Look at Me...Being All Jason-like

On Friday, Kyle had the awesome idea to shove the itouch in between the piano keys.

(The perfect hiding place to keep his brothers from using it.)

 

Now, I know you're thinking...What?

Yeah, I thought the same thing.  Here's a picture.

So that teeny-tiny space between the black keys and the silver bar...that's where the itouch went.

Fingers don't fit, pencils don't fit, a knife doesn't fit.

You know what does fit? An itouch.

 

I kinda panicked for a moment thinking it really might be gone for good, but then I went behind the paino and noticed the screws.

 

So I unscrewed the top. 

(I know...so engineer minded of me!)

 

Here's what I found.

There's the itouch. See it?

 

Here it is close up.

That's how far he had shoved it back there.

 

Kyle's grounded from the itouch for a month...not that he has any idea how long that is.

But I guess we're even since I have no idea what would possess him to think of hiding it in a piano!

Fashion Fabulous Friday

 

Ever since our spring break trip to the skating rink, Kyle and Reed have been going to roller skating lessons on Thursday mornings. 

An hour and a half of skating, skate rentals, plus a snack...it's the best 9 bucks (total!) I spend all week.

 

 

After the first week Kyle talked incessantly about going back the next week...so he could get a glow stick.

 

 

It's the biggest thing going in Pre K fashion.  Glow stick on a skate.

 

 

Now we have to get one every time.

Every time.

Tumbled Over

The Easter Bunny brought practical gifts this year.

We'll, I'm not sure "practical" is the right word..."gifts that will get used" might be a better term.

 

JR got a scooter. 

He was riding it to school everyday until it started snowing feet and feet of snow every week.

 

Kyle and Reed got a cheese mat. 

I'm not sure that's what it's really called, but that's what I call it since it looks like a piece of cheese.

 

I'm so glad all this is on the mat and not on my furniture.  And in my basement and not in the middle of my kitchen or living room.

Kyle's mat work isn't nearly as impressive as Reed's, but he also doesn't practice nearly as much.

 

 

 

And, as always, the videos are only seconds long.

 

So Fortunate

I know I've told you before about how you don't get fortune cookies after a meal in China.

Actually, there's nothing that even remotely resembles a fortune cookie, or a cookie at all for that matter.

 

But, authentic or not, we still love them.

 

Especially when they are absolutely perfect.

 

JR got this one the other day.

 

 

Yep, I'd say that's about right.

Just What I Wanted

I was really hoping for another huge snow this week.

I've been soooooo happy about all the others.

 

Well, lucky me, I was not disappointed.

 

 

I was hoping for a foot, and according to our neighbor who measures it, we've gotten 14.5 inches!

 

 

ANNNND, it's supposed to snow for the next two days.

 

Yipppeee!

 

(Insert eye roll.)

Giant on the Field

I don't like to loose.

JR and Reed are exactly like me.

 

No matter how small or insignificant the game/contest/competition we want to win.

 

Kyle and Jason could care less.

 

That being said, I'm not sure Kyle and Reed have really ever lost a soccer game...until Saturday.

 

And when I say lost, I mean, they got killed.

 

Their team only scored 1 goal the entire game. (But Reed scored it!)

Kyle was throwing his whole body into the other team's net trying to block shots.

 

I don't like it when they loose.

But it's hard not to loose when you're competing against a "5 year old" that, as Jason described, is "as big as me".

 

Reed has always been able to outrun anybody they put him up against.

But, it's hard to outrun someone who only has to take 5 steps and they've made it across the field.

 

 

I was so enthralled in the game I didn't take any pictures, but I did somehow take this quick video.

The kid who's as big as me is in the video.

 

Soooo, it's only a 13 second video.

Kyle kicks off (Reed isn't paying attention and just stands there). 

The giant takes the ball from Kyle, and then Reed runs up. 

You'll clearly see Reed only comes up to his shoulders.

Fashion Fabulous Friday

A crown goes with everything, right?

 

 Caroline told me this picture looked like it could be on the cover of a New York City playbill.

I love her.