Funny face...

This kiddo never fails to crack me up! He does this all the time, he thinks it is so darn funny to stick his face up against the window. I guess it does make a pretty funny face...

Three Blind Mice...See how they run...

It was nursery rhyme week in school, so I picked a few of my favorites to read all week, and I let McClain scroll through and pick some to read. Before the week started I sat down with the computer and looked up a few craft projects to go with our rhymes. I think this was our favorite. Three Blind Mice finger puppets. He was very proud of his work. Even made a fourth blind mice the following day to show his Dad how to do it. Then of course, asked him, "do you think you can do that"...

Slash Pool...

For some reason it is sooo much more fun to go play in the slash pool in your clothes. The boy have been outside playing on the swing set on a few occasions and they end up getting into the slash pool that was used earlier that day. And no big deal, so what if you go slashing in your clothes, it dosent hurt anything, and cause its not what you would normally do, its fun. Well this afternoon, McClain specifically asked if they could go out and splash in thier clothes. Sure, what the heck, go for it. But the real question is, how did I end up all splashed in my clothes? I wonder...

To sum it all up...

Well I don't quite think I have kept up with a daily blog but I think I have still managed to keep us to speed with whats been going on with the Blackmon Bunch.

Just a few funnies to add to this weeks craziness. The other day, Ashton was playing with a toy which has a button and it makes a little frog snore. So of course I told McClain, "hey McClain, does that sound like your Dad when he is sleeping?" his response was "ahhh, yes, I need ear plugs, cause he always wakes me up". Ahhahahahhaa I love it. I was cracking up. Well of course totally random, but later that night Clint brings McClain (without knowing about the previous conversation) a new pair of ear plugs, just like the ones he uses at work around the helicopter. Ahahahha, I was laughing so hard, it was great.

Lets see, McClain also moved up into a big boy booster seat this week (still a 5 point harness) but he has finally made the size requirements.

Ashton's love for the wii has gone to an all new level, he now, knows all about how it works, I laugh so hard at him, and am in total amazement on how fast little ones catch on to whats going on around them. One of the first things he will do in the morning is find the wii controller and bring it to me, in hopes I will turn a game on for him, and he will continue to do this until I actually turn on the wii. Once it is on he knows all the moves, he knows just when to the controller down to sinc with the game, and he loves bowling the best, you should see him with his mean swing. Crazy kid!

Well I guess those are my only real funnies for the week, I'll be back with more school scoop, we are still waiting on our boxed sets to really get going into it, for now we are still kind of flying by the seat of our pants, having fun with it though...Hopefully me and the boys will also be fitting in a field trip this next week, for a little fun.

No school for us today...

Well we took our first day off of school since we have started. I know, I know it was only 5 days. Thats a regular week for school kids and teachers. Anyhow I am really just trying to cordinate McClains no shcool days with Clint's no work days. It should work out most weeks, at least when we have no doctor appointment weeks. There will probably be a 1 day of classroom school during Clint's off days, but thats not too bad, we can work it out. But I could just not get up and get moving out of my own way today. Not a good nights sleep and tuckered out. And besides that, I was waiting on my weeks lesson plan, since the first week was just fly by the seat of our pants week, I was looking forward to a real lesson plan from our ES. Well that came a little late and was a little confussing for my foggy brain this am. So again a no school day seemed like a good idea. We still worked a little thoughout the day, our letter sounds, the Pledge of Allegiance (we are now on part 3), patterns, smaller than, less than, counting all that good stuff. But I am looking forward to getting into that lesson plan a little more and getting organized for tomorow a back at school day...

O-ya and Ashton, well he is still trying to fight with me over eating lunch and dinner, my least favorite fight of all. Why won't my kids eat, good, all the time? I know, cause they are kids...Why don't I eat good all the time? I know, cause I am the mom and I am too busy trying to get my kids to eat. O-k totally off track. Buy anyhow this poor kid is so me. I mean he falls and crashes, like what seems to be a zillion times a day. He runs crazy laughing the whole way, he talks jibberish all run together. I hope he grows out of all that, I sure never did. And can I just mention or rather reinforce this, Ashton, it is not funny when you pickup things to put in your mouth and try and hide and run away from me, it's not funny, it freaks me out. So drop the bark, rocks, grass, and plants, and go play, with a toy. Ok...

