Scooter

This will explain P's poor little shoes in a previous post. And he isn't even going as fast as he used to go, he learned to slow down a bit.

Abbey's Gradution

If any of you have or have had a pre-schooler you know how HUGE it is to graduate!!! It's the biggest thing ever. Abbey is a bit disapointed that she doesn't start kindergarten until AFTER summer, she was ready to go right away.
Porter didn't need any help with the refreshments, he had a cookie in had before any of us were even close to the table. And he snuck a second one after that.

Abbey loved singing all the pre-school songs with ther friends. And she loved her teacher Miss Mikki, I'm going to have to try really hard to go to just Mikki instead of Miss Mikki.
Can that smile get any bigger?

Trampoline/ weekend

I LOVE jumping pictures. pure JOY on their faces.

On Saturday the kids were so excited to go pick up our trampoline mat. And then antsy as we ran errands that they had to wait to play on it. Once we got home Tucker was to busy helping dad with 4-wheelers to jump though, kind of ironic. I got some fun pics of Abbey though, and Porter was sleeping much to his dismay.


Abbey sat down and just smiled for the camera.

Sunday afternoon Tim bounced the little eggs.

That night we decided to have a cook out in our campground of a backyard, unfortunately I forgot to take pics. Our friends the Logan’s came over and the kids had so much fun playing and getting DIRTY. They even got a turn on the 4-wheeler. Porter Buck’s (they have a Porter too) smile couldn’t have gotten any bigger. Tim said the fun meter was how dirty they got, well they reached the limit.
Our little Porter got bounced to high and hurt his little ankle, but it’s fine now. We wrapped it up in a mini ace bandage and he walked just fine. By Monday he didn’t even need it. And I’m sure glad for that.

Sunday afternoon we went to Roy to visit Tim’s dad and Anthony came over too. The kids played outside and fed the horses watermelon rinds. Tucker ate 4 huge pieces of watermelon and then felt to sick to have any dinner.

blue from M&M's I thought they melted in your mouth not in your hands, you should have seen his hands. I berely got a pic he kept moving and my phone only likes still shots

Then we headed to Kaysville to sleep over at my parents’ house, it was late when we got there because of a freeway closer, sure glad that was the only reason.
I was helping Porter learn to add the filler words in his sentence i.e. of, is. After he was done I asked him a question and he said yes, well I repeated “yes” back to him. He looked at me and said “very good mom, very good” My mom and I laughed so hard. They learn everything we do; it’s so scary to think of sometimes.

We played with the Schleich cousins on Monday and went to McDonalds for lunch. It was something to do with all that rain. Porter did play in the gutter and had so much fun splashing and getting all wet of course.
Abbey finally warmed up to everyone about and hour before we left Monday night. She is so delightful and fun once she warms up, she just takes a long time for it to happen. To bad she doesn’t have a pre-heat button.

New set of brakes

Porter loves riding his scooter!!! or should I say he loves riding Abbey's scooter. He has his own fire engine scooter but prefers this one. It must have a larger engine! He can ride so FAST on it. He tells me so all the time. He goes up the street and turns around and cruises down the little hill even making the turn at the bottom into the culdesac, it's pretty amazing and a little scary for a mom to watch, but what do you do? He also uses his shoes for brakes as you will see in the following pictures. His little shoes are DONE for so he and I went shopping and found the cutest new shoes for him, I hope they last longer that his others! He also takes his little dinosaurs with him EVERYWHERE!!! Sarah and Sharp tooth. He love them! I'm thinking it will be a dinosaur birthday this year for sure, if you have any ideas of where to get some great ones I'd love to know.

I'm not sure if you can tell but the bottom of the shoe isn't even the same shape anymore, that is a straight on view of the bottom of his shoe not sideways at all.

Anything for you mom!

So I wan't going to post about this topic but.... Today I had a radiofrequency thingy for my nerve that has been aggrivated by my c-section scar. It's been bugging me since November and can be very painful when it's flared up. I've complained about it before on here and that's why I wasn't going to say anything today. The Dr. says this will help but it will get worse before it gets better because the procedure aggrivates it, so for today I'm taking it easy and blogging a lot, did you notice?
So when Tucker got home from school he rubbed my face, asked how I was feeling, and asked if I could walk (which I can) He said "we could serve you and bring you stuff." Meaning dinner. I chuckled. to which he responded " I would do that for you mom, I would do anything for you, mom." Well I had to blog that! it was so sweet, He can be my hardest kid sometimes but he is also so sweet and has ALWAYS taken care of me!!!

Good Night, Sleep Tight!

I went to check on the kids before going to bed last night and as I passed Abbey's room on the way to the boy's I noticed that her door was closed. Strange I thought it wasn't when she went to bed. As I looked at the boys bed I was shocked to see Porter so well covered up for once that I couldn't even see him, So I went to move the blanket off his face and he wasn't there. Light bulb moment!!! Door closed. Porter missing. Of course! He went in Abbey's room. Closed the door. Fell asleep. Well what I saw when I opened Abbey's door was not what I was expecting!!! Here is the picture that says it all.

Before falling asleep he had time to draw all over his cute, sweet, innocent face!

