Whew! What a day!

So here is my 1o for today

1. I took the girls to the library today. What the heck was I thinking? It was a miserable rainy overcast day and everyone and their brother had the same idea. God Bless those women working there- it was a madhouse. People returning books, people checking books and movies out. people bringing their kids for different play groups or just to play with everything the library has to offer.

2. Which brings me to my next thing. The library had neat little stations for the kids to play with.... But really could you watch your kids while they are at these stations? Most parents did but this one woman just kept leaving her son and wandering all over the library. And the kid was a BRAT. He was hoggingthe play kitchen and the food and everytime my kids tried to play with it he grabbed it from them and he made another little girl cry cause he would not share....

3. They have a music station at the library. Its a little piano and a Xilaphone. this boy about 8 seriously kept hitting the same key over and over again on the piano.... We walked out of the childrens; section and my ears pretty much cried in relief....

4. I absolutely adore Sondra Boyton and we got a book we don't own out of the library and I have read it so many times to both girls already that I am amazed that I dont have it memorized yet!

5. I got some recommendations for new authors so I got a few books out for myself... But if anyone has any recommendations I will take them!

6. I have a 4 year old going on 13. She told me I was a mean mom because I didnt let her have her way with something... 5 hours later she was still harping on it..... Then she told me she wasnt going to talk to me for the rest of the nite ( as I was putting her to bed -hahaha).

7. We went out with my cousin and his fiance last week for dinner. We went to a local mexican restaurant that has a pretty friendly kids menu. Katie ordered a grilled cheese sandwhich. It came she started eating it and about half way though the meal she goes hey where is my tomato soup?? I guess she is a pretty routine kid huh? What makes it funnier is whenever we have that she never eats the soup just the sandwhich...

8. We went to conneticut last weekend to see Jims family. The hotel had an indoor pool and the girls were estatic to go swimming. We got to the hotel room and they immediately began stripping to get in their suits....

9. We put them in swimmies and were amazed at how well they did. Sarah is so close to swimming with nothing on and does fantastic with them on. Katie did great as well and was floating on her back and everything. We go for a swim test on Sat for a class they are taking in July. This will place them for the class and we also put up our pool as well... I think we are going to have a fun summer....

10. We have had Sarah in her crib converted as a toddler bed but now we are looking into getting her a twin sized bed. My baby is getting so big!!!

Take care and have a great weekend!

Forgot this story....

Yesterday afternoon the girls and i were all snuggled up in the chair with a blanket and some teddy grahams and were watching their cartoons. Its Nick Jr or Noggin and they show alot of Huggies and other baby related commercials. Well there is a commercial right now for huggies about being pregnant and such and how you can register with them to win a year worth of their products (i think, i dont pay that much attention to their commercials since we are out of diapers and just about out of pull ups ). Anyway, Katie turns to Sarah and says, yeah we need to get mommy to buy them so that they will put another baby in her tummy..... Umm what??? Oh Katie if it were only that easy!
So I said to her - do you want another baby? she told me yes. she would like a baby brother but she knows that she might get a baby sister instead..... So I then turned to Sarah and said do you want a baby brother or sister to which she replied NO!!!!

Summer time fun...

Here is my 10 on thursday...

1. I had to change my title because there are certain people out there that dont realize I update it if I just keep it as 10 on Thursday. Guess that means I need to blog more.....

2. We went to Knobels this week- a fun local amusement park that is very kid friendly. The girls had fun but were a little scared of some of the rides. Jim and I decided we need to go more often so they get over some of that fear.

3. As afraid of some of the kiddie rides as they were, they were both insistent on riding the teacups or as I now refer to them as the Teacups of Terror. Sarah buried herself into me on one side screaming No no and Katie sat on my other side going STOP THIS RIDE.....

4. Poor Katie - I feel like her and I now have this horrible tradition of going on a ride of terror each year at Knobels. Last year it was the log flume with its 90 degree vertical drop, this year the teacups of terror...

5. I have been having some problems with Sarah and sleeping. She is at that point where she refuses to nap but really needs to and when she refuses to, it makes early evening a real fun time- NOT!!!! We went through this with Katie too but its just really frustrating...

6. I am excited for public school to be out. My niece is coming down in June to spend some time here and we are going to Retileland with the girls - eww but they do have a neat butterfly exhibit! I hop my nephew will want to come and spend some time as well. Plus our friends little girl will be out for the summer and her mom and I are hoping to get together for some play dates!