Ashton, Ashton, Ashton....

O-my goodness, Ashton. How can someone so cute and sweet be such a bugger? Ashton will wake up in the morning so yummy and cuttle and then he gets his little num-num, he gets awake and and he is off and running and getting into trouble. He will climb on anything he is not supposed to, run across the couch, jump on the beds and laugh through all of it. And when you take him outside forget it, he runs down the sidewalk full speed ahead and never looks back, he throws bark from the planters all over the place (Clint loves that), he will put the bark in his mouth and bite it in between his teeth and show me, just to panic me (he will do the same with a rock) he will eat mud. And if you try an stop him from any of it he will throw himself back in a tantrum. He is such a bully too. He will so push his brother around when McClain has something he wants, he will pull another kiddo off a toy that he wants to ride. The other day Toys 'R' Us he totally pushed another little boy just for pushing the button on a display box with Mickey Mouse dancing, just because he was there first. I have to admit, it is pretty funny to watch, well most of it, I don't really care for the putting bark, rocks and mud in his mouth. And as far as the bullying goes, well someone has to be the tuff guy on the playground, right? And by the end of the day, and its time for nite-nite, he is back to my sweet, little cuttle bug all yummy and huggy. And after a good nights rest, he will be up and back at it again tomorow.

A success....

Well day 1 of Kindergarten a total success. We all made it to the Hemet Library this morning by 10:00 (for those of you who know me, that's impressive). We took our time browsing the children section of the library, looking for just the right books for the next few weeks of school, we made some new friends (McClain started up a conversation), and even played a little educational computer game on one of the computers they have set up for the kiddos. Around 11:15 I told McClain it was time to pack it up and head for home, for break time, snacks and then SHCOOL... So we headed up to the desk to check out our books, the most difficult part of the whole library experience. There is no longer a nice little old lady who checks your books for you, and gives you a little card to remind you when to bring your books back, no there is a big 'ol monster machine that you scan your card and books through and it prints a receipt. This thing was trying to give me a hard time, and I was not happy about it, carting around 5 books, a movie, a purse, Ashton and a trailing McClain behind me. There was some old man next to me who was scanning through his stack like a pro, I on the other had was sweating. Finally some nice library lady, came over to give me a hand, I was doing it all wrong, shocker I know. So anyhow, after making it home, and attempting to shelp all of us and our bags and new books into the house, I walk up to the front door, only to hear my house alarm going off. So like a total idiot, I open the door, turn off the alarm (boys are still in car), decide well that was stupid and run back to the car start it and lock me and the boys in and call Clint. I know real genius move on my part, long story short, The dog set off the alarm because I forgot to put her outside when we left and Clint talked to the alarm company before the police came out. After all that excitement, McClain watched his new movie had a snack while I gave Ashton his snack and gave him a bottle for nap time. So around noon we actually got to working on our first day of Kindergarten. I went surprisingly well. Very little back talk and direction for Mr. Bossy himself. During school time I am known and Mrs. Mom and I am the boss for those short hours at least. So even though we don't have our books or lesson plan yet, we kind of winged it, we practiced letters A and B and writing them and their sounds, we practiced our numbers 1-9 and writing them and using them, we did an art project, read and book and talked about it, did a problem solving page and a kindergarten writing start up. It was actually fun, and really easy, I know its going to get harder as the work gets harder, but it was a great start to our new adventure. Ashton napped all through school time, he was only awake and having his lunch while McClain finished up his problem solving page. After school we were all just able to watch movies, play and chill out, I promised the boys I would take them out to play in the water when it came down to 100* but it only came down to 104*, but we were able to go check out the fire truck friends that came by to visit the Burns family then after dinner we were able to go back to the Burns' house and play in the front yard with the girls until Dad came home. All in all a really great day! A total success!!