School Days

I am too tired to correctly edit these photos in the order I wanted so I will give you the story anyway. Hopefully it makes sense.

My kiddos started school today! Waahooo! My daughter is in 3rd and my son in Kindergarten. I was so nervous the whole morning. But they both did amazing. My biggest problem? The youngest one in this photo thinks he needs to go to school too and complains every day. I tell him that he has school at home and that I am the teacher. It is not cutting it.Notice the sneaky hand holding in the first picture? Butterball discovered that Appleseed was holding.....gasp! An ItCh BoMb!!!!!And this was supposed to be picture one. Ugh. Butterball insisted on wearing his belt to the very last hole so it is scary tight on him. And Butterbean informed me that she thinks she actually looks cute in uniforms.OK, back to the frightening story of the ItCh BoMb! Butterball insisted on throwing it away explaining to Appleseed that that is what he thought gave him hives (He has had hives for 4 days prior). As you can see, Appleseed did not like that idea.Now we are still explaining how bad the itch bombs are to him. It looks like he is seeing the light from the great wisdom of Butterball. :) And just so know one worries. It was the tight little dried up ball thingy, not the big puffed out bomb.Then we were finally able to move on to get my favorite picture ever. I want this one as an 8X10 on my wall. I love it!As I drive them to school, a nervous wreck as I had to swing back to grab a school lunch, my predictable Butterbean can't leave things calm and peaceful. She starts in saying that her and Butterball need to find some sort of a meeting place at school where he can wait for her if he is having a problem with bullies. I told her that he can't just sit somewhere and wait for her but that if he did have a problem he could tell his teacher and his parents. She said, "But what if someone is making fun of how he looks?" I told her that she needed to stop right now, she LOVES to freak him out. She of course got furious and started to plug her ears when he was explaining that maybe they just wanted to ask him to be his friend. Cute little positive guy. So I tried to click a picture but she wasn't happy about me trying to get a picture of her very grumpy, I know more than all of you and you are so out of it face. Oh yes, I can not wait to see that face when she is a teenager. NOT!!!Oh brother! Just saw this one. How in the world did they get posted so wrong! Appleseed is trying to explain that it was not yucky! Poor guy, so misunderstood.And that was our day. I missed them something terrible. Apparently they missed something else. Butterball came home and started picking on Appleseed in a BAD way! Thankfully it was nap time for Appleseed. Then Butterbean came home......I have a tendency to plug religious music on before she comes home because she is such a negative person. She immediately went on the rampage about what the other two may have got or done while she was gone, or how unfair it all is, or slamming the door and yelling about how mean we are. And then Butterball joined with how "Wude" I am. Yes, I can not WAIT to send them back! :)

Sitting 11 hoodlums

A long long long time ago....he he. I am so behind on blogging. Is it bad that I would rather read a book then facebook or blog? That is where I am.

Anyway, a long time ago I watched my brother-in-law's 8 children and my 3. OK, most of his kids are older and don't require a whole lot of sitting. It was a wonderful and amazing time. Minus the flu that out of 13 of us total, 11 had it. Including me. NOT FUN! And also they have this horrible curse that something happens every time they are out of town. I have demanded that curse be lifted. So when the garbage disposal broke I was not too worried. But when the leaking happened in the girl's downstairs basement, that was where I wanted to draw the line. Lucky there were some calls made and a nice man in the ward fixed the garbage disposal that was also causing the leaking.

This is how I spent one of the days. Me, Butterball, and my 6 year old nephew all woke up with the flu. Not fun taking turns using the bathroom and cleaning up when you are also very sick. It was horrible.My sons LOVED the older boys. It was so precious.This is one of my Mother's Day presents that I received. So nice. And this is the cutie I got it from. Yes those are hot pads on his hands. He played with those for quite awhile.My 6 year old nephew and Butterball doing their fighting poses. On Mother's Day the older boys made me and one of their Mom's breakfast. Eggs, toast, sausage, and a quiche. It was amazing. I had to share mine with the little someone in the picture. Darn it. :) This is how Appleseed was 95% of the time there. I swear. It was not easy at all. I even took him to the doctor after several days of this sure that he was really sick or something. Guess what? He isn't. He is just unhappy. What? Are you serious? The doctor said, "You have him on a new allergy medicine, you stopped nursing, and you are in a new environment. He just isn't happy." Oh joy! But guess what? He was better the minute we got home. Sooooo not funny.Appleseed went upstairs and found some of the kid's gum. A LOT of gum.
Appleseed loved the older boys. OK....this older boy. He has loved him since he met him. It is adorable.I love taking care of this family. They are truly some amazing kids. And the spirit is so strong in their home that it was amazing to feel. Thank you again for the opportunity and I look forward to doing it agian.....minus the flu and curses of course.

Earth Day

When it finally stopped snowing the kids and I went out and planted some plants to celebrate Earth Day. It was fun.

In our compost we found a caterpillar that Butterbean claimed as a pet and named Squirmy.Here is Appleseed "helping". I know, what a pretty face.Then Butterball found a worm that he wanted for his pet. He named it Crawly. In this picture he is showing me how Crawly is giving him a hug. So cute.My kids between my two peach trees. They were planted last year. I didn't think the little one would make it but she did! Yeah!Butterball was so upset because we would not let "Crawly" come live in the house. He was so worried that he would get out of his jar and crawl away. Especially as it is Crawly #2 in the jar. Crawly #1 got loose when he was showing him the outside and he fell in the grass. But Butterball thinks he crawled to the backyard and dug another hole and that is where we found him, of course. He was crying and telling my husband that he could get out of the jar because "him have little hands". He had seen them. He is so precious.

Wordless Wednesday -- singing

Grandkids

My husband went on a TDY trip for his work and his daughter and family live just a couple of hours away from where he was. I was jealous that he got to see our daughter, son-in-law and 4 wonderful grandkids.

This is my son-in-law with his oldest girl on his lap. She is the same age as my Butterbean.My beautiful and wonderful other daughter.And here is all 4 of them together. I just wish I could have seen them too. I love you all so much and miss you a ton.While I was at it I thought I would add a picture of my son too. He is only 3 years younger than me. he he. He calls me Mom and remembers me on Mother's Day. I love it. I just wish they all lived closer so I could see them more. Hint Hint!