HAPPY FATHERS DAY!!!!!!!!!

I just wanted to say happy fathers day to all the great dad's out there. I especially want to tell my husband thank you for being such a fantastic dad. Thank you for being such a wonderful example to our kids. I appreciate all that you do for our family!!

Hines, er Hinesina

Ok, my kids crack me up. Raegan and Tre` decided to put clothes on Hines today. They are Raegan's "build-a-bear" clothes. Pink tank and satin shorts (and yes, even a hole for the tail!) Hines was less than thrilled to say the very least. Made me laugh though!

#1 Champions!!!

Haiden's team the Dodgers won the championship tournament tonight. Big thanks to Grandma Smith for watching Raegan and Tre so I could go to the game!! It was a lot of fun watching the kids. Big NO THANKS to the weather - I froze my butt off out there!! (It is June right???)

This team only lost one game all season -- against us and we only lost one game all season -- against them so you can imagine what a fun game it was to watch! The final score was 17 to 5. The kids all played really hard and I think they all had a lot of fun. We are trying to decide if we should put Haiden on an all-star team. Sometimes it is hard to tell if he is playing because he likes it or if he is playing because we like it. I would love to see him play on the all-star team but only if it is what HE wants to do.






Also, on a totally unrelated note -- know anyone that wants a dog? We have a darling 8 month old rat terrier named Hines. He needs a new home because I can't stand another pair of ruined shoes or vacuum. Yes, you read that right - he ruined my vacuum as well as my brand new replacement to the replacement shoes. We only have about 9 million dog bones laying around for him to chew on but I guess a vacuum cord is much better. So nobody in my house seems to know what they are supposed to eat, I have a kid that eats dogfood and a dog that eats vacuum cords.

Getting Blood

Raegan and I spent a very long day at the clinic getting her blood transfusion today. We got there at 8am and didn't get home until 3 this afternoon! Raegan loves going to the clinic, she gets to do a lot of different crafts, games, puzzles and movies. Of course she also gets 100% of my attention as well so I am sure that is part of why she loves it so much. (and the wonder woman song is for my Rae, I certainly thin she is a wonder woman - she has gone through a lot in the last 18 months and she is one tough cookie!)

Hungry???

So in the grand tradition of my kids being completely wacko... Today after school Haiden says "mom can I have a snack" to which my reply was and is always "as soon as you clean your room". Well I know that he has been sneaking food so I go upstairs to talk to him about it. Mind you, in our house at any given moment there are cookies, crackers, chips, fruit snacks, Popsicles some sort of home-made treat, you name it - we probably have it. So what might I ask is he sneaking to snack on???




That's right folks, DOG FOOD!!!!!!!!!!!! EEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yuck, blech, plahhhh, pteweyy, gross!!!!! Help me out here folks, please someone tell me this is a normal thing..............................................

It is a good thing I love these kids so much!

DDR

My kids have noticed that we have DDR and Guitar Hero - so of course they are now obsessed with playing it. Haiden is actually pretty dang good at GH, and Tre is really fun to watch on DDR, ok so is Raegan, she is about a count slower than the game hehe. It is about the only exercise I get so I guess it is good that they want to play it a lot huh!




Forgive the blurry picture - I think I was laughing at my kiddos dance moves.

Long day!

Raegan had clinic today - we were there for 5 hours! ARGH. She seems much more moody today than she usually is. I am not sure if it is from her back poke or the new meds that she got, or maybe a combination of both. Her counts have all dropped so now we are on 50% dosage for her chemo, hopefully they will not drop anymore.Tre is also grumpy and moody - not sure what the deal is with him today... He is having a fit here because I took away his DS because he was having a fit (see the vicious cycle here?).

Haiden is happy - because I let him play after school.

Xander is mischievous as ever - notice the devilish grin?




Oh and can I just say I am super not happy with the school right now!?! I asked for A or D track, C being 3rd choice and B being absolute last choice, guess which one I got?! B!!! And... to add insult to injury I asked for morning kindergarten and got afternoon?! What is up with that I ask you! I called the school today and it doesn't seem like my chances of getting it changed are too great - of course A and D are full up.

Sheesh gripey blog today huh!