one scoop or two?

it's warming up and kids are starting to smell ripe...time for that health class and the lesson on: EVERYONE NEEDS TO START USING DEODORANT! (whether you think you stink or not!)

and after school i had to stop and get some produce for my green smoothies...wow, is produce getting expensive, or what? i also had to go to petsmart for some fun things for the dogs (as i think about the next couple of weeks).

bruno is a tug-o-war dog...and he especially likes this one because while chaco is standing on one loop and grasping the other and growling, bruno can get the third without getting nipped at by little. (that's not poop behind bruno, they're chew toys, promise).

this one was really important. i've explained that the boys use a potty pad, so it really hurts to bend down, now i have a great little scooper! good thing they're always solids! the great thing about getting this is that it doubles as an impromptu support.

chaco looked at the scooper when i came in and said, "mama, why did you get a shovel? it doesn't even snow here!" i believe that half of the time, he doesn't even know what he is saying, he's like i was when i was little. just likes to talk-afraid of silence.

i am not really looking forward to my drive up to oklahoma on thursday, but i am looking forward to the wedding and seeing some dearly loved friends! we decided to stay in a hotel so that we could come and go and not be a hassle-pups! we're looking forward to romping with reagan and thatcher-chaco adores them. bruno acts like he doesn't care, but i know he does. and i am also looking forward to being a patron at a little mexican/peruvian restaurant tucked out of the way-i hear they have great paella (which i haven't had a great one in awhile, and gigi left before her mom could whip us up a batch!)

goodnight!
julie

field day is overrated

field day is over. God is good because it was overcast and slightly breezy much of the time. no one got hurt and no one got their feelings hurt (i don't think my kids really cared one way or the other). in fact, most of the kids just wanted to chase each other around and go over to buy snacks...so i propose that next year instead of field day we just have snack day with freeze tag.

i told the boys that today was field day at school. when i explained what it was, bruno wanted to play tug-o-war.

chaco, on the other hand, was going around the room with a sharpie asking everyone to sign his shirt. and when i say everyone, i mean me. "chaco, you don't even have a shirt on." "so, you're not going to sign? mama! at least pretend to sign so that if the neighbors are looking from across the way they'll think i'm cool." "little love, they are never going to think you're cool...just cute. put the marker away."

yes, sometimes chaco's name is little love and bruno's (immediately following so he doesn't get jealous) is big love-
...well, i just realized when i said it the other day that it makes bruno sound like he's married to many women and has fathered many children...and leads a cult. none of which is true. perhaps i'll have to change that. (the nickname, not the cult part)

so glad today is over-i do not find field day fun. not in the slightest.
julie