Period.

I wrote about pre pick up entertainment yesterday. Well, the post pick up entertainment had me laughing so hard today. This may not be proper to discuss on my blog, but I've never been proper and I want to remember how funny my kids are.

Me: Ugh, I have a headache.
Ben: Did Noah give it to you?
Me: No.
Ben: Well, what then?
Me: I think it's my period.
Ben: What? You wrote a story and put a period at the end. How can that give you a headache? I write sentences everyday and put periods at the end and never get a headache.
Emily: It's not that kind of period Ben.
Ben: Well, then what kind of period is it?
Me: You know, when Mommy bleeds.
Ben: You cut yourself? You need a bandaid!
Me: No Bub, It's a hormone thing.
Ben: What the heck is a hormone?
Emily: Nevermind, you'll understand when you're older.

Oh gosh. When did my daughter become so mature, and I just want to wrap Ben up in his cute 6 year old self and keep him there forever.

Pre Pick Up Entertainment

When we go to pick up Emily and Ben, we have to get to the school about 10 minutes early to get a parking spot. We usually sit in car for awhile because it's easier to contain Noah in the car versus in the dirt area that we hang out in to pick up the kids. It might seem boring, but Noah provides plenty of entertainment.

That's him singing Ho Hey by The Lumineers. I think he may win a Grammy one day.

Noah

Noah is pretty good with a crayon. He draws cute pictures all the time. He's attempted writing his name before, but this is the first time that I'd know what it says if I didn't know what it said. Capeche?

Playmate

Noah has found a new playmate. It's my Mom.

Yesterday, he must have said, "Granny, play with me" about 100 times. My Mom does a pretty good ninja voice as she plays with the figures.

This morning, Noah had a complete meltdown because my Mom was sleeping and he wanted to wake her up so he could play with her. My Mom is exhausted at the end of the day and Noah is still ready for more.

I think it's cute.

Another day...

another bike ride. Being a stay at home Mom rocks!

It's A Beautiful Day

After 5 days of rain and snow (which is unusual for us here in Arizona), the clouds have left and the sun is shining. I spotted "The Peaks" on my drive home from the grocery store today. They are mountains about 100 miles from us. They go up to about 13,000 feet, not that you can tell from this photo.

But, they are covered with snow. I'm so itching to teach my kids how to ski. Well, I think I would let an instructor teach them. I didn't learn until I was 18, and I wish I had learned when I was younger. Ben is totally up for it. Surprisingly, Emily is a little scared. Noah would probably get left at home with Granny for now. We'll see if we do it this winter.

The sun is shining and it's 46 degrees. Perfect for a bike ride. This is the first time I took Noah out on the open road. He's just getting the whole pedaling thing down.


He did a really good job except for when he wants to "zig zag" and he ends up in the rocks. We'll work on steering next time.

Around Our House

On recommendation from a friend, David and I started watching the TV series 24 back in September. It was on 10 years ago, but David and I were too busy making babies, having babies and being sleep deprived to pay much attention to TV. It was on for 8 seasons. 24 episodes per season. 192 episodes total. We watched them all back to back and finished the series last night.

Man was it good. Jack Bauer is a total bad ass, and we both enjoyed every episode. There is supposed to be a movie out sometime. It obviously can't come soon enough. This occupied much of our spare time on weekends and at night. We both couldn't wait to watch just one more episode. We are already going through withdrawals when looking at our DVR and we can pick from American Idol or Biggest Loser. Really, if you have never seen 24, start with season 1 and enjoy each and every episode. We got some seasons from a friend, others we checked out from the library.

I knew we had watched too much of a crime fighting show when the other night I was telling David something that I heard that wasn't really true. He said, "well, your intel must have been bad." Yeah, we were slightly obsessed for 4 months.

In other news, we saw a coyote in our neighborhood this morning. Damn coyotes. I know they ate our cat Max 3 years ago. This guy was about 8 houses down from us and crossed right in front of my car.  He was looking for breakfast in the form of a cat I'm sure. 

Noah is 100% potty trained. I say that today and tonight he will wet the bed and tomorrow he'll poop in his underwear. He's done so well and hasn't had a single accident in about a month. Bribing him with toys from the dollar store was the key to his success. And after giving him toys for 2 months when he did his business, he's finally stopped asking for them. I actually recycled the toys and would put dinosaurs and army men back in his poop bucket. I guess he finally caught on and the toys aren't a big deal anymore.

Ben has always enjoyed drawing and will often spend hours on something. He came home from school today and got right to work on this comic strip. I was looking at it tonight when I noticed the last guy was saying "shit!"

It's Spiderman auditioning for American Idol of some sort. And while I wasn't thrilled he's using expletives in his stories, I'm happy he spelled it correctly.

The second page showed a guy getting hurt on sharp rocks.

The last clip says "State Farm, it's that important".
Seriously, where does he get this stuff from?