Send In The Clowns

We took Edward to his first Circus (Shrine Circus) today. He absolutely loved it. He adored the clowns. We had a blast.

Our "Blizzard" Pictures

We recieved about 3 inches of snow in our "Blizzard" yesterday. The weather was strange though. It rained in the morning, by about 3 pmish it was snowing but I wouldn't call what was coming down snowflakes, more like snowglobs (they were globs of snow at least the size of a nickle)...during the same time it was also raining and thundering. Totally weird. I don't ever recall this happening before. Funny things all this is melted by 6pm today.

These pictures were taken at 6:48pm CST. The one of just the tree is the Red Bud that was just blooming a week ago. Weird to see it all covered in snow.

Paging Dr. Edward

Edward was pretending yesterday to be an astronaut (we had bought him a space suit last year at the fair from the local Cosmosphere), he wore the costume all afternoon, we had to convince him to take it off for bed last night (note that was night 5 in a row of sleeping in his own bed in his own room). About 20 minutes ago Edward came up to me with his doctor stuff. He informed me that I have a broken tummy ache. I proceeded to ask him all kinds of questions like where did he get his PHD at (he informed me at Burger King), if I needed to have a surgery, how long I had to keep my bandage on (the rest of my days he said). He said he was putting me to bed for all days. What an imagination.

Why would they do that??

If you remember a few weeks ago when we were having our playroom floors re-done, the hot water heater in the basement sprung a leak. The thing was 30 plus years old, so that was no big shock to us. However I forgot to share the fact that they actually built the walls of the little utility room in the basement around the hot water heater and furnace. Kirk had to tear down a portion of the wall to get to the stupid thing. We ended up trading out the 30 gallon one for a 50 gallon one. Now I have a basement with a 3 foot section of the utility wall totally missing. Not even sure how we will be able to replace it, since Kirk had to take a saw to the supporting braces that run along the wall to be able to get the hot water heater to remove it. Why would you build a wall around something that will eventually have to be replaced, that can malfunction or have a variety of other issues. Got to love the quirks of older homes.

Weather

It has been cold and rainy all day to day. Still expecting a few inches of snow fall, starting either sometime very late tonight or early in the morning tomorrow. They postponed Kirk's Company Picnic at the Zoo tomorrow until better weather. Hope that better weather will be soon...even though the rain is good for our newly seeded yard. Kirk just called and told me not to take Edward to bowling league tonight because it is raining and sleeting so hard that there is little to no visibility. Better to be safe than sorry, right?

Edwards Day

WOW! Edward was an eating machine today. He just doesn't seem to be able to satisfy his hunger. He must be going through a growing spurt....he needs to go through one. He has been hyper today, almost out of control at points. I asked him in Kindermusik class this morning to turn down his hyper-activity level just a smidge, he looked right at me and told me the dial was stuck. LOL!!! Where does he get this stuff? We have bowling tonight, hopefully he will be able to get some of this energy used. I think part of it is the weather that and daddy had to be out of town overnight last night....he tends to push things a little bit more with me when Daddy isn't here. I think it is because he misses his daddy so much during the day, that he looks forward to daddy coming home after work and when he doesn't for some reason it really seems to effect Edwards mood. Daddy will be home tonight but tired (had a very long day yesterday), so Edward might not get that Daddy attention he is craving until tomorrow after Daddy has had a chance to rest.

Evicted!!!

As some of you know we have been pretty much co-sleeping with Edward since he was born. I had had him in his own bed around 18 months, but after Kirk had his accident he brought Edward back into our bed because he could only sleep if his family was close by. Well Edward has pretty much been in our bed ever since. When we moved to this house and got him a Thomas The Tank Engine Toddler Bed, he slept in it for almost a month...then bounced right back into our bed. No matter what amount of bribing, types of encouragement and incentives that were given he refused to go back to sleeping in his own bed on a regular basis. I finally put my foot down and this past Monday evicted him from our bed. I have made it very clear to him that he was getting to be a big boy and big boys sleep in their own beds. We have started a new routine with him....he gets to come to our room before lights out and we read him a couple of stories, then I put him in his room in his bed. I turn on his lullabye music (unfortuantly his Lighting McQueen CD Radio doesnt have continous play on it) and let it play while I lay in his bed with him until he falls asleep. He has slept all through the night in his own bed the last few nights. We praise him in the morning for sleeping in his own bed and tell him what a big boy he is. Now it is not like if he were sick or got scared from a nightmare or something that we wouldn't allow him to sleep with us one or two nights but he needs to be sleeping in his own bed on a regular basis from now on. I will also be quiting slowly using a technique I saw on SuperNanny, laying in his bed with him to get him to sleep. I will work on that with him after his birthday, once Nana goes home. He should be comfortable and use to by then with sleeping in his own bed.

