Lock the doors!

There's a sleepwalker in the house!

Last night, Tim was up late doing stuff for school when Rugby walked into the living room. I could hear Tim talking to him. But, apparently he didn't answer. Tim watched him and noticed that his eyes were still closed. So, he watched him a bit more before Rugby decided to sit on a chair. I don't know if he thought he was gonna sleep there for the night or what. Luckily, the camera was near that Tim could snap a pic....

Danger! Danger!

Seems Mr. Rugby wants to give his mother gray hair. Sunday, the boys were playing in their fort. They set up a zip line after seeing Kelly's field trip pictures, and I've watched them climb down it easily enough so we left it there. This weekend, however, they decided to take that down and Rugby (aka Mr. Graceful) managed to get himself tangled up in it. I was folding laundry and when I peeked out the door, Riley was trying to help him down, but couldn't get it and we heard Rugby tell him to go get Tim.....so I went for the camera knowing I had a second or two.

I don't know how he did this. I know that he didn't get hurt, however he did it because he did it again at least twice more after Tim let him down the first time. Once that he got out of himself and once that Tim needed to go let him out again. These boys love that fort. I told Tim that I expect our first broken bone by the end of summer.

My money's on Rugby.

reign over me

Yes, Adam, another review. At least this isn't a book, right?

For the rest of you, this is an Adam Sandler movie like no other. I was pretty amazed that he could be serious for such a length of time! He plays a man that lost his wife and 3 girls in the 9/11 tragedy. Don Cheadle plays his college room-mate who bumps into him after the fact and it goes into living your life to the fullest, regrets, etc. All in all, it was a good movie. I enjoyed it. I cried near the end, so be warned if you watch this and you are a crier like me. Jada Pinkett-Smith plays Don Cheadle's wife (not too impressed with her performance) and Liv Tyler plays a therapist. I'm not sure I like her...maybe it's just that I'm watching her gigantic lips the whole time. I don't know. Anyway, it was good and I'd watch it again.

Ketchup!

Ok, so maybe it's CATCH UP, but you get the idea.....

There's not a whole lot going on around here. Tucker got all 4 of his front teeth in last week and is starting to CRAWL. He does the inchworm crawl. It's so cute and funny! Here's JoJo checking him out...
JoJo and Riley having a little relaxation time with Daddy...
I went into the kitchen the other day after getting Rugby out the door for school to find TJ helping himself to some peanut butter. He was eating it off the knife, but I gave him a spoon....
The weather has been nice the last couple days, so we've been outside enjoying that and haven't done a whole lot. Maybe I'll have more for you later this week. (It's supposed to get cold again tomorrow)

Mommy's GLORIOUS Day

When I was pregnant with Tucker, I had some back issues. My doc sent me to see a physical therapist that I was religious about making the appointments for. It really did make a difference for me. He was all about stretching and keeping things in place by correct movement than about putting me in more pain with a bunch of exercises. After I had Tucker, at my last PT appointment I was given a gift certificate for a massage. It expired 6 months after that day and I thought, "Oh, I'll use it for sure WAAAYYYY before then." Well, 6 months from then was Wednesday, April 16th and guess who didn't use it. I called to make the appointment and they weren't able to get me in until yesterday, so it was 6 months and a day. But, the massage was WONDERFUL! I just love them. I have a ligament in my back that was super tight and she worked that out a little, not a lot, but we only had 1/2 an hour. Then, I ran to Walmart feeling that groggy feeling you get when you leave a massage, did some grocery and shopping for Tim, ran out to Tim's school to deliver those things and back home. And I did this all SANS CHILDREN. That's right ladies and gents, NO KIDS! It was 4 hours of quiet and wonderful. My angel, Kathy, watched the kids for me. It was Mommy heaven. Of course, I spent the rest of the day with a mild headache from having the toxins released and needing to be flushed out, but it was still a marvelous day. (Plus, Walmart had some nice v-neck t-shirts on clearance in my size! WOOHOO!)

Tug of War

Rugby's first grade class presentation of "Tug Of War" was wonderful! They sent home invitations last week (Rugby even invited the mail man!), made the monkey's for the set, and practiced their parts to perfection. Rugby and I worked on his part some here at home and he had it nailed! I didn't read all the lines in between his cue and his lines, so the play was still a partial surprise to me and it was so cute! They did a really good job. They even sang an African folk song before their performance. My camera will only take 10 seconds of video, so that's what I have. Enjoy!

Warm pic for a cold day...

I've got a trial version of Photoshop Elements that I downloaded last night. This isn't too bad for not having used any version of PS in almost 2 years! Too bad we weren't really there!!

New Recipe!

There's a new recipe up at Cafe Jessica! Check it out HERE!!

Taco?

