I’m getting so excited about our upcoming trip to the beach. I just asked off for Friday and I was showing a co-worker the house. When I clicked on the virtual tour I was SOCKED. They remodeled! It’s even more beautiful than before. And I was happy with it before.
Just look!
It doesn’t even look like the same house!
I am a little worried about the weather. It says thundershowers Friday morning and one on Saturday. Maybe it will just blow over. The temperatures look nice anyway.
It’s only a little different from before, but I cleaned out my drawers too.
At lunch I took home an arm full of books and a target bag full of junk.
man time flies - i would probably go crazy if not for my window. the the occasional comic relief.
2000 - 5th floor - Tower - lots of windows around
2001 - 2nd floor - Cave Dwellers
2002 - Changed Groups/Moved Cubes - Open to Catwalk - more sunlight
2003
2004
2005 - Moved Cubes - Miles from the nearest bathroom - but I have a window!
2006
2007
Makes me think of James and the Giant Peach - it’s a Rhino!
telling him he’s my big five year old, wishing him happy birthday, the traditional birthday spanking. it actually took the twenty month old stretching out her arm, opening her hand wide and saying “five!” for Samuel to listen to me. I guess after a year of being four it’s hard to move on, kinda like writing the new year. i’m sure she was just happy to contribute to the conversation. she too likes to argue about numbers. i try to count with her and I say “one” she says “two” I say “three” and she says “five” some times she adds “six, seven” but on one particular day when I said “three” she said “no, two!” we went back and forth for a minute. then i couldn’t contain the laughter. sometimes i wonder if that’s why she does things like that.
last night was pd’s first night class. we weren’t expecting him until the kids bedtime but the teacher let them out early. it was nice, he cooked, then sam and i made a birthday banana pudding complete with wafer “candles” YUM!
OH! I almost forgot about this…. (and some may wish that I had)
Sam’s birthday party was at a local pizza place. PD’s brother comes out of the mens room and says to PD and my sister’s husband, that my sister’s picture is above the urinal. This of course triggered a lot of curiosity and a good bit of our party had to visit the mens room. In something of a shadow box is the local section of the news paper, with a shot from graduation. I was busy guarding the cake from four year old fingers, so I sent a friend in with my camera. From what I can tell the article is not about her, but she is in the shot. We can only think that this is SERIOUS coincidence, or their friend’s daughter who works there may have put it up. But how could she have known that they would have been there? It’s not exactly a usual spot of any of us to go.
I made the cake and icing, I made PD decorate. I think it turned out perfect!
We got the edible transformers decoration transfer thingy from Wine & Cake Hobbies and I’m really happy with the way it turned out. It was like a super thin fruit rollup, but not rolled. Definitely the look I was going for.
We had a really great time at the party. Everything seemed to go really well, and the best part is, the only dishes I had to wash were the ones I used to make the cake. We had a very good turn out. He had eight little friends there, and fifteen big ones, not including our little family. I’m feeling really dumb. I wanted to record our singing Happy Birthday and Sam blowing out the candle, but apparently when I switched the camera over to video and hit the button, it didn’t register. So when I thought I was stopping the video, I had actually started it and basically got BellyCam of the cutting and serving of the cake, sideways! If anyone is interested, I’ll post it, but it’s pretty bad.
My sister graduated this afternoon. I took off the afternoon to join the celebration. My mom and aunt came in town for the event. So while they’re here we’ve scheduled Sam’s birthday party for Friday night so they could be a part of it.
This is it! The day my big almost five year old spends his first full day in Kindergarten. I can hardly believe it, and I can hardly believe he’s almost five. We made a family event of it. PD needed me to take Libs to daycare, but I wanted to be there for the first day, so the four of us took Samuel to class. It was very short lived, I took very few pictures. Needless to say, I didn’t have a lot of closure. I left wondering if I had impressed enough on him to keep his hands to himself, and to listen to his teacher and their aid. I’m sure he’ll do just fine. He’s been waiting for this all summer.
