Le Peep

Little E decided he would be our personal chef and make our eggs that morning.
How could I say no?





It begins at home, next sought out young Chef for the
President....you just never know.


Have a great weekend.

Night visit from the Ice Princess.

Woke up to Icy roads all over the DFW area.
Which meant no work and no school...yay..I think?

You can't see it too well but near my van is my daily paper waiting for me..I slid all the way there just for my daily read.


Iced over windows was our morning view during breakfast.
Hurry up sun and melt all this gunk away.
I've heard from pals that they would rather battle snow over black Ice, I would say for sure that I agree.
Though I've never driven in snow you can at least use chains on your tires but what can one use for slippery black ice??



On a different note Little E had a late therapy session yesterday.
It landed during Zenon's lunch time so we sat and ate with Z.
I have a few pics but he's with his classmate and I didn't want to post his buddies photo without his parents permission..though they were both awfully cute.



After his therapy session Mrs.Bauer, (E and Z's therapist) took him straight to the cafeteria to meet up with us. He quickly asked where his food was, so off went Nick to buy a tray of Mac and Cheese and some chocolate milk.
I had to take a pic....this will be E next year in Kindergarten. Wow already in school next year I can hardly believe it.

If your in the area careful there are still icy patches out there!

Perfect Day.

My little family woke up to a hearty breakfast of French toast and Turkey ham.
We ate, chitty-chatted and cleared up, worked a bit around the house and got ready for Carters birthday party.
After the party we came home and were 100% bums.
I did some semi-baking and indulged in my baked yummy since it was my cheat day and I didn't have to run that day either.
Dinner was a HUGE meal of Homemade Lasagna and Bruschetta.
And ended it with some together t.v. time.
Plus the boys got along EXTRA nicely as you can see below.



See ...no fighting like I wrote..."Perfect Day."

Coming full circle.

I can't remember when I felt so proud of our country.
As I watched our 44th president get sworn in I can say I felt TRULY proud.

I missed some of it sadly but I caught the rest.
I tried to get a wiggly E to watch with me....didn't happen.

Zenny watched in his class courtesy of his teacher and of course Internet.

Now I can truly look at my boys in the eye and tell them with hard work they can be ANYTHING they want to be...Even President of the United States.


In the Jan. 18,2009 Comic strip of B.C. they wrote this poem:

I Wonder if she knew, in fact,
waiting for the bus,
defiance of a single Act,
would cause such a fuss.
Could she have foreseen the Grace,
Boldly seated there, that hope and patience
might Embrace a Slightly larger chair.

(Rosa Parks and the Inauguration of our first Black President)

chitty chitty BANG BANG

We relaxed at the Lake house this weekend and the boys of course as always, loved it.
They swung on this old swing their daddy and Uncle Rock swung from as kids themselves.
Bet they too looked just as cute as these two do right now.



I kicked back on this log and read an article that has pumped me up to add some miles to my runs. I have been motivated to run 4 miles several times a week, oh boy wish me luck.
As I read Nick the lumber jack got the fire pit ready and grabbed him some wood.
His boys were having some s'mores that night.

Kicking back and trying to be cool...such hams.

Plenty of running action out there...PLENTY!

S'mores for everyone courtesy of Nick's hard labor.

Sun going down, so beautiful.

At the end of the day we went in, cleaned up, had dinner and watched Wall-E as we ate.

During the movie I SWEAR I heard two gunshots.

Nick claimed he heard nothing...we blew it off, maybe it was the movie....Gunshots in Wall-E??

Little E climbed on his dad and drifted off, Nick put on the Wii and Zenny bowled a way as Nick and I took to a friendly game of Trivial Pursuit.

Ahem, I was winning when we heard what sounded like several gunshots, it sounded like it was 2 houses down this time...no longer distant like I thought I heard earlier.

We sat there, totally frozen.

3-4-5-6-7...7 gunshots.

What do we do?

Stay?

Go?

Are we over reacting?

Okay, we're in a lake house with no land line and our phones are in a dead zone.

We packed our junk in like 2 minutes and hauled butt.

Yes, we think we over reacted.

Its kind of country and someone could of been shooting at a critter.

But it was well....odd.

If it were just the two of us, I think we would of braved it til morning.

But Oprah, you tell me to follow my mommy instincts and this instinct told me to go.

So we left.

Kiddos crying they don't want to go, daddy and mommy maneuvering in the pitch black of the night, and reassuring them we weren't going home that we were on our way to Mamaw's and Papaw's.

Sounds like Tonya too had a scare. http://mycookiesoup.blogspot.com/2009/01/its-been-girls-weekend.html

I don't know how you did it alone!?

On our drive home I suffered horrible reflux from the scare.

