There's no more fooling these guys

The other night Alex was rifling through my bathroom drawer. He came downstairs holding his baby tooth holder that he got at the dentist's office and announced, "Now I know who the tooth fairy is!" He had this smug look on his face letting us know that he figured us out. I told him that maybe the tooth fairy left it there by mistake. I don't think he bought it.

We've never discussed Santa. But, I'm pretty sure that he's figured that one out already too.

Just another week

This has been an interesting week. Kids have been coming and going. The dog has not been happy. A pet died. We're still fighting allergies. We've gone out with friends, celebrated with people, learned with people, and have helped one kid work through some hard times. Whew! All in one week!

Alex comes home tonight. I'm sure that he'll be exhausted. Brianna had a fun week decorating herself. On Tuesday night we went to the library for a henna night. The woman who did the henna work was amazing to watch.


Then, we went to our rock star neighbor's house to get our hair done. I'm back to one color and Brianna got pink streaks in her hair. Very cool! Rock on, girl!

Sorry that the pictures have been so blurry. I can't figure out how to work the camera to get some good shots!

This is what's on Brianna's shirt. I thought it was funny considering that we homeschool.

R.I.P.

This won't make the headlines like Tim Russert or George Carlin, but our remaining gerbil, Emily, died last night. It's a sad day at our house today. We buried her next to Ghost in the rose bushes.

It's a Monday

(So you know how tired I am, as of this writing, this is my third edit from my original post. I keep finding typos. So, no, I wasn't trying to "say" anything when I posted "kiddos to Brian." Get that out of your head!)

First of all, kudos to Brian for creating a new header for my blog! Thanks!

So far, today's been just dandy. I was up a lot last night sneezing and blowing my nose. Finally, at 3 a.m. I took a Benadryl and crashed till I had to get up at 6:30. Got in the shower and had no hot water because the pilot light went out. That woke me up quickly!

We took Alex down to my in-law's house to spend the week. I'm praying he makes it through ok and comes back healthy and not worse than he is already.

We decided to take Owen to meet Grammy and Papa. He puked. In the car. Twice. Nice.

Brianna's got a girlfriend over for the day. I'm hoping to take them swimming later and then she's going to spend the night at her friend's house.

Which means I get tomorrow morning to myself after I take Owen in early to have his snip-snip surgery done. Sweet!

Baby blanket knitting project

My latest knitting project is a baby blanket for a girl at The House of Ruth. She's due in August, so I'm hoping that I can get it done in time. I'm using a pattern from this book:

So far I've finished the first step. This has taken me a while. It's a seed stitch, meaning knit 1, purl 1 for 120 stitches for 20 rows. First of all, it wasn't easy for me to cast on 120 stitches. I kept losing my count. Finally, after several attempts, I kept track by writing down each time I did 10 stitches. Pretty sad, huh?

Next, since my last project was just a knit stitch, I had forgotten how to switch between a knit stitch and a purl stitch. Thank goodness for YouTube! You really can find pretty much anything on there!

After my first 20 rows (which, by the way, I had to write down every time I finished a row otherwise I would have forgotten where I was at), I'm left with this:


This is going to take a while. I really hope I can finish by August. Along with all of the other projects and books that I would love to read this summer.

Make it stop!

There hasn't been much to post lately. Unless you really want to know that over this week we've gone through 5 boxes of tissues, 1 box of Sudafed, and 2 bottles of kid's decongestant. Life's just a bunch of snot here at this house lately.

I babysat a little girl who wanted to play outside so badly. We went to the park for a while then sat out front of the house. I couldn't stand it after a while and had to keep her in the house. I felt bad for her, but I was miserable.

This really needs to end.

Owen D. Poodle

Should one be worried when you tell the groomer that you named your poodle after this guy....

because you really like his hair, and that's what reminded you of Owen Wilson was the hair color and the curliness so you named your dog that - only to have the groomer look at you and say, "I don't know who Owen Wilson is."?

So, one leaves the groomer knowing that your dog is going to look totally different, but not really being prepared for this....

Ok, so, honestly I like the shorter hair for now. It will be easy to keep clean and the dog won't be so much of a leaf magnet, which makes more cleaning for me in my house. I like that she left the ears and top of his head and muzzle a little longer. I don't care for the skinny toes and the hair ball on the tail.

I don't think Brian will really care for it.

Is it nap time yet?

We had a rough night last night. First, we stayed up late to watch Juno, which, I really enjoyed. We went to bed around 11 and Alex came in our room at 1 having a difficult time breathing. This cold/allergy thing has hit him hard. It reminded me of both the kids having croup when they were little. After I got him calmed down we sat in the bathroom with the steam running and then I took him outside to get some cooler air. That seemed to help.

However, when I finally got him settled back in bed and I went to bed, I just laid there. I had a hard time falling back asleep. So, I'm a little sleepy today. It's a good thing I don't have much going on.

Who's in charge?

For those of you who are caught up in this wonderful time of politicking, here's a reminder:

Psalm 146:3-9

Don't look to men for help; their greatest leaders fail; for every man must die. His breathing stops, life ends, and in a moment all he planned for himself is ended. But happy is the man who has the God of Jacob as his helper, whose hope is in the Lord his God - the God who made both earth and heaven, the seas and everything in them. He is the God who keeps every promise, who gives justice to the poor and oppressed and food to the hungry. He frees the prisoners and opens the eyes of the blind; he lifts the burdens from those bent down beneath their loads. For the Lord loves good men. He protects the immigrants and cares for the orphans and widows. But he turns topsy-turvy the plans of the wicked.

Oh, woe is me - and Alex too

I love my in-laws. I love Brian's family. I enjoy getting together with them. I enjoy getting together with them at my in-law's house.

However, my body does not enjoy being in Dayton! We went yesterday to my in-law's house for a get-together with the family. Since it was such a beautiful day, we spent the day outside. I did fine, for a while. Then at one point my body broke down and the sneezing and the itchy, watering eyes started on. At some point I got a little bit of sunscreen in my left eye, so I was pretty much miserable for the last part of our stay there.

And, poor Alex didn't do so well there either with his allergies. He's confined to the house today with a bad cold. And me? I'm confined to the house with pink eye. Allergies stink.