teething!

I hate teething! Brantley woke up this morning with a low grade fever and diarrhea. And a new tooth. He has one more that is almost through. Why is it that my kids cut teeth in pairs? I guess I should be thankful that the fussyness and the hold me's only come in ones.

Laughter and suprise

Charlie has discovered knock knock jokes.

Knock, knock

Who's there?

panties.

Panties who?

Hey, don't eat my panties for breakfast!

Knock, knock

Who's there?

Flower.

Flower who?

Do you want those flowers for lunch?

And all of this is followed by the silliest laugh that just makes me laugh.

Now for the surprise. I got an email this morning that a scrapbook project (my kids' bless you cards) is going to be published as a tutorial in a new christian scrapbooking magazine. Their first edition will come out in August I think. I will be published in their winter edition. Here is their website. www.cpcmag.com

No kissing Boys!

We were at church Sunday. Charlie went up to her friend Thomas. I knew she was going to hug him. She has a tendency to be a little overbearing at times so I told her. "Remember to ask, first." We have really been working with her at home about not getting in other people's personal space without asking first. So, she asks, "Thomas, can I have a kiss." And then she kissed him right on the cheek. Okay, that was so not what I meant. Now we have to have the conversation about her being way to young to be kissing on any boys other than her family.

Excuse me, would you like to try again?

I think that is my reaction to Charlie. Tonight I tossed her cup to her in bed hitting her on the foot. She said, "excuse me, Mommy. Would you like to try again? And how about a little easier this time." I was laughing so hard that I actually said yes! I went into her room grabbed her cup went back to the door and tossed it to her in bed. This time I made sure that I did not hit her. I guess all the times that I want to ring her little neck because I don't think she is listening she really is. Why else would she ask if I would like to try again?

My kiddos

I love that these two love to play together. I know that at one point Charlie will scream when Brantley comes in her room. But for now this is what I get...

Martin Nature Park

Last year when I scheduled our class field trip to Martin Nature Park I scheduled it on a day when the park was closed. Yes, I am a dork. Yes, teachers (parents, people) make mistakes.

This is one of my favorite areas. This is an area that when the creek is down you can actually climb across the rocks and explore. I really need to take Charlie out here.

Here is a picture of my kids and their wonderful, amazing, awesome parents looking at the 1st picture and begging to go across the rocks.

Some of the huge wildlife that we spotted. There were tons of turtles. They even got to touch one.

This year was the perfect day. It has been raining off and on for weeks. It even rained Wednesday evening but Wednesday morning was the perfect day to go.

How cool is this. We saw tons of geese with their goslings. We had a great time!

i-photo

OM GOODNESS! I am in LOVE. I am sitting here working on my annual Pre-K video. I have over 1,000 pictures that I took this year. The sad thing is I really didn't take many pictures this year. Any way, I am in LOVE with my new i-photo. I was able to take all of my SJN pictures and place them in an event and it places them in chronological order and I drug them to I-DVD and I am almost done friends. This is so much easier than my 20 hours last year or the 2 weeks the year before and what about the month that it took me to make a disc 4 years ago. I so love technology. At least for today I do.