Back Home Again In Indiana...

No, I don't have any pictures of corn fields. The corn was not looking too good while I was there. No rain. While we were at my mom's house though, we did a few fireworks for Jayke one night. This was the first time he had done sparklers. Last year he was afraid of the fireworks. This year he loved them. I am excited about that. Mike and I both love fireworks and usually light a bunch of them every year. As of right now we have no plans for the 4th, but I'm sure we will do something.



My mom will probably kill me for putting this picture on here but I crack up every time I look at it so I thought I really need to share it with everyone. Especially her sister in Colorado, my aunt Dona, who reads this blog. I know how they like to laugh at each other, so here ya go Dona, laugh away. I know I am! He didn't burn her, by the way.




He loved the sparklers and had to light every single one of course. When they were all done he wanted to do them again.





You can see the pond in this picture. My grandfather built this pond 35 years ago. I had my wedding on the other side of it. My grandmother's house is on the other side just beyond the trees. On the other side of her house is another pond. I lived in the house on the other side of it as a child until my parents divorced. Now my mom is back just on the other pond. She is in a subdivision that my step-dad is developing called Heron Pointe. Something my grandpa always wanted to do but didn't get to. He got to see a little of it before he died and was really proud.



I always thought I would one day live out here with my family but it doesn't look like that is going to happen now since we moved to South Carolina. Good think I like it here or I would be mad as hell that I had to leave my home.


As you can see, Mom and Jim have put in a wall along their property and a little patio next to the pond. They will eventually put in a pier too. I learned to swim in these ponds and now when I look at them I think there is no way I would jump in there! Well, unless the boy falls in, of course!



In other news...The Boy is still fighting with Luke at VBS. He told me the other night that he did finally play with someone else though. Sara. I asked about her and he said, "I poked her, then she poked me back. I think she was starting to like me." Little turkey. He comes home with all kinds of attitude too. Marching around like he is something else. Tomorrow night is the last night and we will all be going. There is going to be a program and a dinner. With 346 kids having parents there I don't know how we will all fit in the church! I'll let you know how it goes. Jayke won't tell me anything about it so I don't know if he will be in this program or not. I will take the video recorder just in case though!

For another really cute picture of The Boy go to AJ's blog, It's All About Me.

R E S P E C T...

How we didn't manage to take any pictures of our trip to the riverboat I have no idea, but we didn't. I think in the car we were all too stressed out to think about pictures.

First off, we left late which meant Mike was going to be waiting even longer down there than he already had been. I didn't think this would be a problem but I was wrong as usual. He had stopped off in Tennessee to look at some factory a friend of his works at. I don't know why he bothered because there was no way I was moving again! No way! After that he went to a distillery and then up to the boat.

We didn't leave for the boat until 11pm. It takes 3 hours to get there. I am happy to report that none of MY rules were broken, except the one about the music. On the other hand, one of the driver's rules was broken. We all learned a very valuable lesson on our drive to the boat, DON'T DISRESPECT YOUR HUSBAND IN HIS OWN CAR! I guess big Ry made a rule that we couldn't have any adult beverages in the car on the way down. Leave it to his wife to be the one to break the rule. She started drinking her wine coolers right after we left. She even handed one to me becaue I guess she didn't want to go down in flames by herself. I'm a smart girl though and I only took a few sips and put my bottle back in the cooler. What did Ang do? Well, she fell asleep holding her bottle and when she woke up she held it up right in front of her face to see if there was anything in it. Right in front of her face just happened to be right in front of Ryan's mirror and all of a sudden we hear, "WHAT ARE YOU DRINKING!?" Holy crap I was glad I had put mine back. We were only about 30 minutes away from the boat too. She almost made it without getting caught. Lets just say the final leg of our drive was not a happy one but quite funny for those not involved. At this point I was not involved.

Next Mike started sending me text messages to tell us that he was canceling our rooms and going to bed. WHAT? So Ryan is yelling at Ang, Mike is yelling at me and Kim and Bubba are stopping at a liquor store to buy beer and take a smoke break. It is a fantastic trip already!

