October 16 uh...
So, potty training children involves a lot of talk about what is going into the potty. The ever creative Elise came up with these two gems today... This morning, Lillian put poops in the potty (huzzah!!!!!) and Elise was supervising. I hear her say "That one looks like a banana!" So you can guess which fruit we bypassed in the produce department. This evening, she hollers out that her peeps are green. I said "Oh yeah, how did that happen?" In the tone of someone explaining the painfully obvious to the village idiot, Elise says "Well, they are magic." Of course...thanks for clearing that up. I have never been so excited for tubby time!! October 12 In the van on the way home from school, Kaely was telling me about how Christopher Columbus brought disease and that killed a lot of the native americans. We talked about how everyone has their own germs that they are used to and when you are exposed to something new it can make you sick, blah blah blah. Then I told her that today we have medicine and doctors to help us when we get sick. At this point in the conversation, Elise adds "And Scooby Doo band-aids! Scooby Dooby Dooooooo!" Thank you Elise. Also, I don't know where you get your old sailors named Richard, but I found a place in Charlotte that has em... 
October 10
On the road again...
We had a morning appointment to see another house and then the girls and I were leaving to come back to Tallahassee. The house is nice, they have done quite a bit of work to it, but the layout is wackier than the first house we looked at. That and it smelled...uh, odd. Not bad, I guess just that old house smell. I'll purchase stock in Glade and Febreze if we end up in that house. Sadly, there is no livestock at either of the neighbors. Definite con. Let's just say that the trip home was longer and more hellish than any exhausted mom should have to bear. But it so nice to be home! 
And it still rained...
Saturday morning, we canned our plans to hit the carnival and somehow ended up with Shelby (Allan's 12 year old) at the coolest mall. Much like Sawgrass Mills in South Florida, but lacking the cubans and alligators. Great. That was pretty much the whole day...at the mall. But it was fun and it beat the pants off walking around a muddy carnival getting motion sickness from all the rides I would have had to have ridden with various small children. We did end up at some sort of NASCAR go cart track that is located in the mall. Highly amusing. I need to figure out how to get the video of Elise driving on here because, damn. That was great. Saturday night, we watched Alexander on the On Demand thinger. Pretty good movie and I highly recommend watching it with Allan because he is not a fan of gays. Sweet! Oh, and Lillian fell down the stairs, so I am betting that a 2 story house is out. 
Charlotte, NC: Where you can still smoke in the restaurants.
So, on Friday morning, at 5:15 am (pagi pagi) the girls and I loaded up and struck a trail for Charlotte. Rainiest.Day.Ever. I tried not to let that or driving get in the way of picture taking. The girls were awesome! So angelic and calm (I should have taken that as an early warning sign). We got into town and found Don around 2. We had a 3:30 appointment with a realtor to see a house. The house was neat, but the layout was kinda wacky and our neighbors would include 2 honking geese and 2 goats (and a partridge in a pear tree). For dinner we met up with Allan's family at Dante's and the kids went to town!! It was great letting them burn off all (no, more like some) of that excess energy that small children are famous for. Let's just say that after being up since 4:30, I was so very ready for my bed...too bad that wasn't to be until after 11. 
September 30 boys are gross
This morning as I was walking up Gardenview, I passed a city crew preparing to take down a tree. We did the customary nod and "good morning". On the way back, their truck was on the sidewalk, so we had to walk in the street. As I passed, the guy looked at me and apologized for blocking the sidewalk and then adjusted himself. I wanted to laugh and then ask him to apologize for that...but I didn't. The worker further down commented on what a load I had and I had to suppress the urge to say "Yeah, but apparently not as much as your friend there." So, in my brilliance, I walked today. No, no, there's more...Elise didn't have school today, so I was unable to drop her off and boy does she make that stroller heavy. I hadn't realized how much until today. And I know what you are all thinking... 
September 28
Hooray for school pictures!
