Smarts and Cute coming up!

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Smartie Girl... Oxygen

Cute Boy... First time he ever actually kept up the "hoopa hoop" w/ his body. "1st Time hooping"
and the next day... look how fast he gets it going. He's gotten better each day. "hoopa hoop"
Here he is Singing his ABC's

 and video of my aunt when we were at the aquarium Horseshoe Crab

Chocolate makes me happy

Be prepared for some serious cuteness!!

KINDERGARTEN!!!

Can you believe it??? I sure can't! She was so excited to go and when I picked her up that afternoon and asked what she thought she said "it was awesome!" Let's see how long that lasts! LOL

What's new?

Life is such a roller coaster! The Girl starts KINDERGARTEN in 6 weeks!!!! That's just crazy talk right there I tell ya! Thinking about her waking up at 6:45 in the morning is reason enough for me to consider homeschooling her! She still doesn't do mornings... at. all! The Boy is VERY much a boy and in very much of a rude awakening when he wakes up one morning and his sister is not here... all. day. long! (That's going to make for a very long day for me!) C is also in for some changes coming up. He has been having some noticeable issues with his voice since the beginning of the year. It has bothered him enough that he finally went to the dr about it, she referred him to an ENT dr who did a scope and found a mass on his vocal chords. Since C uses his voice for "other than social reasons" they referred him to a surgeon who specializes in vocal surgeries. Yesterday C met with him and he took some images and they scheduled surgery for July 25th. C will be on complete voice rest for 7 days and then he will gradually be able to increase his vocal use to full speaking capacity 4 weeks post op and he should be able to go back to singing within 6-8 weeks. In other news... I got a new washer and dryer!!! WHOOO HOOOO!!!! My old machines where 15 years old and just so tiny and not energy or water efficient. I finished ALL the laundry in the house in 4 loads, that would have easily been 8 -10 loads in my old machines. I can't imagine how long that would take in the dryer. A small load was taking about 70 minutes to dry. :( I told C that we were going to save so much money by not using all the energy and water that we wouldn't even feel the payments. LOL It won't be that much, but it could quite possibly be 1/2!

I hate girl drama!

I'm just not good at it. I had the guts to tell someone that something they did made me feel excluded and therefore I wouldn't be joining them on an outing this week that was going to put me in the same situation. They didn't say anything at all. Didn't acknowledge it, didn't apologize, didn't deny it. Yeah, so thanks for that! Word got back to me that she said my feelings w/ another person involved so I sent an email pretty much telling her that her behavior w/ this other person made me feel uncomfortable and that I didn't want to go through that again. From this person I got, sorry you feel that way, but yeah we do that. WOW! Really??? Thanks for taking my feelings into consideration. I like to think that I'm a pretty good friend to people and that I go out of my way to help a person out and what not. So when the same isn't offered to me it hurts, deeply. I'm pretty crushed right now and what really stinks is that I know that to not cause more drama I shouldn't talk with anyone in our circles about it so yay, I get to just keep it all inside, we all know how healthy that is! So let me paint the picture for you..... let's pretend that you are invited to go somewhere with friends, you arrive and it is just the three of you. Through out the course of the time together you are repeatedly walked away from, excluded from conversations, and even while eating together at a table one of the people literally has their back to you as they continue a conversation w/ the other person about people you don't even know, while they share food all buddy buddy like and no one has given you any thought. At one point, they even walked away in the store and left you with all of the kids. So, yeah, that was a wonderful time and I really can't wait to do that again, NOT!

Blogger changed!

Blogger has changed since the last time I logged in.... I don't think it looks much different for the reader, but for the one writing.... WOW it looks sooooooo different. I don't know exactly what is included in all the changes as of yet, I'll have to do some snooping around when I get a chance. Smart phones are cool but they really hinder me. I read emails but forget to reply to them or I type out a short reply on my phone's screen and then my phone decides it doesn't want to send the email. It is really beginning to annoy the snot out of me. Also I am able to do a lot of internet browsing via my phone so I don't get on the actually computer as much as I used to. Last time I was on I saw that I can post a blog from my phone, but I don't remember how to do it & now w/ all the new changes I'm going to have to search for the directions. These silly phones are supposed to make things/life a little easier! Well, Duke's paw is all healed up but we found out a little bit ago that he has a tumor in his mouth. :( The dr thinks it is benign and it is operable. She took some blood work to see how he is doing and it seems that he is pretty healthy. It looks like he'll be having surgery in the next few weeks. :( :( :( I'm so nervous for him. The Boy is totally TWO!!!! He throws way more fits than I expected from him and he is exhausting but he is absolutely the cutest little guy in the whole entire world!!! The Girl finished her 1st soccer season and really seemed to enjoy it. She has said that she wants us to sign her up again so that is a good sign. We had fun being soccer parents too. :) She is super excited to start school at the end of August. Just about every other day she asks if it is her birthday yet or if it is time to go to school. I am sooo nervous about her starting school. More so b/c the germs that she will encounter and inevitably bring home to us. :( I'm also hoping that she doesn't become a 'behavior' problem when in reality she is just bored b/c she knows all the stuff already. I'm sort of looking forward to her being gone for a few hours a day so that The Boy and I can get a chance to do some learning together. The flip side of that is that he won't have "Sizzy" around to entertain or to entertain him. It's just then end of June and it is already too hot to do anything around here. The highs for this weekend range from 101-104 not really my idea of fun. :(

Duke got a boo boo

Long story short, in the middle of the night we discovered Duke had this boo boo on his paw. I'm posting the pictures here for a friend to see so she can give us some advice on care for it.








In other news: I just noticed that I can post from my phone.... I just may blog more often now! Woot! WOOT!