A Rare Post These Days

Heard from The Boy today..."Mommy, I'm going to find you a new husband so he can put two babies in your tummy. YOU WOULD BE REALLY FAT THEN!"

So does he want two babies or just to see how fat I can really get? I think we've already seen that...the scale is only going down from now on.

No goals in soccer this week but his dad finally got to see him play so he was very excited about that...that and his new Nikes I bought him. The Boy LOVES shoes...he is my son ya know!

Today he helped oma paint the brick surrounding Grammy's fireplace. She had decided it looked "tired" so he and Oma sponged paint on it. He did a fine job, only fell off the fireplace once, skinned one knee, and ruined one shirt. It looks pretty good. He had to show me which bricks he painted.

Jayke is doing outstanding in Kindergarten readiness...of course...what else did you expect? He made me a very special valentine which is now hanging up in the playroom. He also made me a sand sculpture at the children's museum in Muncie this weekend.

Okay, American Idol is on and I have to go watch. I've already got a couple of favorites especially on the guy side. Who's your favorite?

Blogger friends, you'll have to forgive me for not visiting very often lately. I try to get around as often as possible. I will try to do better.

Chic Magnet

Before the new snow came we got out for a few minutes to throw some rocks in the pond. When you are four that is big fun!



When I dropped Jayke off at school the other day all the girls were giggling over in the kitchen play area. They called Jayke over and he went...hesitantly. They wanted to tell him secrets then the all came running to me giggling. Apparently they wanted to tell him he was their boyfriend. He was totally unphased and just turned for a hug from his mom. Yep...I've still got it! Number one in my boy's life!

A Scholar and an Athlete!

My little genius scored his first goal at soccer yesterday! It was so exciting. I was standing there all by myslef watching him run out in front of the mob of kids yelling my fool head off. I didn't even realize it was me yelling. He just turned around and grinned at me like he scores his first goal every day.

I asked him this afternoon if he heard me yelling...he said yes and looked a little embarassed. I'm still shocked I was actually yelling out loud. I'm usually pretty reserved at sporting events. I guess I couldn't help myself...it's not every day you get to watch your son score his first ever goal!

Finally...An Update!

Today was a proud moment in a mom's life. My boy got put into kindergarten readiness a year early! I'm just afraid IT will be too easy for him. He has learned how to add in the past couple of weeks and has also begun spelling. He is working on telling time and tying his shoes too. He is eager to learn and it comes so easily for him. He has learned all this with my mom at home so I asked about moving him up at school and they went ahead and did it today. He got a great report after his class and I'm sure he will continue to fly through their excercises. Hims smart!

Yesterday Angi and I took our Valentine's out to eat. Her daughter was at dance and her husband is still working out of town so we grabbed out two little men and went out to dinner. We picked somewhere that had video games so they were more than happy. Jayke got a Creepy Crawly Bug Oven for Valentine's day and we were up making bugs late last night. I got an adorable Valentine from Cheeky...thank you very much...made with love! I also got one from my boss. She is too funny. I didn't win the huge puppy they had a drawing for at work though and I was bummed. Jayke would have flipped out if I brought that puppy home! He got 4 new puppies for V-day (yes I went over board as usual...they were all so cute!)and a red hippo from Grandma Rain and Pop. We now sleep with about 12 stuffed puppies in our bed...and one red hippo.

It will soon be time to register for Tball which is what we have been looking forward to. Jayke LOVES baseball and is really good at it so we think this will be his sport. We are still in soccer but I'm not liking it as much this time. I'm ready to get outdoors with it.

Tomorrow I'm going to work my first Saturday for extra hours. My boss uses words such as "amazing" and "love" when she talks about me so I think she is pleased with the job I am doing...she uses those words when describing herself too. She won the huge puppy in the drawing and walked around the office asking eveyone if we wanted to touch her yesterday. We get another new employee on Monday so she told me today was the last day she had to be nice to me because I would no longer be the "new girl"...I don't think she will be able to help it because I am fabulous at my job and she knows it!

I got this from Katie, who I got to meet this summer and now I have to pass it along to 10 more people. Well, I don't know if I can come up with 10 but I will try...

Kailani of An Island Life
Tommie of Tuesday Update
Mrs. Parker
One Plus Twins

....and that is all because everyone else has already gotten it. I may try to put a real post up later...don't know.

Misc Pictures

Nothing much to say so I thought I'd just put some pictures up that I've been meaning to post. The modem problems caused me to get all out of order and behind so these are just random...



Jayke's class celebrating his birthday with cupcakes.



The boy loves to pose...





