Momsense for the Weekend!

I've seen this on 3 blogs that I frequent now. It's hilarious!!! I can say with 2 now in school I say plenty of these!

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My husband broke the news last night that his commission + salary check he gets at the end of the month (he gets paid twice a month) is going to be a bit on the low side. (cough, cough) About $1K less then normal. Yeah not the news I wanted to hear but hey at least he's not just making his salary! We'd be royally screwed if that was the case! Easy way to put it is his total commission for the year outnumbers his total salary for the year. I think this is the least his 2nd month check has ever been honestly! So we'll be buckling down and there won't be much extra spending. Luckily I've paid for everything kid related except for Awana books and that'll be about $20. So there will be no eating out, I'll make sure to do as much as I can in one drive to town, groceries will be menu planned for sure unless I coupon and get goodies for next to nothing, Dominic and Alex might be taking quite a few sack lunches too. My kids better not be missing their buses this month either since that's a 8 minute highway drive to and back. Alex and I were going to be starting on some new Halloween crafts so some of that may be put on hold too. Luckily I bought materials the other day for our pumpkins we are making!

In other news I took this adorable video of Mia and Damien. I've talked about how close they are, well all of our kids are really close except when they fight over toys (who's doesn't do that?) but Mia and Damien share this certain camaraderie maybe because they are in the same room and speak the same baby language. All I know is Damien will always protect and be there for his little sister because he love her dearly!

Before Taking Important Pics, Always Grab New Batteries

Title says it all. But you can tell a lot I think from one picture. Dave said this used to be a whole row of customers houses. The trees have tried to move on from being wood poles back in May and look there's a new house that's been built back in the distance. He said it was difficult seeing the town just leveled and taking pictures was the last thing on his mind. I don't even think they have a store right now to BUY batteries if he wanted to though.

I'm shopping online this morning. My oldest 2 have got their costumes already (TMNT, Cheerleader) but I'm having a hard time with Damien. I would like him to be similar to what his sis is wearing although Dominic wants him to be Splinter the rat from TMNT's. lol This is what I'm planning on buying Mia although there are so many candy choices, I may change my mind. However I can't find anything for Damien besides this Hershey kiss which I must say I think looks too girlish and check out her shoes. What do you think? Too girly?

Everyone says to "reuse" old costumes. I don't think it's fair to dress your younger kids in hand me down costumes their siblings wore. But if you figure though I've got everyone of them from the past 7 years, 3 kids the previous years, that's 14-15 cool costumes. I really need to just sell them, I paid a ton for them all. I'll list them and if anyone wants one email me

Big girls I have - Raggedy Ann, Belle, Tinkerbell, pretty orange fairy,

Big Boy I have- Jack Sparrow, another Pirate, Superman

Infants- Pea in a pod bunting, Fuzzy ladybug, lion, monkey

Yesterday started gymnastics and the kids were rather excited. I received a phone call from the gymnastics director asking if Alex could be in the 5 pm class instead of the 6 because no one signed up that hour for level 2. So I said that was fine, it just meant I would have to occupy Dominic for 1 hour till his 6 o'clock class and occupy Damien and Mia for 2 hours!!! Oh believe me I made sure I grabbed everything from A to Z and threw it in a tote bag! We did really good in fact about 6 minutes till it was time for Dom's class to end was when Damien started getting antsy by wanting to push the table we sat at making a horrible screech noise across the floor. From 6-6:45 Alex did her homework and then we picked up Dominic. I guess Dominic was crying because he thought we had left him so I'm not sure how much he got out of his class. I think since we watched Alex he thought we'd watch him too but usually I leave to another part of the building since his attention span is so bad anyways I don't want him watching me and not his teacher. Alex did a great job and only struggled a bit since she took a 6 month break. The hardest part for her was the one handed cartwheels with her legs straight but she did an awesome job trying over and over. When we were leaving the kids noticed we had parked near a big leaf maple tree and ran over to pick up leaves. Alex has been scoping out my craft and ladies magazines and knows we can MAKE things with these!! So I told them to pick up all the pretty leaves they could find and we'll see what we can make with them.