We got Elise's pictures back from the photographer today...yay! She was so cute when she had them taken last week. After I picked her up from school, I asked her if she smiled for the lady and she said "Yes! She was a grandma!". So there you go...wanna get a good picture? Be a grandma. Also, today, while we were watching "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", Kaely looked at me and said "Mom, did they even have tv's when you were a kid?". Look, I may walk to school uphill both ways like an old person, but I am not so old that I ever had to live without tv...evar! 
October 16 uh...
So, potty training children involves a lot of talk about what is going into the potty. The ever creative Elise came up with these two gems today... This morning, Lillian put poops in the potty (huzzah!!!!!) and Elise was supervising. I hear her say "That one looks like a banana!" So you can guess which fruit we bypassed in the produce department. This evening, she hollers out that her peeps are green. I said "Oh yeah, how did that happen?" In the tone of someone explaining the painfully obvious to the village idiot, Elise says "Well, they are magic." Of course...thanks for clearing that up. I have never been so excited for tubby time!! October 12 In the van on the way home from school, Kaely was telling me about how Christopher Columbus brought disease and that killed a lot of the native americans. We talked about how everyone has their own germs that they are used to and when you are exposed to something new it can make you sick, blah blah blah. Then I told her that today we have medicine and doctors to help us when we get sick. At this point in the conversation, Elise adds "And Scooby Doo band-aids! Scooby Dooby Dooooooo!" Thank you Elise. Also, I don't know where you get your old sailors named Richard, but I found a place in Charlotte that has em...
October 10
On the road again...
We had a morning appointment to see another house and then the girls and I were leaving to come back to Tallahassee. The house is nice, they have done quite a bit of work to it, but the layout is wackier than the first house we looked at. That and it smelled...uh, odd. Not bad, I guess just that old house smell. I'll purchase stock in Glade and Febreze if we end up in that house. Sadly, there is no livestock at either of the neighbors. Definite con. Let's just say that the trip home was longer and more hellish than any exhausted mom should have to bear. But it so nice to be home!
And it still rained...
Saturday morning, we canned our plans to hit the carnival and somehow ended up with Shelby (Allan's 12 year old) at the coolest mall. Much like Sawgrass Mills in South Florida, but lacking the cubans and alligators. Great. That was pretty much the whole day...at the mall. But it was fun and it beat the pants off walking around a muddy carnival getting motion sickness from all the rides I would have had to have ridden with various small children. We did end up at some sort of NASCAR go cart track that is located in the mall. Highly amusing. I need to figure out how to get the video of Elise driving on here because, damn. That was great. Saturday night, we watched Alexander on the On Demand thinger. Pretty good movie and I highly recommend watching it with Allan because he is not a fan of gays. Sweet! Oh, and Lillian fell down the stairs, so I am betting that a 2 story house is out.
Charlotte, NC: Where you can still smoke in the restaurants.
So, on Friday morning, at 5:15 am (pagi pagi) the girls and I loaded up and struck a trail for Charlotte. Rainiest.Day.Ever. I tried not to let that or driving get in the way of picture taking. The girls were awesome! So angelic and calm (I should have taken that as an early warning sign). We got into town and found Don around 2. We had a 3:30 appointment with a realtor to see a house. The house was neat, but the layout was kinda wacky and our neighbors would include 2 honking geese and 2 goats (and a partridge in a pear tree). For dinner we met up with Allan's family at Dante's and the kids went to town!! It was great letting them burn off all (no, more like some) of that excess energy that small children are famous for. Let's just say that after being up since 4:30, I was so very ready for my bed...too bad that wasn't to be until after 11.
September 30 boys are gross
This morning as I was walking up Gardenview, I passed a city crew preparing to take down a tree. We did the customary nod and "good morning". On the way back, their truck was on the sidewalk, so we had to walk in the street. As I passed, the guy looked at me and apologized for blocking the sidewalk and then adjusted himself. I wanted to laugh and then ask him to apologize for that...but I didn't. The worker further down commented on what a load I had and I had to suppress the urge to say "Yeah, but apparently not as much as your friend there." So, in my brilliance, I walked today. No, no, there's more...Elise didn't have school today, so I was unable to drop her off and boy does she make that stroller heavy. I hadn't realized how much until today. And I know what you are all thinking...
September 28
October 16 uh...
