Overnight Guests

Zac and I invited Sean, Fallyn, and Kallan to stay with us at Mom's this weekend. The kids have been playing together so well. After they were in bed, Zac made margaritas and we ordered pizzas.

Shadowboxes

I've decided to start working on some shadowbox ideas like I saw on Pinterest. So far, I've got some baby info pages, but I'd like to go through their baby things and find my favorite onesies and a newborn diaper or something. Their feet were so tiny!

Nightmares in Babysitting

I'm staying at Carlton's house this weekend. Not just me, but Zac and the kids, too. We are babysitting Jordan and Aidan, who are three and one.

I like to consider myself a patient person. I do the count-to-three thing when my kids push my buttons. Usually it works, but when it doesn't, I leave the room to collect myself. My brother's children wear my patience so thin, I could floss with it. Needless to say, I'll never babysit these kids again.

Museum of Natural Science

We brought the kids to the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. It was super cool.

Vow Renewal

My parents renewed their vows this past Sunday. It was really sweet. They've been married 30 years.

I had to take Leah to the E.R. because Jac convinced her to jump off the bed, which resulted in a bloody nose. Nothing was broken, thankfully. Sometimes I don't know what gets into kids.

We found a playground behind the library, so we're going to start biking there often.

I finished reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, which was interesting, but a little hard to follow in places.

Random Update

I was coming home from work the other night and saw this cool cicada, freshly transformed from it's creepy crawly self.

Zac and I took advantage of the pleasant weather and went for a bike ride with the kids. I'd love to buy a basket for the front of my bike so we can tote water bottles and snacks for our longer rides.

The kids (and Zac) helped create a homemade Father's Day gift with hand prints. It was a lot of fun, though not so much a surprise as Zac had to lend a hand (har har).

Sushi

We're back from our trip to Louisiana and I cleaned out our refrigerator. I was unaware that pineapple juice could transform into pineapple yogurt. Ick!

Sean took us to the best sushi buffet ever at a place called Miyagi's Sushi Buffet & Grill in Slidell. I almost died, it was so good. I could eat there every day. No joke.

Tattoo # 6 and touch-ups

I went to see Jessie and get my tattoo-fix. She covered my original Taurus with a better one and colored the hearts behind my ear with primary colors. My newest tattoo is an ambigram on my wrist of J and L: J for Jac, L for Leah.

Birthday Party and Other Fun Things

The past few days have been busy. We had the kids' birthday party on Saturday and everyone had fun. I made a pizza-cake (recipe found HERE), thanks to some ideas on Pinterest. Since the jump-around wasn't so fun last year for Orrin, we bought a Slip-N-Slide, which was a huge success.

Jac and I spent some quality time together on Sunday. He's been feeling a little neglected since Leah has been acting so clingy. I brought him with me, just us, to visit Fallyn at the coffee shop. I bought him a cookie and a smoothie and we went to B&BW to smell candles and buy him some chapstick. Fallyn and Kallan came over Sunday night for dinner and so Kallan could get her goody bag from the birthday.

Monday, Jessie and Joey invited us to go to Cafe Du Monde for beignets and to the park so the kids could play.

Nick invited us to his house for games. I met his girlfriend, Vanessa, as well as talked with some people I used to be friends with years ago, like Stan and Rachel. Kyle and Claire also came and Claire brought her little girl named Maddie, who Leah just loved. We played a game called Quelf, which encourages humiliation of all players. We didn't get back to Sean's until after midnight.

I was talking to Rachel about our kids and found that her son, Dylan, takes Singulair for his allergies like Jac and that one of its side-effects are "aggitation, including aggressive behavior or hostility" which might explain why Jac is having trouble at school. I'm going to talk to his pediatrician about changing the prescription because I miss my sweet boy.

Leah is Three!

Happy Birthday, Leah!

We made it to Louisiana and the kids are driving me crazy! They're about to be in the bed so I can start reading The Help. Also, Garbage's Blood for Poppies album is amazing.

Art

I painted something for Katie. It's a memorial for her babies she miscarried last year. Each balloon represents a baby. I'm going to try to mail it to her this weekend as soon as I find a box to put it in.

Jac Graduates Kindergarten

Jac has officially graduated from Kindergarten! I'm so proud of my little man. I can't believe the school year has passed already.

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Jac is Six!

Jac is six today!

Zac and I brought Leah to Jac's school to eat lunch with him for his birthday. His face lit up when he saw us! We brought cupcakes for his class and the other kids stood around him to sing a birthday song. He picked six friends to be his candles. We handed out the cupcakes and watched a slideshow of his field day, then we left when he went to recess. He came home with a green dot today!