Today I am taking Dominic to the Dentist! He is totally excited and can't wait. Then tonight we have Awana. I am hoping to have much more attentive kids this week after I asked the Pastor's wife to tell them NO TOYS or virtual pets and she did so in the sanctuary on the microphone so you'd think they got the point right? I mean they are 5th and 6th grader TnT's who are much more mature then the little Sparks and Cubbies ya know. lol

Dave is on the road instead of working in the office today doing some follow ups in some small towns going all the way to Dodge City even. He will be reluctantly visiting Greensburg. He's had chances to go there before now but it's been a bit hard on him since he used to do service work there all the time and knew a lot of customers before it was totally wiped out by the tornado. His company was affected so much by the tornado that they lost thousands of dollars in business and to help people some they quickly refunded pre-paid money since they couldn't do work at places that blew completely away! So he is taking tons of pictures today and I will post them on here tomorrow for all to see. I know most of the damage is now cleared out though and it looks like a huge field with roads throughout it from pictures in our newspaper.

Damien's appt went well yesterday and I posted about it here. I've been thinking a lot about life and where I want to be in 10 years. I think it's because I just turned 30 this year (ugh!) Does anyone else think that far ahead? Well first with D's job it could take us out of state but I told him if we are still here I want to buy some land so we can build a dream home. We should have our current house paid off before we turn 40. We did buy eight acres 4 years ago to do this and it was sold out from underneath us (long story!) but I want to buy about 15 minutes from where we are now so the kids will still be in the same school district and we'll be close to the highway and it will be a little shorter drive for him. I'm pretty sure I'll be working again by then too since I doubt I'll have any babies around (sniff sniff). and Alex will be graduating in 10 years too! Yikes! Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

More on Speech

Today I have not only a developmental therapist coming over to work with Damien but also the Speech therapist who deals best with tongue thrust. We've actually dealt with her before. I am hoping she is able to help more with getting his tongue to cooperate so he can speak better. I just want him to talk so bad! Say anything!! Man it'd be awesome if he'd hop out of bed one Saturday morning and said "momma, I'm hungry." or "momma get up!" Don't get me wrong he talks to me all the time saying "uh uh! or Yes!" when I ask him a question. But for him to say something without me asking a question like "do you want a drink?" would just be pretty darn cool. We're coming up on 27 months and still at a 9-12 month level on language development. I bought First Signs by Baby Einstein and he still finds signing too funny. He hasn't tried to do it yet and I doubt he will. I'll try to get on later and post what happened on seek and destroy so look there. They are supposed to be showing us exercises to work his jaw muscles and lips. I think one had to deal with blowing water on paper and peanut butter on a cup. I have learned so much the past 3 years having two little ones with developmental issues. I hope someone can benefit from my blogs on our journey. I know when I became a parent I never expected to venture the road of ST, OT,IEP's, and Early Intervention.

Another Weekend in Pictures

We had all kinds of crazy plans to do with the kids this weekend but after having something going on M, T, W, and Th night kid-related, and then I volunteer as a teacher's aide Friday morning, I opted for us to stay home for once. We are constantly running around and I think we all needed a break. Thankfully there were no soccer games this Saturday so that was nice!
We'll start with Mia Friday afternoon sitting up playing with her Leap Frog Gym. Her favorite toy as she loves turning the world a zillion mph as it says "Gutentag!" and "Kineetchiwah!" And a loving brother holding his bewildered sissy.
Saturday I did alot of cleaning since we didn't have the Soccer games. The kids did their chores helping me out as best as they could. I had a mess of recycle ables in the house that I had the kids separate. This is one of their favorite jobs because it requires sorting into piles. (Paper, Plastic, Glass, Cardboard, Aluminum) They also love smashing the cans.
This is 1 week of recycle able stuff! Not pictured: Box a newspapers. lol This is why EVERYONE should recycle. There's about 5 milk containers and about 5-6 juicy juice containers along with everything else plastic. Then Sunday after Church we went to the free zoo we have in town with my dad and his wife. It's mainly animals native to the Midwest, a sanctuary for them.
Of course as soon as we got there, Dominic had to ride the train and the engineer was nice enough to let him borrow his sweaty filthy hat (eww!) and check out the train. He examined the wheels, the engine, the rails, the seat, the foot petal whistle, and the lights.
I had to take a shot of this alligator who ate the rat's head but left the body. It smelt oh so fresh let me tell ya! lol At least 20-30 flies swarming around in there too. Yummy! Pronghorn checkin himself out.
The meanest and butt ugliest Llama ever right before he spit at this little girl trying to pet him.
Possessed Chicken Hawk with his head backwards.
Alex peering out of the prairie dog exhibit.
Checking out the ducks and buffalo from the water.
These pelicans are usually not nice but pleasantly, they did not try to eat Dominic like they tried eating Alex on her field trip.

