The Lizard

Nicholas and Sebastien found a lizard on the porch today. This would have been a normal occurance except for the fact that they decided to pick it up by it's tail and let it's huge body dangle in the wind. As they passed it back and forth, oh yes, Nicholas was part of this passing back and forth to my complete shock, the boy who hates all creatures, a small part of the tail breaks off in Nicholas' fingers and the lizard flops to the ground with a horrible thud noise. Nicholas begins to scream and flings the tail while Sebastien grabs the lizard by what is left of the tail and continues to inspect it. I think we know which child has a father who loves snakes!

Snergle

Nicholas loves swimming and has to wear goggles this year. I bought him a snorkel to use and every time he asks me to help him put it on he says, "Mom, can you put my snergle on me?" It just cracks me up every time I hear it! I keep trying to get him to say snorkel but it just comes out snergle no matter what!

Bugs

It's that time of year when those love bugs come out to torture us. And I do mean torture. If one so much as goes near Nicholas, there is screaming, yelling, and running. His teacher even mentioned how much he hated the love bugs out on the playground. Then when one made the horrible mistake of flying into our car, there was crying, screeching, and I thought he was going to try and jump out his window. He was so scared of this harmless flying love bug that I had to pull over and get it out of the car. He wanted to get out of the car and wait beside it while I worked on getting the bug out. I made him stay in his seat and listened to more screaming and crying before I could get it out. I can't wait until the love bugs are gone again!

A Very Special Mother's Day

Although this was our first with just me and the boys, I couldn't have asked for a better day. I enjoyed with Muffins with Mom, which was special all in itself, plus there were other surprises in store for me. Jason took Nicholas to Joanne's and they bought me a few scrapbooking items which Nicholas picked out. My terrific friend Rhonda bought chocolate covered pretzels from our new chocolate store for me from the boys. (I do suspect, however, that she may have been trying to sabotage my Weight Watchers diet.) Then my baby brother sent a beautiful flower arrangement from him and the boys. What a great brother I have! Belated Happy Mother's Day everyone, then again, shouldn't EVERY day be Mother's Day??

Muffins with Mom

Today was Muffins with Mom at Nicholas' school. He brought my muffin and juice to me at our table and didn't spill! Then he went to get some for himself. We ate together while he talked to the other kids and gave them high fives. The his teacher, Mrs. Hight had all the kids stand up and sing us songs. She played a "Guess the Mom" game where the kids described their moms, she read what they said, and then gave us a picture with the information on it. It was so cute! Nicholas thinks I am only four years old and that I am the most beautiful in the morning. Then he gave me a flowers made out of handprints all wrapped up like a bouquet. It was the most special day!

Spike

Nicholas had his haircut today and he wanted it spiked like Steven, Conner, and Josh have theirs. So she cut it super short and put gel in it to spike it up. Then we had to go to CVS to buy gel for his hair so we can spike it every morning. Sometimes I can't believe he's only four!