Life is great

So...Hey, Blog! it's me.

did you miss me?

I missed you.

I have been so busy typing crazy projects and powerpoint presentations and reading major life changing controversial issues. But that's all done for now. I have until the end of august to get my house clean and enjoy my kids, with out yelling at them to be quite and let-me-be while I read research articles and classmates posts. What a relief it was last night to beable to sit and watch "Chuck" and not have to force myself to go to another room so I could get homework done. best part, I'm carrying my 4.0 into the fall semester!

Wow, so much has happened since that last time I posted...Hayden is now 5! He's going to kindergarten in the fall you know? Can you believe it?....I can't. Wasn't it just yesterday that I was all enormously preggers with him. We've begun the process of getting him evaled for a sensory disorder. It feels really weird to think that your baby has something wrong with them. But if this will help, I'm all for it. He starts t-ball tonight, he's really excited about it. Cameron is busy being either sweet as sugar or a rotten little devil, but he so damn cute being either one. Yesterday, he and Bailey were watching Sesame Street and I ran up stairs to get dressed and when I came down, Cameron comes running to me with his "romantic eyes" (he's got 'em and damn if he ain't gonna be a lady killer) anyway so he comes running to me and gives me a big hug around my thighs and says "mommy...you look......exquisit. That means your bufidal." And then smiles his biggest, cheesiest smile! I asked him where he heard that word and he said "It's the Word on the Street" God bless Sesame Street! Bailey is parroting her new one I...eye...Love...luuv...you...Yyyyooouuu.

Well, what else is new? We will once again be taking our Mini-Van on a major trip down to the southern states. This time not quite so far...first stop, Moorsboro, NC then over to Knoxville, TN. We embark on our journey the first week of June. The kids are so excited to see Uncle Zach and Aunt Seweenaa and Sabannah. We have a years worth of catching up to do!

Well I promised myself I would spend less time on the ole' computer and here I have been reading blog posts and facebook for the last 45 minutes. I'm out of here baby! I can't promise that I will write more blog posts but I will try and update more during the summer.

Those bad words that sound so funny...

So...Butt face...I mean Cameron has been on the name calling train for a solid 4-5 months now. It started by calling Uncle Benny "Shirley" and Uncle Benny calling him "Becky" and has grown to Cameron making up his own ridiculous name calling insults (moo-py doo-py and the likes of anything that ends in "py") to the kicker....calling daddy a Butt Face while playing the other night. Brian sent him to timeout sternly, and once the door was shut, we both about smothered ourselves in the pillows stifling our laughter.
The kicker came yesterday when we were playing outside and my sweet cherub middle son, grabbed his crotch and said "suck my penis."
Now, the thing to remember with Cam is that he cannot pronounce certain sounds, trucks are fucks and tree is free, and there are others but the "tr's" are the only think I can think of right now. Anyway, I wasn't sure I heard him correctly so I looked at him and said "what did you say" and he said it again. What? (again) IT (again)....Cam where did you hear that? (he named a name like Ralphy ratting out Schwartz) And I told him that he shouldn't say that. Moving one...
Now I'm still not sure what I told him that he shouldn't say, because of his 3 year old lisp. But when it sounds just like he is saying Suck and Penis in the same sentence you have to react, I mean what other word goes so well with penis....(um....thats not...oh never mind) So, now the question is where did he get that from? Brian and I don't talk like that at home, the only other place is nursery school. There is "that boy" that is always in trouble. But what do you do, chalk it up to those things they learn when you send them out into the real world, and if it is coming from his nursery school and the kid that is doing the trash talk is that kid that is just a punk and discipline doesn't make a blip on his radar, should my son be removed from that environment? Is that to dramatic? It is our baby and we don't want our 3 year old talking like that.....Why didn't God make an instruction manual?

I have just given birth...

