Sick Baby

I have a sick baby. He started feeling bad last week. I thought he had a virus. His cousin that spent the weekend with us did. I figured he had the same thing. But he wasn't getting better. Then he started pulling on his ear. We went to the doctor. Ear infection. His first one. Now he's on an antibiotic. But still very clingy and snuggly. He wants to sleep alot. I hope he feels better soon. The bookshelves haven't been emptied for a few days...

Gifted?

Like most siblings, my kids have been known to pick on each other. Especially the two oldest. They both have a pretty good sense of humor and thankfully feelings aren't usually hurt. Lately when Sassypants does something that isn't too bright or she totally misses the obvious, Caveman will say, "no wonder you're not in the gifted program." But she gets him back when he does something stupid by saying, "I thought you were in the gifted program." Works both ways.

Well, yesterday that Sassypants got from the bus to the house in record time. She had big news. The fourth grade just took the math benchmark test and guess who got the highest score in the entire fourth grade? That's right. My Sassypants! She was so proud and so was I! It might not come as easy to her as it does to her brother but she works so hard and it payed off. Way to go girl! We might have to change your name to Smartypants!

Conversation with Cowboy

Me: I am going to put a brick on your head so you will stop growing.

Cowboy: But I want to get bigger!

Me: Why do you want to get bigger?

Cowboy: So I can be a dad!

Me: So, why do you want to be a dad?

Cowboy: So I can get my license and dwive, and so I can watch dad shows and so I can cook! That's all.

Play School

Cowboy goes to Play School. He goes with five of his friends and all the moms take turns teaching. Last week was my week. The letter of the week was U. So we built a fort and got Under it. We also talked about the letter U, wrote the letter U and made umbrellas but the fort was the highlight of the day. They sat under there for almost an hour listening to stories and taking turns with the flashlight.

They are very silly. This was the best picture I got. It's pretty tricky getting a good picture of five four year olds. (one was missing that day)
This picture was the last time it was my week. P week. Pajama and puzzle day. We got a good picture that day.(one was missing again) We printed this picture and cut it into pieces to make a puzzle. We have fun. I think all the kids love it. I know Cowboy does. And most weeks we get two mornings when Cowboy can have fun with his friends and I can run errands without a sidekick. It's a win win.

Through Cowboy's Eyes

Cowboy loves electronics. He loves video games, MP3 players, computers, cameras. All of it. He loves all of it. And he thinks that because all of the people in this house that are bigger than him own and use these things that he should too. Recently Caveman upgraded from his old 1 gig MP3 player to an i-pod Nano. He was kind enough to give Cowboy his old one and Cowboy was thrilled about it until we went to Best Buy to purchase said Nano. He wanted one with an apple on it. So Caveman took the apple sticker that came on the Nano packaging and stuck it to Cowboys MP3 player. Problem solved right? Well, for a few days. The Hottie decided he needed an i-pod Touch, so off we went to Best Buy. Again. We were browsing through the store and all the while Cowboy saying, "I need a lap top. I don't have a lap top. I need one of these memory cards." He doesn't even have anything to put a memory card in. Then when the Hottie picked out his i-pod, "I need an i-pod. I want one with an apple on it. Mine just has an apple sticker." We then remind for at least the 45th time that day that he is four. To which he replies, "But I'm gonna be five."

He loves getting his hands on my camera. He took it the other day and I told him to just take a few pictures. He took 40. 40 pictures of the TV and his feet. It's quite funny to see the things that he feels are photo worthy.

Example #1 His tractor. I don't think that I have ever mentioned on this blog how much this kid loves tractors. Especially John Deere tractors. I have even been known to bribe him into behaving by promising him a trip to the John Deere store. This is a favorite toy of his so I understand why he would want to photograph this.

Example #2 This I don't understand. This photo was one in a series of about seven. The girl on the disney channel that sings the choo choo train song. Interesting.

Example #3 Cowboy feet. No boots. Not even adequate jammies to cover the toes. I've been trying to talk him into trashing these for months. He is not convinced. He loves the way his toes stick out. I guess that's why the majority of the pictures he took were very similar to this one.
I think I'll hand the camera over to him more often. I like seeing the world through his eyes.

Junie B. Jones and Fancy Nancy

It's Read Across America week and today at school it's Dress Like Your Favorite Book Character Day. Sassypants chose Junie B. Jones and Rockstar chose Fancy Nancy.

Sassypants loves Junie B. Jones. I do too. If you haven't read any of these books you should because they are hilarious.

Sassy pants was making her best Junie B. face in these photos. She had a hard time dressing so tacky and even mentioned that she couldn't believe that Junie's mom lets her dress so tacky. I told her not everyone's mom cares as much as her's does (and was thinking, if Junie B. was real her mom might care more).

Rockstar loves the Fancy Nancy books. Super cute! And Target has a whole line of Fancy Nancy dress up clothes, tea sets and party things. Unfortunately we don't have any of those things so we got creative.

We curled her hair with rags last night so her hair was SUPER curly this morning. She wore a party dress with lots of fancy jewelry and accessories. And of course some make-up. You can't be fancy without make-up right?

I think they both looked just like their characters. Maybe even cuter.

My Robot

Last week at school the Rockstar was reading a story called "My Robot". (not to be confused with el Robot) She was given an assignment to make a robot of her own and bring it to class on Friday. She has the best dad ever and he went to work and brought home lots of thrown away parts.They made a torso out of an empty jug, the legs were golf club shafts, the arms were parts of airplane seats and everything else...I have no idea what it was but it turned out looking pretty cool. Rockstar loved working on a project with dad and Cowboy had fun getting in on the action too.

His eyes even had lights in them!!! Rockstar was so excited to take him to school and show him off to her class.

Thanks Dad for sacrificing valuable study time to build a robot worthy of a Rockstar and thanks Cowboy for sacrificing your walkie talkie parts so that the robot could see.

Six Teeth

All six teeth are all the way in and my baby is sleeping well again. Finally!!! Last night he slept from 9 to 5:30. I am one happy mama! And I love a baby smile full of barely in baby teeth.

Don't you just want to kiss that face?