new tricks

Here are some short videos of Molly's new tricks...singing, hide and seeking, opening, dancing, and bathing...5 individual clips, so be sure to click the arrow after each one :) She's a silly girl!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

prayers needed

Prayers, please.
A family that we know have a beautiful new baby girl, Anabella. She has a serious skin disorder that is leaving her baby soft skin covered in blisters...they are waiting for the biopsy results from CHOC.
Keep them (Tim, Angelique, and big sister Allie) in your thoughts.

new

As Molly has definitely left her baby stage, and Jack will be done with Kindergarten in 4 school days (yes, I am counting!), I had to make a change. We can no longer advertise "Adventures in Baby Blogging and Kindergarten Kraziness"...
so, now, I hope to entertain with "Toddler Training and First Grade Funnies"...although, with Molly, I am looking for a better "t" word to describe her toddler stage...thoughts? Suggestions?
Tantrums? Troubles?

Blog Give Away!

These necklaces are awesome!

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geeks

Dear Geek Squad,
I hope you can recover EVERYTHING on our computer.
The thought of our pictures being gone makes me sick.
Love,
Sara

park day!

Today we went to a "new" park. New for the kids, but not for me.

I spent lots of time at TeWinkle Park as a kid.

We were so happy to spend time with Reece,

although all 3 kids are at such different "stages"

in their playground play,

it was hard to have some

Mommy chat time.

So, we tried to catch up while feeding the ducks.

But this was the only picture of 2 out of 3 kids

that I could really get!

Molly, of course, was confident in her duck

catching skills...but didn't catch any today.

and Molly and Reece share the same bread eating

technique.

For those interested in a fantastic park finding

resource, click HERE.

It is a great site, that allows you to search by city.

It has pictures of all the equipment as well as

a list of pros and cons to each park.

It's one of my summer goals to go to

as many "new" parks as we can!

finally...

So, some of you may know that Jack has a special contract at school.
He is working on some "issues"...which, would take up this whole post to explain, so if you really want to know, email me!

Anyway, he really wanted this R2D2 fish tank. This $80 R2D2 fish tank.

He was very disappointed when I told him there was NO WAY I'd spend $80 on a fish tank.

But, later, we noticed that the price had been cut in half.

Still, a $40 fish tank was a bit much...

But then, we decided if he earned all happy faces on his weekly contract, I would get it for him.

Note to self, don't make these promises unless you KNOW you can actually get the prized item...which, in our case, was sold out. Everywhere. Except for online, where it was....$80.

But, I found one. And they were holding it for me. Jack knew we'd go get it on Friday...except, he had a sad face on his contract.

"You know what's keeping me from getting happy faces?"
"Ummm..your attitude, maybe?"

"NO. Substitutes."

But, to my son's amazement, we went to PetCo and bought the tank.

I told him as I was paying for it (and now it was down to $15 by the way), "Look at it now, because it is going into the closet until you have a week of happy faces".

And with the most pathetic face and arms folded, his response was,
"I guess you NEVER want me to be happy. Not in my whole life".

Fast forward to this past Friday, when R2 finally got to come out.

Jack wrote me a note: R2D2 is my best friend in the whole galaxy.
And, we aren't using it as a fish tank at all. Just a droid friend.

See? They even watch tv together.

(They are watching The Clone Wars, and I DID NOT pose this at all)