I am a Petunia What Flower Are You?

You are a tried and trusted friend who will be there for your friends when they need you. But you have a tendency to be nervous about doing things that go against the norm.

The things he says...

It amazes me what little kids think and say. Yesterday was a "Mommy and Blaine adventure day" which consists of getting errands done and also doing things with Blaine so it's a win win situation for the both of us. So I take Blaine yesterday to get his tux tried on for the wedding and while we are in the dressing room I told him "See Blaine you get to wear a tux like Dustin and Uncle Jake"... "Uncle Jake is getting married too!" "no buddy, Dustins is going to wear a tux and so is Uncle Jake and you get to wear a tux too. And Chloe is going to wear a pretty dress.." "I'm going to marry Chloe!" "No, No buddy, you get to carry a pillow with mommy and Dustins rings on it and Chloe gets to put pretty flowers on the ground." "Oh, ok."

Well I'm glad we got that cleared up before the wedding because I have a feeling I would have had a devastated three year old when he realized he wasn't marring Chloe that day.

Notice the high waters!

This weekend

This weekend was a busy one. Friday Blaine went to his friend, Mason's birthday party. It was a rock star themed and Blaine and all the kid had a blast! So now Blaine is insisting that his birthday party be a rock star party like Mason's. So I don't know what I'm going to do.

After the party I went and meet my sister, and a few of her friends at Gemaca because Jill was in town for the weekend. I love going to Gemaca they have great food.

On Saturday I went to Olive Garden with my friend Trinity. I had a great time. It was so nice to get out of the house and enjoy sometime with a dear friend. (thanks Trin, it meant a lot!) Hopefully some of us girls can start getting together once in a while and do something or even nothing at all. I really enjoy getting together with the girls!

SNOW!!!

I think everyone around here is ready for spring. I don't mind winter staying just a bit longer as long as there is a little snow on the ground. I have been waiting all year for snow but all we seem to get is ice. So for me the snow has cheered me up a bit since I have had a rather emotional and challenging week. I am a little dissappointed that the two things I had to do today got cancelled. So no ultrasounds at the clinic and I won't be cheering my little brother on at their regional game today. (the team we were set to play didn't want to drive in the snow however we got a lot more snow than they did) So monday we will be off to cheer the braves on and hope to win a regional championship. But an upside for the day is this is the first year that I have gotten to play with Blaine in the snow. So first thing this moring my brother thought it was funny to come and jump on me to wake me up (which I was already awake) So my brother comes in my rooma and bounces on me and says "get up, get up lets go play in the snow!" My brother is so funny when it snows because its like he is a little kid and he gets all excited about the snow. So my brother, Blaine and I all got ready and went out to played in the snow. I had a blast, I haven't gotten to play in the snow for several years and I must admit I'm almost as bad as my brother when it comes to the snow! So here are a few pics of the fun we had this morning.

Everyone of us kids has wore that FS hat!
Blaine and his 4th Snow angel.

Blaine Burying Uncle Jake Blaine and Uncle Jake

Random Posting

So it's been a couple of weeks since I have posted anything so this will be a random posting.

The weeks have been so hectic with school, Blaine and trying to get everything together for this wedding. GESH, I am exhausted! So I'm in the process of putting together the wedding invitation, and I will be ecstatic when there done. So far they look good and I am excited to get them done and out of my sight. LOL It will be one more thing done and five hundred to go.

This past weekend I spent most of my time at Wood Memorial High School watching my brother play their sectional basketball game. The did advance to the final game and ended up winning their sectional by over 30 points. GO BRAVES! That is now 10 sectional titles in a row!!!! How awesome is that. So that mean this weekend we will be off to regionals. I am hoping they play good and win!

Sunday, I spent most of the day studying for a big test which by the way did not pay off at all, I ended up bombing the test on Monday. Which part of the problem was trying to study with a migraine headache and congestion. Not to mention I made the mistake of putting my purse under my desk during the test and with the last ten questions my phone rang twice. I looked up at the clocked when this happened and realized that it was A) either Blaines preschool teacher calling to tell me my brother hadn't picked him up yet or B) it was my brother telling me he was in a wreck with Blaine (and why we always think the worst of things I don't know but I did). So to make a long story short a missed most of the last ten questions on the test because I was worried about Blaine and my brother (which wouldn't really have matter if the phone had or hadn't rang I still would have missed most of those questions). And the phone calls were Blaines teacher and everything was okay.

So today I took Blaine to preschool which is one of the things I love doing. When I pick him up from preschool I always ask him "how preschool was?" and the most important question, "did you get in trouble at preschool today?" which it doesn't really matter if I ask or not a lot of the time he avoids the question. I usually know if he has been bad if he response is "let's talk about it later" or "I don't want to talk about it right now." However the conversation went something like this:

"what did you do at preschool today?"

I made an octopus.

WOW that's really neat. Did you listen to Mrs. Phillips today?

Yes, I did.

Now Blaine, did you get into trouble at preschool today?

I was just a little, little, little bit good.(blaine squinting his eyes, and showing me with his fingers what a little bit is)

Well does that mean you were a lot of bit bad. (which I try not to ask him if he was good or bad becuase I don't want him to think that he is bad so I don't want to place a stigma on him but sometimes I forget how I word my questions and I feel horrible after I ask them becuase I don't want Blaine or any child to think they are bad)

NO I was a little bad.

Now Blaine if I called Mrs. Phillips and asked her if you were good or bad what would Mrs. Phillips tell me.

She would say that I was good but a little bit bad.

Well what did you do that was bad.

I ran and hit my head on Rileys and I had ice on my eye.

Ohh, Well you know that your not suppose to run inside.

I know mommy, I'm sorry,I won't run again.

I know that I shouldn't be so hard on Blaine all the time but I have taken care of kids and I have always said that my child is going to be disciplined and listen and that I don't want my kid to be labeled as the bad kid and really I don't believe any child is a bad kid; Blaine is sweet and his a typical three year old but sometimes I forget that he is just three years old and expect to much from him at times. So I've been working on realizing that even though Blaine acts older than his age that he really is just three and accepting that he isn't going to listen all the time and his going to test my patience over and over and over. So there is my mommy rant for the day LOL.

Blaine went to his dad's tonight. When he got home he wanted to play a game so he decided he wanted to play Memory. Which by the way my mom thinks I let Blaine find most of the matches which isn't really true. Blaine is really good at remembering where things are and the majority of the time if I know where a match is I will get it and not let him win intentionally. And like most times we play we both end up with about the same number of matches. SO after an in depth memory game I put Blaine to bed and we got to read one of the library books we got last week then we read our Bible and just like every night he begged me to do my homework in there which I said no because he would then stay up late finding something to talk to me about just so he can stay awake for a few more minutes.

Well I guess that's enough of the randomness for tonight and now its time to do the homework that I have been putting off for a few days now.