Why did we get a pet again?

This is what I was greated with when I went to the bathroom today. Poor kitty had it all in her fur. I'm not a fan of pets, I have been against getting one for years. I thought about a turtle last year, or a hermit crab... but didn't want the work that went with it. So why a tiny kitten now?!?!

Oh yeah, this is why!

We have a new "Tidty"

It is the cutest little thing. It looks like a stuffed toy. Here are some pics.

5am

At 5am this morning Ethan walked over to me and said "Bob Build?" as he rubbed his sweet little eyes. You want to watch Bob? I asked, A very adamant nod followed.

Normaly if he were to get up at 5am, I would try to get him to go back to bed, or let him climb in with me. However, it is a bit different today... *things get blurry and you hear that music that tells you that you are going back in time*

Friday morning. I woke up around 2am and couldn't get back to sleep. I was wide awake... the joys of insomnia! I finaly started to drift off after Adam got up. So I fall back to sleep as I should be getting up for the day. Never a great start to your day. It is a big day!!! Track and field day for Donna and Alex!!! The kids didn't want to get up, and the fact that I hit snooze a few to many times didn't help that. Chloe also has school today, so I have to get them all ready. The kids were in slow motion, and seemed to have cotton in their ears. We finaly got out the door and got Alex and Donna to school with 3 minutes to walk to their rooms. Oh man, I forgot their water bottles... I tell them I'll be right back with them, just get to class. That adds a good 10 minutes on, then I forgot the lawn chairs... uggg, I thought about putting them in the night before, why didn't I? So I get everything ready, water dropped off, camera with new partialy charged battery(yes, that too I forgot the night before!)snacks packed, Chloe and Reed taken to school... (had a bump with that as well... Off to Fareway quick for a drink for myself and Ethan before we spend the day at the track.
Things got much smoother aside from Ethan not wanting to stay off the track. Friends of ours came and sat with us and Ethan got to play in the rocks with Lily. (A huge thanks to Lily's grandpa for finding every rock they picked up to be simply stunning!!) Around 10:50 Granny (my mom) came on her lunch break to watch Donna with the field events while I walked to pick Chloe and Reed up from school. We got back in time to see the sack races. It sounds like the girls beat the boys, and Donna's class also beat the other class in tug-of-rope. I'm sure she had a giggle fest while doing the rubber chicken relay as well. By 11:30, Donna and all of the other kindergarten-2nd graders were back on the buss and off to school for lunch and movies.
I stayed at the track with the 3 kidos and we had snack stand foods, 4 bathroom breaks (1/4 mile walk one way)and lots of running around untill 12:15 when the busses started pulling back in for the second half of the day.
Alex ran the 100, 200, and 400. He also did a 50 meter relay. (why do we do metric on track events, but not on anything else?)Ethan fought his nap as hard and as long as he could! 2:35 came and all the students got back on the busses. We packed up our stuff, Ethan HAD to carry his own lawn chair over his shoulder like mommy and Chloe. We slowly crawled our way to the parking lot. :)
After we got everything in the van, the kids buckled and drinks and snacks handed out, we were off to pick the kids up from school. After getting Donna and Alex, we went accross town to a different Elementary to pick up Reeds brother. Then I thought after our long hot day in the sun, it would be a perfect time for movie night!! So we went to get a movie. By the time we got home, Ethan had fallen asleep in his seat. I brought him straight to bed where he slept through pizza night, and movie night, and bedtime... We couldn't wake him up. *Which brings up back to 5am.*

You want to watch bob? How about I get you some food and a drink while you watch bob? Huge grins as he runs in to sit on the couch to watch his beloved, Bob Build. At 5am while Daddy snores away beside him.

Bob the Builder

Having gone through one little boy and all his favorite things, I know Thomas, Bob, Yoda, etc. very well. We are all on good terms...very good terms. Then we have the 2 girls back to back and we got very into all things girly. Whatever Donna likes Chloe likes. Whatever Donna loves, Chloe loves! Now we have another little boy. He is very into "cars" the movie. He also loves Thomas, so I thought maybe we could skip Bob. No offence to Bob, but he has always gotten on my nerves with his slow speech. haha

We have a few boy DVD's, we got rid of all of our VHS a couple months ago (% large boxes full) which were mostly boy and veggie tale movies. I had gotten a very god deal on Thomas movies at a second hand store and bought 20+ for $1 each. Anyway, Bob was a bit later in Alex's "all things on wheels" phase, so we have 3 dvd's of Bob. Ethan has fallen in love with Bob. Today I asked if he wanted to watch Thomas. He said "no, Bob Build" and grinned. I said, you want Bob, not Thomas? He said "No Thomas, Bob Build!!" So Bob it is. At the beginning of all the Bob DVD's we have they have a piece about "Bob the builder LIVE" I tried to fast forward past it. oops, that was a mistake! "No MOM!!! watch BOB!!!"

And so it is, we have started back into "Bob the Builder, can we fix it? Yes we can!" dun dun dun *continues to hum the theme song...

Chloe's first day at her new school!

She LOVED it!!! I am SOOOOOO happy that we switched her!!! It is so wonderful! It costs the same thing, however there is one big big difference. At stepping stones (new school) all of the teachers have an elementary ed degree. The old place not one teacher or the director had one. Chloe's teacher is 9 months pregnant, she is due in the next week. She is so cute with a huge tummy.

When we got to school today, I had Chloe stand by the big rock out front, and while I was taking her pic, her best friend that she met in her 2-year-old preschool class walked up. She is in a full day day care/pre-K class. But today her mom brought her to school later. Then another of her best friends from last year walked up. She is in Chloe's class. The girls were sooo happy to see eachother!