Happy Monday!

Happy Monday!  Or is it??  I think my family may be feeling the time change more today than yesterday.  At least their behavior indicates something is up!  I think I'll dedicate another post to this morning's behavior.... 

We had a pretty busy weekend.  Kamdyn had school on Saturday to make up for one of the snow days.  I really thought that I wouldn't make her go but Mark thought she should go at least one of the two (there's another one on April 9).  Six days of school for a kindergartener seems excessive to me, but a certain percentage of students have to show up for it to count.  It was a short day so we sent her.  I saw lots of my friends kids on the playground while I was waiting to pick her up, so my guilty conscience was eased!  She told me when I picked her up that she loved Saturday school!!! They had snow cones and a movie!

While Kam was in school, Cooper and I ran to Hot Springs for a haircut and a few errands.  He really didn't want to go  (it's the weekend so he thought he should be playing the Wii!), but we ended up having a pretty good time.  We picked Kam up and then headed home for a few minutes before Kam had softball try-outs.  It's her first year to play softball and I'm excited about it.  I really wish we had known about this last year instead of her playing t-ball.  

Kamdyn was more interested in the puppy at the field and visiting than the actual try-out.  She is a social butterfly so this season should be pretty interesting. She will be playing with Avery and Kenzie, as well as a few girls from kindergarten.  I am looking forward to getting to know everyone!

We went back to Hot Springs for dinner after practice.  This is Kamdyn listening to her ipod while we wait for our table.  My kids are at this terrible stage where they think they must be entertained 24/7 and that it's my job to do it.  I have real issues with this.  I keep telling them that when I was little we had to make up games in the car and actually talk to people at the dinner table.....

Oh my, Lordy!  I just had flashbacks to my Papaw telling me stories about walking ten miles to school in the snow with a biscuit in a jar.  Well.....it was something like that.  My how times have changed!  

Kam and I went to have some "girl time" on Sunday afternoon.  We went to the bookstore and bought two new chapter books for her and then to get a pedicure and buy groceries.  I wish I had my camera with me while we were getting pedicures.  She took her new book in and read while her toes were drying.  Then she helped the lady massage my legs..... the lady was so nice to her and it was too cute! 

Cooper dressed himself for bed last night....notice the razorback shirt and dinosaur bottoms.

I buy them matching pj's but they never seem to make it on them that way.  And if you think his ensemble is bad, you should see Kamdyn's.  It's almost comical every night when she gets ready for bed.

Are you still here?  Hope everyone has a Happy Monday despite the dreary weather and time change.  We have so much to be thankful for!!! 

2.5 Club

Kamdyn made it to the  "2.5 Club" earlier this week and came home with this certificate (that was oh so wadded up in her backpack!).

I don't know a lot about the AR Club yet other than she reads a book, takes a test, and gets so many points for it.  She is loving the fact that she finally gets to go to the library, check a book out, and bring it home now.  She is now bringing a different book home every day.  I can't keep up with her! 

Kamryn's Art

I painted this fairy sign for Kamryn's room last summer but forgot to post pictures of it. 

In October, I finally finished the coordinating canvases to go with it.  Jodie sent me this picture from her phone so it's hard to see. They have orange and pink zebra borders.  One is a heart with a scripture around it and the other is a flower with "I am loved" and "I am beautiful" on it.  Although you can't see it here, the fairy canvas has tons of detail to it and turned out pretty cute if I do say so myself!

Graffiti Art

At church on Wednesday night, Aunt Gina was telling me about how someone had drawn all over the walls in the closet in her AWANA room.  The more we talked about it, it occurred to me that it might have been Kamdyn.  I checked out the walls and told Gina that it didn't really look like Kam's doodles; however, I asked Kam after class about it to be sure.  Without hesitation, she said that she did it.   

On the way home, I was trying to explain to her that she had destroyed property and she immediately bursts into tears and screams, "am I going to get arrested?"  I told her that she wasn't going to get arrested but she was going to clean the walls!

We went to church early yesterday evening with our Magic Erasers in hand.  She kept telling me that she was "nervous" and afraid that everyone (including God) was going to be mad at her.  We all laughed because her art did include "we love God" and "peace!"

Turns out that she likes the Magic Erasers.  At one point, she looked at me and said, "this is actually kind of fun!"  Ummm.....is she really learning her lesson if this is "fun?"

I said I wasn't going to help her but I couldn't help myself.  We'd be there forever waiting on her to get the wall clean!  I kept telling her to put some 'elbow grease' into it!!!

She had fun squeezing the water out of the erasers, which looked more like milk to her.....so much fun that she asked me to leave the room several times!  Is this child really learning a lesson?  We ran out of Magic Erasers so we have to go back next week to finish.   We'll see what she thinks then!

4-wheelin'

It was another pretty low-key weekend at our house. We went to see the Panthers play Bismarck Friday after work.  I got so tickled at Kam because when I told her who Magnet Cove was playing she said, "oh no!  Who am I going to vote for?"  She said the same thing when I told her she'd be playing softball against her Arkadelphia friends this spring.  So obviously we had to have a discussion about how teams win.  Speaking of, softball tryouts are this Saturday....should be very interesting!

We went four-wheel riding on Sunday, minus Kamdyn, who decided she would rather stay with Mimi.  She really just did not want to put on warm clothes and even asked me if she could wear shorts to ride.  That girl and her clothes issues!

We ran into some of our friends and rode along side them for a little while. 

Cooper wanted to get wet, which is no surprise...this is why I made him wear rain boots when we left.

We had to make a few pit stops and Cooper wanted to toss the football that he brought along with him...

He held onto the football the entire ride.  Although it was cold, it was nice to be outside and enjoy a little Mother Nature.

Kam's Horns

Mark had to work late last night so he missed putting the kids to bed.  When he came home and checked on them, he told me that I had to come to Kamdyn's room.  I was afraid that something was wrong, but then I remembered....

She went to bed with the bull horns (I call them devil) on.  And even cooler is the fact that they light up.... so when I walked into her room all I could see was red horns!  I just left them on her all night.  I could say so many things about this picture, but I won't.....

She picked these horns out as her souvenior at Monster Jam last month, which I keep meaning to blog about.  She loved "El Toro Loco" and had to have these.  I'm pretty sure she was the only person in the arena with them on.  They are disturbing to me on some level but she loves them and begs to wear them to school all the time.  Can you imagine the call I would get from school if I let her? 

Can't Hear You!

I took Kam to school one day last week and as we were pulling in the line, she began to whine and cry about not wanting to go to school because of her friend L.  It was something really silly like she got a sucker and Kam didn't and she teased her about it... you know how kids are.  So I went into the "you just treat others the way you want them to treat you" speech and that didn't seem to work either. We were nearly to the drop-off point so I said, "well just ignore her then."  I really didn't think that would work either.....

But Cooper chimed in and said, "yeah, just ignore her like this...." and then preceded to cover his ears and in a sing-song voice say, "I can't hear you!  I can't hear you!"

I burst into laughter and Kam did too!   She said, "that was funny, do it again!"  And Cooper was happy to oblige!   Whiney mood and crying all forgotten and she got out of the car laughing!  Thanks, Coop, for the comic relief!