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.

We're In The Jungle Baby!

I don't know what happened but my modem is now working again. I'm not complaining but that is just weird. Much like being under a sever thunderstorm watch in Indiana in January. Weird.

Speaking of weird...The Boy must think we live in the Sahara or something. Today he was sitting on Oma's lap and all of a sudden yelled, "There's a baboon on that roof over there!" as he pointed at the neighbor's house across the pond. You may remember when we first got up here and he jumped a rabbit and started yelling, "A kangaroo! A kangaroo!" You can read that post HERE if you would like. Turns out there was someone working on the roof...a man...not a baboon. Must have just looked like a baboon for some reason to The Boy, could be his feverish state. He had to go to the doctor today because he has some respiratory thing going on now. I swear he is sick every week!

Will be trying to catch up on reading blogs tonight!

Modem Trouble

My modem is out so I am blogging from my mom's house and I don't have any of my pictures. My sceduled post all about my boy's first basketball practice is going to have to wait, I guess. Today was soccer again. I felt much better going into practice being a "veteran". We knew some of the people there and of course Isabelle was there too. Jayke didn't hesitate at all just marched right out to the center of the court and sat down with his ball. There were tons of kids there this time and most of them were newbys. I hope I didn't look like that last time. The parents wouldn't leave the court and were getting run over by the kids when they started their game.

Jayke did really well. He ended up on the bottom of a pile up a couple of times but jumped right back up and took off after the ball again. He even paid attention where he was going instead of watching me the whole time grinning like a goober.

I have to go home and get the cable company on the phone now and have them check my modem to see what is going on. PITA! I may be slow in posting and getting around to visit other blogs for a while. I will be back though!

I Just Shake My Head...

I've been meaning to tell this story for a while now. With the lack of things I am able to discuss on here right now I guess this is a good time for another story from the Looney Bin...otherwise known as my gramma's house!

Gramma took Jayke and me out to dinner the other night. Jayke got to choose...somehow, I NEVER get to pick. We always end up at Bob Evans or Red Lobster. Anyway, on this particular evening we were heading out to the Lobster to chow down on some critters from the sea. We no sooner get there when Grammy realizes she somehow forgot her cane. This wouldn't be the first or even one thousandth time she has done this so I thought nothing of it and sent her on in with her trusty man-servant holding her hand for support.

I go park the car and meet them in the entrance. We sit down and begin "discussing" how many cherries The Boy will be needing in his Shirley Temple. I now know to tell the waiter 2 cherries right from the get go to avoid a screaming meltdown when the fruity fizzy cocktail arrives with only one. Everything seemed normal. The cocktail arrived with just the right amount of fruit. We argued over whether to order from the lunch menu or the dinner...Grammy prefers the lunch menu and she had a coupon. She ended up ordering from the dinner by mistake and got way more fish than she had intended to.

We ate, we left, Jayke yelled about random stuff the whole way home while I tried to talk to Mom on the phone and Grammy tried to quiet him. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. The next day my mom tells me that Gramma thought she was having a heart attack from the moment we walked into the restaurant all the way through dinner but didn't want to scare us so said nothing. I thought about this for a while and when I got home I went in to discuss it with her.

I told her the next time she is having a heart attack at the Red Lobster she might want to tell someone instead of sitting all the way through dinner and consuming an entire school of fish! Yes, an entire school. That is what it looked like and she ate every bite. Her reply was simply that it was there and she didn't want it to go to waste even if she was about to die. My grandma is a tiny woman but she has always been able to get her grub on in a big way...heart attack or not!

There is no reasoning with her!



I got this award from Tommiea of Tuesday Update! Thank you for making me smile this evening! I'm going to pass it along to Kailani of An Island Life.

How Big Am I Mommy?

Today is my baby's birthday! He turns four years old today!

 

It's hard to believe four years ago I brought this tiny little guy home from the hospital. Okay, 9lbs 10oz is not all that tiny but he seemed like the littlest thing in the world to me. After 27 hours of labor and an emergency C section they held my little guy up and we just stared at each other. He was probably wondering the same thing I was, "Will she know what to do?"

