Pwned!!!

Ha, the other day Dixie told me about a funky dream she had where she had posted something to the blog, and then I posted something right after her, so nobody was reading her post, just my stupid nonsense post, and it really made her mad. So I'm just doing this to tick her off.


Just kidding. Scroll down and read Dixie's post RIGHT NOW.

(If any of you are wondering what pwned means, stop wondering, it's internet geek jargon and you won't understand it)

UPDATE!

Sorry it's long.
- Well, we are just about done with the shed. YAY! It feels so good to say that. Nate just has a few little hooks and things to put up inside and then load all of our stuff into it. It has been a long project, but it looks amazing... and it will be cool to say that Nate built it (with a little help from friends and family THANKS).

- I am feeling overloaded with housework, and everything! I actually have felt that way most of the summer. Hopefully after we get a few more things out of the way, then i can focus and get my house back in order.

- Ryan is into everything. Keeping him from climbing and getting into things (especially the toilet) is a full time job. The bathroom has become his coveted place to be, simply because he isn't allowed in there anymore, and he spends all day climbing on top of the chairs to reach the kitchen table and the piano. He is now a force to be reckoned with. Which explains all the fighting going on at my house. Ryan gets into stuff, maddie gets mad, they scream and hit, and then cry because they both get in trouble.

- Because of all the fighting, Maddie is having a hard time, and said the funniest thing a few weeks ago. She was in trouble once again for hitting her brother, and after screaming in her room for a few minutes, she came out and we sat down to talk about it. I asked her if she could think of a better way to fix it if Ryan gets into her stuff. She was pretty upset and then finally just said "Why don't we just throw him out" and she was dead serious too. I had a hard time not laughing, and kept reasoning with her, but she just kept saying "no, i just want to throw him out." needless to say we still had to keep talking for quite a while longer to convince her that there were better alternatives.

- Maddie gets her tonsils out next wednesday. For some reason she panics anytime we talk about it... therefore, the reason for my earlier post. I have been trying to think of ways to calm her down, but i'm afraid we are just going to have a screaming girl at the hospital. Funny thing happened when we were trying to determine whether or not we needed them out.... She had to do a respiratory test overnight, where they gave us a machine to clip on her finger to wear to bed, to check her breathing through the night. It had a red lazer on it, and so her finger looked red. I put it on after she fell asleep and then she woke up in the middle of the night and came into my room and said she just had a terrible dream about ladybugs getting her fingers. poor girl. i took her back to bed and showed her this thing she had to wear on her finger and she asked me if it would help keep the ladybugs away from her finger. :)

- Long overdue pics from maddie's first day of preschool. She is having a lot of fun going to preschool and loves to show me what she made each day when she comes home.


- Long overdue pictures from camping. Ryan looks so grown up, but still doesn't know to not eat the sticks or rocks.
Here's Nate telling scary stories.
We went swimming the next day at Pineview.

- The MADDIE-ISM for the week: (you probably had to be there, but i thought it was pretty funny.) So, Maddie was told to find her shoes so that we could go to the store. She asked Nate for help to find her shoes and he couldn't really help her so he asked "where did you have them last?" Maddie said "on my feet."

k, i'm kinda freaking out

Maddie is scheduled to get her tonsils taken out next week, and since i've been trying to prepare this week, i'm starting to panic. I was doing fine until yesterday when i finally had all the arrangements set, and then when i started to wonder how it would go, i called a friend because her son just had his taken out last year and asked her a few questions. I was feeling pretty good, and was trying to think of how and when i would talk to maddie, but i wasn't too worried until today. I was preparing maddie for the fact that i was going to stay after school today to talk to her preschool teacher to let her know that maddie wouldn't be to school next week and maddie started to cry and put her hand over her mouth and said "I don't want my tonsils taken out." it was pretty sudden, and i hadn't even mentioned much about her getting her tonsils out, just that she would miss school.... but oh boy, her fear made me loose it. thankfully i did a good cover-up for her and reassured her for just a minute and then quickly changed the subject and she was fine, but i've been sitting home for the last hour while she's at school just worrying my head off! I'm sure it will come and go, but until then i'm trying to think of everything i can to help her prepare.

National Talk Like a Pirate Day

Avast me hearties! Tomorrow be International Talk Like a Pirate Day. I expect all of you to parrrrrticipate! And in commemoration of this here fine day, I'd like you all to view me favorite veedeo on this here special day. Here be the link:

http://fny21.blogspot.com/2007/05/pirate-convention-on-snl.html

Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day!! Aaaaarrrrrrrggggghhhhh!!!!!

sweet innocence

wow, this summer seems to have flown by. i've been so busy i feel like i didn't get a chance to enjoy it, and yet there were many fun things that we did, so i can't complain. with all our busy-ness i haven't had any time to blog. but i wanted to write down a comment before i forget. my brother-in-law who is on a mission in japan, said that he loves hearing all the funny things that maddie says, and since i print our blog off for him, then you all just have to endure all my daughter's silly comments, so that uncle jordan can hear from maddie.
background for the story: we were outside at my mom's when our neighbors dog was tragically hit by a car. it was so sad, and yet there was no way of avoiding it because of how the dog ran out into the street (long story), but we were all there to see it and this puppy was about 2 or 3 months old, so she was still learning not to bite... therefore maddie calls this puppy, "the little doggy that bites." so, then the other day i was trying to explain to maddie about my grandma after she passed away. i told her that she was ok, and that her body just stopped working and that she was happy in Heaven. so, then maddie asked me "Is she up in Heaven with the little doggy that bites? and all the other doggies because that's where all the doggies go?" it was so sweet, and she obviously had remember the conversation about the dog too. Then later, last weekend, was my grandmother's viewing and funeral, and as we walking into the church and i explained to maddie that we were going to see great-grandma, she asked me, "Are we in Heaven?" It's those sweet innocent moments when your kids say something that just take my heart!

More shed updates

I think it's been a while since I posted recent photos of the shed, lovingly nicknamed "The Guest House" by my aunt Anita. So I thought I'd post a couple of the latest shots. Well, just one or two really. But it's almost done! I would actually be done by now, (and not be in the dog house) if hadn't of gone golfing on Saturday. Ok, that was a stupid move. Live and learn, right! Anyway, as you can see, I've just got a bit of siding on the top, some on the door, and then a bit more on the back. Thanks Dad and Jaron for helping me get the door on, that was great help! CURSE you for asking me to go golfing! JK, not your fault. :-) Anyway, here are some pics.