Never Cease to Amaze Me

Sometimes my kids cease to amaze me in the things they know and I often wonder where they have learned some of the things they know.

Here are just a couple of those fun moment that I have recently experienced with my kids.

Last week I was watching Dancing with the Stars (a show I sometimes watch/sometime don't), anyway out comes one of the professional dancers and my husband says, who is she, she is smoking....

Luke says to me: Mommy, I know the second part of that.
Me: What are you talking about?
Luke: I know the second part of what daddy said.
Me: What do you mean? (obviously I am clueless)
Luke: She is smoking, smoking hot!

Yes, my seven year old knows the phrase smoking hot. Seriously, where did he learn this.


Luke loves to play with my scanner. He can scan and print things with out ever accessing the computer. This is a killer on my ink since he will scan just about anything. The other day he tells his dad he can print money. Daddy explains to him that no he can't.

Luke: I can scan it and print it.
Daddy: No you can't, that is illegal. You will get in trouble.
Luke: Money doesn't have a TM on it so I can.

How does a seven year old know and understand Trade Marks? Like I said, they never cease to amaze me. Side note, I think he now understand that he can not make money.


Daddy turns on the TV for Thomas to watch cartoons and an exercise program is on.

Daddy: Do you want to watch this? (daddy teasing him)
Thomas: No that is a mommy show.

I guess this child has seen me working out a few to many times. I am just shocked he is paying this much attention.

I have to say I never know what to expect in my house. I will say my kids can always bring a laugh or two.


Side note: for all you mommies with little ones. I get a parenting newsletter via email and this week has to do with this past years baby product recalls. If you want to see the current list (long list) and keep yourself informed follow this link to Baby Center.

LETS PLAY

Welcome to our day of discovery at the local kids museum. I have never been here but Luke has been a few times with his grandma. I must say I was so glad grandma went with us yesterday because my kids divided often leaving me chasing after one and my mom chasing after the other. It was a really fun yet exhausting day. So exhausting that I scrapped the work out yesterday because I got plenty of exercise running through this place chasing my kids.

Upon entry we took a picture in front of this giant wall that above has dinosaur bones in it. My 2 year old pointed out the dinosaur almost instantly.

Off to dig a few of those dinosaur bones ourselves. It was fun to watch them brush away the ground up rubber that was used to cover the bones.

Next we found a few tunnels to crawl through.

And stick our heads out of. Such a silly kid!

Every child's dream, one giant water table with spraying water everywhere.
Oh and a side note this is also every mom's nightmare. LOL...

The space ship was by far Thomas's favorite thing to play on. We went back to the space ship many times through out the day. He just loved it!

If you could hear them it was all "mission control, prepare for take off" and then to listen to them counting down. Hysterical!

A little slide that Thomas went up and checked out the slide and then came back down the steps.

It requires a little brotherly love to help take that first step going down the tunnel and then we did it several times all on our own.

I got a great joy watching this child pull the rope that moved a bag from the second floor down to the first. He was having a blast pulling on this thing.


Here is a short video of him pulling on the rope.

Also please forgive my video skills. Often I rotate the camera for pictures and can't get it in my head that I can't rotate the camera for video's.

Lots of tunnels to climb up high.

If you were a small child a parent had to go with you.
Let me say squeezing in these little tunnels pushing a 36 pound 2 year old up to the next level was exhausting.

I thought these guys slept during the day?
I guess not....

We had a garage to play in....

We put ourselves in jail!
It was missing the lock because I could have used a break.

Driving the garbage truck. Had a great horn to beep!
You could also recycle lots of different items in in the back of the truck.

Digging in the land fill.

A little hard for Thomas to do.

Finally the end of the day came and the museum was getting way to crowded for my liking and we called it a day. Thomas was asleep before we left the parking lot.

This brings me to today!

We are starting off the day with a giant fort in my living room.
Not my favorite thing but they are having a good time.

