My 5-year-old

Ethan turned 5 this past week. So bittersweet. I swear I can see and hear him growing as I write! We had a quite eventful week. Monday - I had class but not before Ethan and I were leaving Walmart only to find out my power steering had gone out. Great. I manually steered us to the local dealership...only to find out the warranty had run out on the 2nd of August. Of course it had. Tuesday - Oh...the night of Chuck E. Cheese. Hmmm...I think I would rather manually drive my car to a dealership ;) Wednesday was his actual birthday. We didn't do too much but let him open his presents (that he already knew he was getting because he snooped in my closet!) and I also agreed to let my OCDness go so that he could make a mess with his new toys. He also had soccer practice that night. Thursday - the kids had a dentist appointment. Ethan had everyone cracking up. I think it was when he was watching the dentist work on Kenzie and said "Um, what's up with that hook?" that we knew we were in trouble! He actually did well when it came time for his check-up, though! I was proud of him. Thursday night we went to "Meet the Teacher Night" at his new school (he starts this coming Wednesday). As we walked up to the school I held out my hand so that he would hold it. He didn't do anything. I asked if he wanted to hold hands (we always do). He said no. My heart....crushed. He gave me a quick hug and said "But I still love you". It was his big boy moment...but I wasn't ready for it. I am just not ready to let go of my baby. When we met the teacher, she asked me if this was going to be hard on me (I don't know if she meant in general or with the added CF stuff and worrying...maybe both) I started to choke up. lol! I told her with Kenzie's first day of pre-k I barely made it to the car before having a breakdown and that Ethan's the baby...and he's never been left with anyone but family, so...yeah...it's going to be tough. Ugh....



Well, I'm off to do homework...I'm behind in that and the house is a wreck which is just freaking me out...so I will be catching up this entire weekend :(



Hope everyone has a great Labor Day weekend!

Laughing Out Loud!

This cracked me up....first Bigfoot, now this...


For your viewing pleasure: http://www.tmz.com/2008/08/21/abominable-snowman-found/

Family.

Sometimes. I. Can't. Stand. Certain. People. In. My. Family.



They make me want to scream.



But...whatever. I need this----->





I may end up deleting this later...but...what's a blog for if I can't put out my thoughts...so...screw it. They piss me off to no end. As a parent...if you knew why....you'd understand.





Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh. *screams*

Nevermind

My friend Stacy and I put our BRILLIANT minds together and figured it out. Okay...it was more her brilliant mind telling my average mind what to do.

It's still under construction...obviously.

Customizing?

Does anyone know how to make a custom layout...I'm not really happy with the choices :( If anyone knows (b/c I'm too lazy to figure it out on my own, I guess! lol!) let me know!

Until then....here's a little bit of Christmas for you.... :)

Curious about Wonder Pets

I was watching the news, and I said "This is probably boring for you" to Ethan and changed it to Curious George. He said, "BORING". I said "you don't like it?" He said "I did when I was one!" EXCUSE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So, he's watching Wonder Pets....like that's so much more MATURE!

What has happened?

90210 is starting again. The New Kids On The Block are back together. Cabbage Patch Kids, Carebears, My Little Ponies, Super Mario, TMNT, and Transformers are all back. I know there are more things I'm missing, but frankly, I'm way too tired too remember...please feel free to add if you can come up with any.

I'm still holding out for Friends and Party of Five's return....

Life with a 5-year-old

I am downstairs getting ready to leave when I realize the faucet in Ethan's bathroom has been running for quite awhile...and I hear laughing. Running faucet in Ethan's room + laughing = NO GOOD. I am yelling up there (in a hurry and too lazy to go upstairs), but he obviously can't hear me over the water and laughter, right? Well, he eventually makes his way to my room, but he's standing behind my door, peeking his head into my bathroom. Hmmmm...does someone not want me to see something? I ask him why his faucet was running so long...and to tell me the truth. In a serious tone, he says - "Mom, I need to learn how to spit." What? He goes on to say he needs to learn how to spit so he was putting water in his mouth and spitting in the sink. Then he comes through the door to show me his shirt. "AND, I got water all over my shirt." It was all I could do from spitting my toothpaste out when he's telling me this. He was so serious. It was like...mom...I'm a boy...and it must be done...so live with it. So...he obviously didn't get into trouble. Wow, good thing Kenzie wasn't here to give him her "be good to the earth" speech. Running water just to spit??????????

On the bright side....

Pure loveliness....

(that is, unless you don't like the Colts...but that's just foolishness!)

My lunch with SECOND GRADERS

Wow. That's about all I can say. Here I thought I lived in this utopic world (well, I thought MY KIDS DID for the time being)...that was UNTIL I had lunch with them. If you have kids in elementary (or will), I highly recommend doing this. Or maybe I don't. It sure was a wake up call...one I didn't really want. Not that it was awful...but these kids were being so mean to eachother. I really wasn't listening until I heard one boy say "Was I TALKING to YOU?" And then proceeded to say "You KNOW I can beat you up, right?" WHAT?????????????????????? SECOND GRADE?????????? I don't remember ANY of this happening in second grade. Either times have changed or I was OBLIVIOUS to it...or maybe both. Kenzie goes to a somewhat diverse school. Well, it wasn't so diverse when Nathan and I went there...but it's more diverse now. Anyway, these boys then started arguing about who can beat who up. Then they start arguing with a girl because she asked if they were brothers. They started calling her dumb because one boy was obviously "black" and the other "mixed" (their words, not mine). I wanted to pull this girl aside and just hug her. She asked a simple question and they were calling her all sorts of names (and then it came out that they were both mixed and DID ADMIT THEY DID IN FACT LOOK ALIKE!) So, we are in second grade and starting the bullying, the race issues...oh...and they were calling the teachers names too. Awesome. These are the kids my daughter is around every single day. I mean...I know this is the world...I guess I just didn't know it would start in second grade.

What do I say? What does she think? Should I have said something? This is new for me...

For now, I'll post a picture with this post of us in the more "simple" years....Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Good Morning!

Me: Good morning, Bubby! How are you?

Ethan: FANTASTIC!


He's so funny!

Okay...I'm off to work on this stinkin' blog. I'm torn between trying to keep it secure (ie Keeping the Gina's of the world away) and also letting legit people (ie family, friends, and basically the non-Gina's of the world) in.

Oh, for those of you who don't know...Gina is a "person" (and I use that term LIGHTLY) who has been scamming people for years. I'm not going to use any more words than that b/c, thanks to google, it can lead freaks right back to this site. If you want details of this sicko, email me. (So, for the record, if you google "sicko" and "blog", you'll be directed to this site! lol!)

I'll post more in awhile....

Just a quick hello!

Just wanted to start out with a quick hello to everyone...and to post some pictures of Kenzie's first day of second grade before I head to bed. It's 11pm and Nathan's still at work...so I've been playing on the computer for hours. lol!