Tonya...your one brave momma!

"I spy"

Yesterday I was a teacher for the day, so Z's Kinder teacher could do her individual testing of her students.
During recess I sat in and helped her with things around the class while she continued testing.

I could hear the kids outside and decided to be a little spy and see how Zenon interacted with other children.

I couldn't see him for a long time and then like a flash of light there he was being chased in a game of tag.
All giggles,smiles and having a ball.
I quickly took out my good ol' camera (that I rarely leave home without )and took some pics from behind the blinds, praying no one would see the crazy mom in the act.

I felt so happy, happy to a point words can't really express.
I know I go on and on about how happy we are for Zenon's progress but wow! just an average kid playing tag!

How about that.

His teacher at Mother's Day Out back when he was three and diagnosed told me he would be okay.
Her exact words were "He's like Pandora's box, once he finds his words a whole new world will open up."
She may not know it but I hung to that, I had to.

And she was right, Pandora's box indeed did open and he's talking up a storm.
Both the boys are and we couldn't be happier.

Z (in black coat) contemplating on how to make his move.


On the run.


Kids with their short attention span quickly dropped their game of tag to check something out in the corner of the building....I think it was a bug the huddle was all boys.

Nick has become his dad.

Nick has this story.
When he was a child and was acting up or pretty much just being a big baby.
His dad would sing him a made up song....
Once upon a time there was a little baby...baby, baby.
Once upon a time there was a little baby and his name was...Nicccchhhoollaaaassss!
Nick said he HATED that song so much and would instantly stop misbehaving, but pout along the way.
Well the day has finally come.
The day where the roles have changed.

Zenon would not eat his dinner and was just playing with his food, so we got on to him.
He started whining up a storm and then Nick broke out in song.

Zenon looked so shocked to be sung to and to be called a baby to boot.
He got upset and told his dad, "Stop, I'm not a baby!", "Stop it, thats not funny."

When Zenon reacted that way I busted out laughing (coudn't help it), which in turn made him cry and made me melt.

I was sugary with him for the rest of dinner and he got to play Wii afterwards.
Playing Wii in his eyes I think was so worth having the song sung to him.


Playing a bit of golf before bathtime.

llanta!

Oh What a wonderful thing to wake up to when your already running late to take your little one to school.
Stupid Llanta!!
Thank goodness Nick was still home so I could take Zenny to work in Nick's work Jeep.
oohh those are some dirty rims...for shame.



On our evening walk while the boys tried to get a hang of their scooters the sky looked so amazing.
Zenon asked me to take a picture of it and later one of the moon.
He thought the moon was pretty neat, that and he's used to me taking pictures of EVERYTHING!

Though the day started off cruddy due to the tire, the day ended well.

Lovely weather that urged us to walk through the neighborhood and no major accidents with the scooters.....perfect.

Is it my Birthday????

I've been fighting a cold and Nick's been SUPER husband.
Seriously, how did I get so lucky?
He does all the morning work with the kids and demands I stay in bed.
Which is a hard job since I am so stubborn.
But I don't want this cold to get worse and decided to just listen and rest.
Though I was plagued with the situation on how was I going to sit still for this "RESTING" I was supposed to be doing.
Then I switch on the television and behold...back to back marathon of "Six Feet Under!"
Aside from having to make Little E lunch I sat ALL DAY LONG!
Then in the evening the premier of "Nip/Tuck!"
Which I didn't get to see since I was still feeling blah and fell asleep at like 8:00 p.m.
Ahhhh sick but tons of wonderfulness on the tube, a husband taking care of me....it seriously felt like my birthday.

Hello 2009, so nice to finally meet you.

Though we should be so happy to see a New Year, we were especially happy to see 2008 go.
You just have no idea!
After a short visit to Marc's birthday/New Years Eve party I set off to make Bunuelos for my fam and set up to welcome 2009.
When the clock struck midnight I was the luckiest gal around.
I didn't get a kiss from a guy I got kisses from three of them....how lucky am I?!

A toast to say "Good Riddance 2008."




Munchin on crunchy Cinnamony sweet Bunuelos.
After all this goodness we slept well into the afternoon the next day.
Just to get up and bribe the boys into a family nap.
Can't believe they went for it!!



With a new year ahead of us and the sun shining bright.
The boys and I decided to take advantage of the sunshine and play outside for a bit.
They are totally diggin their scooters...but I'm chewing my nails the whole time.




Z about to wipe out...chunked the camera to catch him!

They really enjoyed their Super extended evening out.

Why Super Extended?

Because I locked us out of the house and we had to wait for Nick to get home.

Sigh...

Thank goodness I hadn't picked up the morning paper at least I had something to read while I waited.