Swim Party Day

They have a party at the end of swimming lessons. When I worked at the pool I loved it. We got candy - and you can never go wrong when there is candy. It is a bit different as a participant with kids. Mostly because before we just sent the kids on their way, no matter how sticky or messy they were. Now I am the one left with the sticky messy. But it makes for good pictures :).

MJs Song

Tonight we were in the car and MJ said "dameit" which is how MJ says damnit.
Mark: "MJ choose better words"
MJ: "Daddy I am singing the dameit song"
Mark: "How does that song go?"
MJ "dameit dameit heLLO heLLO"

Princess Bike

Last year MJ had a bike-a-thon at her school. She was one of the very few that still had a toddler bike.
On Thursday we saw one craigs list and got it. We cleaned it up a bit, and this was the reaction:

The week run down

So I have been good all week about blogging!! Here is a rundown of the happenings:

Sunday:

Mark and MJ made newspaper hats. MJ loved it-- loved it so much she carried around newspaper all day (not the hat, the newspaper). I went to a . . . memory gathering for my moms friend Willard. He had been in the hospital for a while from complications of a brain tumor. The gathering was at a bar.

Monday:

My super cool cousins had an extra ticket to go to the shark reef. It was pretty cool. Pretty small- and I am glad I didn't have to pay for it. Jens was asleep for most of it. MJ had fun being there with her cousins. I thought she would be a bit more excited about the sharks and crocs because she loves them, but not so much.

Here is what is really interesting about the picture- MJ is 3. There are only 2 kids younger than her in this picture. Yep. The oldest one next to her is 8.

Tuesday:

We are in swimming lessons again. This time Jens and I are doing a class.

MJ thinks her barbie needs to go to lessons too. Except the barbie has lost her swimming suit so she is naked.

One of the best parts of lessons is the nap Jens takes after.

Wednesday:

I would like to think MJ is a princess, but DIVA is more suiting.
She slept with these gloves not once, but twice this week.

Thursday:

MJ has figured out the letter M, and for the first time she has written one- legibly all by her self.

Friday:

My Grandma Kathryn and Grandpa Bob came to visit. Bob and MJ worked on a clock they brought.

Can you see any problems with the first placement?
And of course while I was adjusting the clock, Jens figured out how to stand up.
Cute huh?

Its a love hate relationship

Last weekend was Phishy's Bday. I love and hate this dog. He is excellent for MJ. Just ask her, she will tell you she is the boss of him. And he will do anything she says (yeah, dogs are dumb). But he can be sooooooooooo annoying!!! He barks licks-sheds, and shits. But he is priceless to MJ- and to me the fact that he can keep her occupied for an extended period of time is priceless :)

Jens Bday Party

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Funny

Last night Mark asked MJ to say the prayer. Of course she declined. But the middle of the prayer went like this:

MJ whispering "bless the dogs" "bless the dogs"

Mark "bless the dogs"

MJ whispering "bless Mommy"

Mark "bless Mommy"

MJ whispering "bless Jens"

Mark "Bless Jens"

MJ whispering "bless Daddy"

Mark "Bless Daddy"

MJ whispering "bless me BLESS ME"

Mark "bless MJ"

After Mark said "MJ if you want to say the prayer you can"

MJ said ok, and then said a prayer.

11 Months

Today Jens is 11 months. SERIOUSLY?? It blows my mind how fast this goes. She is soo funny. She is starting to figure out the power of her voice. She has started to scream for my attention- but it is still in the cute faze. (MJ and Jens have these super cute lemon PJs. I will try to get a pix of them together in them.)

Natural History Museum

We went to the Natural History Museum in LV last Friday (7/25). It's is pretty small, but MJ still had a great time- except for the dinosaur part. She pretty much hated that part, and wanted to leave as soon as we got near it. They have a huge T-Rex and he growls. I really wanted to get a picture, but she was outta there.

Mom of the year

We swim a lot! And i love it. So we ventured out to a different pool yesterday, and of course MJ wanted to take a about 10,000 toys. We got it narrowed down to 2. We were hanging out in the baby pool. MJ was having a great time because earlier that day in swimming lessons she figured out how to go under water. She kept jumping and letting her head go under the water. We were getting ready to leave when all the sudden she was crying hysterically. I couldn't really even understand what she was saying at first. Soon i realized she was telling me she lost her cow toy. well the cow toy was NOT one of the two we came with. i thought she was crazy. i kept telling her we didn't bring the cow. she kept getting more and more upset. i insisted that she was mistaken and we needed to go. As we left i told my cousins that were there with us (very sarcastically) "if you happen to see a cow let me know."
MJ was sobbing, and i was annoyed. As we loaded up the car, my cousin came running out with the cow. Yeah, yet another reason i should be mom of the year!