Ramdom thoughts of late.....

Strange but true, I woke up last night because I was having such a BORING DREAM-how weird is that! When I woke up I had the feeling of just being bored, it was so boring I can't even remember what it was about. I have never had that happen before and I hope it never happens again-it wasn't bad, just annoying to wake up in the middle of the night to get yourself out of a boring dream!


Claire announced to me the other day that she is going to go "stinks in the potty" when she is a mom!! Gee GREAT-like my friend Melinda said she is going to have a hard time getting married-dating scenario"can you excuse me for a minute while I go change my DIAPER" I don't think she will get many dates with that one:) So I was telling my sister Jenny about Claire and her decision and she said give her a baby doll and say "Congrats, you're a mom, you can now go stinks in the potty!" I might have to try that one. I checked out a potty training book from the library by the America Academy of Pediatrics- it said some children are not potty trained until they are 4 and 1/2-the sad thing is Claire is already in ELEPHANT SIZE diapers from Costco and they don't make a WHALE SIZE!!!:)-dang it!


Life with Cam is a hoot! For those of you who don't really know him he has such a great sense of humor and really knows how to have a good time. Last Sunday night (10:30 p.m.) as I was downloading our fall pics on the blog Cam decided he was going to try and make a donut recipe he had seen on Food Network. It started with a ready made pizza dough. Cam had bought some at Alescies. All was going well until he some how managed to start burning the oil. It was a chilly night and I really didn't like the idea of windows being open so we suffered through the acid smoke. Our eyes were burning so bad we didn't know what to do. I now wish we would have taken a picture of us. We were both sitting on the couch, with our eyes completely blood-shot and watering like crazy, this went on for a while, we finally decided to go to bed.(Cam was torqued because the recipe was a flop!) We went to be but laid in PAIN for a while, trying to figure out if it felt better to have our eyes closed or open. We were both lying there thinking to ourselves "I hope I can see when I wake up in the morning" We survived and I don't think we will do that one again.

Claire, Brig and I had gone to the Zoo and after I decided to vacuum out the van. While I was doing that Claire and Brig were having a ball in the backyard making themselves as dirty as possible in the "mud" pile and just running around. I had told them to take their shoes off if they went inside because they were so muddy. I finished up the vacuuming and went in to grab the broom. I was inside for a few minutes and came back out. The gate was open (it is usually locked) so I went out to find the kids. I could hear noised in the garage, I opened it and there was Claire, I asked her where Brig was and she said she didn't know. I 'rounded the corner of the yard and headed East (it's the way we always go on our walks) the first thing I saw were two cars stopped oddly in the street, for a second I thought maybe it was an accident. There was a lady out of her car and the other people in their car were talking to her. The next thing I saw was Brig!!! Standing on the corner, no shoes, just socks-holding a butter knife!! Oh boy. I ran over there and said, I am so sorry. The lady who was out of her car said they just wanted to make sure he was o.k. (Sure he's fine, standing with no shoes on and a butter knife!) I am surprised the DCFS hasn't come to see me yet. At least I looked half decent-not like some strung out freak-maybe they let me off for that one!!! I know I have no one to blame but myself. I am sure glad Brig does such a good job of staying on the sidewalk-I have brainwashed him well!!

Grant is such a pill when it comes to clothes! He is sooooo picky. We bought him some jeans at Target like a month ago, he had given his approval that he would wear them, so what doe he do. He takes the tags off tries them on and said he wont' wear them because they are brown people pants (African American)! O.K. Whatever Grant!!! Poor kid I hope he makes it through life without having a serious breakdown before he is 10! His class has a field trip on Wednesday to the Holden Arboretum. He doesn't want to go because he doesn't want to ride on a school bus. I asked him why and he said because of all the things the teachers at school told them about what to do in case the school bus get in an accident! What other 5 year old would even think twice about that? He is doing excellent in school. He is the ONLY kid in his class that has gotten a green sticker every day since school started. Green means you are doing well, they have various other colors too for various degrees of problems. He said today that only he and 1 girl got green the rest of the class did not. What a good kid:)

FALL!!!!

This is a fun tag!

I got tagged by Jamie Lamb who used to be our great next door neighbor here in Cleveland. Anyway, the tag works by posting the 4th picture in your 4th folder of your pictures on your computer. How fun!! Mine is a picture of Claire-obviously exhaused,sad and done for the day, becuase granny has been with her while mom and dad were at the hospital having Brig. Brig is that tiny thing and you can see part of me too!!

I tag

Sherrie Thurnagle

Ashlee Jenks

Lisha Hoops

Jackie Sanders

Kids

For you mom

My mom is trying to find some craft ideas to do with her YW in New Zeland so this post is for her! It's the easiest way to get her pics-their e-mail takes like 45 minutes to download 1 pic.

Mom if you have any questions let me know.

Love you mom! Good luck!!!!

The joy of being a dental student wife......

So I went down to the dental school again today. Cam said I have 11 cavities that need to be replaced/filled and 4-yes you read that right 4 crowns-gold ones!!! By the time this year is over I am going to know the dental school as well as a dental student. The thing I hate the most about going to the dentist is-why do I bother to do my hair? You always walk out with bed-head! The back of your hair is always smashed and it seems your neck is cranked one way or the other so you always have a flat side of hair too. Cam does a great job and I guess if it's the only way we can be on a date without kids I will take it. Oh, I am also his guinea pig for his dental camera!

p.s. at least I get a cool t-shirt with the CASE logo on it!!

Is it here yet?

Halloween can't come fast enough around here! Our kids are too excited. Last Sunday they got into our old costumes and were firefighters for a day. They sure had tons of fun. We set up our Halloween decorations for FHE on Monday night. We have about 50 lbs. of spider web hanging from our plant strung across the front room to the stair rail! Grant sure can decorate!

The dress-ups are HERE

Abe brought Claire's dress-ups Lis had found for her! The only way I could get her to try some of them on was to tell her it might make Brig laugh if he sees her in them. She did it and we got a few shots. Claire is so funny, she does not like dress-ups by herself but when some friends come over it's what they want to play. Claire is really into Tinkerbell right now. We got her a Tinkerbell color-wonder coloring book and she colors all the time in it. Christmas will be a challenge for all of our kids:) What to buy?!

Thanks again Lis and Abe!! We couldn't have done this without you!

Abe the BABE!!

We got to meet my GREAT brother Abe and his fun traveling companion Ron in Erie PA last Friday night. Abe and Ron were in NY for some business they were doing in some elementary schools. We thought it would be fun to get together for dinner. They drove for almost 3 hours to meet us at the Cracker Barrel. We had a really fun time. It was so great to see Abe!!!