4 bears in the bed and the little one said?

Eric took this picture and I didn't find it until I uploaded the pictures on our computer. I love that he thinks to do things like this. Probably a few moments before he managed to fit in our bed too.!? I love how I am just barely on the edge of the bed. Can anyone else relate?

Mother's Day Breakfast!

I am so fortunate and smart to have married such an amazing person and I think we made amazing offspring!

Dr. visit

So, I recently had the regular dr. visit from hell! So, May is dr. visit month. Jaynee and my birthday is this month and why wait all the way until July to take Lana. So, I am getting ready to pay my co-pay and Lana announces to everyone in the waiting room that Jaynee peed! Yikes! Jaynee at this point has been in panties for about a month. What am I doing without a change of clothes? It turns out it wasn't just pee, lucky me! (I know it rhymes) And then Lana with another announcement lets the lobby know "mom, I have to poop!" Lana and Jaynee's bowels must be on the same schedule. So, the nurse gets me a diaper with Elmo and trains on it that Jaynee doesn't want to wear. I convince Jaynee to wear it. During all that Lana is harassing me that she is finished and come wipe my butt already! So, now I have my white trash baby with just a diaper, t-shirt. We finally see the Dr. and he checks for monkeys in our ears. No monkeys, but Lana has bead in her ear. Good thing I took her in May vs. July. I have no clue how long that thing has been in there?! He try's to get it out and can't, so now we have to go see a specialist. Thankfully Jaynee doesn't need shots but Lana does. Talk about DRAMA! I am trying to convince her that she needs to hold still because it will hurt less. What does mom know? I had to pin her between my legs and hold her down and oh the tears. Two shots so of course two nurses. Then fast forward a week later and Lana has her ear specialist appointment. The dr. took one look in her ear and said she is going to need to be sedated and that he would schedule her at the hospital on his surgery day. So, now we get to go back to the hospital tommorrow. Thanks goodness we go to see the dr. only once a year for our check ups!!!!!!

The Princess and the Frog

Just went to see the new Disney movie, "The Princess and the Frog". It was charming and funny. My girls loved it. We got to go with Grandma Brook, Great Aunt Mary, Aunt Erin, Aunt Emily, Lauren, Elaine and Collin. We went to Olive Garden afterwards. Overall we had a delightful time. Yet, it is funny how the littlest things set your kids off. Lana wanted to drink out of the wine glasses on the tables, which is not allowed. They are not allowed to serve and non-alcoholic drink in an alcoholic glass which is hard to explain to a four year old. Anywho, that put her in a crabby mood for a little while and it wasn't until I took her outside and asked her why she was upset that I even realized it was about the glass in the first place. Jaynee spilled her chocolate milk and Aunt Erin spilled her adult beverage. But one short walk, and two drink spills later things got back on track and we had a fabulous time.
Kids really do say the funniest things. Well maybe they wouldn't be so funny it is just that a four year old is saying them that makes them hysterical. Lana was in her car seat in the back of Grandma's, old but in great condition Toyota, mini van and we hear "Fire in the hole!" We all started to giggle and grandma made some comment about she must have learned that from her father and someone else made a comment about it might stink in a minute. We were all laughing. What a nut!

Keeping up?

How do some people do it? I have a really hard time keeping up with the blog. I even feel guilty that it is not up to speed. Oh well, do your best and forget the rest! It feels like an over whelming task to talk about everything we have been doing and bring things up to speed on what we have been doing. So, I will start from today and we will see where we get. I make no posting promises. I just finished my second master's class, I am still working at the Olive Garden. Eric is doing amazing at work. Lana is in preschool and Jaynee is working on potty training. We are so excited around here for all the holidays. This year is especially special. We are going to Disneyland on the 20th of December and coming home on Christmas eve. Having kids at Christmas is amazing. They make me feel like a kid again. We are going also to go see the new Disney "Princess and the Frog" movie and I hope is as good as the "Little Mermaid", "Beauty and the Beast" group of films. Here's to keeping up!

I have been out of touch

Well a lot has happened since my last post. hope to bring things up to speed in the next few weeks.

Happy early birthday to me:)

So Eric was so excited about the laptop that he got me for my birthday that he gave it to me early and I am currently laying in my bed on the internet!!!! I love technology!!! I was working part time teaching this past year and was one of the many teachers that lost their jobs. I hope I will get to stay part time for next year but we will just have to see how budget issues end up next year. I had to laugh. We had an end of the year luncheon with all the teachers and support staff. About 5 teachers and maybe 3-5 support staff people will not be coming back next year as of the day of the luncheon give or take a few. So this is what is so comical about the teaching professions. Most jobs where you get laid off you get severance. Well my severance package was a $10 gift card to chipote!! WoW! Don't get me wrong I love to teach and was greatful to get to work and hope to work next year, but WOW, really? Seriously? Seriously? Good luck to all the unemployed teachers and support staff surviving on that one.