First Grade

John made it through the fist three days of First Grade in one piece and so did mom and Scott for that matter. He started back to school on Wednesday and was there all day. We had a busy day so it went by pretty quickly. He said it was good and he even earned a High Five.

That night after dinner he called my mom and dad to tell them how his first day went. When they asked him what his teacher was like he said, "well she has blond hair, some cracks on her face and a black dress." I'm guessing that after teaching first graders for 35 years you earn a few cracks in you face. She is a great teacher, and puts up with very little nonsense in her classroom. John will thrive I'm sure.

Scott missed him a lot but is gearing up to start preschool on Tuesday. I'm not sure I'm going to know what to do with a couple of hours of free time two days a week, but I'm sure I can figure something out to do with myself.

I'm getting ready to paint the living room, kitchen and guest bathroom so I'm sure I will be busy as ever.

Suzie

Whatever this means but it was fun to take.

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Until it wasn't

I know it has been a couple of days since I posted. I've been busy trying to get the house nicely organized before the first day of school. Why? I don't know. I had all summer but now that tomorrow is the first day I feel the push to get it done.

We did enjoy a day at the practice fields on Saturday for Bobcat Football Family Fun Day. All in all is was a lot of fun right up until it wasn't. See, Scotty had been ill for a few days but I thought he was better. So we loaded up and headed to our friends house so we could all ride together in her car. After getting there and letting the kids jump and run around on the inflatables we headed over for our free ice cream sunday and Gatorade. Then on to stand in line and have the football team sign our posters. Still having fun we headed back to the bouncy things. After another trip through the bounce house Scott is ready to go. Like right now ready to go.

I'm sure you have been reading this and can figure out how all the details when put together would create a not fun incident but if not I will highlight them for you:


1. Scotty had been ill, but "I thought" he was better

2. Headed to the practice fields(read no shade)

3. Someone else drove

4. Jumping and running around on the inflatables

5. Free Ice cream sunday

6. Standing in line

7. More jumping and running

8. Ready to go NOW!

I will spare you all the details that come next. But it was definitely not fun or pretty. A change of clothes was in order for him and we had to throw his rocket underwear away much to his dismay. Thankfully I had snagged a free t-shirt that I could dress him in until we got home.

On the bright note like I said it "was fun" right up until it wasn't and the boys got to meet the new and improved "Champ".

Happy Saturday!

Whew! I made it to Saturday. I don't know about the rest of you SAHM's but some weeks the weekend just doesn't get here fast enough. Two whole days with another grown up in the house. This weekend that means one more person to make sure the "sickies" are doing okay. John seems to be recovered but Scott is still having the sneaky sickness; just when we think he is better... he isn't.

I ended up shampooing the boy's carpet yesterday because, well just because, I will spare you the details. Since I was doing the bedroom I decided to do a deep clean on the living room too, so I went ahead and emptied it and then shampooed. Well we all know you can't put dusty furniture back into a nice clean living room. Soooo, lets just say my living room is beautiful and sparkly now, and the boys room is rearranged and reorganized we will see how long it lasts. But we should be off to a good start for the school year.

Speaking of school years. YIKES!!! My little John is going to be in first grade. Gone all day. It hit me last night and you know what I'm gonna miss the little hooligan. More on that later. :)

Have a great day.

Suzie

Because it makes me laugh...

Just a quick pic of the seeds. They make me laugh. These glasses were courtesy of Maga and Papa and they are just too funny.

Suzie

Slow day

The boys are sick. What else can I say? Some strange quick moving bug took them down yesterday and last night. John seems to be feeling pretty good today, but little Scott is not quite up to himself yet. Ask him and he says he is a 4 and when he gets to a 6 he will be good, he did pop up to a 5 for a minute but he is back down again. Hopefully he will be better soon.

So because the boys aren't well we have decided to not go to see Maga and Papa; and spend our last few days before school starts getting good and healthy. Maga and Papa are sad but I really don't think all that unhappy that I won't be dragging my ill children to wallow around in their home for 3 days.

I promise to do a year in review of sorts soon and also I think I'm going to spiff up the place a bit with a new blog design.

