We had so much fun I can’t believe it is already over.
We saw sky divers, bands, and some good KFC chicken. We were in heaven!
Fireworks were the most amazing thing for the FISH.
I was worried he be scared but he love every minute of it.
Wed. July 2nd, 2008
1. Take out thrift clothes
2. Bread run
3. Hang Ikea Calendar (pictures to follow…but if you read this blog you probably know that I promise pictures and don’t follow through 
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4. Move Thing 1’s room. At least set up his bed:)
5. Crepes for Breakfast.
I will try to post tonight to report.
We are going to continue working on that part. It seems that thing 2’s pair of white shorts are going to take only a couple of washes more. The white/kaki colored shorts of the fish however maybe a loss.
I am looking for an new area rug I rolled up the old one. Ikea seems to have a nice selection. I am just excited for one that is stain free. Even if it is just for one day- or half day. (One rug can only handle so many accidents, this has been 2years worth) and now I feel like my poor carpet in the family room is too exposed! Just waiting for orange juice, urine, popcorn, fish sticks, ketsup, chocolate milk, and rasberries to come and disrupt the happy, little clean living room.
I would love to move thing 1 today into his own room. He wakes up at the insane hour of 6:00am on a regular basis. So much for being my child. My husband can’t claim him either. We just know he is some sort of hilarious alien with a toothless grin.
With him starting school this fall getting up won’t be a problem. I am not sure I am ready for him to grow up and leave the house yet. Even if this milestone is for only three hours a day. I know he will love school esp. if there are toys and things to learn and PAINTING. He is so funny I just don’t know if school is ready for him. He is a bit distracted. And sitting and staying still for any amount of time results in the common phrase escaping his lips.
"Oh come on, this is taking way too long!", something about his small attention span makes me nervous for long school days.
That is just thing 1. Next week, Thing 2 is starting three hours worth of preschool 5 days a week this year. I am excited to have her go. She is so ready. We are going to start a little morning funtime routine. We are all up at 6am anywho! That is two hours of morning funtime before she has to go to school. We can play games, eat breakfast, exercise, and maybe even read some scriptures. I am going to love having the time with the fish and Thing 1. It will only be a couple of months before it is just the fish and I.
So my completely potty trained boy. Stands and takes a pee on the living room rug. I am only ok with this because for months I have wanted to toss the rug and replace it. There are only so many Poooo and pee stains one rug can handle. I am looking for a large area rug today that is Challenge 1
No. two is really rough. Band leaves black pen in shorts pocket. All new kid’s clothes…..dramatically spotted. Someone suggested oxy so we will try that. We will do a photo journal of the progress…..maybe.
Update.
—–Sky is still orangey orange. Not safe for kids to play still out side. I am going to the DYM archives for some indoor ideas.
The past couple of days have been unbearably hot we are going swimming today for sure. I am loving these bathing suit options.
Some you know you just keep……
And SOME…. well yeah you know…..
So the neighbor asked if thing 1 and thing 2 would like to go to Buddie day at her son’s karate lessons. I like getting out and having the kids do some fun stuff and so we went. I can’t tell you how they loved yelling, kicking, hitting, and did I mention the yelling. I think they would learn a lot if we could afford regular lessons but buddie day was so much fun.
They played a game where the kids had to kick a balloon with their feet until it touched the floor. Thing 1 loved this as well as thing 2.
Any thoughts on the martial arts for the tiny tots?
There are a couple of things that my children saw that had never been seen before "to them"
One was snow. That is a new concept. They kept looking out side and saying "lOOOK it’s Christmas TOWN!"
So I had to let them go play in the fun five inches or so that they got that week.
Here is our Cally version of FROSTY.
He looks pretty warm and physically impaired! But he is ours!
Man I am in my house right now with no TV. and no children awake. It is 7:14pm. I have been trying to set up some form of accounting record, bead, and prep for the local exciting meeting with the shop. It is unusually quiet and peaceful.
Lately I have started to notice how much I need to get OUT. Of the house of the city and of the country. I have a scheduled trip to a cooler place that is fond of Potatoes. I will also be visiting a state where the Olympics were held in 2002. We are going for a short stay but it just maybe the escape I am looking for.
My kids are growing so fast lately. Thing 1 is testing his pedaling skillz out, and Thing 2 is really having a blast riding a big wheel trike thingy. When did they grow up so fast? This fall will be my first experience with school. We registered him a couple of weeks ago. I am going to miss him. I thought it would be great to get him out of here for a good chunk of the day, but we have so much fun and are doing things that we all like to do. It is almost painful to think I have mere months left to hang out with him. Thank goodness for summers!
Thing 2 is so chatty. She is finally getting into her big girl unds. (hopefully that will not attract the search engines here LOL)
And it’s going relatively well. We watched some of the old home videos of her and she was saying some pretty funny stuff when she was little. Like 15-18 months little. My little fish is trying to talk but no dice. He totally understands though what I am saying.
Maybe I should not talk that much
1. "Is Santa Bigger than Jesus?" Thing 1
2. "I need to talk on the phone to somebody! JUST TRUST ME!!!" Thing 1
3. "Stop chewing the kitty." ME
4. "NO NO NO! We don’t pee Down Slides!" ME
5. "I hate Hyenas." Thing 1
Being a mom I thought somethings would never come out of my mouth. I have learned to stop underestimating the things I do, say and think.
Today I had one of those I-did-not-just-do-that. Momments.
Imagine big…..Store.
Long line in the checkout area…..Costco. I am there innocently feeding my children some instant oatmeal (I had mistaken it for the easy mac’n cheese sample lady.)
Then it happened. Really fast acctually. I went to put a heaping spoonful into the Fishes mouth…….. rejected……
SCOOP and I ate it!!!!!
My body was on complete auto pilot. Instantly a huge smile comes over my face which started to burn bright scarlet. I am "THAT" mom. I just turned into that mom that eats off the face of her children. The ancient voices of the past come into my head "Well you couldn’t let good oatmeal go to waste now could you?" My smile broadens and I chuckle to myself. And I quickly scan the crowded checkout area. Only to meet the gaze of a 25ish young man buying grilling supplies and beer. He is laughing and smiling to himself.
I say out loud to him. "Only Mom’s can do that!" He nodds and turns to dry heave (I am sure.) I swore to myself I would NEVER and now I can say that I have. I would like to publicly appologize to myself and my selfesteme. You are so fragile and delicate at this time I never meant harm you. Hopefully it isn’t permenant.
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