I'm not for eating. . .

Last week when Gavin was in nursery, he turned to his teacher and said, "I don't want my dad to come in here, because he wants to eat me and I'm not food."

Today as we were leaving church, Gavin was sporting a custom made wrist band (made from a wrapper of some sort). He was so excited as he explained, "I can hear when the dinasours and dragons come because this helps me hear them."
"You must be a brave boy."
"Yes, I am."

While at a baseball game Gavin was sitting on my lap kissing my cheeks. Jhonny wanted him to come to him, but he wasn't getting his attention. Finally he shouted, "Hey, Gavin, whatta ya doin?!?"
"Kissin!"

Gavin was asleep during dinner today, so later when he woke up we set out his dinner while I was making cookies. Of course Gavin wanted to eat cookies instead of his dinner. "You have to eat your dinner first, son," I told him.
"I can't!" he retorted.
"Why not?" I asked.
"It makes me pee!"

Last week I took Gavin on a date. While drinking our slushies I thought I would bring up some small talk. "Who's your best friend?" I asked. Without hesitation he said, "LILY!"

Another Summer Sunday

My son is still up. I put him to bed a WHILE ago. It's summer and we're all pretty lax about the routine. Don't worry it will be back in place way sooner than we want it to be.
Earlier - I was trying to talk to my sister on the phone. About sisterly stuff. And my kids somehow all gravitated to where I was trying to be alone. I looked at them and listened intently to her story and thought - ugh - I should have put them to bed first. Now I'm stuck. I finally had to beg off the phone and submit to bedtime routine at least.
Because as tempting as it seemed to dump the responsibility off on my husband and continue my conversation. . . he is finishing his homework that he didn't get to yesterday because. . .well see below.
My kids are so dang cute. I could be bias, but I don't know any little boy cuter or sweeter than mine and girls so beautiful and heart warming. They tackled me with kisses and wouldn't stop til I tickled them off.
How did they grow up so fast? Where has the time fled? Why does it have to go so fast? When I was a kid - summer was FOREVER! I loved the LONG break and playing outside all day long. The days were long then too. I remember finding it ridiculous to go to bed before the sun went down. Probably why I haven't bothered trying to keep up with the regular schedule with my kids.
The days are soooo LONG. The sun just doesn't want to disapear. I'm sure they have great ways of dealing with this in Alaska - but we're in Texas here. And even though the days are long - the summer is already half over. Maybe my laziness is my way of trying to slow it DOWN. Didn't work - a week has already disappeared and we still haven't completely unpacked the van.
But I digress. So teaching primary today, one of my kiddos asked if we could just take a break today. Irony was that we were discussing the ten virgins and how we need to be prepared for the second coming.  So obviously we can't take a break. THAT would totally contradict the point of the lesson. But I get it. It's summer. Lazy, hazy dayz of summer. Where you just don't want to do anything at all because you know that before too long, you're going to be fully swung into the middle of chaos and not enough time to fit it all in.
Right now - I'm content to be lazy. . .
Until yesterday. . . I was thinking it had been a whole week of nothing but curling up with a good book and being completely unable to think of a single necessary thing to do. And feeling like I needed to pull myself out of the slump and get busy actually DOING something productive. That's when I decided it was time to straighten up some things around the house and rearrange furniture. Unfortunately, this required some rewiring of certain electronic gadgets. Not my expertise although I offered to give it a go. My husband reluctantly joined in. He complained that all week I've done nothing and NOW I get a cleaning bug? I asked him if he'd prefer I dropped everything and returned to my book. Not a chance.
We got one room done. Now for tackling the garage. Oh darn - it's gonna have to wait til after my hair appt in Houston tomorrow. . . I wish I didn't actually have to drive to get there. That would be nice. To blink my way to places I want to be. I've been waiting for that invention my whole life.
So much for being productive.

Trek to Utah 2011

Dance recital continued

Dance Recital

Jessica and Lily finish their second year with Nmotion Dance. Jessica was on the Dance Team. Above is their competition dance. They also did two more for recital. Enjoy!

Take me out to the ball game

We finally made it to the Dell Diamond. I won some free tickets from a drawing at school for 4 tickets behind home plate. It was pretty awesome, but besides me and Jhonny, Gavin was the only other one really enjoying themselves. We finally caved and took the kids to the play area where they jumped and played and Jessica rock climbed. It's a little strange that this baseball park has a park on the diamond. There were tons of kids playing basketball, bungee jumping, rock climbing, swimming in the pool, and playing on the jungle gym. I thought, "Is this a baseball field?" Who'd of thought to build all that into the diamond?
So I guess the good thing is that there is plenty of entertainment for the kids, but the downside is that we couldn't really watch the end of the game when we were overseeing the kids at the back of the field on the toys. . . Unfortunately, it was a school night, so we had to head home before the game was over. As we walked out they played "Take me out to the ball game" and had everyone in the stands sing along. It was fun. The kids didn't know the song. . . We really need to work on our knowledge of American pop culture besides what you see on the Disney Channel.

Humpty dumpty had a great jump. . .

Once upon a time, Mom and Dad were exhausted and decided to take a nap on a Sunday afternoon. Before settling down, they put their children snug into their own beds and warned them to sleep or else. Well. . . just as the mom and dad fell into a deep sleep, the children decided to make plans of their own. With a little help from her younger brother, Lily pulled the mattress off of the lower bunk bed onto the floor. This would provide the cushion for her and Gavin as they jumped off the platform of a higher piece of furniture. Together hand in hand, Lily and her brother jumped off and landed almost safe onto the cushion below. However as brilliant as this plan was, it didn't take into account one tiny cheek crushing into one tiny shoulder blade.

With screams and shouts of pain, Mom and Dad were woken from their deep slumber only to find a very hurt little girl and sad little boy.

After thorough interrogations, deductions were made and the story was uncovered. The reward? About three weeks of wearing a black eye in public. This was quite devestating for an already slightly vain 5 year old. Of course I caved and let her wear some makeup to conceal it the first couple of days. That helped slightly.