Auntie Anna....

Cody wants a camping themed cake......

Here is Matthews cake that my SIL made for M's sniper bday party. Awesome Huh!


♥Lisa♥

Cody eating Frog Legs

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OshKosh B'gosh

Today I was folding clothes and when I got to a pair of Cody's jeans I was kinda bummed because the pants still fit him good, but one of the knees was ripped/worn pretty good. We bought them back in August, but has really only worn them during winter. So I ended up wondering if Oshkosh replaces jeans that wear out before your kids out grow them. (I know Sears does that, i think they are still doing that. It's with a certain brand at Sears) But my kids always outgrow before out wearing their jeans, except this time. I looked on their site and couldn't find anything so I emailed Oshkosh asking and they emailed me back :).

Hi Lisa,

Thank you for contacting OshKosh B'gosh. We don't have a policy for returning garments that are worn out before your child has outgrown them. However, if you would like, I will be happy to replace them in the same size for you. Please reply with your mailing address & I will send you a postage paid envelope to return the jeans to us in. Once I receive the jeans from you, I will mail the replacments to you. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Sue
Consumer Affairs

I thought that was super kind of them because they don't have a policy for replacing clothing, but they are going to anyway. There are only a couple of clothing brands you can not go wrong with and Oshkosh b'gosh is one of them. (Carter's bought OshKosh, Carter's is also a great brand)

♥Lisa♥

My kids at the skate park

and thankfully no one else was there. This is obviously not their sport. Matthew took all his gear off except his helmet and we couldn't find one of K's knee pads. We have learned for our kids that skateboarding at the park is a Fall, Winter, and Spring sport, not Summer. They did have 'fun' and they learned about having quick reflexes.


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Teacher Gifts

This is what we did for the end of the year teacher gifts.

Kaitlen made Mrs. P a necklace, I helped.

Cody made Mrs. O a magnet.

on a scrabble tile.

Matthew has 5 teachers, yes 5. Matthew did the bottle cap one and I did the rest. I still have to string them, but his last day of school is Tues, so I have time.

With 7 teachers to buy for I have to go cheap. These were pretty cheap to make.


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The Surprise was.....

On my Sunday Spotlight i said I had a surprise and you'd have to wait to see what it is. Well, I planned on buying and giving a tile necklace pendant to who ever was comment #4. Here is the message I sent Cool Harmonie.
Well, Tina was comment #4 and with that being kinda weird I wrote down numbers 1-4 on pieces of paper and since Cody was home sick today I had him draw the number..... and he drew #4..... seriously, not kidding here. lol

I was so thrown off that he picked #4 I forgot to have him show it to you. I guess it's meant to be comment #4.

Congrats Tina!

♥Lisa♥

Great deal

I mentioned earlier that our cake maker is moving to New Zealand. She is having a garage sale and I stopped by. Just about everything was marked 25cents. So i got about 10 cake/cupcake pans and this hanging organizer. I have been wanting to get something for the kids school clothes. Every night i set out their clothes and with this i can get it ready for the whole week. tops, bottoms, underwear and socks. very cool. I can also hang Kaitlen's dresses.

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Way. To. Cool.

Ok, I saw @mckmama tweet about Arnold Schwarzenegger, @schwarzenegger, and thought it was pretty cool that he has a twitter account. When Cody saw his tweet page he got excited to see the Terminator! and stated that he wants to move back to Ca so that Schwarzenegger could be his Governor. Sooooooooo, when Cody went off to bed i sent Mr. Arnold a tweet with what Cody said.

It seriously NEVER crossed my mind that he'd tweet back!!! i came to check out my emails and there it was!!

and here is what he said. Tina said he probably sends that to everyone, but I don't care! He spent the time to send it is what is cool.

So After Codys Medical career (remember) and he becomes Gov of Arkansas, he will have this tweet, lol. Now I need to get something from a President so he has something for when he is President of the USofA.



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Aspergers

A little info on it.

