This picture makes me laugh. Watching Mitch clip Chocolate's nails is apparently funny to me!
June 24, 2014
Summer help
Summer has come and even the smallest people are put to work around here!
This is a good thing because starting tomorrow I am going to be out of commission for awhile. I am FINALLY having surgery on my back and can't wait to get it over with. Time for this herniated disc to go!
June 17, 2014
Piano Recital
Last night was the end of the year piano recital. Cameron and Julia are in their second year of piano and are fast becoming good little piano players. I was proud of them during the recital. Getting up and playing in front of everyone can make you very nervous but they did great!
Julia played Prelude in D Minor, Tigar Rag, and I'm Late:
Cameron played New World Discovery, March in C, Across the Desert
June 12, 2014
Family Feud
Tonight the kids watched Family Feud on TV. They had never seen it and thought it was great. We were enjoying ourselves when Cameron piped up and said, "I really like that guy's accent." The guy he was talking about was the host Steve Harvey. Mitch and I busted up!! The accent he was talking about is referred to as "black." I think we live a pretty sheltered life here in Maple Valley!
Pinkalicious
Lucy is a pink girl. But she has more in common with Pinkalicious than just the love of pink! Pretty much as long as Lucy has been alive she has loved to eat baby lotion. As a small baby she would stick her tongue out every time I put lotion on her in hopes of a getting a good lick. I thought we had kicked the habit but the last month or so whenever the house gets really quiet and I can't find Lucy anyway where, I find her in her room sitting in the rocking chair slurping down the lotion. On a positive side--she does smell sweet but I am afraid she is going to make herself sick! So yesterday I put the lotion in the bathroom way up high so that she would stop getting into it and shut the door that has a child lock on it. The child lock is so that she won't eat all the toothpaste!
When the kids got home from school the door was opened and was not shut after use. At dinner I heard Julia call me from upstairs. Lucy had found the door open to the bathroom, moved her play baby crib into the bathroom, stood on it to climb on to the sink, reached the lotion and was sitting in the rocking chair eating the lotion. When Julia walked in she started to scream, "No, no, no!!" This is from the girl that can't even climb out of her crib! When I asked Lucy if she climbed up and got the lotion down she looked at me and said, "Yes, Mama"
So maybe instead of eating too many pink cupcakes, Lucy will turn pink eating too much pink lotion.
June 3, 2014
Pinewood Derby 2014
Cameron participated in his last Pinewood Derby. I wish I could say that we love the Pinewood Derby but that would be a lie. We get through it the best we can. This year Cam was going to make a car that looked like a piece of cheese but when it came time to work on the car he didn't want to participate. So.... I just so happened to be at Michael's at the same time Father and Son were supposed to be working on their car and were arguing about it that I came across this:
This is nothing but pure GENIUS...BRILLIANT!!
You buy this plastic car shape and literally stick in on top of the wood block and just like that your car is done! HA HA HA!!! Like I said, the person who came up with this a brilliant, brilliant individual!
Cameron was not interested in building the car but of course wanted the thing to win. I told him that this car was not going to win at all and I didn't want to here a peep out of him because he didn't put any effort into it so he was not going to get any results out of it. Sadly...the car did better than the last two years and was his fastest yet. So much for the lesson learned!
He did however win, "Best Paint Job" We had a good laugh about that.
Good-bye Pinewood Derby....FOREVER!!
Too Tall and his Gang
We have some older boys that live across the street. These boys have been a source of tears and discussions for a long time (and I mean years). Cameron in the past has been scared to death of them. It has made him not want to walk home from the bus, play outside, and etc... Without saying too much, these boys are pretty much your typical teenage fools that are finding themselves in more and more trouble. It has just been recently that Cameron is starting to understand this and realizing that these boys are buffoons and something not to be afraid of. Not too long ago Cam said to Mitch and I something about the behavior of these boys and said, "you know I call them Too Tall and his Gang" Mitch and I started laughing and said,"You know what Cam? That is EXACTLY who those boys are! A group of boys that think they are cool, get into a lot of trouble, treat people unkindly and are pretty much just idiots." Now whenever Cam and the family see these guys instead of being afraid of them we just laugh and say, "There goes Two Tall and his Gang!" Thank you Stan and Jan Berenstain for your words of wisdom!
Nostalgic
A few months back, Natalie was reading to me from her read at-home-book from school. It was a story about a dragon and as she read it, a story from my childhood surfaced in my brain. One that had been long forgotten, the book was called The Magic Grinder. I had it as a little girl and loved it. I just had to get it. I went on a hunt for the it at the Goodwill and other used book stores. I eventually bought it off of Amazon along with these other two gems. My kids have been reading them and laughing. Not sure what is making me want to buy old stuff from my past, I must be getting old. Got to love the things you can find on the Internet now!
Daddy-Daughter Hike
A couple Saturday's ago Julia and her Dad got to spend time together on a Daddy Daughter date with the achievement day girls. They went on a hike, ate doughnuts and had a good time. I had two other girls at home that were not quite so happy to be home with mom. I see many, many more of these days in Mitch's future!
June 2, 2014
Cheer for the day
In Kindergarten the kids learn "cheers" to give to each other when they complete their reading list. They have a handful of cheers that I have heard over and over but last Friday Natalie came home with a new cheer she learned that had me laughing and laughing!
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