your avatar? Is that a drumstick on the 'berg, or is he just happy to see all the ladies?

I posted this in the BS thread, but this crap is utterly farking stupid. I am so sick to my stomach over it. This NEVER should have happened. I would love to do to these beyotchs what they did to this child.

here is the link:

http://www.clarionledger.com/arti...1/newsfrnt

Here is the article in case you cannot access it:

You could count the employees....oh wait, I guess there aren't too many of them around, either.


WTF happened to your avatar? Is that a drumstick on the 'berg, or is he just happy to see all the ladies?

Does anyone know what's in the Fisher Price 27084 family for $10 or just above at Walmart?