one word to describe the day today. I spent most of the day with Niki while Big Daddy stayed home with the boys. We started the day by ourselves when we picked up Reeses from the vet. (That is for another post.) We had donuts for breakfast. Niki rarely gets to eat anything so sweet but since yesterday was difficult for all of us (Reeses accident) we decided a morning spike in the blood sugar would easily be recovered from by mid-afternoon. Once we arrived home Daddy was off to do "Daddy" things and we all jumped on the trampoline. The boys napped and Niki and I read book after book from the library. We haven't been to the library in about 3 weeks. Every time we make it there I rarely locate anything I am looking for since I am chasing the boys around. The boys each chose books, Luke found a giant reference book on classic cars and Ezra found some Dinosaur books. Niki chose some books on Egypt and I got some craft/activity books since our local library has nothing decent to read besides classic literature-which is fine if you don't already own all the classic literature one person can stand! We made it to the check out counter, where the boys sat on the counter and watched the librarian sticker all our books, when suddenly the fire alarm begins blaring. I turn around because the screaming alarm is directly behind me, and I see Niki standing near the fire alarm with her hands behind her back and an embarrassed look on her face. I smiled @ her and she came over to my side. The children's librarian walked past quickly, smiling as she went, to the back office to call the fire department to alert them of the false alarm. The librarian behind the counter did not smile, or comment, or laugh. I smiled as I told her I was sorry, though I wanted to laugh! We all lugged our heavy books outside and loaded up in the Beast and drove home listening to our music loudly.
Flash forward to this afternoon and Niki is sitting in the kitchen in a sea of books asking me to tell her every other word on the page. We played on Wekinz and Club Penguin and then we decided once Big Daddy was home we wanted to go to the new park here in our town. We took one of our friends with us. Then it was onto the book store, as if we need more books! We spent 2 hours there choosing books for everyone. Once we arrived home we had to read ALL of them and play Pirates of the Carribeain. We also watched a movie we purchased. Now I think I may get to sleep...maybe not. Niki is still up asking to play now. We are planning our next big toy purchase!
Showing posts with label pets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pets. Show all posts
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
I Gave My 24-7 to You
Hello? Anybody there? One of our friends said today that she went to check our page and it was the same thing as the last time she checked it! Uh-oh. This is what happens when one takes a blog break. How to begin again that is the question.
Well, I did purchase the new camera several weeks ago actually. I still haven't uploaded the software to store the pix on the storage disk! I will attepmt to recover some from that site where I store pix.
We have not been home much though. When we are home we have someone here with us, which I love, but maybe we need to take a little break for some more family time.
So, a few family camp outs, shopping trips, several books, some illnesses, playdates, and letterboxes later here we are today. Trying to be in our perfect moment right now. What does this week hold? Well, thanks to my poor fuel planning, nothing else! I loaded up all the kids, plus some, and travled a bit to a letterbox one day, went to visit some friends far away another day, and took some more kiddos to spend the night with one another yet another day. I went to pump the last of my weekly allowance into the truck today only to realize we will not get anywhere in the beast on $20! Sorry kids, mom had to purchase more letterboxing supplies...maybe I need a larger allowance! Dom, are you reading this?!
We finally managed to get our newest member of the family home! Welcome Bunny the horse! Thanks to the Kanes for a deal we couldn't pass up! I will post pix as soon as she becomes acclaimated to her new home and is ready to ride, probably fall-ish.
Mady can't wait until it is cool enough to ride.
Niki has asked for a new pet if her own. We considered lizards but since we had no luck with the first one and one of our friends mentioned we were missing some vital parts for a lizard habitat, we decided against that. We are considering a Chinchilla. Easier to take with you on vacation than a dog and not as needy as a ferret...I think!
Luke and Ezra have been extremely ill recently. I won't list details but there were all kinds of bootie creams, pastes, and diaperless days in the bath. Almost all it well. Luke is throwing some kind of fit whenever he is unhappy now. Luke is the most easy going of all the babies so I am still concerned. I think many, many days w-o a routine may have contributed to his recent unhappiness. Since we are short on fuel (and allowance,) we should be getting back into more of a routine.
In other news, Dom and I spent our first 24 hours alone together in 3 years! Wow, the spark is still alive. Isn't it funny how during the course of daily life we just keep waiting for that perfect moment to arrive instead of realizing right now IS the perfect moment?
There you have it. 2 months summed up in a few long rambling paragraphs minus some of the fun details (there was one crazy MNO. Jen, where is that pic of a nameless mom atop a garden bush shaped into a horse?)
Pix to follow if I can figure out how to retrive them from whatever site I have them posted to!
Well, I did purchase the new camera several weeks ago actually. I still haven't uploaded the software to store the pix on the storage disk! I will attepmt to recover some from that site where I store pix.
We have not been home much though. When we are home we have someone here with us, which I love, but maybe we need to take a little break for some more family time.
So, a few family camp outs, shopping trips, several books, some illnesses, playdates, and letterboxes later here we are today. Trying to be in our perfect moment right now. What does this week hold? Well, thanks to my poor fuel planning, nothing else! I loaded up all the kids, plus some, and travled a bit to a letterbox one day, went to visit some friends far away another day, and took some more kiddos to spend the night with one another yet another day. I went to pump the last of my weekly allowance into the truck today only to realize we will not get anywhere in the beast on $20! Sorry kids, mom had to purchase more letterboxing supplies...maybe I need a larger allowance! Dom, are you reading this?!
We finally managed to get our newest member of the family home! Welcome Bunny the horse! Thanks to the Kanes for a deal we couldn't pass up! I will post pix as soon as she becomes acclaimated to her new home and is ready to ride, probably fall-ish.
Mady can't wait until it is cool enough to ride.
Niki has asked for a new pet if her own. We considered lizards but since we had no luck with the first one and one of our friends mentioned we were missing some vital parts for a lizard habitat, we decided against that. We are considering a Chinchilla. Easier to take with you on vacation than a dog and not as needy as a ferret...I think!
Luke and Ezra have been extremely ill recently. I won't list details but there were all kinds of bootie creams, pastes, and diaperless days in the bath. Almost all it well. Luke is throwing some kind of fit whenever he is unhappy now. Luke is the most easy going of all the babies so I am still concerned. I think many, many days w-o a routine may have contributed to his recent unhappiness. Since we are short on fuel (and allowance,) we should be getting back into more of a routine.
In other news, Dom and I spent our first 24 hours alone together in 3 years! Wow, the spark is still alive. Isn't it funny how during the course of daily life we just keep waiting for that perfect moment to arrive instead of realizing right now IS the perfect moment?
There you have it. 2 months summed up in a few long rambling paragraphs minus some of the fun details (there was one crazy MNO. Jen, where is that pic of a nameless mom atop a garden bush shaped into a horse?)
Pix to follow if I can figure out how to retrive them from whatever site I have them posted to!
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Tales from the Wild
Frankie the AnoleReeses the Dachshund
Low the Chinesse Fighting Fish
Scarlett the Rabbit
As promised here are the pictures of our pets. Vienna the chihuahua's picture is missing she is staying with some friends for the weekend. I tried for sometime last night to upload pix with no luck. Now I have 2 more to add and I cannot get blogger to do a thing...has anyone else had a problem today? What a pain. The picture of the mouse is missing. I don't even know if Mady named her.
More updates to come...whenever Blogger will let me add pix. Hope you had a good weekend!
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