Trouble for Two

Well, today is Ash Wednesday and I'm having a super tuna sandwich, wishing I was eating a burger! Oh well, tomorrow I can eat the burger! mmmm.....tuna!

So, both of my babies got in trouble at school yesterday, I'm sorry to say. But in their defense, they did apologize so.....

Requay:
When I went to pick the kids up from daycare yesterday, Requay's teacher informed me that Requay had gotten in trouble and had to be put in the "thinking spot" for a while. Ms. Nikki, Requay's teacher, informed me that Requay, little miss independent, used the bathroom and instead of just using a little bit of toilet paper, she used the whole roll, which caused the toilet to over flow. But it sounded like Requay tried to clean it up by putting more toilet paper over the water that had over flowed. Needless to say, there was a crap load of toilet paper used for just one little bum! :o)

Jonah:
Jonah gets a "report" of how his day went daily and it usually has a smiley face on it for the day, but yesterday, it said that Jonah had done excellent in his reading group that morning. Which I'm thinking, "yes, my baby can read!" But then on the other "comments" section, it said that a "classmate had complained on Jonah and name calling." So I asked Jonah about it and I was able to find out that David was sitting with Irving when Jonah walked up and it apparently made David upset so David stormed off and Irving called him "ugly." (And some of this may be an exaggeration on Jonah's part, and ok, for those of you who know me, mine too!) I asked Jonah what he had called someone and finally after probably 15-20 minutes, he told me that he called David "a baby." Well, I guess in Kindergarten those are fightin' words. None of the boys were able to play at recess until they all apologized to each other and to miss recess is catastrophic!

We didn't ground or spank or anything to the kids, but we talked to them and told them that what they had done was not nice and to not let it happen again. And then I gave them a brownie to make them feel better.

[What?! Sorry, but I'm a guilty working mother!]

That's all I got for now.....until next time, happy reading!

Best News This Year!

Friday afternoon at work, my best friend in the 7th grade, Meg, called me to inform me that there would be an addition to their family!!

[For those of you who don't know....Meg and Peter are, in the words of Charlotte in the movie "Sex and the City," "reproductively challenged" and have been fortunate enough to be able to adopt Katie who will be turning 4 this year and Allen who will be turning 2 this year. ]

So anyway, Meg got a call from Allen's birth mom who is pregnant asking Meg if they wanted to take their unborn baby as well so that her and Allen would be together! And of course, they happily accepted Allen's true sister who is due to arrive on April 1st, but the doctors believe the baby may come early.....like on March 27 maybe which just happens to be MY birthday! How exciting would that be for another one of "nieces" to have the same birthday as me!!!

The birth parents have already chosen the name, Hannah for the baby and Meg is going to keep that name. (I absolutely love that name!) So Baby Hannah will be arriving sometime soon for us all to enjoy and I can't hardly wait!!! It was the best news I'd had all year! :o)

SO HAPPY AND EXCITED FOR YOU MEG.....oh and Peter, Katie and Allen too!
Miss you, Love you and Congratulations!!!

PJ Day!

So I was informed yesterday when I picked up the kids from daycare that Friday was "pajama day" at school so all the kiddos could wear their pj's to school! I almost forgot, but luckily Requay had pulled out most of her night gowns and they happened to be laying in front of her dresser this morning. I don't know if this was to "remind" me to put her on some pajamas or just because she couldn't decide which night gown she wanted to wear, but that's when I remembered!

It was a bit chilly outside, so I decided to have her wear her little pink nightgown that I found at the resale store when we went to visit Meg, along with some white tights to keep her little legs warm and then I put her little Disney Princess house shoes on her and put her hair up in pig tails. I must admit that she did look pretty darn cute! (I'll try to put a pic on the blog later.)

When I went to pick up the kids that afternoon, it was so cute to see practically all of Requay's class in their pajamas! Some had like under-roos--remember those? And others had just some pajamas with feet and then others had on their regular pajamas like Jonah wears. And after seeing the class, I have to say that Requay was still the cutest! (Maybe I'm just biased, but whatever!)

Jonah asked to wear his pajamas to school too that day and I reminded Jonah that he had to go to Kindergarten first and if he wanted to put his pajamas on once he got to daycare he could. And then I reminded Jonah that since he wears just his undies or some boxers to bed every night, just to take his clothes off once he got to daycare and he'd be in his pajamas! :o) That didn't go over too well, but I thought it was funny!