Hope you are all having fun this week. I am not off to do a few household projects. Trying to keep them to just a few things each day.

Funny Things

My kids can provide so much humor into my life. This always makes life so great because when you least expect it they will say or do something that just brings huge smiles and laughter into our home.

Luke & Me
Luke comes into our bathroom to potty while I am getting ready for church yesterday morning. He sits down and I instantly thank him for smelling up my bathroom as I am trying to get ready.
Luke: "Well I am not as bad as daddy. Daddy is a "P-U" and I am just a "P". "
Me: I just laugh at his logic and tell him he is such a silly kid.

Dinner Time
We all sit down to eat dinner.
Thomas (my 2 year old) holds out his hand and say's "give me five mommy".
Me: Hold out my hand and give him five.
Thomas: Holds up a fist and says "give me nickles" (knuckles).
Me: Hold out my hand and he gives me knuckles.
Thomas: Holds up his finger and says "touch my finger"
Me: Touch his finger and he says "SSSSS".

No clue who tought him this but it had us all laughing.

I have so many of these moments all the time and I am always forgetting them because I don't write them down. Since both of these happened yesterday they are fresh in my mind. What have you kids done lately that brought about a good laugh?

Toys & Lego's

Our house is small and many of you have probably heard me complain from time to time about not having enough space. We have a room downstairs off the living room that is our office and our toy room. The boys share a very tiny bedroom so we don't keep toys in their room and they don't play upstairs either. This leaves sharing the office with the toys.

Often times this room makes me crazy because toys are often scattered all over the place. At Christmas time I found some shelves at IKEA that I had to have for the toy room. I recently got rid of a lot of baby toys and things that they just don't play with and came up with this wonderful set up for my toy room. If it doesn't fit here then it is time to say good bye to something.

Here is a photo of my toy room with my new shelves. Sorry, no clue why my picture is so fuzzy.

They had to pose and I just had to share the smiles of these cuties.
Now we do have the train table on the opposite side of the room and we do have baskets underneath with trains. I have a love/hate relationship with the train table. It is often torn apart and I just hate this large cumbersome table in this room. I will live with it until the day comes that my boys don't want to play trains anymore.

For Christmas Luke got a lot of Lego's. This boy will spend hours and hours building with Lego's. It is the Engineer in him, I know it. The problem is when he makes things he wants them put where his brother can not get them and take them apart. (I have broken up many fights between these two boys over Lego's)

Luke found a place for his Lego's but I am not a fan of where he has decided to put all his Lego's.
This is the top of the entertainment stand in the toy room. All my stuff has been pushed back to accommodate the mess of Lego's.
Yesterday, I cleaned off a couple shelves in the toy room and we filled them with Lego's. Now this only holds a little bit and I want the rest in the designated drawer below but he wont put them in the drawer because his brother will get them. Worst part is Thomas has a draw full of bigger Lego's that are his and he doesn't want those. He wants the cool things his brother has already made.

I still have lots of Lego's on top of my TV stand. But we did get a few of them up on the wall. Sigh!!!

I do love the creativity that Luke has. Here are a few of the things he has built and won't take apart and put away. We have many of these....

One Lego's ship/fighter of some sort. He loves Star Wars.

This one he made at Thanksgiving. Pretty good turkey if you ask me.

Finally, I think this is some type of sub or fighter ship. Not sure but still clever.

I must say the time he spends playing Lego's is worth the money we spend on them. Do your kids have something they can play with for hours on end?

Where Is My Mom's Manual

I grew up in a house as the oldest child. I can remember my mom always being way harder on me than my little brother. It often created a major rift between me and my mom because I felt so unfairly treated. I think for this reason I was a daddies girl but also I think he saw how much harder my mom was on me and he had to compensate for it with me.

Today, I have two boys. It was just Luke and me for the first 4 almost 5 years of his life. We were very close and I did everything for this child. We were really tight and then his baby brother was born. Now I had to find a way to divide myself between two children. Something that truly is not as easy as one might think.

