Before, During, and After

Well, I am happy to report that the yucks have left our house. Izzy is back to her fiesty self this morning. She woke up at 7:15 telling me that she was "starving". It was a tad to early for me, but a good sign.

So our day of the crud was spent lounging around all day. I think at some points during the day both the family room tv and our bedroom tv were playing kid shows? Izzy just kind of moved from couch to bed to floor trying to get comfortable while watching a day of shows. Drew couldn't have been happier to sit around playing and watching "Izzy's shows".

This is one of my most favorite toys. I think I like it because I find it "educational". Kids learn to both stack the pegs or lace them. I love that both my kids love to play/build with it.



Drew prefers to stack and build tall towers


While Izzy is more about threading and making necklaces




Drew got in on the necklace making too


So, we only had one real major catastrophe yesterday and it occured with both kids simultaneously. I was changing a nasty diaper or Drew's and Izzy jumped up and told me she was going to throw up. I was stuck, frozen as to who to tend to first? Looking back I should have grabbed Izzy and put her on the hardwood floors, but instead I stuck Drew's diaper back on. Izzy tossed her cookies all over the cream colored carpet and then left a trail all the way to the sink. Drew jumped up and followed in Izzy's trail, literally! So now I have Drew and Izzy both in puke. I wiped Izzy down and took off her clothes and then put her on my bed. I stuck Drew in the tub with the water trickling out for him to play in. Then I went downstairs to figure out where to start cleaning.

All in all the day was just VERY long. As you may remember Drew got up at noon so he didn't take a nap.

Izzy did tell me around 6 or so last night that she wanted to go to the pool. I told her that it was too late and it was closing soon. She knows that bedtime follows shortly after the pool closes. I found it interesting that she said to me "Hey mama, I don't think I can go to bed yet because I am still sick". Funny how she would have been well enough to go to the pool, but too sick to go to bed?

Also, Drew did something yesterday that kind of surprised me with his language skills. Drew likes to hold out his fist and tell you to "pound the rock". Well yesterday he told me to pound the rock and after I did he said "pound the rock, AGAIN". I don't think I have heard him use the word "again" before when he wants something repeated? It just stuck with me when he said it so I thought I would share it.

Prior to the crud invading our home we did have some fun with punching balloons.

Funny Drew

While in Greensboro this past July, Drew had his very first sleepover at a friend's house.  It was with his buddy William and it couldn't have gone better!   The next day William's mom told me how funny Drew was and recalled an incident from the night before.

Drew:  "I might get up tonight to have a midnight snack."

Linda:  "Do you typically get up and have a midnight snack?"

Drew:  "No.  But I think I will start tonight.  ...long pause... "but I won't actually know if it is midnight or not because I can't tell time.  ...so it might be a little before midnight or a little after midnight."

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Drew while in bathroom doing his business...
"Mom, I just pooped so big that it felt like a spear was poking my butt after I finished!"

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Drew's kindergarten logic: "Tomorrow it is only 10 more days til 6 more days til my birthday" (birthday is the 26th)

9-10-2012
Last week was a rough one for Drew at school...lots of tears. So I say to him, "Hey Buddy, let's try and have a no tear day at school. How does that sound? What do you think?" He replies, "Well, okay I can try ...(long pause)...but most likely that won't happen." Lord help me with that boy~

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Drew: "mom, next time you discipline me can you not make me cry?" ...probably not Drew. Chances are if I am disciplining you to the point of tears then you are lucky that is as bad as it got :) (this is coming from the boy who has also asked me not to use my "stern voice" when disciplining him)

9-19-2012
Drew while he was in the bathroom taking care of business:  "Wow, I just pooped so hard that I bet I pooped out tomorrows poop too!"

We may have turned a corner with Drew and school - day 8 of no tears and as we are doing his reading he said, "School is so cool. It is 6 hours of FREE LEARNING!" I asked if his teacher told him that and he said, "No. I just figured it out myself."

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Life is Good

We are so fortunate when mornings start like this...

And 8 hours later end like this...

Life in Mt. P is good.  Really good!  We have great friends, who happen to own a boat.  Quality family time...nuff said :)

The Miske's Visit

The first 4 weeks of summer were nice and leisurely.  We slept late, didn't make too many plans, and just enjoyed our days.

Then our summer took a crazy turn and we haven't stopped moving!

First up was a visit from family.  The Miske's came to visit!



The first night they were here we went to Izzy's Parable-looza performance which will get a post of its own!

The next morning we took a boat ride over to Morris Island.  It was 2.5 hours total (15 minutes to the island, 2 hours searching for treasures, and 15 minutes back).  It was the perfect kid friendly boat excursion.



On our way to Morris Island




We had the place to ourselves








We even found a couple treasures along the way - lots of shells, shark teeth, sand dollars and a ton of blue crab!




And no trip to Charleston would be complete without a trip to the beach





While Izzy and Katy were nearly inseparable...Drew hung with the big girls.
















We had some fun trying to create a "star fish" type picture


Flying our kite


And covering Pete in sand


And finally, while the beach is a must see, so is Jack's Cosmic Dog.

no one even looks at the camera, rather they just keep putting food in their mouths!

Thanks for coming to visit!

4th Fun

Have I mentioned how much I love our neighborhood?  Probably just once or twice, huh?

Our great group of neighbors / friends decided to stay low-key for this holiday by simply reserving the pool shelter.

The kids had a blast swimming from about 4-9 and then we lit some fireworks and ate some smores.  A great time was had by all and I am hoping this becomes our fourth of July tradition!







Drew and Jack spend a ridiculous amount of time going underwater and then jumping up.






Love this picture of sweet Austyn


Time for food and fireworks!












Can you say "trouble"


Drew is not a fan of loud noises...check out his face in this picture




At one point we tried to use some headphones as earplugs but they didn't work.  Eventually we settled for just squeezing the heck out of head by covering his ears.


We followed up with SMORES!








And when it got loud he talented enough to eat a smore while keeping fingers in his ears


And silly us...we tried to get some family pictures at 10:30...to remember the fun we had!