Kid Chatter - Are you sweaty?

Joey after eating a candy cane:

• "If I am having trouble breathing, I just need to eat a candy cane!" That one seriously made me LOL!

I recently bought some new mary kay make up that has some sparkles in it (I love sparkly stuff). Today Joey was talking to me, and was pretty close when he stopped and looked closer, then said:

• 'Why do you have sparkles on your face? Are you sweaty?'

Joey was at my dad's house and my dad was getting a new printer out of the box. Joey asked him to play with the styrofome, to which my dad said no, because it would make a mess. Then, later in the evening he went to my mom and asked Grandma:

• "Grandma - are you the boss? Can I play with the styrofoam?"

This was a while ago, and I can't remember if I blogged it or not, so if I did, I'm blogging it again... I still jsut love it!! We have a little magnent board with magnent letters. One day Joey worked VERY hard on spelling out "I love mom" After he finished he looked at me and said:

• "I sended you a text message!!"

Now this is NOT so good, and we are working on it, but I love the little Mr. Attitude that's coming out in him... it's funny, but of course we're working on being respectful! Just the other day I gave him dinner and told him to start eating and he said:

• "HELLO? MOM! You never gave me a drink!!" He sounded more like a teenage girl than a 5 year old boy!! I told him to try again and he sheepishly said 'Please, mom, can you get me some milk?' ha ha!

Now little Savanna has REALLY started chattering ALOT lately. We took away her plug (pacifier) Thanksgiving weekend and ever since she has been talking a ton. And she's so funny! Her favorite things to say is

• When she fixes things: "There. All better"


• When I ask her where something is "Over there. Table." No matter where the specific object is, to her it's 'Over there. Table."


• She typically calls me mom, but because she's around kids I babysit all day, all who call me Sara or Miss Sara, when she's requesting something she ALWAYS calls me Sara. "Mook, Sara, Mook!" (Mook is savanna speak for milk) Or "Play, Sara, Play!" or "Food, Sara, Food!"


• She has quite the sense of humor and is always cracking her self up when she's talking, but I rarely understand what she's saying.


• She'll bring me the remote control and yell 'ROCKET!' (Savanna speak for Little Einsteins) or "KITTY" (Savanna speak for Tom and Jerry)

Love these goofy kids!!

Cute-ness

Daddy, Savanna, and 'baby' watching tv together!

Joey and Savanna at Rising Park in Lancaster. :)

Savanna at Pigeon Roost farms

Joey at Pigeon Roost farms.

LOVE this picture. :D

Halloween 2010

Pumpkins! I carved the doggy one (on the left) w/ the kids and Kara carved the one on the right.

Savanna getting into mommy's make up.

Savanna was "Tiny Might" the super hero for Halloween. Ever since she was about 3 months old my dad has called her Tiny Might - he says 'She's tiny but she's mighty!' Boy it has rung true!! This girl is all independent and attitude!

It's hard to get a good picture of her. But you get the idea. :) It was COLD so she had to wear her coat under the costume, but it was still cute. :)

And Joey was an 'Army Man'. He made a good one too! What a cutie. :)

On a boat

I've been struggling with some things recently, and I've had a hard time pin pointing what exactly it is I have been struggling with, but I have seen things slipping physically, spiritually, emotionally and so on since about.... March I'd say. Not seriously or anything, but just enough to make me struggle. Anyway, the other day I was talking to a dear friend of mine and they told me this story and I found it quite profound, and I feel if I begin living my life in this way I might be able to make some headway.

There was a ship wreck out at sea and 4 men got on a life raft. They are floating along and the waters get choppier. They see that they are headed for land, but that the land for which they are headed is a large cliff with jagged dangerous rocks. The men get on their knees and start praying - they pray and pray and pray with all their heart. But when they look up they see that they are even closer to the jagged rocks. They say one last quick prayer, jump out of the boat and start swimming. They are each responsible for their own way to land, each responsible to find their own way. They learn that they cannot fight the current and completely swim against it, yet they know that if they just allow them selves to go completely with the current they will be smashed against the rocks. They have to find the right way to swim to get safely to shore.