The otters put on one heck of a show for us doing all sorts of back flips and jumping off objects.
And the kids played on the turtle and I got a shot with 3 this time. I have tons of pics like this and every year or so we add a new kiddo on the turtles back.
Mia made a new friend although I think he was more interested in trying to eat the stroller fabric.
My dad feeding the Swan who chases all the geese away by biting their wings if they get near someone who has food.

So Alex would run on the other side and throw them a ton of food when the swan wasn't looking.Then after eating the swan ran over to the pop machine and started pressing the buttons for a pop to no avail. Are birds really that smart? Notice he's looking down where the pop comes out!
What am I staring at? Any guesses??? (I can't believe he took a pic of me, bleh!)
I was staring up at these fugly little monkeys. They've had these same monkeys since I was a kid!
Then they climbed all over the spiderweb. Well Damien didn't do much climbing but the other 2 did.

I think the best part of the day was watching my dad find the brick that his former company had got when it gave a large donation to the zoo. As soon as he found the brick saying the company name he worked for, he wiped his feet all over it like a doormat. Last week my dad lost his job of 28 years to a manufacturing company who decided that they (like every other American company) could save a butt load by sending all their work to China. Finally after the Chinese got their crap together and stopped messing up on parts to send to my dad to fix that he could have made in the first place, they let him go. Anyways- it was funny watching him rub his feet all over their name! lol
Alex in the minivan looking way to grown up and of course one more of Mia. In all the weekend was alot of fun! We don't really get out much with my dad so the kids really enjoyed dragging him everywhere and having him check out everything too.

Check Your Dates!

When I was in highschool, my bestfriend came to school one day with the most horrible looking plastic Barbie looking hair. She was so upset because she had colored it but was left with hair that was the new color but almost formable. By that I mean she could pull it straight up in the air and it would stay straight up! I called my awesome hair dresser at that time and she said to look at the date on the box. Sure enough, it was expired by like a year! She had bought it at a grocery chain in town. So we took her to my hairdresser and she poured a box of baking soda in her hair and waalah! She was back to normal. We were told never to buy hair color at the grocery store because they never rotate out their old stock.

So what about food? You'd think the grocery chains would do a great job rotating out old food so no one would get sick right? Don't want to get sued or anything in our sue happy world. Last night I went solo at 10 pm to do some light shopping. Mia was getting low on her baby food (too lazy to make it like I did with the others) so I started going through the Organic Gerber stuff (the plastic container 2 packs)and noticed some of it looked almost watery or oily for #2's. I picked them up to look at the date and sure enough, they were expired. The "use by" date was Mar 7, 07. Yeah. I was shocked especially since this is a huge chain and they are busy 24/7! I told some staff and I'm going back in there to make sure they pulled it. If not I'm doing it myself and taking it to customer service and saying "listen up."

Then this morning, I opened up some pop tarts I bought yesterday morning from a different small town grocery chain. I took one bite and they tasted like ass! Chocolate pop tarts are my favorite but these were awful and the kids took a few bites before I realized and didn't want anymore either put it that way. They expired 3 weeks ago. What's funny is I checked the dates on almost everything I bought in that trip I just missed checking these.

So please people check dates on everything you buy. I usually do but obviously I missed the pop tarts. Don't take any chances.

Pissin' The Night Away...........LITERALLY!

There was this online poll awhile back that I filled out on how old your boy was when you took them out of pull ups at night. Everyone answers made my mouth drop because alot of them had 5-7 year old boys STILL in pull ups. Almost all of them had talked to the Pediatrician and been told this is completely normal and not to worry till the child is 7-8 year old. I had no idea bed wetting with boys was so common and this totally freaks me out. Read this, this and this!

I boycotted pull ups about 1.5 months ago. I had been working on Huggies pull ups that I had bought with coupons and such for $5 a pack and I told Dave when they were gone, that was it! Well I ran out and so I'm washing his sheets about 4 times a week. This is so aggravating. Alex was in underwear by 2 and now here we are with Dom at 4.5 yrs and no end in sight. I

Oh believe me we have tried everything. No drinks after 6, peeing twice before bed, etc...nothing is working. If I get him up in the middle of the night....he stays dry, but really who wants to do that every night? So here we are pissin the night away and I just don't know what to do. Anyone have a kid wake up and walk backwards into the front room in the morning because they are hoping you won't realize they peed them self? Ugh!

