Hide & Seek

Lately Sadie has been leaving me quite a few surprises around the house. I could use a few surprises so I welcome them.

Megan's Polly Pockets in a bag of chips.

Olives from the fridge in a Valentines Day bag.

Cupcake holders in a box of cereal.

The garbage can is one of her favorite places to put things. I am sure we have thrown away many things accidentally.

This shirt had been missing for weeks. I finally found it in a cabinet I do not use often.

My favorite hair brush also went missing, but it finally made its appearance in some books.

Yesterday I also found a cup and a fish in her favorite cabinet. Don't look too closely. This is the cabinet Sadie likes to empty out so it is a mess.

The one thing I do not find funny when it goes missing is the remote control. Here it is in the dishwasher. I have also found it in the garbage and in the laundry basket.

Four For Friday-Parent Of The Year

1. I am now ready to accept my Parent Of The Year trophy. Megan lost a tooth 3 days ago, and that darn tooth fairy has forgotten to come 3 days in a row. What is wrong with her?

2. Jackson wore this shirt to pre-school this morning. I don't usually buy shirts such as these, but I found this one funny.


3. I am annoyed by my neighbors across the street. We have always been very fortunate to have great neighbors, until now. They have a total of 7 cars, which seems excessive, but not a deal breaker in the bad neighbor department. I don't even have too many complaints on noise level late at night, which would drive me even crazier. My problem lies in the 6 to 8 teenagers they have outside of their house every afternoon who are loud and use every swear word you can think of in every sentence you can think of. I really, really, really, wish my kids didn't have to hear it every time we go outside. I fear retaliation if I say anything to them. What would you do?

4. Sadie. What can I say, she is very lovable. She is also demanding, a crier, and strong willed, but cuteness takes care of so much. She can now understand most of what I say, her vocabulary now includes up, Mama, all done, and soft, she tries to imitate the sounds animals make, and she loves to show off her new silver shoes.

My Little Athletes

Jackson just finished another round of soccer lessons. I know I am his mom, and such am biased, but he is pretty darn good. He is a super fast runner, has great ball control, is not easily frustrated, and hardly ever uses his hands. I can't wait until he is 5 and can actually play in a league. Here are some pictures. They are really dark because the gym lights are always turned down.

This past weekend, Megan and Jackson both started tennis lessons. They had been rained out the week before so they were extra excited to go. Their coach is really great and the kids get a lot of individualized attention. Here are a whole bunch of pictures. I can never scale down.

SPT-The First Thing That Attracted Me To You Was...

February 17th: The First Thing That Attracted Me To You Was:

I was already attracted to Eric before this happened, but this was my no turning back point. We were leaving work on Christmas Eve when Eric reached down and gave me a hug. Oh my! I had a long-term boyfriend at the time but that hug made it very clear to me that our time needed to end. So the next day (Christmas Day) I broke up with him, and am ever so thankful I did.

Six On Sunday

No, Not Sex on Sunday, Six on Sunday

1. We all had a great Valentine's Day. The kids started off the day at tennis lessons, which will be a post at a later date. After tennis Eric had to go to work, but when he got home we headed out to Macayo's for dinner. We tend to go there for New Year's Eve and Valentine's Day because there is not usually a wait (Rachael will say that is because it is gross), but we enjoy it. Almost everyone there had their kids with them to celebrate.
Here are some pictures of the kids with all of their valentines.

On this day I had a different outfit picked out for Jackson, but he shot me down. Instead he picked this out all by himself.


2. I have been meaning to mention one of the many differences blogging has made in my life. In 2007 (pre-blogging) I took a total of 626 pictures. In 2008 (my first year blogging) I took a total of 2,981 pictures. CRAZY!

3. For Valentine's Day Megan received a C.D. of dance music. One of the songs is the Macarena. I never learned the dance, but apparently Eric and Megan did and must have practiced it often because they are experts. I wish I had video of it, but the pictures can speak for themselves.


4. Today while watching NASCAR (incredibly boring) I was forced to watch commercials since it was not recorded. I have to say that many of the commercials were hilarious and I actually laughed out loud twice. Who knew?

5. Megan does not like to sit normally for school, church, or homework. While doing homework she is often standing, and takes many breaks to walk around the table. The other day she decided to do her homework on the table. Whatever works for her.

6. The other day while at Chipotle Jackson walked past these stools and asked me, "Mom is that what you would call a tuffet?"

February 2009 - 12 X 12

I am just as shocked as you that I am posting this picture, but this is how my day typically starts out. After Eric feeds the kids breakfast (he gets up much earlier than me), Sadie starts wandering the house, eventually ending up next to my bed. She continually says, "up" until I comply. She is not much of a cuddler, but will sit in bed and play with me for a few minutes until she gets bored.

I usually take the kids to school, but since Eric was still home, he took Megan for me. She had a Student Council meeting so she had to leave earlier than she usually does.

Sadie actually took 2 naps today. I have stopped giving her a morning nap, but today she was extra tired. She never cries when she wakes up, just sits in her bed and talks until we come and get her.

Rachael and I met up for lunch. We used to go to each others house and cook each other lunch, now we just eat out. Today we had Chinese. Our boys are usually crazy, but I think they were better behaved than usual. Our waitress took this picture, and it took her forever! I am shocked the kids are still looking at the camera.

This is what I spend most of my afternoons doing. CLEANING. I got quite a bit done, and even fixed the vacuum. Yeah!

After Sadie's second nap, we went to pick up Megan from school. She walks to her friend's house and I pick her up from there. I think it probably takes more time for me (I spend a lot of time waiting for her to get there), but she loves being able to walk with her friends, and I don't have to deal with the crazy traffic by her school.

After school the kids finished working on their Valentine's for their parties on Friday. Jackson chose soccer and basketball valentines (the same one's he chose last year) and Megan chose Spongebob. While writing his name Jackson continues to switch back and forth between his right and left hand. If anyone knows anyone that is ambidextrous and has any advice, I would love to hear it.

Eric arrived home around 6:15 p.m. I am jealous of the reception he gets when he gets home. As soon as they hear the lock, the kids run as fast as they can to the door. Jackson and Sadie do it everyday, Megan is now about 50/50.

Eric brought home dinner, AGAIN. It is no secret that I don't like to cook, but I do really need to change. I am pretty sure that I have not cooked dinner in a week. We had Chipotle, which has replaced Zaba's as my favorite.

I had a meeting at 7. Lately Jackson has been having a really hard time whenever I leave. After this hug Eric had to pull him away from me crying.

After a very long meeting (almost 3 hours) I came home to all of the kids in bed, so Eric and I caught up a bit on 24. I then took a bath (which I do every night), and got into bed to read. I was able to finish my book and went to sleep around 12:30. Eric was still working away in the office. It was a pretty typical day.