Friday, June 4

The 2009-2010 School Year has come to an end. I am not sure how to feel about this. I am so proud of my kiddo's and what an awesome job they all did this year. But, 87 days of no school? We will see how it goes.
Here are the "before and after" pics from this year!

Special thanks to the 3 great teachers that spent a year working hard with my 4 students! WOW, they are amazing!

Tuesday, March 30

JULIE

Julie is such a good mom! I knew she was good with kids, she has helped me for years! But it is great to see her as a "mommy" with her own baby! She is a natural. I love this picture of her! She is soooooo happy!

Sunday, March 28

Me and MAK

I am in Texas, hanging with my baby, MAK (Mosiah Alan Kilgore). Oh, and Julie-my favorite sister. I get to snuggle him, and feed him at night (so Jule-bean can get some sleep) and change his bum (cute when they are so small). I am having a ball!

MAK and his many faces!!!

His "bellybutton" fell off last night, but yesterday (Saturday) he needed a sponge bath and a shampoo. Poor Julie-I remember having Aunt Chan come help me with Hudson's first bath-she did awesome! He was not sure at first, but he seemed to enjoy it after the shock wore off. When his hair is wet it is a little curly! LOVE THIS GUY!

Julie and MAK (just gettin started)

Washing the hair!

Look at my curls!!!!!!!

Thursday, March 18

Gonna Be a Bear

In this life I'm a woman. In the next life, I'd
like to come back as a bear. When you're a bear,
you get to hibernate. You do nothing
but sleep for six months. I could deal with that.

Before you hibernate, you're supposed to eat
yourself stupid. I could deal with that, too.

When you're a girl bear, you birth your children
(who are the size of walnuts) while you're
sleeping and wake up to partially grown cute,
cuddly cubs. I could definitely deal with that.

If you're a mama bear, everyone knows you
mean business. You swat anyone who bothers
your cubs. If your cubs get out of line, you
swat them, too. I could deal with that.

If you're a bear, your mate EXPECTS you to
wake up growling. He EXPECTS that you
will have hairy legs and excess body fat.

Yup, gonna be a bear!

(Author Unknown)

Enough Said.

Sunday, March 14

WIERD WHITE KIDS

We have had a couple of“weird kid”things at our house this last month. I'll do them in order.

THOMAS

One day, Thomas comes home from school saying that he needs a new backpack because his has a huge hole in it. I knew it was wearing out, but had figured he would make it through the rest of the year.

Well, yeah, when you drag home a 15 pound rock walking home from school, your backpack will wear out faster.

(This is a #10 food- storage can, to show how really big this rock is!!!)

HUDSON

Every month, Hudson has a category of book that he has to read and do a report on. In February he had to read a biography, and then make a puppet of his character.

We went to the library and found several ideas, but in the end he decided to learn about Wyatt Earp. Very cool old-west law-man. We all learned a lot about him.

So, on to the puppet. He asks me 2 days before it is due if he could make his puppet out of a banana. SERIOUSLY! I told him I didn’t know if that would really be a puppet, so to ask his teacher.

She said that he could do it however he wanted. That is how Wyatt Earp turned into a banana.

He cut off the top (stem) of the banana, and covered it with a small piece of cardboard, so it would stand straight. He glued on googley-eyes, and made a mustached out of pipe-cleaner. This we tried to glue, but had to also pin in place.

The hat was by fat the hardest part. We used a toilet paper roll, and crushed in the top, then hot glued it (with only minor burns). Then he cut a piece of cardboard with a hole in the bottom, and glued the top on to it. Add another piece of pipe-cleaner, glue and pin it to the “banana head” and you have a cowboy hat!!!

TA-DA Wyatt Earp. I happened to be volunteering in class that day, and Hudson’s puppet was by far the coolest, and most creative. Most of the others were brown paper bags with internet pictures glues on!!! LAME!

Now, back to Thomas.

He has had 2 loose teeth for a couple of months, but he hasn’t been proactive with getting them out. One day I went to volunteer in his class (I love being able to do that). His teacher informs me that he had pulled out his tooth that day. I know the teachers must LOVE that!

