the frog prince

and the frog turns into a prince...

oh well... maybe next time!

strangling - (I mean hugging) my sister


fireman Chase

Tooltime Ellison

we are a little bit obsessed w/ firemen right now...

well, some of us love firemen.. & others not so much

Many of you have asked why I have not written in a while. The truth is that I was traumatized by our next to last swimming lesson & it has taken me a while to get over it & actually write about it. To no avail I was hoping for a better week this time around at the ol' pool scene for lesson #2. After he slapped his teacher across the face several times, they finally made me go hide in the women's restroom & would not let me watch the rest of the lesson where he could see me. I definitely knew he was still not enjoying himself as I listened to the screams all the way from the bathroom. Lesson #3 was only about 2% better. I was watching from afar again & noticed that the hitting ratio had gone way down since last week - he only hit his teacher maybe 2 instead of 6 times & he also screamed through about only 75% of the lesson. I did my best to quit after last week but the instructor talked me out of it. Seiously, what am I still doing here?

Favorite quotes of the week..
1. On the way home today Chase told me that he needed to go to the doctor before his nap.
"Why, Chase, what is wrong?"
"Last night I threw up in my bed & it was everywhere"
"Oh, I guess the throw-up fairy cleaned it up, I thought, b/c I think I would remember that one..."

2. "Mommy, I hit Gigi today in school - can I have an M&M for that?"
Clearly he is a little bit confused on our "rewards for behavior" method...:)

alyssa & chase
I overheard a conversatioin btw. our neighbor, Alyssa, & Chase today & it went sort of like this...

"This is a scary movie." said Alyssa
"This is not a scary movie - it is an awesome movie!" says Chase
" I am so scared." says Alyssa

"No it's not, let's just watch the dragon eat the prince, Alyssa"

I think I would be scared too...

the butler

I always joke with Chris about how I am the butler, maid & cook at our house. Boy, he has it easy.. he doesn't even have to pay me! Anyhow, last night I had a "butler" moment..

3:30am - "mommy, I need some ice cold wah-wah!" Chase cries from his crib

What have we created?? Okay.. another night of interrupted sleeep..

Tonight 20 minutes after I put Chase to bed I heard "mommy, ice cold wah-wah & I have poo-poo!"... here we go again!