Dancing queen

Emmy had her first day of dance Tuesday. She's taking ballet and tap. She was VERY excited about her "tapping shoes." Thank GOD we don't have more hard floors in our house. I thought I would die when I was dropping her off, my head was already pounding and there were 10 little girls all trying to out tap one another. Emmy went on in just fine and said that she had a good time and wants to go back next week. :)

Vomit

Lovely topic of conversation huh? Emmy's nasty sick, we (she and I) must have had 3 hours of sleep total last night and it was broken. She was up every 20 or so minutes puking. The first time she was convinced that she was just hungry, so we came into the living room (at 2am) so she could eat some crackers. They didn't stay down long.

What are the odds that this won't pass to anybody else?! CROSS YOUR FINGERS!!!!

Meanwhile, the boys are riding their bikes to school for the very first time today. We're parking at a friends house and borrowing her sidewalks, it's really not feasible to bike down our road in the morning since people think it's the effing cut-through speedway. PPPFFFFTT! I'll push the other two in the stroller. I'll have pics I'm sure, it IS a first and all. ;)

9 seconds of just plain mean

Watch first and then I'll defend myself.



So you're either laughing (Becca) or saying "poor baby!" (Mom) but let me just say, Jacob and Jonah's favorite holiday is Halloween. They LOVE scary things, they always pick out the most horrid decorations in the stores. They like that sort of thing! They like jokes and tricks, the combination was not a hit though. Jonah wouldn't sit by me for an hour afterwards, if it makes you "poor baby" people feel any better. :P They've not stopped talking about it all day, Jacob is sure now that he wasn't scared and he says that it was funny afterall. I have to disagree, he looked like he needed to change his pants just as much as Jonah did. They did feel better when I told them that a friend of theirs ran from the computer all the way to his room. His Mom is mean like me.

Here's the link to the "game" if you know anybody who will fall for it. ;)

Tic Tac Scare

Vacation (I mean evacuation) pictures

Jacob said "Mom, you took us on an extra vacation and it isn't even summer anymore!" I'm so glad they enjoyed themselves, it sure was worth it to drive for 5+ hours to go to a Houston Chuck E Cheese's and swim in a nasty hotel pool. If we would have booked a better hotel (NEVER stay in a Super 8, just FYI) then we may could have stayed a few extra days and maybe hit Splashtown or the zoo. Next evacuation maybe. ;)

Jacob playing games (God bless Gamaw and her laptop)

Too much swimming. She sleeps with her eyes half open, it's a little freaky:

That's Bec down there with Caleb in the not so hot tub.

Caleb's first time at Chuck E Cheese's. (Ok so it's really not his first time, but I forgot the camera the other times so for future reference, it's his first. I'll never remember that I lied.)

We don't have this game/ride at the Beaumont CEC:

He was playing peek-a-boo with the plate, this is the first picture I have that shows his two cute little top teeth. (Nice picture taking Becca!!)

Jonah was pathetic on Sunday night. We'd been gone a whopping 24 hours and he was crying because he missed his daddy. I had to call Basil and let him talk to Jonah and that made things all better. When we got home Monday he ran in the house looking for him and was disappointed when he found out that Basil was at work. He came home not long afterwards though, and Jonah ran out the front door and met him in the driveway, it was cute. Ridiculous but really cute.

This is what the front of my car looked like when we got back. EWWWW! It was raining lovebugs!

Emmy's first day of Pre-K!

That's what they call it at this church, Pre-K instead of mother's day out. We call it practice school. :) She was SO excited about going today, she talked all morning about how this was a special day. She's really a little ray of sunshine in the mornings, so different from Jacob and Jonah. She wakes up in a good mood and is ready to go. Here are some pictures from this morning:
















Edited to add: She had a great day! She did say that she missed me all day, but she had lots of good things to say about school. When I picked her up, I asked her teacher how she did to which her reply was "she did great! She sure likes to talk." :) Yeah, I know. Have fun with that this year.

Parenting 101

How to read your baby's sleepy cues. Apparently I was absent that day:

Eyes

Just messing around yesterday:

Same, same same, DIFFERENT! :)