We finally got there, Mike had the rooms, and we all went our seperate ways. Well, Mike and Ryan went to their rooms and Ang and I went to Kim's. We were trying to figure out if we were going to be able to plug our blender in in the hallway somewhere since we were not welcome in our own rooms. We managed to make a significant amount of noise in the hallway with an ice bucket, a styrofoam cooler, and one ice machine. Oh yeah, plus our big mouths. Kim could hear the racket clear down in her room. When her husband asked what all the noise was she replied, "It's probably Wendy and Angi out in the hallway." She was correct. Mike threatened to kill us all and Ang and I figured we better go find Ryan to bug for a while instead. We had terrorized the 9th floor long enough, it was off to the sixth floor.

It probably would have helped if we had known which room Ryan was in. Turns out if you stick your hotel key card in every door it voids it. I resorted to walking to each group of doors and yelling Ryan. Never found him. We had to go find a house phone and call. Once in their room everyone decided to head down to the boat for some action. I went with them but as soon as they all started loosing money I made my escape back to my room.

The rest of the trip was fairly uneventful. We were all on different sleeping schedules so it was hard to hook up. We went out to dinner together with a very friendly waiter. At least he was to Ryan and me. Kept rubbing my back and wouldn't leave Ryan alone when he found out he wasn't feeling well. This is where I found out that my BFF Angi took me down with her on the drinking in the car thing. She couldn't just suck it up and take the heat. NOooooooo! She had to go and tell Ryan I was drinking in the car too! WTH??? I totally would have taken the heat for you Ang! What were you thinking? I'm just glad there were no trash cans around to be thrown when he saw me after that! Oh well, it's all good. I just wish I could have found the right time to sing a little Aretha to you in front of him. R E S P E C T... We tried to go gamble together after that but, as usual, we all went off our seperate ways. Ang and I even ended up in the room with the blender whipping up some Cabana Boy Specials.

We left the next morning. Mike had won $900 but lost most of it again before we left. Everyone else lost all their money and I lost $5. Have I mentioned I'm not a gambler? I'm glad we went though. It was fun. We just need to plan something that we won't all end up going our seperate ways.

Thanks again to Mike for using his player status to get us all the almost free rooms! Thanks to Big Ry for not killing his wife and me for disrespecting him in his own car. Thanks to Kim and Bubba for, well you know what for. Thanks to Ang for telling on me!

Mom's New House

Hangin' With P'Pa

I got a bunch of pictures of our visit from my other mother today. Lots of pictures of Jaykeb with my dad. He loves hanging outside with his grandpas. He likes to work. Too bad he doesn't like to work when I ask him to.

The dogs look like they were still a little scared of him here but trying to warm up.

How can anyone sleep with all this piled on them???

It was my dad's birthday while we were in Indiana so we had a birthday/father's day party for him. He is obsessed with the weather so we got him a weather station. Here he is opening his gift.


....and installing his gift...



Here we are trying to get pictures of the cake before The Boy dives in head first. He gets his love of cake from my dad. White cake with white icing!

Tater Tot (AJ) is helping hold the kid away from the cake.




Working in the office with P'pa.



Here are AJ and Jayke cheesin for the camera. The Boy loves his AJ.

He managed to pet Sasssy somehow. I can't even pet Sassy but Jayke just walked up and pet her until she was done with him then she hissed and smacked him. She doesn't have claws though so it was no big deal. Just startled him a little.


My cousin, Kaitlin, who lives here in South Carolina was in Indiana visiting too. Jayke loved having her there. She swam with him and lay on the couch watching cartoons. He was upset when she had to leave. Here they are watching cartoons together.



And finally, I mentioned in a previous post how AJ did my hair and it looked so good. I really need her here to do my hair everyday. Well, Jayke wanted his hair did too so here is Jayke with his fancy do...



....and one more so he can really hate me when he gets older...



