How to Keep from Falling Asleep, by The Boy

Excuse #45234234 Why You Are Out of The Bed After Bedtime: Find a random treasure with what must have been a magnifying glass to run tell your parents about.

The Boy: LOOK! See what is on this car Mommy? I found it and it's my Best Car Ever now!

Me: Um I'm not seeing anything

And then I sit trying to figure out what could have cause this excitement only to hear his exclaimation:

Oh wait if I take my glass and move them closer to the car I just might be able to make it - WAIT A MINUTE you were suppose to be asleep a half hour ago now Get.Back.In.Bed!

How He Rolls.

After the horrific cries of Not Getting To Play With Friends In YEARS and My Most Boringest Day EVER, coupled with I Never Get To Watch The Shows I Want To Watch and When Can I Do All The Things I Want to Do? David and I walked down the hall to find The Boy kicked back in his recliner playing PlayStation. Cracked us up. All he needs is a small table with a drink and he'd be good to go.

I Heart Faces ~ Textures

Hello I♥Faces It's Been A While! I sure have missed participating and so with the urging in my Facebook inbox from a friend (hi!) I opted to dig around and find a picture for this week. Textures was a bit tough, as I had to find a picture that contained texture. I'm not hip with photo editing software that lets me do super fabulous things with overlays and such since the only thing I have at my disposal is picnik - But I found something much better ~ Meet Delaney

Ya see, I was able to find a photo with a soft, fluffy blanket, angular blocks with ridges and the sweetest most adorable baby snoozing.

Head on over to I♥Faces to see all the other fabulous texture photos!

Stay in your lane Chick Hicks.

The Boy: This new floor is great you know why? Because NOW all the Cars have their own lane!

MarioKart Wii FAIL

I'm pretty sure this is why he never wins a race.

Wordless Wednesday - 100th Day

100th Day!

In honor of the 100th Day of school, The Boy will be bringing in 100 Cars. Would you expect anything different? Cannot believe we've been in Kindergarten for 100 days ~ this year is seriously flying by!

Not Our Best Day Ever.

It wasn't our best night or day ever. Around 2 a.m. The Boy got sick. And stayed sick. And sick. And sick. Multiple wardrobe and bed changes later it was morning and I wondered how I was going to make it through the day on a mere 2 hours sleep! He was So Very Thirsty but kept vomiting even a spoon of water every 30 minutes, so off to the doctor we went first thing. Turns out that even if the illness starts at 2 a.m. you actually can get dehydrated that fast! He wasn't severe and was able to take some Pedialyte without getting sick at the Pediatrician so we got a pass to come back home instead of going to the hospital. And all the angels rejoiced in heaven since really who wants for him to have an IV which includes a needled which is close to a shot and do you REMEMBER the shots in September? Yeah, so we're SO thankful.

We've managed to keep liquids in although the diarrhea continues. Folks here in town this is One.Nasty.Bug! The Boy has managed to pee as well so for now we're out of the woods. As long as we can keep liquids down and keep him hydrated, we should be able to stay hospital-free through the weekend.

He also has an ear infection, which we can't treat due to the vomiting/diarrhea. So we're going to go with Time for healing over the weekend. We go back to the doctor first thing Monday morning - but we have hopes of feeling So Much Better by then!

For now? We're all so very exhausted from a long night after what The Boy called Not His Best Day Ever so we're going to rest. I can hear his snores already and I hope to be snoring soon myself. Hoping for a much more restful night tonight!

We Have New Floors!

After working hard All Day Long the crew from Rusty's finally left around 7 p.m. tonight. Our floors look Fantastic. We're anxious to get our house back to normal over the next few days - and The Boy is excited to move in to his new room (well, that and to get the Wii hooked back up since he's having MarioKart withdrawls). Land sakes alive these floors look good. We are so blessed to have friends like Richard & Jimmy who helped us out along the way and neighbors who let our son hang out when there is nowhere to go in the house due to a floor crew. The party is at our house someday soon once things are back to normal! For now, photos will have to do but I assure you they don't do it justice . . .

Entrance

Eli's New RoomHallway

Living Room

Chuck E. & The Boy

The Boy was PSYCHED that our neighbor had a birthday party tonight at Chuck E Cheese. He informed me I've been waiting FOR YEARS to go back to Chuck E Cheese! and tonight he got his wish. We even got to hang out with Chuck E. Best.Night.Ever. claims The Boy, except for that part where we made him leave. Oh well, can't win them all. But we did have fun wishing Nathyn a very happy birthday!

How We Spent Our Christmas Vacation: Before Floor Shots

So a pipe in a closet gets a leak and results in this:Eventually resulting in the removal of carpet in several rooms, awaiting the delivery of new floors TOMORROW! TOMORROW! I Get New Floors, Tomorrow! My life can get back to some semblence of Normalcy! I'm So.Very.Excited!

But I digress. Lots of painting and prep work before the floor was to go in with the help of some good friends and Much Hard Work by The Huzbin (I can't help it I'm not a teacher and had to go back to work!). We've decided to move The Boy in to the spare room so it will be easier to redo the other room when we have the money.

Enough jabber - how about some photos? First up, what ones kitchen & dining room look like stuffed to the gils with all the items from the living room (we shant get in to the hunting haven my bedroom has become!)

The living room & entrance - all previously blue but we've now added the new color

New & improved hallway

And The Boy's New Room, previously the Spare Room, AKA David's Hunting Room

Hopefully be back with floor photos tomorrow night - we're so excited about the new floor we can just hardly stand it!

Hello 2010!

We are still in the middle of major home stuff related to the whole pipe-busting-water-damage stuff. My LR is scattered throughout the DR & kitchen, the spare bedroom among storage facilities and our master bedroom, and my sanity? Lost somewhere in the shuffle. But - but! - One.More.Day People. I just need to make it til Tuesday afternoon and the new floor will be in and then we can put the house back together again!

