Mother Nature is on my sh*t list!

Yeah, had to cancel my daughter's 2nd birthday party, school has been out all week (that puts 9 kids in my house!)- probably the rest of it too and my son has a cast on his arm.

Mother Nature is on my "naughty" list this year!

Happy Birthday to my Baby, uh... I mean Toddler!

Oh my gosh, I can't believe 2 years have gone by. I can't believe she isn't technically a "baby" anymore. Can I at least still get away with calling her the baby for 8 more years or so?

This are the things I've learned over the last 2 years:

• I STILL hate the terrible 2's... even after 8 and a half years.
• Little feet are so fun to play with in the wee hours of the morning.
• I enjoying doing little girl hair! Who would have known?
• Shoes are a wonderful thing. Collect as many as you can.
• Same goes for hair pretties.
• And baby dolls.
• I must be a good mommy because When Jaizy plays with her baby dolls she is the bestest baby-doll mommy ever. Monkey see, monkey do, right?
• I can still read "How Do Dinosaurs Say Good-night" by memory.
• Same with "I Love Your Forever"
• And "Where The Wild Things Are"
• And "Quick As A Cricket"
• And "Oh The Places You'll Go"
  
• All in my teacher-mommy-desiree way of reading books.
• Chocolate Milk is a requirement for good behavior.
• Mommy and Daddy's beds must be far more comfortable than big girl beds.
• A smile is a good way to get out of trouble. (Man! She learned this one YOUNG!)
• Little girls + pencils = very artistically decorated dining table chairs.
• Big brothers all have their special place in little sister's hearts. They all have a certain purpose. Matthew is for entertainment. JoNathan is for playing with. Caden is for cuddling with. (see pictures below)
• All Daddys should have a little girl if they want one. (See pictures below)
• That Mommys should too, even if they didn't know they wanted one.

12.16.08 25 hours old.

7.3.07 Mom can't make me laugh! But Bubba Can!

9-15-07

12-15-07

5-9-08

12-14-08

9-17-08

4.27.08

6.27.08

9.25.08 Yes Jason is IN the Rose Petal Cottage with Jaizy

12.15.08

12.15.08

Bleh...

I woke up this morning not feeling very good. Bleh.
I asked Jason to take the kids to school and he wouldn't. Bleh.
I have a doctors appointment to have a nerve conduction test done on my leg at 10:40 this morning. Bleh.
I won boobie prize at bunco last night (that's LAST PLACE! lol) Bleh.
I want to eat, but I don't want to throw up. Bleh.
Oh yeah... I really wish I could have some coffee... maybe later?

Failure

I've enrolled my son in a brick and mortar school today.
What? you may ask is a brick and mortar school? Well, I was not happy with the neighborhood school after we moved to the OC. I pulled them out of their great charter school for convenience purposes and I was not happy. When I called them at the end of the school year last year there would be room for Nathan to come back but not Caden. Poo. Really. Well at the risk of enrolling him into a different school just to have him switch to Sojo if there was room the following year I decided to just home teach him. But with help, so we looked into various virtual academies. Found the one we decided on and enrollment was fairly painless and away we went.
Well, it was frustrating to say the least. They based Caden's placements on pre-tests. Well, he doesn't read at level, so they placed ALL his core classes besides math at below grade level, so a lot of it is repeat, including math since he was in a charter school, he really is ahead in that subject. I could totally understand having literature arts at below grade level, but why science, history, social studies and etc? Why? So now he feels like a failure because he is literally repeating everything he's already learned. I've brought this up several times to different people at the VA. Their answer? Well, he can pretest and skip it if he passes. um... how is that going to help him learn things AT grade level?
So... we initially set a date (last Wednesday) to evaluate the VA (virtual academy) subject and he could decide to go to a local public (ai: brick and mortar) school or keep going at the VA. He chose back to school.
So I went and enrolled him at the same school my child care kids go to, so at least he'll know kids there and a bonus? It'll help with transportation purposes!
He's very excited to go. He came home and grabbed his backpack and then started playing the computer that will be leaving us soon. (it belongs to the VA).
Wow... I'll get my work space back... that's a good thing!
Plus maybe I'll get some other things done during the day besides schooling. That'll be nice.