Kyah's Trampoline Adventure

Here is my sweet little mop top.

Trampoline Fun

I love the end of the clip when the kids clap for Zane. The support is fantastic!

The kids love the trampoline... I love it too, but my body can't handle much more than a few minutes of jumping. Things just aren't the same since I gave birth to my 3 kids! Like my doctor ssaid "Many trampoline careers have been ruined from child birth!" I miss that doctor.

Zane is so coordinated he is fun to watch. Today he was trying to do back flips... so I tried to work with him, but its still a little scary. After talking with my sister-in-law who has been a gymnastics coach, I think I am going to be discouraging him from doing backflips for a while... he's just too unpredictable!

I went outside yesterday and Cannon was saying "Mom, Watch this!" I had to run for the camera. He's just as fearful as Zane... which means he isn't at all.

HAPPY EASTER!

Kyah's class project

CLASSIC!

Pulling Teeth

My daughter is 6... which means tis the season for losing baby teeth. I never thought I had a queasy stomach, but I have to say that I am totally grossed out by the whole process of wiggling, pulling and saving teeth. That must come from my own personal "fun" experiences with the dentist.

Kyah had me pull one out this afternoon that wasn't quite ready to let go. It was bugging her and was wiggling to and fro like a windsock. I shudder even thinking about its haphazard dangle on top of her mouth. So far I've let Doug do all the honors with her teeth, but he wasn't around and she wanted it done. So I had to buck up.

A nice firm yank with a damp washcloth (with my eyes closed) and it came out with a "POP!" Kyah has been telling everyone how I closed my eyes because I didn't like doing it. Yup, I'm a wimp, but I am awarding myself the mom of the day award!

YUCK!

I Waddu Mom

"I Waddu Mom" is Cannonese for "I Love You Mom." Cannon has started the habit of saying that to me at all times of the day. He gets really mad if I don't acknowledge his declaration! If I tell him I love him first, then he says "I Waddu too!" Its awfully cute... even on those days when I want to give him back!

Fairytale Life

I truly believe that our reality is formed by our outlook on life rather than our situation in life.

I was reminded of this today when I read a note from a long lost friend on Facebook. She told me congrats on having a fairytale life. I wouldn't exactly categorize my life as a fairytale. I spend too much of my time dwelling on the crap in life rather than on the good stuff. But her comment did make me sit and think about how grateful I am for what I have.

And as a side note... maybe my blog is a little deceiving!

How Early?

So its 4:30 in the morning and I've been awake, just lying in bed for an hour. I'm tired, but can't get back to sleep. I think I need some sleep enhancing drugs! Its moments like these when I think I might as well get a paper route.

I have nothing profound to say, but felt like its time to put something on my blog... although I really like the picture of my peeps at the top of my blog. They are so cute and fluffy. (I don't really enjoy eating peeps though... its my opinion that marshmallows need to be eaten with chocolate. Just like every other food!)

Here are a few moments in my life today that I'd like to share! More fun and happy than sad, but I'll start with sad first.

Sad moment # 1. Zane has been sick and lying on the coach all weekend with a fever. I've enjoyed my snuggle time with him, but its very depressing seeing my little energizer bunny lying glossy eyed and nearly comatose for 3 days! Monday he was better and back to his normal self. Then Tuesday he woke up and his fever had spiked again. We had another day of snuggling. Man! Can we ever get over being sick in our house? I'm not a neat freak, but I feel like I want to scrub all my kids with Clorox! Is there a bug bomb we can use in the house for germs?

Sad moment # 2. I looked in the mirror and realized that a pair of my jeans have turned into saggy "mom" jeans. This is slightly different than the "nanny" jeans that Deanna blogged about earlier this week. Check out the SNL commercial for mom jeans and you'll know what I mean! Only rather than my jeans being snug up to my armpits, they have lost all structure and are really saggy. Not so flattering for my derriere. After 3 kids and a lazy lifestyle, I need all the help I can get! I think its time to go shopping for jeans.

Fun moment #1. I have to give Amanda props. It took sheer bravery to blog about her "snart." Its funny to hear about it on the phone from her... even funnier to read it online! ;) Love ya!

