We've Got a Winner!!

Gavin, Syndey, and Jayke went fishing at my mom's today. Jayke was the first to catch a fish. He has been on a winning streak this past weekend. Aunt Sherbo set up a game for the kids involving the slot machine at my dad's house and apparently Jayke won twice...a total of $11.00. That was only part of his winning streak though. He came in second in Pineapple Bowling at Camp Morrison. Out of all the kids there it came down to the oldest and the youngest at the end. The oldest won but I think second place is pretty good for the little guy! I will call it a win (almost). After all of that luck we figured we should probably get him a lottery ticket. Sherri got all the kids a scratch off. Gavin won $50 and Jayke won $20. I think I need to sneak him into the casino and stick him on a slot machine for a couple of hours! He now wants to bet everyone though and runs around the house yelling, "Lets gamble!" Probably not a good thing. I'm going to have to explain to him that most of the time you aren't that lucky and you lose money...not win it. I'm just glad one of us is lucky!!

Have No Idea

I'm not with him so I have no idea what he is doing. I got this picture sent to me on my phone from my sister. I do know that is shaving cream but that is all. I will have to get the story from him when he gets back from the lakes. All those people in the background are cousins.

Ready, Set, Go!!

I think Jayke is finally becoming a fan of the water. Helps having the big kids around to show him how it's done!! He jumps in and actually goes under without coming up screaming for a towel to dry his face with. He just needs to learn to close his mouth and hold his breath. Lots of coughing when he comes up. I'm just glad he will do it finally. What kind of kid doesn't like to swim???!!?? Sydney and Gavin are showing him how it's done.

Another Bargain

Kids for sale!! For the low low price of $99.99 each! As is, all sales final, no refunds or exchanges!

Jayke is off to the lakes and the pool with his cousins and aunts this week. He has been at my dad's for a couple of days, where he has been to the batting cages and mini golf, shopping, out to lunch, and lots of swimming. Today he heads to the lakes with everyone for "Camp Morrison". He was not even bothered by the fact that he isn't going to see me for four days. Barely even told me goodbye, he is having so much fun. I, on the other hand, will be at home with the dogs. No lakes for me.

Fireflies...or (since we are in Indiana) Lightning Bugs

I've Said it Before...And I'll Say it Again...

....it's hard to get good help these days!!



This is The Boy's idea of working a rummage sale. Lucky for him (not so much for me)n that there wasn't much to do. Rummage sales are not what they used to be! I used to have amazing sales but the last several have really been lousy. A ton of work for very little reward.

I thought for sure this would sell...



It was a bargain!! Orginally $250 and I was trying to sell it for $80. It is like new. The Boy was ok with selling it at first but the longer it sat in the driveway the more he disliked the idea. Half way through the sale he started riding it and announced that we probably wouldn't sell it now because we coudn't change the price now. We had told all the people who came in the morning that it was $80 so it would be unfair to those people to change the price now. The rest of the day he sat worrying each time a car would pull up that this would be the one who took his wheels away. He didn't worry so much if someone pulled up in a car but if a truck arrived he was sweating.

At the end of the sale he drove it till the battery died then parked it as far back in the garage as he could get it. I guess we will keep it and try again next year. Surely he will be ready to part with it then.

Jayke's May Writing Journal

Final journal of the year.

