Rock Me Gently...Or Not

Pictures

What to do when your boy wants to wear a tuxedo to dinner but spending the money on a full-out tux doesn't make much sense?

Go with the Tuexedo T-Shirt!

Thanks, Hubby, for the great idea!!

Happy Boy

The Mama and The Daddy....

Practicing the art of relaxation...

Hanging out together on a windy, drizzly night in the middle of the ocean...

being awfully silly together!

Poser

I ask for a smile, but this day, he was all about the

pose!

"Here Mom. Take my picture like this!"

:)

Pretzel Glasses

I love how everything can become something else :)

Please, Tooth Fairy, For The Love of Pete....

Please come snatch this snaggle tooth from my son's mouth....

Because I don't know how much longer I can handle the

Dangly-Tooth-That-Can-Stick-Out-Of-His-Mouth!!!

Please help!

Lost Post...

Going through old posts and look what I found...pictures from our cruise at the beginning of December. Oops!

Daddy & Reese with Reese's special frog Clark Griswold.

We picked up Pirate Reese from Camp Carnival one night...

Karate chopping on the top deck...

Reese knows how to take it easy...

Mommy made a silly-face breakfast one morning & Reese wanted his picture taken with it...

Muffin eyes, Cheerio-freckles, & a banana smile!

Christmas Cookie Time

Once a year, at Christmas, we go all-out with our cookie decorating! Mommy & whatever kids are home help me roll the sugar cookie dough & cut out our cookie shapes. After we bake them, Mommy makes special Royal Icing and colors them & puts the icings into piping bags.

This year, it was Reese, Daddy, Grammie, & I that did the cookie decorating & we had great fun. It was the first time Grammie had decorated cookies...can you believe it?

Reese chose the blue icing which had a small tip & it was kind of hard to squeeze out...

Here, Reese is working on Sant's special cookie...

The finished cookie was a tad...red....and Santa was very thankful Reese made such a special cookie with lots of icing & sprinkles of every variety!
We set a special table for Santa with his cookies & a plate full of carrots for the reindeer...

Fun at the Sci Tech Discovery Center

We're always up for a good Children's Museum, and the SciTech Discovery Center fit the bill recently! On display was the travelling exhibit "Grossology". Pretty much anything you never knew you wanted to know about your body.

How 'bout a pinball game where you get points when you hit the foods that cause gas?

Potatoes anyone?

The rectum & a pile of poo? Funny stuff!
Take my picture Mom!

Yes, you could even *smell* the anus at a smelling station...

but I passed on that one.

*har har...pun...har har*

This is the smelling station, and this little number is what almost made me throw up...


The smell? It was "FEET". GROSS.

Here, my dear boy is climbing the wall of skin with all its imperfections...
warts, hairs, zits, moles...
Reach for the scabies honey!

Reese, posing as a booger, in the huge nose...

We learned the difference between a booger & snot.

Wanna know?

According to the museum man, a booger is what you can flick, & a snot is the goopy stuff.

Now you know.


They even had a life-sized Operation Game.

Luckily, my friend Holly knows about organs, because I told Reese the lungs were the liver.

Thanks for setting me straight Holly...

Random Pictures From The Past Few Weeks :)

Working hard at homeschool....
Family picture, Thanksgiving 2009

Jessie, Reese, & Austen, Thanksgiving 2009

Brothers!!

The Christmas tree is decorated & we're excited about Christmas!

When You Find Just The Right Souvenir

Uh, yea.

$9 later.

The perfect souvenir from Mexico!

Never Underestimate The Importance Of Creature Comforts

I'm just glad I made the list this time...

I Don't Even Ask Anymore...

Some days, doing school in your boxers is just what you feel like...
But I won't ask why they're pulled up to your neck!

Is There A Groucho Marx In The Room?

The Bucket List

Have a great day!

Reason #23 I'm Glad We Homeschool

Today, during 1st grade Math, we were working on word problems.

The very first problem of the day was about balls...

And the conversation went something like this:

REESE: "What kind of balls can I draw? Any kind?"

MOMMY: "Yes, you can draw any kind."

REESE: "So I can draw testicle balls?"

Perhaps this would have been his first visit to the Principal's office today! Instead, we had a silly laugh and he decided to draw tennis balls. That boy...I tell you what....sometimes he's a walking one man comedy show...

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**Sorry for the really bad picture...my cell phone doesn't quite understand focus!**

Of Turtles & Geese....

Two funny comments, made my Reese, this week during our science studies....

When talking about migration, we were reading about loggerhead sea turtles. There was a cute picture of a turtle laying eggs in the sand, and Reese turns to me and says:

"Why do turtles lay eggs but you lay babies?"

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As we continued our discussion & reading about migration, we found a picture of geese in our science book. Reese & I love to watch the geese fly over our house, and since he's been little I've pointed out the "V" shape.

Our science book had a great picture of geese flying, and explained with drawings about how the air from the front goose's wings spiraled up and gave the geese behind him a lift, and the 2nd geese's wings made the air spiral up to the goose behind him, and so on.

It was a great illustration & I thought it made a great point.

So in our Question & Answer section, when I asked Reese why geese fly in a "V" shape, he replied:

"To make words for people who look at them."

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Of course, we went back over the real reasons, but Reese just cracks me up every day with some silly thing that comes out of his mouth.

We are now on week #4 of our 1st grade year. I keep meaning to detail our curriculum here but have yet to get that done. It has been a very productive 4 weeks, with a few bumps along the way. But it's exciting to work together, as a family, to get over our little bumps and move forward. I feel so blessed to have our family at home working together!!

How's It Hanging?

He has now progressed to shimmying up the doorway, and lifting up his feet so he's suspending himself by his hands. Strong boy! He thinks he's so funny going up so high :)

Concentrate....Concentrate

My boy is exactly like his Daddy...

When he's focused on a task...

Out comes the tongue!
Exactly, exactly...just like Daddy :)

One Week Down...

First Day of School, 2009

We've worked hard this week...

One week down, 31 to go!!

My Child, With Balls Of Steel That Throw Sparks When He Walks...

Every Carnival Cruise trip, the kids' club has a talent show. This year, Reese didn't want Mommy to help him at all to decide exactly what he wanted to do. I offered lots of suggestions but he kept saying no & that he would figure it out.

So I had absolutely NO idea what we were going to see, other than he had told me he would be "Square Dancing". Mind you, he had one morning to prepare his dance, so I wondered how a bunch of 6-8 year olds were going to learn a square dance.

So when we arrive at Stripes Disco for the Talent Show, we see Reese's little friend Noah in his TawKwonDo uniform, and another little girl dressed in a jazz outfit (complete with dance shoes) and holding a CD of her music.

These kids came prepared?

Whatever...Reese has no fear.

So Noah does some great routine to music. The Jazz Girl danced a cute dance to her CD. Then it's Reese's turn.

When the counselor asks Reese if he is going to dance, his reply? "Probably not."

But he did dance, and Lord help him, that boy has guts!


Afterwards, I asked him where he learned such a great dance called the Square Dance. Turns out, he was playing the video game Dance Dance Revolution in his head while the music played.

He picked the music himself. He shut his eyes so he could "see the game and not the people."

And he wouldn't have stopped unless I shut the camera off and told the counselors (quietly) that he would keep dancing until they stopped the music! :)

He said he was so nervous, but we were so proud of him. As Hubby said to me, "It takes balls to get out there with NO plan!" The other kids had memorized routines, but Reese just went with his heart and danced for the room full of kids & parents!

I'm trying to convince him to sing the Star Spangled Banner for the next cruise, but he isn't keen on my idea. Oh well!