Sad It's Over

Saturday was officially the end of t-ball season. I am so bummed. I don't think CJ is as upset as me! I had so much fun teaching the kids how to play. Greg said he will probably coach next year. Yeah!

Ry has been going on the potty like a big girl so last night we went and bought her some big girl undies. I'm amazed at the sizes of toddler underwear. I guess if it were up to Disney and Hanes only 4 year olds would be potty trained? I had the hardest time finding size 2 undies.

Ry picked them all out on her own (Minnie Mouse and Disney Princesses)then when we got home she had to put all six pairs on at the same time. The kid is crazy. She thought it was hysterical. Eh, who am I kidding it WAS hysterical!!

I don't have any new pics, but I found these on my palm. Enjoy!

-J

Johnson Family Drama

Yesterday as I was leaving my office a friend from the department across the hall told me he saw someone back into my car and drive off. Of course, because of my luck, there was damage to my car! My friend now known as GS (good samaritan) followed her and got her license plate number. GS you are the best! He hung out with me until campus police arrived and told them what he saw. Crazy part of the story...she's parked in the same spot today!! I am now waiting on the detective to call me with her name (in the mean time I went down and took pics of her car's damage on my palm:-)

I work at a large university with multiple cameras, security swipe cards and parking passes that require license plate numbers...did she really think she would get away with it?

On a happier note, CJ told this hilarious story about tacos at school yesterday. He said him and his friends were "super excited" to have tacos yesterday. Mason (his friend) said Ms. Barb bought them at Taco Bell, but CJ "knew they were made special for them". Haha. I would loved to have heard the actual conversation.

Happy Friday!

-J

CJ's Status: Shots Survived

CJ survived! I told him about 2 minutes before he got shots that he was getting them. His response: Mom, what's a shot?! I knew he wouldn't know! Unfortunately, he will remember for the next round. Through sobs, after getting stuck twice he told me, "I don't like shots".

The kids had a blast at the Magic House. It was totally packed and after 2 and a half hours Dad and I were exhausted! I packed a picnic lunch for us to eat before we went in. Of course all the picnic tables were full and there was no good place to spread our blanket so they ate in the back of the Saturn. I felt bad, but as you can see they didn't mind.

CJ went down the 3 story slide. Talk about stressful! I had to run down 3 flights of very narrow stairs to get to the end before him!

They loved all of the wooden instruments

and the balls that were floating on air (yeah - I have no idea what the technical name of it is).

CJ's favorite was the contruction zone. The place was insanely full of kids so I didn't get any pictures, but they could carry styroform up for the building and dig in gravel. There was even a real bobcat they could play on!

My favorite part? This sign:

As always, CJ is above average!

-J

Yea! Friday!

I'm taking a half day of vacation today. My Dad is meeting me and the kids at the Magic House. I have been wanting to take them for so long! CJ has his 4 year check-up this afternoon and he has to have shots. He hasn't had shots since he was 2. The bad thing is he now knows what shots are and that they hurt. Is it bad that I have told him he is seeing Dr. Lackey today, but I left out the part about shots? I guess I'll warn him right before the doctor comes in?! Wish me luck!

Have a great weekend!

-J

Mmmmm Peaches Part Two

We took the kids to pick peaches yesterday. They had so much fun. We also had fun trying to explain to a 4 year old and a 1 year old that they shouldn't bite into every peach they pick! Here they are riding the wagon out to the peach trees:

I had trouble getting pics of them actually picking the peaches, they were all over the place!

Enjoying the fruits of their labor (sorry - I had to!):

Before we left they had to sit on the tractor. We were going to lunch after and CJ said bye, we'll see you there. Good luck on a non-functioning tractor CJ!

-J

Wormy Wednesday

The weather is still great so we have spent our evenings outside. Last night the kids were helping Greg pull weeds in our "garden". CJ calls it our garden but it's actually the landscaping in front of our house. As they were pulling weeds they found some worms. Here they are searching for more:

CJ was so excited to play with (torture) his new friend.

After this they went straight to the bath!

-J

July? More like October!

The weather in the STL was amazing this weekend! The high Saturday was only 72! It was more like Fall than Summer. We enjoyed most of our weekend outside.

CJ had a t-ball game Saturday morning. Three of his teammates were on vacation so the Red Sox only had four players! The other team was late so by the time the game started our team had been practicing for a half hour. After two innings this kids were exhausted so we cut our losses and told the other coach the kids were done. I guess if we kept score this would have been a forfeit!

Later Saturday afternoon we went to Grant's Farm. Apparently everyone else in the STL had the same idea! We had lots of traffic and LONG waits, but the kids were good and had a great time. CJ and Ry even pet a snake! No thanks!! Ry loved all the animals. I didn't get as many pics as I would like because the batteries died in my camera. Go figure.

Here is Ry pointing at the turtles. The one turtle liked her and kept moving closer to her. He would move to her and she would jump back about a foot!

The macaws were really loud and Ry thought they were hilarious.

This is the snake they pet. I'm sure CJ is asking the girl a ton of questions in this pic.

In other news, Ry went on the potty last night and again this morning. Yea Ry bear!! She's getting so big!

-J