7. I signed the girls up for storytime at the library and also for swimming lessons in July. I am excited for both....

8. I a m addicted to bejeweled on Facebook....

9. I need to get the last of my seed planted in my garden but the rain keeps getting in my way... Hoepfully the sun will stay out today and I get get them in....

10. It really makes me laugh that I did this whole garden..... If you knew me when I was younger I hated my parents garden. Mainly because I was afraid of snakes in the garden. Now here I am with my own garden. Next thing you know I will be composting (something my parents did as well that I HATED).

Have a great weekend!!

I wanna be....

this morning we were sitting on the porch and enjoying the beautiful morning and Katie was snuggled up to me and says I wanna be a Hockey Player when I grow up, is that ok? I replied that she could be anything she wanted to be. She then said well I wanna be a momma when I grow up. I told her that was wonderful and asked how many kids did she want. Her answer- 5. I then asked her if she had any names picked out. She gave them to me in this order- Gilbert, Max, Connor, Allie and MO. I can figure out where most of the names come from Gilbert- the cat from Caillou, Max- she even told me was after our friends son Max. Connor is her favorite boy name and uses it all the time for her babies. Allie- is a name of a fellow classmate at school but MO has me stumped. Unless she heard Jim and I talk about Mediaocean which everyone called MO??? I don.t know. I told her that I would be really excited to be a grandma to her 5 kids. she then told me oh no mommy - you and are gonna be mommas to them together. Ummmm I don't think so kid......

10 on Thursday

1. Sorry for the lack of a post last week. We were very busy - it was Katies last day of preschool and we had a lot going on....

2. So Katie is done for the summer and looking forward to spending time with Sissy and Mommy. I am sure after a summer together, Katie will be running towards pre-scool in the fall.....

3. We had a lot of great plans for the week but have been stuck inside due to the never ending rain.

4. The rain did hold off a bit on Saturday so the girls and I were able to get in some of my plants into my garden. So far we have got tomato, pepper, eggplant, lettuce and strawberries in.... So much more left to do but due to rain still not in....Bummer....

5. Sarah is on a new kick with playing and she keeps calling me Grandma. I say I am not your Grandma and she goes Oh Mommy I just pee-tend......

6. We had a super busy on weekend - on Sunday we went to Aunt Lisa and Uncle Chris' and watched Christopher get confirmed into the Catholic church. It was a really nice time and the girls had a blast playing with their cousins...

7. On Monday we headed out to my parents to visit with Uncle Kevin, Aunt Jen and cousin Hannah who were in from Colorado. We had such a great time and the girls were thrilled to play with Hannah....I think Hannah loved playing with them too. Sarah keeps calling her my Hannah- she is my cousin!

8. The fighting due to the rain is OUT OF CONTROL. How am I gonna last the summer?

9. Katie's imagination is in overdrive these days. She pretends to ring my doorbell and then she comes in and asks if she can live here forever and then she tells me a whole story about why she needs to live with me.... I just hope she doesn't tell this story out in public though! Since she tells me it complicated or that her mom has many babies and is pregnant again!

1o. We did a fun craft project the other day- it was easy to do - the girls loved it and it killed 2 birds with one stone- a snack and an art project. We made cereal necklaces. We took a piece of yard and strung fruitloops on it. We put tape on one end so they did not come off. then when we were done we tied the ends and they put them on and then proceeded to eat the fruit loops off....

Good times!

Crying big wet Tears....

So last nite I cried big tears..... We went over to middle school to (sob) sign Katie up for soccer in the fall. Why would that make me cry you ask? Well its two- fold. On one hand my baby is growing up and I can't believe she is old enough for soccer! On the other hand I am crying because I am now officially what I detested for so long- a mini van driving soccer mom! Hahaha! However there will be no mom jeans for me!

Birthday Fun!

So I am going to take a break this week from my 10 on Thursday to talk about my birthday. I am at an age where I really don't care to have a big to do any more but having kids changes alot of things and Birthdays are one of them. The girls were beyond excited to celebrate my birthday and Tuesday nite they along with Jim baked me a cake. I got to pick what kind of cake I wanted but Katie was very insistant that we have rainbow sprinkles for it. Luckily Pilsbury had funfetti frosting with rainbow sprinkles. When Jim picked up Katie from pre-school yesterday they came home and frosted the cake... The girls were a tad bit excited and had a hard time not taste testing the cake... Here is what the cake looked like when they were done with it- LOL!

As you can see they could not resist the lure of yellow cake with pink vanilla frosting.... All in all it was delish! I throughly enjoyed it and all they and Jim and Bear did to make the day special for me. Here is a picture of the girls and I after we blew the candles out on the cake. Enjoy!!!!