Isaac in his first cowboy hat and wranglers

You probably know by now that Isaac loves hats! I am sure that it was against Adam's will that I got these jeans for Isaac, but doesn't he look so cute!?!

Ellee's Birthday is Coming Up!

Ellee's birthday is coming up on July 7th. She is really excited. She loves the littlest pet shop and I used to buy them for her every time we went to walmart. I decided to put a chore and allowance system in place and stopped buying them for her. One day I asked if she wanted to some extra chores to earn money for a new littlest pet and she told me "I'll just wait for my birthday or Christmas." And she has... It is quite funny, but I have held strong! (Though she may have moved on to Pokemon.) She loves to play pokemon with her Uncle Riley!

We are having her family birthday party on July 6th. She wanted to roast hot dogs and marhmallows, so that is what we are doing. We will have tasty food too.

She is old enough now that she wants to have a "friends" birthday party, so we are having a little get together with some of her friends from her primary class, school and neighbors. That should be crazy with water balloons and ice cream!

I can't believe that she is going to be 6! She has grown so fast.

Ellee's Kindergarten Graduation

Today was the big day. Ellee graduated from kindergarten. She has been so excited for this day. They sang songs. Some kids talked, others were in a special musical number with chimes. Ellee was one with chimes. She did such a great job. We love her so much and feel so blessed to have her in our family. She is a great example to us. She is fun, kind and oh so cute! Through the year, Ellee has learned to read, shapes, patterns, to play well with others and lots more.

I think she will really miss her teacher, Mrs. Paxman. She has been such a fun teacher.

Since Ellee has shown some MAJOR RESPONSIBILITY this year with graduating from kindergarten and all, I agreed to let her have her very own pet. She wanted a cat, but settled for a beta fish. After 5 or 6 names, she settled on "Maya, you know, like my friend Maya."

Isaac was rotten during the graduation because they didn't plan it around his nap time. :) He really didn't want to have anything to do with any of it. Even though he was a bit of a pain during the graduation, today has been so fun. When I put him in the bath this morning, he had a couple of foam letters and was sticking them to the sides saying "A" "I" "C" He didn't say the letters that matched, but he recognized that both what he was saying and what he was playing with were letters. Later, he colored on himself and said "marker." It is not the first time this has happened. I am sure it will not be the last. He woke up this morning covered in marker because he had colored on his hand and then slept on it.

Have I mentioned that he loves hats?

Movie trivia

So do you remember that scene in the movie Swiss Family Robinson where the guys had gone back out to the wreckage to see if they could salvage anything. Then they are spotted by the pirates (ARR)

who were sailing towards them and firing their cannons and what-not?

side note-Nice man boobs dude. ->

What happened next? (as the suspense elevates to a fever pitch...)

The father finds and raises a flag on the shipwrecked boat, which coincidentally was used to indicate that "black death was aboard", and the pirates turn and sail away. At least for now... (Dun-dun-dun...) <- that was to indicate a feeling of mysteriousness.

Well I feel as if I should raise that same flag at my house. Katie is sick with something that causes projectile vomiting. (OK, not really projectile its just kind of comedic to add the visual effect...) Isaac woke up delirious at 4AM with a fever of 104.5 for the second night in a row. (poor kid) I gave him some medicine and tried to put him back in bed, but he wouldn't have it. For the next several hours he went through cycles where he would kick off the blankets, cuddle, and smack me in the head repeatedly as he watched the Disney channel. (who'd have thought that the Little Mermaid would be on at that hour.) Katie took him to the doctor last night to see if we could give him any antibiotics or anything. Can you guess what their diagnosis was? "Its a virus" To me that is like them saying, "oh sure enough he's sick." Well, thanks... and I should pay you for this golden nugget of information now right?

Thankfully Ellee and I have not shown similiar symptoms. (say that with a lisssp) In order to maintain our current health status we may need to evacuate. ?? TBD

Love is in the air!

Today was such a great day! I had lots of neighbors over for a pool party out back. The weather was fabulous. I am loving the warm sun. Ellee loved having her friends over and Isaac was in heaven just to be outside. I got a serious farmer's tan.

After our fun outdoor day, we went to visit TWO of Adam's siblings who are getting married this summer. Alan and Ally (Adam has named them Allyan) and Lisa and Brian (Adam is working on your new name... Brisa, Lian...TBA) They are getting married a week apart. Have I mentioned I love weddings? I love weddings! August will be so terrific. Congratulations.

I am pretty sure that boys are born with sound effects! Isaac can make a sound effect for just about anything; that might be because he turns most things into cars or trucks.

He loves to wear glasses, boots or shoes and his new hero cape. It has batman on one side and superman on the other.

His new thing is to take a big drink and then let out a big FAKE burp at the end... he is so crazy! We must have laughed once. He loves to make people around him laugh. I think we have a class clown in the making.

Well today has been nuts! Ellee mentioned that she had a tummy ache before school, but I figured it was just too much sugar with breakfast. I sent her to school. Right when she got home she told me her tummy hurt. I tried to give her some vitamins to fix it. BIG MISTAKE! She then proceeded to throw up all over!!! It was a disaster! I hope she gets better soon. Isaac doesn't seem to fell well either. I will avoid the vitamins with him...

Dayton and I made bread from scratch, and when I say from scratch, I mean it. We used a hand wheat grinder and made flour and then made the bread, with "lots of love." It was fabulous.

So, we have about a billion holidays in May. We got together to celebreate lots of birthdays and mother's day today. It was fun to get togother. Bonnie- Sorry for any new words Dayton may know! Adam stayed home with our sick children. It was sad. :( Have I mentioned lately how amazing he is? That my kids are adorable? That I have a terrific family, and a lot of them? I am the luckiest girl in the world! (Ok, it is getting a little cheesy. Must be bedtime.)

Diddle-diddle

I guess I should attempt to keep this thing updated.

I am sure that this would be much more interesting if Katie gave me a play-by-play, but I will give you what I can think of. Isaac was mad at me when I left this morning. (Yep, tears and everything. Makes for a wonderful day.) He probably thought that he was missing out on something because I was giving Ellee a ride to school. Then we have a void of 8 hours while I was at work. Which seemed like a complete waste of time today. Katie had a 'hair appointment' tonight so I hung out with the kids. We, Ellee and Isaac helped, cooked some Mac & Cheese for dinner. Oh it was tasty alright. The best thing that I have to report is the cute things that my kids do.

Ellee and Isaac take turns chasing each other around the house with threats of tickling. Isaac runs after Ellee saying "diddle diddle" while rubbing his fingers and thumbs together. Cute little bugger...

the First

So, I guess I will see how this goes. I am not very good about keeping a journal on paper but maybe I will do better online... I have been sitting on my A%# for way too long today, so I hopefully I will have something to say tonight.