Read Any Good Books Lately?

How Come I'm Blogging in the Middle of the Afternoon?

Oh, cause I've just been relaxing my days away. (The picture is obviously me, right? Y'all know I don't do sunshine without a hat.) Yep, I've just got tons of free time since I've had a stay-at-home-mom-in-training helping out the last two days. (Did my sarcasm come through in that sentence?) Honestly, I'm pretty sure he can't wait to go back to school. To make a long story short, Harry had a little run in on the basketball court in P.E. As in, another kid "ran in to" Harry's fist. Thankfully the worst part of the run in was being expelled from school for three days. Jason and I talked about having him do some community service, but I didn't want him thinking that helping others was punishment. So, instead, he's been doing really fun things like: getting up early to babysit while I walk JR to the bus, loading and unloading the dishwasher, hanging up clean laundry in the closets, organizing the toy room, and supervising outdoor play. And I'm here to tell you, the "stay at home" part probably hasn't been that bad, but I'm quite certain he has no interest in becoming "a mom".

Dinner Theater

It's really hard keeping two-year-olds occupied while out to eat. And it doesn't help the situation that I bring absolutely nothing. Tell me we're taking them on a airplane and I'll have 3 days worth of entertainment. Tell me we're going out to eat and I don't even bring sippy cups...they can share a drink with me, right? Thankfully my sweet guys took entertainment into their own hands, and put on a great show for us the other night. (I apologize in advance for the picture quality, they were taken with my phone.)

Act 1: Imitations

Bret Michaels (without his weave)

Willie Nelson

Tupac

Act 2: Ingy Project Runway

Make a scarf from the materials provided.

And now a hat.

Act 3: History Reenactments

Playing the part of Pu Yi in The Last Emperor, Kyle really had to stretch his acting chops since Pu Yi was actually 3 when he took the throne.

From emperors to pharaohs, Reed plays King Tut.

And for the Big Finale:

Kyle's magic act...the disappearing plate trick

And Reed performs the Dance of the Seven Veils (with only two veils, Wow!)

Monday, Monday

Back to the grindstone....

Wanna Help Me With MY Homework?

Whether you personally know me or not, one thing you probably do know is that math and I are not friends. So you can imagine the fear that struck my heart when JR whipped out fractions for 1st grade homework. Okay, so I'm kidding (a little). I can do first grade math, but I really started to doubt myself when JR's homework came back looking like this.

Immediately I was mordified that I'd let JR miss all these. (He did it, and I checked it.) So I went to the experts. Luckily I have a mechanical engineer (by degree, anyway) as a husband and a Chinese kid living in my house. Math? Yeah, we should have it covered. And since the engineer and the Chinese kid can't figure out what's wrong (and Facebook friends have confirmed that number 4 is right) I'm bringing it to you. Ideas?

Tigers, and Demons, and Baseball...Oh My!

JR loves being a Cub Scout. Like crazy, insane loves it. (JR loves to win, so I think he thinks he's "winning" all these patches he's earning.) He's going to the high school baseball game with his den this afternoon, and that will complete everything they need to do to earn their tiger badge. He has been so excited about this baseball game (And yes, he's been to see the Astros play a few times and hardly looked at the field) that we even had to pray for the game last night.
As prayers were over JR said, "Mommy can I add to prayers?"
Me: Sure
JR: Dear Lord, We pray that the Durango Demons baseball team will be the winners tomorrow, and they will beat the other team, and always be the winners.
(I'm thinking we should have actually prayed for Durango to change their mascot. I can't think of a worse mascot than the "demons". Ugh!)

Then, this morning at 6:30, I heard the elephant thud of JR's feet hitting the floor. Five seconds later my head was on the receiving end of a pile driver as JR landed atop my pillow. Jason was about to walk out the door, and in quick self defense mode I said, "Hurry! Go find your daddy." A few elephant thuds down the hall later I heard:
JR: Hi Daddy!
Jason: Hi JR, What are you doing up so early?
JR: DADDY! I GET TO GO TO THE DURANGO DEMONS BASEBALL GAMES THIS AFTERNOON, AND THEN I GET TO BE A TIGER, AND A WOLF, AND A BOBCAT! I'M SO EXCITED I CAN'T SLEEP!
Jason: Well Buddy, I don't think all those things are going to happen at 6:30 in the morning.

Yeah, we're just a little excited about this afternoon. And when I say "we", I completely and totally mean "only JR".

Awesomely Bad Hair

Today's pictures speak for themselves.

Presenting: Kyle's after-swim hair.




Awesome.