S'mores

Enjoying Summertime with friends


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At a loss for words

I wish there was a chip implanted in my 6 year old's brain that I could download information from at the end of the day. He has always been a rather unique child. Tonight as I walked outside to ask him to stop using the lawn sprinklers as a rocket launcher I discovered a suspicious liquid on the garage floor. It was pee! He saw me and said, "what? I wanted to see what would happen." What did he think was going to happen?!? I was at a loss for words.


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Taylor

So Taylor came to live with us for the summer!!! I think the universe knew I was just about to lose what sanity I had if I didn't get help. I confess that my husband's CONSTANT travel schedule and Nick's struggles have finally broken me. Anyway, she arrived on June 8th and we couldn't be happier. I think her body is missing Mississippi though because she is in bed with a fever and had the throwie uppies...no fun. But we'd rather have a sick Taylor over no Taylor. Very grateful for the time we have with her. I promise to post happy, non-sick pics soon ;-) and be sure to ask her all about the Braves if you see her- she loves to talk baseball- lol!!!


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Disappointment

When I was a kid I used to say I'd rather have have a whoopin' then a lecture. To me there was nothing worse then knowing someone was disappointed in me. Apparently the same holds true for Nick. Yesterday he refused to go to a rather intense soccer camp that he chose to do at Dickinson College and I layed on the parental lecture of not quitting, you gotta dig deep...follow that with a day of chores, no tv or video games and you get this...a kid who is up before you, dressed and has muffins ready to be put in the oven. I almost feel bad- almost.


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Blue Poop

I try to be the food police in my house. I have a goal this summer of getting away from all things processed. For now I try to offer as many gluten free, preservative free, dye free foods as I can. A child attending public school makes this task difficult. Although the nation's schools are in an overhaul to fight childhood obesity, the school my son attends thinks it's appropriate to give out gobs and gobs of candy for playing learning games on an almost daily basis. Clearly that's something I have a problem with but the list of things I struggle with in our school system is so long that one will have to wait for now. Back to my point.  I was outside watering the flowers when the door flung open. I looked and could see no face for all I could see was a giant mouth and that squiggly thing that dangles at the back. Epiglottis I think it may be called. I thought, here we go. Tattle tell central. But to my surprise and my neighbors delight I hear, " Mooooommmmmmmmm! Parker just pooped and it's BLUE! Should I call 911?"

At first I was annoyed knowing that it is all the dye from said candy but then I decided to be grateful. Thank you Blue number whatever because thanks to your pointless existence we may have our first evening in weeks that doesn't end on a, " is it too early for boarding school note". I kid-sort of...

Open for the season

Today was the first day in a verrrrrrrrrrrry long time that the sun was out for an entire day. The boys both had soccer games. After the games, my hubs was kind enough to take them to a birthday party so I could have a little break. Cooper and I headed to Shippensburg with a sample of our pool water...it was just about spot on so we got the go ahead...Open for the season! Needless to say when the pumpkins returned from a day out with Big Daddy it was only minutes before they were in the water. The water was a balmy 72...brrrrrrrrrr! We promptly turned the heater on!

Sometimes I wish I could videotape an entire day

 Today was a superdooperliscious day! It was sunny and warm. Nick was oh so cooperative during school...even asked to work on his book report after I told him he could be done. (Looking back I should have expected his later explosions). We took Cooper for a walk; Nick rode his bike. When we returned from our walk Nick asked me why my feet were all cracked. (lovely, I know) I wanted to say it was because it's hard being Cinderella but instead I told him it was due to the lack of pedicures in my life. I saw this light bulb go off and I was asked to wait outside. When I was allowed back in the house...well, it was just the best darn surprise! For those of you that know me, you know I have a magazine addiction. I gave up magazines for Lent so I am over the moon they are back in my life! Anyway, I saw this "top-secret" pull out for Mother's day and pulled it out. I casually placed it on the kitchen island to see if anyone would take the bait. Turns out my little man did. I came inside to a 2 part foot bath and a spa snack. Sometimes having a child with PDD/tourettes is just the cutest darn thing because these kids are even more serious and "black and white" than most. To hear him describe the foot bath and ask me if I felt it " was really exfoliating because it said in the directions it would and if not then we should tell someone that they are telling a lie and by the way Mommy, what does exfoliating mean". He did this to be sweet but he also did it because the way his mind works is- there is a problem, I know a solution so I do it. There are no words for how full my heart was at that moment.  Next it was off for some errands where I found a little "conversation" seating set for our deck and the store let me take it out of the box to fit it in my car. Boy oh boy were they smirking behind my back. They totally thought I was crazy. Little did they know my little green box is a machine! I didn't mean to do it but I busted out a "Ha! Ha!" when I had both chairs, ottomans, and table in said green machine. After the guy helping me stopped laughing he admitted he thought he'd be taking it all back into the store. Next we picked up Parks from school and surprised him with a trip for ice-cream. Cooper got his first puppy sundae and LOVED it!!! We came home and the boys played transformers which quickly turned ugly. For a brief second I was scared I wasn't going to be able to get Nick safely away from the situation before he hurt his brother or himself but I did and after a supervised cool down period it was time to head back outside before the storm came. It always amazes me how forgiving Parker is with Nick. Trust me, the boy can hold a grudge but the turn around time for playing again is utterly unbelievable to me. I can't begin to understand how Nick's constant companion affects him. I was glad it started to rain so they didn't know I was crying watching them chase each other with bubbles.

 step one of the foot bath

 step two...he even picked fresh flower petals

the spa snack

bubble wars

the new seating arrangement

the puppy sundae