Me & my minions. A tale of the crazy.: 2010

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Umm. Seriously. April??

See. I am totally not good at this whole blogging thing. I kind of stink. I have work and two kiddos. I am not sure why I figured i could keep up with this silly thing.
Anywho.

Let's see...you know I am pregnant. But what you don't know is it is a girl! Woo hoo! Go us! So excited. I finally get to have pink and purple in my world. We jsut finished decorating the nursery with butterfly decals. It is rather cute if I do say so myself. I will have to post pictures once we finally clean the room up.

Anyway. I have no idea what to say since it has been so long. So I think this one shall be super short and I will just have to start fresh from here.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Spring time has finally came.

Easter was good this year. There was thing at his preschool with the kids singing songs and an egg hunt afterwords. We also went to an Easter Egg hunt at Latta Plantation. Then my dad had an egg hunt on Easter. Needless to say I won't have to buy plastic eggs for years to come.

Aidan has spring break this week and it has been tricky trying to find things to do. We have gone to the park almost EVERY day, played in the back yard, watched movies, played with blocks, gardened. I have no idea how we are going to survive the summer. I wish Nate was older so we could go to a movie. I think he would go bananas in the theater. Aidan saw Shrek 3 when he was younger than Nate, but I think he isn't as crazy.

Luckily this week my friend came over with her kids and provided some entertainment for the munchkins. Sprinkler balls are awesome. My camera is downstairs so I will have to post pics later.

Another thing that has made this week bearable has been McDonalds. Yup, some good old HappyMeals to make the kids happy. Nothing calms the savage beasts like a happy meal with a dragon in it. :) (One day Aidan asked for a happy Happy Meal. I didn't know there were sad Happy Meals.)

Well that is my update for now.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Such a slacker, but the weather has me in the mood.

So the weather here in Charlotte has been FABULOUS!!! We have been playing a lot in our backyard. It is taking forever trying to clear it out, but it looks like we might actually achieve a cleared spot soon.

The kids love to play in a cage that we found in the back. The neighbors said they kept dog toys in it. I don't know. Sounds kind of creepy to me. Aidan loves it though, so it is still up.

We have found other random things in the back:
a dog tie out thing that you tie the chain to and it twist into the ground-like an anchor
an old Frisbee
a football
a rotten children wooden bench
and an octopus. Not a real one. an old dog toy.
Sunday we found a snake and Eric ran over a salamander with the tiller.

So. We have decided to make a vegetable garden. It is my newest obsession. I think we might be taking on too big of a challenge.

To plant we have: Corn, eggplant, cucumbers, cow peas(not sure what they are, but they are purple), green beans, snow peas, fennel, swiss chard (yet again-don't know what to do with it, but it's pretty), squash, lettuce, carrots, and two types of tomatoes. The garden is 13x13 so maybe this will work out.

(Pretilled garden area)

(Aidan the Farmer)

This is Chalky the Bird. Chalky is part of our birdbath(something ELSE left in our yard from the previous owners) The kids color him with chalk EVERY time we go outside now. So I named him Chalky.

Why yes, Nate is becoming super duper adorable. He now like to tilt his head down, yet look up at you and grin. He is going to be a heart breaker when he gets older. Girls out there are not going to know what is coming!