Fun stuff this weekend

#1 A had her first solids. We gave her some rice cereal... very exciting. She took it just fine and seemed to like it.



#2 Z moved into his own bedroom, which he will eventually share with A. But for now to make nap time easier we have moved A in with K and Z into his own room (sounds like I'm talking about alphabet soup). Today we put up a curtain rod in his room (as you know if you are a faithful reader of Jason's Clan that this helps my poor mislead two year old take better naps) and put K's curtains (pink) in Z's room. This is a temporary solution until we can get Z's curtains ordered. He was running around after helping Jason put up the curtains saying, "Daddy or I did it again (put up curtains)!" Or and -what's the difference.

#3 B had his swim-a-thon. He swam 133 laps and with the help of family and friends earned over $166 for his swim team. We were really proud of his swimming, he stayed strong through the whole thing. I helped keep count and it was so exciting to see him doing something he loves to help his team. He thinks that we should have swim-a-thon every 6 weeks, not for money... just for the fun of swimming 133 laps! Crazy kid! I love that kind of passion.

#4 Today we were invited to have lunch after church. Our new friends David & Renee (and their three children) treated our clan to McD's. I am so excited about this community. Even though our stay with ComChurch was short I believe that what I learned there about making myself available to meet & let others get to know me has helped me to be more open at this church. I am looking forward to having a new home church like we had with Joy and ComChurch.

#5 B saved our lives this evening. At least according to him he did. We were getting out of the van in the garage (Z with no shoes on) and suddenly B shouts, "What's that? Hey there's a scorpion." K & I immediately turned around and there is an inch long scorpion between the cars. I have to admit that I was torn between stomping on the little critter and running into the house to get a camera (My mother-in-law would be proud). I opted for the first option and gave the stinging, scary scorpion The Killer Flip-Flop Blow of Death. You'll just have to take BK & my word for it, I'm not taking a picture of the flattened carcass of said scary critter. UGH! I couldn't believe I actually saw one - don't they keep this type of thing in the zoo, preferably behind glass?!

Side note for my dear brothers: Thankfully my house is not sitting on a sink hole. I took the picture (as shown in Homeowner Pride) while doing the bare-foot-asphalt-two-step. I am afraid that I may have taken the picture in the middle of my patented hot foot double lutz as I was trying to keep from losing the skin of my delicate peds. Thanks for your concern!

The things kids say

This afternoon we did some running around. We had told the kids that we would stop at Culver's on the way home and get "ice cream" (we know it is frozen custard but that is difficult to explain to a 2 year old). We were trying to encourage Z to stay awake reminding him that we were going to have ice cream and Jason said, "Yea for ice cream, can you say yea for ice cream Z?" Z looked at us and said, "I didn't get ice cream yet." I suppose he had a good point, no reason to say yea yet when it hasn't arrived! He's far too smart for us!

Notes About Nothing

Well not really nothing, just nothing in particular. These are just things that have been on my mind and I've been wanting to share them with you all - my friends & family.

Z has a ball pit and he loves to jump into it - spreading the balls everywhere in the living room, I'm sure my dad will be happy to hear that (he thinks I need a job!). Well I love it when Z tells us he's getting ready to jump because it sounds like this, "I jump in my pulpit!" This sends me into fits of laughter every time.

Here's a mystery for you. 2 months ago the stopper for my sink disappeared. I looked everywhere and had decided that I must have thrown it away, even though that seemed odd. Well the other day I found it! Where you ask? In Z's spill-proof bubble bucket! I opened it up to add more bubbles and low and behold there sat my sink stopper. Jason and I just laughed and laughed. I'm still trying to figure out how I managed to do that!

Finally, here's something kind of sad but sometimes you just have to laugh at these things. Yesterday (Thursday) I decided that I should take the kids to the pool. (Right here let me interject why I did this, the kids work hard at school all week, we don't have activities on Thursday night, we have access to a pool and we have the rest of the evening to get homework done. Also Friday can be kind of crazy at the pool and I want Z to have the opportunity to have fun without being splashed or jumped on by other kids.) Back to my story.... K asked me if she could call and tell her friend that we are going, so that perhaps she can come too. I allowed her to call and soon after she got on the phone she handed the phone to me. Here is what awaited me on the other side, "I'm sorry but my children do their homework when they get home from school." Oh, so I assured this friends mother that I understood but that I was trying to give them a little break. This elicited this response, "Well we have our break on Fridays." Again I apologized and explained that K would enjoy playing with her daughter and that we'd be open to a phone call when she wanted to call us. I think I was very polite (don't want to burn any bridges) but I couldn't help but get my little feathers ruffled a tad. I mean really, I was a teacher and education is VERY important. Oh well, like I said sometimes you have to laugh these things off. We now have a no phone call/no friend rule during the week. We will continue to go to the pool on Thursdays and they can tell their friends but then it is up to them to communicate to their parents about it we are forever more staying off of that slippery dangerous slope.

Teeth?!

My youngest off-spring has decided that she's ready for steak. HA! A has her two bottom teeth. People keep asking me if she's teething since she ALWAYS has her hands in her mouth, well today I was talking to a friend and she commented that it seemed like A had something in her mouth that was bothering her, so I laid A back on my lap and ran my finger along her bottom gum - Whoa! She has two teeth! I will have to look back at the baby books but I don't remember the others getting their teeth so early, I do remember B getting them in twos like this though. Poor sweet A! I guess that is what she was yelling at Jason about last night.

On a side note:
Z was helping me entertain A this morning, check out this picture.



I love a picture Jason with any one/all of his kids.
This is what happens to A when Jason starts talking about work. :)

Just some fun

I've always wanted to say this:

"B, it's a refrigerator not a library, shut the door!"





K had a lot of fun trying on her Aunt Erin's old clothes. The blue dress was made by her great-grandmother Lorine.

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Homeowner Pride

I like to mow the lawn. I admit it. I enjoy seeing the job get done, knowing I can't really mess it up and I feel good after I am done, like I've worked out. This weekend Jason and I mowed and trimmed the lawn, we trimmed our shrubbery and put down mulch. Here is how good our house looks now. :)

Remember what it looked like when we moved in?

Nature

With me life is one big nature hike. I love to look for bugs and creatures when I go for a walk (that is when I'm not scouring the ground for stray coins... hee hee). With that said I am not a fan of actually touching or getting very close to God's creatures, I'm just a looking kind of gal. Since this week we've done a LOT of walking, BKZA & I have had a lot of fun looking for green anoles, cicadas, spiders and snails. Today B found a live cicada in our backyard, yippee. This is fun stuff. As you can see from these pictures my boys don't have the same philosophy about getting close to God's creatures.




No Z isn't trying to step on the cicada. His foot is waving hello. Too funny!


I love to just start snapping pictures of Z because these expressions are priceless.