As Thomas has grown, I have found he gets the majority of my attention and Luke not as much. I have also found that I am so much harder on Luke. I yell at him more because he is supposed to know better. He should do more for himself and should be more grown up. When he doesn't do these things I become very frustrated with him and I am often really hard on him.

This really bothers me because I am treating Luke just like my mom did me. I now see her side of it but it still doesn't make it any better for Luke. I have to remind myself, yes he should know better, and yes he can do these things for himself but he is still only six years old.

Recently the two of them together have pushed every button I have and I end the day frustrated and flat out exhausted. I don't want to be like this and I have got to figure out how to be easier on Luke, but he can't just get away with things either.

So my question to all you moms with two or more kids. How do you divide yourself among your children? How do you make sure they feel equally loved by you? Its not that I don't love them equally but I do not manage my time well between them and I am a lot less patient with one over the other.

Saying A Bad Word

Something I learned long ago is our little ones look up to us as role models and they do mimic the things we say and do.

I am not a person who uses curse words, well very little anyway. I don’t drop the “F” word ever, I don’t say “S#!@” but on occasion I do say “Damn it”. Funny thing is Luke has taught me to say “barnacles” because he says that often and it is a Sponge Bob phrase.

I should have learned years ago. When Luke was two I said “Damn it” often. Sure enough at the age of two Luke started saying “damn it” and he said it often. I felt very bad about teaching my child to use this word. From that point on I became very conscious about what I said and really made an effort not to say these things.

However I am human (not perfect) and it is one of those things that slip’s out when I get really frustrated. Typically occurs at times when my child has decided to dump the dog’s water bowl all over the floor for the third time. Yes, it is these times when the “Damn it” flies from my tong and it comes across in a very frustrated tone.

Wouldn’t you know it, at the age of two, Thomas dropped the word “damn it”. He was getting mad about something and sure enough in his moment of anger he yelled it out. I instantly corrected Thomas and this has only encouraged him to say it more. At that point I ignored him and he stopped saying it.

It is just funny to me (OK not funny) how both my boys have learned this word from me and at the very young age of two. My efforts are good but obviously not good enough and I must try harder.

I grew up in a house with parents who cursed all the time but we were not allowed to say those words. I always thought that was a double standard and I still to this day feel like it is a double standard. Because I feel this way, I need to set an example and not use this type of language in front of my kids. Good news is my parents have grown with age and also curb their words especially around the kids.

Have your kids ever picked up a behavior from you that you wished they had not?

A DAY OUT

Remember when I said we had a very buys weekend. On Saturday we did something very exciting for the little guy anyway.

What could possibly strike these expression of ahh in two little boys?

Why THOMAS THE TRAIN of course!
(Those were their expressions as they first saw Thomas pulling into the station.)

When Luke was 2 we took him to ride Thomas because he loved Thomas.
These days our Thomas has started to show interest in Thomas the Train
or "choo choo Thomas" as he calls him.
He is a little younger than Luke when we took Luke but he stilled loved it.

I got some great shots of these two on this day.

This child would not sit in his seat the entire 30 minute train ride.

Luke smiled big and enjoyed the train ride but other than that he said this was for his brother. He didn't care if he saw Thomas or not. So he say's but I am pretty sure he was having fun.

We never have entire family shots and some guy was so nice to offer to take a picture of all of us.

I will finish our day with a short video clip of the boys on the train.

Thomas and his head bobbing yes to all my questions is so cute!

A whole lot of nothing....

I don’t have any one big thing to blog on today but there have been many things going on this past week.

Luke is on Spring break this week, the worst part is next week I will be taking a week of vacation because Thomas’s sitter is going on vacation. Talk about bad timing!!! I will still make the most of Luke’s time off this week and my time off next week.

Luke has been coming home with school papers that just blow me away. When I was in kindergarten we learned our ABC’s, he is doing simple math, reading and writing and it is just so neat to see his excitement over school. He has a fabulous teacher and I feel this really helps him love school and learning.

