How we must seem

Have you ever wondered how parents must seem to 5/6 year old's when it comes to having a life before kids? It must seem unfathomable to them.
Today we went to the post office, business as usual, nothing special. Luke likes to set the mail up on the dock, so he can skate down the handicap ramp. Well today, a postman met Luke at the car and took the tote for him. Luke gets in the car, and says, "Everyone in there is nice, huh mom?" And I kinda chuckled under my breath I said "no, not all of them." Luke says "what does that mean mom?", (like I wasnt being very nice.) I said Oh hun, I went on a date with guy that works there once. And Luke response was "you must have dated lots of guys, huh mom, and then you met dad with a mustache." LOL
Which reminds me of a time when we were shopping at Aldi. It was just Luke and I and he was probably 4. We had been there a while and I was in shopper mode, half listening to what Luke was saying in his non-stop stream of words that he is famous for. Then a very tall big black man walks by and says, "how you doing?" and I politely replay "fine, how are you?" While the man is still standing there Luke looks up at me and says, "Mom, you should date other men." Of course, my mouth drops and I tell him that his father would probably have a problem with that. And then I practically ran away. I was so embarrassed.
P.S. The postman was pentacostal and I wasn't. So I wasn't up to his standards!

VBS

Luke decided that he enjoyed Upwards Soccer so much that he wanted to participate in the First Baptist Church's VBS. So all week long we have been going back and forth. I think that he has a great love for "church". In fact the first night they asked all the kids what their favorite pastime was. Luke answered last and the boy that answered before him said something to the effect of playing "rated T" games on his game boy (Yikes). So I just knew that it would be something about the DS or a game like Star Wars. But to my surprise his answer was Church. The thought ran through my mind that it was a buttered-up response. But it was an honest answer. I could tell by the way he acted all week. I loved watching him, blending into the new environment like he was at home. All the girls were chasing him around the room, like all little girls do when there is a cute boy in their midst. He was showing off his break dance moves for everyone. One evening I slipped into the back of the room when he didn't know I was there and he had the whole class roaring with one of his answers. So then it was on, over and over he saying things to be a cut-up. As a mom, I wait for those moments when I can be a "fly on the wall" and observe unaware. I'm grateful when they are getting attention for good behavior. And so proud when people love and except your child the way you do. I love Luke he is awesome.
Lilly, bless her heart, was a trooper this week, being toted on my hip until way after bedtime. She is such a good girl she really took all of it in stride. She has developed her first two words this week. "Me-Me" and "Ma-Ma" Me-Me is milk and Ma-Ma is me. They have been interchangeable over the last couple of days, but I think she is getting it. Cutie-patootie.

Kung-fu Luke!

Luke and Trav had a daddy day yesterday. I watched Lilly as they played Army men, or it would have been "Attack of the 50 foot baby". Then they colored together, napped together and then they went to see Kung-fu Panda. Luke loves anything Chinese and so this was right up his alley. They came home saying it was super funny and they both want to see it again. So of course here is Luke showing me HIS kung-fu moves. And the last pic is just the kids being cute. As usual.

Lettie's Visit

We got a surprise visit from Lettie yesterday! Yea! She just called that morning and said Hey, this is Lettie and I'm in Joplin. It totally caught me off guard. But we are always super excited to see Lettie anytime. It took Lilly a few seconds to warm up to her. But look at her ham it up with her. She is showing Lettie her favorite game of peek-a-boo.

Ahhh, good times!

new blogs

Look world it's me blogging again. I have been out of practice typing so it is slow going. But hopefully I'll stay with it for a while.
Well Luke has been bugging me the last couple of days because I think that it has finally hit him that it is going to be a little different summer this year with Lilly. We just can't be as spontaneous as we were when it was just him and I. With diapers and bottles and shorter legs we just can't run to the park if we want. Or go swim at Nanny's. Or whatever. So he and I decided to go to Hobby Lobby and get some "projects". We brought the basic craft stuff, pipe cleaners, pompoms, felt, popcyle sticks, and so on. We had a pile of stuff and Luke had also picked out a science project to build several different airplanes. I had forgot to get the coupon off the internet, So you know how we mom's do, I told the cashier that I would go home and get a coupon and come back to get the kit tomorrow. It would have been worth the trip. But as I live and breathe the cashier (they NEVER do this at our store) said why don't I go ahead and give you the discount because I know how upsetting that would be for him, looking at Luke. I said oh okay that's awesome, thank you. But as I pulled off the parking lot I thought, wow she must see some awful displays of rotten behavior to give us that discount. I know that Luke is not that kid, and he would never have thrown a fit about and it because he knows that he would never get it if he did. So it kinda made me wish that it could have played out a little different just to see what would have happened. But for me it became a moment of being completely overwhelmed with graditude to God for his awesome gift of great kids. God is so good to us and I am bessed everyday. It has restored my desire to blog and brag a little. It made me happy today as I was folding 16 paper airplanes. Praise God!

Last Days of School

As you can see the last days of school were a whirlwind of fun. We had something going on every single day that week. Which is why I haven't blogged for a while. We started the week off with the Upwards Soccer coming to an end and they had a program for the kids. A basketball performer from Branson came and put on a show, Luke totally loved it. It was very entertaining. We had Cougar Olympics. Which Luke did fantastic in. He smoked the competition in the 25 mtr dash. 2nd in the sack race. I think it was because he had a hole in the bottom of his sack. He held it together until he crossed the finish line and then he lost it. He got 2nd in skipping and jumped 4' 5" in the long jump. Luke and his best buddies at school went to Chick-fil-A. One of the mom bought cones for everyone so Hayden, Luke, Tyler, and Blake (l to r) are showing their ice cream smiles. They had a blast.

They had a day at the park. Lilly and I got to go over for a little while, and shared in some of the fun. They went to the fire station the next day. Both Travis's grandfathers were retired firemen. So Luke was pretty excited about that. Then the unavoidable last day arrived and after a great last week of school Luke had to say goodbye to Mrs. Silvey :( and his buddies. (Hayden and Luke are pictured with Cale and Brodie and then Mrs. Silvey) But he has had three birthday parties and a sleepover since school has been out so he hasn't had time to even miss them. (Me either ha!) We a great year in kindergarten.

Birthday Celebration

May 10th, 2008 Lilly Kate's first birthday. We made it! The anticipation to the first birthday is so fun. Lilly's is oblivious to it all of course, but she won't be next year. It makes me sad that she is already a year old but happy at the same time. We got to have Sugar and Nanny there which was fabulous. They both helped a ton. Cari and Alan and the kids got to come too, which was fabulous, also. The theme was flowers. We had a lot of fun. First the girls tossed flower bean bags into a basket. Then Lilly had her first piece of cake. You should have seen her face when I handed it to her, she looked at me like I crazy for giving it to her. So I put some on my finger, put it in her mouth then she went to town. She was covered from top to bottom in cake. So cute. After opening gifts, as we were cleaning up I walked over to Lilly and gave her a kiss on the forehead and she was burning up. So we hurried home and got some Motrin for her and it went down. A little later it went back up and so on for two days. Then out popped 4 teeth. Poor thing she must have been miserable. She had been toddling around everything for a couple of weeks before that, holding on to everything. Man the second those teeth quit bothering her she was walking around everywhere. Luke says "Mom, we need to teach her to run now!" I'm thinking No Way, but as we all know they figure that one out all by themselves. So overall her first birthday was a huge success! She had fun, ate cake, got 4 front teeth and a new found independence. All in a weeks time! You go girl!