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Thursday, August 31, 2006
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| Overall: 45% Conservative, 55% Liberal |
| Social Issues: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal |
| Personal Responsibility: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal |
| Fiscal Issues: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal |
| Ethics: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal |
| Defense and Crime: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal |
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006
MySpace is Dumb
I do not intend on offending anyone, but I am sure I will. MySpace sucks. I am sorry, I know you all love it, but . . . why!?!?! I joined last week, because everyone keeps asking "Are you on MySpace?" So I thought I would check out all the hub bub. There are so many people accessing that site that it runs slower than molasses. I posted to my blog and it just dissapeared. I have had to relog in, becuause it forgot I was there while I was trying to upload photos. I am just SO not impressed.
Katie's First Day of School
Today was Katie's first day of preschool. We were very proud of her and also a little nervous about how she would do on the potty. She did great, no accidents all morning long!
She was very excited in the morning, but when we got there she was being clingy at first and didn't want to sit and play play doh with the other kids, but once she started playing in the kitchen we told her bye and she was fine. TJ looked very worried about leaving his sister though. He was very excited when we went to get her and ran into the building yelling "Katie, Katie"
When we cam to pick her up they we're playing an egg game where each kid picked a egg an did what a paper inside said. Her's was count to 10. So, we heard 8,9,10 Good job Katie. It was great.
Then after school we went to Cici's with her god-father and TJ's god mother to celebrate.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Eliches
We took my sisters to 6 Flags Sunday. It was a little cool, but not too bad. I think they had a lot of fun. We were lucky that Janie was just tall enough for all the rides. This was our first water ride "Shipwreck Falls"Friday, August 25, 2006
Summer in a puke bag
My super great friend from high school had a very busy summer, just as we have had here. She recently posted on her blog a sumary of her summer that I found quite funny and sounded like verbal puke. So her goes our summer in a puke bag.
100 kids and 2 churches come together for a week of VBS
Moab 100 degree weather camping in a tent
Finishing basement, have storage room and most of office
$600 down toilet, because jet ski sucked up rock
Ken and Cheryl get married
Swimming lessons, Katie failed
Jesse and Katie get married
Justin and Jane get married
We discovered Culver's
Carla can't water ski
Gramma creams Carla at Scrable . . . twice
Iowa is hot
Krystle is walking!
Katie 60% potty trained
Carla joins The Body Shop
TJ suddenly talks
Camping in Glendo, WY, Diamond makes new door in tent, we go home early
Wonderful romantic anniversary weekend in Glenwood Springs
Camping Jackson, new tent, water crazy low, carry jet ski in 50 yards
Not getting email, had to change address
Missed Joyce Meyer :-(
Killed both jet skiis at the same time, had to flag down boat to tow us in (during lighting storm)
And that brings us to the current moment. Looks like the jet skiis will easily take another $600 to fix, my money is on closer to $1000. They are fun though. I will try to update more in the fall!
100 kids and 2 churches come together for a week of VBS
Moab 100 degree weather camping in a tent
Finishing basement, have storage room and most of office
$600 down toilet, because jet ski sucked up rock
Ken and Cheryl get married
Swimming lessons, Katie failed
Jesse and Katie get married
Justin and Jane get married
We discovered Culver's
Carla can't water ski
Gramma creams Carla at Scrable . . . twice
Iowa is hot
Krystle is walking!
Katie 60% potty trained
Carla joins The Body Shop
TJ suddenly talks
Camping in Glendo, WY, Diamond makes new door in tent, we go home early
Wonderful romantic anniversary weekend in Glenwood Springs
Camping Jackson, new tent, water crazy low, carry jet ski in 50 yards
Not getting email, had to change address
Missed Joyce Meyer :-(
Killed both jet skiis at the same time, had to flag down boat to tow us in (during lighting storm)
And that brings us to the current moment. Looks like the jet skiis will easily take another $600 to fix, my money is on closer to $1000. They are fun though. I will try to update more in the fall!
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Crazy Summer
This summer has been insane! We have been going none stop since VBS in th middle of June. We went to Moab, Wisconson, Iowa, Wyoming, Glenwood Springs, and this weekend we are camping at Jackson Resevior (aka mudpuddle). Hopefully we will be back at church the following Sunday, but nothing is set in stone yet. Katie starts school on the 30th. That is so exciting. Maybe then things will g=begin to go back to normal. Enjoy the rest of your summer.
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
August Column
This is my article for August. I tried to upload more pictures, but something isn't working right, sorry.
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Is there really a kid out there that follows “the book?” You know, rolls over at 3 months, sits up at 6 months, crawls at 9 months, and walks at a year? No? Good, because my daughter doesn’t do anything by the book. She didn’t crawl until after she was one and didn’t walk until a month before her second birthday, but she has been babbling since birth. It is a good thing most kids don’t follow “the book” or I would think she was weirder than someone standing in a hailstorm covering their garden with cardboard.
