What a weird word. It never looks right when I spell it. There are many words that just don’t work with phonetics. Buffet, which Nathan, even though he knows how it is pronounced, always manages to say as “Buf-fet”.
Tonight, Nathan asked if he could stay up until 10pm. It may not be that late for some people, but to an 8 year old, whose usual school bedtime is between 8 and 8:30, 10 is super late. I told him sure he could, as long as he cleaned the living room. I didn’t actually think it would work, but he is in there, right now, singing about how it is so much fun to vacuum. I just hope he keeps feeling the same way. I may never have to vacuum again.
We just got back from a trip to the Big D. We managed to get reservations at the Ward Estates. It was a great visit. The new Ward Manor is awesome and noone spilled anything on the carpets. There were hundreds of people at Brenda’s final in the long line of baby showers. I am certain that Brenda and Leon have more stuff than they even know what to do with 
. The little guy has one awesome room.
We saw two of the newest babies. Both are adorable. Even though Madi looks very much like her big brother, she looks more like her mom (Bea-U-Ti-Ful). Bohdin is one of the happiest babies I have ever seen. His laugh is so funny, it almost sounds like he is imitating his dad.
Thanks to the outlet mall, Nathan and Zoey can now go outside this summer in something besides just underwear. We don’t really mind it, but they get a little embarrased.
Eventually I will post some pictures from the waterpark. I even managed to get one of a hot mom, just for Greg.
School is almost out, so we headed up to Oklahoma to watch Mish graduate.
The trip wasn’t too bad. Greg and I left the kiddos with Dad and Angie and went to a cookout with Mom, then went out to a movie.
Just the 2 of us.
For the first time in a year and a half.
It’s too bad we didn’t pick a better movie than “The Hitchiker’s Guide….”. It was either that or “Mother In-Law”.
We have been reading “Little House on the Prairie” series. The kids thought it was cool when we went over the Verdigris River. Laura used to live very close to that river.
On the way back we stopped at various historical markers and took pictures. Some of them we tried to take while the car was still going. I never quite got the timing down right with the camera, so we ended up with many pictures of random houses or pastures. It did help me figure out how to take action shots.
If you don’t have any plans you can stop in Oklahoma and say hello to the crappie anglers.
Ok, maybe we watch TV a little too much. That could account for the vacant robot look Nathan has.
Allison and I have started up an old bad habit. A few weeks ago, it started getting cold during the night. Allison doesn’t like to sleep with blankets on her legs, so she would wake up during the night freezing cold.
The logical solution is to put her in bed with us, right? We are nice and toasty. We can snuggle with her until the blood starts flowing to her tiny toes. Really, it just means I am too lazy to get out of bed and lay her back in her bed. I mean it. Her bed is at the foot of our bed, so all I really have to do is lean over ours, lay her back in her’s, then stay awake a little bit while she goes back to sleep.
Now she likes to sleep with us all night. Also my fault. I have been so tired at night that I just carry her to bed with me, give her some kisses, tell her night-night, and we both fall right to sleep. The problem is that Allison is a bed hog. She likes to have her head snuggled with one of us, and her feet touching the other person. We make a Capital A (for Allison?) in bed.
The solution will come in 3 weeks. On Memorial day weekend (also the last weekend of school)or close to it, Allison is going to move into Zoey’s room. A big step, but for the most part, she sleeps through the night now. Even if she does wake up, Zoey won’t have school the next day. I hope it goes well.
Last night (early this morning?) at about 4:30, after she had downed all of the juice in her cup, Allison said her first full sentence. “Mama, Go Get Juice!”
me,”Say please, Allison.” not really expecting her to know what it meant.
Allison, “Peas, Peas,Peas” over and over with big smile and scrunched up eyes, until I got back with her replenished cup.
Pretty cute stuff.
Nathan and Zoey are both playing baseball, machine pitch for Nathan and t-ball for Zoey. They are both having a ball (haha). If it isn’t Wednesday, Saturday, or Sunday, you will find us at practice or a game. Sometimes we will be at both, usually with Greg taking Nathan and I handle the girls.
Nathan is playing catcher on his team. Right now, catcher is kind of boring. We have been telling N that if he wants to stick with baseball, in the next few years his position will become one of the most important. He likes the idea of that. He has been doing great at baseball. He gets on base (with a hit) just about every bat.
Zoey switches between first base and first base backup (like a short stop but between 1st and 2nd). T-ball is fun to watch in a different way than baseball. The kids are hilarious. Half of the fielders (in and out) are playing in the dirt. The other half are either way serious-looking (I’m going to catch that ball if it’s the last thing I do), or just hanging out. When they try to tag someone out, more often than not, they will throw the ball at the person instead of touching them. It’s the ball that makes the person out, right?. Watching them try to slide like the big kids is an experience in itself. In their minds they are all pro ball players. Speaking of which, Z made a great catch at her game the other day. A team-mate passed it to her, it took a little hop and floated right into her glove where she touched 1st base to get the player out.
