Can't See the Forest for the Trees

Is that the right comment? Kurt always makes fun of me because I can never get little sayings like that right. Anyways, again Sam will play with anything before toys. I'm not sure how long this plant is going to make it - it takes a lot of Sam's agression.

My Little Big Boy

Matthew has had some major milestones in the past few days.

First, he went over to a friends house after school. He had such a great time. When it was the time to pick him up from school, I was walking around the house wondering, wow, what should I do. When I picked him up at his friends house he wanted to stay to have a sleep over! There is no way Mommy & Daddy are ready for that yet. Besides, it would be better for him to have his first sleep over at a neighbor friends house, so we will only have to walk to get him in the middle of the night.

Second, he went to the dentist today. He was such a big boy. Sitting so still with with those paper things in his mouth while he took the x-rays, keeping his mouth open wide while they cleaned his teeth. But, the little boy came right back when he got to pick out toys.

It is so weird, why can he drive me crazy one minute, then be the apple of my eye the next - I guess that's what you call unconditional love!!

Party, party, party, party, party, party

Ok, it's official, there was way too much nookie going on 9 months ago from March/April. For the past 3 weeks and for the next 3 week we have 1-2 birthday parties to attend. I don't know what you people (Jackie/Dwayne, Vicki/Jerry, Sarah/Kevin, Mark/Lisa, Mara/Rick, Brenda/Don) were doing 9 months ago however many years ago, but for heavens sake, don't do it again.

Oh, Sam's birthday is on the April 1st - my April Fool's baby - but as most of you know, we had nothing to do with the conceiving of him!!!!!

Matthew's Fever

Finally, we left the house today after being home for 4 days. Matthew has been sick with a fever. Not too high, just high enough to make him feel bad and if you take him to the dr. they say 'oh, that's not a fever'. The highest it got to was 100.8 which was Monday. No, I didn't take him to the dr., but I drilled him every day - does your tummy hurt? ears? throat? nose? He always said no. He did have some congestion in his nose, I could hear it. But he is better now. Back to school today. Yea.

What did we do during those 4 days. Well, I believe Matthew has watched every Power Ranger episoded I had recorded for him - TWICE. I'm talking about 24 epsoides. I now know, just about everything you could ask about S.P.D. or Mystic Force. Don't know about Power Ranger Mystic Force yet - Boy are you missing out. It is the newest series in Power Rangers. What the hell am I talking about.? This is ridiculous for me to know this much about Power Rangers.

As for Sam, Kurt, or I getting it. Not yet, but my throat feels like I swallowed a cotton ball. We will see if the rest of us don't get it.

Peace Lutheran Preshool Round Up '06

Last night we went to the annual fundraiser for Matthew's school. It was at River Place Country Club, we wore "western" attire (mostly we just wore cowboy boots). We had a GREAT time.

For a preschool fundraiser, there was plenty of food and liquor flowing. I guess they know how to sucker those parents. We came our virtually unscathed. We only won one item - Free passes to jumpy world, what am I crazy? (Read previous post) and gift certificates to Panda Express.

Oh, I am not that vain enough to wear a tiara all night. Our class won a class raffle of who could donate the most money and we won tables up front. Matthew's teacher, Ms. Mac, got us all the tiara's and necklaces. She says if you can be rude when your bidding, then you shouldn't bid at all.

What do your kids do at night?

Mine search for the most inappropriate place to sleep.

Sam was not too excited about staying in bed this night. I'm not sure how this exactly happened. Did he fall asleep this way? Did he fall out of bed and wiggle until he was in complete darkness? I guess this is just one of these things Mom's will never know EXACTLY what happened.




As for Matthew, he is almost finished with the naps. He is good if he takes one ever 3rd day. This day he must have been so tired, that he just collapsed while playing fort. He kinda freaked me out. I was upstairs, cleaning something I'm sure, and I decided he was being too quite. So I went downstairs, called his name - no answer. Looked in his room - nothing. Looked in my stamping/exercise room - nothing. Then I started to get worried. Did I hear the garage door go up? Looked in the garage - nothing. Finally, I went back to his room and found.................

For crying out loud

It was a very nice day, so I thought it would be great if we spent some time outside playing. Not to mention I thought it would be a great idea since I couldn't get rid of a headache I still had after 4 Advil, coke, coffee, and tea. Soooooo, we head outside. Everything is fine and dandy for about 20 minutes. Then all hell breaks loose. Matthew & Sam decided that they wanted to sit in the same chair and neither of them was going to budge. I got Sam out of the chair (because Matthew was the first one in it; you ALWAYS have to be fair) who took it fairly well. He went over to a kiddy chair that we have and proceeded to sit in it. Within one minute, Matthew was trying to get in the kiddy chair. This led to a crying screaming match from both of them.

How did I solve the problem?

Put Matthew in the original fighting chair, Sam in the kiddy chair, made the face each other, and CRY IT OUT. They both were losing it, tears and everything. All the while, the neighbor, Kaylee's Dad, was outside raking leaves. So I'm sure he thought they were being tortured. Not to mention they were reaching decibels that could have easily traveled 3 blocks. So when I ask you for a letter to CPS that I am a good parent, please be kind.

Not to worry after about 10 minutes, they had both calmed down and were playing with each other as if nothing had ever happened. Do you think this is a trait that kids have or is it a man/boy thing?????

Digital Scrapbooking

Here are my attempts at digital scrapbooking. I'm going to try it out and see how I like it. If you don't know what that is you use a computer program (I'm using Photoshop Elements 4) to create pages with elements. For those of you who know me best, I like the paper and all the brads, fibers, eyelets, ribbon, etc., etc., etc. BUT, with 2 kids, it's hard to drag that stuff out and get anything done. Most of the time I'm on the computer, they could care less as to what I am doing. Plus, my previous albums blug as if they are going to explode. It would be nice to have a flat album. Well, here you go, tell me what 'cha think.

It's official - it's pool time again

What do you do on March 1st, when it is 83 degrees? GO SWIMMING!!! Well, the kiddos did. They loved it, they could have cared less that the temp of the water was 72 degrees.

Toys? We don't need no stinkin' toys

I swear if I buy these kids one more that they don't play with, I'm going to put them in a room with only toys and make them play with them. Why is it that most kids will play with ANYTHING other than toys???