Yea!

Got an offer on the house this weekend. A horrible offer, but we countered back. Haven't heard back from that. At least things are picking up. We've had 16 showings over like 6 weeks. We start going to look for new houses for us Wed! =)

Pump It Up Party

Madeline went to a birthday party at Pump It Up today. About 95% of the kids in her class have their parties here and now she wants to have her 7yr party here next year. This is the inflatable equivalent to Chucky Cheese- kids love it, parents, not so much.

She tooled around in this kiddie car a lot only because she didn't want anyone else to get it!

They have 2 rooms of inflatables and 2 party rooms for the food/cake, etc. So they can have 4 parties going on at the same time. Each group gets 1hr in each inflatable room, then swap. There are giant slides, bouncers, obstacle courses, etc. And yes, parents/grown ups can do it all too. I've spent my fair share trying to climb out of an obstacle course and going down the slides. Can't wait to get Aunt Nancy on that big slide next year! =)

Highly Suspicious Behavior

Not sure what the reason for all this 'help' is yet. Madeline said she wanted to help clean all the glass doors/mirrors for the house showing we have tomorrow. I was glad to let her do it! haha

Matthew is fascinated by anything that Sissy does.

First Of Many

Matthew cracked his head on a bathroom stool Thursday night.... the pictures don't do it justice, it knotted up blue/purple with the scratch on top. His pediatrician said it was the first of many and is just part of having a boy. He was trying to run and his head got ahead of his feet. Not hard to do with a Bryan Nugget on top which measured in the 90th percentile at his last checkup!

And here is the culprit.....

This wooden stool was made by my grandfather, Pop. Nancy and I used it when we were little girls and I brought it home from Mother's for Madeline to use in her bathroom. Matthew caught it right on the corner.

Flower Power

Lollie bought Madeline a craft kit for making flowers out of tissue paper and pipe cleaners. They are so cute! The bag is even made to be a 'vase' for the finished products!

Dinner With Lollie

Jeff grilled out dinner during Lollie's visit. Chicken and pork chops!

Madeline was a very tired little girl and fell asleep hanging over the side of her bed! Definite photo op!

The Kitties

These are Madeline's Kitties. She got them one at a time when she was 2. They are originally named Black Kitty, Gold Kitty, Brown Kitty, Boo, Orange Kitty and White Kitty. (The one on the floor is plain old Kitty). White Kitty has been everywhere from MaMaw's & Crocodile Lake to Disney World, Colorado & Alaska. He is very well travelled. I plan to keep these in a shadow box when Madeline is older. I can't believe we haven't lost a single one yet! =)

Fun In The Sun

I love this one of Matthew!

I couldn't get Matthew to play on anything, he just wanted to run along the sidewalks all around the park. If there's a trail, he wants to follow it.

Madeline has always loved slides!

Both of my babies like to be outside. I think Madeline would go to the park, any park, every day if she were given the opportunity. Matthew loves to be outside, but I think he mostly wants to just do anything Sissy does. =)

Mama Eyes

Tonight Madeline and I were playing school....... well not school as in 'classroom' school, she wanted to play 'office worker' school. Like the secretaries etc. So this led to a discussion on being sent to the office for time out (which we know alllllllll about) and I find out that there is more than one office they are sent to. Madeline says there is Mrs. Pickett's office (the principal), Mrs. Green's office (the front desk) and Mrs. Reed's office (not sure who this is). I had to bite my tongue as she explained "Oh I've tried them all out and Mrs. Reed's is the best for sure. All the kids hope they get sent to Mrs. Reed for time out because she keeps toys in her office that we get to play with in the chair. I got to color last time I was there!". She said some of the others look at you with 'Mama Eyes' when you sit in there. I asked what that was and she explained that those are the eyes that look at you like 'I know what you're up to' and 'most Mommies have them in the back of their head and always catch us doing stuff'. Too funny. She said Mrs. McDaniel has Mama Eyes (she was the teacher for the Summer Fun program and is going to be Madeline's first grade teacher). She can show what Mama Eyes look like too but I didn't have my camera on me. =)