...to a 20something page project for my Physical Education for the exceptional learner class. Its amazing how attached you can become to a totally hypothetical case study. I have made up more malarkey in the last couple months referring to my two case study students. Now normally there are laws in place about privacy and such stating that teachers can't discuss by specific name the students that they have and the conditions and disabilities they have. But that is all out the window here at The Daniels 5. So let me introduce you to Sam and Tom. Sam is a 15 year old boy who has Down syndrome. He is a good kid, sweet natured, friendly, he does have the occasional verbal outburst, but who doesn't, right. My favorite student out of this duet is Tom, Tom was injured in a horrible sledding accident last winter and is now paralyzed from C7 down. He has a great attitude about his situation and is so determined to get out of his power wheelchair and into a manual chair. He is all into getting a Sled Hockey league started up at the Morrisville Iceplex he as coordinated his efforts with the One kid...One Sled...One shot...A hockey player for life program that initiates a loaner sled program and runs learn to sled skate programs. Its awesome to see what this kid is doing. and I made it all up out of thin air! They are merely a figment of my imagination! So after grooling over this final project which is to mold all of the assignment through out the semester into one eloquently written chapter form paper. I submitted it last night and I totally have the feeling that I just gave birth. I'm exhausted and tired I just want to go to sleep, but I can't I keep reading it over, (even though I already submitted it) much like you do when you just sit and hold your new born baby because you know this baby will only be 1 hour old, 2 hours old, 3 hours old, 4 hours old, for that 1 hour and you don't want to miss it. I hold it in my hands, as if through some Devinne intervention the grade that I have earned will magically appear in red ink with a circle around it at the top of the page with a little smiley face next to it. But I'm nervous at the outcome, just like with my babies, are they going to be OK, am I going to be a good parent, are they going to grow up to be productive members of society? Well, time will tell with all thing, now it is time to celebrate with a nice frosty beverage! (let me see what do we have...Ah-HA....Segreams Fuzzy Navel! 9:45 AM never a better time than the present to celebrate with a Fuzzy Navel! Happy end of the Semester Friends! CHEERS!

small blessings

So Hayden has this very bad habit of saying "Alllriight" when you tell him to do something, which totally sends Brian through the roof. He hasen't done it in a while, yesterday, he is layin on my bed while I'm putting clothes away and he come out of know where with; "Mom, I'm not going to say 'Alllriight' anymore, ok!" I was totally blown away! We have been butting heads lately and it just seems like we both piss eachother off equally. I mean in probably a weeks time I have not had to say anything to him about saying "Allriight" so it caught me totally of guard.

Wow...the best part of the whole thing is that about 2 hours later I asked him to do something, and he said "it" and he instantly said "oops, sorry, I said I wasn't going to do that anymore.

Small blessings.

hahahhahaha, Oh my gosh, while sitting here at my computer, the sun just broke through the clouds exposing some "poor mans lace" guess I need to pay more attention when I dust!

here is another of our first official snow!

blog? what's a blog?

blog, what's a blog, do I have a blog, how does one write a blog?

Oh that's right, way back before summer started I used to do this thing religiously and up date the masses of people that read about my kids antics on an almost daily basis. Yea, well that ain't happening now. I'm doing this little thing called graduate school, which so far doesn't really feel like graduate school. (don't tell my professor, its already flexing my brain muscle a little to much, I've had a headach going on 1 straight week) don't worry it will feel like graduate school next week when I have to start the case study portion for my one class. Case study, what the freak is a case study. sorry that's my brain wiggin out everytime I start think about it. Good new is thus far i have straight A's! WOW that a first, never been a straight A student. Although I have to say I never really tried to be a straight A student. Does anyone really look at your individual grades from college? NO! but they do look at the bottom line...mine being a 2.75 from undergrad, Damn that freshmen year!

Well here is to another month before I post anything on my blog again! just be patient I'll be back after 21 more credit hours are paid for and taken!

you got that right

Hayden: "Mommy, I'm sick of you yelling at me."

me to bud, me to!

On a lighter note here is my little "Shwamp"

he turned 3 yesterday. he keeps me on my toes and laughing!