Life At The Circus

When my little man sets his heart on something, you better watch out.  Because he will hold on tight with his 5 year old death grip on life! His preschool had an art festival last week.  It was the single best fundraising event I have ever attended.  Parents paid a $10 admission per child and the kids got to engage in numerous, fun, messy, outside art projects.  It was a glorious way to spend a sunny Saturday afternoon.   During the art fest their was to be an auction for some items the children’s classes had made previous weeks in art class. My son came home about a month ago all excited about a shelf his class had painted that he wanted to save up and buy to store his Spiderman stuff.  I told him he’d have to save his money and we could try, but that he might not win.  A few weeks went by and he was at Pizza Hut with his Daddy looking at the little vending machines where you put a quarter in and out pops a 5 cent chocking hazard   ...

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Not sure how many of you noticed my new little feature on my side bar.  But over on the right I have a widget (thanks to my tech support hubby) which links each day to the post I wrote a year go on that date. I clicked on it today, and that post gave me quite a chuckle.  Check it out:  A Year Ago Today

Been sorting through the kids clothes, bagging up the stuff too small, cleaning out stuff in the nursery....   I am so sad. It is so weird to think we might be done having babies.... so strange.... so sad.... I feel on the brink of tears.  I have been trying all week to mentally prepare that we  might be done, to figure out how to clean out the stuff and move on, but it is a lot harder than I thought. I thought  I  could be ok with it.... I am not sure. 

My son has always been a thinker, thinking things through one step ahead and drawing some unpredictable conclusions.  The following conversation took place last week between my son and his Daddy. Son: Dad, I really want to go fishing. Dad: Oh, that does sound like fun.  The bummer though is that it's not fishing season so we can't go fishing. Son: Why is it not fishing season? Dad: Well, if we fished all the time we would run out of fish to fish.  Instead, we give them a break so they have a chance to have babies and make more fish. Son:  So then we can destroy the families and eat them?

Today was a big day in the life of sibling relations at the circus.  Around my daughter’s third birthday, my strong willed, independent, knows what she wants toddler, morphed into a “ whatever big brother does, that’s what I want too ” little sister (she still kept her strong will however).  Her favorite color went from purple to red (her brother’s fav color).  For the past  week she has been telling me how she wants a Spiderman cake just like her brothers when it is her birthday. But today things changed. There was a face painting booth at our local grocery store today. What?  Your grocery store doesn’t offer free face painting?  Man, how prehistoric!  My son walked up and of course asked if she could paint Spiderman on his face. Nothing earth shattering there.  If you follow me on Twitter , you know we’ve been fully immersed in the world of Spidey here at the circus. But, then  it came time for my daughter to get her face p...

Apparently my daughter’s week long rebellion was against sleeping alone in her crib and not on sleeping in general.  Tuesday was a break through day for us! She napped and slept through the night without screaming for hours first. As I said goodnight to her in her sister’s bed, she had the BIGGEST grin on her face.  Seriously, I have never seen a kid so excited about sleeping in a bed.  I did have to go in their twice because I heard them giggling and running around.  One time I caught her sitting up “reading” on her bed.  When I opened the door, she threw the book on the floor and laid down.  Um, nice try missie, but you are busted! Scott had to go back a third time and he threatened to make her go back to her crib if she did not stay in bed.  We didn’t hear a peep from her the rest of the night! When we went in to kiss them goodnight before we went to bed, we found her sleeping on her floor.  Naptime Wednesday also went we...

Two cookies   One mug of milk   And two sisters Visit 5M4M and Angie’s 7 Ring Circus for more Picture Fun!

Since we first brought my youngest home from the hospital at two days old, she has been a good sleeper.  You could just lay her down and walk away and she would soothe herself to sleep.   Scott and I commented a few months ago that we haven’t had to go in the middle of the night to help soothe her back to sleep.   Even when she threw up in her crib in the middle of the night, she just rolled back over and went to sleep.  We never knew till morning.  She was my low maintenance baby. Was being the operative word.  Then we went on our grand Texas vacation. Since we have gotten back, she has been incredibly clingy.  I was paged by the nursery at church on Sunday b/c she was crying so hard.   She wants held by me all the time and fights with her siblings if they are in my lap or arms.  And bed time has become the battle to end all battles.   Since we returned home a week ago,  she has screamed and cried when w...

My son is obsessed with all things Spiderman.   I remember when he was about 2 and he saw a picture of Spiderman on something in the grocery store.  He asked me what that was and I told him Spiderman.  I remember he giggled saying that was so silly, to have a spider man.  Sometime since then, he got bit by the spidey bug!   I love this picture…the smile on his face was worth all the effort it took to make that cake!  I am not sure what made him pick Spiderman of all the super heroes to latch on to.  What was it about Spiderman that was more appealing then say Superman or Batman?  It’s not as if he watched any of them on T.V.  His love was born from merely seeing the character.  When he was born my brother bought him a Spiderman onesie.  Perhaps his obsession was born then?   Has it really been 5 years since this picture was taken?  When did my baby grow into a little boy? Given his love for all thin...