Ethan's graduation

So I looked this morning to see what Ethan had to bring for show and tell and discovered Ethan was the show and tell; it was his kindergarten program!!!  Well, I'm sorry to all those that were not invited due to short notice (spencer)
It was so cute they sang songs and had a video where they had interviewed each kid, asking them a different question.  Ethan's question was ... if you could buy anything what would you buy?  Ethan: "um... think think think ... um ... think think think ... a big house! -- I guess we've talked too much about getting a bigger house one day.  The audience thought his answer was hilarious:)
so after the program we had to put our chairs away.  I wanted to get a picture of Ethan and his best friend Brandon so I turned around and took one of them together.  When I turned back around Ellie (who I was asked to keep an eye on) and Mason were missing.  so, when Lori got back we started our search for them and couldn't find them anywhere!!  finally we found both of them sitting on the stairs in front of the school oblivious that they were "lost"
Ethan had a really amazing kindergarten experience.  His teacher Mrs. Carr was really structured and focused and was able to have Ethan reading really well a couple months into school.  She taught them lots of poems and songs and did a bunch of math with them.  She was really amazing!!
Ethan got a time out like the 2nd month of school for talking out of turn and I believe this made him extremely shy for the rest of the year :-( He told me a couple weeks ago that all the kids went and looked out the window at a bird, but Teacher had said to stay in their seats and so Ethan was the only one who stayed in his seat because he didn't want to get in trouble.  I find that story a little sad, but everything else this year has been really really positive.

This is Brandon ... Ethan plays with him every day at recess

This is where we found Ellie and Mason:) after 15 minutes of looking

Ethan's seat in school

Ethan and Mrs. Carr

Everyone say cheese ... thank you Mason for listening to me:)

Zachary, please sit down!!

more funnies

our kids had had so many chicken nuggets that I was thinking of something they might eat besides nuggets, well, I decided that they all liked corn dogs and that we should find an artic circle and buy some.  so ... spencer, after telling me that california didn't have arctic circles used our phones navigation and it said there was an arctic circle about 20 minutes away.  Well, we had some time to kill before our flight so we decided to find it.  After about 30-40 minutes of driving spencer told me to turn right onto ... he paused .. I hear an "oh no" then he said ... "turn right onto arctic circle drive"  it was really too funny for words.
at the airport we were trying to board our flight and my kids were being a little crazy so I told them to come stand right here and behave.  Ethan immediately broke down into tears and told me I wasn't being nice to him while Mason came and stood in front of me and said "look mommy, I am being haved"  everyone around us thought that was really cute and funny:)

just some funnies

thought I'd write these down before I forgot them:)
Ethan: "Grandma, the waves weren't very big tonight because the sharks were eating them"
Spencer: telling everyone to turn on Jawbone drive, his upside down reading is not what it used to be ... it was Jamboree
Spencer - parking the stroller and forgetting to get the baby out of it in his haste to make it to the ride before the pirate ship left (luckily my parents were walking behind him, so the baby wasn't alone for too long)
Mason: lost his alligator in the hot tub, luckily spencer went to the catch basin and opened up the white vent and pulled it out
Mason: telling us after every single ride that he wanted to ride on it again

do mannequins have "nethers"? yes they do

We were shopping for easter outfits (me and my 3 kids) and I look over and Ethan is trying to pull the pants off a male mannequin.  when I asked him what he was doing ... he replied "I just want to see if he has nethers"  to this I said ... "it's a mannequin, they don't ... stop trying to undress him" 
Later that night ...
I went back to old navy because I had decided to purchase the shorts I had been looking at for Spencer, but when I got there the only one in his size was on the mannequin so i asked if I could buy the ones off the mannequin.  Old navy was AWESOME and came and undressed the mannequin in front of me, well, I had to go back and tell Ethan that mannequins do in fact have "nethers"!!  made me blush

Weekly weigh-in

Last week I only lost 2 lbs (I know they say that's healthy, but I was not happy with a 2 lbs loss after losing 10 the week before)  this week I was able to lose 4 so I am down a total of 16lbs in 3 wks (thanks week 1)

I'm still 5 lbs away from the weight I started dieting 6 months ago with, but what do you do.

I will say that I'm really enjoying my work outs ... I do those burst speed things where I'll walk at say a 3.4, but anytime my heart rate drops to say 151 I crank it up to a 5.3 and run for a minute, which quickly takes my heart rate up to about 170 then I get to walk for another few minutes until I repeat the process.  It's actually kind of fun

The last time I lost 60 lbs before getting pregnant with Zach I basically did it with no exercise, so this time I'm hoping to do it a little differently

3 weeks down only 7 more to go until my first goal ... my brother in law's wedding.  I hope to be able to lose another 20 lbs before the wedding.  and then in the 3 wks following I'd like to lose 10 more lbs before my 10 year anniversary and then another 15 lbs before my August 10k. which would put me right close to my goal weight ... so what is that ... 45 more lbs to go for a total of 61lbs 
61 seems like a lot, but 45 more doesn't seem so bad.

looking back

I was just organizing some photos and decided to revisit a few of my favorites and test my since found knowledge of photoshop to enhance them a little ... My you were a cute BABY !! (if i must say so myself)  I really wish I would have known a little more about photography then!!
How can a baby with such blue eyes now have hazel eyes instead??  sigh ...

ZACHARY ... NO ... NO!!

I honestly didn't think there was anything more disgusting than a baby that would not stop playing in the toilet water.  I swear he has a unique sense that tells him when someone has left the toilet seat up, or maybe it's just that he checks it all day long to see.  Well, today it was worse ... a lot worse.  I found Zach playing in Mason's training potty that I had forgotten to empty!!!!!!!  GROSS