It's to late to test Cody for this school year, but they will have everything lined up for Cody to be tested the first week of 4th grade. Cody has a lot of the symptoms to varying degrees. Ok, I've sat here for like 10 minutes trying to figure out how to explain Cody's symptoms to you but it's near impossible because it's "Cody" We have known for a while that something was wrong with Cody. (I don't like to use the word wrong, but you know what I mean) For a while we were heading down the ADD road, which I didn't mind but i felt there was something just a tad more than that. But I didn't know what it was. It wasn't until Cody left for his field trip to the quartz mine and I spent 40 minutes talking to another mom after the bus left and she was telling me about all the quirks with her son and I swear after everything she said i would say, "Cody too" at the end of it all she told me he had been diagnosed with Aspergers. I had heard of it, but had no idea what it was. So i looked it up and it would explain a lot if that's what he's got going on. That's where we are at right now. I'll update as we go further into this.
I'm not upset that he possibly has this. Sometimes just having an Dx and info to go with it is a relief. I wouldn't change Cody for who he is, what fun would that be, but i want to be able to help him in the areas that he needs it to get through life.

♥Lisa♥

Cody

After 2 hours of playing at the baseball field during K's game.

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The Weekend

I figured I'd throw all the pics into one post.

Playing with their Peeps!

Saturday we went to Mt View to leave flowers for Bens mom. The kids got to pick out the flowers and Cody brought a plastic Easter egg to leave at her grave. After we left the cemetary we went to a gun show they had going on their. Matthew was in heaven!!!! and Code was very interested in the antique pistols. Then of course Abbie was freaking because there was people all over the place.

After we left the gun show we met up with Uncle Lani and Auntie Anna for lunch. The kids always love getting together.

Here is Kaitlen and Emily.

The twins, William and William.

My Matthew is actually William Matthew John and William is William Jacob.

They look so much alike. They even have the same lumps on their skulls. The only thing is their color. Matthew is as white as white can get. He's my white boy and Willy has tan skin like Kaitlen and Emily. Poor Matthew and Cody, they didn't get any of the Filipino skin color.

ok, neither did Abbie, LOL. but Abbie has a lot of red hair. It's hard to capture in a pic though.
Coloring eggs..... yeahhhhhhhh.

Cody is my eddie munster. He has a widows peak. :)
ok. She kept trying and trying to drink the coloring. So i let her to put an end to it.

Easter Day
ok, I know. I didn't make their dresses.

Abbie is wearing Kaitlens dress from 4 years ago.

I actually still have those shoes in my closet :) and Matthew wears that shirt that Cody has on, lol.

Hope you all had a great weekend!!

oh, the boys and their Easter clothes? Well, I cut their hair and told them to shower and finish getting dressed and they never finished......... and we weren't going anywhere so i didn't press the issue.

Sunset

and Cody was Baptized 9 years ago today.

need your input

Ok, you know how Cody was sick on Spring Break. That Saturday he seemed much better and we went to the Museum and then Sunday night he had a fever and was down and out again so we kept him home on Monday and he went back to school on Tues. So tues, he gets home goes straight to bed and sleeps through dinner and eventually gets up, eats and goes back to bed. He does this on Wed and Thurs too. So i told myself if he goes into my bed on Friday I'll take him to the Dr. Well, he fell asleep in the car on the way home from school and instead of going to my bed he layed on the couch and watched tv. So i didn't take him. Our weekend was lazy, he didn't have to do anything and we did nothing. So today he goes to school, comes home, goes to my bed and goes to sleep. SOOOO, do i take him to the Dr. Can he possibly still be getting over the bug. Ben even suggested a growth spurt. So, IDK. Once we took him to the Dr for a persistant cough and it turned out he had a bad sinus infection. So, that makes me wonder if there is something hiding in there making him tired and we don't know.

Oh, Cody's question of the day....
Use a word to describe the flavor of an onion.

Cody's question of the day

Cody: What's the smallest amount of water?

Me: Vapor??

Cody: I mean, What's the smallest body of water?

Me: a puddle?

This kind of stuff goes on all day and night.......

Do cows lose their teeth? Maybe we should check on cowpedia........

