Little Tiger
Just wanted to get a few quick soccer pictures up here. If he was doing this the whole game it'd be a lot more exciting!
UNT football Game 2
3 weeks ago
Showing posts with label Kyle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kyle. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Time Flies
The past two weeks have flown by. I guess that's a good thing, but my house disagrees. Although I did get it picked up for the most part today...there are still piles of laundry waiting to be folded and a floor that should be vacuumed, but I settled for sweeping the obvious dirt away.
So the diet. Hmm. I kind of took a break without meaning to. Last week's weigh-in I had gained .6lbs. Not a big deal. This week's weigh-in, I had lost a pound, so I'm down 15.4lbs from where I started. And I haven't really gotten back to it. I have a goal of losing another 15 pounds...or at least 10. But my heart isn't there right now. I did have to buy a new pair of pants for work last Saturday and when I put them on for work on Thursday, they were already too big. So I am still seeing results, just not on the scale. My plan is to start again tomorrow. I'd say right now, but it's just not realistic with plans to go out tonight.
Work is good. The school part of work is starting to calm down a bit. The kids are finally starting to "get it" so it's not quite as stressful as it had been. I have one child who tests me on a daily basis, but I knew that was coming when I agreed to take the class. And the school office job is great too. I enjoy seeing tangible results each day, being able to check things off as I finish them. I also enjoy being around the kids and not having to be in charge of them. All in all I have a good balance right now.
Other news - Katie finally lost her tooth last week. If you remember it first wiggled the night before school started and she hung on that thing for 49 days. Oh the trauma! And Kyle seems to be finally getting the idea that he has to stay on the field for the soccer game. He has moments where he really gets into it and goes after the ball and then the other 75% of the time he is wandering aimlessly or playing in the goal or chasing his friend Gavin. But he did stay on the field today.
Friday, September 11, 2009
What a Week!
Whew! The past two weeks have flown by. And this week has been just a little nutty. As you may (or may not) know, I started both of my jobs this week.
I dropped the kids off for carpool on Tuesday morning and came back home to finish getting ready. I was able to do some dishes, make the bed and clean up the living room before heading out the door at 8:01am. I gave myself a little extra time because I didn't want to be late. But, someone decided to get into a little fender bender (not me!) on the freeway which blocked 3 lanes...so, at 8:37am I called my boss (mom!) to let her know that I wasn't going to be there by 9am. I strolled into the office at 9:30. Ugh. Not the best way to start your day. At least I know the boss well! I was able to stay late to make up the 30 minutes so all was fine.
Wednesday was my first day of class with my new 3 year olds. I had a slight suspicion things were not going to go well since Kyle woke up with a sore throat and a tummy ache. He barely ate anything and had some trouble on the toilet before we left. I thought maybe he had accidentally had something he was allergic to, so I didn't think much of it. As we neared Spring Cypress (about 1 mile from school), I hear, "Mom, I'm throwing up!" and that he did. All over himself and all over the carseat. Gross. The good news is, that finally convinced Katie that she could be dropped off in the morning car line to walk herself to her class. Unfortunately I couldn't just turn around and take him home because I had to walk Amy into her class. I called my boss to let her know that once I could locate Derek (who was on a conference call at home), I'd get him to pick Kyle up. I drove over to take Amy to class, changed Kyle's clothes and ended up walking into the office to let her know that I was just going to drive him home anyway and I'd be back as soon as I could. She was very understanding. Lucky for us, MDO doesn't start until 9am and this all happened at 8am. So I got Derek on the phone and he met us at Target where we switched Kyle to a booster seat - I think we may end up retiring the Britax after this episode - and they headed home. He proceeded to have diarrhea all day long, poor thing. And I made it back to work at 8:55am. I was not nearly as prepared as I had hoped for my day. I didn't get the copies made that I wanted. I didn't get some things posted that I wanted, but in the grand scheme of things it was fine.
My kids were for the most part good. It will take a couple of weeks to get used to the rules and routine, but I was happy that they were excited about sitting for a story and singing some silly songs with me. There will be some challenges, but there are some adorable little personalities to make up for those too.
But, Kyle is still sick, so I've had to take two sick days - one at each school this week. Not exactly the way I wanted to start my jobs. But they will be there next week and I can start all over again.