So no major plans for the weekend. We need to clean out tenant side of our duplex and normal weekend things like cleaning house, washing clothes......ick!

Oh and keep my Dad in your prayers because he went to the doctor and found a tumor on his neck that will need to be surgically removed. They said it was not cancerous which is good, but any surgery is scary! And as the words of Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Kindergarten Cop," "it's not a tuma!" :o)

Happy reading and until next time, thanks for tuning in for another adventure in the Pace World!

Turning 6

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JONAH!!! Today is Jonah's happy birthday day--he officially turned 6 years old at 11:58am! Awww....my baby has to use 2 hands now to show people how old he is!!!


This morning on our way to school, I told Jonah that at the time we were driving to school, that Mommy was in the hospital in labor. Jonah asked if "labor" was in this state. I had to explain that labor is not a place it's a condition and that he was ready to come out of my tummy. Jonah informed me that he "remembered" a little bit so I asked him what he remembered. He told me that he remembers his Daddy holding him and that Daddy was holding Baby Girl's hand too. I reminded him that Baby Girl had not been born and was not there when he was born, but Jonah was persistent that Daddy was holding her hand. I told him that maybe it was Jesus holding Baby Girl's hand because he had just come from heaven to be with us. Jonah thought that was probably where he remembers that from. I'm sure he knew Baby Girl when they lived with God in heaven and before God let them come live with Jason and I! I love the innocence of my babies and the fact that they have no cares and "remember" before they were born holding hands with their "Daddy!"


Requay had a little bag of Princess fruit snacks this morning on our way to school. When I went to get her out of the truck at daycare, I asked her where all her fruit snacks had gone because the bag was empty and she opened her mouth to show me how they were ALL shoved in her little mouth! Her little cheeks were as big as a chipmunk's and she could barely say anything at all! But every morning that I drop her off at daycare, she asks for just "one more hug" or "one more kiss" before I leave.....I end up giving one more hug and kiss at least 5 times each morning....not that I'm complaining!!!


On Friday night before Jonah's birthday party, we had to go pick up his cake at HEB and there is a little bench like step to get to the ordering counter at the bakery where they keep the cake book and such. Well directly beside this little bench counter is a very nice display of beautifully decorated cakes that are specialty cakes. Well, while I was getting Jonah's cake into the buggy, Requay proceeded to reach over the glass window and stuck her little finger into one of the cakes!!! I spanked her and took off quickly, hoping that nobody saw her little fingers in the nicely decorated specialty cake because I really didn't want to buy the cake. SHE NEEDS TO STOP DOING THAT!!! (And it's not funny for those of you laughing!) :o)


Jonah's party went well and thank you for everyone who came to celebrate with us and for all the gifts that he received! We had a great time! The kids were exhausted when we finally left!

Quick Funnies:
One rainy morning as we were fixing to leave for school, Requay stood at the front door, with it wide open and said, "it's raining, we need our babrella!" Some people call them umbrellas.

The other day after picking up the kids, I put Requay in her car seat and she accidentally sat on her Barbie and said, "oh poor my Barbie!" She was quite concerned for the well being of her poor my Barbie! :o)

Not sure if I've ever mentioned this before in past blogs, but sometimes Jason calls Baby Girl "Springhead." I tell him not to call her that because I know EXACTLY what mine and Requay's hair does during the night causing us to sometimes appear to look like we may have springs protruding out of our heads! I used to get so embarrassed when I'd stay at my friends houses because it didn't matter what I did or how I slept, my hair would look like a wild woman in the morning! "Poor my Baby Girl"

Jonah has begun bringing home more homework since "Winter Break" or what I call Christmas holidays. They take pieces of paper and cut out some pictures of boys or girls doing things like jumping rope or reading a book. They glue these pictures to the pages and then write sentences about what the people are doing in the pictures. The sentences are all phonetic so it's sometimes hard to read, but you just have to read each letter the way it sounds in order to understand the sentence. The homework part: rewrite the sentence correctly using Mom and Dad's help and then write another original sentence to go along with the first sentence. Jonah's doing really well reading and writing. It's just hard to believe that he's already 6 and reading and writing....he's growing up way too fast!