We started our indoor plants for the garden over the weekend. We are a little late in getting started with this so hopefully we are not too late. We started 72 tomato plants and 72 bell pepper plants, a variety of different types of both. We love tomato’s and peppers in my house but if these all do well, we are probably going to be really sick of both by the end of the summer. I am so excited to get my garden started. A couple months from now I will probably be really sick of all the effort it is going to take to keep up. I know me… so be ready.

Thomas slept all night long for the past two nights. I don’t know what is different but I will take it. I am excited and telling the world. Yet I know I shouldn’t be because I am sure this is a random event, a nice little tease to let me know exactly what I am missing out on. LOL….

I don’t think I am ever going to break this child from the bottle. He is obsessed… if he sees one sitting in the fridge the fit begins until he wins and has that bottle. I know I am the grown up and he is the child but you should see that battle he wages for that bottle. In all seriousness, I need to crack down on this because this has got to come to an end soon. I need to video tape the excitement that he exudes when he knows he is going to get a bottle. His obsession is scary!!!

His vocabulary is taking off like a rocket these days. I am blown away at the new words he is adding daily. Here are just a few…
- nack (snack) as we point to the cabinet where food is kept
- baa baa (aka bottle) this is not one I like. Just because before everything was eewice (juice). He figured out when he said juice he got juice in a cup so he mastered the baa baa quickly.
- Ouwn… (down)
- Watch… we have to watch everything these days. When he is playing with big brothers race track we always have to watch.
- Bye Bye dada…. I love this because he is putting words together. We say this every morning when daddy leaves for work.
I have many more and everyday here lately he is surprising me with something new.

Thomas also loves his big brothers guitar. He walks around the house bopping back and forth like he is playing music. I would love to catch this on video. I swear I need a hidden camera running 24/7 in my house. It is the only way I am going to get anything on tape. As soon as either child sees a camera it is over, the cute acts come to an end.

All Things Boy

When I was pregnant with child number two I really wanted a boy. I had many reasons for this but I really wanted another boy and God blessed me with just that. Now I am really starting to notice that I am living in a house full of boys and questioning why on earth I didn’t want to equal out the balance between boys and girls.

Here are a few of the things I have dealt with this past week that make things in my house all boy.

I will start with dinner the other night. Luke points out to his father that he can fart with his arm pits. He then shows his dad and of course his father chimes in and says I can do that also. Now we are eating dinner and they are making arm pit noises. I am glad Thomas is too young to follow suit with this craziness. I tell them they are gross and Luke points out that girls fart and that includes mommies. (Thanks for that Luke)

For the past couple months we have turned Friday night into family movie night. I have been stuck watching all of the Indiana Jones movies, and now we have moved onto the Star Wars movies. Anyone think my odds are good for a chick flick? LOL….

My son brings home a book from the library each week from school. Last week I had to read all about Viper Snakes. Most of the time it is Dinosaurs or some other gross animal or bug. I told him to bring something cute like puppies that way I can enjoy it also. But no... he likes these books better.

I have this feeling as both my boys get older I am going to face many more of these types of things. I had better suck it up now because the fairytale stories, sugar & spice and all things nice are going to be replaced by all things boy.

My game boys!!!

There is nothing cuter than watching little brother act like his big brother. My oldest is playing a game and his brother is pretending to play. These make some of the best memories.


Go visit Angie at 7 Clown Circus for more great Wordfull Wednesday post.

The things they say!!

Luke (my 6 year old) has some of the funniest expressions that he says. The other day he wanted a snack and his dad told him he had to wait until after dinner… the response from Luke, “Oh Tarter Sauce” , I guess this is better than some foul word but where did he come up with Tarter sauce? Another great one is “Barnacles”. He says Barnacles all the time. The first time he said it I had no clue where it came from. Then I heard Sponge Bob say it one day and said ahh… that is where that comes from. LOL….

