Mommy Tag

We got tagged by my nephew Carson. I had Tayson and Luke both answer.

1.What is something Mommy always says?
(T)You talk to dad a lot of times and you also sometimes says bad words because we make you wanna say it. (not the "real" bad words - but still not something I should say)
(L)Ummmm....like when you're mad you yell at us cause we always make bad choices.

2. What makes Mommy happy?
(T)If we do stuff that you want us to do
(L)When something makes you laugh

3. What makes Mommy sad?
(T)Oh that's a tricky one...when we make bad choices
(L)Teasing each other

4. How does your Mom make you laugh?
(T)Do silly faces
(L)When you do this "knock knock..."

5. What was your Mom like as a child?
(T)I don't know
(L)Like me ... you were like me mom

6. How old is your Mom?
(T)15 no not 15 .... 50
(L)16

7. How tall is your Mom?
(T)You're a little bit as tall as dad, but you're not really
(L)Smaller than giants...giants are really big

8. What is your Mom's favorite thing to do?
(T)Make us happy
(L)Eating

9. What does Mom do when your not around?
(T)Cook stuff - cook lunch when it's lunchtime and you cook dinner when it's dinnertime and you let me play. But I don't know what you do when I'm asleep.
(L)You play

10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for?
(T)Having babies - since you have 4 kids
(L)For telling a joke

11. What is your Mom really good at?
(T)Work
(L)Being nice

12. What is your Mom not good at?
(T)Playing the Indiana Jones Lego's game
(L)Playing games (like a game you don't know)

13. What does Mom do for her job?
(T)Get money
(L)Clean up the toys

14. What is Mom's favorite food?
(T)Chicken
(L)Spaghetti

15. What makes you proud of your Mom?
(T)Making me laugh - cause I like it when I laugh cause then I know something about you and I want to do it back to you so then you laugh ... ha ha (I have no idea what he was talking about and he really wanted to make sure I put in his ha ha)
(L)Building Lego's

16. If your Mom were a carton character who would she be?
(T)Wanda in Fairly Odd Parents
(L)Boots the monkey

17. What do you and your Mom do together?
(T)Read
(L)We eat dinner

18. How are you and your Mom the same?
(T)We both have veins...well i don't have any veins actually. Our eyes are the same
(L)We look together when my hair is long

19. How are you and your Mom different?
(T)You have black hair and I have brown hair
(L)We don't have the same shirts on

20. How do you know your Mom loves you?
(T)Cause you're nice to us
(L)We play games together and you always lose

Reading Help!!!

Help! Help! Help! Every time I sit down to read with Tayson or have him read to me we end up with him in timeout and me completely pissed off. I have tried reading right before bed as a privilege of getting to stay up late, I have tried reading as soon as he gets home from school before he can go out and play. What can I do to get my kid to love, like or even endure reading? I know he knows the words but he refuses to read them. I am beyond frustrated and we are just starting the school year again and need to read and do homework every day.

Are there good books to buy that 6 year old boys will want to read?

Is there a good way to encourage him without just telling him all the words?

Are there reading games that work?

Is there a book I should read to learn how to teach him better as a parent?

Happy 4th Birthday Luke

What do you want to be when you grow up: A police
What do you like to do: Play with you (mom)
What do you like about being 4: Doing 4 year old stuff. Like What? liking jumping on the trampoline high and that's what I do when I'm 4.

Favorites
Color: blue - because it's part of the American Flag (he has loved green until today)
Movie: Spiderman because he has blue too
Food: Chicken and Rice
Primary Song: Scripture Power
Book: Wall E
Cartoon: I like whatever Tayson watches like Fairly Odd Parents
Game: Star Wars Trivial Pursuit (yes the adult board game - he played it once with Todd and Tayson and loves it)
Computer Game: Diego on nickjr.com
Wii Game: Indiana Jones Lego's

