Growth!

GROWTH #1: Not only is Little Man growing around here but so have other things. My Mimi gave Little Man some bulbs, soil and a pot at Easter to plant his own 'flowers'. Well, we planted the bulbs and watered the thing, and it grew! Imagine that!! I was actually shocked since normally, if I have anything to do with planting anything, it usually dies!

(PS even though little man has a sweat shirt on, it is not cold outside, it was in the high 80s...this was another time he picked out his own clothes)

GROWTH #2: For Little Man's birthday his Uncle Kirk gave him a 'grow your own butterflies' kit. Well just yesterday, we had 5 caterpillars come out of their cocoons and become butterflies. You can't see them in the picture but I promise they are in there. Little Man was super excited.

GROWTH#3: Unfortunately the growth I am experiencing in my world is the amount of laundry that never ceases to end. It's a vicious cycle.

(for the record, this laundry is clean...I would never air my dirty laundry on-line)

Graduation

Little Man graduated from Pre-K...I can hardly believe it. And of course they had to put them in a cap and gown. I think the evil plan was to get the mom's to envision their child graduating from High School and get all choked up....and it worked of course. He has a 2008 tassel that he can hang from his bike handle bars...he is officially 5 going on 18. Standing at 46 in tall, he reminds me daily of how big he is. Just this morning, he was sitting on the stairs next to me telling me, ' Look how big I am Mom, my head goes up to your chinny-chin-chin!' Oh, how quickly it goes.

All By Myself...

On Saturday, we were planning on being around the house most of the day so we allowed Little Man to pick out his own clothes and get himself dressed. After a few minutes in his room, he emerged very proudly wearing this:

I guess I should be happy that he recognizes he needs to match but we need to work on over matching. We probably also need to establish what is appropriate for 90 degree weather.

Happy Mother's Day...

to all you mom's out there!

Birthday Pictures!

Pictures of Little Man's Birthday Party are now posted here.

Splish Splash birthday bash

Yes my baby is turning 5. It's hard to believe...and although I am reluctant to make the following comment since just about every mother says it, I have to say it because it is true...I can't believe how fast time has gone by, it seems only yesterday he was a little tike and now I can hardly carry him across the room. Ok, I said it, on to the highlights of the Monster Truck Splash Party.

His party was this past Sunday and the weather for the weekend was not cooperating with the outside party theme. I was scrambling last minute to find indoor activities and crafts for the kiddo's. Thank you Lord that the weather man once again was wrong and the 80% chance of rain somehow missed us. Although a bit windy at times, I think the kids had a great time.

Some Highlights:
1. Slightly over estimating the number of large pizzas needed (by 8)

2. My husband and his friend adding baby soap to the slip and slide so it could be much slip-ier

3. My husband and his friend actually joining the kids on the slip and slide

4. 60 water balloons gone in a matter of 10 minutes

5. Party decoration ordered on line showing up Monday after the party

Am I smarter than a 5th grader??

Apparently not since I can't seem to figure out when to use 'there' or 'their' in a sentence. It has become so bad that I will go out of my way to re-phrase a sentence when typing just so it doesn't use the word 'there/their'. No matter how hard I try, I just don't get it. I have googled it and read articles such as this. Of course it makes perfect sense when you say 'Not here, but there'. But what about the sentence: 'Is there/their a problem with the computer?'

My husband constantly is correcting me, and I realize that he is only trying to help me so I don't look stupid out in the real world. But it does get annoying. I need some sort of 'memory game' to help me remember what rules to follow. I have mastered spelling Dessert vs Desert...I can still picture my spelling book back in elementary....there (or their) was an 'S' in the middle of the desert and the caption read 'the desert could only grow one s'. Corny as it may be, it worked!

Or how to distinguish between 'Quiet' and 'Quite'....Quiet has -et on the end of it, and E.T. pointed his long finger like someone would do and put it up to their lips and say 'Shhhh'...I know its a little far fetched but once again it works.

This is why I stick to math. 2+2 = 4...it always equals 4, and forever will equal 4. There (or their) are no rules saying if you do the addition before multiplying it by 3 it equals 1...nope, no such rules in math. So until I figure out this tricky little discrepancy between 'there and their' you will just have to forgive my slip ups. I don't know how I missed learning this in grade school but i did.