Spagetti-ooooos

Do you think that Campbells could use this face to sell Spagettios?

I'm thinking.....

YES!

Night out

Saturday, a bunch of us went out for dinner. I left the boys with a babysitter..first time ever since we've lived here. I can't believe how much babysitters cost, OMG. I'm thinking I should start babysitting so that I can afford to pay babysitters. I didn't make $10 an hour till after I graduated from college, do teachers make that much...after taxes?

Anyway, we tried a new restraurant and it was some awesome food! I had sashimi tuna, the first raw fish that I've had since the sushi incident. I forgot how much I love it. (Shawn, I'm ready for sushi night out when you get back). We also had garlic beef, the most tender meat I've ever had...better than any steak I've eaten out. I'm looking forward to saving my money for another babysitter and going again.

First Time Bowling

Yesterday was the first time Caleb has ever been bowling. I wasn't sure if it was something he'd like, but he did, a lot. He asked this morning if he could go bowling again today.

We went as part of the FRG group and celebrated Amy's birthday too. It was a BLAST! There were about probably 35 people with our group. It was chaotic with so many kids running around and trying to be patient until it was their turn again.

Happy Birthday Amy.

Funny thing... Caleb and I scored the exact same bowling score! We both STINK!!! Poor child, he doesn't have a chance with the genes that Shawn and I passed down to him.

Like I've said before, it doesn't matter how great you are at something, but how much fun you have doing it. And we had AWESOME FUN!! I can't wait to take him back to the bowling alley.

Finally, he's learned to Pedal

Caleb has finally learned to pedal. I think he's known how to for some time, but has been TOO STUBBORN to do it. His daddy and I have been showing him, but Caleb has never taken instruction from us very well. I think what persauded him to use the pedals was seeing a much younger, little girl pedaling on a bike....

Yep! It took his boyhood being challenged by a tiny, two year old girl to break his stubborness.

Now, he thinks he's the coolest kid on the block. And I have to agree..

I don't know where he gets his stubborness from.....

Just one moment

I have to share just one moment of my day yesterday...Wednesday 25th. I woke up very sick with a sore throat, glands the size of baseballs, cold sweats, mucus filled nose and chest, just feeling TERRIBLE. I tried to sleep as much as possible (with two kids). Caleb was awesome. He watched movies and played most of the day by himself. When Riley and I were sleeping, he was cautious to be quiet. GREAT KID!!

Okay, here's the moment.....

Caleb goes running into the bathroom and I hear, "Mom I poop mess". You never want to hear the words "poop" and "mess" in the same sentence. I go in there to find that he's had some diarrhea and it's splashed out of the toilet onto the floor (and he may have missed the potty because it was also on his undies). I run into the kitchen to get paper towels and cleaning spray. I'm wiping up the bathroom floor, cold sweats dripping down my face, feeling like I'm going to pass out from either bending over or the smell, and I hear Riley give out this scream. I go running into the kitchen with poop covered paper towels in my hand and find Riley crawling out from under the little kitchen set Caleb has. He was trying to pull the water facet off and the whole thing came down on top of him. (thankfully it's very lite) He was so mad, once I gave him the water facet (which is meant to come off of the kitchen set), he went off on his merry way. At that point I forgot that Caleb was still in the bathroom, until I hear "Mom, is Riley okay?" only it's not coming from the bathroom, it's coming from right behind me!! Caleb has come out to see what had happened and with him, poop drips....... from the bathroom, down the hallway, into the kitchen.

That's my moment. I think everyday an award should go out to moms who have made it through another day with their sanity in tact and the kids snuggled safely into bed.

Fun in the sun (kinda)

We took advantage of some good weather over the weekend. The sun was out momentarily, but then disappeared quickly behind the clouds that came in and produced heavy rains today.

Riley was not happy about sitting on the ground, but he soon got over it and joined in with Caleb and Zachary (Amy's son) digging in the leaves and drooling on the shovel.

One of Caleb's favorite things to do in the yard is hide in the shed. This time he was playing with Zachary who did not like hiding in the shed....poor Zachary, Caleb scared him to death closing the door and holding it shut while Zachary cried. Sorry Zachary...Caleb thought you were having as much fun as he was.

The boys had an awesome time. They raked the leaves and then decided to turn on the water hose and spray water on the the pile of leaves. Caleb swears that he was cleaning the leaves.....likely story.

Self feeder

Riley is learning to self feed. Today was a strawberry breakfast bar. I'm not sure how much of it got into his belly, but he had lots of fun trying.

And I had lots of fun watching him try. I didn't however have lots of fun cleaning up the mess!!!

Check out the teeth...