Now for the other craziness of my week: I decided to start a doctor-supervised weight-loss program on Wednesday. Supposedly I will start to feel better after three days, so that should be tomorrow. My fingers are crossed because I have been fighting a cold while doing this so I don't know whether the diet or the cold is making me feel so lousy. I have almost constant headaches (although I don't have one right now, so maybe I'm on the upswing) and about 3pm I feel like I've been hit by a truck. I've been assured that the headaches will stop and that I will have more energy after my body gets used to the insanely lower amount of calories that I am taking in. So I'm learning a new way to eat and I haven't had any sugar or carbs (besides a strict list of vegetables) since Wednesday. The strange thing is, I don't crave anything sweet - it's the salty crunchy stuff that I miss. I'm definitely going to have to buy some soy crisps this week so I have something to crunch on besides dill pickles. I go back in on Wednesday to weigh-in and get my next batch of food, so I'll post my progress then.
Friday, July 3, 2009
Vroom, Vroom
Last weekend the kids went to a birthday party for Kyle's friend Noah. Noah's grandparents had come down for a couple of weeks from Minnesota...on a Goldwing. Guess who had their first motorcycle rides?
What a great birthday party idea!
Monday, June 1, 2009
The Sharks
Today at T-ball practice we had a make-up picture due to several kids being absent when the professionals took the team photo. So I had my camera there to capture the afternoon. Here are the Sharks:
And of course we can't forget Kyle! He and Beck had a great time this afternoon playing superheroes.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
In the Lord's Army
Last week was Kyle's Spring Program. I tried to videotape it, but unfortunately he was behind another little girl so I didn't get much of him. He did a great job looking at his teacher (not the one in the picture below) who made the mistake of going behind the class to try to encourage them to sing a little louder. Kyle and three of his friends turned around to look at her...which is what they were supposed to do, except she was supposed to be in front of them. Oh well. It was cute anyway. And my class did a fantastic job if I do say so myself. Actually we had a few comments to that effect, so I don't mind bragging a little. It wasn't my doing at all. Our assistant is a fantastic singer and has a way of teaching those kids how to sing their little hearts out to Jesus. 
And of course, my class singing "Stories" by Go Fish. Go Fish is coming to concert at Trinity next month - get your tickets at Ticket Servant. It will be so much fun! As I said above, my class did a great job singing "These are the stories in the Bible, straight from God to you and me!"
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Friday, March 20, 2009
Back to the Bazoo
Whew! What a week. We have been fighting illness in this house all week. All four of us have headed to the doctor and my pharmacist asked how I was doing and I for the first time in almost a year croaked out "I'm sick. These are actually for me this time." The bad part of it is that the combination of medications that I am on has been causing me sleepless nights which coupled with sick children has made for a crazy few days. I have been an emotional basketcase for the past two days to the point of near exhaustion. I told Derek today that I feel like I have a newborn at home again. Kyle has been waking up at all hours of the night for almost a week now. He finally told me last night at 2am that it was his ear that hurt. And yes, he has an ear infection confirmed by our Pediatric PA this afternoon. And we got Katie some heavy duty cough medicine since the one she's been on for 2 weeks doesn't seem to be doing the trick. Hopefully with the new medications they will get some rest so that I can get some rest.
Yesterday we headed to the zoo (after I had only 2 hours of sleep the night before). And this time around Kyle corrected me and said, "it's not the Bazoo Mom, it's just the ZOO!" Oh, thanks for setting me straight on that one. It was a gorgeous day and we had so much fun. 6 adults were herding around 10 kids ranging in age from 1 month to 12 years. It was great; for the most part they paired off and stayed that way so we just had to do head counts before we moved. So here's the pics:
Gotta love the Bazoo! Read more...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Spring Breakin'
Yes, I admit it...we've been MIA lately. Between illnesses, travels and just plain having fun Rude Manor has been taking a break from the blog world. Last weekend we headed to Fredericksburg to visit my sister and her family. It's always so nice to go relax and slow it down a bit when we see them. The kids had a Star Wars festival in the backyard - Kyle was in heaven! 
The next day they took it easy and played in the sand box and on the fort while Noah went down to the creek to "fish". The chickens tried to help with the sand creations, but were quickly shooed out of the sandbox. 
We celebrated Aunt Leslie's birthday with an oreo chocolate cheesecake and chocolate pudding for the kids. Yummy!
On the drive home, we took a detour to check out Lake Bastrop. Not much there, don't think we'll be making a return trip, but the kids enjoyed the short break.
And finally we took another detour on the drive home when we found a real patch of Texas Bluebonnets. Nothing like our roped off field of flowers at the area park...these were the real deal in Brenham. Gorgeous!
So that was our weekend...we're still Spring Breakin' around here. Headed to the BaZoo tomorrow. Hooray!
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