Goodbye, Good Friends! We'll Miss You!!

Our good friends, the Pruitts, are leaving tomorrow morning for Massachusetts. We bid them farewell last night and it was VERY difficult. We can't wait to visit them in their new home and we wish them the best of luck in their new life.

Here's a tribute to the good times we've shared with them (and hopefully MANY more to come, even though we are separated by over 3,000 miles)...

We'll miss you guys SOOO much!!!

The Birthday Song

As you might recall (remember this?), my kids LOVE birthdays and LOVE singing the birthday song. Apparently there's a NEW birthday song in our house (thanks to Big A's creativity) that goes like this...

Happy birthday, to you
Happy birthday, to you
Happy birthday, dear Mommy
Happy birthday to you
Jesus is your friend
And you love him
And he loves you too
Amen

Our Trip To Los Angeles

As previously mentioned, three weeks ago my mom and I took the kids to Los Angeles to visit my 87 year old grandmother. SHe had her second colon cancer surgery in March and hasn't been doing too well since then. She really nejoys playing with the kids, so we thought it would be good to take them down. We probably picked the hottest weekend LA has seen in quite some time!

We left Thursday afternoon and got to LA SUPER late. We checked into our hotel, got our jammies on, and went to bed.

We had to be up and around at a decent time the next morning in order to get to my Grandma's house in time to take her to her doctor appointment but were not in such a rush that the kids couldn't check out the view from our window before we left.

They were in heaven! The moon... The airport... And more airplanes than we could count!


We headed over to grandma's, took her to the doctor, ate lunch at our favorite In-N-Out where you can watch the planes fly right over you and then headed back to grandma's house for much needed naps, visiting, and to let out some pent up energy.

The kids enjoyed playing with Cousin Juliana...


Making chalk drawings (or is this a crime scene?) in the driveway...


Watching the Good Year Blimp fly RIGHT over us...


Snuggling with Grandma...


Hanging out with Great Grandma...


Sunggling with Great Grandma...

And just plain having fun!

Thanks for a great trip, Mom/Grandma!

It's Raining, It's Pouring...

And what do you need when it rains???

Saturday morning we were up getting ready to take Big A to soccer pictures. Big A was laying on our bed getting dressed, B was doing something in the bedroom and Little A and I were in the bathroom doing her hair.

The conversation went like this...

B - "It's raining outside."

Big A *Gets off the bed to look out the window* - "I need to bring my umbrella. Can I bring my umbrella, Mommy?"

Me - "No, not to soccer pictures. We'll bring the big umbrella and we can ALL stand under it."

Little A - "I need a Cinderbrella too, Mommy!"

Big Aisms... Again!

Two weeks ago my mom and I took the kids to Los Angeles to visit with my grandma. While driving along I-5 we saw a truck carrying what looked to me like stakes for holding trees up. Big A saw the truck out the window and said, “MOMMY! Do you see that truck with the giant toothpicks?”

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The next morning in the hotel room, we had a USA Today laying on the desk. Big A took one look at this picture…

And said, “Mommy, which one of those guys is President Kennedy?”

You can imagine my surprise at THAT question. I asked him how he knew one of them was President Kennedy and he said, “Because he’s on the space show I watch at Grandma and Grandpa’s.”

DAMN! That kid is TOO smart!

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That same morning we took my Grandma to the doctor. There were 6 of us following the nurse down the hall and Big A, after observing the office clientele, said to my mom, “Grandma, is this doctor only for old people?”

Never a dull moment with Big A!!

Next time I'll post more pictures from our trip.

First Day of School

Big A and Little A started school this week. Big A is in Junior Kindergarten and Little A is in 2 Day Preschool. According to the cut-off date in the state of California, Big A is old enough to start kindergarten this year. We, on the other hand, were not so sure. We feel that we made the right choice by keeping Big A out of elementary school for one more year.

The school the kids attend has an awesome Junior Kindergarten program which, because of such huge changes in the state standards, teaches the things that B and I learned in kindergarten (which is now more like first grade was when we were in school).

Big A LOVES his new class and comes home every day saying, "SCHOOL WAS GREAT!" Little A wasn't supposed to be able to start school until October 2, but because of some changes in the school programs and classes, she was able to start this week. She was THRILLED but is more excited by snack than anything else. That makes perfect sense since the most common thing to come out of her mouth is, "I'm hungry!"