This one cracks me up! We were at the Children's Museum last Sunday with Mike. Jayke had fun playing at the water table and loved the dinosaurs!




Jayke in an Indy car!

Hack, Hack, Wheeze...

I'm sick. The little bugger gave me his cold only I got it even worse. I have laryngitis. I can't make a sound no matter how hard I try. Now...those of you who are laying on the floor in hysterics can pick yourselves back up and stop laughing...I will get my voice back eventually. In the mean time do you know how hard it is to be a single mom of a four year old when you have no voice? Jaykeb was concerned at first but now I think he finds it amusing when Mommy starts flailing her arms around wildly to get his attention or smacking the bed to get him to listen to her whispers. It only gets better when he is crying hysterically, my mom is on the phone and can't hear me, and Grammy is standing at the bottom of the stairs yelling for me and I can't answer her. Someone just shoot me now.

Where's The Beef?

I called home last night to see if Gramma had eaten dinner yet and had the most amusing conversation of yet.

Gramma: "Hello?"
Me: "Have you eaten dinner yet?"
Gramma: "No! Who is this?"
Me: "It's Wendy!"
Gramma: "Oh, yeah I had some soup."
Me: "So it matters who it is as to whether or not you've eaten yet?"
Gramma: "Yes it does...who is this?"


YIKES! She did remember immediately that she had already asked that and began to crack up at herself but let me tell ya folks, it is kinda scary round here lately! Not only is her hearing getting way worse but now she has gone on some crazed meat cooking bender. She was quite proud of herself for calling the butcher at Marsh supermarket the other day and ordering a roast cut...then ordering my mom to go fetch it. She cooked that 6lb roast for me and Jayke then couldn't believe how much was left. Um...excuse me...this is the girl who is down to one meal a day and I had already had it that day and the kid who chews one bite of meat for 45 minutes straight before then spitting it in the trash can. Did ya really think we were going to eat a whole 6lb roast and why aren't you eating any? She only made the roast too...there was nothing else. I'm not complaining but 6lbs of roast is kind of an unusual meal. After Jayke and I didn't polish off that hunk-o-meat she decided she had to get it out of the house immediately and summoned my step-dad, Jim, to come take it away. Guess Jayke and I had our one and only shot at the roast because that sucker is gone!

Tonight she cooked a huge meat loaf. My aunt had sent out some hamburger because she bought too much and Gramma must have been obsessing about it because when Mike, Jayke, and I got home there was a huge meat loaf in the kitchen. None of us are big meat loaf eaters either. My mom called and gramma told her she couldn't call her all day because she was busy cooking meat. I've never seen so much meat in all my life! I told her after the meat loaf she was cut off! I'm sure she will make my mom come get that tomorrow. I should go buy a huge ham to put in the fridge tomorrow and really freak her out!

It Hates Me!

Modem in, modem out...modem on, modem off...modem laying on floor...modem FLYING OUT THE WINDOW! So far so good today. I swear the darn thing hates me. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. You just never know what kind of mood it is going to be in, much like me.

Today it seems we are both in working order so far. I had a really good day at work Friday. I won the DVD Oceans 13. I don't even know if it is any good or not but the fact that I actually won something was new. I never win anything. First of the month, every month the owner of the company piles prizes on the conference table and we play a game for them. She then announces the employee of the month who gets balloons and a tiara/crown plus the privelege of parking in front of the building and havig a lunch of their choice brought in...funny. Bad thing about it is you have to have been there a year to be eligable. I have been there 1 month, so the DVD was all good with me. I also got paid yesterday, even better than a free DVD!

Grammy and Jayke have been behaving themselves lately. They have been reading the bible together a lot. Maybe too much. Mom, Grammy, and Jayke were driving through campus the other day. Jayke had never seen it so he was taking in all the big buildings when all of a sudden as they approached the bell tower he shouted, "OH MY GOD! IT'S THE TOWER OF BABEL!" and was dead serious. You can imagine the laughter from the front seat. I wish I could have heard it.

Jayke missed the entire past week of school from being sick. He went to the doctor and he said it's just a cold. Whatever. He has been running a fever every night and has a horrible cough. I am taking him out of basketball since he missed the last practice before games start and he is really too small for it. I watched that little kid try harder to dribble that ball than I've ever seen him try anything and it about made me cry. He was determined but all the kids were so much bigger and he has never been shown how to play basketball. He was so tiny out there compared to them all too. We will just stick to soccer for now where he is doing really well.

Now the hateful modem is not letting me upload photos or spellcheck so assume I know how to spell and pretend there is a picture of Jaykeb here playing his new keyboard Grammy got him.