Well, enough for this blog so happy reading and until the next blog, take care to all my loyal and dedicated readers. (Love you Dad!)

Funnies

Another day, another blog! Here are some "funnies:"

We've been teaching the kids about manners like saying "excuse me" when you burp or fart or saying please and thank you when receiving or asking for something......with that said. Last night we were eating dinner and Requay had a mouth full of food in her mouth and said, "Excuse me." Jason and I looked at each other and said, "I didn't hear a burp!" All we could do was laugh! :o)

Jonah said that he wanted to go eat out for his birthday dinner at "that place where we dip the bread in the oil" aka: Carrabba's. I'm game! :o)

Jonah didn't want to eat his two, 2, dos, there were only 2 small little okras on his plate for dinner so Jason told him that if he wasn't going to eat them, that Jonah "owed" us five cents per uneaten okra. So we received ten cents for his uneaten okras, which was the end of the world for Jonah! (But then his softy Dad, told Jonah that if he took a bath and got his pajamas on in 10 minutes, he could earn his ten cents back.) That was one quick bath!! :o)

Jason "broke" one of Requay's fingers off last night, but not to worry, we bandaged it up with an ace bandage, gave it a kiss and it was all better! It's the small things in life that make a HUGE difference! :o)

Requay will eat well if she is fed by her Daddy! She eats as slow as her Mommy and will eat her food, but usually only picks at it until Daddy comes and picks up food on her fork/spoon and feed her himself. And Jason says he's not a "softy!" Who's spoiled here?? :o)

The conversation between a Daddy and a curly haired little girl last night:
Daddy: "That's what I said."
Curly haired girl: "Dat what you say?"
Daddy: "That's what I said."
Curly haired girl: "Dat what you say?"
Daddy: "That's what I said."
Curly haired girl: "Dat what you say?"
Daddy: "That's what I said."
Curly haired girl: "Dat what you say?"
Daddy: "That's what I said."
Curly haired girl: "Dat what you say?"
(There is no exaggeration here. I counted. This conversation went on for 5 rounds!) :o)

Ok, so it's time for me to go home now, so happy reading for now and until tomorrow, adios!

Teeth, Birthday and Pictures

Well, it's Monday again....ick! I hope you all had a good weekend. It was all right for us, I seemed to stay "drugged up" the majority of the weekend because of a toothache, but all in all, it was semi-productive.

So about my toothache, well, I mentioned in my last blog that I was heading to the dentist and I had full intentions of just getting my wisdom teeth OUT! (They have been hurting.) Instead, the dentist believed that I needed to have a root canal on the tooth right in front of one of my wisdom teeth. So there we went proceeding with a root canal when the dentist informed me that my tooth appeared to be a bit loose so he wanted to try to strengthen it up...whatever that means....before he completes a root canal. Well, the "sober" side of me took the "numb" side of me home and rested; however, I woke up with the numbness slowly fading and the pain gradually intensifying!! I called the dentist back hoping to catch someone to prescribe me some pain meds before they closed for the day! Whew....I got the drugs! Well, nobody informed me that I was supposed to take the vicodin with the ibuprofen, so all Thursday night, I tossed and turned in pain. When I called the dentist the following morning when I realized there was no possible way I could go to work with my head fixing to pop off, they informed me that I needed to take the vicodin AND the ibuprofen together--wish they'd of told me that the night before! So long story short, if that's possible after all this, I'm still on pain meds as well as antibiotics and I go back next week for a follow up.

And, well, with me drugged up this past weekend, I unfortunately was unable to do much housework or caring for the kids like I'm used to and Jason had to pick up the slack. (Thanks Babe!) **wink wink, is it bad for me to say that I can't do housework because the pain meds made me sleepy? oh well, the kids forged for food and every one's still alive and have clean clothes to wear!

So as far as the kiddos--Requay decided to "use her chap stick" and by use it, I mean, she had them ALL out (about 4-5) and they were smeared on both hands, front and back as well as her face! It might not have been so bad if it had just been around her lips, but this chap stick was smeared from her forehead to her ears down to her chin and some is assumed to have gone up her nose, but the facts are unclear and have been "blown away!"