Cubbies, Sparks, and TnT''s Oh My!!!

Last night we began Awana. Oh what fun! lol For folks out there who have not heard of this, it's a church based club to teach God's Word. It stands for Approved Workmen Are Not Ashamed. There are games, snacks, songs, and memory of bible verses. I did it myself as a kid and since the church needed some teachers, well I voluntered both of us since I was putting Dominic and Alex in. So my little sarcastic remark about children in church being angels a week ago? Yep, still sarcastic. Dave was put in TnT's with 3rd and 4th graders and I on the other hand was put in TnT's with 5th and 6th graders. His kid were great according to him. My kids would not listen, did not want to be there and were hounding me to sign their books because they only missed 8 words in a bible verse!?! I don't think so! lol Alot of the girls brought these stupid vitual pet toys and thought they could just play. It was aggravating! When we trained a few weeks ago, one member mentioned how it was like a dump off babysitting service for parents and with the older kids, I really think it is. It was funny, especially in game time because I remembered the games and although my team lost, they tried so hard and that was great to see! I think Dave really enjoyed himself too.

My kids LOVED Awana which was exactly what I had hoped for. They brought home the beginner brochures and Alex gawked at the vest and badges all night telling me she NEEDED a handbook and she NEEDED a vest. It was quite cute. Dominic's not too sure about the Cubbie Vest but he sure loved the crafts and Cubbie bear puppet they all made. So it was alot of fun and they are extremely excited about getting back to church on Sunday and then next Wednesday so they can do it all over.

Oh...... Now I See!

When I was growing up, I hung out at my Great Aunt's quite a bit mainly because my Mom was great friends with her since they are the same age. At that time, my aunt only had 2 kids (a boy and girl) but they were both much more rowdy then my two sisters and I, especially Cody. My aunt was always hollerin' at them and saying "oh Lordy" and how "she needed a drink" so she'd go to the fridge and get herself some redneck wine out of a box no matter what time of the day! Now I see why! Now with 2 crazy active boys, a few glasses of wine during the day might just take the edge off! lol! Damien has turned into a monster now that he is 2. He used to be a bit crazy before but now he's awful! The pic on the side there? That's a oriental fan he ripped and put on his head.

His favorite past times are grabbing the kids drinks off the table and just dumping them on the floor for fun, getting in the pantry and throwing jars of babyfood and cans on the floor, pulling hair, he took 3 chunks of sheetrock out of the hallway wall by bashing a wood board (extra piece for his bed) into the wall, he throws HUGE temper tantrums now where he throws and kicks everything, he pushes Mia over or pulls her by her feet all around the frontroom floor, he sits on our little dog and bounces up and down, he sits on Mia's head and does the same. Naptime is now nonexistant since putting him in a toddler bed, . I've tried everything (including holding his door for 40 minutes till he cries himself to sleep at the door)he thinks he can just get up and won't nap. So the past month I've got both boys up in the afternoon fighting over cars, trains and TMNT's. I am worn out and frustrated with him! And this whole "lets help him express himself with sign language" well he thinks it's just too funny and won't even try and then screams when I sign to him and won't get him what he wants. I do have a hard time not laughing though when it comes to the temper tantrums. They are just so funny! I can't be the only one who laughs when they see their kiddo on the floor floppin their body around like a fish out of water. But in all joking sense, I would never load up on wine all day to ease my frustrations with the little booger although I really wonder what parenting would be like when tipsy..........

Glory Baby

Heidi, a friend from Babycenter, lost her beautiful little girl Kenna at 30 weeks found the following song that is playing. I thought others who have experienced a loss who haven't heard it might want to hear it as well. It is rather hard for me to listen to without breaking down (especially with 2 due date anniversaries coming up) so I probably won't leave it on here long! It is beautiful though.

Kids Aren't Cheap

If you have a larger family, one statement you always hear is that kid's cost lots of money. My Dad like most other people, feel that since they cost so much, you should just not have that many because you can't "provide" as well for them. You can't let them do sports, you can't buy them everything they want for Christmas, you can't buy them a car, you can't provide them a college education, etc. My Dad has yet to find me not "providing" anything for our kids. He picks and picks on our Stock market accounts and what we're investing in and how much we are putting towards college, asking if we're doing ok on money as if to prove some fault in my equation that we can afford kids.

