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July 21st, 2009

She Works Hard For The Money

As a parent, you sometimes get requests from your kids that mean so much to them, but make no sense to you. Katie came to me one morning adamant that Kitty reeeeeeeally wanted to go to work with me.

Ok really? Me taking a stuffed animal to work?

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…..

Ok! Sure! I’ll take Kitty to work today. But you better tell her to be a good girl.

After Katie’s stern conversation with Kitty, she skipped off to school with a smile on her face. I can only imagine her daydreams of what Kitty might be experiencing that day. (Either that or she completely forgot once she got in the playground.) Nonetheless… It occurred to me during the day that if I took a picture of Kitty at my desk, Katie would know that not only did Mommy do as she asked, she also made it fun for Kitty.

Here is Kitty, hard at work. I think she’s writing some Oracle Database PLSQL code… ;-)

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July 8th, 2009

If You Had $500,000

William was sitting on Grandma’s lap, watching TV. I believe a game show was on & they had a chance to win half a million dollars. William thought that was amazing & then proceeded to do something we all have done at some point in our lives.

If you had $500,000 what would you do with it?

Our thoughtful child declared he would buy Mommy & Daddy a new house.

Then he thought harder.

“Or a new phone just for me!”

Wow. I think iPhones are expensive, but geesh! He really loves playing on an iPhone. And he really hates sharing it with his sister.

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July 5th, 2009

HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!

So, many of you know that William has been in Santa Fe with my parents since school let out.  Katie and I drove out here a week ago to vacation with them.  We are all heading back home tomorrow.  My mother just showed me something William wrote to her one day when he was apparently quite frustrated with her.

Letter to Grandma

Translation:  “I am going back to TEXAS!  Sorry Grandma!” 

HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!  Oh my… I can’t quit laughing.  I love how he put Texas in all caps.  LOL!

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July 5th, 2009

Her First Graduation

We have come to realize that graduation is no longer just for high school and college.  On Friday, May 29th, Katie graduated Montessori School.  She will be starting Kindergarten in the fall.  For her graduation, we rented a cap & gown.  Yes, we really did that.  She got to keep her tassel, graduation certificate and “class ring”… hehehe.  In practicing for the ceremony, she learned the song “America the Beautiful” or as she calls it “Oh Beautiful.”  It has become one of her favorite songs.

She wasn’t very “into” having her picture taken, but Mommy required it:

Not Looking Thrilled

Next I asked if she could please smile for me.  The picture I got cracks me up.  Doesn’t she look like she’s doing a Jack Nicholson impersonation? 

What's With the Look?

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June 25th, 2009

Lullabies Are Changing

We have always sung lullabies to our kids before we shut their lights off and say, “night night.” William’s lullabye of choice is “Rock-a-Bye William.” Katie’s has long been “Twinkle Twinkle,” except for that short stint with the Barney song. You know… “I Love You, You Love Me.” (Ha! You’re totally gonna have that stuck in your head now.)

When Katie graduated from Montessori school last month (more on that later), she decided to change her nighttime song to “Oh Beautiful”. You may know this as “America the Beautiful.” Although not a lullabye or typical bedtime song, I found that so cute & have been singing it to her.

Enter scene last night….

Mommy: Katie, would you like a song?

Katie: Yes.

Mommy: Which song would you like?

Katie: Pickface.

Mommy: Huh?

Katie: Picker face.

(Mommy looking totally confused.)

Katie: You know. From your car.

Mommy: Poker face?

Katie: Yes! Sing that!

Needless to say, Mommy did NOT sing “Poker Face” by Lady GaGa. We came to the agreement that “Oh Beautiful” would be much more soothing. LOL.

If you listen to top 40 kinds of songs, you can now thank me. If not, have fun with Barney the rest of the day. :-)

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June 19th, 2009

Oh Ya, We Have a Blog

Man… I was doing so well for so long. My iPhone makes it SO easy to blog. I have the WordPress app & can just attach photos I take from my phone. Very convenient!

Except when your phone decides all of a sudden that it wants to lock… You reboot it… And it goes into recovery mode.

You know those Apple commercials with Justin Long playing an Apple & the other guy playing a PC? I used to think they were pretty funny. I guess I still do, but my iPhone has given me such great expectations over the last 2 years that when it decides to give me its equivalent to the “blue screen of death”, I became a little bitter.

Horrible part is that I lost my notes & photos that I had taken since the last time I synced to iTunes. Sad face. REALLY sad face.

Two lessons learned: 1) sync your iPhone to iTunes everyday or at least much more frequently and 2) stay up to date on your blogging so people don’t miss the awesome picture if William riding his bike without training wheels for the first time.

Pledge: more blogs coming soon!

