Playing Catch-Up Again!

The weekend and blogging aren't working together right now. And the next 6 weeks will not be any easier. With camping trips, vacations, visits and business trips, the Man and I are going to be super busy. Please bear with M.E.

Treat

As I've mentioned this week, Buddy has been doing super good at school. Either he's finally learned self-control & good decision making or his teacher is giving us all a break with only 1 week of school left. Whatever the cause/reason, he had all smiley faces on his Friday report. We were so happy for him. He had 4 last week for a total of 9. I think he did this one other time this school year, but its not the norm.
Yesterday morning, he started brainstorming what we (the Man and M.E.) could do for him as a special treat for being so good at school. He decided he wanted to go spend the night in a hotel and swim. I immediately said, we aren't spending that kind of money so you can swim. However the Man thought it a great idea. What? He remember that last week, he received a reimbursement from city taxes when he worked in KY and he had been debating how to use it and he thought this would be perfect.
I must say I was surprised. I really thought the Man would use this money for hunting gear or new CDs, but instead he wanted to reward his sons. Now that's a MAN!
So off we go to a hotel. It was only blocks from our house, which was so funny. We could practically see our house. We checked-in and immediately the boys got their swimming gear on and headed for the pool. The boys wound up swimming three different times and had a blast.
Little Guys simply has no fear of the water. He just loves it. Buddy, too!
What a special treat! It was so worth it!

Baby Birds

Going out with the Man to check on the garden, I discovered some little friends.

The ironic thing is.... we have a birdhouse that Grandpa and Buddy made, hanging on the fence almost directly across from this nest, no more than 30 feet away.

Sunshine!

We had an abundance of sunshine today, which was perfect for doing laundry. With all the rain we've been having, I've been unable to use the clothes line, but today, I loaded it up.

Looking forward to having nothing on the weekend schedule.

Storms

A quick note to let everyone know we survived the storms last night, although it was exciting with all the lightning. It continuously thundered for an hour and shook the house several times, rattling all the windows. It even woke up Buddy, which is pretty hard to do.
I think we are up to 11 days with perception (I'm pretty sure she meant "precipitation" -JB). At least 4 more to go, if Grandmaw is right.

Edit: The Man did manage to capture some great rain pics last night.

Note, the Man pulled all the way up, as to hopefully avoid a busted windshield from large hail, but fortunately the hail was only pea sized. Also, note the cascading sheet of rain coming off the house although we have gutters. Yes, it was raining very hard, but if you look closely about 1 foot or 2 from the downspout there's no wall of water coming off the gutters. Want to know why? That's the spot were Buddy's lost baseball is. It backs up the water so it has to go over the gutter instead of down the gutter. ugh! Its eventually going to get washed down to the downspout and then we will be major trouble. Perhaps I can get the Man up there this weekend and remove it.

Batting practice this afternoon, and as you know it has rained alot here, so the field had some standing water.

1 three-yr old + 1 small pond + 1 hour of free time = a very muddy little guy.

I didn't even tell him no, or to stay out of it. It would have just been too exhausting for both us and I thought to myself. Tomorrow is it going to be a big deal that he played in the water & mud? No, not really. So I let him have his fun. Come on, you are only 3 once, right?

Letter People Day

This school year, Buddy has spent at least one week with each letter of the alphabet. They have these little inflatable people called Letter People and they are known for various things, i.e. Mr. B is known for his beautiful buttons, so on and so forth. Well, last week they finished up the alphabet and this week they are celebrating that fact.
Thus, Letter People Day, complete with letter pancakes for breakfast, letter cookies for snacks, special letter activities, and costumes. Yep, each student was to dress up like a letter person.
This was the difficult part because Buddy couldn't decided who he wanted to be. He went through all the letters, then decided not to go as a Mrs., that's for girls, so that narrowed it down to about half. He finally decided on Mr. Q, who is known for his quiet questions. The questions part I get, but Buddy is anything but quiet.
Here's a snapshot of him and the Zman taken this morning by our friend Kathy (Zman's Mom). Aren't they just he best buds! Zman went as Mr. Z known for his zippy zippers, of course. P.S. THE SUN IS SHINING! WOW!

Edit: I just downloaded some pics and so I want to share this one. Buddy has been doing very good with following direction, etc at school and has stayed on Green for 7 consecutive days. This is such a big deal that we stopped for some ice cream today, and I got this pic.

More than a 1000 words for this one!

Stormy

For those of you with cable, you've likely heard about the VORTEX 2 project that's taking place here in OK. For those who don't know, there is a mutli-million dollar weather project our here in the plains chasing tornadoes, so that we may better understand them. I'm really hoping to see some of these guys in town or on the interstate, not a tornado. I mean how cool would it be to meet Mike Ciedale, the guy from the weather channel. (I'm not sure how to spell his name, but that's how it sounds). And I know they've got to be getting close to us, because today we got a really quick severe thunderstorm that dropped a bunch of hail in a matter of a few seconds.

It was melting so fast I barely got a pic of how big it really was.

And just for the record, Buddy's team won there game last night. We are now 5 - 0. woo-hoo!