Suzie

I'm back... I think

So as I type this I'm thinking Really? do I want to start this whole blog thing up again? I mean can I handle the commitment to actually write something worthwhile that someone other than my mom would want to read. I came to the conclusion that what the heck I will give it another whirl and see what I come up with.

Quiet

Not much to say today. It is getting warm summer must be in full swing. It is supposed to be 95 today. I know other places are hotter, and more humid; but 95 is still dang hot for us. I'm not sure how we are going to beat the heat tonight. Maybe head to the country and go fishing. It makes me laugh so say head to the country since we live in Montana and most of our subdivision that we now live in used to be "the country" when I was attending MSU. Anywhooooo, like I said not much to say today.

Time Flies...

WOW! It has been 3 weeks since my last post. I can't imagine where the time has gone but I do know I won't get it back.

Things happen every day and I say to myself I need to blog this but then I don't. So I will try and catch up a little now.

Last night was hubby's bank pic-nic. It was pretty nice too bad it rained but at least it wasn't like a 100 degrees or anything. The boys were good considering they were the ONLY kids there. Johnny introduced himself to everyone there. He told me so, "Mom, I introduced myself to everybody, so they would know my name." Go Johnny.

Speaking of Johnny he turned Five on the 5th of June and it was a grand day. It's like 5 is a magical number and now he can do all the things he couldn't do when he was 4. He got and poured his own juice that morning. When I was telling my friend about it he piped up and said, " Yep, I'm 5 now. I was 4 but now I'm 5. When I was 4 I was learning to be 5" very well put I think.

All in all turning 5 was a success. He was happy to get to have two parties one with Maga and Papa and one at home with his favorite person. Uncle Dusty. This is the man who he thinks hung the moon. Dad's best friend and a rancher he has never missed one of John's "important" events. I bring this up because short of the actual BIRTHday he has been at all of John's birthday's and his baby luau. Plus he came to John's Poopin' in the Potty Party, and ate Cookie Monster cake that turned your mouth blue. He is a great guy and I'm so happy he is in John and Scott's life.

This is the a for mentioned "Uncle" Dusty fixing my tire on the way to my mom and dad's the first weekend in June. It just so happened that he was in the town were we now live so we all had lunch together and then the boys and I headed for Mom and Dad's and husband went back to work. Well about 20 miles into my trip I got a flat tire. Knowing that Dusty wasn't far behind I called him and he rescued me. So I guess I'm not only happy he is in John and Scott's life I'm pretty darn happy to know him too. This picture is taken on the side of the interstate and it is busy Friday afternoon and fairly warm. He didn't even complain once. What a guy. Husband did end up helping him brand the next day but hey that is fun for him so it was all good.

Dinner time battles.

I don't fully understand why it is that when a boy hits a certain point some time during his third year that he decides that food is irrelevant to survival and would rather just drink milk and eat the occasional Popsicle. But I do know that we went through it with John and now we are going through it with Scott.

Scott is also way more stubborn than John so dinner time turns into a battle of the wills between him and his father. Most dinner conversations go like this lately.

Dad: "Scott, Eat"
Scott: "I can't"
Dad: "Scotty have just 3 bites"
Scott: "I can't"
Dad: "Scott if you don't eat any dinner you are going to have to go straight to bed"

at which point he will usually have a bite of food but only after I have put it on the fork for him. And around and around we go until dinner is finally over. Well the other night we had a change in the dialogue. It went something like this...

Dad: "Scott, Eat"
Scott: "I can't"
Dad: "Scotty have 3 bites"
Scott: "I can't"
Dad: "Scott look you have a bite right there on your fork just pick it up and eat it"
Scott: "Oh yeah, Well you have Bunny Ears"
Dad: speechless
Mom: laughing so hard she about fell out of her chair

This is the funniest thing I've heard in awhile. Such a totally random thing to say; as Brent doesn't have bunny ears and his hair doesn't poke up to look like bunny ears either. We don't know where it came from, but needless to say the dinner battle was diffused. Scott did end up eating dinner and Dad couldn't come up with a good comeback to that one; and just sat there laughing with a totally bewildered look on his face.

So this now has become our standard comeback in our house. Yeah, well you have bunny ears.