I wouldn't find out for several more hours and not entirely for a couple more days. They handed him to his father and let him take him to meet all his grandparents anxiously awaiting his arrival in the waiting room. I had to remain in the or for another hour and recovery for several more after that. I finally got to meet my son and hold him in my arms in the NICU about 3 or 4 hours after delivering him. I was afraid I'd rip the wires and tubes out so I couldn't hold him comfortably. That continued for the next couple of days. I didn't even feel like I was his mother until the night before I was to leave the hospital. They brought him to me and we were on our own together.



I spent the entire night staring at him in his bassinet and holding him in my bed. I can still remember the contended little sound he would make after taking his bottle. That little sigh would make the hair on my arms stand up and chills run down my spine. I was in love. I didn't think I could love any more than that but I find myself falling in love with him over and over again everyday with each thing he learns and every funny thing he does.



Four whole years and it seems like only yesterday we spent our first night at home as a family...all sleeping in the living room for some reason. I listened to the lullaby cd that I played on repeat throughout the house for the first year of his life the other day. It made me sad that my little baby wasn't a baby anymore but also excited about all the things to come in his life. He is growing up fast now and I want to hold onto every single memory and cherish every moment with my precious son. He has been a blessing to me and I thank God everyday for giving him to me.




Happy birthday big boy! Mommy loves you!

Party Post

Taking pictures of this party was difficult. I lost track of the kids almost immediately as they headed to the indoor playground. I managed to get a few good ones and a lot more not so good ones. Here are some of both. I have a bunch but I'm only putting a few up here.

The party went well. Not very many kids from his class came but he was perfectly happy with all the girls who were there dragging him all over the place. If you saw Jayke you saw him totally surrounded by girls. He almost looked a little dazed like he wasn't sure what was going on. He may have been a little overwhelmed.

They played in the tubes, ate cake, opened presents, then got tokens so they could go play games. I wasn't very happy with the place not letting me in to my party room until 10 minutes before my guests were supposed to arrive. Doesn't give one much time to set up. I probably won't have a party there again. It was fun though and I was happy with it...more importantly The Boy was happy. He got to spend the whole day with his mom and dad together...before the party and after. You could tell he was really happy about that. After the party he was worn out. We just went back to the house and the three of us played with all his new stuff together.

I said in my earlier post that there was a let down. I just meant how after you prepare for something for a long time or look forward to it then when it is over you have a let down. I think I was fighting off Jayke's flu bug he had the day before too. I was worn out! Mike was worn out! Jayke was exhausted!

He got tons of cool toys. His daddy got him a Nintendo DS, I got him a scooter, he got a light bright, puzzles, cars, playdoh, and lots of other fun stuff. The grandparents have all decided to just give him money either in his trust account or in the form of savings bonds. They make sure I can't touch it...probably a good thing! Grammy gave him an electronic keyboard which he has been entertaining her with downstairs. She is lucky, all she has to do is turn off her hearing aid and it doesn't bother her at all!

So, here are some pictures. He is having a little party at school on Wednesday too. I may have pictures of that later.



Before the craziness began.

Last Birthday This Month!

It's Grammy's birthday today! Mark and Robin, (my aunt and uncle) are taking Jayke, Grammy, and me out to eat tonight. I'm glad...I have been down in the dumps all day. I think it was the let down after Jayke's big party which I had occupied myself with for months, planning and preparing for.

I will have a party update later. I have to get the pictures uploaded and edited etc. It went really well though. We had 11 kids show up which was plenty. The treat bags were a hit with parents and kids alike...that made me happy. The Dad was there along with all the grandparents. No 'Taylor with the long hair' but I think The Boy was plenty happy with all the women who were there to drag him around.

Back later with a full post!

Crushing on The Boy

The birthday party must be making The Boy very popular at school. When I went in to pick him up today two of the little girls (INCLUDING TAYLOR WITH THE LONG HAIR)ran up and gave him big hugs! It was hysterical. He got this goofy look on his face and started rolling his eyes all over the place. He must have turned five shades of red too. They promised they were coming to his party then took me over to show me where Jayke's birthday was marked on the calendar. Jaykeb was the quietest I've ever heard him. I hope he talks to them at the party and doesn't clam up with shyness like he did today.

I think Gramma has some kind of condition that causes her to blurt out random facts. One day she was asking me about the candidates running for president. She was going through the list asking about each one..."Do you like Obama? Do you like McCain? Do you like Hillary?" then the next one was, "Do you like kiwi?" I just looked at her and racked my brain to figure out where that came from. She had the grocery ad near by so I'm guessing that she looked down and that just popped into her head.