5/2/11--April showers bring May flowers. I hae seen flowers on our appel tree. I have toolips.
5/3/11--In May I see flowers. There are lots of flowers in May. I have lots of flowers in my yard.
5/4/11--I've always wanted to have a duck tape braclet. My and I were going to go to Kaidens house last night. Masons dad dind't let us. (He left out the word friend above.)
5/5/11--What do you think Cinco de mayo is crazy. He is probly really old. He might of evented the phone and computer.
5/6/11--Today I can buy books because my Grandma is comeing. She can buy me books. I will get lots of them.
5/9/11--I'm so happy when I have soccer. I will prolby score a gole. Last time I scored two goles. Soccer is really fun.
5/10/11--During recess I want to play with my friends. We will play tag. No body will catch me.
5/12/11--I would invent a robot. I would make it red. I will be a really big one.
5/13/11--Over the weekend I played with my friens. We jumped on his tramplen. We bouncsed really hi. Then we went in side. Later on it started to rain so we went in the garage.
5/14/11--After school yesterday there was a tornado drill so are bus came back to the school. We had to sit in the bathroom for awile. It was gross.
5/15/11--Today we have a subsutoot teacher. She let me take the invelopes down. It was really fun.
5/17/11--I would like to learn to count to a million. it would take a wile. It took me a hour to even count to 600.
5/18/11--My best friend is Kaiden. he gave me a duck tape bracelet. I really like it.
5/19/11--If I went to the beach I would go swimming. I would build a sand castle. i would make it really big.
5/20/11--I got to wait for the bus at my friends house. We went in his grandmas bus. Then we went ot the back of the bus and his grandma tried ot get us.
5/23/11--One of my favirote things at school is resess. I like the slides. I like the swings.
5/25/11--One of my favorite things in school is math. I can add and subtract. It is really fun.
5/26/11--One of my favorite things at school is centers. We can play memory and play moviel. I have to do it today.
5/27/11--One of my favrite thing at school is reading.l I can read Marvel Heroes. I am really good at reading.
5/31/11--Today at school I would llike to play out side. I will fo down the slides. I can swing. I can play with my friends.

Driving Miss Daisy

We took Grammy out to see the new flowers they planted at the "Health Campus".

On to Second Grade...

School is out!! Someone made the honor roll...although, I had to give him a little grief because two of his A+ grades from last grading period dropped to just an A. He ended up with straight A's. Came home the last day with next year's supply list so I am now chomping at the bit to go buy it all even though they don't even have the school supplies out yet. It's a challenge each year to refrain from going out right away and getting all the stuff on his list. Open house is Aug 11th ...only two months and he is back to school again!

I'd Like to See You In the After Life

My mother is apparently reading a book about a child who died while in the hospital but survived only to tell about heaven and all that he saw there. She, for some reason, felt it necessary to share this story with Jayke who is now obsessed with heaven. He has continuously talked about heaven since getting home from Oma's. He is pretty upset about the whole thing too because he is sure he is going one way and I am going the other. This is upsetting to him because he would like to be able to see me after we are gone. I finally figured this out after answering many questions about heaven and "the place where the devil lives." When he asked me if, "people who go to heaven can see the people who go where the devil lives" I finally knew that he had decided that he was going to heaven and I wasn't. I asked and it was confirmed that, yes, this was exactly what he is thinking. However, he feels if I clean up my language this can all be avoided. I will try to work on that.

I Can Solve Your Problem

Mommy, I sure hope you get a job soon cause I'm sick of looking at you!

I promptly took care of his issue by sending him to his room to contemplate how he chose to express himself, thereby making it so that he no longer had to look at me!! I have a resolution for all his problems!

Seasons Over...Finally!!

Soccer has finally ended for the season! I didn't think it was ever going to end. We had to add 3 1/2 weeks to the season because of the rain and the final tournament game was called in the middle due to a thunderstorm rolling in. We won our first game, lost the second, and tied the last, which was called early. We are going to have to rethink our plan for fall soccer. I'm not happy with the way things have been changed with the club and we will also be old enough to begin travel soccer. In the mean time Jayke has a soccer camp beginning in July with the Ball State womens soccer team as coaches. Same clinic we did over the winter. So far this is the only camp I have him signed up for. He will be going to Georgia for a week to visit his dad and probably swimming at my dad's and his friend, Mason's. All he wants to do it play with his friends so he doesn't care about not going to any camps. He will be busy.