Yes, I said hair "did" on purpose and Tater Tot...we are sorry we didn't get to say goodbye. I was going to call you on the way home but you had way too much going on so I thought I'd wait. I really didn't want to get yelled at either. Sorry!

That about brings us to the end of the first week in Indiana. Good thing other people took pictures for me too because I'm finding I was quite the slacker while on vacation.

Muddy Morning

I was going to write about our trip to the river boat this morning but the morning started off way too interesting to talk about that. I will have to talk about that later or tomorrow. Right now, I have to talk about my morning of mud and madness.

It all began as usual woke up, took The Boy to go pee, let dog's out of their room, removed stick at back door so I could open it to let the dogs out to pee, opened door...two dogs went out...two completely different dogs came in. Yep, the Houdini dogs did it again! Bosley and Sophie escaped their kennel outside and were waiting at the back door when I let Simon and Laynie out. Not only was I upset that they were out but it had rained this morning so they were covered in mud and running loose in my house!

I herded them into the bathroom and tossed them in the tub. An hour later the tub was clogged with hair and mud, I was soaking wet, and the dogs were only halfway clean. I gave up and put them out on the deck to dry. I sent my ace photographer out to get a picture of them and this is what he brought me...



Bosley is the beagle and Sophie is the chow/Australian Shepard mix. They are my two escape artists. They will spend the day on the deck now until Mike can come home and find the week spot where they made their escape. Jayke is loving it though. He has more dogs to play with today. The Boy does LOVE his dogs!


I got an email from Christy, my neighbor, this morning. She included some pictures of VBS. They had 335 kids there last night! Jayke is in this picture standing in front of the woman in the white shirt. He has on a red shirt. Kind of hard to see him in that mass of children but he is there...not dancing though!

Scootin' and Fightin' but NOT Dancing!

Jayke got a scooter while we were in Indiana. I was worried about him hurting himself or not being able to ride it and getting mad but he did great! I got him all the protective gear of course and he wore it willingly. Funny how we all survived before knee pads.



He scooted around my dad's driveway bringing back a lot of pogo stick memories for me. Not good ones either. I managed to sprain two ankles within minutes of each other on one of those stupid things when I was a kid. My dad was a big believer in the whole gettin' back on the horse thing. After I sprained one ankle he made me go back out and get on the evil thing again and I promptly sprained the other one. Thanks dad. Good times.



I was just waiting for an ankle injury to occur but the kid must be a little more coordinated than his ol mother was because it didn't happen. Oma trying to kill us all in the drive way later on is a different story. Note to self...do not let mother run while pulling your child with her and barrelling straight towards you. I knew what was going to happen but it was one of those things you just had to let play out. No one was injured too bad, I managed to catch them both, in a way. I think he may need those knee pads for playing with Oma rather than riding his scooter. Opa just shook his head, knowingly like he always does at her...or me.

So that was my vacation story part of the post now for what is going on here tonight.

Jayke started vacation bible school tonight. I almost thought something was trying to keep us from going. There was a big wind storm as I was taking him and there was a tree blocking the road. I had to back track and ended up getting lost. Luckily I have a compass in the new ride and figured out I was going the wrong direction. I finally found the church but I have no idea how. Driving around later I saw that there were trees down all over the place.

I took him in and he immediately started the "up Mommy!" stuff but Christy swooped him away into the mass of children before he could get started. She told me he was fine once he got in with his teacher and some of the kids from his Mom's morning out group. I snuck in to watch him for a while and he was so cute sitting there in his pew with his friends. He was just looking around taking it all in. He saw me after a while and started acting all embarrassed that I was there. Crossing his arms, rolling his eyes, trying not to smile. Pretty soon they were led off to the gym to start their activities and I snuck out the back door.

Mike and I went to get something to eat but that is a whole post in itself. Let's just say I am not letting him pick anymore restaurants for a long long time.