So, potty training children involves a lot of talk about what is going into the potty. The ever creative Elise came up with these two gems today... This morning, Lillian put poops in the potty (huzzah!!!!!) and Elise was supervising. I hear her say "That one looks like a banana!" So you can guess which fruit we bypassed in the produce department. This evening, she hollers out that her peeps are green. I said "Oh yeah, how did that happen?" In the tone of someone explaining the painfully obvious to the village idiot, Elise says "Well, they are magic." Of course...thanks for clearing that up. I have never been so excited for tubby time!! October 12 In the van on the way home from school, Kaely was telling me about how Christopher Columbus brought disease and that killed a lot of the native americans. We talked about how everyone has their own germs that they are used to and when you are exposed to something new it can make you sick, blah blah blah. Then I told her that today we have medicine and doctors to help us when we get sick. At this point in the conversation, Elise adds "And Scooby Doo band-aids! Scooby Dooby Dooooooo!" Thank you Elise. Also, I don't know where you get your old sailors named Richard, but I found a place in Charlotte that has em...
October 10
On the road again...
We had a morning appointment to see another house and then the girls and I were leaving to come back to Tallahassee. The house is nice, they have done quite a bit of work to it, but the layout is wackier than the first house we looked at. That and it smelled...uh, odd. Not bad, I guess just that old house smell. I'll purchase stock in Glade and Febreze if we end up in that house. Sadly, there is no livestock at either of the neighbors. Definite con. Let's just say that the trip home was longer and more hellish than any exhausted mom should have to bear. But it so nice to be home!
And it still rained...
Saturday morning, we canned our plans to hit the carnival and somehow ended up with Shelby (Allan's 12 year old) at the coolest mall. Much like Sawgrass Mills in South Florida, but lacking the cubans and alligators. Great. That was pretty much the whole day...at the mall. But it was fun and it beat the pants off walking around a muddy carnival getting motion sickness from all the rides I would have had to have ridden with various small children. We did end up at some sort of NASCAR go cart track that is located in the mall. Highly amusing. I need to figure out how to get the video of Elise driving on here because, damn. That was great. Saturday night, we watched Alexander on the On Demand thinger. Pretty good movie and I highly recommend watching it with Allan because he is not a fan of gays. Sweet! Oh, and Lillian fell down the stairs, so I am betting that a 2 story house is out.
October 16 uh...
So, potty training children involves a lot of talk about what is going into the potty. The ever creative Elise came up with these two gems today... This morning, Lillian put poops in the potty (huzzah!!!!!) and Elise was supervising. I hear her say "That one looks like a banana!" So you can guess which fruit we bypassed in the produce department. This evening, she hollers out that her peeps are green. I said "Oh yeah, how did that happen?" In the tone of someone explaining the painfully obvious to the village idiot, Elise says "Well, they are magic." Of course...thanks for clearing that up. I have never been so excited for tubby time!! October 12 In the van on the way home from school, Kaely was telling me about how Christopher Columbus brought disease and that killed a lot of the native americans. We talked about how everyone has their own germs that they are used to and when you are exposed to something new it can make you sick, blah blah blah. Then I told her that today we have medicine and doctors to help us when we get sick. At this point in the conversation, Elise adds "And Scooby Doo band-aids! Scooby Dooby Dooooooo!" Thank you Elise. Also, I don't know where you get your old sailors named Richard, but I found a place in Charlotte that has em...
October 10
On the road again...
We had a morning appointment to see another house and then the girls and I were leaving to come back to Tallahassee. The house is nice, they have done quite a bit of work to it, but the layout is wackier than the first house we looked at. That and it smelled...uh, odd. Not bad, I guess just that old house smell. I'll purchase stock in Glade and Febreze if we end up in that house. Sadly, there is no livestock at either of the neighbors. Definite con. Let's just say that the trip home was longer and more hellish than any exhausted mom should have to bear. But it so nice to be home!
October 16 uh...
