Who says Yo Gabba Gabba....

is just for preschoolers????
Here we have two 7 year olds, a 9 year old and a 10 year old. But where is the 3 year old, you know the preschooler?........ Under a chair of course.
(this is why we normally skip tv :)

Haircuts & Happenings....

Dillon:

Well, Hannah wanted him to have a mohawk, but I think it's too cold?? So he ended up just getting the back and sides shaved and nothing done to the top. It really looks good. Plus I heard from another mother at preschool that her daughter announced she would marry Dillon, so he should look good for his engagement.

 

Hannah:

Hannah hates, I mean hates to have her hair brushed. So that is why we keep it a bit short. She just got a trim. Here she is enjoying an occasional treat of chocolate chip pancakes. That would be chocolate on her lip :) We are very excited about the play at school that Hannah will be in. She starts rehearsal soon.

Chloe:

Here is another picture of Chloe's new hair style. It is a bit shorter in the back then the front which looks so cute. She had been wanting to donate her hair for awhile. In March she has her Odyssey of the Mind competition. So she and her team have been working hard on that.

Darr:

I don't have a current picture of Darr, but he is getting his haircut tomorrow. Maybe I should take his picture then? Anyway, he is really enjoying his new job as a RN on the oncology floor at the hospital. I will say it has been an adjustment going from him home most of the time to now being gone most of the time, but we're all doing well.

Kara:

I too got my haircut yesterday, but kind of like Hannah's, it's pretty unnoticeable and like Darr I don't have a picture.  I still work occasionally at the funeral home. The rest of my days are here at home with the kids. All is well with me.

10 inches....

Today was the big day or should I say long day....

Chloe donated 10 inches to Locks For Love, an organization that makes wigs for children.

Good job Chloe!

No animal was harmed....

Jaggar LOVES this. Being pushed at a high rate of speed in the back of a toy dumptruck. This cat seeks out Dillon to play with him. Jaggar is certainly "special".

Hannah and Piper....

Knock your socks off excitement....

Our driveway....

Well, there you have it. Our driveway.
We normally have cold, snowy, icy winters here and today's high temperature is in the upper 50's. Unheard weather for this time of the year. So all of the snow (on the driveway)has melted and has left us a really icy driveway. Darr gets to have fun sanding it :)

The itsy, bitsy spider...

TV....

When Chloe was little she watched tv. I guess no more then any other kid. She was also firmly stuck to my side.

Hannah watched a lot of tv, mainly SpongeBob (who isn't all that bad if you watch it). I believe it was a "coping mechanism" for her, a way to just escape her anxious little world.

Dillon came home from Guatemala stuck to the tv, the Disney channel. I couldn't change that right away, it was the most familiar thing to him here (just no Spanish). As time went on I began to notice that Dillon was too busy to watch tv. So I SHUT IT OFF. Dillon watches next to NO tv. Very rarely do I turn it on for him. I'm not against tv by any means and have NO plans to get rid of it, but the kids just don't need it. He is aloud to watch tv at the grandparents houses, preschool or really anywhere except home...where he spends most of his time.

Something else happened when I stopped turning the tv on....the girls didn't turn it on either. I don't think they could even tell you what's on at any given time of the day. They do watch tv while getting ready for school (about 30 minutes). That works for us. They usually watch the Duggars or American Idol or America's Funniest Videos and that's it for the day. What else is great, is they DON'T miss it. They don't ask for it to be on.

Just last night I heard on some news show that parents who place restrictions on computer time for their kids, have kids who naturally use the computer less. About a month ago Darr installed NetNanny on our computer. To put it nicely, NetNanny is a pain in the BUTT. BUT we have no worries about what the girls are "seeing or reading" online. Yes they complained because they couldn't go to many sites that are actually ok for them, but we were able to override the Nanny and allowed them, but they had to get one of us to do that. Everything is password protected. Now who would've guessed, but it is rare that they use the computer anymore. We have approved all of their favorite sites so the computer really hasn't changed that much other then they must sign in......other then the restrictions have been placed.

Now to get them to clean their rooms!

The pictures above are Dillon watching tv. Hannah was on the couch sick, so I felt it was an ok time for the tv to be on.

He didn't even know his picture was being taken. This was a true treat for him....and us. He was completely still!

It was bad....

Monday evening I:

cooked dinner

ate dinner

washed Hannah's hair

felt really bad

discovered I had low blood sugar

ate a rice krispie treat

still had low blood sugar

almost paniced

ate skittles

I knew nothing was helping

I threw up.

I threw up for hours and hours amoung other sickly bodily functions. Some how my blood sugar came back up. At the time I really didn't care. I'm just starting to really feel better.

I thank my sweet kids for sharing this.

(Truth be told, I'm so glad I got the worst of it).

Sorry, no pictures...it was bad.

Some days...

you just need a nap...