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Friday, June 10, 2011

Son of a Beach

Memorial Day brings us our first trip to the beach!

YAY!!!!!!!

First night - OUT FOR PIZZA!

the kids were very patient waiting for the waitress to acknowledge us...

after about 20 minutes... they started to get a little silly

after another 25 minutes.. things were out of control.

So I flagged down a waitress - who cleaned our table - and told us they were out of pizza. So I called on the phone - ordered a pizza - and 10 minutes later walked 10 feet into the store to pick up our pizza. Yes, it confused me too.

Seeing how I was about to slap a waitress or two, we all thought it was a good idea to walk up to the boardwalk to eat. With the sun being down, and the waves 'kersplashing' quite rough - it got a little chilly. Luckily, it didn't slow the kids down much.

just happy to be at the beach! (and in the stroller)

Happy to see the boy still has his bunk-bed facination

next morning - STRAIGHT TO THE BEACH!

and we didn't forget to leave the buttcrack at home

I was thinking to myself - Saturday of Memorial Day weekend - and this is the crowd? EXCELLENT.

Yeah - it filled up in the next few hours.

Boy was quick to find a pack of kids to play with..

and girl was happy to find a comfy spot face down in the sand..

while girl splashed around - boy was very content to stay in his hole

Quick shower - then straight to the park

...where the children proceeded to scare the crap out of me

2011 water tower - and as usual - boy wanted to climb it

I let Auntie Cheryl do the heavy lifting

the poses have changed a bit over the last few years..

And back to the beach!!
End of the day on Monday - the kids got free ice pops

SCORE!

girl really knows how to show her gratitude

that's a little better -

a little more sarcastic - but better

aaaaaaand theres the crack

sadly - you can see the boy was starting to burn a little bit.. the shirt stayed on for the rest of the stay -but I'm sorry to say the boy sizzled a little on his last day

Last night - and Nanny thought it would be a fun treat to go out to eat RIGHT NEXT to Lucy the Elephant.

Does it get any better!??!

After dinner they got a chance to gawk at the big CLOSED sign.

but they were still pretty happy.

After dinner, we got home, the boy ripped off all his clothes, ran to the kitchen and found a wooden spoon and begged Nanny to spank him with it.

If they wanted spankings so badly- all they had to to was ask!

Monday, June 6, 2011

Five!!!

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Easter!

Again - behind...

As with every other holiday - Easter is choc full o' arts & crafts..

Starting off with the yarn/cornstarch/cookie cutter crafts. These would have been great except for the fact that boy's little crafts were SO gooey - they got moldy before they dried. Live & Learn I 'spose.

backed up by a dinner of Easter Egg Meatloafs

aaaaaand not to be outdone -

EASTER EGGS!

and the final product..... (drumroll)

the spread left for the Easter Bunny.

and the spread left by the Easter Bunny

another Live & Learn...

If I ask the girl to run into the other room & find her shoes - it is a task that never takes less than 10 minutes. Not because she is lazy. Not because she finds a toy & gets distracted. Not because she drags her feet & waits for us to get them for her.

Because I have raised 2 of the absolute worst Look arounder's.

I now know that 10 eggs & 2 baskets are FAR MORE than these kids can handle on such an exciting morning. The 35+ eggs & 2 baskets took well into an hour for them to find.

Boy coming downstairs...

Now the girl

Once the baskets were finally found - they were MORE than please with all the new loot.

And they were just as happy to find all the eggs

Poppy stopped by for the sunday donut routine - and even he was rolling his eyes at the weak hunting skills.

new shades

Luckily (and thankfully) my kids have seen Charlotte's Web enough times to quote it.. and didn't really object when the day after Easter - they eggs got tossed. I explained to them that a lot of the eggs got cracks in them when we were coloring them - namely, the eggs Luke dropped. Then I explained how they will get rotten very quickly with the broken shells.

To which they informed me "A ROTTEN EGG IS A REGULAR STINK BOMB!"

Thank you barnyard goose!

Dan & I both wondered about the choice of first-bite-location on the big choco-bunnies.

Both tail & ears were the first to go.

and with choco-bunnies - comes unused energy - which in turn brings a carpeting of easter grass. *sigh*

First Fair of the season!!!

Seems I'm starting every post with "I'M SO FAR BEHIND ON EVERYTHING!"

So from now on, let's just consider that a given - and I'll stop saying it.

First fair of the year and the kids were SO HAPPY!!!

First ride was the merry go round, which I had to accompany them, which means no pictures...

It was all going so smoothly! Everyone was excited. Boy was bouncing off the horses, so I grabbed him to put him up on one -and left girl to wait the 4 seconds.

In this time - the very nice lady that was running the ride walked over to her and helped her onto the horse she had picked out, gave her a big huge smile, and said "You ok honey?"

Would have been fine - but seeing as how the woman didn't have a tooth in her mouth -

it scared the crap out of the girl - and with that, she was stuck on me like Elmers Glue for the next hour.

SO! Not only did we have the first-fair-of-the-year, we had our first run-in-with-a-terrifying-carni-of-the-year.

After the carni-terror, she really wasn't all that willing to go on rides.

Boy on the other hand - couldn't get on them fast enough!

Thumbs up - Tongue out