Fun moment #2. I was up in the middle of the night last night too. Due to my head cold and Cannon having a hard time sleeping, I was lying on the recliner trying to sleep. I heard the pitter patter of little feet run into the kitchen... then a chair moving along the floor... then some rustling that sounded suspiciously like our candy bucket on the fridge. I caught Kyah raiding the candy supply at 3 am! I thought it was kind of funny. Can't sneak anything past me! (Especially the rustling sound of candy wrappers).

Fun moment #3. I was running errands the other day and had Cannon and my nephew Tanner with me. I stopped at the house for 5 minutes to pick something up and the boys ran to the backyard and climbed on the trampoline. They were having a great time together and I took some snapshots of them. When I was trying to decide what to blog about I ran across the pictures and had a good laugh. There are some good ones of the boys laughing and smiling, but I thought this was the funniest.


Fun moment #4. Kyah has been out playing with her friends all afternoon. They have been outside most of the day, although its sunny, but very very cold. They have been in our backyard, in our front yard, at the park and riding bikes. She stopped in the house every hour or so and I just loved seeing her. She was happy, excited, pink cheeked and her hair is was all crazy and frizzing out of her ponytail. Every time time I saw her I just thought she looked so cute. That image was the perfect description of a child having a good time outside. Hooray for sunshine!

Great moment #5. Cannon didn't fight me today. No fits always makes it a good day! He wanted to help me make dinner, so he helped stir the stroganoff and pour the noodles in the boiling water. He was too close to the stove for my comfort, but I think he learned about how hot it is without getting burned. It was a good moment for us!

Great moment #6. This was actually yesterday, but I had Kyah's school parent/teacher conference. I remember my mom saying that she dreaded going to the parent/teacher conferences when we were kids. I can imagine with having 4 bright, but very active and more often devious boys! :) Not to mention my own childhood! I know this time of year is also stressful for the teachers. So I go into them trying to be open minded, seeing what the teacher is seeing and try to keep it a little light hearted. So this is why my parent/teacher conference for Kyah is so great for me. Nothing makes you prouder than when people compliment your own kids. She has been blessed with really great teachers, but I am so thankful she is such a great kid! She is still shy to volunteer, is more often than not in her own little world, but overall she is doing great in school. After all our years of causing grief for our teachers... how did we get so blessed!

Fun moment #7. Why do the kids always have such dirty faces and clothes when I get fun pictures of them?



Fun moment #8. Grandpa was hurrying to leave for work one morning and commented on how pretty Kyah was. He stopped, grabbed the camera and said "I have to have a picture with you because you look so pretty!" What a way to make a girl feel good at the beginning of her day!

Fun moment #9. My parents watched the kids while I was at Kyah's parent/teacher conference. Right as I was leaving the school it began hailing. I arrived at my parents house and my mom was kneeling backwards on the couch looking out the back window with the kids all around her doing the same. She was showing the kids the hail in the backyard. Her face was bright and excited and she looked so happy. The kids were so excited along with her. It was a small moment, but I hope that image will stay in my mind for a long time!

Thank goodness for great parents!

Peeps Surgery

Thanks to Amanda for sending this link. I was thoroughly entertained by reading about the peep surgery. Check it out here!

Cat Nap = Late Night!

Cannon used to be our easiest child to get to bed. We'd say - "here is your bottle... Say Good Night!" And he'd run off to his bed happy as ever to be going to sleep.

Not so much anymore. :(

I think he learned it was too much fun to have Mom and Dad all to himself while the other kids went to bed. So now we have the battle to fight! Its difficult to keep him in his bed, so we've resorted back to lying down with him until he falls asleep. He has a mind of his own and is quite stubborn, so its not easy to get him to do what we want. Where did my sweet little child go? Oh yeah, that's right! He turned 2!

Anyway, I digress... I was lying in his bed with him, waiting for him to burrow in and fall asleep. I don't know when he fell asleep, but I did pretty quickly! Doug had to come in and wake me up. I don't think I was asleep longer than 30 minutes, but I was sure comfy! I moved into our bed, but then wouldn't you know it! I couldn't sleep anymore!

So now here I've ruined an early night to bed by getting on the computer and playing around with the design of my blog. So much for extra rest tonight!