fair

We had so much fun at the enviromental fair yesterday. My little man was such a good helper, the principal came to tell me! You should know, when i see this woman coming, i try to run the other way. She is a hoot. She has big hair, high heels and is very aggresive. I would not want to be on her bad side. She makes me think of Dallas episodes and Mary KAy. She did catch me though, unfortunately little miss midget loves her, so as i am trying to duck and cover, she is waving and screaming "Hi!!" to the woman. We need to work on our signals. As the hubby and i have our thumb gesture, she and i have none. To anyone who we have used our gesture on, i know nothing, it was all his idea :)
So, my little monkey helped set up booths, and even got to use the principals camera to take yearbook pictures. How cool is that?! He had a great time. We won a couple plants, and petted a few animals at the petting zoo. Woohoo, save the earth :)

coughs and catnaps

We have been so busy it seems, but I could not tell you what we have been doing. Strange isn't it? Seems like we are, but it's nothing exciting, just daily life. Monkey has a bad cough, and sounds like he's been smoking for 20 years. I'm going to have to take him in to the dr i think, nothing is helping. So i am wondering if it is allergies or strep throat again. Poor guy. He was so worried i was going to take him today. He's volunteering at school to help with an enviromental fair. Yes, you read that right. Amazing, and i am so proud of him for that. He's got such a caring heart, and sometimes i forgot what a good person he is. i'm just so darn proud of him! Remind me of this when his teachers call me and he is in trouble please :)
My little midget princess, had her last dental appt. The Dr. should be able to afford his new sports car now, and i am glad we were able to help. She had two teeth puled, so she was a little whiny. She has however perfected the meanest dirty look ever. I was shocked when i looked at her and was on the recieving end. I am sure this will make my mother happy. She slept alot of the afternoon, and was thrilled sheldon let her nap with him. Such a good cat. I let her stay home today, as the last time the teacher was on the recieving end of lots of whining. You are welcome Mrs. R. You owe me one!

Back to school

Well the two little ones, who really aren't so little are back in school. It is so hard to get them going after they have had a week to sleep in. That i have to say is a perk of older kids. Well, i suppose i should clarify, sleeping in.
At the teen years, when i could "sleep in", that would have been 10 or maybe even 11. When spending one of my many weekends at Melon's house, she could sleep until 12 College age, again, 10 or so. Unless i had signed up for an early class, which i tended to do.
After getting married around 9:30 would be sleeping in on the weekends.
Baby age, sleeping in, HA!!! 5:30, 6 a.m. They were always early risers.
So now, at the ripe age of 7 and 10, Midget rises about 8 or 8:30. Monkey, on the vary rare occasion might sleep until 10, but usually 9. Which is nice.
I still get up about 7, to relish in the quiet. ah, the peace and quiet. It also gives the time to watch the shows i am too tired to stay awake and watch, or the shows they should not watch. :)
So that is our thrilling life right now, getting back to getting up. how may days until June 3???
Everyone cross your fingers and toes and anything else you can for good news on the job front. It would be heaven on earth to be in the same country as that wonderful hubby of mine!!!

sharks and shelves.

Well, spring break is over. We had lots of fun, and the weather was nice until Sat. We went down to the aquarium. I thought it wouldn't be as crowdeed as our childrens museum, i was wrong. It was one of those moments where i often wonder about. You know the feeling where you think if you get there early there won't be a crowd. Well aren't there others who think the same thing? So really, why get there early? Anyway, we had lots of fun. It was really crowded though, so that made it a little bit annoying. We did have fun in the tunnel thing, the diver was in there and made faces at monkey and midget. He scared her though. It was kind of funny. He took a picture of us taking a picture of him. What a fun job. One reason the kids loved the aqaurium was for the sharks. The Djibouti the man got to swim with whale sharks. This while we are living the boring life of super targets and ballet class ;) We love you lots anyway, but they learned about the whale sharks. So that was neat. We all agree, we wouldn't have swam with them anyway.
After that we went to the beach. It was crowded also, and a little cold. But they had fun, until monkeys lips turned blue, and he finally madmitted to being cold. I figure it must have been really cold for that to happen. :)
After that, (can you tell this was a long day?) we were in the area of their grandparents. We hadn't seen them since August, so they loved seeing them again. They hung out for a bit at the pizza place and then we headed home. It was a super long day, so the kids slept really well
Sat and Sun we just stayed around here. Cleaning closets, and playing outside. Yesterday i cleaned out our garage, that was a feat in itself. I had gotten some shelves. I am pretty sure the neighbors enjoyed the show from his garage bar as they drank. Nothing like watching a woman trying to put together a shelving unit that swears no tools were needed, but simply "suggested". I think i learned new words, and i've never wanted to run over something so bad in my life. But i built the stupid shelves, and now they are holding some of the things i can't bear to part with, but don't really need or use. I suppose in the slean sweep, clean house world that means i should get rid of them....

ouch...

My sweet little midget had her spacer put in yesterday. She is less than thrilled... So we are hanging around the house today to let her mend a bit. IT feels tight she is complaining, but she should be good later today. So monkey is hanging around and playing on his board while we wait. Hopefully she will be better later so we can go get a good st patty's day dinner of some sort.

Beautiful weather

We had some beautiful weather this weekend, so we had to head to the park to play. we had some friends come over, with our favorite baby. Midget and Monkey love to play with him. so she had to take him for a ride in her jeep. He had fun, but eventually true to his age would rather open and close the door :) Monkey took him down the slide, and pushed him on the swing. We had tons of fun. Today he has a friend over, and she has a neighbor playing with her. So all are happy :)

Spring break...

We are off to a good start :) Homemade waffles with strawberries and whipped cream for breakfast...yum. I don't make these enough, monkey said "These taste weird...".
He says it was weird in a good way, and he ate every bite. Does this mean i should cut back on the Eggo waffles?