Thomas (my 15 month old) is adding new words to his vocabulary everyday. Right now he loves to walk around and say “hi” to everyone. He will say hi to you 50 times in a row. The big grin when you say high back to him is priceless. Church on Sunday was funny because there is a little girl that is almost a year old that sits two rows behind us. All morning she and Thomas were saying hi back and forth to each other. If you can just picture two toddlers leaning back and forth between the chairs, it was so cute but so loud. It is a good thing I go to a little church and all the people around me just eat this stuff up.
Another one that Thomas needs to work on is want or as he says it wwwwant. If you are in the kitchen he points at the cabinets and says wwwant. This is his way of asking for something… I am working on getting him to say please. I can’t have him running around being demanding and saying want all the time.

Feeling Guilty Yet also Mad

I did a bad thing today and feel guilty but then again I am also mad that the school system has put me in such a bad position. The weather here has been really bad the last two days and we had about a foot of snow by noon yesterday.

My son is in kindergarten and goes a half day to school each day. Today school was on a two hour delay today. The new policy is that the kindergartners will still attend school, for 1 hour. Seriously this frustrates me to no end.

The reason I get mad is because two days a week I run on my lunch hour and pick him up and drive him to the babysitter. My drive to get him is 15 minutes each way on good weather days. I have no issue doing this when the weather is fine but today they are not and would take an extra 10 minutes each way. I have already had one day I was an hour late picking him up because of bad weather and the interstate was crawling due to accidents.

So today I called him in sick. I decided it wasn't worth all the stress I have to go through just so he can go to school for 1 hour. I feel guilty but I am also mad that they think it is worth while for these kids to go to school for 1 hour.

So have you ever called your child in sick for reasons other than him/her really being sick? Do you think I am crazy for doing what I have done?

Wordless Wednesday

Here is a photo from my baby from one year ago. It is hard to believe how big he is now and how much he is always getting into. Somedays I miss the simple times of just laying around on the floor together.

Go visit Angie at 7 Clown Circus for more great Wordless Wednesday post.

Acting Just Like His Dad

Luke and his dad have been playing Indiana Jones Lego’s on the Wii. Luke loves this game but he is 6 so he roams around the boards with no real focus. This drives his dad crazy!!! Here is what happens:

Eric: “Luke would you get over here (talking to his game character, they have to stick together on the board)?” “Stop doing that and play right.” “That is not how you play the game”….

Luke: “Daddy I am playing my way…” “Daddy it doesn’t matter”

Constant bickering back and forth the entire time they play. Eric gets so frustrated with Luke.

So the other day Luke is playing the game with his cousin Emma. Oh my gosh!!! All I here as they are playing: “Emma would you get over here?” Emma stop doing that and play right.” “Emma that is not how you play.” (insert the sarcastic tone in his voice). This boy is acting just like his father. LOL…

Eric says to me he needs to check his attitude when playing with Emma. He isn’t being very nice. Uh… hello… he is acting just like you do when the two of you play.

Eric just doesn’t see it. LOL….

Do any of your kids act like you or your significant other?

A Little Something Extra for The Duck

My youngest son Thomas is 14 months old and he is currently contributing to the water being added to his bathtub. Yes, yes, I am talking about him peeing in the tub.



Our house is supposed to have two bathrooms but currently only has one and it only has a shower (brand new Jacuzzi tub in my in-laws barn waiting to be installed in our bathroom, another story for another day). I have one of those inflatable bathtubs shaped like a duck that I give Thomas baths in. Here lately every time I put him into the bathtub he will not sit down right away and he stands and pee’s all over the side of the duck and in his bath water. YUCK!!! He grins ear to ear and giggles like it is hilarious when he does it. I thought OK I will get smart and I bought a little potty and I sit him on it before putting him in the bath to try and get him to pee in the potty. Nope, he won’t do it so I think ok he doesn’t need to go. Wrong!!!! AS soon as he is in the duck he starts peeing. Again grinning ear to ear and giggling like he is the funniest thing on the planet. I think when his feet hit the water he gets the urge to pee so he does, all over the duck. I told Eric I am getting a bowl out and putting warm water in it and putting his feet in it while he sits on the little potty. Maybe then he will pee in the potty. LOL….