We spent this last week in the Midwest visiting family when she defied the laws of “the book” again. All the potty training books say not to potty train if you are moving, expecting another child, or planning a big trip. Well, we brought the potty chair with us in hopes of not loosing any ground and with NO intention of actually gaining ground. Sure enough on the second day of our trip, while we were driving on the highway half way between two of our stops, and just past an exit, we heard “I have to go potty.” So, we pulled over, took the potty out of the topper and there she sat with the only privacy as the side of the truck and Daddy blocking the view of on coming traffic. Well, our one success a day was out of the way, right? Wrong! She stayed dry most of the two days we stayed at her great aunt and uncle’s house. I was sure it was a fluke; maybe she just really liked their Noah’s Ark themed bathroom.
We left Wisconsin and headed for Cedar Rapids. This is when we decided the potty chair had to go everywhere with us. She was really getting it! We had lunch in an Amish community one day where we spent most of lunch taking turns with Katie in the bathroom. On the twelve-hour drive home we had to pull over about every hour. This turned our twelve-hour drive into a fifteen-hour drive. We thought we had this potty training thing down, but the first day we were home she had no successes all day. I guess it is more fun to use the potty 1000 miles from home.
My son, 18-month-old TJ, is no stranger to being weird. We are cat sitting this week for his godmother. During my errand running this morning we stopped in to check on Gabby, the cat, and water the plants. I was coming in from watering the plants on the deck to find TJ walking around with Gabby’s water bowl. Did I mention it was empty? He poured the water into her food dish. This is new for him; he usually puts the food into the water dish. I refilled everything and was cleaning up the floor and TJ decided to help. He was putting the food that had fallen out on the floor . . . and was putting it in her water bowl. Gee, thanks big helper.
I don’t think he is alone in this strange behavior of putting cat or dog food into the water bowl. I have seen other kids partake in this activity as well, but you never see this in any of the books. Why is this? It seems to me this behavior is common enough and yet so unexpected we should be forewarned.
On top of the food and water phenomenon, he also has short-term stranger anxiety. During our week long tour of the Midwest, we made three stops to see three different sets of Great Grandparents. Every time he would wait until the day we were leaving to warm up to his great grandparents and let them hold him. It was almost more of a teaser. Who is this kid they write all the books about? A book about my kids would read more like a mystery novel than an advice book. I guess all kids do something that is a little weird. That is just part of what makes them special. My kids are very special.
Is there really a kid out there that follows “the book?” You know, rolls over at 3 months, sits up at 6 months, crawls at 9 months, and walks at a year? No? Good, because my daughter doesn’t do anything by the book. She didn’t crawl until after she was one and didn’t walk until a month before her second birthday, but she has been babbling since birth. It is a good thing most kids don’t follow “the book” or I would think she was weirder than someone standing in a hailstorm covering their garden with cardboard.
We spent this last week in the Midwest visiting family when she defied the laws of “the book” again. All the potty training books say not to potty train if you are moving, expecting another child, or planning a big trip. Well, we brought the potty chair with us in hopes of not loosing any ground and with NO intention of actually gaining ground. Sure enough on the second day of our trip, while we were driving on the highway half way between two of our stops, and just past an exit, we heard “I have to go potty.” So, we pulled over, took the potty out of the topper and there she sat with the only privacy as the side of the truck and Daddy blocking the view of on coming traffic. Well, our one success a day was out of the way, right? Wrong! She stayed dry most of the two days we stayed at her great aunt and uncle’s house. I was sure it was a fluke; maybe she just really liked their Noah’s Ark themed bathroom.
We left Wisconsin and headed for Cedar Rapids. This is when we decided the potty chair had to go everywhere with us. She was really getting it! We had lunch in an Amish community one day where we spent most of lunch taking turns with Katie in the bathroom. On the twelve-hour drive home we had to pull over about every hour. This turned our twelve-hour drive into a fifteen-hour drive. We thought we had this potty training thing down, but the first day we were home she had no successes all day. I guess it is more fun to use the potty 1000 miles from home.
My son, 18-month-old TJ, is no stranger to being weird. We are cat sitting this week for his godmother. During my errand running this morning we stopped in to check on Gabby, the cat, and water the plants. I was coming in from watering the plants on the deck to find TJ walking around with Gabby’s water bowl. Did I mention it was empty? He poured the water into her food dish. This is new for him; he usually puts the food into the water dish. I refilled everything and was cleaning up the floor and TJ decided to help. He was putting the food that had fallen out on the floor . . . and was putting it in her water bowl. Gee, thanks big helper.
I don’t think he is alone in this strange behavior of putting cat or dog food into the water bowl. I have seen other kids partake in this activity as well, but you never see this in any of the books. Why is this? It seems to me this behavior is common enough and yet so unexpected we should be forewarned.
On top of the food and water phenomenon, he also has short-term stranger anxiety. During our week long tour of the Midwest, we made three stops to see three different sets of Great Grandparents. Every time he would wait until the day we were leaving to warm up to his great grandparents and let them hold him. It was almost more of a teaser. Who is this kid they write all the books about? A book about my kids would read more like a mystery novel than an advice book. I guess all kids do something that is a little weird. That is just part of what makes them special. My kids are very special.
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