All that aside, we celebrated the 6th Annual get together with our friends Jimmy & Carolyn on New Year's Eve. A fabulous time was had by all, especially The Boy who cried big fat tears the entire ride home because you not what the most funnest part of the night was not? when you made me leave! OhTheDrama.

Regardless, it was a NYE filled with laughter and a most fabulous way to end 2009

So we say bye-bye to 2009 and hello to 2010! Here's to hoping for a wonderful year to come!

Hiiiiiideeehooooo!

We had ourselves a Merry Little Christmas!Santa did a FABULOUS job - getting the killer finds in the Frank the Combine AND the beloved Ear Muffins for The BoyAnd despite migraines and tummy woes, Wii rallied and had a great day (pun intended)
And after all that celebrating? We woke up this morning to wish David a HAPPY BIRTHDAY. I would love to list the 32 reasons I think he's fabulous, including that he buys me rocking Christmas gifts and took a family picture on Christmas day but alas the laptop battery is dying for the upteenth million time and let's just be honest here - I'm doing good to be updating with my track record, right? So we're waving hello from our house where we're all partied out. Tomorrow will find us tackling the carpet and painting the walls, so if you live in town and want to help we'll be more than willing to open the doors for ya. We'll even promise a MarioCart race or 2 on break times - but I get to play the winner!

Hope you and yours had a Very Merry Merry!

Christmas Tree #4 Rocks!

Tonight The Boy and his Kdg friends, along with the other Kdg claseses & the PreK rocked it out under the direction of our very own Dad at the PTA. The Littlest Christmas Tree, which happened to star The Boy's feather color red from the thankful turkey - Mikayla, was a huge success. The Boy was spot on with his two very important lines and held it together even though "that tree hurt my hands and it was too heavy" Isn't he the cutest Christmas Tree #4 you've ever seen?

Way to go Monkey Boy! One performance down, another 2 to go! Knock their socks off at the school!

AHEM!!!!!!!!!

How about about a post update... Hello, we are all waiting. I mean GEEZE!!!

Oh well, since Shannon won't update I thought I would throw this up for a little entertainment.

I've been following their posts for some time, now and they ROCK!!!

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Thankful Thunder Foot

You're shocked, I know. I'm managing 2 posts in one week. Truth be told I sent The Boy to bed early, David's looking at Jason Mraz on YouTube and it's a commercial on my Criminal Minds rerun so I had a minute . . .

The Boy is psyched that it's now Thanksgiving Vacation. We started it off right with Getting A Haircut. Rock On. And then being the Rockstar mother that I am, I made him come home to clean his room. This would be the Evil of All Evils. I'm fairly certain he heard Cut Off Your Left Arm Using Blunt Scissors with the way he carried on in there. Complete Meltdown. Tears. OH THE HORROR. And of course I cracked up when I heard:

AND.THIS.IS.WHY.I.ASKED.GOD.FOR.A.BROTHER.OR.SISTER SO.I.DIDN'T.HAVE.TO.DO.THIS.CLEANING.UP.STUFF.BY.MYSELF.

Hilarity.

Lest you think The Boy is lacking in gratitude since his One True Wish will Never Come True, I wanted to show you the School Art Work. First up, the vest, complete with name chosen by his teacher. The Boy's name given by Mrs. Black? Thunder Foot.

And his Thankfulness Turkey. The Boy is thankful for:

Gemz (games), Mikayla, God & Cars (the movie)

Love that even though God Keeps Telling Him No, He still gives thanks for Him.

And now I shall give thankfulness that everyone is calling it a night a wee bit early. Off to curl up and watch my Criminal Minds reruns. Happy Start of Thanksgiving Vacation!

Well, Hello Again!

So ya see, I was all set to keep updating and staying on top of things and, well, then? I got bronchitis. I know, right? Crazy. And this was after my annual Putting Up The Tree, of which I STILL have no photographic proof. I blame the multi-colored lights I did for TheBoy. Just.Not.Feeling It. But it's up and it's staying and there is always next year for the return of the white lights.

But I digress.

I've been busy with work, which is a given. And busy doing homework with the scholar, another given. Plus there's the whole Reading Books To Get Ice Cream for The Boy. And The Husband trying to kill Bambi's mother but only succeeding thus far in killing time - send deer his way the freezer is empty! AND THEN? There is the tiny.little.bit about our alarm tripping Every.Single.Night. because the stinkin phone goes out between 3 and 5 a.m. without fail. Nothing gets the blood pumping like your house alarm blaring. And we are SO easily able to go RIGHT back to sleep after that. Meaning we are all just especially rested and all. So yeah. Blog? Not updated.

You will forgive me now, my few faithful readers, because I am going to post photos. That always puts me back in good graces, right? Right. You will note how GROWN he looks and politely ignore how badly he needs a haircut, mkay? Thanks.

We're gearing up for some time off next week. I shall strive to do better with posting to this our little family blog. There are sure to be fabulous adventures over Thanksgiving! For now we just need to make it to Monday. The countdown is on!

Wanted.

You'll forgive the lack of updating since I've got Arts&Crafts for you. The only thing that would make this better would be graham crackers and apple juice, right? So forgiven. Good. Especially since I've been sick and in bed since Thursday of last week. I appreciate the forgiveness. And strive to do better this week. Now - to the wanted.

WANTED: Tommy the Turkey for Thanksgiving Dinner

But we've not seen any Tommy the Turkeys around here. Nope. Not us. Because our homework was to help with a disguise. And disguise we did!

We opted to make Tommy That Hero!He even has a cape!
Posing with the finished product after Mommy & The Boy worked super hard. No Thanksgiving dinner for this turkey!