Now I know this may not make sense to most of you, but it hit me and since this is really the only journal I keep, I really wanted to record it so I can remember it. :)

As of lately

Hello! Ok - so I've been a horrible blogger! And that's probably not likely to change - I am so lazy some times when it comes to these things. It's SO much work to sit down, organize pictures, fight with computers, etc... LOL - I'm sure I could find more time to be better at it, but alas, here I am. I still go to my own blog daily to check on my friend's blogs - so many interesting things from bloggers so much better than I! Anyway - here's just a little update on everyone. Hopefully I'll be able to organize some pictures soon! And get some halloween pics up!

Kris and I got a mini vacation last weekend - sans kids! It... was... awesome. But it went too fast like I knew it would! We didn't go far - but just got a pish-posh hotel room at the hilton in Polaris - jacuzzi room at that *smile*. We went out to eat at yummy yummy restauraunts, had coldstone ice cream more than ones *again smile* and I got to do some fun shopping and got a pedicure!! I also got an eyebrow wax - usually when I get my eyebrows waxed at a salon it's just over the sink. Well this was at a spa and they took me in this dark back room with a table similar to a doctors table. It kind of freaked me out... all this privacy for just a brow wax?? Then it hit me what kind of waxing they *typically* do at a spa and why they would need a little dark back room with a table for waxing.... hmm.... HA HA HA! Anyway - it was soooo nice to get a much needed weekend away. I LOVE my kids, don't get me wrong, but it was nice to be able to sleep, eat, and shop without hearding kids like cattle! I was happy to get home to my babies though. :)

Joey is doing great at school!! He has had a couple behavior issues which I worry about, but I just tell myself he's still young and *thankfully* I got him in the primary kindergarten class, which means he gets a whole second year of kindergarten next year so we still have plenty of time to slowly work on behavior issues. He's such a sweet boy and he complains almost every day that he goes to school that he doesn't want to leave me. :) It makes me happy he loves me and sometimes I feel bad shoving him on the bus, but I know it's best for him! And I know he truly loves school once he gets there. I think the getting there part just stresses him out a bit. A little tidbit of some "Joey Chatter" - The other day I over heard him talking to his friend - they were talking about how they are going to be dads when they grow up. And Joey adamantly told him "After you are a missionary, then you can be a dad!" he he - I love it!

Savanna shows every day that she will grow to be an independant ornery woman someday!! She is the most independent and stubborn little girl I've seen. She certainly gives me a run for my money!! She is so funny - she's always making me laugh. Now that she's talking quite a bit I just LOVE listening to her and hearing little bits of how her brain works. She's always so jovial and happy-go-lucky. And she has NO fear - at - all! She just jumps right in with the 'big kids' no matter what their doing - even playing tackle foot ball or jumping a big pile of leaves! Also, she LOVES animals - especially horses. The other day she was helping me brush my horse and walked right under the horse! I mean like under the belly part! Then ran around behind the horse! Ugh! Thankfully my horse is pretty good and the odds of her hurting Savanna aren't great, but *most* horses would have kicked that girl into outer space... She also loves to sit on the horse forever - I put her up there and after a while I try to get her down and she says "NO! UP!" ha ha - that's my girl!! She tortures the dog and cats often, too, but just because she loves them!! I just can't wait to watch her grow and see what kind of woman she turns out to be! Oh - and just yesterday that little stinker started climbing out of her crib... days of containment are over! Boo! LOL

I'll try to post more and get some more recent pics up soon!! <3 Hey - I really need to get family pics done soon! Anyone have any suggestions of a good, yet somewhat affordable place to go?? :D

First Day of Kindergarten

Can't believe my baby boy - whom I SWEAR I just brought home from the hospital as a little baby last week - started kindergarten this week!!! Eeeeeekkk!! He's such a big and sweet boy!! On Tuesday they had 'meet the teacher' day where we got to go in and meet his teacher and tour the school and stuff. Then Wednesday was the big first day!

