K's party

Wow! My little girl will be 2 tomorrow. Doesn't seem possible. She is such a mess-but a cute one.

We had her birthday party tonight. It was an Elmo party. We had a few friends come over. She opened presents first. They were too much of a temptation. She got lots of Elmo stuff-a puzzle, a new DVD (from Bubby), a mini stuffed Elmo and Abby, a book. She also got a very pretty jewelry box from Grandma and Papa. She got a Fisher-Price purse, lacing cards, a very pretty dress (good job M!), another book, a new ring (notice the picture), a raincoat, and saving the best for last--a baby set which includes a swing (that works and plays music), a stroller, a pack&play, a diaper bag, a baby carrier, and a kangaroo baby carrier. She pushed that stroller around all night. And she moved all the other things around to where ever she went. I think she really liked it.

Then we had cake and ice cream. The "cake" was actually 24 cupcakes all iced together to look like Elmo. I think it turned out really cute.

After everyone left we tried to watch her new DVD but she was too interested in the baby stuff. Every time we wished her a happy birthday she told us "Happy" Too cute. And when we told her it was time to eat Elmo, she went over and stuck her hand in the icing. Typical. All in all I think she had a good time. (And yes she kept her clothes on-except when I helped her try on her new dress-and we went to the other room for that)

Now tomorrow is Daddy's tourney. And I have to run out to get JCPenney's pix, and get gas, and go the library. And then we leave bright and early Sunday morning. Posts maybe scarce for the next week. I'm sure I will have much to tell when we get home. See some of you soon!

Great weekend

We had a great weekend. Saturday we did a little of nothing. Daddy mowed the grass and I did some work around the house. C played playstation. I'm not sure what K did. That evening we went to some friend's house for the NASCAR race. They had invited a few other people too. He has a nice flat screen, hang on the wall, high def TV. Nice. She had made nachos belle grande and toppings. We ate well. The kids played outside in the sprinkler, rode their bikes, had races, had glow sticks (C's did not break this time). He did fireworks too. It was fun. Another late night though. We got home, did baths and the kids went right to bed.

Sunday was normal, except we didn't go to choir practice. I know-naughty. But we wont' be there for the next 2 Sundays. It was nice not to rush back to church.

Monday Daddy had off. It was a comp. day for all the extra time he has been working. We had fun. We had planned to go to the park in the morning, but it rained. We did go bowling at noon. It was fun to bowl with Daddy. C was excited that he won for the kids and Daddy won for the adults. Then Monday evening we went to the baseball park to watch one of our other church teams play. It was nice to have Daddy sitting with us instead of playing. He was able to help with the kiddies. Abut 1/2 thru the second game, K told me "Home, Mommy, Home" So we left. On the way home she said "Potty, Mommy, Potty" So we got home and she sat on the potty. She didn't do anything, but I guess that's another confirmation that I need to start working with her once we get home from vacation. Oh yeah (said very sarcastically)

Now my focus is on K's party Friday night and trying to get ready for our trip. I'm tired just thinking about it. I will check back Friday night and try to post pix and stories from K's party. I just hope she keeps her clothes on.

4th of July

We had our 4th of July party last night. I would like to make it an annual party. We had a good time. We had 12 adults and 6 kids come. The day started out rainy and we were worried that it would be a huge damper. But it cleared up and semi-dried out enough for a good time. We ended up having it in our garage instead of our backyard, cuz the backyard was still kinda squishy from the rain. Daddy grilled out hot dogs and everyone brought a dessert and a side. We had some yummy food. One friend brought bacon wrapped green beans. Yummo! I'll have to get the recipe and post it sometime in the future.

The kiddies did bubbles and sidewalk chalk. K loved the bubbles. She had them everywhere! In her hair, on her clothes, in her mouth. She got her shirt so wet--you guessed it--she stripped it off right there in the front yard. That was the end of the bubbles. We went through a HUGE container of bubbles. After we got them cleaned up from that, they did the chalk. Daddy got the bright idea to do body outlines. That was a huge hit. Then Daddy did some fireworks once it started getting dusk. Then we got out the glow sticks. They were a huge hit, until C's broke all over him and he started glowing. He was more upset over the fact that it broke than that he was glowing. We tried to watch the town's fireworks from our yard but the wind wasn't blowing right. All in all I think everyone enjoyed themselves. Two friends stayed the night (cuz they live so far away). They left this morning after cinnamon rolls and checking books out of my "library" All in all it was a great 4th of July.