When I went back to get The Boy he was exhausted. He did tell me two things though. One was that he and Luke, his friend from MMO, got in a fight. Great. Just what you want at VBS. The other thing was that he wouldn't dance because he was afraid all the people would laugh at him. Isn't he a little young to think that? I think his Meemaw might have something to say about this. I told him no one would laugh but he was adamant that he was NOT dancing! We'll see. He is looking forward to going back tomorrow though which is good. I'm not telling him we have Mom's Club in the morning too. Might be too much for the child to handle.

Jayke and P'pa with one of the dogs. Took the dogs about 4 days until they finally stopped barking at Jayke. After that they were fine with him. They kind of grow on you the more you are around them.

Puff The Fireworks Dragon

Everyone puts pictures of the strange things they see along the road where they live or on trips they are taking. I have seen this guy many times but never had the camera or didn't want to take the time to stop. Driving to Indiana this time Jayke wanted to take his picture so we stopped. The Boy is learning from me about taking pictures all over the place and of strange things.

This dragon is outside a fireworks store along the highway in Tennessee.

Anonymous...Keep Your Pants On!

Hey Ang, you have a blog you could sign in so your name appears when you leave your comments. Or, are you trying to be anonymous? If ya are,I'm kinda blowin that for ya huh? Oh yeah, could you try to send me your concert pics please? I want the one of the four of us to put on here.

On to the post...

Apparently Angi is waiting, not so patiently, for some pictures to be posted on here. She actually has the best ones on her camera but I will put a few up from my camera to keep her happy.

First off is Jayke playing in the sandbox with Maci, Angi's daughter. Maci is great with him and I wish they got to see each other more while we were there but they were super busy with baseball, rummage sales, and birthday parties so it didn't happen. Next time I will not be going to Indiana in June. Everyone is too busy with baseball and stuff. I think I may try the fall next year and see if that works out better. Jayke had a hard time staying awake in the evenings to be going out too.



Here is another of Maci and Jayke.



Next up...the concert! Gwen Stefani in case anyone is wondering or missed the post where I told which concert we were going to. It was GREAT! Before the concert we took Angi and Melanie's girls to Libby Lu's to get their hair did. That was an experience for me since I don't have any girls. See how cute they looked...



We got to walk the red carpet coming in and get our pictures taken. Woohoo!

Here is a group shot. You can't see one of the kids in the back. Brannon was hiding. I think he didn't want to be seen with all those girls and us old people. In the back row, from back to front(left to right howerver you want to say it) we have Kim, her husband, Ray, Angi, and Melanie whose father got us the box seats and VIP tickets. Thanks again Melanie! In the front(from back to front) is Brannon (can't see him)Lyndsey, Maci, Haley, and Katie. I'm sure I spelled names wrong there...sorry. I was taking the picture, of course, so am not pictured. I looked like crap so I am happy about that. Should have let AJ do my hair like she wanted to.



This is Maci and Haley. The kids had to stand on the chairs to be able to see. That was fine for a while then they made them get down...then they let them get back up...then down again...and finally back up for the rest of the show. Nuts! We were VIPs for cryin'out loud!



See the backs of those chairs...it says V I P!



Okay, now we are gettin' the party started right! At least, getting it started as much as you can with 5 kids.




Look! It's Gwen!



I sooooo need a new camera! According to my dad I won't be getting it for Christmas though. Guess I will have to buy it myself. Boohooo.

So that is it for the concert pictures. I have more but they are pretty much the same. Tomorrow I will have lots of pictures of Jayke. He had the best time up there but was ready to come home to see his Daddy. He starts vacation bible school tomorrow night. He is excited about that because his friend, Micah, will be in his class. We have Mom's Club on Tuesday too. We are starting to get back into our routine at home but it is hard after you have been gone for that long. From now on two weeks is my limit!

I'm BAAAAACCKKK!!

Seems like I was gone forever. I know I have been a total blog slacker but I think I needed a break from it. I didn't even miss it is the interesting thing. I think because I was so busy. Now that I am home again I was ready to come in here and get back to it.

