Missy's Moments

Saturday was the day. Sam has been wearing his glasses a little over 2 weeks now. All was good and he was starting to fight wearing them. He really has no use for them with his good eye. That eye does all the work and after the newness wore off his glasses started coming off. So that was the sign I was waiting for. On Saturday morning I had to hold my baby boy down to the ground and put that drop in in his good eye. I really have to stay focused on the long term outlook because I hate doing it. The whole day he was a bit emotional. I'm sure it was a bit of a reaction. There was one point where he and Rick were working on a puzzle and he started crying and said he couldn't see it. Rick helped him adjust the way he was viewing it. Helping him to move it a little further from his face and than he said "now I can see it" . Break mama's heart. He hates the drops but gets 2 Hersey Kisses when we're done. A boy after my own heart. Chocolate cures everything! On Sund...

  Remember the movie Footloose? Am I that old? I refuse to believe that! Yesterday afternoon I decided to plant myself on the couch for a few minutes at rest time. I rarely sit down to watch TV in the afternoon. I was flipping around the channels and found the movie Footloose with Kevin Bacon. ( side note: he really was cute! ) Anyway it was at the beginning and I started watching. Jordan had just come home and I was all excited. I said Jordan have you seen this? He looked at me like I was possibly an alien... . He hit the "info" button on the remote and it gives a brief description of the movie and the year it was made. Any guesses on that year? I'll get to that later. So he sat down and watched it for a few minutes and before I know it he's working on our puzzle and getting rather bored. I'm in awe! I mean Ariel had just put a tape in the boombox and everyone was dancing. Her Dad ( the preacher ) was about to bust them all and Jordan could have cared less...

  99......100 Do you want to hear me count to 100? That is Eric's great performance of the week. Not only can he count to 100 but he will be more than happy to demonstrate his talents to any willing ears! We were walking down the hall of the preschool and ran into a friend. Eric very quickly asked his questions and I stood behind him shaking my head, making hand singles to say no. She didn't see me and any good soul wanting to encourage a child she said yes. Most people that have said yes don't realize that means your in it for the long haul!   Bless his heart, he's so proud of himself. And Mommy is very proud too, I'm challenged enough getting anywhere on time!                                                     ...

  and a hockey game broke out! Minnesota has a Jr. League that happens to play their home games about 2 miles from our house. For whatever reason we've never made it to a home game. That's a little strange because Hockey has been such a big thing in our lives for about the last 5 years. Anyway there was A LOT of fights, drop gloves and nasty fights. Every time we'd try to distract Eric and Sam, meanwhile the whole rink is cheering. I don't remember hardly a minute of time where there wasn't some in the penalty box. So the fun came with watching the boys. Eric didn't want to go. He sat at the dinner table with a big pouty lip, "I want to stay home-I don't want to go" I said Eric we'll have fun. "No we won't" Well we packed up  (10 below I might add) Went to the rink only to discover that after a few minutes Eric decided that this might be fun. Then it happened. "Mom there's a #4, there's a #4." #4 is Eric...

We played outside for just under 2 hours.... the boys ate a huge lunch and are now planted in front of a monster truck video.... here are a few pictures from our adventure.

  Of all the days.... Today my friend her 2 kids, my 2 daycare kids,  along with Eric, Sam and of course me were all going to load up and go to Underwater World at the Mall of America. It hasn't really snowed here any significant amount for a couple of months and low and behold there's a Winter Weather Warning until tomorrow. Periods of 1-3 inches an hour starting at noon today. The good news is that will make for fun sledding later. In other news Sam says his mouth hurts, hopefully that won't turn into anything. Or at least I hope he feels go enough to go out. Jordan, Jordan, Jordan.....sigh... EVERY morning I hear an alarm.   EVERY morning I hear the alarm get hit.   EVERY morning I stop at his doorway, "Jordan you really need to get up, I'm flipping on your light". EVERY morning I hear "Oh shoot look what time it is" ....DUH! (normal time to get up is supposed to be 6:30 but turns into 6:50, bus arrives at 7:10) This morning at 6am,  Y...

Scene: Driving home from preschool, turning onto a back wooded road Stars: Sam 3yr 8 mo, Eric 4 yr 10 mo, Vanessa 4yr 7mo, Kylie 3yr 10mo Mom turns left onto windy wooded road, Sam: HANG ON GUYS! We're gonna get in the furest ( forest ) There's dragons, and bears in here Kylie: Yeah and MEAN RABBITS! Sam: Yeah and bears and dragons RARRR! and lions Kylie: bears, and tigers and MEAN RABBITS (at this point I'm wondering if they've recently viewed the Wizard of Oz! ) Eric: Guys, guys, GUYS, LOOK OUT THE WINDOW! theres a sun so there's NO dragons and monsters Sam: Yeah there is.... Eric: NO THERE'S NOT, DON'T YOU SEE THE SUN??!! Vanessa: Missy Eric and Sam are gonna fight. Missy: Guys, use kind words please. ( quickly backs out of conversation because I love listening to the little stories :) ) Sam: The mean rabbits are gonna get us in this scary furest ( forest ) Eric: THERE ARE NO MEAN RABBITS SAM ONLY THE SUN! Kylie: I think we n...