TEARS TEARS and MORE TEARS

Yep, that describes my morning.


Caleb had his 5th grade graduation and most of it was boring UNTIL the kids all sang a song about leaving Chisholm and going to middle school to the tune of fireflies and then I lost it. It was more than just eyes watering. I was trying to hold it together so I wouldn't embarrass Caden, Cali and Chris. However there were moments when I was on the verge of the ugly cry.

He just turned 11 yesterday and now he choses not to be in elementary school anymore. I am going to be a complete mess come August.

Somehow overnight he turned from this adorable 17 month old baby

to this smart, funny and very independent kid. I am afraid that the next 7 years will go by even faster and I will be REALLY sobbing when he gradutes from HS.

SWAGGER WAGON

This is hilarious!!

Caden loses her 2nd tooth

Caden loses her 2nd tooth. It had been loose for a few weeks now and was given the final push when she just got accidently elbowed in the mouth on the trampoline.

SAD SAD DAY

I just cut 8 inches off Caden's hair and I am SO SAD!!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE her long curly hair but it gets tangled VERY easily. I was going to cut it off for the summer, but I decided to do it tonight. On the plus side I think it makes her look younger. She likes it and of course it will grow back, but I am very sad!!

Caden loses her FIRST TOOTH

It has been loose for over a month now. She pulled it out last night at bedtime and of course her wimpy mom had to cry!

It is so tiny you can barely see it.

She is very excited to show her teacher at school today and get her name on the tooth chart!

SEEING RED

Here is my photo for Mandy's "Seeing Red" Photography.

Check out Mandy's contest! http://mandysphotoblog.blogspot.com/

How we spent our NON snow/ice SCHOOL CLOSING day.

Santa

Greatest Christmas Decoration

My sister-in-law sent this to me and it was too funny not to share.





"Good news is that I truly out-did myself this year with my Christmas decorations. The bad news is that I had to take him down after 2 days.

I had more people come screaming up to my house than ever. Great stories. But two things made me take it down. First, the cops advised me that it would cause traffic accidents as they almost wrecked when they drove by. Second, a 55 year old lady grabbed the 75 pound ladder & almost killed herself putting it against my house, and didn't realize it was fake until she climbed to the top (she was not happy).

By the way, she was one of many people who attempted to do that. My yard couldn't take it either. I have more than a few tire tracks where people literally drove up my yard."

Halloween - REALLY LATE

We had a great week of Halloween festivies.

The kids at the church's Fall Festival.

Cali at a pumpkin parish helping mommy pick out our pumpkins.

Carving pumpkins. Cat picked out by Caden and carved by Mommy. Pirate skull picked out by Caleb and carved by Daddy

Parties at the kid's school.

Trick or Treating on Halloween

Caleb - armed with his hammer. He is ready to get every ounce of fun out of our pumpkins that are now nasty amd moldy on my porch.

CRAP, I screwed up AGAIN!!!

For the parent input I needed to read over it and highlight any words and/or changes I think he should make and several other things. I just forgot. I feel really bad!

WHO IS THIS???

Chris took this picture of Caden the other day. I have no clue who this girl is. I don't know if it is the hair or the facial expression, but she looks way too old to be my precious 6 year old. Good thing she is wearing a Hannah Montana shirt, it helps her look younger.

It seems like she aged a few years in just a few hours. Here is a picture taken just hours earlier.

Yes, I think she looks much younger in the bottom picture. I prefer the sweet little girl sitting on the couch instead of the attitude chic beside the vacuum.

Cali is no longer the baby!

That is right!!! #4 is due in March. How in the world did this happen?











I am only joking! The title should have been Cali is no longer A BABY. Chris, who I didn't know he even read this thing, said not only do I need to post more often, but my sidebar is very out of date. We have now been married 14 years and Cali is no longer a baby. WHATEVER!!! She will ALWAYS be my baby, however he is right, it is very out of date and my kids don't look like that anymore.

My last post (several weeks ago) was of Cali's first day of school. Well several other things happened that day too. I haven't had much one on one time with Caden since Cali was born. Since Caden goes to school in the afternoon, she and I had a few hours with each other after I took Cali to Sonshine School. Caden LOVES to draw and paint, basically anything creative. I thought she would enjoy painting pottery, which is obviously something we CAN NOT do with Cali around. We both had a great time. Here are a few of her painting her mug. I told her she could pick out what she wanted, but because I was painting a mug (I drink hot chocolate almost daily in the winter, so I know it will get used) she wanted to as well.

Here is my sweet girl with our finished mugs.

Caleb has started playing football, he wanted me to take a picture in front of this Hummer that was parked beside us.

I tried to take a group shot while the real camera guy was taking their pics, so I wasn't able to get that great of a picture.

I just had to include this adorable picture of Cali after she had lots of fun with oreos. I love her little mischievous grin.

NO TEARS!!!

We made it through the first day of Sonshine School (Mothers Day out for you non Edmondites). She didn't cry. I didn't cry. She walked straight in her class room and didn't look back at me.

Here are some blurry pictures of her first day. This girl doesn't stay still very long. Here she is walking up to school.

First day of school pictures.

New Family Photos

The wonderful Lesley Proctor took our photos last week. Cali wasn't always cooperating, but here are a few of my favorites.

You can go to Lesley's photo website to see some of her amazing work and to enter a drawing for a free children's photo shoot. She is so nice and the kids LOVE HER!!!