Mommathon

Our good friends, Dana and Paul, welcomed their first child, Ava Grace, into the world today. We are so happy for you.

Colm poops every.single.time. we go to the bookstore.  It doesn't matter if he went two minutes before we left for the bookstore, he will go again once we are there.  He did it last night.  We had dinner at PLC and I had to change his diaper before we left.  We drove directly to the bookstore and within 15 minutes he needed another diaper change.  What is it with poopin' at the bookstore?  So, did I have any diapers with me? No, because I had already used the extra one I had at PLC.  So I let him go commando until we got home.  Luckily, he stayed dry.  What have I learned from this?  Always take at least three extra diapers to the bookstore.  One can never have too many diapers.

This is another activity that will keep them busy forever. We have a little sandbox at home, but take them to a park with a big sand pit or a sand volleyball court and they will entertain themselves forever. It's great. The only bad part is that there is a big clean-up factor. They always need a bath and a change of clothes afterwards and then I have to clean the bathtub, too. It's worth it!

Liam and Colm were playing on the couch cushions (again) and I hear Liam say to Colm in a very agitated tone, "I'm not playing with you any more you old stubborn goat!"

This is what my family room looks like every day. Normally this would really bother me, but it keeps them busy forever! They will build and rebuild, climb, fall over, cry and start all over again...and don't even THINK about trying to clean up the pillows! You will be met with tears and screams and shrieks as is you are destroying the Mona Lisa. My compromise is I pick them up at naptime and when they go to bed.

What a good movie. Definitely not a happy movie, but very good.

Sean and I met on an airplane.  We were both living in the Phoenix area-he was working for Intel and I was teaching.  At Christmas, we both just happened to sit next to each other on the flight we were taking home for Christmas.  We got to talking when I borrowed a pencil from him to record some grades in my gradebook.  It turned out that our parents lived very close to each other and my cousin had gone to high school with his sister.  As our flight was ending, Sean started rummaging around in his bag and pulled out a business card.  I held onto that card all through Christmas and e-mailed him when I got back to Phoenix.  We e-mailed back and forth a couple of times and then he managed to find a very nice telephone operator who helped him figure out my phone number based on all the info he knew about me and where I lived.  (I hadn't told him too much about myself-he was a stanger I had met on a plane!)  We were married about 15 months later at Ascension.

This is our first official attempt at sports. Liam is LOVING it! He only goes for an hour each day this week and then he is done. They just do drills and play games and he thinks it is great. He will start soccer again in the fall where they will actually play a game each week.

Here was our conversation:

Me:  Liam, do you want a blueberry muffin?

Liam:  Yes!

He comes running in to the kitchen enthusiastically.  Anyone witnessing this conversation would assume that Liam enjoys blueberry muffins and is going to eat this one down in two gulps. I take the paper off the muffin and set it on a plate and present it to him at the table.  He sits down and begins to eat the muffin and I turn around and busy myself cleaning up the kitchen.

Liam:  I don't like the blueberries in this muffin.

Let's review, shall we.  I DID say the he would be eating a blueberry muffin, didn't I?  I don't have any witnesses other than Colm who is two so he probably wouldn't be allowed on the witness stand, but I am pretty certain that I did warn him that he would be eating a blueberry muffin.  I just had to laugh...and eat the rest of his muffin.

Liam has been at Vacation Bible School every day this week.  Initially he did not want to go...now he loves it.  :)  It has been very weird having him gone so much though.  He has been gone every morning from nine until noon.  Colm and I barely know what to do with ourselves.  We have been to the petting zoo twice, we have been to the park three times and have been swimming twice.  I am glad I have another year before kindergarten.

We spent our mornings this week at Little Angels. It was a program at church for the preschool-aged and under set. We read books, danced and did some crafts. They even got to play on the playground and have a picnic on the last day.

Don't you hate it when you have just bathed your little one and they are all fresh and warm and snug in their nice clean pajamas and then... they poop in their diaper.  Couldn't they just wait until morning so they could atleast be relatively clean until morning?  I hate that!

I have loved the Dixie Chicks since the moment I heard them and I love them even more now that they have returned from weathering the G Dubbya fiasco.  I saw them on Larry King Live the other night and they just rock-both literally and figuratively.   They stand behind what they said and that's that.  Sean bought me their new CD and although I will admit it is not their best, it is still pretty darn good.  Tickets for their Kansas City show go on sale this Saturday and I think I just might want to go.

Liam was inspired to have a carwash this weekend when he saw our neighbors washing their cars. Why he decided that now would be a good time I am not sure because our neighbors are ALWAYS washing their cars. They have the shiniest cars in the tri-county area. Astronauts can probably see them from space they are so shiny. So anyways, now atleast one of our cars is a little bit shinier than it was yesterday.

We were in church today and I had to go change Colm's diaper.  Liam decided he had to come with me, too.  So we are all in the bathroom and this woman comes in who is rather large...you know where this is going.  We all have to kind of shuffle so she can get past us to get into the bathroom and then do the same as she is leaving.  Of course, while she is leaving Liam has to say, "Mom, that lady was really fat."  I ignore him hoping that the conversation will end.  He thinks I didn't hear him so he says it again.  Ugh!!!!I know she has heard him and of course I have a million things running through my head as to how I should handle the situation.  Once she exits, I explain to him why that wasn't nice and that he should NEVER say that again.  I think he was a little baffled as to why I was so upset.  But to make a bad situation even worse, when we walk out of the bathroom, she is standing in the gathering area with her husband holding her brand new baby.  I could have died.  No one who is recently postpartum should be subjected to the rantings of a 4-year old about their weight.

Sean's work sponsored a family day at Worlds of Fun today.  We had so much fun!  I think the kids rode just about every ride they were tall enough to ride in Camp Snoopy.  Liam was a little hesitant about going until he found out they had bumper cars.  I have absolutely no idea how he knew what bumper cars were before today, but he really seems to like them.







Papa and Colm

I love the look on Liam's face!:)

I just won $25.00!  Okay, I know that's not a lot, but what a pleasant surprise.  A few months ago I entered a contest for free groceries that was on the wrapper of the bread we buy.  I had totally forgotten about it until I got an e-mail today saying I had won.  Yippee!

With school over and the lazy days of summer looming before us, it is time to schedule some playdates.  Yesterday Matthew and Allison came over.  Today John Paul, Mark and Luke came over and tomorrow Gabe and Kacey are coming over.  The boys are having so much fun and have spent a large chunk of their playdates playing hide-and-go-seek in the basement.  That's the life!

We were walking through Target today and Liam says, loud enough for anyone within earshot to hear, "I can still smell my toot, but it is kind of mixed up in the air."