The Great Ketchup Caper

Another Gage moment. I get out of the shower today and I hear this funny noise in the kitchen. As I walk into the kitchen I see it.....Gage has gotten out the bottle of ketchup from the fridge and squeezed almost the entire bottle on to the floor. Not just in one place but ALL over the floor. And to top it all off he has taken the broom and and used it like a paint brush and smeared it everywhere. It looks like my kitchen floor has a lovely red glaze on it. He was very proud of himself, because as I looked at him and said "Gage what are you doing!!!?" he looked up and smiled, pointed at the floor and simply said "tep-up!"

Just some pictures

Shaving cream boy!

Makinna's first day of school

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat with out losing heart." Robert Ingersoll

Today I feel defeated. Its only 12 noon and already I feel like I've had all can take. You see Gage has these phases when he is irritable, and into everything! We are in one of those phases right now.
Makinna has school today and Gage is off all day, as am I. So I thought we would go grocery shopping so we won't have to do it over the weekend. Mistake #1. Gage hates Wal Mart. He literally screamed almost all the way through the entire store. And I mean the kind of screaming that makes people turn their heads and then think to them selves. "What a little brat." But honestly I'm way past caring what other people think. So we finally get out of Wal Mart. I have to go to the bank. Mistake #2. Gage unbuckles himself and I have to stop in the parking lot and get him back in his car seat. So I finally get home and take the groceries up stairs. Mistake #3. When I get back down I find that Gage has found a ball point pen and written all over the leather seats of my car. He proceeds to try to get to his daddy's circular saw and throws a tantrum on the floor because I won't let him have it. I go up stairs to get him some lunch. Mistake #4. I come back down and find that Gage has emptied 7 brand new bottles of water onto the garage floor. I just turned around and walked out, and thought to myself....."At least it wasn't the living room floor"
Like I said its only noon, I just can't wait to see what the rest of the day holds. Please pray for me to keep my sanity until bedtime.

Off To Kindergarten

Makinna is officially off to school. She started kindergarten last Thursday and goes all day. She's been well prepared with preschool and kindergarten jump start this summer, but its still not the same as saying goodbye to your baby on the very first day of real kindergarten. I was fine getting her on the bus until it pulled away and then I got sniffy. Not because I don't want her to go to school, I am so ready for her to go and so is she. Its just the end of an era. The end of having them under your wing. For the first time in her entire life she will be spending more time with someone else than with her own parents. I hope I have instilled good manners and values in her and a good work ethic that will make her successful in school. I think I have because in the last month I have had 3 different people compliment me on what a sweet, polite and caring little girl she is. I like to take some of the credit but much of that she was born with.


Gage however did not do so well with is "Bebe" being gone. He cried when she got on the bus the second day, and several times throughout the day he would look at me and say "Bebe?" I would tell him that she was at school and would come home on the bus. When it was time for her to come home I asked him "Do you want to go wait for Bebe and the bus?" He squealed with delight and stood at the end of the driveway jumping up and down and repeating "bus" and "Bebe" until they finally came. He walked up to her and hugged her and gave her a kiss. (He does not GIVE hugs and kisses often, he mostly tolerates receiving them)


Most of all I am soooo proud of my little girl. She ran off to the bus with a smile and a wave. She is growing into a truly fantastic little girl, and I'm glad she's mine.