Joey and Jonah (a little guy I babysit) waiting outside for meet-the-teacher day to begin!

Joey walked in and found his classroom and his hook - which is where he'll hang his book bag and coat all weekend.

This year Joey is in the primary kindergarten class, which essentially means he will get 2 years of kindergarten. Our district only has one of these classes, so I'm SO glad that Joey made it in! He is a VERY young 5 year old, just turned 5 in July so in doing the math, I knew that if i put him in regular kindergarten he would be graduating high school when he's 17!! However, in doing the p-kindergarten class, he will have an extra year of school and will graduate when he's 18. He will also be one of the oldest in his classes, which I think will work to his advantage, vs. him being the youngest if he jumped in to class. He academically knows everything he needed to know for regular kindergarten, but I am SO glad that he is getting the extra year to mature!! Pictured above is Joey with his little buddy Adam from church who is also in his p-kindergarten class with him!! He was so excited to already have a friend in class!

Here is Joey with his p-kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Krebs! Funny story - when I first told Joey his teacher's name, he giggled and said 'That's just like Mr. Crabs on Spongebob!!' And then he laughed and laughed and has brought it up a few times since then. I told him he is not aloud to call her that at school!! She seems super nice and energetic, so I think Joey will just love her!

Here is Joey waiting for the bus!!

Kris took the morning off so he could see Joey get on the bus. The bus is SUPPOSED to get here at 12:07. Kris had an appointment at 1:00 that he could NOT be late for, and unfortunately the bus was WAY late. :( Kris had to leave at 12:30 (mind you school is supposed to start at 12:25!!) I called the bus garage and they said that it's coming, but they got a late start and with it being the first day of kindergarten, it's taking a bit longer. *sigh* I considered driving the boys to school, but they said no! They wanted to ride the bus! Kris was really upset he couldn't be here to see Joey off. But alas, the bus FINALLY got here at 12:51!! Only 44 minutes late.... Hopefully this is not a trend!

Joey and Jonah all smiles waiting for the bus!!

Dude... where's the bus? Getting impatient!

Here it comes!!

Finally here!! Look how big he is....

Joey and Jonah getting on the big yellow limo!

And they're off!!! I must say I did get choked up, but I didn't cry. I think I only didn't cry because I was so releived that the bus was finally here!!! I mean, 50 minutes waiting in 90 degree heat with two 5 year olds I was happy to see them finally get on the bus and on the way to school!!

When Joey got home the bus was only 17 minutes late, not bad at all!! Joey said his favorite part of school was the bus ride - ha ha! Go figure. He also talked a bit about art class. But he's really not a chatty kid, so I really don't know what they did at school! I was trying to milk him for info, but the more I asked him the more he was just saying it was 'fine' or 'fun' but no details. Goofy boy! Just like his daddy.

So here starts a new era for my little man!! I can't wait to watch him grow, but in the same respect I just wanna hold on to him forever!!

Street Fair 2010

The street fair is a fond memory of mine! Every year it comes to pataskala and has since as long as I can remember. It's not a large fair, but it's so fun since it's close to home, and not so big it's hard to walk from one side to the other, and it has some fun rides and activities for the kiddos. But I always spend way too much money!

This year the first thing we did was I bought enoguht tickets for the kids to ride some rides. Then goofy Joey kept saying he didn't really want to ride any rides! Savanna, however, did, but was too small for alot of the rides. But Joey did ride the roller coaster and the slide, and went on the car and train rides with Savanna.

Joey on the roller coaster! He actually really liked this ride and still talks about it alot.

My cuties on the train

And on the cars!

Now Joey's FAVORITE thing to do was the 'bungee jumping'. No, it's not real bungee jumping!!! It's more like a glorified trampolene. He got to do it twice, he would have done it a million times if I let him, but since it was 5 dollars every time, I thought twice was enough!! He wasn't quite big enough to get it going real well, but he didn't care.

Getting hooked up!

Up!

Down!

Up!

I'm looking forward to next year! It's almost just like Christmas in the fact of the magic of it starts all over again watching the kiddos enjoy it!! They're so fun!