I won't be puttting any pictures up until later though. Sorry. I am still in the process of unpacking and cleaning and doing laundry. Mike's Father's Day gift has been taking up a lot of my time. Jayke and I got him an XBox 360, High Def DVD player, and several games including Guitar Hero. I wouldn't say I am addicted yet but I can see it won't take long.

I feel like I accomplished almost everything I wanted to while home. The only thing I regret is not getting Jayke over to see Kim's kids while we were there. Everyone is so busy with BASEBALL that by the time they were home in the evenings Jayke was asleep or just too tired to go out. He is still a little guy who gets tired easily. Tired and grouchy.

So what all did we do in Indiana? Besides the Gwen Stefani concert, we hung out in the pool at P'pa's with Aunt Kimmy, Aunt Sherbo, and AJ. We visited Gramma RAin and Grandpa Dave and Jayke spent the night with them. Jaykeb did get to play with Angi's kids one night. He loved that. We visited Grammy, went to Chelsea's graduation party, had a birthday party for my dad, had Mike's parents down for dinner at my mom's with Grammy, and went shopping in Carmel. I got a "girl's night out" with Angi and Jen. We shopped, got pedicures and waxed, and went out to dinner and drank too many margaritas. FUN! That is what I miss down here. We also went to the river boat in Louisville for the weekend with Kim and her husband and Angi and her husband. Mike drove up and met us there. Mike was a big winner but as usual, I wasn't there when he won. It was nice to have a weekend with no kids. Mike and I never get to do that anymore.

I came home earlier than I had planned. Mike was not happy that we were going to stay longer so we packed up and headed home Tuesday morning. Jaykeb was excited to be home but kept asking Mike why he changed everything. He wanted to know why we got a new floor and a new stove. I guess nothing looked the same to him.

I have been extremely proud of Jayke with his potty training. He has not had an accident once since he finally decided to start using the potty full time on his own. He woke up wet only twice the entire time we were in Indiana. He made both car trips with no problem and is going to the bathroom all on his own now without any help from me whatsoever. There is a lot of banging around in there when he goes and he has to take the dog with him but still, all on his own. Such a big boy I now have. I thought the traveling might throw him off a little, but it didn't.

So there you have a brief update. I will try to go into more detail about things as I get the pictures up. I will shoot for tonight to do that as long as Mr. Xbox doesn't call my name. TTFN!

The Rock Star Sings Again!

Who knew that when you are potty training a toddler poop would be something you talk about so often and so freely. I sure didn't, but I do now. We talk about it often and this morning The Boy even sang all of us a little song about it. It went like this...

When you feel the poop come out your butt, plop plop poop! Plop plop poop!

I think it could be a major hit! His song writing abilities are outstanding! Watch out recording world there is a new star rising!

Just Hangin Out

Our trip has slowed down a little now. Just hanging out at Meemaw's and P'pa's. WE will be going up to see Grandma Rain and Grandpa Dave on Thursday then we have another big weekend coming up.

My sisters and AJ will get here on Saturday and we have a graduation open house on Sunday for my cousin. I will probably do something, hopefully, with friends on Friday or Saturday...or both. Had lunch with them yesterday on their lunch break.

Jayke and his P'pa have become best buddies. The dogs have calmed down and don't bark at him anymore. They are still a little afraid of him but it gets better every day. Mom got some cute pictures of P'pa, Jayke, and both dogs resting on the couch this afternoon. When she gets them on here I will post one.

So that is my quick update. I'm finding it hard to concentrate enough to write a good blog entry here. I need to try this at night after everyone has gone to bed like I do at home. Maybe tonight I will get it together and do that.

Shopping, Eating, and Good Music

Whew! It has been a busy weekend! I really didn't want to write about the concert until I could put the pictures on but that may be a while so I'm going to anyway.
It was GREAT! Gwen Stefani does a good show. I figured she would though because she is always good whenever I see her on anything. We ended up with box seats and VIP parking thanks to Melanie's dad. I think this worked out well since we had so many kids with us, they were all contained in our box and we didn't have to worry about losing one. They danced on the chairs and we took tons of pictures. I don't think I've seen Verizon Music Center that packed before.