Just for fun though, I put together 1 month of our life with the kids and how much they have cost us since school started. Can you believe they've been in school one month already!?

Alex's Hair cut: $16
School Enrollment: $50
Alex's Lunches: $20
Dominic's Lunches: $11
Games and puzzles for Alex's class from Dollar Tree: $6
Lifetouch Pics Alex: $37
Lifetouch Pics Dom: $37
YMCA Soccer Alex: $20
YMCA Soccer Dom: $20
Soccer accessories Alex: $30
Soccer accessories Dom: $30
Soccer team Photo Alex: $20
Soccer team Photo Dominic: $20
State Fair advanced Gate admissions for Alex: $6
22 advanced buy Ride tickets for the kids: $15
For the heck of it, Summer toys on clearance at Dollar General $30
Girl Scouts enrollment: $20
2 Halloween costumes so far!: $40

Total Amount Paid out from August 15- Sept 15 = $428

So yeah, kids do cost some money but they enjoy keeping active and I'm happy we are able to do that for them. We aren't living paycheck to paycheck but my dad believes you should have a zillion dollars in your account like he does. Actually I'm kinda shocked I spent that much already. lol We will be buying some 4H projects, 2 more halloween costumes and putting the kid back at the Y for gymnastics soon too. Eek! I didn't include food and diapers in that amount either. That's a whole new post! lol

That's my girl! Kickin' butt and takin' names. Alex is really enjoying soccer. Infact I think she loves it more than softball. We nearly froze to death on Saturday at the kid's soccer games. I felt bad because I didn't put an undeshirt on Alex. She was cold and you could tell which made me feel like everyone was looking at me. Doesn't everyone get that feeling every once in awhile? It was a tie though 1-1. There was about a hour between the games so I went home and we grabbed more blankets and more clothes!

Dominic's game (being a bunch of 4 yr olds) was much more comical. You gotta love it though. Little 4 year olds getting upset and pushing each other or kicking each others shin guards to see if it hurts. (sigh) Dominic was pushed then pushed the other kid over so bad he started crying and got in trouble. Another dad near us said "Good Job Dominic!" I looked over at him all weird in which he responded, "well he was pushed first so it's good that he pushed him back." What? So Dominic got his team their first foul for the season. (sigh)

The highlight of my weekend though was to meet my friend Chrystal from Babycenter at the Kansas State Fair. She is just awesome and so are her 3 little boys! We plan to get together again soon. It's neat because her 3 are the same ages as my 3 oldest. Sunday after church we hung around the house. Sunday night Alex's ear started bothering her so I ended up taking her to the Dr this morning to find out she has another infection and excessive ear wax build up again. This ear wax thing is just crazy. It's not like you can just stick a Q-tip in and get it. She'll probably have to go to the ENT again since they have special equipement to clean her ears. We've already done that once. Anyways she was screaming and crying last night and then after the Dr took a big chunk of wax out we left with her crying and 3 slips for prescriptions. I am not looking forward to sick kids now that fall is upon us.

If At First You Don't Talk, Then Sign!

Damien's home visit this week went well. He is really enjoying is teacher! They played ball, strung beads, played with books and puzzles and she tried desperately to get just one word besides "dis" and "yeah yeah" out of him. I feel bad because she's tried everything I have and then some and it's not seeming to work. On his IFSP he will start EI preschool at 3 but at this rate since he seems further behind at Dominic and Dom started at 2 yrs 11 mths I can see them sticking him in Early Intervention even sooner than they did with him. For now we are learning sign language which Damien thinks is just hilarious! He laughs and laughs as I sign different things to him. What we plan to do though is say "I don't know" and shake our heads and hopefully he will sign back and maybe just maybe say the word with it. That's the plan. He has been off the binkie now for about a month (was having it at nap and bedtime before) but it's not seeming to make a difference in the tongue thrust. Sufferin' Succatash! I was hoping it would be a fix. lol

We had our first Brownie meeting last night which turned out pretty good! We have 11 girls this year and possibly more after I get the other mom's to come back. lol The troop leader last year mismanaged the girls money and it made a few mom's leave but I think they will be bringin their girls back after I explain that things are resolved now. I was a Girl Scout from K-6th grade myself so I explained how the Girl Scouts came about and we made paper bag puppets, had snacks, and did the Brownie Promise. I introduced the girls to the Brownie Smile song which they liked alot.

