Ag Extravaganza!

So, this morning my friend Denise, her son Gabriel and her Mom and me and the kids went to the Ag Extravaganza at the Ephrata HS. They had a petting zoo, a greenhouse where the kids got to poke some seeds into little cups of dirt (and wound up ALL OVER the back seat of the Tahoe...thanks little man), hammered nails into 2x4's, sat in big tractors, colored, ate ice cream ( at 10 in the morning!!) and learned how to milk a plywood cow. It was a treat to get out and do something geared towards little people! Gabriel and Sidney are still getting used to each other....we think Gabriel sees Sidney as a novelty and wants to constantly hug and touch and maul!! Gabriel turned 2 in April and Sidney will be 2 in just a few weeks...they are evenly matched in size too! Anyway, the boys seemed to have a good time and I thought some pics would be in order...

Here they are, learning to "milk" a plywood cow. Gabriel kept dumping the bucket out!

Mommas KNOW not to feed ice cream to little boys this early! But hey, it's a special occasion!

Here Sidney is test driving the smallest John Deere they had on display...FFA anyone??

And this is how Gabriel felt about those tractors!

Sophia fell asleep in the stroller after sucking down a bottle and she wasn't remotely interested in the whole deal. Tomorrow, we're taking the kids to the Spring Fest in Moses Lake for the lighted parade in the evening. Although keeping Sidney up WAY past his bedtime means at least two days of him reorienting himself to his normal schedule, we are looking forward to the fun at the carnival and the parade. Hopefully I'll have time to post those pics too before months have passed! Love to all!

And the winner is....

ME!!! It is official everyone...I have been accepted into the nursing program at Big Bend Community College and will be starting in September. That means we will be here for at least another two years until I'm ready to take the NCLEX and be an RN for reals. Haven't really made definitive plans on what type of nuring I'd like to do but I'm leaving that up to the next few years during clinicals to help me decide where I'd like to go in the future. For now, I like the idea of legal nursing, getting a BSN (and even on to an MSN), maybe teaching?, maybe being a nurse anesthetist, nurse practioner......so many choices! Anyway, I'm surely excited, nervous, intimidated, anxious, happy and ready to take on this new adventure. I'll be working on getting up-to-date on shots, CPR class, trying to buy books/uniform and getting ready for the program. I'm also VERY happy that my little circle of good friends will be with me on this endeavor...Justin, Denise, Heidi, Staci (yes, you ARE in!), ya'll we are gonna ROCK this thing! I'm looking forward to getting more acquainted with you and your families and to becoming the best nurses this program has ever seen!!

On another note, I am extremely behind on how the kids are doing. Way back in April, Josh, Nichole and Aiden came over and we took the boys "fishing" at the Oasis Park pond in Ephrata. Aiden wanted to just run right into the water and Sidney was interested in throwing rocks AND his pole into the water. Good thing for little people leashes! Anyway, nothing fishy was ever caught but we all had fun watching the boys and daddy's "fish". Oh, and did I mention it was free?? Definitely something to do on nice weekend mornings!

Everyone knows Sidney does not favor talking but he is picking up new words everyday now. Although he isn't trying to put together two words or more as of yet, his vocab is getting bigger. Just today he said sorry, popcorn (more like AH-orn) and he's saying bike, STOP, da-da (sister), book, butt (when he needs a clean one), thank you, ball, bus, car, and WOW. There are other's too, but I can't think of them right now.

Sophia is quite the little Hunca Munca...at her 6 month check up she weighed 22 pounds, 10 ounces and is 27 inches long. She is the BEST little baby girl around as far as temperment. She is so HAPPY all the time and fusses when she is hungry, dirty or tired. lately, she's been battling a persistent runny nose and we just started her on some medicine today so hopefully that will go away. Her and I have been sick for THREE weeks and we are DONE!! Her poor little nose is done being messed with and we can get some pretty good screeches and howls out of her when we have to suck the snot out....poor thing! Anyway, here's a cute pic of her worn out and asleep on the floor...yes, that IS all her own hair! Hmmmm...wonder where she get's that trait from??!? I realized after trying to find pics to post that I don't have nearly enough of Fia, at least cute ones. Sidney gets a hold of the camera and leaves smudgy prints on the lens and takes 50 pictures of his nostrils or my butt and it doesn't really dawn on me that that's happened until I download pics from the camera, looking for cute updated ones for everyone to see! I'm tellin' ya, everyday is an adventure around here!

Well, I do have more to blog, but I'm going to close this one for now and do another about what Sidney and I did this morning. Love to all!