Friday’s Foto Finish Fiesta

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Logan

Thursday Theater: Fireworks

Goddess is taking a break from Thursday Theater theater this week… but I’ll still link back to her cuz it was her idea

Our town has two nights of fireworks! The first night was beautiful; the second night was a little bit chilly.

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Way Back When-esday

Cheryl over at Twinfatuation hosts this one. Go on over to see who else is playing – and join in too!

In honor of being in it for 2 years now, I thought I’d post a picture that I grabbed from the internet when we first started looking at the house.

Anger Management

Funny movie. Not great to deal with in real life.

Burke has been having some trouble lately…he’s been lashing out when he gets angry – and poor Maggie has been the one to take the ‘beating’ from him.

Over the past week, the following things have happened:

• Maggie beat Burke up the stairs, so he bit her back as hard as he could (major bruises). I’m not sure Maggie even knew they were competing.
• Maggie was hording the balls, so Burke hit her in the head with a (plastic) baseball bat. He lost fireworks privileges that night. (Our town has two nights of them and he saw the first night, so he knew what he was missing.)
• Maggie was holding the hose to fill up the kiddie pool and wouldn’t share with Burke (after 10 seconds!)…so he hooked his finger into her mouth and brought her to the ground.

On the flip side, he’s also gone in to soothe Logan on multiple mornings. And the nanny tells me that he had a paper towel tube that he wanted Maggie to look through at him and she wouldn’t. He was using his words and saying “please, Please, PLEASE, Maggie??” And she still wouldn’t. So he said “I’m very angry!” but didn’t take any action. (This was in between the biting incident and the baseball bat incident.)

There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to when he does or doesn’t take action (sometimes he’s tired, sometimes he’s not. Sometimes he’s had too much sugar, other times he hasn’t). All of these situations have produced varying results.

I try to let him know that the anger he is feeling is absolutely okay, but that the action he is taking is not.

Any ideas out there?

A Day at the Carnival

Our town celebrates the 4th of July all week! They have a carnival set up in the high school parking lot and lots of festivities (read: food) on the town common. Burke and Maggie had a wonderful time and enjoyed their very first carnival rides!

Face Painting

Face Painting

Food!

Burke on the Merry-go-Round

Maggie on the Merry-go-Round

On the Truck Ride

Truck Ride

Dragon Roller Coaster

Dragon Roller Coaster

Baby Picture Sundays

Debi hosts the Baby Picture Sundays. Hop on over there to see who’s playing, and join in too!

This week’s theme is Temper, Temper. How much fun could I have with this??

Burke 11.6.2008

Logan 3.4.2009 (squirrel induced tantrum)

Maggie 7.5.2009
"I want to throw the ball!"

Happy 4th!

Happy Independence Day!!!

And happy birthday to Karen, my bestest Buddy in the whole wide world

Friday’s Foto Finish Fiesta

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Blowing bubbles with Granny Frani and Aunt Cathy.

Clockwise: Logan, Granny Frani, Aunt Cathy, Maggie, Burke

Thursday Theater: Reading

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The other day, Burke told me he wanted to read his Three Little Pig story. I said, “Okay…be right there.” He grabbed the book and when I got into the room, this is what I saw. (With Maggie tap-dancing in the background…)

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Happy Anniversary!

No…not THAT one. We moved into our house two years ago today! Wow. We so need to put some pictures up on the walls. Wait – that wasn’t why I was writing! Sheesh.

It’s been a whole two years, and I have to say – I’ve been really happy with our house

Some improvements we’ve made (and by “we” I mostly mean “Mike” or a guy we hired):

• put up the front fence
• upgraded the electricity
• upgraded the bathroom shower (and tiled the wall)
• upgraded the kitchen appliances (and added a dishwasher…can you believe there was no dishwasher??)
• refaced the kitchen cabinets
• upgraded the furnace (damn thing)
• got rid of all the crap bordering the back yard
• planted some trees
• put some stones under the grills and the fire pit
• replaced the gazebo in the back yard
• put a swing set in

And sure, there’s lots more we’d like to do (add a deck, put ceiling fans in the bedrooms, fix the front door so you can actually open it from the outside…), but for the most part we’re very happy. (I know – sick, isn’t it?)