Princess wishes

Yesterday, Maggie, dressed in full Princess Belle attire, complete with purple dress up shoes and a crown - came upstairs, reached out her hand and asked me as serious as anything, "Mom, will you be my prince and dance with me?" How could I resist?

Pondering Grandmother Willow

This was part of the conversation that Maggie and I had on our way back from dropping everyone off at the airport this afternoon.

A motorcyclist passed us who was NOT wearing a helmet, or even a coat or shirt for that matter.
We discussed the fact that he should be wearing a helmet and why...and what might happen if he were to crash without a helmet on. I said if he were to crash without his helmet he might very well die and then we got on the topic of heaven and God.

Maggie: What does God look like?
Me: I don't know...no one really knows.
Maggie: How come?
Me: Because God isn't a person...he's more like a spirit...kinda like a ghost who's up in heaven.
Maggie: Oh. Kinda like the talking tree in Pocahontas?
Me: Kinda like that I guess.
Maggie: What was the tree's name?
Me: I think it was Grandmother Willow.
Maggie: Oh. Why was her name Grandmother?
Me: Well, she wasn't really a grandmother..it was probably just because she was a very old tree.
Maggie: When our tree gets old will it be a grandmother too?

: )

A funny...and not so much

Maggie was up a couple nights ago complaining of pains in her legs...growing pains I guess. I don't know, Aaron was home...I was out with the ladies of the neighborhood at a movie and happy hour. Anyway, the next morning at breakfast, she got off her chair, stood up and declared that she was taller because she "grew" last night. I was cracking up. She also told me that her feet were bigger and was sure that her gymnastics coach would notice the height difference as well. : )

Maya on the other hand has not been as funny. Actually she's been a total pain in the neck. The last three days or so have NOT been fun...family reinforcements could not be coming at a better time! This morning she slammed Maggie's finger in the bedroom door and then a little while later wrecked a beaded project Mags was working on at the kitchen table. Those were just the major incidents of the day. She's definitely acting her age and I don't like it one bit!!!

In other news, Maggie has developed a major case of the "gimmie's" at every store we go into so I have decided that I'm not taking them shopping with me for a while. I can't take it. Between the constant asking for stuff, needing to go to the bathroom at least once, usually more, and wanting in and out of the cart every other minute, it's just an absolute nightmare. So tonight after dinner I went to Sam's Club ALL BY MYSELF! It was delightful, and peaceful! I really need to do it more often. : ) I didn't have to be constantly pestered to buy slushies and to find the "pass out eaters". Ahhhhh! The bad news...I had more time to look around and spent a lot of money. Oh well...the trade off was worth it!!!!!

Thanks for listening to me venting. I feel better now! : )

T-ball

Maggie just finished her first round of Parks and Rec T-Ball. It was Pee Wee I, and was just the basics of basics...how to throw a ball, catch, what are the names of the bases, basic hitting off the tee, etc. Aaron thought it was a waste of time, but I actually thought it was ok. She had never run the bases (cones) before or been part of a team like that. She had fun anyway.

Here they are huddling up before practice.

Gettin' her glove ready.

Waiting to hit.

Team picture.

Warm up circle.

Uh, is this warming up???

Water break. (It was like 90 degrees on this day with very high humidity. They poor kids were all just beat red in the face. There's no shade out on the field and they were dying!!!)

A little batting instruction.

A big thumbs up after reaching 1st base.

Fielding... : )

Ready position.

High fives at the end of the team cheer..."Go Green Goblins!"

The lovely batting helmet.

Maggie's turn to bat and run to 1st base!

Wordless Wednesday - With an Explanation

I don't really know if it is kosher to post nudie pics of your kids on your blog, but this was just too good to pass up. Maggie did this tatoo job herself...I promise Aaron and I had NOTHING to do with it. The first thing we thought of was Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction!!!! I mean come on...it doesn't get any funnier than this!!!!

Wordless Wednesday

Pool Party

Today was an absolutely beautiful, sunny, warm day. So what else do you do with 5 kids but take them all to the pool! Yes, I said 5 kids. Megan and Lily were over for the day, and we decided to relieve Paula of Doobie so she could get some house cleaning done. So we loaded up the wagon with an incredible number of towels, life jackets, noodles, toys, goggles, snacks and all the rest, and headed down the block to the pool. The kids said the water was warm, but I put only a toe in, and spent the rest of the time relaxing in my lawn chair....that is if you think that "relaxing" is putting life jackets on...taking them off...putting them back on...taking them back off...goggles on, goggles off, goggles on, goggles off...towels on, towels off, towels on, towels off...and so on so forth. You get the picture. The kids had a great time goofing around, floating till they could float no more.

Maya is very excited that she can now float all by herself in her new life jacket. Mommy and Daddy are excited too now that we don't have to hold her in the water anymore!!!

Floating with the noodle.

Getting on the goggles.


There she goes!

Here's the crew.

Time for a warm up break.

And a snack break.

Where'ya goin'?

Chillin' on the edge.

And when we were completely water logged and got back to the house, it was of course time for popcicles.

Yummy!

This all happened of course after we had an unscheduled trip to the doctor this morning. Last week, Maggie with a ruptured ear drum, today, Maya with a hurting arm. She'd been holding her arm last night after Aaron picked her up kinda weird trying to get her to stand up and brush her teeth. Anyway, we didn't really think anything of it and told her that it would feel better if her arm "rested" while she slept. Anyway, she woke up crying this morning and I went in to find her laying on her back not wanting to pick her arm up because it hurt too much. She continued to hold onto it and I decided to call the doc. So with Megan and Lily in tow, the 5 of us made the trek to the doctor to get her arm checked out. After an X-ray he determined it is fine, but thought that she probably partially dislocated her elbow. I guess little kids have real loose joints, and lots of elbows and shoulders can become dislocated when you pick them up by their wrists. Anyway, he of course moved her arm all around and apparently jiggled things back into place because she now seems as good as new...and it didn't hinder her swimming in any way! Aaron freaked out though, at the thought of possibly being responsible for breaking her arm. Yikes!! Hopefully there will be no more trips to the doctor until their regularly scheduled appointments!