We have a cutter!!!

Lauren cut her hair today and her sister helped. Awesome. She now has bangs almost to her scalp and a lovely Kate Gosslin-esque mohawk down the center of her head. Off to the hairdressers tomorrow. A friend mentioned a pixie cut as a possibility. We shall see. Perhaps a buzz cut would be better? Argh!

Owen Wilson as a Great Dane?

I'm not buying it. I took 4 neighborhood kids, along with mine to go see Marmaduke today. The kids loved it...me, not so much.

K on perogies

I figured since it’s summer and the girls are older, we’d try some new foods. Today it was the potato filled dumpling known as a perogie. K’s comment: “it’s kinda wonderful and kinda gross at the same time”

I’d also like to take the time to thank the brilliant minds at Wendy’s Corp. for subjecting me to the below mentioned song for another day. Thanks a lot Wendy’s. I don’t know how I made it this long without hearing that song all day every day. Now my life will be divided by the sadness before Reunited, and the blissful after.

I'd also like to thank the girls, seriously this time, for getting along so well this morning while I'm cleaning. So far, no hitting, screaming or fighting that I've been called in to mediate. Sweet!

Reunited by Peaches & Herb, accompanied by K and Blueberry

With a special guest apperance by L

It’s so great to see you again!

Happy Fathers day to all of the great dads out there! I am really honored to know so many wonderful men who are enjoying their “dadness” & especially my wonderful W who is the definition of a great dad. W & I enjoyed a nice lunch out sans kids with two other neighbor families at Dunderbaks. Then we came home & W napped and now we are headed over to a neighbors for swimming and steaks. Does it get any better than that? Nah

Those of you who travel with kids are probably aware that Wendy’s is giving out karaoke cd’s with 4 songs on them. We have a couple but for some reason, K was struck by “Reunited” by Peaches and Herb. So we listed to that about 20 times on the way home with the requisite sing-a-long during our 2 hour drive home from Lake City yesterday. That was fun.

So to relieve ourselves of ever hearing that song again, we let her take the cd into her room where she can sing-a-long-all-the live-long-day for all I care. Then Woody got the camera. See for yourself but don’t say I didn’t warn you. LOL

Big girl here we come

Katherine started Kindergarten today at a new charter school. Granted, they didn't think it all through (like the traffic getting in and out was awful as this parent pointed out) http://imagineschoolslol.blogspot.com/2008/08/death-defying-traffic-on-sr54.html
but I think they are doing a great job with the kids.

All in all Katherine had a great day and according to her, only had to use her magic rock one time when she "got a little sad". I made one for Lauren and Katherine for when they go to school. A little rock with lips on one side and a heart on the other. They watched me kiss each rock 100 times and give it bear hugs. They can hold the rock when they need me but I can't be there.

Lauren is still crabby and fighting daycare but there's no choice. I start my new job next week so she will have to adjust..or not...I suppose she could just make us all miserable each and every morning. BAH!!

Today K asked me what ducks do when it rains. What an odd question!

Woody is still in Vegas on vacay and TS Faye is on her way so my plans for a whole week with the kids at school to wrap up my MAXIMUS work and Daisy Scout plans for next year, are shot. School is cancelled due to weather on the second day. Pitiful!!!

Oh well. We will get by.

It's the most magical time of the year

Today, Santa visited Katherine's school. She sat on his lap and asked for a stuffed owl and a robot Katherine and Robot Lauren. She was explaining it to Lauren and said that when santa brings the robots, they can each have a playmate who is a robot them and they won't fight anymore. Then she said "and when the batteries run out, mommy will just put new ones in! Welllll....maybe" So, do you have the scoop on robot kids? If so, please sharefor right now, my mantra to katherine is "go ahead kid and dream the impossible dream"
This morning, we made gingerbread cookies. We are having our annual cookie decorating party tomorrow afternoon and we're expecting 11 kids. yikes!

Last night, while I was changing the 3rd poopy pull up of the day, I said "Lauren, it would make a great Christmas present for mommy and daddy if you used the potty instead of a pull up". About 20 minutes later she calls me and I follow her little voice into the bathroom where I find her perched on the edge of the potty going poop. She woke up dry this morning and ran to the potty and went 1 & 2 so now she's in big girl panties. She's had two small pee accidents (which really kind of stinks since the dryer is broken and the repairman isn't coming until MONDAY) but no poopie oopsies.

Besides that giant breakthrough, we also went to our Daisy Meeting. One sign that you may be a little too into Project Runway? When you decide that giving 5 & 6 year old kids wrapping paper, tape, ribbons and tinsel and give them 15 minutes to design an outfit. We had a blast.