Open House with cow poop

It's that time of year again when the schools stay open late to showcase your kiddo's hard work and learning efforts...so you can feel like your tax dollars are really benefitting something in the grand scheme of thigns (ok, unless your kid is in private school like me but you get the point). It was open house at schools across the area....

I took Josh... fresh from T-ball practice. He wrote a book and the front and back covers were laminated... it was about his Robot and him... it's funny to read that and his journal because everything he writes he puts "I like ____(insert noun here)____ but my mom doesn't" It was such a consistent pattern, I felt the need to inquire about whether he just thinks I dont like anything. I think maybe it's just a sentence he's familiar with so it's good journaling fodder. Wow, 6 years old and already using repetitive fodder! lol whoda thunk it

Then we get to see his salt map project. I took one look and said... is that a cowpoop? He looked at me slowly with the "who farted look" on his face and said... no mom, it's a mountain. LOL... I was laughing so hard and said.. I'm sorry... I didn't read it... you did a great job on your mountin there big boy! LOL... I think this will be one of those little projects that you just say... SMILE... take that photo and send it to file 13! :) I love him but giant cow turds made of salt really aren't my idea of a keepsake. :)

BBQ Birthday

Josh, Drew and I met my mom at Spring Creek in Irving for her birthday dinner before Josh left for Iowa for Spring Break... it was nice but going out to eat with Drew... if you don't just wolf it down like it's your last meal for weeks.. you will NOT get to finish it because when he's done... he is DONE! So, we ate fast... she enjoyed it.... good food.. happy birthday mom.

Well, I booked it

The Sanity Tour 2006 is officially booked. I called this quaint little cabin in Fredericksburg and booked my isolation room. It's close enough in town that I can find my way around... I got the directions e-mailed to me and I fully expect it will be a weekend of scrapping, reading, relaxing, drinking, soaking and staying in my robe from sun-up to sun-down.

My patience has been worn thin... my energy spent... my cup of hostility to the world floweth over and so I'll be out of here... very soon. :)

My BIG Break

No, I wasn't discovered as the new face of Estee Lauder... it's even BETTER than that! I registered Drew for Adventure Playcare for Kids!!!! We got there about 9:15 and found out all about their Mother's Day Out program on Tues/Thurs from 9-12 with lunch included and I was like... WHERE DO I SIGN?! Another mom came in while I was discussing everything and when one of the workers opened up the gate... Drew just followed. She looked at me like "is this okay?" and I said..well, he IS going to stay here so I guess if he's going willingly... let him! He did GREAT! I was so excited...

I had freebie meebie time... went for a ride in the car let the wind blow in my hair... listened to my radio loud.... daaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyum... life was way good to give me a break! I felt blessed.... I even went shopping at the Gap -- can't beat that with a stick!

He came home and CRASHED hard! poor kid... playing is a tough job! I see a light at the end of the tunnel! Sanity MAY BE IN SIGHT!

Obligatory Parenting Things

It's one of the things you're just required to do as a parent...take your kid from party to party to party so that when it's your turn to play hostess, everyone returns the favor and comes to your party. It's the obligatory birthday party. Normally, honestly, I just hate them. I run on such a tightly wound spring anyhow but to have to endure sittingon my butt doing nothing for 2-3 hours just eats me alive. I just keep thinking of all the thigns I SHOULD be doing or I COULD be doing but alas... isn't life all about the kids? HECK NO! LOL..it's about ME! Aren't we the ones that routinely mutter -- I brought you into this world and by God, I can tak you out of it too? Oh.... you don't say that? Well then... a-hem... me neither!

So, we get there... and good GRIEF has she outdone herself...we are all (we, the other non-hostessing moms) saying - I'll never even try to TOUCH this one... there was a petting zoo (goats, sheep, rabbit, some kind of fluffy hen), horse rides, hay rides, karoke, face painting, bounce house, make your own sundaes, a pinata, food... all the food... and beer, it was so over the top! We were all just like... holy cow batman! So towards the end of the night Sherry and I just sat down and tickled each other's funnybones for about the last hour... I"m sure the rest of the place thought we were single-handedly cleaning out the cooler of beer but alas... we were not... I didn't even finish one. Now, Sherry had 2... maybe 3...but we were just having such a fantastic time! We've definitely got to go out! Love that girl... just a freakin hoot! and in 10 years.. if I look that darn good... I'll be wearing a bikini at the grocery store! LOL...

Got home... Andy had found a snake and kept it on the driveway for Josh to see... he thought it was the coolest thing ever and what did he do? He played croc hunter and just picked that puppy up by his tail and held him. NO FEAR I tell ya..the kid has NO FEAR!

Josh had a cute face painting... flames... He thought he was so cool... (well, he IS.. he is MY son afterall!) :)

So Yeeee Haww... that was a GREAT party! :) Even if I had more fun than a lot of the kids. :)

Heading Eastbound on I-20

I picked up Lisa... loaded her buggy in my car, dropped the boys off at my mom's for the first time Drew's ever really napped at someone's house and the first time she's ever watched him and we headed east on I-20 to Canton! Waaahooo hoooo... I was so excited to have some real girl time I don't think I shut up the entire time. It's so easy to get turned around out there that it's just crazy -- even after I got a map.

These chunky monkeys on their motorized scooters... get up and walk people! I know we should have sympathy/empathy for those who are physically challenged but exercise is good for the soul, muscles, waistline... so get up and WALK!!!!!

We kept finding this and that but both of our first purchases was a large bag of candied nuts -- pecans for Lisa, almonds for me (Andy got me hooked on those!)....

We wandered in and out of buildings... back and forth...around and around... until WOW... I found something I couldnt' live without.... BOOKS for the boys! LOL. Yeah, my first check was written to a book vendor. I found three cool NFL first reader books... I knew Andy would be proud!

I also bought three large tin canisters... large -- mucho grando! (sounds like a taco bell menu item huh?) and a really cool "thing" to hang on the wall... it's a shelf... has hooks and also has the decorative aluminum wall tiles... no idea how to explain it... you'll just have to see it!

She found what she was looking for... we did lots of looking... ate some lunch...and soon it was time to call it a day... we picked up the boys from my mom's...

Josh is at that stage where he loves to try to interject into every conversation regardless of whether he understands the subject matter or not. So we had lots of broken conversations.... and Josh trying to rat my mom out for trying to have Drew ride him like a horsey and he fell over the front of josh's shoulders onto his head on the ground (grass, not concrete)... no biggie... but he loves to tell! :)

Dropped Lisa and her goodies off and we headed back to the house... I was ready to lapse into a coma... But, I got some neat stuff... was way under my "limit"... and got some time away...it was a good day.

2 Percentage Points up!

Dr. appt today at 10am. His weight curve is on its way up again... YEA! He went from the 23rd to the 25th percentile in weight. Maybe he WILL eat again. The doc did say to grind up what he won't eat and put it in his foods. So, I guess he won't LEARN to eat veggies, he'll just be tricked into it.

We drove up to Andy's work to say hi and let Drew see him before naptime (and to KILL time) and he seems to gravitate towards William at the office because he's always got food (snacks) so what was his snack? Oh, try about 1/3 a bag of chili cheese fritos!?! This kid won't eat a hotdog but he'll eat a freakin bag of chili cheese fritos? What the heck is up with THAT!?! It's maddening I tell ya!

He started calling me Mohh--yeeeee instead of mama... and Andy is Daaaaaayeeee instead of Dada. Josh is "joh-shaw" I have got to get some camcorder tapes to catch these cute little nuggets of personality that won't stick around long! Andy started teaching him "get yer guns up" (Texas Tech)... who KNOWS what he says then... and he's got a double barrel finger gun b/c he can't quite master the pistol. LOL.