What do you love most about Daddy: He makes me dinner
Mommy: I love you playing games with me (looks to me like he mixed up Todd and I what a silly boy)
Tayson: I love him playing Indiana Jones Lego's with me
Claire: She doesn't hit me and she plays downstairs with me
`Sophie: She's cute
Uncle Timmy: He tickles us and because he gave me a birthday spanking

School Lunch

Last week was the first week of first grade for Tayson and I thought he would like buying school lunch. It was a huge treat for me when I was little and I thought it would be easier. (Someday I will need to do a post on my school lunches growing up)

The first day of school he came home and told us he had pizza and white milk (because he couldn't find the chocolate milk). Then on Tuesday he came home so excited that he found the chocolate milk. By Friday he was done with school lunches - he told me he wanted to take a lunch instead. When I asked him why this is what he told me. "I have to say my name so loud to the lunch lady, then I have to put in my number and it is really hard to push the buttons and it hurts my fingers and you don't get a treat when you buy lunch but if you bring one you get a cookie."

So he went to the store with me on Saturday to pick out lunch foods and a lunch box. We had such a hard time finding a lunch box and are still on the lookout for a good Star Wars or Spiderman one. When we were looking at Wal-Mart for his lunch box he said "I guess we should have gone on the Internet to see what stores you can get a lunch box at." That's my boy!!!

**Addition to this post: Today when Tayson came home from school I asked him how it was bringing his lunch to school and he told me he was bummed because it was "pizza day" and he wanted to buy lunch AND he lost his lunch box today!!! Are you kidding me?

I thought I would add my favorite tribute to the lunch lady for your viewing pleasure.

Flashback Friday

This is a picture of Sherry and I in 1973. I absolutely LOVE the difference in our hair at 2 years apart. I cannot believe how bald I was. I am so glad that both of my girls have hair.

Sherry and I are pretty much the same age difference as Claire and Sophie. I won't say it was always easy, especially since I was the younger of the two. But I wouldn't trade it for anything. I love having a sister so close in age, we have so many great memories together. I hope that Sophie can look up to Claire for inspiration the same way I have always had Sherry. She sets the bar high and is absolutely amazing. I owe so much to you Sherry - thanks for always being the best at everything you did!!!

Mark Your Calendars

Todd is taking my boys camping on Sept. 12th for fathers and sons. So I think this is a great night for the girls to get together. Let's have a bow making party!!! All you need to do is bring some clips, ribbons, if you want flowers or anything those too and a hot glue gun. Then we can swap ideas, ribbons and talent of course.

Don't worry, we'll also eat yummy food and we can watch a chic flick in the theater room. Let me know if you want to come - you're all invited!!!!

**More Info**
Bring your girls if you want. They can watch a movie or I have a playroom or they can hang with us ladies!

Tubes

Claire got her tubes in this morning. We had to wake up at the crack of dawn to get her bathed and to the hospital by 6:30 am. She was so funny this morning because she woke up so perky and happy. She was actually chatting with the Nurse who was checking her in and Claire never chats with anyone! It just about broke my heart when the OR nurse took Claire out of my arms and they left for the surgery. The procedure was very fast and they had her back to us in no time at all. She was so feisty while the drugs wore off and everything irritated her. She fell right asleep when we got her home and slept for 2 hours. Then she woke up like nothing happened this morning and has been in a good mood ever since.

Speaking of tubes....she even managed to get into major trouble while we weren't paying attention to her. She got into my purse and took out my makeup bag and pulled out 2 tubes of lipstick. She colored all over the carpet in the front room and ruined 2 rather new tubes of my favorite mac lipstick. Thank goodness for Google where Todd learned that hairspray will take lipstick out of carpet. He sprayed and scrubbed and now the carpet looks pretty much like it did before. We're going to steam clean it this weekend and hopefully it will be as good as new.

I thought these pictures were cute of Claire this morning.


Todd and Claire in the waiting room. Claire wore her new princess pj's.


This is the sweet outfit they gave her for surgery...she even brought the orange slippers home.


The hospital gave her this doll to color and then she got to bring it home.


Post surgery...she wasn't very happy at this point.