2 nights later the tooth fairy came and left him $1.00

He must have decided that since his allowance for the month was gone, that he should yank that other tooth, so 2 days after having the tooth fairy visit, he yanks the other one (at 9pm).

The tooth fairy is really busy, so it took her 2 nights to bring him the other $1.00, but it was worth it. Now my cute boy has some gaps! (I apologize for the picture of the tooth…but Thomas insisted!!)

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Sunday, February 28

It comes in 3's

Last Friday I received a phone call at work from my wonderful husband.
"You need to come home" he says.
"OK, is everything alright?".
"NO" he growls, "Alex just threw a gallon of paint down the stairs".
I reply,"I'll be right there."
Thankfully I only work about 30 seconds away from the house. I got home, and took over wrestling the still very angry Alex. Once we calm him down, we start to look at the paint, and make a game plan.
We'll fill up the teeny-tiny shop vac, and suck it up. What a nightmare. After an hour, I gave up and called Greg, our carpet cleaning guy. He laughs, and comes right over. He is miraculous, and the carpet looks great.
The walls however.......

It may be hard to tell, but the top 2 pictures are the walls on either side of the stairway. The left picture is the side with the light switches. The middle picture is the railing (other side than the switches.) The picture on the right is the ceiling and wall looking down the stairway. Yeah, there is paint everywhere. This is AFTER I wiped walls and railings down for 2 hours.

So, we survive the weekend. And the beginning of the week. Wednesday, remember the snow? Not a bad storm, as storms go, but not pleasant either. I drop off the boys at school, and decide to run up and get a coke before work.

About 100 yards from the grocery store, a car turns left across my lane of traffic, misses the driveway they were aiming at, and end up with their back end in my lane. Only going 15 miles an hour, I still can not stop. It was slow motion, knowing I was going to crash into this car.

No one was hurt. The 90 year old lady that I plowed into was very kind, and we both realized there was nothing either of us could have done. I go back to my car and call the police. I go back to check on 90 year old woman, who is now kinda freaking out about her little dog in the car with her.

See, she was trying to turn into the dog groomers driveway (and missed). And the groomer was expecting the dog. She was actually going to get out and walk up the long snowy driveway to deliver the dog. "No, no" I said, "let me take him up. You stay in your car". Like I was going to let her out to fall and break a hip!!!!! NO WAY.

SO, I walk up the driveway, no small feat, and deliver the dog. I am explaining why I am bringing the dog instead of the owner ("Oh, I just crashed into her outside your driveway. We're waining for the police.") While telling her this, unbeknownst to me, the dog has pooped. And I stepped in it. YEP! I stepped in dog doo.

I walk back to the cars, and report that the dog is fine, and he will be ready at noon. While talking to her, I am running my REALLY CUTE shoe on the snow and the gutter trying to remove the poop.

You try to do a good deed, to make up for plowing into the old lady, and you step in dog %$#@^%. I can't win.

Here is my sad van. $2,500 worth of repairs.

Luckily (kinda) the police sited the other driver for attempting a turn with out having enough time to execute it safely. I don't agree 100%...but I didn't get a ticket, and I don't have to pay my deductible. Oh, and the police man was VERY nice and did not give me a ticket for my expired drivers license.
They say bad things come in 3's. I have been waiting for the 3rd. My visiting teachers came this week, and as we were laughing about my life (glad I could entertain you), one of them pointed out that the paint was 1, the accident was 2 and the poop was 3. OHHHH, thank goodness for the poop, I don't think I could handle another problem.

**I decided not to take pictures of the dog doo...you all know what your shoe looks like after stepping in that!!!**

Wednesday, January 27

OUCH

My handsome oldest son is now the proud owner of............BRACES! I am pretty sure that he is not happy, as his mouth and teeth and gums and everything hurts. I never had braces, and I think it is all in his head. I could be wrong!

Jan 28th (day 1)

He has an expander on the top that I get to turn every morning and evening. It seems backwards that I am paying money to have the space between his 2 front teeth BIGGER. When I find the camera, I will start to document the "gap".