Poop

"Poop" is Lane's favorite word.  I don't know why.  His answer to everything includes the word poop.  "Lane, how do you spell your name?" Lane: "L-A-N-E.  Poop"  Me: "What word starts with 'C'?" Lane: "Poop.  Cloud."  It could be worse.  Aidyn says, "Dammit, dammit, dammit.  Poop."  See, there's a silver lining to every cloud.  Hopefully she taught Cady that word last night.  I don't want my kid to be the only one... :)


In other news, I'm pooped.  (See how I did that?  I titled my post, then used that word in a different context.  I can tell you're impressed.)  On Tuesday, we had the Pregnancy Help Center Fundraiser.  On Wednesday, I took 8 girls to Mr. Gatti's for Rachel's twelfth birthday.  (Still in recovery...)  On Thursday, we had family over for her family birthday celebration.  It was fantastic.  Tonight we have football.  Tomorrow morning I have Cross Country and tomorrow night is Cadence's birthday party.  


POOP! 

New Home...

See this sweet, adorable little minature pin looking at me through the SCHOOL DOOR?  He's mine.  He needs a new home.  It can be with you or it can be with Jesus.  Seriously. 

Kitchen Duty...

I made pies this week for a friend's birthday.  We teach together.  That was Tuesday night.  On Wednesday night, I made mini cupcakes for another teacher friend.  They were yum!  I made fudge icing (light on the chocolate) to go on top.  The kids decided they needed sprinkles.  This is not what I had in mind.

Unlike the movies, you do not slip and fall down when you step on millions of these little balls.  Instead, they stick to the bottoms of your feet and you track all three hundred forty-six billion of them from end to end of the kitchen.  That way, when you're trying to vaccuum them up, you just chase them and scrape them off your feet and then step on them again and finally give up and vaccuum your feet.  It was loads of fun.

Today, we made egg rolls for supper.  I had two very beautiful helpers in the kitchen. 

Aidyn kept saying, "I like arrows (egg rolls).  You like arrows too?"

Here's the filling that we made:

 And here they are filled.  They look questionable.  There are several things that they resemble, but I'm not gonna say...

Homecoming

Last week was Homecoming here in RL.  Unfortunately, Monday was picture day.  I despise school pictures.  I looked 'special' in my picture last year.  "Lean forward, honey.  A little more.  Look to the left.  A little more.  Big smile, doll.  Open your eyes wide, hun."  Needless to say, I look like a deer in the headlights, with a broken neck, about to kiss the camera because I'm leaning so far.  I look like a stroke victim.  Anyhoo, Monday was Crazy Sock day.  I asked the photographer to take a picture of my black and orange striped socks to put in the yearbook.  He ix-nayed that.  I hate him. 

Tuesday was TV Character Day.  My friend was Miranda Lambert, sans guitar.  I was Vickie Lawerence from Mama's Family.  I ended up looking like my grandma. 

Wednesday was Class Color Day.  In Elementary, we don't choose a color, so Maranda and I wore some shirts we'd bought this summer for Twin Day (which was cancelled due to stupid picture day...).

Friday was Wild about the Steers Day.  I haven't gotten all the pictures from that day yet.  It was wild all day!

Here's a photo of Lane with his teacher, Mrs. Myers.  He loves her.  In fact, he loves her so much that he wouldn't sit with me at the pep rally because he wanted to sit with her.  :(

Family

Someone was mean to my niece.  I'm not happy about it.  I love my nieces and nephews like they are my own children-- with benefits.  I don't have to spank them.  No one. Messes.With. My. Family. For real.  My sis called to tell me about it yesterday, and I'm still upset.  I can't imagine someone not thinking that she is so sweet and precious.  I can't understand her calling out and no one helping her- especially those paid to do so.  Me and SunShine School 'bout to go round and round.  Fo real.

Wanna Play a Game???

Do you know what this is??

If you guessed flour, you'd be incorrect.

If you guessed baking soda, you'd still be wrong.

It's..... cornstarch.

Would you like to take a stab at how it may have ended up all over my kitchen floor?

That's our kitty cat, Flower.  She didn't have anything to do with the cornstarch incident, but she ended up with some on her whiskers.  (You're not very good at this game are you?)

Hey!!  Looky there.  This little monster dumped the ENTIRE can of cornstarch on the floor.  Do you know

what happens to cornstarch when you add water?  It turns to glue!!  It was super duper fun to get off of the floor.  After I thought I had it all cleaned up, I realized it had left a nice gritty film on the floor.  I had to get on my hands and knees and use Clorox Wipes to get it off.  I thought that when your children turned two you could get rid of the child safety stuff.  I was mistaken-  we're going to BUY some this weekend!

Issues

I think we all know I have issues.  :)  What I'm having issues with today, is the amount of time it's taking me to get my grades back from my professors.  Obviously, I'm required to turn in my assignments on time to avoid penalty.  During the summer, I turned in one paper at 12:01 a.m. and was penalized.  I ended up with an 89.3 in the class.  Did she give me an 'A?'  Crap no.  It's my only B.  So here I am, using my time more wisely.  I turned in two papers in August that I still haven't received a grade for!  I realize that these Ph.D's are busy, but really?  In two weeks you couldn't find time to give me a little feedback?  I've turned in four more papers since then!  Hope I was on the right track!! 

Enough ranting.  Here are a couple of pictures from this week. 

Lane came running in the living room wearing this get up promising to protect me from all monsters and rangers (?).  Please keep in mind that the only movies he's ever watched are Rio and Toy Story.  The only television show he watches is Sponge Bob.  Hmmmm....

Aidyn looks like Boo from Monsters Inc. with these little piggy tails.

This week at school is Homecoming.  If you're not from a small town,  you can't possibly understand what this entails here.  It's CRAZY.  The toddlers around here even know what it is.  I'll sum it up like this:  On Friday when it's time for the parade, you could rob any place in town.  The bank is CLOSED so people can watch the parade.  Stay tuned for pictures.  You won't be disappointed. 

Almost Never...

Ever had one of those days when you wake up so filled with snot that you're sure your face will come blowing off any second?  I'm rarely sick.  I hate to be sick.  I will myself to stay healthy.  That has not been the case this year.  In June of this year I got very ill.  I saw my doc, Dr. C four times in two weeks.  After about two dozen blood tests, four different drugs, and hydrocodiene for a headache I couldn't kick, he still didn't know what I had.  His best explanation was Bacterial Menengitis. Yippee for me!!!  I lost about 10 pounds in two weeks.  I've attached before and after photos of myself.  I'm sure you can see the substantial weight loss. 

Anyhoo, I wouldn't recommend this method of weight loss.  It pretty much sucked.  I just have a cold this time, but it makes me nervous to think about being that sick again. 

In other news, here are some snapshots of our week.  We have Steer Spirit!

Here's my big boy who started Pre-K this year.  He LOVES school!

My big, beautiful 6th Grader- she got contacts, but they hadn't come in for this pic.

Sometimes I draw on my children with eyeliner.  I don't know why, so don't ask.  Trint asked if it was Sharpie.  Seriously? 

In typical dad fashion, here's my son scratching his butt and holding his balls...

 This is a photo of Aidyn being sweet...

Have a good Labor Day weekend!