Meet the newest member of the National Elementary Honors Society

Kylie was inducted into the NEHS the other day. 

She was kind enough to allow me what she calls "the obligatory fake smile picture". Such a smarty pants.

Happy Valentines Day

Happy Valentines Day everyone! I hope all of you have a wonderful day filled with love, laughter and happiness.

Jumping on the cakepop bandwagon

The other day I finally got around to using the cake pop pans my mother in law bought me for Christmas. Sophie's teacher has a different parent send a special snack on Fridays and last week it was my turn. Since she decreed that the kids were not to have any sweets for Valentines day I was bad and sent sweets for snack. Cause,  you know I'm a rebel like that.

 I have to admit that while they were kind of fun I think I'm probably going to stick with cupcakes from now on.

Monday

You know it's Monday when......

• Your six year old refuses to eat her breakfast because "I've been eating the same stuff for a year now and I'm tired of it."
• You check your email and find that half of them are from AARP.
• You're riding your bike and your neighbor flies out of their driveway without looking behind them and you nearly kill yourself trying to brake and get out of the way.
• You spend a couple hundred dollars on groceries over the weekend, yet when you open the fridge you realize you're completely out of milk.
• You open the laundry room door and the pile of laundry is taller than you are.
• You open your childs backpack only to find two library books that were supposed to be read over the weekend. 
• You step on the scale and realize you've managed to gain a pound over the weekend. (yes, I broke down and finally bought a scale)
• You realize that your neighbors dog is still using your front yard as it's own personal bathroom

Success

 After months of practice it finally happened. 

Who knows? Maybe she'll get to be in that video after all.

The marriage thing

This weekend my husband and I had a fight. I'm sure you're thinking 'big deal, all husbands and wives fight', but for me it kind of is a big deal. We've been married for twelve years now and I can probably count on one hand the number of times we've had a fight. Oh, and just to clarify, by fight I mean argument. Nothing physical. It was kind of a dumb argument in retrospect, but at the time it didn't feel like it. 

As most of you know the past several months I've been watching what I eat and exercising regularly so I can get in shape. Well my husband has been doing the same thing to an extent. For him it's mostly been cutting back on what he eats, he rarely exercises. Apparently he's lost a few pounds and guess what? I didn't notice. Basically he fussed at me because I don't pay him enough attention and I got mad because he was being mean. I know, we sound like a couple of two year olds right?  
Afterwards I was thinking about it and came to the conclusion that umm, he's probably right. When it comes to my kids I notice everything. If they get a bruise or scratch I notice. If they come home from school with a stain on their shirt or with their hair messed up I notice. If they don't eat all of their breakfast I notice. However with my husband unless it's a huge thing I don't notice. I kind of want to blame it on being a mom and just not having the time or attention span after dealing with my kids, but really for me that's a cop out. I'm just being lazy.
So I'm going to try to make more of an effort to be attentive. Because when you think about it if I don't pay attention to him then he could always turn around and do the same thing to me and I definitely don't want that.  Do any of you have this same issue? If so how have you dealt with it?

Star infatuation

About a year or so ago I bought the girls this little boy doll from the North American Bear company. They were all three delighted because up until this point they had never had a boy doll. They named him Jack. Cute, isn't he?

 Whenever they are playing dolls it never fails Jack is the mischievous one that everything gets blamed on.  

Which brings me to today's post. Last year when the song "On the Floor" by Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull came out Sophie fell in love. She sang the song constantly and even told me that she couldn't wait to start kindergarten because she wanted to make friends with a boy so he could sing Pitbull's part of the song. Can you just imagine the eye rolling I'm doing here? I thought her 'love' would be short lived but as usual I was wrong. We were in Target once and she started yelling, "Mom, look it's Pitbull!" Naturally everyone started staring at us, but yet she insisted that he was in our Target and she would prove it to me by showing him to me. Oookkkaaayyy. So we walk around the corner and there he is. The man that was most definitely NOT Pitbull. She saw him and said, "There he...oh, wait that's not him." I then explained to her that not all bald, dark complected men were Pitbull which in turn got me an eye roll and a big 'duh'. Then a few weeks ago the girls were dancing and Sophie did a handstand while leaning against the bed and spun herself around. She was so proud of herself and said, "Look mom, this is so cool. When I grow up I'm gonna be in a Pitbull video." What can I say? The girls got big dreams. 

I haven't heard much talk about her fantasy boyfriend lately so I thought maybe she had moved on. Until last night. I was reading to the girls at bedtime when I noticed that Jack was in the doll crib smack in the middle of all the other dolls. I asked Sophie what the deal was and her response. "Oh, that's Jack-bull and all his girlfriends."

If this is what age six is like I am really scared to see what the teenage years are going to be like.