All Because of the Whistle :)

Kenzie ballet teacher called to cancel class today because she has the flu, so I had to explain to Kenzie what the flu is.   Dillon always wants a recap of the days events when he gets home from school.

Kenzie - (telling Dillon about her day) Ballet was canceled today because my teacher had a whistle!

Dillon - Huh?

Me (laughing) - A What?

Kenzie - (confused) A whistle?  Oh, a FLUTE!  She had a flute.

Me (laughing hysterically and unable to clarify so Kenzie started to cry.)

Dillon - (still confused) A what?

Me - the flu, she has the flu, it sounds just like flute.  Kenzie, tell Dillon what happens when you get the flu. (She calms down and tries to explain.)

Kenzie - you get really sick and have a fever and a head egg and you have eggs all over your body.  Sometimes you get areeea (diarrhea) or frow up.  

I couldn't stop laughing.  Her big brown eyes were looking mighty scared when I described what her teacher had; can you picture what must have been going through her head???  Oh dear.

Mariners Fan Fest

Waiting to go into Safeco Field

 Watching Michael Pineda help a little guy pitch.

 Andy was/is a SAINT!!!  Seriously, If I hadn't 'borned' him I would wonder if he was a superhero, he is THE best baby!

 

Jason Vargas

 Not the best picture but somewhere in there is Brandon League (middle, w/ a Mariners coat on, black hair)

Went to Safeco field today for Mariners FanFest.  It was great.  Tons of kids activities but also HUGE lines.  The kids had a great time and want to go back again next year :)  Next year we'll be a little more prepared...
We didn't get there in time to see Felix but we did get to see & get a signature from a new Mariner who is expected to be pretty good.  Cool.  He was nice too.  We told our friends who he was and their little 5 year old got all excited and kept yelling 'Hi Michael!' to him, he would smile and wave back.  As we were walking onto the field for our turn at bat he was walking the other direction and stopped to talk to her.  She was handed a ball (sneakily by her dad:)  ) and asked him to sign it - even though it wasn't signing time; but who can say no to a sweet little lady :)  He signed one for us too. 

I love living in an area with major teams.  I've never been much into sports but being able to see them in person is so much different/way freakin' better than watching them on tv.  It's pretty exciting.

Next year:

1.  Send Brandon 3 hours early to get in the 'autographs' line.
2.  SNACKS!!!
3.  Buy season passes, so we can skip all the lines - oh I mean watch more games ;)
4.  Carry a Sharpie and ball EVERYWHERE we go!

All in all we will sleep VERY well tonight!!!

Brandon's 'Home Run.'

Kenzie Batting

Dillon Batting

Curious George Hide & Seek @ the Zoo

Last summer (the day AFTER my due date with Screech) my mom and I went to try out Target toy clearance (it's also going on now, but it varies by store) I got Christmas shopping for my kids completely done.  Awesome.  Best shopping trip ever.  I found this game Curious George Hide and Seek Zoo, it was $3.24, so I thought I'd give it a try... Best purchase out of the whole lot and it was a good lot!  My kids are NUTS about this game.  It's a board game - but you know kids, by the end they get bored with board games.  Not this one!!!  There's a walkie talkie that gives you instructions and a bus you have to move and the best part, a few times every game the walkie talkie starts screeeeeching that the animals (us) have escaped from the zoo, so everyone (except for the person who's turn it is, they are the seeker) has to go hide.  It's hide and seek, in the middle of a game.  Genius. They get all their wiggles out and come back happy.  OH and there's these fancy little masks they get to put on to play hide and seek.  It's pretty dang cute!

Screech

 We try to keep him up late because he sleeps better but this day he couldn't take it anymore and fell asleep on the floor...

 

In the grasp of THE TROLL!

 He was in the Snuggly going to school to pick up Dillon and his little hand was telling me that he loved me :)

Andy is the sweetest most wonderful baby in the whole wide world.  He is the happiest baby I have ever met.  Really, he cries - maybe once every few weeks and even then it's usually my fault for ignoring him...  If he's upset or hungry or tired he just squeaks & squeals, the louder he squeals the more urgent the need, but it starts out little a little tiny mouse noise that is so cute - melts a mommas heart!  He's just started babbling and it's delightful.  Can you tell I have a major Mommy High going on over here?  He's perfect!  I was holding him last night while I was typing up yesterdays post and he had his hands on my hands the whole time - it was so cute, of course I took a picture!  Did you know he has blue eyes?!?!  Oh how I love blue eyes.  Brandon has the most lovely blue eyes.  I was trying last night to get a picture to show how blue they are.  I tried.  Not a photographer here, just mom.

The Christmas-ish Post...

You wanna know the best thing I got this year for Christmas - well here it is...

• My gorgeous husband took TWO WEEKS OFF!  Yes, he still checked his phone, but not every two seconds like usual and he didn't even bring his ear piece.  Yes, he worried and fretted about customers calling and not leaving messages.   But a little bit less that usual so I was delighted - that man needs a break.
• We drove to Kennewick, then Cascade, then back to Kennewick, then back home without a hitch.  The weather was perfect, the worst roads we found our entire trip were pulling into our own subdivision.  The truck did perfect.  And the kids were - okay, I was going to say angels, but we've all traveled with kids right?  Angels might be too strong an endearment but they were little troopers!  
• I got to see my parents, my sisters, my brother, my brother in laws, my nieces & nephews, Brandon's parents, my sister in laws, a future sister in law and a possible future brother in law (wink wink)... so the shorter version would have been that I got to see all the people that I so dearly love all in the same week.  It was fabulous.  My cup runneth all over the place, for petes sake it was a flood!  :)  (Actually we literally had a flood, before we left we noticed that our upstairs neighbors washer wasn't draining properly - it was draining into our place... great fun that was :) but that wasn't what I was referring to!  )  I miss my family so much.  They are so cool.  Really.  My sisters & sister in laws are the essence of cool, my brother is the reason they invented cool.  I love that each of these people hold qualities that I make the little girl in me say, "When I grow up, I wanna be just like_______!"  My mom and dad drove 2,000 miles AGAIN.  Just to see us! 
• Business is booming.  While we were at Brandon's parents house, Brandon closed a deal (okay, deal not TOTALLY closed but about 99%, pretty much closed...) a HUGE deal for work, which included hiring the first employee, and buying a second work truck and come spring will also lead to employee #2.

 What I'm tryin' to say here, is that it was perfect.  Exactly what Christmas is for me - family, and more importantly, a family centered around Christ.

Side note - Eliza, I'm pretty sure we all clipped your pictures - we're a bunch of cleptos...