Playing Soccer

Luke has played soccer since he was three years old.

We thought it would be something fun for him to do.
We quickly learned soccer wasn't really his thing.

OK, at 3 it isn't really any child's thing but they are learning.

At 4 he would sit down in the middle of the field or was off picking dandelions.

At the age of 5 we put him on a team with one of his friends.
Big mistake as these two would run around the field holding hands,
trying to do cart wheels and anything else but play soccer.

After that fall season we decided it was time to give soccer a rest.
Luke's dad coached a few times and his dad was really starting to lose his patients.

This fall Luke wanted to play again.
Of course what parent can say no when their child wants to play.
No really big hope for him playing but we signed him up anyway.

Well guess what?
At the age of 6 he has figured out that he can play soccer
and he does it very well.

My little all star played so well this year and we were so proud of him.

I guess this is why they say never give up.

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Resting His Head

What happens when your little one
refuses to take a nap all day long?

He ends up falling asleep here.

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05-09 Day Out with Thomas

I shared with everyone yesterday about riding Thomas the Train on Saturday.
This was not our first train ride on Thomas.

Here is a photo of Luke when he was two for the Day Out with Thomas.

Here is this years version of the same type of photo but now we have Luke and our Thomas.

My favorite part of taking these photos was that Thomas was standing their banging his little butt on the fence while I was trying to get the picture. Luke did this exact same thing when we were getting his picture in 2005. It was a great flash back moment for me.

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POWERED UP!

Power wheels are really fun!

But they are not meant to be driven
in MOM's GARDEN!

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OUR SUNFLOWER

At the end of the school year Luke
received a couple sunflower seed
& we plant them in my garden.

We ended up with this beauty!

I want to know is it really
a Sunflower or is it
a Beanstalk in disguise?

You decide!

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Water Fun

The plan was to go outside and water the garden.
Lots of water but very little going into the garden.

Thomas grabs the sprinkler and has a blast.

See the tongue sticking out,

Thomas is in full concentration mode.

Poor Luke running from his little brother
but loving every moment as he gets wet.

My favorite:
Thomas with a big grin says to Luke,
"come here bruver".

When it is all over you
have two really wet
but really happy boys.

Go see who else is having summer fun.
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MY FLOWERS

I love flowers but I do not have a green thumb. Every spring, I go out spend a bunch of money on flowers, plant them and by mid-summer I have killed them.

Here is one of my flower beds I planted mothers day weekend.

I am pleased to say I have found my green thumb.
I took this yesterday! Same flower bed & it is mid-July.
Isn't she a beauty!

Here is the front view of the same flower bed.

Now this is the matching flower bed on the opposite side of the drive way.
I also took this picture mothers-day weekend after I planted it.

And yesterday!!!
Next year I wont put snap dragons & marigolds in the same bed.
Colors don't mix well.

And the side view...
Can you tell how happy I am over my flower beds?

When I was all done with my beds I had a few flowers left over. I dug this pot out of the garage and planted them here. I love these blue Sylvina's. They always have a flower on them.

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WHERE, OH WHERE

Something always keeps me from leaving the house on time.

Yesterday I am frantically running around trying to find Thomas’s shoes.

15 minutes later & I find them here…

Happily perched on the handles of the rocking horse in the dinning room.

Seriously!

I swear my boys intentionally do this stuff just to make me crazy.

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All Scratched Up

So for a while now I have been saying Thomas is 19 months old and then it came to me that I have been saying this for a couple months now. So I did the math and wouldn't you know he is now 22 months. How did that happen!


Anyway on to my Wordful Wednesday. My son has decided to start fighting at the ripe young age of 22 months. While at the sitters on Monday he got into a fight with her son who is 2 and twice the size of Thomas. Lets just say they were pulling hair, scratching and biting. Neither of them cried but they were both pretty mad.

Here are some photos of just how scratched up Thomas got. He didn't scratch the other boy because we keep his nails really short, however he was the one leaving behind his teeth impressions.

Here is a nice cheek scratch. Oh excuse the bottle he is to old for this but to stubborn to ever give it up.


Here is a large scratch on the same side but down by his ear.


Finally the opposite cheek and its double scratches. This poor thing looks like he got into a fight with a cat.

So you ask what in the world would get them going? A tiny little yellow car!

I would like to say I don't approve of this behavior and it is so new to me. My oldest son is so passive that I have never had to deal with this before. Any advice on managing this type of behavior is welcome.

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The Maker vrs. The Destroyer

Let me introduce you to my SAND CASTLE MAKER.

Luke would play on the beach all day building castles and he makes some pretty good ones for a 6 year old.

Now let me introduce you to the SAND CASTLE DESTROYER. The moment a bucket is tipped over and lifted he is their ready to crush it to the ground. Stomping and swing his arms until there is nothing left. You can see a little bit of the arm motion in this picture.

We had to do a lot of beach mediation as Luke would just scream the second he saw his brother coming towards his castles.

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All Banged Up

I am in vacation mode this week and I was all set to post about some of our past vacation trips.