Bugs and Bowling

On Wednesday nights at church, C has a class for his age group. It's a class for the summer and it's led by our church secretary. She does such a good job. They are covering the days of creation and are currently on the day that bugs were created (I'm not sure which day that would be). She let some of the kids borrow a bug catcher last week. They were to catch a bug and bring it in this past Wed to class so they could look at these bugs with a magnifying glass. So Tues night, Daddy and C were out back looking for a grasshopper or something. Daddy was out by the pond with a little net and the container and C had tweezers (not sure about those) They looked for at least 45 min. Nothing. The one time we wanted bugs, none were to be found. Of course, C was disappointed. So my solution? On the "way" to church we stopped at the pet store and bought him a cricket for 10 cents. He was so proud of that cricket. You would have thought he actually caught it. The teacher was impressed that we had thought to go buy a bug. I was pretty proud of myself too. Next is an ant farm. I hope we don't have to "babysit" them for the week any time soon. After church we went out for pizza with friends from church so we didn't get home til late. But yummy! Monicals pizza ROCKS!

Thursday I took the kids bowling. If you log onto http://www.kidsbowlfree.com/ you can get 2 free games per kid per weekday for free. It's a nation wide thing, but only certain alleys participate. And some you have to pay for the shoes, but that's usually pretty inexpensive. So we went bowling today. The kids love it. Two friends from church showed up, so there were 4 kids on our lane. K used this ball ramp thingy. All you do is set the ball on top and she pushes it off onto the lane. Pretty cool. We had fun. C scored a 63 and was in 2nd place--as he likes to say. K actually was in 3rd. Then tonight we went out to eat after I had an eye appointment (Daddy was home early!! Yeah!!) and did some shopping for our 4th of July party tomorrow night.

On a side note: refer to the previous post regarding K being naked. Today I put her down for a nap and 45 min later she was still awake. When I walked by her room, I heard her saying "Mommy, cold" so I poked my head in her room. You guessed it. Naked. And this time she had peed and was sitting in it. So I'm sure she was cold. So I changed her bed, dressed her and gave her a stern talking to "You leave your clothes alone and go to sleep!" All I can do is shake my head.

Tomorrow and Saturday will be busy, so I will check back in the beginning of next week. Happy July 4th!

"catching up"

This post is going to be a "catching up" of the past few weeks or so and from now on it will all be present/future stuff.

C played PeeWee Baseball this year. He was on the Yankees team which is cool since we (I married into it) are big Yankees fans. He did really well and loved playing. He actually had 4 games that were rained out and not re-scheduled--we weren't really happy about that but oh well. He won a fair amount of his games. He won the last one, so we ended on a good note. He got a really nice trophy for playing. All in all he had fun. I know I did. I loved watching him. Daddy is making a very professional baseball video (complete with ESPN and Baseball tonight music) That's what you get when your Daddy owns a video production business. C also took swim lessons the past 2 weeks. He did such a good job. I am so proud of him. He jumps in and goes under without freaking out about the water in his eyes-an accomplishment for him. He is already asking about lessons for next year and he wants the same teacher (good job, Miss Kim)

Now onto my other kiddie--that K is something else. For those of you who know, you are laughing right now. Some days I don't know what to do with her. Here are just a few of her antics: she likes to hang on my counter tops--I'm waiting for her to climb up on top; she loves to be naked--the other day Daddy went to get her up from her nap and she had not one thing on, sound asleep--funny thing is, she didn't pee in her bed until she stood up; same day she had a poopy diaper and somehow got ahold of the wipes and started stuffing them up her shorts--she hates being dirty or wet; her newest thing now is not wanting to go down at night--I am the only one allowed to put her down and then she wants me to "tit" outside her door--so I put our laundry hamper outside her door and she thinks I'm still there--that could be classified as a bad mother or a smart mother. (By the way, as I type this K is running around with no shirt cuz she stripped it off)

Daddy had 2 baseball games last night-one at 7:45 that we watched and one at 10 that me and the kids went home for. K was grumpy about 9:15-her normal bed time. A friend looked at me and said "you aren't staying for the next game, are you?" I'm thinking he was getting tired of her crying too. Daddy won 3 games this year. Oh well. They had fun....I think. Daddy actually coached. Good job, Daddy! Now we have the tourney on July 12--it's always a long, hot day.

Not much to post for me. Keeping the house in order, trying to get ready for our 4th of July party, nothing exciting. I am reading a book called Mistaken Identity. It's about the 2 girls from Taylor University that got "switched" So far it's good. I haven't read much. I got it last night so I should finish it today. I'll let you know. And I'm in the midst to trying to re-organize my pix and scrapbook stuff. That's a huge job. I am so far behind in scrapbooking. It almost doesn't sound fun.

The title on a friend's blog says it all: "We may not have it all together, but together we have it all!"