Pantry

I finally organized my pantry yesterday. WHAOO!! It never really got done since the move and it's been driving me crazy! It rally wasn't as bad as it has been, that made it a bit easier :) It doesn't look to different but at least things have a home now (we'll see how long it lasts)
So when I was trying to decide what to have for lunch I remembered that I had luncheon meat and green peppers in the fridge. And I knew exactly what I wanted. A sandwich like I used to get in Logan at the Italian Place, it was a little dive in the back of a store. Too its no longer there. We used to save our money to go there, it was soooo yummy. I would go with Christina, Jenny, Erin and Lindsay. They had tons of fresh vegetables and would cook them on the grill with your meat and then add the cheese at the end. They would also grill the bun and add mayonaise, shredded lettuce and sprouts just before they handed it to you. Oh it was so good!!!! Tim and I have them in the summertime, yesterday's was the first of many. I hope our green peppers and tomatoes grow well so I can have more.

PAY DAY

So today Tucker was asked to help me clean up some clippings from a bush that I just gave a hair cut to. He asked if he could get paid. I told yes with hugs and kisses. He grumbled and hemmed and hawed. I told him that he could get paid for doing it when I did.
Later in the evening the kids were doing the nightly pick up of "CRAP" off the floors while finished up dinner. Tucker rolls in (he was wearing his healys or whatever they are) and says "so mom ya know how you don't get paid for all the work you do around here all the time? well here is your pay" and he slaps 3 pennies that he found on the living room floor on the counter! Well it's a good thing he is 7 and not a teenager or it wouldn't have been "nice" it would have been hmm I don't know the right word but nice isn't it. So for all you other moms out there....all the work we do in a day is worth $.03 how does that make you feel?

"P"

Did you know that they need to change the name of the letter "P"? it is a bad word and they need to change it. This is according to Abbey anyway. Something to think about :-)

Mud / 4-wheelers/ one last stitch

Mondy the 12th
The kids were outside helping Tim move the 4-wheelers into the backyard and Porter got into some mud!!! I think the pics explain themselves. He was so mad that his shoes were covered in mud. I should have gotten a close up of them but he was a bit upset. I literally peeled the bud off of his pants, it’s more like clay so it was pretty easy, messy, but easy.

SATURDAY 17TH



Tucker thinks he is the COOLEST! He can drive the little 4-wheeler on his own. They had a few lessons today and he had so much fun!
We burned all the sticker weeds that were in the backyard, it looks so much better and now we don’t fear for our kid’s legs. We got the frame for the trampoline up and went and ordered a new mat for it, it’s a special size so they have to make it to fit. The kids were bummed that it wouldn’t be done today. We also put together a box and bought soil for our garden I’m excited I missed having one last year. Just when I really started to enjoy working in my yard and getting it how I liked it we moved. I really don’t want to spend a lot of money on a yard that isn’t mine so this will be nice (I think we care about it more than the landlords, so sad). We did plant some bulbs a while ago that we found a great deal on and they are starting to shoot up, the kids thought it was pretty cool that they are growing already.

......and now for THE STITCH

So I was washing Porters hair tonight and felt something poke me near the spot of his stitches. I thought it was strange since the scab has completely fallen off. So I rubbed my finger over it again and sure enough there was something pokey there. I leaned over to take a look and I could see a blue dot on his head near the scar. WHAT THE HECK!!!! Well... while in the bathtub is not the ideal time to investigate further, so I waited. I told Tim and he couldn’t believe it either. After the big kids were in bed I convinced him to sit on my lap, separated the hair the best I could since it’s so short and pulled out what I thought was a HUGE piece of , well I guess you’d call it stitching!!! I was expecting a little stub or something but nope it was pretty big, well Tim and I thought so anyway. It explains why Porter has said owie when it’s been touched still, I know it was probably habit and still tender but this was probably a culprit too. I’ve had hair slivers before and they really hurt so I can just imagine that this was painful until the end poked through. Sure glad it was easy to pullout! It really surprised me how long it was!
that's it on the right of the tweezers

Indiana Jones

Tucker is obsessed with Indiana Jones these days. He GREW to love the ride and I mean grew. He HATED it when he first went on it and wouldn't even go again when it was my turn. Then he finally did again with Tim. Now his little kid National Geographic magazine has some stuff in it about Indiana and the new movie so he is loving it, and all the cereal boxes out right now. So he walks around with a jump rope tied to his belt loops (a whip) and blue and white sailors hat on. He definitely wouldn't get an award for best costume let me tell ya! But it's cute!!! So this morning he missed the bus (He needed to hurry as it was then a few minutes later came back for the above mentioned magazine, then missed it, I was THRILLED) As I drove him to school he was reading his magazine and started reading the words Raiders of the Lost Ark but it came out as RadIAtors. It was hard not to bust up I tell ya!!!!! I'll post a pic of his outfit if I can capture it w/out offending him.

Going home and ready

Not as many pics, we had done it all and I was DONE!
If you don't have time to look at all the pics, skip this day it's not that exciteng :)

Day 6 Beach

We watched Fantasmic this day but there are no pics because I was filming it, I don't think they would have worked well anyway.

Day 5

Swimming and a little beach time.

Disney Day 4

The Aladin show was amazing!!! The pics however are not, they asked for no flash and I was trying to be a good girl.

Disney day 3

Disney day 2

Here are 2 more days worth of photos, maybe I'll finish captions on the others later, but right now my bum is done sitting here :)

Disney pics day 1

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