And last here is Dominic as a Leo a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. He is so happy we found this outfit for him. It was in a mail order catalog for $40 and we bought it at Walmart for $20! Alex is going to be a cheerleader and the little one's I'm not sure yet. I'm trying to find something that matches them as a pair.

Daycare on Demand

K and K's mom called and asked if I could watch the girls today so I said sure. They both go to school at a grade school (K and preschool/daycare) but today is a teacher in-service so school is out and their mom being a teacher still has to work. I don't mind really, I could always use a few bucks, and I know the kids miss playing with them. It's weird that it's only been about 8 months and how much they have changed. I watched the littlest K since she was 5 weeks old and here she is with Damien at 2 yrs 9 months! She's talking up a storm as Damien just says "dis! dis dis!!" lol Her sister big K is in Kindergarten and I've watched her since she was 2. She is much more girlie and grown up now but I still caught her today playing in Dominic's room with the train table, dinosaurs and pirate dress up things. Just for fun here's a picture of Damien and Little K as babies.

I ran into another mom yesterday that I watched for and told her I was watching the girls today. She said, "really!" I hope she doesn't get any ideas. lol

Waiting, Pictures, and Other Things....

Well I'm not sure what happened yesterday but I am waiting for lab work to come back and who knows how long that will take. I started feeling weird last Thursday so I started cranberry supplements but didn't continue I guess like I should have. I was fine for 3 days and then woke up in all sorts of crazy pain. On top of it all I got a miserable cold that started! And yes your day can get much worse! I was told Dominic shouldn't bring a fidget toy on the bus anymore and our horse got out and was running down the highway (55mph) while cars dodged her. My neighbor Max came over and asked around 2 if I had lost a horse and sure enough she had ripped apart her fence. He had her tied to a post near their horse across the highway. Well when I got there she was very excited and absolutely in love with their mare. She was not leaving without a fight. We turned circle after circle as she tried to rear up and screamed in my ear. She was very upset. After her dragging me around and telling me she was the boss I tied her back up and 3 hours later my friend (Max's son) lead her home. She screamed the whole way but she listened to him and came home. She was a complete different horse then how she has been here. Quite aggravating.

Saturday we had our first Soccer games for the season. I totally missed Dominic's since we took 2 seperate vehicles and stupid me forgot about State Fair traffic. Dave's aunt took pictures that she will eventually get me. Alex's team won 3-0! She was so happy (jumping in place on the field) It was great seeing her light up from winning. Remember all summer her ball team lost every game. lol

After we got back, I made Damien a Cars Movie Blanket that he's in love with. I love this material because he can drive his Cars Movie diecasts on the blanket which is cool.

Sunday we went to the Kansas State Fair and the kids had a blast there. Dominic loved looking in the Wildlife and Game fish aquarium. I swear they've had these same fish since I was a kid. This robot is hilarious and the kids can't figure out how he knows everything. There's a guy that has a walkie talkie that stands about 30 feet away talking for him and makes him move.

It was near impossible to pull Dominic and Damien out of the Army vehicles.
Dominic was in this tank for about 20 minutes talking to the Army Reserve guy about blowing up things and shooting bad guys with this tank. I can't believe at 4 he knows what War is. That is frightening.
This was some sort of emergency vehicles. It was gigantic. Alex was as tall as the wheels!
I just thought this was funny so I took a pic. When he'd face the fan his wool would blow out of the way and you could see his eyes. lol
I think this girl thought Damien was going to poke the chick to death!!
We were there when this calf was born but couldn't see anything with all the people. It was funny because afterwards everyone moved from the butt area because she was leaking and the placenta hadn't came out yet. No one wanted to stand there! LOL Calves really do try to stand right after birth too! This is how Dominic eats hotdog on buns. Nice huh!?

In other news, I've been extremely busy around here preparing for our first Brownie Meeting. I've done training, and have atleast 2 more trainings to go to soon. Mrs. BetterthanU (the other leader) found out that her husband is going to be shipped out to Iraq for atleast 8 months. Then he'll spend 2 months in California I guess "detoxing" in a way from his experiences over there. She's got 3 kids that are the same ages (within months!) as our 3 oldest so she has her work cut out for her. We also had Awana training last week and we start that next week. I hope I have good kids is all I can say. It's church, you'd think they'd be angels. lol (rolling eyes)