I think that one of my biggest frustrations as a parent is that I rarely truly finish anything. My attention gets rerouted so frequently that I leave most things undone. However, today I finished something, and not without a few sniffles. Katie's baby book is complete and I am having a deja vu of looking at it with her in 20 years, maybe as she starts one for her own child! Wow!
Anyway, now I need one of those school memory books that has a couple pages for each grade, where you can put their class picture, report cards and stuff like that. I looked at Booksamillion, Hallmark and Walmart and I can't find one. Anyone seen one like that recently?
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Hilton Head, SC
Well, we continued our tour of the SC beaches this week in Hilton Head. It was beautiful - we'll definately be back sometime. It combines the more natural look of Seabrook Island with some of the less trashy fun of Myrtle Beach! It's off season right now, so it was very uncrowded, but the weather is already beautiful, so we enjoyed the pool and the ocean without getting chilly. We had a great time with our friends Danny and Heather and baby Brie. Here are some of the pics...
We rented bikes one day which was a huge hit with the kids and everyone else who was not pregnant!
Micah the giant squid... (We had to talk him out of being a mermaid like Katie was. Poor kid needs a brother!)
Unfortunately, this will probably be our only beach trip this year, but it was a great few days. We were glad to see that the kids hadn't lost their sense of adventure with the Atlantic and that Micah had gained a little healthy respect for waves and currents! No deep sea rescue measures needed this year! Now off to nurse the sun burns....
We rented bikes one day which was a huge hit with the kids and everyone else who was not pregnant!
Micah the giant squid... (We had to talk him out of being a mermaid like Katie was. Poor kid needs a brother!)
Unfortunately, this will probably be our only beach trip this year, but it was a great few days. We were glad to see that the kids hadn't lost their sense of adventure with the Atlantic and that Micah had gained a little healthy respect for waves and currents! No deep sea rescue measures needed this year! Now off to nurse the sun burns....
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Wow - nearly a month has passed since I was here. We have not been particularly busy or anything. Just up to our usual random life stuff!
Lets see... Katie had her first field trip for school this week. I have to put a plug in for my husband here. I was feeling lazy and didn't want to go on the field trip so I told Katie I needed to be home with Micah (which was not a lie) but when she asked Rick to go, he agreed immediately and with an enthusiasm I could not have mustered. He has done more field-tripping with her than I have, despite his fully justified fear of large groups of children! I am so proud of him. He even rode the school bus for 30 minutes each way to the pond. Now that is a real man!
In other Katie news, she is definately growing up as evidenced by a recent purchase. One of her great grandmothers gave her $10 a while back so last week when she had a day off from school, we took a lovely mother-daughter trip to the mall. She took her "hand bag" to carry her $10 (which she almost lost about 50 times). I figured Claires was about the most exciting place I could think of to spend $10, so there we went.
She went straight for the shoes. Straight. Bee line. Blinders on to the shoes.
I know this is typical for most women, but I have to say, I'm not really a shoe person. I usually have 3 or 4 pairs of flip flops this time of year and those are picked for comfort. But anyway, in the spirit of letting her get WHATEVER she wanted, she picked these flip flops. I can't quite describe how hard it was not to wet my pants upon exiting this store. She had the clerk cut the tags off so she could wear them out. She paused at the exit of the store and, with as much dignity as could be mustered considering she couldn't quite walk in the shoes, she hiked her pants up to her armpits, threw her hand bag over her arm and strutted/shuffled into the teaming masses of the mall with more attitude than I thought possible in a 6 year old! Again I ask myself, who is this child?
Of course, as distracting as the shiny red shoes are, we do happen to notice the other kid every now and then. Micah has mastered the art of garnering everyone's, and I do mean everyone's, attention. Here are some random pictures of this clown.
And I'll leave you with a typical day-in-the-life kinda picture of Micah...
Lets see... Katie had her first field trip for school this week. I have to put a plug in for my husband here. I was feeling lazy and didn't want to go on the field trip so I told Katie I needed to be home with Micah (which was not a lie) but when she asked Rick to go, he agreed immediately and with an enthusiasm I could not have mustered. He has done more field-tripping with her than I have, despite his fully justified fear of large groups of children! I am so proud of him. He even rode the school bus for 30 minutes each way to the pond. Now that is a real man!
In other Katie news, she is definately growing up as evidenced by a recent purchase. One of her great grandmothers gave her $10 a while back so last week when she had a day off from school, we took a lovely mother-daughter trip to the mall. She took her "hand bag" to carry her $10 (which she almost lost about 50 times). I figured Claires was about the most exciting place I could think of to spend $10, so there we went.
She went straight for the shoes. Straight. Bee line. Blinders on to the shoes.
I know this is typical for most women, but I have to say, I'm not really a shoe person. I usually have 3 or 4 pairs of flip flops this time of year and those are picked for comfort. But anyway, in the spirit of letting her get WHATEVER she wanted, she picked these flip flops. I can't quite describe how hard it was not to wet my pants upon exiting this store. She had the clerk cut the tags off so she could wear them out. She paused at the exit of the store and, with as much dignity as could be mustered considering she couldn't quite walk in the shoes, she hiked her pants up to her armpits, threw her hand bag over her arm and strutted/shuffled into the teaming masses of the mall with more attitude than I thought possible in a 6 year old! Again I ask myself, who is this child?
Of course, as distracting as the shiny red shoes are, we do happen to notice the other kid every now and then. Micah has mastered the art of garnering everyone's, and I do mean everyone's, attention. Here are some random pictures of this clown.
And I'll leave you with a typical day-in-the-life kinda picture of Micah...
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