Here is a view of what you don’t want to see on your iPhone:

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May 21st, 2009

Now That I’ve Picked My Jaw Up Off the Floor

This kid never ceases to amaze us.  (Now I feel guilty for saying that.  They both amaze us, but this particular story is about William.)  This past weekend as we were hanging out as a family, Katie gets dangerously close to touching something hot which prompts the following:

Chris: Katie.  Don’t touch that.  It’s very hot.  It’s as hot as the surface of the sun.

William: It’s 6,000 degrees Celsius?

At this point Chris and I look at each other in amazement.  What???  Did he really just say that?

Me: William?  Where did you learn that?

William: I just know it.

Then he proceeds…

William: I also know my very excellent muver just sent us nine pizzas.

Yes… muver.  It’s William-speak for mother.  But why is he saying I sent them nine pizzas?

Me: Huh?

William: Mercury, Venus, Erf, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.

Chris and I, again, stare at each other in amazement.  Did he skip a few grades while we weren’t looking?  And, yes, I wrote Erf.  That’s William-speak for Earth.  (And, yes, I laughed inside when he said Uranus.  Cuz that’s what *I* learned in grade school… to laugh when I hear Uranus.)

And just because we always want to make sure the kids know that we know more than them… Chris asked William about the Sun.

Chris: What about the Sun?

The only thing missing from William’s words were “duh”.  His expression had it written all over it though.

William: That’s a STAR.

OK.  Many of our friends told us not to expect much from public school.  But right about now I’m thinking it’s working out pretty well.  I know I didn’t learn that stuff in Kindergarten!!!

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April 3rd, 2009

See One, Do One, Teach One

William learned how to tell time on a clock this week. It amazes me how great he is at teaching it back! This kid could teach the Kindergarten class if he just got the lesson plan the night before!

He was sooo excited to make this video. We had to wait until I finished laughing because the first time I tried to record it, he said “Action!” and I didn’t know he was going to. ROFLMAO

Here’s the link if you can’t view See One, Do One, Teach One. :-)

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March 15th, 2009

They Had a What In Their Backyard?

A couple weekends ago I took Katie to a birthday party for a little boy in her Montessori class.  I was totally amazed at the effort put forth for this party.  It was so much fun!  It was a carnival type theme.  As soon as we got there, Katie got to decorate a pail with stick-ons of letters for her name, and various animals.  After she was done decorating, we went through the house to the kitchen.  The food!  OMG!  They had hot dogs, pizza, nachos (or chips w/ wet cheese is what Katie calls it),  frito pie fixin’s, bags of chips, fruit snacks and cuties (like oranges).  Then we go out to the back patio to eat and there’s a popcorn machine!  Tea, sweet and un… juice boxes and sodas.

After Katie ate, it was off to the bouncy house.  She loves those things!  Then the clever part.  They had set up self-made carnival games.  There were tickets in the pails they had decorated earlier, and the kids used their tickets to play the games.  Older kids were running each station.  It was very cute.  Of course the little ones always won and the prize was a miniature piece of candy.  It was a VERY windy day, so they had a tough time keeping the games steady but it was still so much fun.  They got little tattoos.  Katie really loved that.

Next came the part that really blew me away.  They had The Capital of Texas Zoo come to their backyard!  This guy was amazing!  He brought a camel, kangaroo, chinchilla, blue-tongued skeenk, albino snake andgiant hissing cockroaches!  The kids got to pet some of the animals.  And GET THIS.  Katie held a giant hissing cockroach!  I almost crawled out of my skin.  She even let the snake smell her with his tongue.  She is so brave I cannot believe it.

After we washed their hands, it was time for cake.  LOTS OF CAKE.  Then the most clever thing was the goody bags.  It was set up like another carnival game.  There were paper bags filled with trinkets, numbered like 1-30.  The kids got to go in age, youngest to oldest, and pick 2 numbers.  They were delighted to see what they each got.  William came towards the end of the party (he had gone to a play with his Grandma), and Katie exclaimed to him “COME LOOK, WILLIAM!  THIS PARTY IS SO AWESOME!”  We had a great time!

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February 18th, 2009

I Crack Myself Up

As most everyone knows (I think), we’re at the hospital today.  Chris hurt his knee playing dodgeball on our last cruise.  He’s having surgery to repair the ACL in his right knee with harvested tendon from his patella.  (That’s why I’ve had time to catch-up on blogging!  What better way to keep my mind occupied?  Well… I tried to work, but the wireless here is sketchy.  Having WordPress on my iPhone makes it easy to update our website though!)  But back to the subject in the title…

As we were waiting for them to take him back for his operation, I noticed the second band on his arm.  Chris thought I was kidding when I exclaimed, “How on earth is that band going to prevent you from falling???”

ROFLMAO!  Gullable?  Naive?  Whatever you want to call it, I crack myself up sometimes.

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