Uniforms. This now makes the second day he’s asked for a red polo. I can’t help but wonder if I need to invest in more. Right now we have three, and four or five white and a navy one. Nana is getting him uniforms for his birthday. I really hope this doesn’t become a struggle. I’m sure he can realize that if they’re all dirty, then he has to wear one of the others.
my big kindergartner (it’s so hard to believe)
Today I got to fulfill Samuel’s wish to go to school. He’s only been asking us since May to go back. Monday we had told him that “tomorrow you’ll get to see your teacher!” then I drove him to daycare and he said “huh? why did you bring me here?!” So I had to explain, today you come here, tomorrow we’ll go to school for testing and you’ll come here, Wednesday you’ll go to school for a half day and then i’ll pick you up for a check-up, and then Thursday is your first full day of school. The sad thing is, for Sam anyway, that he doesn’t actually have a half day of school tomorrow. So it’s another day of daycare, and then the first full day of school. I got a few pictures today. He had on his uniform, and loaded down with supplies, we found his classroom. I got to sit in the hall and fill out paperwork while he went in for testing. We went over our letters a lot last night to get in the groove. She had told me that he wouldn’t even talk to her last year. I asked her how he did and she said fine. I hope that means more than just he talked to her. I know that as of last night we’re still having trouble sometimes recognizing “A” “F” “H” “I” “N” “V” and “W” I don’t really know why he gets stuck with “A” it’s in his name, he knows that his name is S-a-m-u-e-l but when you show him the “A” he shrugs. I picked up the best flash cards at Target a couple of weeks ago. Alphabet, numbers (in a fishy go-fish game), insects, presidents and states. We had a good time playing go-fish last night and with a little help (still working on the rules) he actually won, even with my being able to see his cards the whole time.
I was happy to see that a good bit of the children from his class last year are in his class this year, and two of them go to our church. I’m especially excited about this because when you go to church fifteen, twenty minutes from home, around here, you’re usually not in the same school zone as the kids who live near the church. It’s also good because how the birthdays fall with his friends from church; he has one of those birthdays that we were able to start him in pre-k last year, but the others will be starting this year, putting him a year ahead. I like that there will be kids he can see during the week and on the weekends, in his same grade. And even though it’s a year or so down the road, I’ve added their neighborhood to my house hunt list. Before now, I hadn’t realized that it was actually in our school zone, I had hoped but was never sure. That would put us closer to friends, church and PD’s family.
After Testing I took Sam to work with me to visit and have lunch. It was the usual crew, plus one, a wife and child. Sam was really happy to see them. He even got to ride to daycare with a friend. Thank you Kelly!
Tomorrow night my mother and aunt come in town. Thursday is my sister’s graduation! And then Friday evening is our boy’s birthday party!!! Sadly I still have no idea what we’re going to get for him. I guess it’s a good thing his birthday isn’t until Monday! We can spread this out over a weekend. PD’s night classes start Monday, so we decided it would be good to move the party to Friday, that way he and our out of town guests could be involved.
I’m SO happy about the new school year starting up next week. My sweet boy is going to be so excited, we got the teacher we wanted!!! His pre-k teacher last year informed me that she hoped to be moving back to kindergarten, after her two year tour in pre-k. She requested him, but as of a month ago, neither of us knew if she had him. Well, she called last night and said we needed to schedule a time to come in for pretesting, because she “got her little boy again” and is hoping that “maybe he’ll talk to me this year.” Boy is she in for a surprise! That kid would talk to a fence post if he thought it would listen… actually.. no he’d just talk to a fence post. Which isn’t really fair, because he gets pretty upset with me if he thinks I’m not listening. This morning he had a five minute long conversation with “dad” on a cell phone that doesn’t work. Libby wasn’t too happy about it, she wanted to talk too, so they passed the phone back and forth.
I’m so happy! This has made my week!
For Gin
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