And as you might know already, Jonah's 6 year birthday is being celebrated this weekend and he chose Transformers as the invites; however, he's been all over the place as far as what he wants and what decorations he wants for his party. He's been asking for dinosaur party favors, picked out a "Speed Racer" cake, will probably wear his Incredible Hulk t-shirt to the party with his John Deere hat, his A&M sweatshirt, his Marvel super hero shoes that have Superman, Batman, Iron Man and the Hulk, his leather jacket and have his Yu-Gi-Oh cards. So if you were thinking about getting Jonah something for his birthday--your guess is as good as mine because we have no idea what to get him without buying Wal-mart!

AND, Requay got in big time trouble this past weekend and is grounded for the next 5 years for trying to scrap my pictures while using my scissors, trimmer and pictures!!! She decided to I guess help me by cutting out the pictures I had laid out to put in Jason's Nascar book. I haven't found all the pieces of the pictures she cut up, but hopefully, they weren't important pictures! THAT LITTLE GIRL!!!

And well, I should go for now because it's almost time for my day to end and I should probably do some kind of work....so until tomorrow, keep us in your prayers, take care, good-bye, miss you and love you (Mom/Lita and Dad/Lito especially) Happy reading!

Dare Devil

Well, for the first time in a while, I was able to sleep ALL night without a little someone with curly hair who will remain anonymous coming into my room/bed! I was actually surprised and a little worried this morning though. She didn't get up and come into my room. What was wrong? Was she feeling ok? Did she get up sometime in the middle of the night and fall asleep somewhere else? So like the paranoid and crazy Mom that I am, I went to make sure she was breathing! *Sigh of relief.....she was still breathing.


I asked Jason to give her a "firm" talking to last night before she went to bed telling her that she needed to stay in her own bed and that she didn't need to be roaming around in the middle of the night! I guess it worked!


Night before last, the little curly haired anonymous person DID wake up in the middle of the night, but that night, I DIDN'T hear her or even knew that she was up! So when my alarm went off, she was on the mat next to our bed with all kinds of toys, babies and books. But there were also toys, babies and books surrounding my head too. She, I guess, had put her "things" around my head/pillow so when I woke up I couldn't even turn my head without laying on a toy! Another reason I knew that this little curly haired girl was up in the middle of the night is because the chair from the dining room table was in the middle of the kitchen. No telling what she wanted that was obviously too high for her to reach!


Yesterday however, I did catch her with gum that had been strategically placed on TOP of the refrigerator to keep little hands out of it. I asked her how she had gotten the gum from the top of the fridge and she explained to me that when the chair is pulled up to the counter, she is able to stand on the counter to get to the top of the fridge! Imagine my surprise to know that my 3 year old is able to get to "high" stuff by climbing! I told her not to do that anymore because she could fall.....doing the good Mom thing now.....and she just looked at me like, whatever. I moved the gum to even higher grounds so we'll see if she puts a bench on top of the counter to get on top of the fridge!


Quickie: Yesterday while we were on our way home, Requay just out of the blue says, "Mommy, I love you lot lot forever!" My heart just sank........ I moved the gum to the counter......


Well, so long for now, I have a dentist appointment and I'm GFD! (That's gone for the day in probation) So until tomorrow, happy reading!

One Crazy Morning

Whew....we had one crazy morning this morning....and all before 8am!

OK, last night, the weather was supposedly going to get worse throughout the night and we had been told to check the TV for school and/or work closings. (We had our fingers and toes crossed!) Jason and I stayed up late (well at least until after the news) to watch for ISD closing or opening late. There were a lot of schools opening late this morning because of icy roads and such but I never saw them mention Jonah's school or the ISD for that matter. So Jason and I woke up at 5 am to again check the weather conditions and/or school closings, but still nothing, nada, zilch.

So up we go, getting ready for school and work, but today at Requay's school, is picture day so I had to "fix" baby girl up so she'd look her usual cute self but more especially today! I got her dressed in her "birthday outfit"......no not the naked one, but the one that I spent way too much money on for her to wear to her birthday party! (It cost a whole $11 at the resale shop......agh!) Anyway, I fixed her hair all pretty, put a bow in her hair (she usually does not wear bows to school because they don't take care of them as well as I do--you know daycare!) I had her cute little shoes on her and off we went! I'm pretty sure she was going to be the cutest little girl at daycare today!!

