Fetish

I was just doing some laundry and looked at my 'ready-to-go' swim bucket thinking I'm gonna have to pack it up soon and replace it with the 'hats-n-gloves' bucket. And I realized I have a bucket fetish! I love buckets!

Food Storage Buckets - Memento Buckets (color coded by kid)

Bean Buckets and Picture Buckets (still color coded)

Laundry Buckets (of course color coded ) and Swim Bucket (jsut thrown in no colors)

Lego Bucket - Bekah and Anna Bucket

Scrap Buckets and Socks / Bill Bucket (I know these are 2 random things in the same closet - but it works for me LOL!)


Laundry Bucket (we have to stack em' high around here) and Toy Buckets

Folks the pictures could go on and on! I love buckets!

One Day Teeth - Next Day Loose Tooth... and gone. Boy this milestone snuck up on me! (And thank goodness the tooth fairy got woke up at 5am and remembered there was a tooth under this kids pillow!)

More Confessions

I must confess... Bekah was potty trained by my Grammie at 14 months old (at the time it seemed perfectly normal - now I realize how uncommon that truly is!) Anna was potty trained by my sister at 22 months old (while I was in the hospital having Kaid). I potty trained Kaid at 2, then tried again at 3, everyone kept telling me he was just a boy... then tried again at 3 1/2 (ya know he's a boy, they're different) , then again at 4, (he still a boy and they will do it when they are ready)... then just put him in pants and hoped it would all kick in (he's 5 - I'm still waiting). So needless to say I decided I didn't know how to potty train and was dreading potty training Quinn! But Wow! It's done! I am so thrilled! We only had a few minor snafu's and I will share 2 things to remember when potty training. 1. Teach the kid how to pull down his pants before going... Apparently I forgot this step (I was just having him naked in the house and helped him when we were out) One day he came up and told me he needed to go and then ran over, sat down, and went... with all his clothes on. 2. Peeing on a tree is acceptable, pooping on a tree is not... somehow that socially unacceptable behavior escaped his lessons.

Enthusiasm

A totally different approach to a new school is what Bekah has. After she got home the conversation went something like this: enthusiastically

Me: How was the first day?

Beks: Awesome! We had 2 assemblies and learned a ton of different ways to pop balloons and

lunch was crazy and have no homework!

Me: Wow

Beks: Yeah and then I looked at this girl and she looked at me and she said, 'Bekah?' And I said, 'Gia?' And it was totally Gia from first grade and then we screamed and everybody was looking at us and then we got embarrassed and then we started laughing and Pickle knows her too and Alyssa is in my home room and that's good and the girl who cried trying to open her locker at parent orientation turns out she is popular and she is kinda mean and yeah. It was good. (giggle, giggle)

Me: (laughing at her and with her)

Beks: and there's this kid whose name is Andrew but he wants us to call him Mex

Me: Max?

Bek: No Mex like mexican which is just weird because his name is Andrew and that's just weird

Uhhh yeah, can we go swim?

Pain

The new year is so exciting in so many way. For Anna the 'new' can be so intimidating, so un-nerving, so unsure, so painful and it shows plainly on her face. Many times she is perfectly happy alone. She prefers it. She is a one or two friend kind of girl, but this year her best friend and her other best friend and her other other best friend aren't at school (moved, home schooled and older with different recess/lunch). The pain comes when as a parent your baby burst into tears off the bus because she had no one to play with at recess (despite the fact her class mates from last year came up and gave her a hug) and she had to walk around alone - in her high heels (despite the fact that she did that many times last year out of preference) or that none of her friends are in her new class (despite the fact that none of the other kids know each other either). I know she will make new friends, I know she didn't get a personalized invitation to play but everyone would have loved her playing with them, I know she will be OK in a few days and walking around alone because she wants to - but for now, yesterday and today - that is pain...

Who Likes Kaids New School?

Quinn couldn't wait to get in the door
Bekah was reliving her younger days


Lexsie found plenty to entertain her

Anna found a few things to experiment with

Kaid is still deciding if he will attend next week (He thinks he has choice LOL)

why do I do this to myself?

I start to bed at 10:25 I make it to my room at 11:55 and I just found this lovely surprise for myself. I hate it when I forget I have 15 loads of laundry on my bed to put away.