09.14.2008 Sunday Dress Up

So today, Sunday, Mommy is sick-I'm coming down with a cold and not feeling like doing much. Instead of finishing the garage, i did manage to bring in a couple of hodge-podge boxes of mixed stuff and get it sorted out. Trash/garage sale/keep. I didn't feel like doing much else, and the kids were basically housebound. What's a kid to do? Well Bubba decided he wanted to play dress up. He and sissy brought up the trunk of treasures, and he proceeded to pick out his dress & accessories! He even went so far as to want to wear the earrings-but "ouch, they hurt" and we tried the tiara but it wouldn't stay on his big head. I was laughing, and blogging and just KNEW this was a camera worthy moment. A VERY worthy moment, with a devlish grin i happily obliged to buttoning and fixing and helping with the shoes. OMG FUNNY. Fast forward to Senior Graduation of High School...you know, where the parent supplies a baby photo & the current photo to see how much the kids have changed. Oh i was seeing this picture flashed up on a 200 inch screen in the multi-purpose room. So without further adue----here's Bubba!

You gotta love it. The pink dress, the teal wrap shawl, the high heels. He was actually smiling and happy, until the shoes. Now he sees what girls go through in the name of fashion. Man he couldn't wait to get them OFF.

Danielle got in on the action and posed with brother in their dress-up favorites!

Danielle later got on all the fixins - with the baby and all - and announced "This is what I am going to look like when I'm a mom". Oh boy, i sure hope not. Looks like a Hookers Unite party or something. ROFLMAO Enjoy!

09.13.2008 What a BUSY Saturday

What a LONG and busy day. Today was the day we decided to clean out/organize our garage. Those who know us well, will laugh at such a prospect! But HELLO! it's been cold each morning, and having a 4 car garage that no cars can park in is a problem for me! So we got busy moving stuff around. The main problem was that we moved all of our garage sale stuff and overflow out of our storage (who PAYS to store crap?)to the garage last month. We have 2 HUGE storage warehouses and need to consolidate down to 1. So we made really good progress-and in the process found a new pet lurking under stuff. It was a FROG. Oh the glee on Danielle's face at this marvelous find! We just happened to have bought a tank (though she killed the last pet before it made it to the new tank-yikes) so we are gonna see how long this one will make it.

 

This is the new frog "Spots" in his new tank.

 

Spots really likes to perch himself up on "DUM-DUM". It's a cute Easter Island Mini Statue just like in the movie 'Night at the Museum' (which the kids love!) It's adorable to see him up there checking us out! He seems pretty happy and is getting a constant diet of stunned/but not dead flies we swat and give to him, crickets (Danielle caught them herself) and Frog pellets we got from the pet store

09.13.2008 Katie is getting BIG

It's hard to believe we got her at only 8 weeks...so tiny...and now she is porking right up. Our other cat Pixie was about 14 months old and was barely this big. Katie is already passing her up.
 
I couldn't help but take some pics of her by the window. She was trying to catch a fly.
 
She was nice, and decided to turn and look for a picture. She really is quite pretty.

Danielle starts DANCE

Okay, okay. So she is a monkey girl...but why not learn some grace and poise too? We thought about Ballet but she is so NOT the ballerina type. So we compromised and let her try out this dance class once a week. They teach Modern dance which includes some ballet moves but really more free flowing, stretching, get up and move kind of thing. Right up her alley! She will be going each Friday, so this year is quite busy with Gymnastics, Awana, and Dance each week. We might try soccer in the Spring if she can handle one more thing! For now she is excited about each one of her "extracurriculars" and loves them all!


See, compared to those other two, she's got the stance and perfect arm extension-this might work out after all *wink*

09.12.2008 Bubba's 1st Day of School--FINALLY!

After much jumping through hoops we have finally culminated our journey through the "system" and got Bubba the services he needs. As you know, he has had hearing loss and speech problems and delays due to his ongoing ear problems. After 2 surgeries (and one more big one to come in 2 more years) plus speech therapy for over a year, we were finally able to convince the school he qualified for speech therapy through the state/public school system. Let me tell you paying for speech therapy is EXPENSIVE. We are so thankful he will finally be getting it more often and at the same time enjoying the school setting in the pre-K program at Corvallis Primary School. He will get 1 hour a week-probably (2) 30 min sessions or (3) 20 min sessions through an IEP. We just know this will help him, and get him caught up with his peers. We are very excited, as was he! He started on a Friday and will be attending Monday, Wednesday, Friday afternoons. His new daycare is 1 block away and they walk him to and from school each day.

Mom took the afternoon off (Danielle too!) and walked with him and Ms. Marcie from daycare to the new school. He wore his favorite Gymboree Crocodile shirt and was so proud. Danielle showing Bubba the way to school.

Bubba looks so small outside the BIG door to the BIG boy school. All summer he waited and waited for this day, yeah, it's finally here!

Bubba inside his new classroom. His teachers are Mrs. Marlene and Ms. Mickey. He wasn't ready to let go of me, but he saw they had a Brown Bear, Brown Bear Book (one of his favorites - so it must be okay) and cars with a cool rug/mat that Ms. Mickey showed him how to make a tunnel with the blocks...then he was good to go! Bye Mom!