Well to my surprise, when we got to daycare, it wasn't open!!!!! *AHHHHHH* I called the director about 10 minutes till 7am and probably woke her up and asked her if the ISD was opening late, and she said no, that school was running normal for our ISD. BUT DAYCARE WAS NOT OPEN!! She said that she would call the teacher that was supposed to open and find out what was going on and call me back.

In the meantime, Requay started whining that she had to go potty so off we went back to the house so that Requay could go potty. When we got to the house, the director called back and informed me that the teacher was under the impression that our ISD was opening late and that was the reason for her delay but that she was on her way to daycare so I could drop off Requay. [feeling: a bit upset, frustrated, angry and bitter at stupid people] Requay went potty and by this time, it was time for Jonah to go be at school. So Requay and I went to drop off Jonah at his school and I proceeded back to daycare thinking that 30 minutes would be enough time for somebody to show up!

[Keep in mind.....I carpool with a co-worker and he was patiently waiting for me too!]

When we got back to the daycare, there was another lady parked and waiting and I had informed her, thinking that she was a parent, of the situation, but she told me that she was the photographer and there to take pictures of the children. There were also another couple of vehicles with parents and kids patiently waiting.

Finally, the assistant director showed up, and thinking that whew, I can drop off Requay now, started getting Requay out of the truck. Unfortunately she did not have a key to the daycare!! The assistant director did say that she would wait with the kids in her warm vehicle. Normally, and in the past (yes, this has happened before), I'd sit and wait with my kids, but I've known the assistant director for the past 2 years or so, so I felt comfortable leaving Requay in her car. I called my carpool buddy and told him I was on my way and we finally left for work!

Whew......

The roads were a bit icy but there was sand on the overpasses and it wasn't a bad drive. Other drivers though believed that we should all drive about 20 mph which made our 15-20 minute ride to work a bit longer! We only hit one patch of ice and it was when we were about a mile away from work....go figure! Apparently though, we weren't the only two running late this morning.....probably half our building was late!

Well, now that I've pretty much used this blog to "vent" my frustrations.....I'll try doing some work and maybe blog some good/fun stuff later.....until next time, happy reading!

Always Use Your Manners!

I totally forgot to blog about this cute and funny little story about Baby Girl this past weekend......

So I mentioned that we went to the mother-in-laws to avoid cleaning house, well, while we were there, we HAD to go say hi to Pretty Girl, Jonah's horse. It was pretty cold outside so we bundled everyone up and went outside to pet Pretty Girl.

[Total side note: Pretty Girl is so pretty! She is getting her winter coat and is such a nice horse! I'm so lucky to have such a gentle horse around the kids!]

So anyway, while we were outside petting Pretty Girl and feeding her apples from the kids hands....see how gentle she is....Lucy, the dog that lives with the goats started heading our way and Requay started whining that she wanted me to hold her because she was scared of Lucy. (And we all know Lucy won't hurt a fly!) But, in her Baby Girl, whiny, drama queen way, she wanted to be carried and I didn't want to pick her up. So I told Requay that if Lucy came up to her, just to stretch her leg straight out and tell Lucy, no-no! So when Lucy got closer and Requay saw her, I told her, "what do you say?"

Thinking that she would stretch out her leg and tell Lucy no-no.....she instead says, "Thank you!" :o)

Good manners are always good to have!

Ooooyyyyyyyy!

Well, I hope you all had a good weekend! We didn't really do much.....on Saturday, we attempted to stay as far away from the house as possible because it looked like a tornado had swept across our house only! So we left for breakfast, went to run some errands, picked up Jason's deer at the processors, took some meat out to his Mom's, and then finally around 3:30 in the afternoon, figured we should go home to start a whirlwind cleaning spree of our house! So we cleaned.....and cleaned.....and cleaned! Whew.....

On Sunday, we of course went to Sunday school and then continued to finish the last of the house cleaning that needed to be done....pretty uneventful weekend. It was GREAT!!

So let's see, you probably don't really want to hear about cleaning the house because you "tune in" to check on the kiddos......so Requay has gotten into this thing that if she doesn't get her way, is told "no" or doesn't like something that you have to say, she'll say (and I have no idea where she got this from) but she'll say "ooyyyyyy" all long and drug out. She has the facial expressions to go with it too and it's all pretty funny to hear and watch, but I try not to let her see or hear me! Cause then it's there again, "ooyyyyyyy"........