Jayke's April Writing Journal

4/1/11--Last night I played my dsi. I played Mario kart. I got in first place. I always pick the fastest car. It is really fun.
4/4/11--Storms are really scary. Last night when I heard thunder I jumped. I was really scared.
4/8/11--If I was president I would make school one minute less. I would make lunch in there room always. I would make no homework.
4/11/11--When I get home from school I have to go to soccer. I've mist a lot of it. I really like soccer.
4/12/11--The caterpillars are hanging to make a cacoon. I like to watch the catepillars scwerm. The catepillars are 3 and a 1/2cm long. They will be painted ladys.
4/13/11-- I like to read magic tree house books. They are my favorite books. I have one in my desk.
4/15/11--Last night I went to my friends house. We practicest for soccer. My team lost the game.
4/18/11--Insects have 6 legs and some have intinas. We hae some baby catepillars. They are in chrysalis.
4/19/11--What did you do instead of wathing tv? I played with my toys. I read a book. It was my favorite book.
4/20/11--What did you do instead of watching tv? I went to my friends house. We played lots of games. I tried to not watch tv . I couldn't help it.
4/21/11--What did you do instead of watching tv? I rode my bke. I played a board gaem. I almost won. It was really fun.
4/25/11--I am tired of waiting to go to the childrens museum. Next we will be going to Minatrista. It will be really fun.
4/27/11--The best thing about the field trip was peting the animals. I liked peting the bunny best. I didn't pet the hissing cockroach. it was gros. I did pet the trinchla.
4/28/11--My favorit book is Mrs. chicken and the hungry crocodile. It is about the crocdile how wants to cat a chicken. Her name is Mrs. Chicken.
4/29/11--This weekend I'll play with my frind. We will play xbox. It will be fun.

And a letter he wrote to me as an assignment...

Dear Mommy I really want you to take me to kins island. I need to ride rides and play games. I must play games. I couldn't go last year becaue I was to little. I hope I can go this year. I really like kings Island. from Jaykeb.

New Do

Jayke got his hair cut today and the girl actually put a little product in it and styled it. He now says I have to do this for him every morning before school. He asked me at least 6 times if we had gel at home...if not we better go get some on the way! This picture is not the finished product. I don't have a picture of that...he was in too big a hurry to go show his new do off to his friends when we got home and took off before I could get a good shot. Good thing school is almost out cause I'm not getting up early to do his hair!!

Jaykeb's spring school pictures

Hmmmm....

....wonder what he made in school for me this year...

My Son the Comedian

Tonight we went to watch Matthew and Alec play baseball. On the way home Jayke was riding with Matt and Ang. I guess Matt and Jayke were going to watch a movie and there was some discussion about whether or not Jayke could watch it because it may have been rated R. When we met up Ang was cracking up at my kid and the following conversation that was just had in her vehicle...

Matt: I don't know if you can watch this movie because it may be rated R.
Jayke: Well is there a lot of blood in it?
Matt: No, I don't think so.
Jayke: Well is there a lot of killing in it?
Matt: No, I think there is just a lot of cussing.
Jayke: Oh, that's okay then...my MOM is rated R!

Nice.

Dirty Boy

When it has rained for 40 days and 40 nights it is haighly likely that your kid will not come away from the soccer field clean. Tonight was picture night too! I was lucky, my kid was one of the cleaner ones.

Shake Shake Shake!!

We went out for a friend's birthday last Friday night and Ang's hubs took this picture of us. Angi, Mandi, and Me. I did my usual, "I don't wanna go!" but had a blast once we got there. There was karaoke on one side of the bar and dancing on the other. I actually danced for the first time since my wedding (which I can't recall). Now my kid, who overheard me talking about it, is going around telling everyone his mother was out "Shakin it!" Friday night. I think the exact conversation he had with his dad on the phone went something like this...

Jayke--My mother went out the other night and SHE WAS SHAKIN IT! She was shakin it like there was no tomorrow!! Shakin it!!

Jayke's Dad--Thaaat's nice.

Clearly Jayke's Dad was not as amused by the fact that I was "shakin it" as Jaykeb was. I'm actually quite amused by it myself. Everytime that night pops into my head I literally laugh out loud at how ridiculous we must have all looked out there "Shakin it"!