Back to the 1980's

Tonight we went to a 1980's theme party at one of our neighbor's. Poor Jeff had to tight roll his jeans and I had to wrangle my hair into a side ponytail which created a doozy of a headache after an hour. We had jelly bracelets, scrunchie's and tons of hair spray. Matthew even got a mowhawk and a turned up collar. =)

2 min art

Madeline churns these out at a rate of one a min. Usually a beach scene with ocean coming up to the shore & palm trees or a house on a hill with mountains in the background. These are her staples of free draw. Recently she has begun to add a tire swing to the palm trees! =)

She'll be taking art lessons in after school care this year and is very excited about that.

Tooth Fairy get ready!

Madeline's two front teeth are very loose, and she is very excited to have the tooth fairy leave her two dollars at the same time! Her great-grandpa Pop says if she can keep her tongue out of the hole a gold tooth will grow in and this time she is determined to have a gold tooth come in the front! The last two times she tried very hard to keep her tongue out of the holes but couldn't do it. =)

Her favorite store

Madeline loooooves to go to World Market and dress up in the accessory section!

And here's her interpretation of how to look like a high schooler!

High Schooler

Tonight Madeline decided that she wants everyone at school tomorrow to think she's a 'high schooler'. She goes to a private school that is K-12 so she sees the high school students changing classes, etc. She has planned to wear a head band 'like a high schooler', take a notebook 'like a high schooler' and wear 'high schooler socks' (a.k.a the argyle knee socks she has- don't worry, I will get a picture of this ensemble tomorrow morning before school). Here is part of our conversation as she was going to sleep:
M: Do high schoolers still get to play in centers?
Me: No, I'm sure they wish they could but they don't.
M: I saw inside one of the high shchool classes when we walked by them in the gym- they had the door open!!!- and I saw BEAN BAGS in there!
Me: Wow!
M: AND they had chairs........ WITH ARMS!
Me: That is so cool.
M: And they had checkers set up in there to play!
Me: Hmmm, we didn't have that when I was in high school. That may be an after school room since it's in the gym.
M: Do high schoolers still get nap time?
Me: No they don't....
M: Well what do I do with my rabbit mat when I'm in high school?????
Me: You can just leave it in the car.
M: Tomorrow night I'm going to go to bed all by myself- just like a high schooler does.

Don't grow up too fast Sweet Girl.

Supplies Supplies And More Supplies

I love love love getting school supplies ready! These are Madeline's that I had to gather together and get her name put on so it will all be ready. When I was young I loved picking out my Trapper Keeper (does that tell you how old I am!) and deciding what folder color was going with what subject. (Science and History were always yellow and Math was always red which was my least favorite color/subject). To quote a movie, "there's something about the smell of new pencils in the Fall". =)

Climbing trees with the neighbors..... well not much of a tree......

Finally Facing Forward

We hit 20lbs months ago, but are just now able to turn the carseat around now that he's 1yr old! He LOVES it and is always looking out the window at everything. He didn't know what all he was missing! ha ha

Tinkerbell mug from Disney World- $8. Brother's hairbrush- $2. Photo of a little miss too pooped to pop- priceless.

Here's what I found when I came back into the living room from putting Matthew to bed. Madeline was passed out from playing so hard! She went swimming at Summer Fun then came home and went immediately from the car to the neighbor's to play with their kids. Then she decided to take those kids down 3 houses the other way to introduce them to the kids there so she could play with them altogether (up until this point she would try to choose on the way home who she wanted to play with!). She has the best of both worlds because one neighbor has a trampoline and the other has a swingset/playhouse combo. She's a wheeler dealer for sure!

Rotary Dial

I spent quite a while trying to explain to Madeline about rotary dialing. We got out some baby toys of hers that we boxed and saved for Matthew and this little classic was in there. I told her that its ringing sound is what phones sounded like when I was little and she asked where the buttons were. I showed her how we had to choose each number and spin it around to make calls and she thought that was crazy!! Am I really this old???? =)