Jonah and Requay spent the majority of Sunday "cleaning their room." You know I'm not sure if they are "cleaning impaired" like their father or if they really thought their room looked better than before! But by the time they "finished" I'm pretty sure there were MORE toys strung out all over the floor of their room! And as usual, the cleaning could not be done without the every now and then yelling and telling that brothers and sisters do when "Requay isn't helping [me] clean the room!" (As per Jonah) They might not have cleaned much, but they stayed in their room for most of the day playing, which is nice when you're trying to get the rest of the house cleaned or doing laundry!

Last night, Requay was just about to fall asleep while eating dinner (no nap for her on Sunday--too much to do with all the "cleaning.") Her little head kept doing the head nod thing and finally, she just laid her little head down on her tray of her highchair. So I cleaned her up, put her nightgown on her and put her into bed around 7pm! I foolishly believed that she might sleep until this morning, but of course she didn't and instead woke up around 9ish. Well Jason and I were ready for bed at 9, so I laid out the trusty nap mat that has remained beside my bed since Jonah used to sleep on our floor. I brought her pillow and blanket and she laid down and fell back asleep. But then in the middle of the night, we woke up to her crying and wondering what was going on.....well I checked and she had gotten her cute little head stuck under the bed and couldn't get it out....poor baby! So I pulled her out, covered her up and put her back to sleep.

Well, not much more to report, so until later, happy reading!

Not much

Well, not much going on from last night, Jonah fell asleep watching TV in the recliner....typical male! I couldn't find the remote until I went to take him to his bed, which is quite challenging these days because he weighs so much! But I managed to get him to his room and then woke him up a bit so he could climb the stairs into his bed. He was pretty much out by about 7:30 last night....my poor baby was tired! He barely even ate any dinner last night, just a few snacks before crashing! Don't call CPS or anything though because I fed him breakfast this morning! Gosh.....

Requay and I, on the other hand, we took a hot shower, "did" our hair, ate dinner and got ready for bed. She is such a little girly girl and so good at it! And usually on Fridays, I tell the kids that we can go get donuts for breakfast before school, so they look forward to Fridays....who doesn't!

I got a "care package" from my parents yesterday in the mail, which is always nice getting packages. I was SO excited to open it and see what all was inside it, but when I started going through it, I found two of the holiday pictures of the kids that I had sent with my parents, back in the care package! So, I don't know if they are "cutting us out" or just got tired of looking at my cute babies or what??!! Very strange! Anyway, I got alot of little "goodies" like scrapbook magazines and cards and stuff like that.....yeah! Thanks Dad!

So we don't have much going on this weekend, we need to clean out our empty duplex so that new tenants can move in and Jason needs to go pick up yet another deer from the processors, but other than that, not much else. I should probably clean house and stuff but really don't have much motivation to do that! (Maybe I'll "hide out" in my scrapbook corner--nobody will ever find me there!)

So until next week, adios, good-bye, chow, and au revoir. Hope you all have a good weekend!

Boys vs. Girls

Well, here we are again...are we on a roll or what??!! So let's see, first of all, this morning I was washing Baby Girl's hands in the sink and she looked into the mirror and said to herself maybe, me, "I'm cute!" And of course I totally agreed!!


Baby Girl is so funny and cute, she has babies that will cry and she'll run over to them ALL concerned and pick them up and rock them or hug them and tell them it'll be ok. Even, and this may sound bad, but if I want Baby Girl out of something or to move, I'll tell her that I hear her baby crying and she gets SO concerned and worried that she rushes off to seek and comfort her baby! She got a baby stroller for her birthday that she carries her babies in, really it's good because I mean carrying babies all day everywhere gets to be tiring, so she's smart to use her stroller!

