Will's Party

Our neighbor had a birthday party for her son, Will, who just turned 1. Darbi rented this huge waterslide that we placed between our two houses. The kids had a blast!!! By the end of the day the grass had turned to a nasty mud :)

Allie and Daisie have formed quite a bond. Daisie will let Allie do pretty much anything to her. Probably because Allie is constantly feeding her. The other day, though, Allie followed Daisie around for half an hour with a bucket full of water. Daisie finally got smart and parked her lazy but on the back porch. Here's Allie trying to figure it all out :)

The week from H-E-double hockey sticks

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Its started on Tuesday when Allie threw my cell phone into my coffee. Fried it. Yes, this is the very cell phone that earlier this year I dropped into the bathtub. Was able to get a another one that day but I could have killed the little squirt.

Then on Friday after his last day of school, Stewart was playing barefoot in the backyard and kicked a brick. Judging by the amount of blood I was certain he'd ripped off his toenail. Thankfully he did not, but my boy is a HUGE drama queen so that was fun. Here is a pictue of Allie after the incident. Stewart had just hosed her down when he hurt himself so I can't help but think she had something to do with his accident.

Then on Saturday I go out to my minivan and it has a dead battery. Instead of leaving it alone and going to ask a neighbor to help me push it out of the garage, I decide to take that task on all by my little ol' self. Simple enough: You put it in neutral, and you push. Right? Only the minivan gets away from me and to prevent it from hurdling into the street I run to open the driver's door and I get pinched between the garage wall and the minivan. Hence this beautiful collection of bruises on my left arm. The picture really doesn't do it justice. I hurt. ALOT! Good news after all this the minivan gets just enough juice in it to start up so I can go to Walmart and get a new battery.

On a side note, Allie is an M&M freak. I gave her some during our walk to the park yesterday. Here I am trying to get her attention but she refuses to take her eyes off the M&Ms in fear they may disappear.

Rocket Day

Today was Rocket Day at Milburn Park. It's the 1st graders big end-of-the-year party. Each student built a rocket and today they got to launch it. It was awesome! It was super hot, as usual, but Allie was in preschool so I didn't care :) Afterwards they played and had BBQ hot dogs.

Here are some pictures of Stewart with all his (girl) friends. Hey, the girls keep him out of trouble! They're like little mothers and they manage to keep the boy on the straight and narrow when I'm not around. I'll worry about the ramifications when he becomes a teenager :)

Yes, I know. Allie looks like she's been beaten with a stick. But if you could look past the band aids and the scratches and the bruises, you'll notice that she is wearing several accessories. On her right hand is my wedding ring, her left hand is my new Stella and Dot ring, and her toe is my Silpada ring. The girl has expensive taste!


A couple of weeks ago I cleaned out Stewart's room and got rid of an embarrassing amount of junk. Instead of donating some of it, Stewart opted to have a garage sale. So this morning in the 90 million percent humidity and gail force winds we attempted to have just that. After an hour Stew got bored so we gave up. We never sold anything :( But at least the kids had a blast! He wants to try again on Monday when "The kids will be walking home from school." Quite the little entrepreneur!

Stewart Turns 7

Stewart's birthday was a big one this year. Stephen was home so the boys went to the Mammoth Dig Site in Waco. Stewart's big present this year was a computer. He was so surprised! On his birthday I brought him lunch and then he and his classmates had cupcakes. Then for dinner we all went to Chuck E Cheese. It was a big day!

Allie's Tea Party

So you spend hundreds of dollars on toys and the kids plays with the box, right? Miss Allie even has a REAL tea set. And yet today she had a "tea party" with her My Little Ponies using cupcake liners, stacking cups, and Tupperware. The menu: fishie crackers, paper clips, dry noodles and apple juice. Mmmmmmm.

Bluebonnets

Its a Texas tradition to have you pictures taken with the bluebonnets every year. Last year the drought made it next to impossible to find them anywhere. This year they were blooming everywhere!

But for one reason or another we could never make it out to take pictures. So today, despite the rain and mud, I took the kids out to the field behind CPMS and took their pictures. Of course, they didn't want to be near each other so I couldn't get one good picture of the two of them. NOT ONE! I did get these though: