Shameless bragging

Ok...It's my blog and I want to, so here it is...my shameless bragging on my little ones. I emailed M's teacher yesterday to tell her that M was being pulled out of school early. B & M went to the health department to get flu shots. They were giving them to state employees and county employees free of charge yesterday. So B got the shot and M got the nasal mist. Harumph! No shot for M...lucky dog! So I get an email back from M's teacher telling me that he will be ready and that he has mastered all his list A words. There are two lists for 1st grade of which they must master the words on that list by sight. Both lists contain 100 words. He mastered list A; now they will start to work on list B. After he masters those words, he will go on to the second grade word list. Way to go, M!

As I was getting ready this morning, I stumbled upon this very rare sight in M's room this morning. I grabbed the first camera available (my cell-which takes horrible pictures) and captured this sight. It just made my heart melt.



M is reading The Lion King to G & W.

W had his 3 yo checkup today. He is now 39" tall and 30.2 lbs--tall and lean as his doctor put it (which he likes). He is above the curve on his skills. I'm not sure if I need to work with him on his colors or not. There were four blocks across the page in this order-yellow, green, blue, red. I pointed to the yellow block and asked him what color it was? Green! was his answer. I pointed to the green block and he responded blue. I pointed to blue...red. I pointed to red...yellow. I think the little turkey knows his colors and is just pulling my leg. We didn't think he knew his ABCs for the longest time and he just wouldn't say them for us. Then one night I heard him singing oh so softly from the backseat "A, B, C." The little turkey knew his ABCs. ARGH!!!! He received two vaccinations-his DTaP and his influenza and he didn't flinch on the DTaP and flinched slightly on the influenza. He didn't cry at all. If it had been M, there would have been hysterics. Just think back to the old black and white no sound movies where you can see the girl wailing and fainting (overly dramatic). That would be my M.

Miss G is now finally walking around between objects. She is still using the couches and such to walk along, but she is full blown toddling now. She was walking through Meme's house on Sunday with her bottle in her mouth drinking her milk. Now, I just need to work to get her off the bottle. Luckily, not one of my children took pacifiers.

So there's my shameless bragging...I must return to reality and work on getting stuff ready for my 1:30 meeting.

My newest find

I know some moms might not like the concept behind this planner, but I ordered it just to give it a try and I LOVE it. Now, I am having to use pencil due to our ever changing crazy schedule but it's meeting my needs. It's the BusyBodyBook.

I ordered it online and it took just a little over a week for it to arrive, but it was well worth it. I must admit, I was a little concerned about the durability, but I was very surprised when I received it. There is a thicker plastic cover that covers the planner itself. I have myself, B, M, W, & G across the top and it makes it easy to see our week all at once. I also love the page that allows me to put my to do check list for the week. I am using the white space to keep track of my week at work so I can refer back to that information for my summary that is sent to management. This planner is my new best friend and like the contact page says, if it were lost, I would be lost without it!

Catching up...OSU...random thoughts...more football...

I'm sorry I haven't had much time to post lately. The work situation is really kicking my hiney right now. Catch up: I do accounting for an oil & gas company. The facility I support is outside of Houston. We sustained damage during Hurricane Ike. We are now on turnaround (scheduled maintenance). My coworker was let go. I'm having to split my numbers between hurricane/turnaround events and normal production. This equals double work. Add a missing coworker's work (which my boss has been really helping with or I would really be dying) and I'm going bonkers.

I have W's pictures up finally! (golf clap) The boy had a blast opening his Country Life toys! He LOVED them. G was very interested in them too! W had a great birthday weekend. He got chocolate chip pancakes from Memaw (mom made me pancakes too...awww!). The kids then got to go to the zoo; Memaw swears she is NEVER doing that by herself again.



and Anywho...how bout them 'Pokes!!! My 'Pokes gave those Burnt Orange Egyptian goobers south of the Red River a run for their money. Even though we didn't come home with the "W", I am extremely proud of those 'Boys!

Here's someone else that is proud of them too.




Saturday, M had another football game. We lost to BA 25-0. Here is a video of the boys warming up last week at home in our game against Skiatook.



We have playoffs this weekend, and the tournament is a one and done. Our boys do great on defense. We just can't seem to get the offense going, so I think we will only be playing on game. Oh, well!

Here are a few pictures we took of the kiddles this weekend. The "Dewey" boys are my nephews.


Ok, back to work...I have reconciliations that I must get finished.

Oh, before I forget, G is really walking between objects now. She's walked as many as 8-10 steps at a time before going back into crawling mode. Go G!

Where are my sunglasses?

I am dying today. I have yet another migraine and I am at work trudging through it...I usually do. I can't see taking off for a headache, but I do realize that I have a substantial reduction in productivity when I am suffering with one of these. However, I have no more vacation days left until my time starts back over in December because I was out with my arm...but that's another story.

So here I am...my headache is now down to a dull ache, but the damage is already done; I'm exhausted; I'm having trouble focusing on numbers (not good when you are an accountant; I'm able to type this as I can type without looking at the keyboard (thanks for making me take keyboarding Mom!) and I only really have to look at the words on the screen minimally.). I'm nauseated...did I mention I was exhausted from the headache? ;)

People that have never really had a migraine just truly do not understand the true meaning of a headache. It's quite debilitating. The one bright spot in my day is that I am leaving work early (even if it is to attend parent-teacher conferences).

Now where are my sunglasses? (and yes, I'm whining, but it's my blog and I'll whine if I want to!)

(I promise to get football pics from last weekend and birthday pics from W's party up soon!)

Happy Birthday W!

Happy Birthday to my little man, W! W is bringing his birthday in with style. Memaw made him chocolate chip pancakes this morning for breakfast, and then M, W, & G all got to go to the zoo today with Memaw. And then to top it off...






He said his first dirty word today. What a way to bring in the new year, eh? The word, of course, used in its proper context was the word for hiney. Oy vey! Well he at least waited until 3 to say it. M's was at 18 months and was the other word for feces. While M's word can be directly attributed to his father and I, W's CAN NOT. I've got my hunches as to who it is....

GRR!