I am a bit worried he enjoys my reaction when he pees all over the duck and it is going to take a lot of effort to break him of this new habit. Have your kids peed in strange places? Was it a hard habit to break?

100 Dinosaurs & Counting

Luke has an assignment for Kindergarten to take a collection of 100 things for the 100 day of school celebration that is coming up very soon. I asked Luke what he wanted to put together for this 100 day celebration.

"Hmmm... how about Dinosaurs" he tells me.

Luke loves dinosaurs and I know he has a lot of them with sizes range from tiny to huge. I told him I didn't think he would have 100 small dinosaurs that we could put together for school. He really wanted to do dinosaurs so I decided we would go around the house and gather up all the small ones and see how many we have.

Three toy boxes, two toy shelves, 10 toy baskets and a tote of moon sand later and we have lots of little dinosaurs. Seriously we gathered up over 100 of these things... and I bet he has 100 or more larger ones also.

As we are sorting through them all I can think of is "seriously we have 100 of these things". Who buys all of this stuff???? Wait, that would be me... Something has got to give because we don't need all of these dinosaurs.

The worst part is I know I throw these things away all the time. I will find them roughed up and I think he doesn't need all these or he doesn't play with this and into the trash it will go.

He had to group them into groups of ten. As we were separating them by the different types of dinosaurs.... he could name them all. I say what about this one, it is spiny like these here... no mommy that goes in Valosaraptor (spelling???) pile. He was so particular about where they had to go. I wish I could see him present it to his class because I am sure he will be telling everyone about the different groups that he has.

Has your child had a toy obsession that has taken over your house? Luke use to love Thomas the Train and I now have 3 large 18 gal. rubber maid totes in the garage full of Thomas the Train toys. I am holding out with the hope that Thomas will love trains so they get a little more use.

A Little Prayer

I was reading Jeannie’s Happy World blog the other day and she had the cutest post about kids and things they say, (check it out here, it is a great laugh). When I posted my comment I shared a story about Luke with her and thought I need to blog about that. It was one of those things I forgot all about. My kid can amaze me sometimes in the things he will say.
One Christmas Eve we went to my in-laws for Christmas. On our way we thought we hit a bunny, it ran, we braked, not really sure what happened, the thump under the car wasn’t a good sound. When we left my in-laws we looked along the side of the road for the bunny. We didn’t see anything and I said maybe we hurt it. Eric say’s “well we will just have to say a prayer for the bunny”.

A little side note history here: My husband does not believe in God while I am a Christian and I am raising my boys to be Christians and I take them to church regularly.

My son Luke here’s his dad and instantly responds. Big sarcastic tone from a 6 year old “DADDY (big emphasis on daddy)…. You don’t believe in God, so WHY….. are you praying???? I laughed really hard over this one. The kid has a point.

My husband and I are on very different spectrums when it comes to a faith in God. My son does a great job pushing religion in his dads face. I pray often that Luke will be the one who brings his dad around someday.

The Bouncing Birthday Party

Saturday was the big birthday party for Luke. I spent a fortune on a bounce place for a couple hours of bouncing fun. The kids had a blast and it was a lot of fun. Here are a few pictures…..

Here is Eric shooting the kids with nerf balls.

I think dad was having more fun than the kids.

This was called the spider web.

It was a huge netting system the kids climbed & then slid down this big slide.

(I didn't get any pictures of the kids on this slide).

I have no clue what I was doing.

Eric had to help the kids up the net's. This was a work out for him.

Another fun slide.

Luke at the bottom with one of his friends right behind him.

Luke blew out the candles as soon as they were lit.

