Recovering from the funk.

No I'm not pulling myself together after a night with Parliment. (2%)




But instead I have been recovering from this mutant strain of yuck that has somehow penetrated my freakish illness shield. You see, I don't get sick. Ever. Like I haven't even had so much as a sniffle for probably over a year. I only get really sick about once every 3 or 4 years. I'm weird like that.


So now I am on the mend from this funk.


Not to be confused with this funk....Ok I'll stop now.

Bug's 7th birthday party

So today we had Bug's official birthday party. His real birthday was earlier this week, but it fell on a school day. So we just had to wait it out until the weekend. And boy are we glad we did! It was a beautiful day!! It was in the high 70's. A perfect day to hang out in a park.

We just pulled up some picnic tables and got some pizza and chips. Boom! Instant party!

It was a lot of fun. Bug had about 7 or 8 of his friends from school (and their parents) come so we had a pretty good turn out.

We pretty much just filled them up with cake and turned them loose in the playground. Aside from a couple water fights that broke out, everyone did a really good job playing together and enjoying the day.

He ended up getting exactly what he wanted (which was science stuff) so that made for a great birthday. The big gift of the afternoon though by far was the prized books about the universe with lots of pictures (from Nana)and a real life microscope (from Grandma and Grandpa). Then we topped it off with a family member ship to OMSI. (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry)

A good time was had by all! Happy Birthday Bug!!

Freeze!!!

Ok so I am getting the itch to get some scrap booking done and I am going through some old pictures to have printed up and stumbled onto this.

This was like 2 years ago, but still pretty funny.

This is what happens when you watch the show COPS a lot. I thought Bug would get an appreciation for law enforcement. I guess it worked only to find him cuffing his sister in the back yard over the sandbox. I was laughing so hard when I took this picture I could barely hold the camera still.

Finally!!!

Finally spring has arrived!! It took longer than I had liked, but it's here.

Today we hit almost 70 degrees. So after dinner we all headed out front. Bug and the Rock star grabbed their baseball mitts and played catch. Peanut and I were working the tricycle and Sunshine decided she was going to dig to China or something. She just started digging. Luckily I stopped her before she got too out of control.

Before long we all decided that it was a perfect night for Popsicles. Luckily I had some on hand. So it was a great end to a great day.

This never gets old.

I know it's sort of mean to laugh at my kids struggle with the ordinary. But some days laughing about it is all that gets me through.

I could sit all day and watch young children struggle to stay on a hammock. In my warped little mind it never gets old and it's always good for a laugh.

We need some Benny Hill music playing in the background and we would be set.

Poor Sunshine wrestled with that dumb thing for about 15 minutes. But she didn't give up no matter how many (and it was many) times it bucked her off.

I just love this!!!

I love that they take an every day schlumpadinka like (lets face it) you and me and make her look like this. I guess we all have this in us, some of us just need a little more photoshop than others :)

Sort of makes you look at what we see as beautiful differently eh?

Happ-it-y Birthday to you!!!

Today is Bug's 7th birthday. It sucks because he can't have cake. He has food allergies and doesn't tolerate a number of things. But his biggest problem foods are refined white sugar, chocolate and most colors of food coloring. So that pretty much cuts out any cake type thing that I can come up with.

So instead of cake here, he has a homemade cranberry orange muffin. It's sort of a bummer in times like this, but it is what it is. He knows what it does to him if he eats that junk, so he does a pretty good job policing himself.

Tonight we are just having a dinner here at home and giving him his present. His party is this weekend in a big park. He invited all of his friends from school, so it should be a lot of fun.

Haircuts and watercolors

Just another day in paradise for me. My typical day consists of a whole lot of silly trivial tasks. All of which rarely have and end product.

Today I did 13 loads of laundry
-washed, dried, folded and put away

cleaned 2 bathrooms,

washed 2 loads of dishes,

vacumed the family room twice,

set up a V-smile 3 different times,

brushed 4 sets of teeth (including my own),

sent 30 cookies to school with Bug,

killed 30 minutes driving around so that Sunshine could get a longer nap,

and

sent and received about 20 different ICQ messages.

But the only 2 things out of any of that was Sunshine wanted to do some "intense" painting. Her words.

Then I also had to give Peanut a haircut.

* Notice the before and after pictures.


So basically this is the only proof that I did anything today. No wonder people get down on stay at home moms :) I may as well have spent the day eating bon-bons. Because frankly my house is already thrashed again and my laundry hamper is filling up fast.

Again.

T-ball starts up!!

So I don't really have a whole lot to say about this, other that this morning was Bug's first T ball practice.

He's been excited about this for weeks. It's finally here!

Silly string takes another victim

This is where fun and games goes drastically wrong.

1 can of silly string
1 sister willing to do whatever you ask her to
equals
2 burning eyes and a now screaming sister
result
loss of silly string and a reluctant apology.


The lesson here, don't give a 7 year old a can of silly string and turn him loose in the back yard. No matter how innocent it may seem. It turns out that it is intended for external use only.

Duly noted.