Another Edward Funny

Kirk took Edward to see Meet the Robinson's this past Saturday while I hid Easter Eggs and put together Easter Baskets. I guess there was a preview of a new movie coming out soon about Under Dog (an old cartoon some of us old foogies might remember from when we were kids). Anyway, Edward gets home....puts a leash on Storm, taking her outside....telling her to "Come On Super Dog!" Well he did this every day until yesterday. Yesterday he puts the leash on her and says "Come On Pyscho Dog!". I said to him "What did you just call her Edward?" He says, smiling at me "Pyscho Dog". I asked him "Where did you hear that at Edward?" He says to me, smiling again "You, Mommy!" Kids!!!

A Blizzard A Coming?????

Oie Vey! They are reporting on the news that we might be getting ANOTHER Cold Front this weekend.........the one that just hit Colorado....... (Kirks Spring Company Picnic is this Saturday at the Zoo....guess we will be bundling up) and might be getting another dump of snow. All I have to say is that this is going to be a very interesting spring. Wonder if that will further delay getting our yard reseeded and the landscapers out to do up the rest of the yard, if so at this rate we might get it done around the 4th of July. ;-)

What He Should Have Worn for Easter

Due to extremely abnormal freezing temps on Easter, Edward was unable to wear the outfit that I had bought him for Easter (seen below in the pictures), he had to wear Jeans with a short sleeve yellow (with blue and white stripes) polo shirt, and a coat to church for Easter morning. Crazy weather!!!

Finding the Easter Baskets

Look what the Easter Bunny left for me and Daddy!!!!! Cool!

Egg Hunt

Unfortunatly it was way to cold outside for us to take Edward to the Easter Egg hunt on Friday night, due mainly to the fact that they (the rec center) still choose to hold it outside in the freezy cold. So we took the eggs that we dyed Friday night and I filled 18 plastic ones, hid them while Kirk and Edward were gone to a movie. When they got home Edward went into the playroom and hunted the eggs. He had fun, but I still feel that bad that he wasn't able to go to an actual egg hunt. Didn't want to risk him getting ill from the freezing temps. I did have to laugh though, everytime he came across a plastic egg, he had to open it up to see what was inside before he would go on to hunt for another egg. All the candy is put up now and he has to go through me to get some. Trying to limit sugar and junk intake.

PTL!!! He is RISEN, indeed He is!!!

Easter is one of my favorite holidays because I get to contemplate how our Lord and Savior loved us so much that He choose to come to Earth and die on a Cross for my sins, your sins, the sins of generations past and for all those yet to come. That is the ultimate in love. I can't even begin to understand what it was like to do something so compassionate for those whom you knew might turn against you. I don't know how people can even begin to believe in there being no God, it is just beyond me. I look around me every day and see God's beauty, love and compassion for humanity and I can't see how some can choose to turn a blind eye to what is so obvious. I am sickened how this country that was founded by Christians has forgotten its true heritage (and reason for being) and how now even the word Easter Bunny is offensive. I remember when I was in school it was Easter Break and Christmas Break not Spring Break and Winter Break. How you were able to have a Christmas concert at school and sing songs like Holy Night and Away in the Manger. Since when did a Christmas tree become a Holiday tree? I don't mind that others choose different religions, that is their choice, God did give us the freedom of choice....however this country was founded by Christians so that they could have their Christian faith and values, so not to be ruled by others on how to believe or worship God (not Buddha or any other type of "God"), so why should we have to change our laws to accommodate others...they don't change their laws for Christians or people of other faiths. We have become to lenient as a Country. I wish more Christians would take a stand, so we can take back our country and return it to how those who founded it dreamt it to be for future generations. I am so amazed by God every day and thankful that he choose to love me in spite of my human imperfections and ways. PTL! That He is RISEN!!! Happy Easter. PTL that my father is the King of King and I am a princess. I can't wait to go home to Him.