Bathtub Flu

Poor Max insisted on going to school Monday even though he didn't feel great he said he had to go to school. He made it until they were lining up to get on the bus to go home and then he started throwing up. So I had to run up there and pick him up. The whole time he is swearing that he's not sick. He had a bug that Pop calls the bathtub flu because he says you might as well sleep in the tub because you're leaking from both ends. We had to tell Max that there was no school yesterday so Mom-Mom wouldn't have to argue with him about staying home. Mom called me at work to bring her some supplies home because Max had ever so kindly shared his germs with her and now she had it. Mikey's been fighting a cold or something for about a week now. He took Nyquil the other night and was talking in his sleep. His blood sugar is completely out of whack (he'll never admit it though), he came home the other day talking about almost falling asleep 3 times while he was driving. I'm scared to death that I'll get a phone call one of these days that he's been in an accident because he passed out behind the wheel. He's stubborn and hard headed and just won't listen to anything but what he wants to hear. So annoying!!

bike week

Hanging out with friends at the Timeless Tavern.

There were 29 Bikes in our group.

Action shot! Most of my photos are shot while moving!

Jessie

Rich

Rich

Happy Anniversary!

Today, we've been married for 5 years.

In November, it will be 7 years that we've been together. He can be a major pain, but I'm rather attached to him and since the good points outweigh the bad I decided not to kill him after all. Instead, my mom kept the boys and we went to OC Bike week Saturday. We hooked up with some friends and some of their friends and basically rode all day. We had to call it a day much too early because I had to work Sunday. We so rarely get to do our own thing it was nice to get out and see some friends.

Til Death Do Us Part?

Our anniversary is Tuesday September 22. We will have been married 5 years if I don't bludgeon him to death first. Sunday there was major attitude. He finally was putting up the light in the hallway and evidently home improvement makes him cranky. He couldn't get to an outlet because of my ebay things being stacked on top of a cabinet and was very rude about it,threatening to knock everything in the floor. I told him that if he asked me to I could plug in the drill for him but I did not put those things there to personally inconvience him. What a pity I had to go to work and couldn't stay for more fun and games.

Today we came home from work with attitude. First we were crabby because he wasn't informed that there was no school today and he doesn't feel good. Dinner was without incident, but his after dinner nap was interrupted by a coughing fit. Since 5 other people live here besides him, I could not hear him coughing all the way down the hall. He swears the kids could hear him and were making fun of him but that's not possible since each boy was in his own room allegedly cleaning it up ( as I type this Max is shouting I'll clean up because he's been sent to bed for not cleaning up!). So, of course, I don't love him enough because I didn't hear him and rush to his aid when he was choking to death all alone.

Remember the GN'R song I Used To Love Her, But I Had To Kill Her? That's about how I feel right now!!

Labor Of Love

It was Labor Day weekend....and I got to work all weekend. Yes, once again I got to sell beer and ice to the masses and give directions to the beach Saturday and Sunday morning and Monday Night I got to direct people to 301 because 404 was (gasp!) backed-up with traffic. Daddy took Max for a bike ride Sunday over to Nikki and Larry's where he got to play with Ryan for a while. (I'm not terribly thrilled about this, but he did have a helmet on and he's going to do it anyway really whether I like it or not.) We went over again later to hang out which we haven't been able to do for a while (work, sickness, just plain busy) and had a great time. Matt & Kimmy were over on Saturday and the car needs to go back to the shop again. All the transmission fluid leaked out and was causing the car to smoke while they were headed to see a friend's band play so they had to stay over here.

Max was full of chatter about school. He likes it and couldn't wait to go back today. Kimmy went for a 4d sonogram today to make sure the baby is a girl before we send out baby shower invites and yes, definitely a girl. Hopefully my sound card converter comes soon. You can plug it in to a stereo and play tapes and then plug it in to your computer and make cds. I have a great gift idea for my brother and I can't wait to see his face!

My baby went to school!!

Today was the first day of pre k. Max is so excited to finally be going to school! We went to open house yesterday and dropped off his supplies. He had a good time checking out his classroom and some of his classmates. We had lunch and he got his shot and he got dressed for school in his new clothes Grandma (Mikey's Mom) bought him for school. He packed his snack and a juice box and put on his nametag. He put on his Maxie-sized Elmo backpack and went outside where he ran around like a crazy boy waiting for the bus. He got on the bus and didn't even look back!

Jarrett has really adjusted well to middle school! I thought all the changes would completely throw him for a loop but he is so grown up and just taking it all in stride. He's using his locker all by himself, turning in notes to the attendance office so he can be picked up from school and homework is a breeze! I'm thinking that both boys will deserve a treat (positive reinforcement is the name of our game!) and I'm thinking the Toy Story 3D double feature in October will be a good family day out.