Long Random Blog

So I'm taking a little break here from all the editing I have. Figured I'd write a blog while I hang out on the floor with Emily. I have a few new stories about her. Yesterday she was sitting on the floor playing with Kaylee's shoe, I ran down the hall to put some clothes away and when I came back she had put Kaylee's shoe on her foot. Aw.. it was really cute. Then today I had the early show on while I was eating breakfast and they had little david on from American Idol and he was singing after he was done all the little girls were clapping and I glanced down at Emily and she was sitting on the floor watching him and clapping her little hands. Heehee.. my smart little monkey.

I hate when you wake up in the middle of the night and you start thinking about things and can't fall back asleep and I swear when I do that I think of the dumbest stuff. Like last night I remember thinking I smelled baked potatoes and then that got me thinking about my boogers and if those had a baked potato scent which got me thinking about my ear wax and how I swear I don't have any but dang Nathan has mushrooms growing out of his ears and that got me thinking about body fluids like boogers and ear wax and tears and how it was cool our body naturally produced the things we need to keep are gears going which got me thinking about my car and how the door needs to be greased because it squeaks which got me thinking about how I really need to wash my car again since I left it out under the pollen tree. That got me thinking about pollen and how people are allergic to it and other things and how the trees we have in our yard are really full of a lot of pollen and then I was thinking about the trees and how I use to like climbing them when I was little and how Kaylee and nathan like climbing them and how they couldn't climb the bigger trees because they can't reach the branches. So then I got thinking that the only way you could reach the branches was if you could float up there or jump really high and then I got to thinking about flying and how it would be neat if people could fly and how I would had to fall if I was flying up in the sky. So yeah I went from baked potatoes to flying in the matter of a few minutes. Oh... the wonders of my brain at night. Anyhow I guess I felt the need to share all of that. Ha!! You lucky lucky people.

So Jimmy and I set up a cool idea for the kids. We have a little store set up in our back room with various toys and books and privileges that they can "buy". The way they buy these items is by earning points which they get by doing jobs or good behavior. Each job has a different point value anything from 25-100 and they can do several each day. Jobs can be anything from making their beds to picking up sticks in the front yard. I also will reward them for working on spelling, reading and math during the summer to keep their little minds on track. They're both very excited about it and I think it will be a lot of fun.

Kaylee's birthday is coming up and this year she wants a party. She's very excited about it. We're going to do this adult dinner party thing where they dress up and we'll have the table all set up nice and they can order and get different courses. She's all about being fancy and girly so she really likes the idea. I'm also going to bake cup cakes and let them decorate their own. I was trying to be a little different and I think this idea fits Kaylee really well. I was at the party store looking for stuff and of course they had the cutest first birthday party ideas. So I was looking at all the stuff they had. I love the little first birthday cake hat. Ha!!

Nathan won't be having friends over this year for his birthday but we will do his favorite, fire works. Man he loves that for his birthday. Thats what he asks for each year. That and one year he wanted his on parade. With floats and clowns and animals... sorry Nate. I'll never forget the first year we went to Indiana to buy fireworks and the labels really didn't describe what they did really well so we started shooting them off expecting showers of different colors and dang those things flew up in the air and exploded. Scared five years off my life, we were right under a tree and the sparks were raining down on us.. ha.. Nathan loved them after we moved way back.

I'm so exciting for summer, I can't wait for warm weather. I wonder what Emily will think of the pool. I hope she loves it as much as she loves her bath. I love taking the kids swimming. Not as big of a beach fan just because with a baby it's so hard to keep them out of all the dangerous stuff. They love getting sand everywhere, mouth eyes nose ears and stupid little rocks and bugs and sticks and used cig. butts. So I'll stick with the pool mostly and perhaps take the kids to the beach when I have someone to watch Emily. I'll have to take Emily at least once of course, gotta have her first trip to the beach. Poor baby is so white she'll need a very thick layer of sun screen. Well geez... this was a long blog about blah. Guess I better get back to work. Wha tish (whip cracking)