So, potty training children involves a lot of talk about what is going into the potty. The ever creative Elise came up with these two gems today... This morning, Lillian put poops in the potty (huzzah!!!!!) and Elise was supervising. I hear her say "That one looks like a banana!" So you can guess which fruit we bypassed in the produce department. This evening, she hollers out that her peeps are green. I said "Oh yeah, how did that happen?" In the tone of someone explaining the painfully obvious to the village idiot, Elise says "Well, they are magic." Of course...thanks for clearing that up. I have never been so excited for tubby time!! October 12 In the van on the way home from school, Kaely was telling me about how Christopher Columbus brought disease and that killed a lot of the native americans. We talked about how everyone has their own germs that they are used to and when you are exposed to something new it can make you sick, blah blah blah. Then I told her that today we have medicine and doctors to help us when we get sick. At this point in the conversation, Elise adds "And Scooby Doo band-aids! Scooby Dooby Dooooooo!" Thank you Elise. Also, I don't know where you get your old sailors named Richard, but I found a place in Charlotte that has em...
October 10
October 16
uh...
So, potty training children involves a lot of talk about what is going into the potty. The ever creative Elise came up with these two gems today...
This morning, Lillian put poops in the potty (huzzah!!!!!) and Elise was supervising. I hear her say "That one looks like a banana!" So you can guess which fruit we bypassed in the produce department.
This evening, she hollers out that her peeps are green. I said "Oh yeah, how did that happen?" In the tone of someone explaining the painfully obvious to the village idiot, Elise says "Well, they are magic." Of course...thanks for clearing that up.
I have never been so excited for tubby time!!
October 12
In the van on the way home from school, Kaely was telling me about how Christopher Columbus brought disease and that killed a lot of the native americans. We talked about how everyone has their own germs that they are used to and when you are exposed to something new it can make you sick, blah blah blah. Then I told her that today we have medicine and doctors to help us when we get sick. At this point in the conversation, Elise adds "And Scooby Doo band-aids! Scooby Dooby Dooooooo!" Thank you Elise.
Also, I don't know where you get your old sailors named Richard, but I found a place in Charlotte that has em...
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On the road again...
We had a morning appointment to see another house and then the girls and I were leaving to come back to Tallahassee. The house is nice, they have done quite a bit of work to it, but the layout is wackier than the first house we looked at. That and it smelled...uh, odd. Not bad, I guess just that old house smell. I'll purchase stock in Glade and Febreze if we end up in that house. Sadly, there is no livestock at either of the neighbors. Definite con.
Let's just say that the trip home was longer and more hellish than any exhausted mom should have to bear. But it so nice to be home!
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And it still rained...
Saturday morning, we canned our plans to hit the carnival and somehow ended up with Shelby (Allan's 12 year old) at the coolest mall. Much like Sawgrass Mills in South Florida, but lacking the cubans and alligators. Great. That was pretty much the whole day...at the mall. But it was fun and it beat the pants off walking around a muddy carnival getting motion sickness from all the rides I would have had to have ridden with various small children. We did end up at some sort of NASCAR go cart track that is located in the mall. Highly amusing. I need to figure out how to get the video of Elise driving on here because, damn. That was great. Saturday night, we watched Alexander on the On Demand thinger. Pretty good movie and I highly recommend watching it with Allan because he is not a fan of gays. Sweet! Oh, and Lillian fell down the stairs, so I am betting that a 2 story house is out.
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Charlotte, NC: Where you can still smoke in the restaurants.
So, on Friday morning, at 5:15 am (pagi pagi) the girls and I loaded up and struck a trail for Charlotte. Rainiest.Day.Ever. I tried not to let that or driving get in the way of picture taking. The girls were awesome! So angelic and calm (I should have taken that as an early warning sign). We got into town and found Don around 2. We had a 3:30 appointment with a realtor to see a house. The house was neat, but the layout was kinda wacky and our neighbors would include 2 honking geese and 2 goats (and a partridge in a pear tree). For dinner we met up with Allan's family at Dante's and the kids went to town!! It was great letting them burn off all (no, more like some) of that excess energy that small children are famous for. Let's just say that after being up since 4:30, I was so very ready for my bed...too bad that wasn't to be until after 11.