Today I ran in the house after work to change clothes before taking out the garbage for the pickup tomorrow. I sat down in the living room to put my shoes on and as I stood to leave she all of a sudden says, "Yale is lowering their tuition." Blink, blink Okay, I will keep that in mind if I decide I need any further education. I told her she reminded me of someone with tourettes. She laughed. That's the good thing, she can find humor in her actions caused by her advanced age. I know I'm finding humor in her actions! In her defense, she does keep FOX News on at all times, muted most of the time, and reads the screen. I think this is where the Yale info came from. If you don't know where it is coming from it will really catch you off gaurd though.

Speaking of the garbage, I missed the the pickup last week and I think she is ready to fire me. She has been talking about changing the cleaning lady's day to Wednesday so she can get the trash hauled down to the curb. Geesh! I've only missed one day! There was also a lot of discussion about moving the huge cans around so that ours weren't next to the neighbors because they have stinky cans and she wants her own back instead of theirs...yadda...yadda...yadda. I just flat out said I was not going down to the end of that long driveway and rearranging all the trash cans in the freezing cold. I could just put them on the other side. She disappeared after that and I found her out in the garage putting furnace tape on the side of her cans so we could be sure to get the right ones back. You better believe that tomorrow when the neighbor takes the wrong cans home she will have me back there retrieving our "fresher" garbage cans.

Look How Cute!

I want one of these! This is Bella, my uncle's dog. She is the cutest thing ever. He brought her out to visit Grammy and she perched on his shoulder the entire visit, scared of The Boy. She is little for a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, there other one is quite a bit bigger. My mom was almost convinced that she was getting one but Jim put a halt to that. No more dogs for her. He's an old poop! Jaykeb needs a puppy in his life. Since I already have too many dogs I don't think I will be getting one but if I did I'd like a little Bella dog.



Here is one of my snow dogs. I can't decide if they like being back where it is cold and snowy. Simon doesn't stay out long but Laynie likes to run around in it sniffing everything. I also wonder if they miss the rest of their pack...the ones who are still in SC. Laynie looks like she is really out hunting for something in this picture. Probably kangaroo!

Can't put a picture of Laynie up without one of Simon. He just looks cold to me. He desperately needs grooming.



More snow coming this weekend. I hope it doesn't affect the birthday party. The first time I tried to have a birthday party for the boy it snowed the night before and none of my friends made it. Jayke is doing the count down to his party. He asks me daily how many more days until Saturday. I think he understands that Saturday is the party but his birthday isn't until the 23rd. He has been practicing holding up four fingers instead of three too. I can't believe he is going to be four! Seems like only yesterday we were bringing him home from the hospital.

I got my first paycheck today! Woohoo! I had forgotten that it was payday so I was surprised. Not real surprised though since it was only for 13 hours. Still like the job...a lot of busy work which is what I love, I know, I'm weird. It can't compare to my last job though. No job ever will. Another thing I can add to the list of how my mom ruined my life. Closed my store, therefore ending the only job I ever loved. The list includes the closing of the store, moving me to Yorktown when I was a sophomore, and throwing away my Holly Hobby dolls. All life altering events! I remind her periodically of these crimes. She's over it, evidently I'm not. I am however, over this blog entry.

Recap of the B-day Night

See that gloomy gus in the background. He was a grouch today for some reason when I picked him up from school. He switched to 3 days a week today and I was relieved to learn that a lot of his friends where still in his class, especially "Taylor with the long hair"!



We had Oma's birthday dinner tonight. Jayke got her the flowers you see in the picture and I got her some new pjs and a sinus sleep mask thingy. We had our spagetti dinner and strawberry swirl cheesecake. Oma and Jayke played with his
1970s Fisher Price Sesame Street people on the floor after dinner. Mike and I collected all of the old Fisher Price sets when Jayke was just a little baby and I think he likes them better than the new ones. He plays with this one all the time. We have the house too but it is packed in a box somewhere in the barn. I am going to have to go find it soon because he is only going to put up with this temporary one for a while.



Here is the ch ch ch Chia update...




He seems to have the Willmann(my maiden name) head of hair, very thick! See...



It's Chia Wendy! I seem to have more hair right now than I ever have in my life. I know it is longer than ever. I have been debating whether to cut it or not. I love being able to pull it up and if I get it cut I won't be able to do that anymore. Decisions, decisions.

