Its Spicy!

I completely forgot this, but I saw it on our MOPS yahoo group.
Megan was 28 months old-

When she hurt herself and I was cleaning her knee with Hydrogen Peroxide and she told me to stop because "Its spicy"

SOOO cute, I love my Megan!

Megan's first day of school

Meg went to Pre-K, Tuesday Aug. 19 (she goes from 8-11:30) and Holly loves it! Meg came home and I asked her how was school- she replied "REALLY AMAZING- they had playdough there!" I said "We have playdough here" and She said "It was totally amazing, mom. Can you leave me there for a long, long time?" Her teacher has said thet she is a joy to have in class, she listens very well, and is a great helper. Are we talking about my Meg? That's our girl!

Back to School

How many more days till scholl is out? 177! I am already tired of waking up extra early. Mark went back to school on Monday Aug. 18 and had a great day. He was very happy that he had 4 recess times. he likes his teacher and his class. The best part is hid friend Kenny sits next to him. He thinks he is never going to play with Carter, but at least I know Eve is hearing the same thing from Carter. He rode the bus and said "It took like 10 hours to get home! I never want to do that again!" That's okay with me, I don't mind getting my boy home quicker. I sure do miss him when he is gone. Its a very long time to be away from me, or should I say for me to be away from him?

Oh, how I miss Jill

Jill has gone back to Cedarville (OHIO) for school and the kids miss her sooo much. I think I miss her more. She was such a delight and a pleasure to have around. She was great with my children, taught them how to swim, and was always willing to make them tired, even when it was 110 out.

The kids call her "Jiily Beans"- what is it with them and cute made up names? Holly Berry? Jenna BennaRose? I guess they get it from me- Monkey Bones? or Brian "Meggie Pearl?

Anyways-I can not wait- she is coming home for Thanksgiving and Christmas break. The kids want to take her to Disneyland- which of course sounds great to me. She really endeared herself to me, going to Disneyland with Eve and me. The kids fell in love with her there, too. Mark wanted to ride all the rides with Jill, he started the day wanting to ride with me. (I lost all my pictures from that trip, and no one else had a camera. At least we have our memories.) An added plus is that Jill gives me a lot of hope. Her mom and her have told me how much like Megan she was- ornery, strong willed, a diva princess and to know her now- you would never know she spent lots of time in time out! We all know Meg is wonderful and I treasure her dearly, but boy oh boy does she have her moments of personality! The Lord is amazing and can work miracles (as we know). He is in the business of change!

Mark's "Late" night

Tonight was Mark's night to stay up, 30 minutes later then the girls, and he wanted to go swimming. Brian and I took him swimming and we had biggest splash competitions (Brian won), Smallest splash (Mark won), and a ton of swimming races that Mark won- though some were under protest. *Thanks Jill!* Competition comes so naturally to him, sometimes I am guilty of using it to my advantage (I bet you can clean up more/faster than Meg). He wanted to do a mini Olympics in our pool. We had so much fun, then we all floated around. Mark had fun spraying Brian with the hose and vice versa. He really loves diving! He dove in, off the diving board, and touched the bottom of the pool! Way to go, buddy and he said "How do you like that one mom?Jill taught me that!" Jill really taught M&M a lot this summer. Mark was finally showered and it was 8:30 so as I snuggled with Mark he said "I don't want to go to first grade, it won't be any fun." I asked him why? He said "All I am going to do is go to the playground then learn then lunch, then learn then playground then learn, learn, learn! I just get the playground two times." I reassured him it will be fun playing and learning. I can not believe my little man is going to be in 1st grade tomorrow! Aug. 18, 2008- seems like he was just born. Then I kissed him goodnight and tucked my little man in.

The Nut Farm? No Meg, its the Zoo!

Today we went to church and as a suprise to the kids we went to lunch and then took them to CALM (Bakersfield's California Living Museum). We felt like we needed to do something special on the last day of summer vacation. But not too special, don't want to set the standard too high.Calm is a small zoo- takes us about an 1 or so with Brian- 30 minutes max with the kids and me, if we don't play at the playground. So the kids ask where we are going and I say its a suprise. Meg asks "Are we going to the nut farm?" She did not mean Knotts- she actually ment a nut farm. Of course we reply no and she continues to guess where we are going when Mark says "This is dad's way of going to CALM, silly". Brian did comment on how maybe he should take a different route, as the kids seems to know the back way as the only way. We had a great time, despite it being 105 (at least). We had lots of water, met a snake named Jewel- red to black: friend of Jack, red to yellow: will kill a fellow. Meg tried to get a kiss from the deer (YUCK!), but it nibbled on her dress, instead. Holly yelled "Bear" and enjoyed seeing the bears, Jenna hung out- being her joyful self, and Mark just wanted to swing from the monkey bars.

Knotts Berry Farm

Naturally it had to be HOT! The internet said it would be 84/65, more like 96/85! We had a blast. There were 19 of us in our group. My mom, sister, The Maciels (6), The Hills (5), and our family (6). Boy we were a slow moving group. Mark loves roller coasters! Montezumas Revenge, Sidewinder, Ghost Rider, Big Foot Rapids, etc... he loved them all. Loved going upside down, spinning- you name it- he loved it. Staci- not quite as excited as he was. Brian and I finished the night on the Accelerator- pretty crazy, very glad we didn't die! We had a great time celebrating Mark's b-day. We finished the weekend by going to IHOP for b-fast- turned out to be brunch. Mark ate an entire smiley face chocolate chip pancake thing- it was huge! The we finished our trip with a visit to Brian's parents and had a great time with them. I even found a new table- which is being stored in their garage (thank you, Nancy). :) We had a wonderful time and Mark is 6! Mark loved his b-day presents and he had a great time with all his friends at the Nut farm! He really loved the berry juice, like his mom!