Oh geez
June 22, 2012
Any bets on how this is going to end?!
I have found this summer, by about 3pm… We are ALL done playing nice. Including me. We are all three pretty tired of each other.
I finally got tired of yelling “Quit fighting!!” and changed it to a super compassionate… “Someone is going to get hurt and when it happens, I’m not going to care. You have been warned…. Carry on crazy people, carry on.”
And the first one to cry??? Nate takes the prize! I actually had my money on Scott.
Speaking of Changas
June 20, 2012
I have been in blog avoidance because the thought of catching up on the last 6 mths stresses me out. And then I thought, “Hey Cori, just pretend like the last 6 mths didn’t happen!” And then I thought, “Wow Cori, you are super smart! I am going with your plan!”
I have memories in my head and heart and iphone. That will do for now.
Soooo…. Nate has been on this big kick of randomly saying… “Speaking of ____” and it is usually just followed by a normal sentence. IE “Speaking of grapes, can we go jump on the trampoline?”
On Sunday in the car he said, “Speaking of chimi-chaaaang-as… What is a Changa?” It has been cracking me up all week.
That gem of a story has nothing to do with the rest of this blog.
Sunday was Father’s Day! I decided to actually do a Pinterest project (my first one out of my 5 million pins).
I mean is there anything cuter than asking kids questions you know they will say funny things to? I think not. Although, Scott is reaching the kids-don’t-say-the-darndest-things age. As you will note from his page (that I didn’t let him fill out on his own because it would take to long, bad mom), we have a height correction. He was very stressed out that he was going to get a question wrong. I told him do not under any circumstances ask your dad the questions to check your answers. IT IS A SURPRISE. Scott walk up to Mike:
S: Dad, how tall are you?
M: 6 ft.
S: turns to look at me with big crazy eyes, walks over and whispers….. I’m going to need my paper back.
Scott also made sure his picture included such details as “those red dots on dad’s arms”. Nate decided to draw a picture of a botser (monster robot) being destroyed.
Lazy Laundry
December 13, 2011
If you leave a huge pile of laundry on the floor long enough, it becomes a toy! See, I totally did that on purpose….
Seriously Weird…. Seriously
December 4, 2011
All of the sudden Scott is a too cool six year old. It began over Thanksgiving break…
Humiliation Scene #1
Tootsie Roll came on the radio and OF COURSE Mike and I turned it up and started dancing. Scott is in the back yelling, “People are going to start staring at you.” “Seriously, they are going to STARE. Seriously guys, they will stare because you are being weird.”
So OF COURSE, we turn it up louder and OF COURSE we pull in to the parking lot of the movie theater and Mike rolls all the windows down, turns it up louder and gets out of the car and starts dancing. Actually, I was a little embarrassed by Mike’s roger rabbit, but I went with it.
Humiliation Scene #2
I was going running after I took Scott to school on Thursday so I was wearing my running clothes when I dropped him off (like 95% of the other moms dropping off)… While getting out of the car:
Scott: What are you wearing?
Me: Ummm, my running clothes (that you have seen me in a million times)
Scott: Are you wearing those into school?
Me: Ummm, well, I am dropping you off while wearing them sooooo…. Is something wrong?
Scott: (audible sigh and eye roll) It’s just a little weird.
Me: Oh babe… I hate to tell you this, but if you are embarrassed by running clothes, you have a LONG road of humiliation in store for yourself.
Scott: (looking at me like I really am weird)
Me: (looking at Scott like I know I am weird and couldn’t care less)
Scene #3
I got bored while Mike was out of town last week and decided to cut some bangs one night. The next morning…
Scott: What is going on with your hair?
Me: I cut it. Do you like?
Scott: It’s a little weird.
Me: Thank you.
Scott: I mean… you kind of look like a teenager… but a weird one.
Me: All I heard was I look like a teenager.
Scott: Uhhhhh.
In the words of my friend Carissa Miller (while cracking up), “If he is going to be a kid that gets embarrassed easily, he was definitely born to the wrong parents!”
I love you Scott. I apologize in advance for all the embarrassing moments in your future.
A picture of your adorableness that you will find embarrassing in the future. PS I have TONS embarrassing pics that I will bust out at any given moment.
