Can I be older?

Yesterday while I was upstairs putting away laundry, Ryan hollered up and asked me if he could pretend to be older than 5. I said sure, knowing sometimes he likes to pretend to be the "daddy" while his daddy is at work.

The next second he asked me if he could make a real phone call. Knowing he likes to call Grandma and Grandpa, I asked him who he as calling. He responded by telling me he was going to pretend he was 18 and call and order an Air Hogs Helicopter. The ad says must be 18 to call, so he thought if he got permission to pretend to be 18 he could call and order.

When I relayed this story to Grandma and Grandpa, Grandpa pointed out that he would also have to pretend to have a credit card to place the order! Guess what I think Ryan is getting when Grandma and Grandpa come to visit for Allie's 3rd Birthday later this month :)

A morning of beauty

First let me start by saying that a morning of beauty can be painful! We had to arrive for our nail appointments at 9 a.m. which for Allie and me, required that we get up waaaaay earlier than we would like to!

Jeff had given me a gift certificate for a massage and mani/pedi for Valentines day. I used the massage part of the gift certificate a few days ago and made the appointment for the mani/pedi so that Allie could go get her nails done too. We had a nice morning of beauty and little miss Allie did great and sat so still while they did her nails. She picked pink for our hands and a lovely electric blue for our toes. :)

It's too quiet....

I miss my kiddos a little ;) It is too quiet in the house. In the past 12 hours or so I have not helped anyone to the bathroom, poured any milk, changed any Wii games or picked up any toys. I have 2 more days without my children. Grandma and Grandpa swiped them for spring break and I am sure it is crazy and noisy at their house 5 hours from here. My big plans are to go purchase new stuff for their bedrooms and get them redone while they are gone. I will be doing that as soon as I get my behind off this computer and go shower.

Birthday celebrations

Tonight we joined Jeff's family for a birthday celebration honoring Jeff and his dad. Before dinner the kiddos got to visit the putting area of the golf course for a few minutes.

Happy Birthday Jeff and Rocky!

Funny Breakfast conversation!

Ryan and I got into an interesting discussion while eating our Frosted Flakes before he left for school this morning. Out of the blue my guy mentions that **** (one of the girls in his class) eats paper. This was news to me! The way he said it, kind of like it was a top secret item he was sharing made me smile. This comment about *** eating paper started us on a discussion about how that is probably not good for your digestive system and might stop you up! Then I began asking if anyone else in the class consumed school supplies. Apparently there are no glue, play dough or crayon consumers in the morning PreK class because Ryan kind of looked at me like I was crazy for asking. But hey, who would have thought that there were paper eaters? I will now be looking at all or Ryan's art projects to see if there are big chunks taken out of them. If so, I will know which child he was sitting by in preschool that day :)

After over 2 months of patiently waiting...

Ryan finally got to break out his tools and help dad with an outdoor project. Those tools that were a Christmas gift for Ryan came in handy helping daddy work on the deck during the nice weather this weekend!

Geared up for spring and baseball season!

At our house you have to "dress" the part complete with the uniform that matches the season/sport! Miss Allie takes it one step further by putting her own personal touch on her hand me down uniform she got from her big brother. Please notice the pink leg warmers with the baseball shoes. Later in the day she added a yellow teddy bear sweatshirt and a pair of adorable black riding boots she looooves. Gotta love a Baseball player with a flair for unique fashion!