R's triathlon picture

Here's a picture of R during the bike portion of his tri........I've been meaning to put it up forever.
Also, I'm giving myself a 12 grace period on the whole 365 thing (ha!)....it's hard to do!!
Also, no that is not R's princess balloon in the background. It was some other Dad's. And yes, that Dad got razzed for it big time according to R!

Saturday picture

Thanks Dad for taking this picture! I planned on putting it up last night, but I fell asleep watching a movie. (:

Sun, finally!

It seems like forever since we've seen the sun! The skies cleared around the time we needed to pick up H from school. I took the kids to the park for a bit until Dad got off work. Then, we got a little crazy.......wait for it.....we had breakfast for dinner. I know, it's wild, high times for the family. But I'm telling you, it's hard to beat migas and pancakes on a Friday night.

The knee bone is connected to the.....

When your kid asks you for 'sharp' scissors and tape, sometimes it pays off to say 'yes'. This little activity of H's kept him busy for the entire time it took me to prep dinner.
H. has been reading "The big book of bones" and wanted to make a life size skeleton of himself to scare Dad when he came home from work. He did it 100% himself and I thought he did a good job for a 6 year old!
And yes, Dad was 'terrified' when he came home. ( ;

Wild West Wednesday

I've been taking the kids to the public library on Wednesday afternoons. I find that it's nice to switch out the books they have in their bedroom bookshelves on a weekly basis. Afterwords we usually hit Sonic 'happy hour' for slushes, but today it was so cold and rainy that I took them to the coffee shop next door to the library. LOVE that place. As you can see in the second picture, they have a small area with toys to keep the kids occupied while you wait. Sweet.

Two British ladies run the place and I was chatting with one of them about the building. She says the store is definitely haunted. It was built in 1904 and was originally a pharmacy downstairs with two rooms upstairs for a physician and a dentist. The owner told me that she swears she saw a lady in a green early-20th century dress run across the floor and told me the other owner heard children laughing early one morning when she was by herself.
Creepy.

Las-sag-ghana

H and A. LOVE joke books and any 'funny' reading material. We ran across a Garfield book at the library last week that caught the eye of H. He kept asking me one day what "Las-sag-ghana" was. I didn't have a clue what he meant until he mentioned Garfield.
He really wanted to try some so I made it today. Both kids seemed to like the 'cat food'.

An old photo from a few months ago......I love it when H reads to A.

A. slept from 3pm to midnight last night, had some crackers and juice, then went back to sleep until 7:30 this morning. She was fever free today and doing better overall.
(: