Update from the weekend

 

This Sunday we went to a birthday party for my little cousin, Laney.  She was celebrating the big #2!  Emrie had a blast.  There was a bouncy house, barrel train, pinata and pizza!  She bounced and bounced and bounced and only took a break to ride the train or hit the pinata.  As you can tell from the pictures, by the end of the day she was exhausted. 

Not morning people...

This morning Emrie and Aiden were both on the couch awaiting their morning orders to get up and get ready.  Emrie was a little more enthusiastic than Aiden...but not much.  Ahhh my babies!

Staff Infections Take the Title



Jon, Melissa, Me, Will Jayson, Zane - all WINNERS



State Employee Charitable Campaign Fundraiser:  Dodgeball Tournament at TAMU today.  My team the Staff Infections went UNDEFEATED!  That's right...not even penicillin can beat us!  I promised I'd post a few pics of my team.  You can't really see them in the pictures but our individual trophies are wrenches because if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball! 




Will was very confused when he got hit by a ball





Will was doing his best to strike a pose.  Everyone else had their sites set on the team across the court.  I have no idea who I was pointing at but I'm sure they were intimidated.

I gotta send a special shout out to the "band-aids."  They were the best cheerleaders a staff infection could hope for.

Maybe she'll be a school teacher...

Our new thing in the evening is to try to read a book to Emrie before she goes to bed.  I use the word "try" because most of the time she won't sit still long enough to make it through an entire book.  Last night I poked my head into Emrie's room to find that she was "reading" to Aiden.  When I asked Aiden what was going on he said she climbed up into the rocking chair (my usual reading spot), grabbed her book and started flipping pages.  So then I asked Emrie what she was doing.  She just chattered away in her usual baby talk, pointed and pictures and turned the page.  I guess she was reading to me too.  Maybe she'll grow up to be a teacher. 

I've lost my arm! I've lost my arm!

Okay not really...but my phone is not working so I feel like I'm missing my right arm.  Sweet little Emrie destroyed it.  It's a sad day.  This morning on my way to work I had nothing to do but drive!!!!  How did it come to this?  I remember my first cell phone.  It was a big bag phone.  Remember those things?  Ahh yes...I would drive around holding the whole bag out the window so I could get a better signal.  Yeah, that was safe.  Speaking of memories, do you remember fuzz busters?  Oh wow!  I thought I was the total bomb because I had one that actually talked.  It would say "Be careful.  Slow down."  It was awesome until one Friday night when I was out cruising on the main drag in Brenham and I took the turn into Sonic a little too fast and my poor little fuzz buster went flying out the window.  Be careful.  Slow dddoooowwwnnn!

Hotel Transylvania...BLAH, BLAH, BLAH!

Quick update from the weekend...

Emrie and Brian both have terrible allergies.  They sneezed and snorted all night long.  I'm not sure who was more tired, me or them.  At least between all the sneezing and snorting, they slept.  I, on the other hand, had to listen to the sneezing and snorting ALL NIGHT LONG!  So...Saturday night or should I say early Sunday morning when I finally was so exhausted that not even a train outside my window would have kept me awake, I slept and slept and slept...right through church and most of the morning.  Sorry about that, God.

Yesterday afternoon, while Brian and Emrie (noses dripping) hung out at the house, Aiden and I decided to go to the movies.  We went to see Hotel Transylvania.  I LOVED IT!  It was a cute story with just enough adult humor and one-liners to keep me entertained.  The best part:  At a random time during the movie Aiden leaned over and said "Thanks for taking me.  Love you."  It was the sweetest moment.  5 minutes later he was back to being a typical 10-year-old and shushed me for laughing too loud!

Very Top Gun...What's That?

This morning Aiden put on Brian's Aviator sunglasses on the way to school.  I told him he looked like Goose to which he argued that geese do not wear sunglasses.  It was at that minute that I realized my Top Gun reference was totally lost on him. 

I just googled Top Gun.  The year was....do you know?  Well, do ya?   1986

1986!  No wonder Aiden didn't have a clue, he wasn't even born until 2002. 

1986...1996...2006...2012...Top Gun is 26 years old!!! 

Wow!  I'm old.