Then last night Thomas was standing on the toilet playing in the sink (something he is not supposed to do) and he falls off the toilet and hits his eye on the space heater under the sink. Leaving behind this horrible looking scratched up and bruised eye. The good news is he only cried for a moment after it happened. The bad news he did not learn anything from it because 5 minutes later he was standing on the toilet playing in the water again.

His little eye looked much worse last night and this was left behind this morning when I took the picture.

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FIRST DAY – WW

Can you believe 9 months ago Luke began his journey into Kindergarten.

Look how excited he was to start school.
We are now down to our last couple days of school before he is no longer a kindergartener and he will be moving on to first grade.

Would someone please put a hold on time, this kid of mine is growing up way to fast.




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It’s stuck!!

Thomas is my child who loves to go outside, and if someone is going out a door he is following them. If someone stops him or brings him back inside he has a serious melt down. Until Saturday he could not open a door on his own but he has now learned how to make his great escape.

Thomas found that the back door is very easy to open unfortunately I can not use the deadbolt to keep him in either. When my husband put in our new door the wall was so crooked that the deadbolt would not line up correctly and can not be used.

So Saturday I could not keep Thomas out of the kitchen. He would stand by the door waiting for his opportunity to pop it open and say bye-bye and out he would go. After 50 plus times of chasing him down and running him out of the kitchen I had enough.

One quick trip to Wally World and a $3 child proof door knob cover and our problems are solved. Now Thomas stands at the door twirling the knob and saying… "stuck, stuck, stuck…" Yes, mommy got it stuck!!!

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My Boys

For some reason I was really struggling with finding a picture for Wordful Wednesday. Yes, me struggling... with pictures even. I only have a couple thousand to choose from. Really what is my problem today.

Since I was struggling I decided to go back to last summer. I thought I would share my boys (all three of them).

Do you think they look like their father?


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My babies

As you know I walked the March of Dimes Walk last weekend. I was blessed with two healthy baby boys at birth. Not every baby born into this world is as lucky and they might start off fighting from the start.

So today I tribute my healthy baby boys!

6 lbs, 2 oz

Healthy baby boy, born 2 day's before his due date.

Today he is my healthy and happy 6 year old Luke.

7 lbs, 1 oz

Healthy baby boy born 2 weeks before his due date.

Today he is my happy, healthy 16 month old Thomas.

Don't they just melt your heart....

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Sing It, Wordful Wednesday

For today's enjoyment, I have a clip of Thomas (my 16 month old) singing...

Now for some reason my kids can not sing the typically nursery rhymes and such that all little kids learn. Oh no.... Luke was a Bob the Builder song lover and now Thomas has decided that Sponge Bob will be his song of choice....

Enjoy!!!

My favorite part is the ohhhh at the begining. He does that every time it comes on in our house. His Sponge Bob isn't the clearest but it is what he is trying to say.

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PLAY TIME

Last week while on vacation Luke talked me into putting up his tent. Now this is a tent that I can not stand. Two years ago Luke wanted a play tent for Christmas. My mother-in-law buys him this huge thing.

(I can stand up inside this huge thing)

I was not happy because you can't set this thing up anywhere with out it taking up half of a room. But for my kids enjoyment I put it in the toy room where the boys had a blast.

I was sitting at the computer and Thomas was playing peek-a-boo with me through the little tiny door. It was so cute!!


I have yet to take this tent down but the boys have more fun knocking it down and every day I have to fix it so they can destroy it again. Here it is on its way down, it just hasn't hit the floor yet.
Have your kids ever recieved a toy that was just way to big or just not ment for your home?

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Never Finished....

So last week I shared my stairway both old and new after we were done. Now I would like to point out that while we have done many great things to our house in the last 7 years we still have so much that is not finished. My husband is a DIYer and he is also the never finisher. We have one room that is 100% done (the boys bedroom) and the rest have a little or maybe a lot that needs to be done. Here are a few samples of the types of things that need to be finished.

Example 1: Trim... trim... shouldn't we have trim???? Yes, we have no trim in some rooms and partially done trim in other rooms.

Example 2: We put a new roof on our house in 2007 or was it 2008 or wait 2009. We started roofing August 2007 and I took this picture yesterday. This is over the garage, the last of the roofing and only a couple hours of work to be finished. 2010 anyone????

Example 3: The downstairs laundry/bathroom. It has half of a wall on one of the walls. Yes it was removed because of busted pipes but never put back in and finished. So one side of the bathroom all new, just don't turn around and look at the laundry side of things. Sigh....

Example 4: This is extreme.... this is my upstairs bathroom. Needs walls, flooring, new windows, pretty much everything. This was going to be this winters job. Winter is over... enough said. Oh and don't worry this room is closed off and their is no wiring that is live to this room. I wouldn't have it any other way. Will someone come fix this place up for me??? The funny thing, my husband has dreams of someday building a house. But wait for it... he wont pay for everything to be done because he can do it. Ha... I am not going for that!!!

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