Finally the big king gets to open his gifts.

Sorry I have so many other photo's but I don't post photo's of other peoples kids. I just don't feel right unless their parents said it was ok.

Now for my complaining part of this. I know Luke had a lot of fun but our turn out was awful. I could have up to 25 kids and we had 17 including my two. I was very disappointed that so many of the kids that have gone to Luke’s past birthday parties were no shows this year. I don’t know if it was my fault for having it on January 3rd. So many people were off that week that it could have easily been a travel day for people who went out of town for New Years. I should have planned a little better.

The place was fun and it was our first time their. A few things I didn’t like about it, I took my 1 year old down the slide and the kid at the top looks at me and says do you have a wrist band. I look at him and say “I am an adult do I need a wrist band to play?” Apparently I did but not one person said that to me or many of the other parents that came signed their kids in. Yet parents are encouraged to play also. I was a little annoyed by that especially since another local bounce place doesn’t require anyone but the kids have wrist bands.

My second complaint was when I paid the bill. This place cost me $280 for this birthday party… yes, yes I am insane for spending that much money on a 6 year olds birthday party. Luke has asked 3 years in a row to have his party at one of these places and I have avoided it this long. Trust me I won’t do this again for a long, long time. Anyway the girl rings my bill and says you can leave a tip for the helpers of your party and they split it. Wait, you want me to tip after I just spent this much money???? I am not the type of person who will stiff on a tip so I tipped the kids who gave me and my guest’s attitude over wrist bands. I just wish the place would have been a little more organized and informed everyone of this when we arrived.

Happy Birthday

Today is Luke's 6th birthday. I am still in shock that Luke is 6... he was supposed to be a New Years baby but he decided to come a bit early.

Look at what a tiny little thing he was. Nothing fit!!!

My boy has grown up so much this past year since we had Thomas. I am amazed in the changes in him. Plus he is growing like a weed. New clothes at the begining of the school year and now he needs more again because most are now to small.

Luke's first Birthday!

Here is his second birthday and Thomas the Train was the end all be all.

His third birthday was very similar to the second one.

This is his 4th birthday and his first party with friends.

This was last years 5th birthday at home. We had a party with friends that year also but these are the photo's from home.

Thomas and I have been sick since Christmas. I have so much pressure in my head it feels like a bubble ready to burst. Thomas threw up all over me in bed this morning. That was a real fun time. Lets just say this is not how I wanted to spend my week off.

I have a party planed for Luke this Saturday at this bouncing place. It isn't cheap either so I just hope he stay's healthy. My luck he will get sick just in time for his party.

I try to make a very big deal out of his birthday since it is so close to Christmas. I always say I am not going to cheat him out of gifts but then Christmas ends and my house has no more room for toys. Because of this I have been make the parties the main event and something he will never forget. I will post pictures of the big 6th birthday after the party.

Wii for Christmas

OK so Christmas is over and boy am I glad. We bought a Wii for the family for Christmas and I got a Wii fit for Christmas. It has been none stop Wii in this house since Christmas and I am just about sick of it. Luke and his dad have been playing Indian Jones Lego's non-stop. Eric can play for hours on end and I am quickly discovering Luke is going to be the same way. I need a timer that I can set and make them get off when the bell rings. I hate these games that don't just let you save at any point in the game. I curse the game inventors for that.

Now as for the Wii fit, I am loving it, sort of. First it asks you lots of questions, and you create a Meme profile. I was pretty happy with most everything it said about me. Their was one part that really ticked me off. After it asks you questions it puts you through a little fitness test and then gives you a Wii Fit age. That dame machine gave me a fit age of 50. 50!!! Seriously, I just about had a fit especially since I am only 34 years old. My husband gets on and he is given the age of a 42 year old and that ticked me off because he can't be fitter than me. I did get vindication however when it measured his body fat and it fattened up his MeMe. I laughed at that one just because he made himself thinner and it wouldn't let him be thinner. hehe...