TJ loves black olives...and tacos! (Plus, he's starting to talk more!!)

There's been an accident...

Everyone is fine.

We painted the living room Saturday, as I told you earlier. So, today I was emptying the hutch to move that for painting the other half of the living room and re-hanging the things that we took down to paint. I hung everything using the same screws in the same holes I took them out of. About an hour or two later, Tucker was sleeping and Rugby, Riley and TJ were downstairs playing with me when we heard a big crash. Here's what I found:



The shelf that Tim built for me for our first Christmas was what fell. The mirror on the back of it broke, otherwise it was still fine. The pretties I had on it, though were another story altogether. Here are the survivors:
See the pretty pink ballerina? TJ took care of that one, so I'm down to 4 Dreamsicles. It was terrible. There were some Dreamsicles that meant a lot to me that got broken, but on the other hand, I'd rather everyone of them got broken if it meant that the boys were safe, and they were. It could have been much worse and I'm grateful that it was just the stuff that got broken and my boys were fine. It's still sad, though!

ARGH! RILEY THOMAS!!!!!!!

What am I going to do with the boy? I turn my back for 5 minutes so that I can empty the hutch to move it for painting tomorrow and he COLORED ON THE NEW BABY GATE. All over the hand rail part at the top. Thankfully, Goo Gone worked to take it all off. I swear I'm going to have gray hair at an early age from this child!

Slacking

Yea, been slacking on the blogging lately. Just in case you missed it, this post was my April Fool's Joke. I left the same message on my Grandma's answering machine and it took her a while to remember it was April Fool's! Too funny. I'm glad she saw the humor.

We'll back up just a bit. My mom and dad came out for Rugby and Riley's wrestling tournament here in town and it happened to be Easter weekend. So, it was a two for one! I loved having them here and I think they had fun with the boys, too.

Don't mess with the kid and his pickle!

Riley's READY!

Sorry it's fuzzy....his matches ended quick, so we didn't have a chance for many pix.

My daddy and the Tucker Man

TJ helping Granny with the egg hunt

Tucker got his first tooth to pop through either last night or this morning. YAY TUCKER MAN!

Rugby has this thing going on at school right now that's Moving and Munching: Shoot for the Moon. Basically, the kids get points for eating right and excersizing. They get bonus points for writing a report about something in space, too. Anyway, there's a few things that he can earn "extra bonus" points for. One of them is 2 points for each 15 minutes of walking....and for each family member that goes with you. So, we've been trying to take a walk as a family to help him get lots of points....6 people = 12 points for a 15 minute walk, so we rack them up pretty quickly. Yesterday, we thought we'd hike in the woods and be gone maybe 30 minutes, so we packed up the kids, put on our tennis shoes and away we went ONE AND A HALF HOURS later, we finally made it back home. We were wet and cold, but we made it! When we got to the top of the hill behind our house, we followed the trail to the water tower. We decided to walk to the bottom of that hill, so we were on the opposite side of the hill as our house. I was going to take the road home, but Tim wanted to keep walking in the woods, so we did. We should have known better. There was lots of hills, so we decided to walk in the field that borders the woods, IN THE SNOW, but it's been warm, so under the snow was water/slush NASTINESS. Rugby lost his shoes in it at one point and carried them as he came running to catch up. I'm telling you that it was terrible, we even got sprinkled on. Ugh. It waited for the all out rain til after we got back home, thank heavens! But, he got 72 points, so he was thrilled that he broke 100 for the day. He totaled 163 points for the week. I'll keep you posted on the rest of the month. This was a challenge from the Glenwood City school and each school is trying to get enough points (converted to miles) to reach halfway to the moon (I think it's like 119,000 miles for each school). So, that's our yesterday.

Saturday, we painted half the living room. Tomorrow, I hope to be able to do the rest. It'll be easier when Riley's gone and both babies are sleeping.

Until later.......

Well, that was fun!

Well. Mother Nature had her own April Fool's joke to play on us. 6 INCHES OF SNOW fell and managed to be enough to cancel school yesterday for the boys. Can you believe it? That much snow in April. UGH! This is truly the winter that will not die. I'm so sick of it!! On a side note, though, it's supposed to hit 47 today and 55 tomorrow, so it shouldn't be around long. My poor bike and bike trailer were COVERED in the icky white stuff and I couldn't even take it out for a stroll yesterday after it did mange to make it up to 40.




I still think my April Fool's joke was better, but hey, can't win 'em all!**







**Special props to Ginger at The Small Moments. I hope I didn't upset her by using her pic!! She's battled so hard for her little punkins and I'm so excited for her (and I don't even know her!)

Good day for an announcement?

See the two black things? That's Baby A and Baby B. We're SO EXCITED!!