Zeke and Peyton Look-A-Like

This has got to be one of the funniest pictures I've seen in a while.  I was flipping through my phone after spending the 4th down at the lake with Mom, Dad, and the Schuette's (including Zeke)…..and I found this gem.  Peyton sure does love her some selfies!!!

Mom and kid roadtrip to KC

The kids and I got sick of the rain and took off on a little adventure.  We headed to Kansas City on a Sunday morning.  We went straight to the Kiewiets and spent the rest of the day and evening with them.  The next morning we hung with them until about noon and then we headed to Great Wolf Lodge and met up with Momma and kids Riggio.  The kids had a great, great time playing in the water park all day!
Maddie was able to do all the big slide (except one), as long as she rode in my tube with me.  This is awesome, as we could all wait in the lines together and all slide on the same slides.  Jack did not ride any of the slides that go dark.  He's not a fan of slides that go dark.  He also wasn't too sure of the biggest ride there either.  I finally convinced him the next day to ride it and then he loved it.
The kids and I had a great time, we will definitely be going back to Great Wolf and spending more than one night….it wasn't quite enough as we didn't get to do any of the other things the hotel has to offer!  It was a good getaway for a dreary summer!

To ER or not?!?!

NO WAY!!!  Not with this one!  So, I'm downstairs and hear an incredibly LOUD thud upstairs.  Peyton starts SCREAMING, I mean SCREAMING, like she's dying, saying, "MY HEAD, MY HEAD!"  I sprint up the stairs thinking something has went really wrong.  I find her on my floor holding her forehead.  To speed this story up a bit, she basically fell off my bed and hit the corner of my nightstand.  She then felt her head and felt blood and a "hole."  She is coo coo crazy when she gets any kind of wound.  So, she is panicking, so I put pressure on it and get it to stop bleeding.  I then put a band aide on it and act like it never happened.  When really, in my mind, I thought "this could probably use a stitch or two"…..but there was no way on Earth I was taking coo coo crazy girl to the ER.  They'd have to sedate her just to look at it.  Not worth it…..a scar would be better.

Mike then gets home from work and he takes the band aide off to take a look.  He decides to try and butterfly it, so that she will hopefully have lesser of a scar when she's a teenager and cares.  Holy crap!!!  It was a site.  She was scared to death……like she was going to have some major procedure or something over a flipping butterfly band aide.  She's got such anxiety!!!  Mike finally got it on and then had to redo it because she was sweating too badly by the time he got it on.  Shew!   What a fun Friday night!!!!

Trying to explain to her that this is not a big deal, it's actually just a BAND AIDE!!!

Now she's got Maddie freaked out by all the drama!

Now for the best part of the story!!  WHY DID SHE FALL OFF MY BED???  Because she was on my iPad making funny pictures of herself.  She made one that she thought was so funny, that she belly laughed and rolled off the bed……LOL   So, later I asked her to show me this funny picture, and here it is:

Don't know if it's quite so funny for all the trauma or not!!!

Morning routine

It's very routine in our house for Mike to leave at 5 for work, Maddie to stumble in my room around 6-6:30.  She will snuggle for a little bit and then play on my phone, while I attempt to keep my eyes shut a little longer.  Then around 7:00 the others stumble in (including Annie).  This is all the kids favorite time of day with Annie…..when she is sleepy and cuddly.  They all fight over her in the morning!!

Here's your sign….

Here's one sign of a good, summer day.  notice the rain on the windows….told ya it's been raining everyday!!!

Working Hard??

All three kids are taking gymnastics on Monday nights.  It's kind of nice, a one stop shop.  They can all go at the same time.  They all like it, but Jack and Maddie especially LOVE it…..although you wouldn't know it by this picture I snapped.  Doesn't look like Jack is working too hard, huh??

Rain, Rain….GO AWAY!!!

Unbelievable!!!  THIS RAIN CAN KISS IT!!!  We've had many softball and baseball games rained out, too many to even count or know.  We've had plenty of swim meets in the pouring down rain, plenty of cold and raining swim practices, deck furniture pushed to the side for over a month now while we wait for a dry day to stain the deck…..plenty of good bonding time inside!  We are OVER IT!!!!

It started out fun, but quickly became OLD!

Wont be any ballgames played there for a while!