Today

My kids are much better today so Ben and i are going to take them to the museum. Cody has informed me that we get to see a really, really, really, really old TV, you know, the kind you have to get up and CHANGE the channel.
Um Cody, they are not THAT old!!! dang! We had one growing up.

Oh, have to share part of my dream. I was dreaming there was a bird chewing on one of those beak things to keep their beak filed. In my dream someone said open your eyes and look at the bird and I actually opened my eyes and it was Matthew grinding his teeth in his sleep, LOL. I laughed and went back to sleep.

Update on the sickies

Kaitlen is MUCH much better! She is now fever free and back to normal. Cody is still down and out, but fairing it well. Last night at 9:30 pm he came into the kitchen and asked why it was so dark ( i thought, oh no, something is wrong with his eyes.) I ask him what does he mean. He says, why is it so dark outside?? LOL, the poor kid slept all day and didn't realize it and felt it should be daylight out. I told him cause it's 9:30pm, lol. He went back to bed at 10pm. Abbie does good if I keep her fever down. Matthew- Hasn't got it yet and has been NONSTOP all week long. Literally running from on end of the house to the other and he has some heavy feet on him. Going across the wood floor is loud. I try to tell him to be quiet, but it doesn't work. So that's where we are at. Cody and Kaitlen go back to school on Monday, and we didn't do a thing for Spring Break.

And the Mom-of-the-Year award goes to....

ME!!!

Cody woke up with a fever and aches this morning and by the time Ben left for work this afternoon the Motrin had kicked in and I swear as soon as Ben left he became feisty and PITB. He was constantly hitting Matthew and causing fights so I sent Cody to the wall (like Timeout) to regroup and stuff. After a bit I decide I'm going to shower and then take them outside to release some energy.
See, I even emailed my friend with my plans for the afternoon, "ok, i will do that. Im gonna hop in the shower and then beat my kids, i mean take them outside to burn off energy ;)"
So, I head to warm up the shower and what do i see?? My sick kid, with the flu?? That i put in timeout/on the wall, asleep on the floor in the hall with his blanket.

Yeah, i felt bad, but dang he was being bad. He slept through when i took the others outside. Kaitlen just sat there, which was all I expected. She's still really sick. Abbie and Matthew ran like maniacs and cried when we had to go back in.

On-the-wall, That is my time out. I found the regular time out with my kids doesn't work. Facing the wall or corner still gives them to much visual stimulation and distraction SOOO they have to stand with their forehead to the wall. THEY HATE IT!! It works, lol.

So lesson learned today??? Don't send your sick bully kid to the wall- send them to bed.

Oh, I should add that Abbie and Matthew covered him in baby wipes but they are white so you can't really see them. I had moved the ones by his head. LOL.

He was thinking of an aglet...

that's what Cody said out loud, lol.

I said,"What's an AGLET???" (i'm thinking video game creature or something)
Smarty pants then says, " It's the end of a shoelace!! (duh) "
Me," yeah, i knew that"
Code,"well, then why did you ask?"
Me,"cause i was thinking of something else" LOL. I'm a loser!!!

WHO SPENDS THE TIME KNOWING WHAT THE PLASTIC THING ON THE END OF THE SHOELACE IS CALLED??!!

Don't tell me I'm the only one who didn't know. :s

Tell me...

Does this go on in your house??

I'm getting the dinner plates ready (yes Tina, putting every ones food on every ones plate, lol)

It goes something like this...

Ben: Everyone be quiet and listen..... then he rips a very loud fart

Cody: (without missing a beat) Can you say it again? I didn't hear you.

everyone laughs

WTH? This is in the kitchen, at dinner time.

Look how cool

Well, It's cool to me since I have never grown a garden or anything. The sunflowers are poking through and you can see the shell of the seed. I thought that was cool. Looks like the shell is eating the plant.

Then the corn plant, IDK if the plant pushed up one of the corn seeds or if it is doing the same thing as the sunflower plant.

Then here someone put two different types of plants.

Cody will be very excited when he sees this tomorrow.