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September 30
boys are gross
This morning as I was walking up Gardenview, I passed a city crew preparing to take down a tree. We did the customary nod and "good morning". On the way back, their truck was on the sidewalk, so we had to walk in the street. As I passed, the guy looked at me and apologized for blocking the sidewalk and then adjusted himself. I wanted to laugh and then ask him to apologize for that...but I didn't. The worker further down commented on what a load I had and I had to suppress the urge to say "Yeah, but apparently not as much as your friend there."
So, in my brilliance, I walked today. No, no, there's more...Elise didn't have school today, so I was unable to drop her off and boy does she make that stroller heavy. I hadn't realized how much until today. And I know what you are all thinking...
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Hooray for school pictures!
We got Elise's pictures back from the photographer today...yay! She was so cute when she had them taken last week. After I picked her up from school, I asked her if she smiled for the lady and she said "Yes! She was a grandma!". So there you go...wanna get a good picture? Be a grandma.
Also, today, while we were watching "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", Kaely looked at me and said "Mom, did they even have tv's when you were a kid?". Look, I may walk to school uphill both ways like an old person, but I am not so old that I ever had to live without tv...evar!
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September 27
gee honey...
I dunno why I am having trouble getting all this packing done...
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heh...my daughter is a pot head...
Yesterday was Johnny Appleseed's birthday (who knew?), so at school Elise made a pot hat to celebrate. The pictures do not do the hat justice...and you should have seen all the kids in their pot hats! Ha!
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September 25
Whew!
The present was a hit! He was so excited to get his Beater Bot. The party was also, in my opnion, a huge success (Hooray Jen!!!). So my only complaint is in the false advertisement (not really, I just don't understand boy toys) of this toy thing that we bought. The picture on the box shows this robot thinger...but the inside of the box shows an unassembled mass of plastic...gah! I assembled it...slowly, but it got done (sorry, I'm not an 8 year old boy...I'm sure he could have done it faster). The little boy is happy with his Beater Bot and attached "clip" of marbles that he can shoot at his sister, so I say job well done! We also had fun installing batteries in the two remote control dinosaurs (and by we, I mean Jen and Dad...because I was assembling that darn robot thing).
To keep the party spirit alive, we moved things over to my house for an all night sleep over extravaganza!! We ate pizza and watched movies and then wiggled ourselves silly in a vain attempt to stay awake. In true sleep over form, we stayed up late and woke up too early (as in, before the sun). After breakfast, they planned out a play...The Princess and the Magic Tiger. I wish they had gotten more sleep so they could have actually finished it. They got as far as costumes and lost interest. Kaely was the princess (of course), but both cousins wanted to be the Magic Tiger...so one got to be the Tiger and the other was the Black Magic Tiger. He wore the black leotard and the sparkly black cat ears. It was (to quote the Guinness guys) brilliant!
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September 23
Shopping for a boy...
is seriously hard work. I felt like a needed a map and a translator at the store. There was no pink...no flowers...no feather boas. What was this strange place? So hopefully the little man likes his birthday present. I have no clue what I just bought...some sort of plastic robot thinger that shoots balls...dunno. Like I said...I was like a girl outta the mall on the boy aisle.
September 22
Amazingly, the glitter was contained and no mess was made! I am so very impressed with that Kaely! They never did make it to that dance party, though...
Today, I took a picture of Elise's work. It's all the stuff she has been working on that stays at school.
Not much happening...worried sick about Rita. Mother informed me that Bay City was being evacuated (and her tone screamed concern). When I answered vaguely that I would look at a map, she snapped "That's where you were born!". I know that Mother...however, I am not a salmon and I need a map to visualize the exact location. Thank goodness for Google Earth. I am concerned, though, if the city in which I was born is wiped away by a hurricane...do I cease to exist?? I think Mother is just very stressed out about everything, and it just came out in the whole Bay City conversation.
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That's my girl! So now she knows that she has to start on chapter books (which she has been avoiding). She actually rolled her eyes at me... 
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. I suggested that she eat some more, since she liked it so very much. She looked at me very seriously and said, "No Mommy, I'm full." 
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