It was a long day but the girls could hang with us which surprised me a little. We started out at the mall in Castleton, where the girls got there hair did at Libby Lu's. After that we went and ate dinner at TGI Friday's. AJ was with us. She ate with us then went and helped Melanie and Angi pick out different outfits to wear. What kind of women would we be if we went to a mall and didn't shop. I got a Jones of New York sweater on clearance for $27, it had been $129.00. Pretty good deal! It was a good sign it was going to be a good night.

Jaykeb stayed with Meemaw and P'pa. They had a picnic, played Sorry and Jenga, and colored. He didn't care that Mommy was gone until it came time for bed. He asked P'pa, with teary eyes, if his mommy was coming home tonight. He was still up waiting for me when I got home around midnight. He was exhausted and fell asleep soon after I got there. It has been a long time since I have spent any amount of time away from him so he didn't like that very much. He is having a lot of fun with Meemaw and P'pa though.

We are going to go see Grammy, Oma, and Opa today. Aunt Sherri and Aunt Kimmy, and AJ will be here this weekend for my dad's birthday. Opa wants to take Jayke to Summer Heat. I am going to go get a mani/pedi with Angi...did ya hear that Ang? And lots of other stuff. Busy, busy.

I'm trying to get around to everyone's blogs but I don't to make it to everyone every day. I will be around though.

I'm Not Stopping Every 15 Minutes for Gas!

WE made it here safe and sound. Only had one potty issue along the way. It really wasn't much of an issue either. He just thought we were going to stop for him to pee every 15 minutes when he really didn't have to and that every time he "has air" he has to sit on the potty to let it out now. Nope! Not happenin. After the first time having to completely undress him, haul the Dora potty ring into the rest stop bathroom, and having him throw the door open on me while I was pottying that was it. I told him to hold it and go to sleep. He did and we made it with no problem.

Jayke was extremely excited to be there. P'pa and Meemaw had 11 monster trucks hidden all over the house like an Easter Egg hunt for him to find. He wanted his old toys first though. He drug Ppa out to the barn to check out the lawn mowers right away. Must be a kids dream. My dad has like 8 or 9 lawn mowers.

He immediately realized the pool has a deep end and has decided he wants to stay far away from it. That is good, he has fallen in in the past. He will be in the shallow end swimming with his AJ tonight and tomorrow though.

This morning we came over to see Oma and Opa. We got to see their new house they will be moving into in a couple of days. We went over to see Grammy too. Oma had a bunch of new cars for The Boy too. The kid has more cars than the stores have. We went to lunch with Oma and now we are getting ready to head over to my friend, Angi's, house for Jayke to play with her kids, Maci and Matthew.

It has been a busy first day so far. Jayke is extremely wound up and excited to be here. He has done wonderful with teh potty training so far, which I am thrilled about. The new car was great on the drive up too. Much easier to drive through the winding mountains than the Durango was. I didn't realize how much my car looks like my mom's BMW until I parked it next to hers and almost go in the wrong one. I didn't do that on purpose even though I bought a Durango after she did last time. I am not copying her, I promise!

I hope to get some pictures loaded on Dad's computer in the next day or so. I have just been really busy and super tired since I got here. I only had 3 hours of sleep the night before I drove up. Never fails that I can't sleep the night before I drive. I may start leaving at 8p.m. and driving through the night. Would probably be easier for this insomniac!

I'm Outta Here!

I'm off! Headin north for about 3 weeks. I will be able to blog from up there though so I will be putting pictures of my trip up as soon as I take some. Going to be a busy trip! Graduation party, bithday party, concert, gambling trip, swimming, and lots of other stuff! Can't wait!

