First Field Trip

Anna has her first field trip today. They are going to the park and I had to send a sack lunch. She made me take the cookies out though, she said she didn't want them. Go figure.

She was very excited about riding a school bus to the park.

This afternoon she is going with my mom to pick up my brother from the airport. She is also very excited about this. Although I did have to reiterate that she is not getting ON an airplane.

This week her job at school is the flag holder.

Trip To OKC

Anna and I had a girls road trip to Oklahoma for Molly's baby shower. On the way there we had to go through 3 toll booths. The first two I had exact change and there were people in the booths. The last one needed exact change and I only had a $20 and no one was in the booth. There was a change machine so I stuck in the $20 and briefly noticed that it said it was going to drop change twice. I waited for it to drop the money and was trying to pull all these handfuls of coins out of the dispenser. Meanwhile a line is forming behind me. I kept dumping all the change into my lap. Finally I had it all, the toll was $1 so I pulled forward and threw in four coins.

A few minutes later I realized they were $1 coins. Oops.

The shower was fun and the cake was de-lish. We stayed with her parents who are definitely ready to be grandparents! Molly's dad really took to Anna and she enjoyed hanging out with him and yelling "GOBBLE GOBBLE" trying to get the turkeys to come out of the woods. She also LOVED the piano and Molly's mom was so sweet to play a few songs Anna could sing along to. Anna played a few originals as well. She woke up the next morning asking me why the fish wouldn't jump in the pond last night. Very cute.

I didn't realize I forgot the battery for my camera until we got there so hopefully Molly will send me our pics when she gets back!

Plan B

Plan B (instead of the movies) turned out to be a trip to Paradise Park (which I learned - from a client who is new to me - is considered a Family Education Center or FEC). We've been there several times before. Her favorite part is the cooking class where today they made "Fruit Turnovers" which consisted of a biscuit from a can, three blueberries and some cinnamon and sugar, baked for 15 minutes. She also dug in the sand for dinosaur bones - and found one! - pretended to make pizzas and grocery shopped a lot. I can only imagine how cool this place is when you're 4.

Carter's food allergy tests came back negative. Good and bad. Good that I don't have to change his diet, bad that I still don't know what is causing these horrible rashes and red areas mostly in his diaper area. It is really bothering him the last few days. Next step is to see a dermatologist. We're getting referred by our dr to someone at Childrens Mercy South I think.

Think good car karma thoughts tomorrow morning!

Oops, Shrek is next week

Small travesty ensues. "Why isn't Shrek at the movie tomorrow?" Because mommy had her dates wrong. Will replace with something equally as fun.

Brake Failure

This is the message my car alerted me to as I pulled into the parking lot at work this morning. Followed by Reduced System Performance. System Requires Engine. I have seen these message before, twice. But it is currently not under warranty so 60 bucks for them to even tell me what's wrong with it. A google search tells me I'm not the only one with this problem but there doesn't seem to be a consistent resolution.

Plus they have overbooked tomorrow so I'm going to attempt to drive it on my day off (I made it home from work today) and will take it in on Friday morning. Sure hope they fix it Friday. I'm driving to Oklahoma for Molly's baby shower on Saturday morning. And I definitely don't want to miss that!

Tomorrow the Dickinson summer movies start. These are $1 a piece and show at 10 and 12 M-TH. Since I'm off on Thursdays this works out great. So it's a Mommy-Anna day tomorrow. Shrek 3 is playing which she has been dying to see. If the car is working we'll run errands after that.

7 Years

That is how long Kevin and I have been married. Happy Anniversary (yesterday June 1st)! We had tickets to the Royals game so we celebrated by sweating with each other and the kids. Luckily the Royals won, which is quite unusual lately.

My husband is awesome.

He mows the grass.
He plants a garden.
He built me an entertainment center I love to look at every night.
He makes dinner.
Sometimes he does laundry and dishes.
He takes turns with me putting Anna to bed.
He'll help Anna at baseball practice and teach her how to not throw like a girl.
He takes me out to dinner for adult conversation and drinks when we don't have the kiddos.
He knows not to talk to me in the morning. I don't do mornings.
He lets me have an obsession with starbucks.
He replaces light bulbs which I could never reach.
He loves me unconditionally.
He's a great dad.
He buys me lots and lots of cute shoes.

Love you baby!

Overall we've been together 11 years. I feel very old. Our gifts to each other will be items for the house. Now I know I'm old :) The traditional gift for 7 years is wool (or bronze or copper or some metal I don't recall) so it was Kevin's idea to get new wool rugs for the house.

Oh, did I mention the best thing about my husband - he's great with gifts and he loves to give them!

Anna Said

"Mommy! Alex's hair looks just like David Cook!"

And it did. And it was sooo random and funny. (Alex is Sam and Candi's little boy.)