Nate loves turtles?
November 15, 2011
Nate’s teacher interviewed all the kiddos and compiled a book and each child gets to take the book home for a weekend and read about the class with their family. I love this kind of stuff it is always adorably hilarious.
PS Nate HATES rest time. His favorite food is pizza. I have never ever seen him pretend to be a tiger. I will give him the zebra because I don’t actually know his favorite animal and we have never talked about turtles.
The PP
October 24, 2011
It has taken us forever to get to the pumpkin patch this year or as Mike calls it, “The PP.” Which cracks the kids up every time and gets an obligatory eye roll from me (I laughed the first time). Of course I forgot my “real” camera… iPhone you have enriched my life in so many ways… Where were you in high-school when I got lost driving home…every. other. day?
PS Siri… I can’t wait to meet you. I think we will have a special bond.
The opening “sit by the creepy scarecrow and pretend your not itchy shot”.
The kids picking their pumpkins and me in no way what-so-ever being bossy and trying to “guide” the decision process.
Cutie booty Nate. (Scott was to cool for school)
Scott’s side. (We are carving the night before Halloween… Last year our pumpkin was rotted out before Halloween rolled around… Sometimes you have to learn the hard way… Sometimes.)
Nate’s side.
This pic has nothing to do with the PP but Mike was super excited my parents brought him AQ Chicken from Arkansas. (and I felt bad he didn’t get in on any of the patch pics)
Artsy
October 12, 2011
Kindergarten has brought us many hilarious dinner time stories and interesting projects. I really hope Scott’s teacher thinks we are some what capable parents because the stories he tells us makes me personally question my parenting abilities. We have our first parent teacher conference on Monday… I CAN’T WAIT. I have a feeling it will be quite insightful. This is one of the awesome projects that have come home…
Yes. That says hot tub. And the picture depicts a “tank car” with full on guns, missiles, and bomb launchers. Fully equipped with a hot tub to soothe your achy battle muscles.
And Nate… Sweet Nate. I am sure I should double his teachers salary. He somehow gets pee on his clothes EVERY day. At home, totally fine. At school, pee clothes. Not accidents, just always gets pee every where while using the restroom. I hope Henry really is his friend. Nate seems to be the complete opposite of how I would have predicted “school Nate” to be.
Kindergarten Snapshots
October 5, 2011
Because Scott’s kindergarten teacher is capital A to the Awesome… She texts or emails me a picture of him doing his classroom thing every week. I used to pretend that Scott is her favorite and that she only does this for me, but then I realized that on group pics I wasn’t the only email address in the “to” box. It’s cool though, I am sure he is in the top 16.
Week 1 ("Sooo, I guess kindergarten is ok....")
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5 (first field trip!)
PS After about two weeks of school, Mrs. Mayfield called and said that Scott was having a hard time and getting teary eyed through out the day. Super mom and dad had NO IDEA. He only talked about how much he loved school. We started giving him a daily love note to put in his pocket and when he starts missing us or feeling sad, he can put his hand in his pocket and know we love him and we will see him soon. It has worked like a charm! All that to say, the pictures in which he has his hand in his pocket break my heart and make me proud at the same time. New experiences are hard…. He is brave and strong and got through it.
Nate Cleaner
September 22, 2011
The kids were hilarious tonight. But the winner of the funniest convo was Nate.
(Nate’s full name is Nate Keener, you will understand in a minute why you need to know this.)
Scott: How did I get my name?
Me: We decided what to name you and gave you a name.
Scott: But Why?
Me: Blah Blah Blah (long explanation about why we chose his name)
Nate: But my name is not good.
Me: What do you mean?!
Nate: It goes…. “Hey are you a cleaner?” “Why do I have to be a cleaner always?”
Me: What are you talking about?
Nate: YOU named me Nate CLEANER. Now I have to be a cleaner.
Me: Your name is Nate KEENER! Are you being serious right now? Did you really think your name was Cleaner?
Nate: (dead serious face) Yes.
Me and Scott and Nate: (laughing so hard I thought I was going to have a waffle come out my nose)
OH Nate Cleaner... I love you.
PS I don’t randomly think about waffles coming out of my nose. We were having breakfast for dinner.
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