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???

Sam's Shoes

A blogger friend of mine spent $150 for 3 pairs of shoes for her little ones. I came close to her accomplishments. Two pairs for Sam = $74.00. (Here is the comment for Kurt) But he needed them - his foot now measures 7 XW, and he was wearing 6 XW!!!!

Look - I added my picture

OMG - 30 minutes later you can now see my picture next to my profile. Man, I gotta get faster. Maybe it did take as long because little Sam DID NOT want to take a nap - cried in his room for about an hour - Finally both rugrats are asleep!!!!

Playscape Fun

Could Matt & Sam love their playscape anymore?

What spinning will get ya!

Ever wonder if a 2 year old spins in a circle, what will happen?


A huge lump on the head. Sam was spinning with a necklace on when I told him he had better stop or he was going to get hurt - well, I guess Mom shouldn't say those things. He stopped and fell right into the cabinets. Thank goodness it didn't break the skin because we would have been in the emergency room. It immediately made a lump almost the exact size of a large egg. He was such a good boy, he let us keep ice on it for about 30 minutes. I was worried about a concussion, but he acted fine - after he stopped screaming bloody murder - and his eyes were not dilated, so for the next week or so, people will just think I beat my kids!!!!

Mall Rats

What a great Mom I am today. Since we had such crappy weather this weekend, a neighbor and I decided it would be a great idea to go to the mall and let the kids go to Inflatable Wonderland, or as Matthew likes to call it - Jumpy World. It's a place that has about 12 jumpers and kids go wild. Lucky for us it was not very busy at all. The kids had a blast & of course, we got a little shopping done. I got the CUTEST pants from my obsession store - The Gap. They are little capris with cute orange, white, and green flowers.

Now for my biggest pet peeve with my younger son, Sam. He has about as much patients as I do (yep, that's next to none). We are standing in line to get into Jumpy World and he totally freaks out. Screaming, wiggling, I can't get him back in the stroller - somehow. First I try to talk him down - drives him more crazy. Finally, we get in and he is off to the races, like nothing ever happened. I'll tell you what, if they sold some beer at Jumpy World, they would make a killing.

Do I have time?

Obviously not. When was the last time I posted? Whatever. It seems like I don't have the time to do the things I want - scrapbook, write blogs, EXERCISE! When I do have free time, I just want to lay around. Free time, what is that, oh yea, I have some now. As I sit around with toys piled around me, lunch dishes in the sink. At least I took a shower!! The main reason I'm on the computer now is because it crashed last week and I am trying to get everything back the way I had it. Hopefully I will be able to post more!!!!

Samuel Jack Wagner

Here he is, all the way from Russia. He is a happy 15 month old (04/01/04 DOB) It took him a little bit to warm up to us, but after bribbing him with some food he started babbling and smiling. We received our court date of 08/31. So we will be headed back a few days before then and hopefully returning home the September 7th or 8th.

Every dog has his day

Matthew and Kurt decided that Breezer had a "stench" and because of that he required a bath. I think that by the time it was over, Matthew had been bathed more than Breezer.

Matthew's new room

Since Matthew is being kicked out of his "baby" room, we made one of our bedrooms into his "big boy" room. He loves his bunk beds - mostly he loves jumping off the ladder into a pile of pillows.

1st trip to Russia

Well, things have finally calmed down after finding out the dates we are traveling to Russia on our 1st trip. We are leaving July 19th and returning July 24th. Hopefully we will get to see the new little guy more than we got to see Matthew. We only saw Matthew for 1 hour. However long it is it will be great.

Matthew's Gotcha Day - 6/26/05

Today is the day that we "got" Matthew, so we celebrate Gotcha Day. It was three years ago that we adopted him from Tver, Russia. We can't believe that three years have passed. He is such a sweetie boy. He is amazing us on a daily basis. We celebrated the day by going to lunch at Rudy's and then to Volente Beach. We had a great time. Matthew played on the pirate ship for 4 hours. Luckly we were able to get a chair in the shade. When we thought it was time to go, because he could hardly get up on the boat anymore, he said "OK Daddy, let's go home". You would have thought he would have fallen asleep in the car, but nooooo. He had to play with his new hockey game when he got home.

San Antonio Hockey Tourney - 5/25/05

We traveled down to San Antonio so Kurt could play in a hockey tournament. They won the first game, but lost the second. Matthew passed the time during the game by playing with his hockey guys. In between games we went to dinner and then spent two hours at ToysRUs. I think Matthew touched every toy - twice. He settled on a mini hockey game.

Poolside at the Bagstad's - 6/23/05

We never get enough time in at the Bagstad's pool. I think the kids would swim everyday if we let them. This day we had playgroup pool side.

Adoption #2 Update

We got our referral for our 2nd child today. We are so excited - another little boy. We will have to wait for travel dates now. Hopefully we will travel soon!!!

Playgroup Sprinkler Fun - 5/30/05

The kids had so much fun at playgroup this day. There is nothing better than running around in your underware through a sprinkler on a hot day. Too bad only the kids get to strip down.

Kurt's Birthday - 5/26/05

We celebrated Kurt's birthday at home. When he started opening his gifts, he got a swimsuit from me, his Mom, and Vicki & Jerry! Next time, I guess he will tell us what he wants. He requested for dinner homemade hamburgers and fries!!! Yum. Yum. Yum.

Hockey Practice - 5/3/05

Matthew is getting faster and faster on the ice. If you want to call it fast :) On this day he got really good. He was coming off the ice and didn't even slow down to step off the ice, he just jumped over the rail and started walking on the ground. I think the kids were doing their own version of a face-off.

Let's get ready for Hockey - 04/12/05

Matthew is all ready for his hockey lessons. He has broken the Wagner record by getting on the ice by the age of 3.

Matthew's Baptism - 04/02/05

Matthew was the perfect boy at his baptism at Triumphant Love Lutheran Church. We had prepared him by saying that the pastor was going to put sprinkles of water on his head. He worn an authenic Russian outfit. When it came to the time for the baptism, he closed his eyes and laid still. The church gave him gifts of a baptism candle, handerchief, and a lovely banner. After chuch we all came home and had BBQ and a cross cake baked by Mommy for lunch.

Tired Boy 3/29/05

It was so late in the afternoon, I decided not to let Matthew take a nap...He had a different idea. While playing PlayStation, he fell right asleep.

Easter 2005

We had a great and busy time at Easter. First we went to an Egg Hunt at the park, then we decorated eggs, then an egg hunt at home, church, the over to Grandma and Papa Wagner's.