Jayke has been asking to go all week. He was so excited running all over the house today helping me pack and running the vacuum for me. He even asked his dad to take him to get his hair cut! Mike said he did great too. Walked in and went right off with the girl all by himself. Mike got his hair cut at the same time. He wasn't even in a chair near him. He said he sat there and talked to the girl the whole time and even wore the cape! When he got home he ran in to show me his hair and annonced that he didn't even cry. When he decides to become a "Big boy" he doens't mess around. I've talked about how he hates getting his hair cut here, it was such a treat.

Now that he is a big boy he is wanting other things too. Today he came in and asked me if we could, "Go get a girl now". I asked him what he meant and he said, "Can we go buy a baby sister now?" That led to a big discussion on where babies come from. Not how they are made, just where they come from. He thought about it for a minute then patted my belly and asked if there was a baby in there now. Nope, just looks like it, sorry kid. He moved on then but I'm sure we will have to talk about this again. Maybe someday he will get that sister, just not right now.

I didn't take any pictures of the new hair cut because I had already packed up the camera bag and didn't want to have to go get it all back out. I will put one up when I take some pictures up north. Now I have to go take my butt to bed about 3 hours before I normally would go so I can make it there without falling asleep behind the wheel.

Too Sexy For my Bucket Hat

Note: Edited to add the WCW theme! I'm lazy like that ya know. I didn't want to have to come up with a whole new post for WCW so I am just sticking the button up on this post. If you wanna play go see TKW to find out how and let her know you are playing. No bonus points this week, I don't have a W theme.

Yesterday my boys were outside being one with nature, swatting at bumblebees, shoeing flies, and what not. All of a sudden the small boy came running in yelling, "Moommmmmiiiieeeee!" It wasn't a hurt yell so I kept reading blogs and waited for him to find me. When he did he kept showing me his thumb. His dad then came around the corner cracking up. Apparently they had caught a lizard and while Jayke was holding it it bit down on his thumb and was hanging there. He wasn't scared or hurt, I think he was disgusted that that crazy lizard dared to hang off his thumb like that. If only I had been out there with the camera. I would have made him stand there with the lizard hanging long enough to take several pictures to make sure I got a good one.

We had another night where the kiddo stayed up all night. When I say all night, I mean only until 4a.m. or so. No more late naps for him! He napped right through dinner so then he went to bed and woke up around 1a.m. wanting to eat. Luckily for him I stay up at least that late every night so I whipped him up a PB&J and let him watch news with me. After eating he had to play a few minutes with his cars. I finally go him to bed but then he wanted to watch cartoons for a few minutes. I drifted off and he was watching Sagwa or Jakers or something. Woke up at 4a.m. because he and his dad were having an arguement about him going to sleep. No more tv at night. I guess I will have to find a way to sleep without it.

Since he was up all night he was crabby all day. I told him to go take a nap. He did but a few minutes later was yelling from the bedroom, "Mommy! Can one of my eyes stay awake?" The way their minds work...I tell ya! After convincing him that both eyes were tired and needed to take a nap he finally dozed off.

Before taking his nap though we got a package from Brown (UPS) and the following cheesiness insued...

(cue the music...I'm too sexy for my shirt....)







He is all of a sudden strikin' a gangsta pose...don't know where he learned this...



The posing went on...



....and on...





....and on...




All of this started because he got that hat and these new shoes...



He is all about the shoes these days. Both came from Old Navy. He got some flip flops too, but they are a little big still. If anyone knows were I can get some black Vans in child size 9, please let me know. I need them to go with his AC/DC t-shirt. He really got his Vogue on this afternoon. AJ, you would have been proud.



He even had to run into his Dad's closet to get one of his hats to model too. He got darn mad when I wouldn't take any more pictures.



So that is what we did today...along with MORE laundry and packing. Tomorrow is my last day before I head North. Yes, I am still leaving on Thursday regardless of pleas from more than one person today to leave tomorrow. I have to have one more day to mentally prepare myself to sleep in the sweatbox that is my Dad's house. A little AC won't kill ya, man!