Really?

I have a lot of updating to do between Halloween, Birthdays, and Thanksgiving but they will need to wait until my better half uploads the pictures. Until then, today (Thanksgiving day) NayNay walks out of the playroom holding a toy lion and says "Let's milk this cat." Where does he come up with this stuff?

Max Who?

Today I'm talking to FeFe about her upcoming B-day party. I say "Who should we invite?". She points to the first person she sees. So I start naming her friends. "Should we invite____?" insert name of friend, and she says "Yes!". Well, one of her friends is named Max so I say "Should we invite Max?" to which she replies "Max Hall?".

Lost a Tooth!

NayNay lost his first tooth. Due to his young age we thought maybe his tooth was loose because he hit it on something but upon closer inspection we realized that his new tooth was already coming in! He did get his first tooth when he was 4 months old so an early tooth isn't unheard of. He put the tooth under his pillow and went straight to bed.The next morning he got up and went about his day without mentioning his tooth. When I brought it up he said "The Tooth Fairy didn't come". "Well, let's go check anyway." I say. So off we go and to his surprise, he found this!! Lucky boy!

One more year until Kindergarten

NayNay on the first day of preschool 2008 and 2009. Can you guess which one is which? I feel like he's grown so much but then I look at these pics and I think he looks the same. Maybe I need to add more color to his wardrobe. I've been thinking a lot about how next year he goes to kindergarten. I get all excited and wonder what's up with these mom's that cry. But I almost guarantee that when the time comes I'll be the one on the corner crying as the bus drives away and wondering is he'll be okay.

Summer School!

This summer I needed something to keep me sane while the kids had oodles (is that a word?) of free time. Structure is the key for my kids. Keeps them calm. So every Tuesday and Thursday we would have school. We did circle time highlighting one letter a day, sang songs, danced, had crafts, and much more. The kids loved it and I loved the sense of accomplishment it gave me! Here are a few highlights from the summer!

D day was "Dad day!". The kids each chose a rock from the backyard, cleaned it, dried it, painted it, and added eyes! It made a great Father's Day gift and both rocks are now at the office!

E was for Elephants. The kids made these great elephant masks and ran around acting like elephants all day! So fun!!

F was one of the best, and easiest days. With a number of friends we toured a local fire station! The kids loved the whole thing! They got to climb in an ambulance,
ride in the trucks,
and hang out with the cool fire fighters! They had a great time!

H was Hat day. Silly kids!

I is for Igloos! NayNay and FeFe loved making their penguin houses!

J is for Jello. Crazy as it sounds they LOVED painting with the jello (and their art work looked amazing) but they would not eat it. I ended up giving the whole pan of jello jigglers to Aunt Pickle. Lucky gal!

M is for Me! We talked all about who they are and how they are so special. Then they colored an outline of themselves!

And last but not least, Z day we went to the zoo! NayNay couldn't wait for the sharks!
It was super scary!
They were so excited to be done with all the crazy! Yeah! One summer over, many more to prepare for! Good job NayNay and FeFe! You are amazing kids! I love you!

It's been how long?

Nine years!! Yep, that's right! Nine years ago today Curtice and I started the rest of our lives together and what a ride it has been. Thanks for all the fun but most of all for always being there for me! I love you!

Here's to my Sunshine!

I definitely do not give enough praise to my wonderful husband! I find that most of my entires are focused on my kids and I forget to mention the one who keeps me sane! So, just so you all can see how amazing he is, I will tell you a crazy story. We decided to paint our family room and living room and set it all up so we would be childless from 1 pm to 8 pm on a Saturday (7 hours, that's enough time, right?). So, we start painting. It takes a little longer than planned but by 6 o'clock we're almost done with the family room. We get ready to start on the kitchen. Curtice vigorously shakes the can of paint and then stirs it with a stir stick. We do the edging (maybe 45 minutes pass). We go back to the paint can and it looks all good (note: we only stirred the paint for the family room once and painted out of the can over a 3 hour period) so we dump it into the roller pan and start painting the main part of the walls. About half hour later, Curtice stirs the can again and then dumps more into my cup for edging. We have now taken from the can 3 times over about an hour and a half time frame. I start painting more edging and as I do we can't help but notice that the edges look so much different. Hmm. At about 8 pm we realize there's a problem. We have used over half the gallon of paint, the kitchen is 90 % complete, and there are 3 (count them 1, 2, 3) different shades of brown on our walls. All we can figure out is that this specific paint requires blender-like stirring. When Curtice stirred the first time it didn't get all the dark off the bottom so the first color was very light. Then he dumped out without stirring again (who stirs every 20 minutes?) and took most the light color out, and we finished by painting the dark pigment on the ceiling edging. Anyway, to make a long story longer, I was exhausted by this time, and Curtice was mad. I wanted to go to bed, he wanted to try to fix it, something I thought was impossible. So he comes up to me and says, "Go to bed and when you wake up in the morning you will have a beautiful kitchen.". I didn't believe him but I was exhausted so I said okay and off to bed I go. This is about 11 pm. At 3 am he crawls into bed. And do you know what? He was right! In the morning I woke up to beautiful kitchen!! I love you, Curtice! Thank you for always making me happy!!