And I bought some Kleenex boxes and some happened to be in a blue box and some happened to be in pink Hannah Montana box and I figured Jason would rather have the blue box on his side of the bed, so Baby Girl believes that the blue box is for boys and the pink "manna panbanna" are for girls! (That's how she says Hannah Montana.) I'm not sure what's wrong with using the Kleenex from the blue box, but don't let her catch you getting her one from that box! :o)

And not to leave my baby boy out, Jonah, who is not much a baby anymore, is just getting taller and taller and learning so much that sometimes if he doesn't know what something says, he'll call out, "Mom, what does s-n-a-c-k-p-a-c-k spell?" You really gotta be on your toes to be able to pick up that he's spelling out a word from the box of something in the pantry or else he ends up repeating it again which just makes him upset! Spelling things in our house is not so easy these days! And now I realize why my parents used to speak Spanish when talking about things that they didn't want us to know about! (Well, my brother and sister didn't know anyway, but I did!) So Jason and I are thinking of taking up speaking in Hebrew or sign language or something so the kids won't know what we're talking about! God help us!! :o)

Well, enough for today, until tomorrow, happy reading!

Proud Parent!

Jonah brings home little "newsletters" that his teacher writes every week just saying what the kids are learning, projects the kids are working on and just good stuff about the kids. Well yesterday I got the newsletter for last week and last week was testing for my little guy (all though he's not that little any more!) Anyway, the newsletter said things like all the kids had passed certain parts of the testing, others had problems with deletion of the final sound and so I started asking Jonah stuff like deleting the first letter or the last and having him tell me the remainder of the word or letter recognition or comprehension. Mr. Wayne said that he read a 166 word story to the kids and they had to get all 5 identifying questions right and Jonah said he got all of his right! So I started "drilling" him to see if he was really telling me the truth....so I'd come up with random silly little stories and then ask him questions about what color the girl's dress was or what she was eating or whatever.....he must have been listening better than me because I told him the story and ask a question and when he answered, I couldn't remember the answer, but he knew! (I didn't tell him that I didn't remember.) So anyway, it made me feel like he was actually getting something from this whole Kindergarten thing! It's just amazing at how much he has learned in only half a year of school!

And as for Baby Girl, well she's learning things too....like how to talk back, or when to say, "omm-momm-mmommm" when someone says a bad word! *Little tattle tail! :o) Last night was not that eventful....we came home, ate dinner, took baths, read a book and went to bed! We were all tired!

When Jonah got home, he went to play his wii....and no I'm trying to be dirty, we got a Nintendo wii for Christmas...gosh....anyway, on the wii you can design your own person and Jonah designed Baby Katy! He said that he wanted to play a game with her so he put her on the game! I didn't get to see her before he turned it off because I was busy cooking dinner and trying to keep the kids out of the snack foods!

Jason and I watched a little bit of the Inauguration happenings, but we had missed it originally, so whatever was on the tube, was what we watched....I hear things went fairly well. I mean really, there will be stuff messed up in every big ceremonious event.

Well, not much to report from yesterday....happy reading!

Seriously??!!

New Year, New Resolution to keep up with the blog? If there's even anyone out there still "checking in" on us. If not, that's fine because it's mainly so I'll remember what the kids did while they were little and so I won't forget the little things that go by so fast!

So yesterday, we had a play date with my bestest friend and her kids! Our kids play SO well together!! We went to the "bouncy" place to play, well I guess let me back up a little, we went to the bouncy place after leaving the emergency room. Yes, the emergency room.....who for? Requay. She was standing on the recliner in our living room, after I told her to get down and fell head first onto the floor! And of course, she passed out and went unconscious, but for some reason, I was calm about it all....I shook her awake and asked her if she was ok. It took a little bit but she started drooling and then wet her pants and that's when I panicked! All of this happened about 2 minutes before Meg arrived, so we quickly got all the kids back into the trucks and drove to the ER. Requay seemed to be fine once we got there and we didn't have to wait long at all. They took another Cat scan of her little head (and she got some really pretty Disney Princess stickers) and they told us that everything looked fine and that we could go home, but just to watch her to make sure she was acting normal. Whew......she's fine and played hard like she'd never gone to the ER that day!

Jonah came home last week asking if we knew "King Luther" and of course we did not. I asked if he meant King Arthur, thinking that maybe they had been learning about knights at school or something, but he said no not Arthur. And then he said, "King Luther Jr." and we figured out that he was talking about Martin Luther King Jr! They had I'm sure talked about it at school and I guess Jonah just figured that "Mr. Luther" was a king! :o)

So anyway, long story short, we had a pretty good "King Luther Jr." day! Hope yall's was just as good!!