Rain Delay

Breakfast was a little late today because of the rainstorm we had.


(Let these pictures serve as a warning to anyone who visits us when it is raining...bring an umbrella or walk under the fountain that shoots off our roof!)

Too Much Sun?

Nah, just spaghetti night at our house. (a couple of nights ago)

K

K has made some pretty amusing comments to me lately.

Yesterday, at breakfast M decided to throw his Cocoa Puffs all over the table. I didn't get around to cleaning it right away and later in the morning K and M ate them.

K: Hey Mom! M and I ate all the Cocoa Puffs off the table. We cleaned off the whole table!

Me: Oh yeah?

K: Yeah. You should thank us.

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Today K and I were playing our morning Wii. I was beating him at tennis. After he lost another point he laid down on the ground, closed his eyes and said, "I am the ball. I am the ball."

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In the not so amusing category, he's also picked up on the whole "I know you are, but what am I" thing. I asked where he learned it and he said I taught him. I really don't think I have said that since I was 12, but I guess it is possible.

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K is suddenly REALLY into NASCAR. He doesn't have favorite racers, just favorite cars. When he is watching it all we hear is , "Go M&M's!" or "Go Home Depot!" Lucky for K, M&M's (I think it is Kyle Busch) is having a good racing year.

H

H has had a big couple of weeks. She started first grade, she turned 6 and she lost her second tooth.

Last week she came home with a work sheet they had done in class. It was about subtraction. It had some big words on it: minuend, subtrahend and difference. (Bonus points to anyone who can tell me what those actually are.) My first thought was, "Well, that's gonna come in handy." I mean, I can't tell you how many times those words come up in my daily conversation. I think I might have used those words (with the exception of difference) exactly once in my entire life...and that was when I was telling N about H's paper. Oh well. She loves school and I am very thankful.

H turned the BIG 6 last week. I've been asking her what cake she wanted for a while now and it seemed to change every time I asked. As her birthday got closer she decided on a Care Bear cake. Let me tell you, I've made one of those before and my hand was in a lovely cramped position for a week afterward. I was not looking forward to it.

Enter Tiffin's birthday cake. She let her kids decorate her birthday cake. When H saw it she told me she wanted one just like it. And she wanted to frost it. So, I made her a Care Bear cake and some frosting and let her loose on the cake. Here's the finished product.

She calls it Rainbow Bear. We also went to Chuck E. Cheese's for her birthday. The kids had a great time. H loved all of her presents and had a great birthday.

Okay, so the picture is kind of gross, but I wanted to get the full effect. H lost her first tooth at the beginning of August. Last week I asked If I could see if her new tooth was coming in yet. When I looked I discovered that not only was it coming in, but the tooth next to it was coming in behind the baby tooth that was still there. Luckily, the baby tooth was loose so I told her we had to work hard to get it out asap or she was going to the dentist to have it pulled. A couple of nights ago, N was wiggling it, heard a little pop and saw her tooth just flapping around. So he did what any good father would do and pulled it out. Now we're just praying that her permanent tooth moves where it should be all on it's own.

Dear Diary

H has a diary. It is really just a composition book I bought thinking she needed it for school. Anyway, she has started writing all of her "secrets" in it. I'm pretty sure they have something to do with Zander, but I haven't read it.

The other day she asked N if he wanted to see what was in her diary. He said yes and she said okay. So she opened it up to show him.

But...

She opened it up to blank pages and then shut it and said, "TRICKED YA!"

Overheard

The kids were playing wii and it was H's turn to bowl. As she started she tripped and yelled, "M!" So, K says, "What did you trip with?" and H answers, "M's help."

M

This is M's new way to smile for pictures.

The other day I had run downstairs to get something and K followed me down. After a minute he yells, "Mom! M is going down the stairs like a HUMAN!" Apparently, M tried walking down the stairs instead of his usual slide-on-the-belly technique.

First Day of First Grade

Today was H's first day of First Grade. She was so excited. She says she had a great day.

Isn't It Great When Your Kids Play Together?

R's Newest Trick

Yep, she is climbing! Well, more accurately, standing. She climbs up to the couch, my shoulder, pillows, the walls of her pack 'n' play, and pretty much anything else that will sit still long enough for her to stand. I'll admit it is kind of amusing watching her try to balance and stand up leaning on the big balls we have. Luckily she doesn't seem to mind when she falls over (which is often).

Now, if we could just teach her to crawl.