Mud Puddle

With the weather being so nice, the kids spent some time playing outside while travis was working on the yard. They were enjoying playing with the hose and decided that they should make a big puddle. It turned out to be quite gigantic and they were covered in mud!! The both kept saying it was the best day of their lives...until travis sprayed them down with the hose and then sent them in for a bath :)

Accident with the doll house

Xander decided that it would be fun to climb up the doll house....It is a really tall doll house...probably a little taller than Ellie. The doll house ended up falling over on him. He ended up splitting his eye lid open. Luckily he didn't need stitches, but it swelled up pretty good and he looked like a boxer! :)

Playing in the dirt!

Travis and I were in the front yard, doing some much needed spring clean up of the yard. Xander spent the day outside with us and loved to sit and play in the dirt...It was so cute to see him!!

Xander's Chair!!

My parents got this chair for Ellie when she was about Xander's age!! It has been a wonderful chair. He loves to go sit in his chair and eat a snack, or read books...it is so cute!

Locks of Love

Ellie has wanted to donate her hair to Locks of Love for about 1 1/2 years. I told her that was fine and we would do it when her hair got long enough. Funny thing....it got long enough, but I loved it so much I hoped that she would forget donating her hair. She didn't forget. So I told her I would go online and find out what we needed to do. I guess I took to long, because the other night, she googled "locks of love" and found out everything we needed to know!! A very determined girl!! So we did it!! She felt really proud of herself and we were really proud as well!

Doesn't she look so cute!!

Birds and the Bee's Talk comes sooner than I expected!

Last night, while driving to dinner with my three kids (Travis was at school taking a physiology test....which he got a 100% on, by the way), we were enjoying some fun tunes on the radio. I wasn't really paying attention and some commercial was on....not sure exactly what it was for....and I happened to hear the word sexy in the commercial.

Next thing I know, Ellie, my 6 year old, who is in first grade, announces that sexy is a bad word. And so is the word sex. Very intrigued by this announcement, I asked her where she learned these words. She told me from some girls at school, who will not be named here on my blog....to protect their identities :). I then proceeded to ask her if she knew what that meant....well guess what, yes she did. She tells myself and Aeryn, my four year old and Xander...but he is only 18 months, and really interested in what sex means. Anyways, she tells me that is when a boy and girl take off their close and touch each other's privates. I told her that was a pretty good definition but that the most important part was that sex should only occur between a mommy and daddy who are married!! She seemed okay with that. I also had to inform her that this was not information that she should


sharing with other kids at school. I could just imagine the phone calls I will be getting if Ellie starts sharing with all the other first graders that she knows what sex is. She already knows correct terminology for the male and female reproductive parts and I truly hope that doesn't come back to bite me in the butt.....or sting me...................


I am fine with learning new things, but to add a real kicker, she adds that she thinks she learned a bad word and doesn't want to say it but will try to spell it....she says she is not sure what how, but she'll try.....F U X.....any guesses as to what that is. What is truly funny about this story is that I don't swear...even a little...I think the worst thing I say is crap. So after a long conversation and HUGE reminder not to teach that to other kids, I think we have opened a wonderful door of communication that will help us in the many years to come.

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