Vamp Week

Last week I was lost in a different world. This world used words like coven, phase & immortal. Yes, I was sucked into the world of vampires via the Twilight Series.

I never thought Id be the one. I resisted and didnt think twice about it. When the movies came out I had no desire to see a movie about vampires. I get scared pretty easily and they held no interest.

However, my hubs came home last fri or sat night and said he had rented New Moon. I knew it was part of the series but failed to remember it was the second one. We were half way through before I realized and Neil had to confirm it. I was so confused! So that meant I had to watch the first one. I searched all around and found a friend who loaned it to me the next day - My obsession had started! After that I knew I had to read the books. Oh I was consumed!!

I went and bought book one Mon morning. By Tues I was going back for book two. I read a book a day - which is saying a lot since the books are between 500-700 pages each. Then once I was finally finished Friday afternoon at 3:57, I went the next day to my hair lady who told me about the unfinished 5th book on the internet. So by Sun I had the 5th book read too. Crazy, I know. Needless to say, not much got done around my house.

Im still shaking the aftershocks of such intensity. Im really trying hard to rid my mind of all things vampire. Wow - I havnt been this consumed since I read Lord of the Rings and even then Im not sure it invaded my mind as much.

So that is a recap of my Vamp week.

Inquisitive minds want to know

Justus has been asking about colors lately. What does red and blue make? What does green and yellow make? and so on. Of course some of his combinations make nothing to great, but I thought it was time for him to see for himself. So we got out the food coloring and let him play. Haven also got in on it (I just didnt get any pics of her).

Crazy, but not unexpected

Today I took J in for his 4 year old annual checkup. Of course he didnt want to go cause the allergist appt was still on his mind. He kept asking if he was going to get poked. Poor kid. Hes been through so much when it comes to drs. But he was a champ when it came time. No shots or poking. Just looking.

And the doctor told me he was taller than most 5 year olds.

Crazy, but not unexpected.

St Patricks day Party

I love to have parties. I love to host. It is so much fun!! This year I did a St. Pattys party for the toddlers in my life. Since it was so nice outside we did spend much of the time outside playing.

But we did make rainbow cupcakes,

finger painted shamrocks,

heard the story of St. Patrick,

ate lunch (including our cupcakes) and had fun!

Yay for a GREAT day!

This weekend we spent our time cleaning up the back yard. It sure did need it after all the winter icky and rainy days. I also sold all our big outdoor play stuff. It was just time for a change. Ive been a busy bee posting all sorts of stuff on Craigs list in hopes of raising enough money for some new stuff. But anyways....we spent our morning outside enjoying the great weather!! It has been such a GREAT day!!

Park fun

It was such a nice day today we decided to skip all our other plans/options and head straight for the new park that just opened the other day. There were sooooo many kids there, but my kids had a blast. Haven is so not afraid of big kids or trying to do big kid things and Justus just runs around having a blast. There was also a skate park there so we stopped over to check it out. Justus loved it and told me how he would ride his skateboard there too. I told him first he needed to master his bike without training wheels ;) So we had fun on the skateboard benches instead!

Pump It Up

Yesterday I took the kids to Pump It Up for the first time. It was so much fun! The day started out kinda crazy tho. First off, I took the address off the site and mapped it. Well, who knows what address I had cause it took me to some crazy residential area in Madera at least 10 miles out of the way. Good thing I had left so early! So finally, with Neils help, I found the right place, which is still in Madera but no where near the first place I went.

Then, once we got there, I went to go take the kids into the play area and Justus freaked out. I think because you dont really see right into the room, you just see a giant wall of the inflatable and you kinda have to walk around it. So I had to haul him in there and of course that set Haven off. So before we even got to the fun stuff I had to deal with two screaming, freaked out kids.

Once we got inside Justus warmed up a little bit but I still had to carry him to the top of the slide and slide down with him. But after that, he was all out and LOVED every thing!

Haven on the other hand, still wasnt so sure. Of course, she really didnt like parting with her shoes from the get-go. But I took her down the slide a few times, but she still wouldnt do it without me. So I ended up just letting her jump around the room and eventually she warmed up to only one of the inflatables. I think she really has an aversion to being caged in and in a lot of those inflatables, it does have that feel. So the one she chose to hang out in wasnt enclosed.

So the cute stories were: at one point Justus asked me from inside one of the inflatables "Is this a fairytale?" and then when we were on our way home he kept referring to it as "Candyland" I think cause of all the imagination tantalizing thoughts of big bounce houses, crazy obstacle course inflatables, giant slide etc. So cute!!