The Boy did cheer up...



....after I gave him ice cream. Sometimes you just need a little ice cream, I guess!

I wasn't able to sleep at all last night so I'm hoping tonight goes better. I wish I knew what causes me to have nights like that just randomly. I actually fell asleep while my mom was here tonight for her b-day dinner. Oops. Hey, at least I made it to work and through work!

A Birthday and More

My mom hits the big 60 today! Woohoo! Happy birthday Mom! I'm cooking dinner for her tonight. Called and asked her what she wanted...she picked the one thing she knows I do really well. I personally think I cook a lot of things well...at least better than she does! I was expecting to do something elaborate for her but she wants spagetti. I think she picked it because it is my Gramma's favorite.

Tonight I have her birthday dinner, Saturday I have Jayke's big 4th birthday bash, and Sunday I have Grammy's birthday! That should finish off the month for birthdays. I'm really disappointed I didn't get to have a big 40th birthday party for Mike on the 3rd. I had been planning it for a whole year! Oh well, I have plenty of other birthdays to worry about this week.

I have decided, now that I'm working again, that the weekends are way to short! I can appreciate Friday again now and look forward to it. I went out to dinner with 5 girl friends on Friday. Angi was looking forward to going out and being able to stay out late...her husband is out of town working. We tried. We ended up rolling in the driveway at 10:19...I think we are getting old. It is pretty sad when you are sitting in front of the tv on Friday night at 10:30 watching Thursday's episode of er on the Tivo. It was that or Dance Dance Revolution which I nixed since I didn't think mixing DDR with margaritas was a good idea. I think Jayke partied harder than we did over at my dad's with Meemaw and Aunt Kimmy!

You already heard about my wild night at Bob Evans (yes, it is a restaurant)in my earlier post and today was full of laundry and cleaning. Grammy decided today that having my uncle fix up the old chicken coop out back for her to live in might be a good idea. I'm hoping she was joking but at this point you just don't really know. My mom and I just looked at each other and laughed hysterically. As if on cue, my uncle called right after the comment and so she had to ask him if that was a possiblity. He told her he would take a look at it for her. He is good at calling and getting her all riled up then hanging up. I can tell her right now that the chicken coop no longer has a roof on it and I'm pretty sure the current occupants(about a million mice) probably don't want to share their digs with her. I asked her if we could please keep the crazy comments to a minimum this afternoon.

Note: Any funny stories I tell about my grandmother are told with much love. We have the kind of relationship that we can joke with each other and know that we are just joking. I have always had a very close loving relationship with my grandmother and she didn't even think twice about taking Jaykeb and me in in our time of need. No disrespect is ever intended.

The Looney Bin Hits The Road

I'm finding myself spending many evenings at Bob Evans lately. Tonight was one of those occasions. We had a guest who came at dinner time and stayed a lot longer than we expected. Gramma is not one to turn away company. If someone wants to come over it doesn't matter what is going on...they are welcome. I, on the other hand, am not so nice but since it is not my house I didn't really have a say in the matter. Our visitor came and stayed and stayed and stayed.

When visitor finally left Bob Evans was where Grammy decided we should eat. Fine with me...just feed me!

On the drive home we had one of those conversations that just makes me shake my head in wonder that I am still sane.

I'm trying to pull out of the parking lot across 4 lanes of traffic and Grammy is sitting up looking one way then the other then back again...I finally tell her to sit back that I'm driving so what is she looking for! She begins to laugh and go on about something...

Jayke: "Don't talk to my Mommy when she is trying to drive!"

Grammy: "Ok, sorry" (pats me on the arm and says,"Excuse me for breathing.")

Jayke: "Hey! I hear you jiggling up there!"

Laughter from the front seat

Jayke: "I said STOP jiggling! Geesh...excuse me for breathing!"

I am assuming he meant giggling.

Grammy begins singing about the 'Carolina Moon' in the sky..."Carolina Moon, Carolina Moon,,,", in a very low low exagerated voice that only those who know her and love her can appreciate.

At the same time Jayke starts singing The Twelve Days of Christmas..."On the first day of Christmas ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti...",

Both continue to get louder so they can hear themself over the other.

I just drive as fast as I can to get us home the whole time knowing that my friends are just around the corner getting pedicures and I was supposed to be with them!