6 years old.

My baby boy is 6. And it is good. A few days after this birthday, we noticed 2 loose teeth. Yay!
No party is complete without a Civil War cake at Chuck E. Cheese.

So far this month he has memorized all the U. S. Presidents, and we're jumping head first into superheroes.

New Orleans

I had a lovely client get married in New Orleans on St. Patrick's Day. So Josh and I headed that way a few days early and enjoyed ourselves thoroughly. Lots of seafood, walking, and people watching. I will be back.

awesome dad

I bought these iron on printer pages. Every time I tried to print a picture it melted the paper.
Later after reading the fine print: not for laser-jet printers.oops.

Que really talented Dad, that can draw just about anything that is requested.

James is fascinated with Presidents. Or maybe the word is obsessed. We all know who was president when we were born and who was president in 1875. As well as which president got stuck in the bathtub.
And what assassinated means.

All I know is thank God for fabric markers, and an amazingly talented Dad!

lets get dressed!

She's getting big enough to dress herself, so I let her have fun.
I love the tights with just a regular shirt, and rain boots. Simple, yet playful-practical.

Help me find it

As a mother, there are a few things that I hate to do. One that seems to be a reoccurring theme in our home is: "I can't find it, will you help me find it?".

Now I feel as though, 'I'm not the one who has lost something, why should I find it?'
I strongly dislike scouring the house looking for this one said priceless for the moment item that is lost!

This morning, that's exactly what happened. Wake-up to James asking me to help him find his Harry Potter glasses. Why do you need them? I want to wear them to school. o-boy. I asked him where did he already look? only in the playroom. I suggest he try his room too. With that I'm left hearing, "I did, I need you to help me." What that really means is: "Would you just go ahead and find it mom, you always do, besides, I don't want to."ARGGG
So I pull open the drawer and Wa-lah! There they are. So I hand them to him. He smiles, "Thanks mom!"

Later that morning, getting ready to walk out the door I spy Harry Potter glasses on the floor. sigh.

This is what I conclude. My kids are only 'making' me find things because at that moment that item that is lost, its so badly wanted that they can think of nothing else until that item is found. Once that item is found, they're over it, that want for the item is diminished as soon as it is found. So I'm on this awfully frightening merry-go-round of:  find-it! yay, you found it! find it AGAIN!

help.

You smell good

I've gotta get this story down while it's fresh.

While riding bikes in the driveway, James tells Scarlett and
I of a "bully" at school. He was calling James, smelly James-smelly James. And Scarlett scoffs, you take a bath! You smell good. Let me smell you. ( smells his hand) you smell deliciou---YOU SMELL LIKE HAIR!

I think that is a great thing. And I especially love that she is sticking up for him and encouraging him. What a great girl she is. (A few days later we ate lunch with James at school and Scarlett is on the prowl for this "bully"- she asks James where he is, James explains that he's eating lunch alone cause he got in trouble. Her reply is, Well that's good.)