Catching girls

It's really funny to watch Ian go to school. He has always gravitated towards the girls. I thought I needed to find him some boys to play w/but I don't know why I worried. He has his little posse' of girls that he plays w/daily at school. So I am signing Kolette up for Ballet last week and one of the Mom's there was saying her son told her that all Ian talks about is his brother, Dad and the trucks. So I ask Ian who he plays w/at recess again. He names all the girls. I ask him if he plays w/this one boy. He says "No, he just follows us around". So one of Ian's favorite girls tells her mom the same thing about this other boy. Only she says that she told the boy "Stop following me I need time to myself!". Now this little girl is very opionated so I am sure she said this quite loudly.

So yesterday Ian goes to the shop w/his dad and I went to Costco w/the rest of the kids. Ian was in the shop yard digging holes w/a shovel. His Papa asked him what the holes were for and Ian replied "To catch girls". Hmmm.... not sure what to think of that boys thinking pattern.

Privledge not a Right

Just a small vent on my part. I am busily trying to figure out if our school is going to be showing the Obama address to the school children. The thing that makes me the maddest is that if I didn't watch Fox news or or have a Facebook account I would have NO idea. My opinion on the public schools is this "It is a privlege not a right to have my children in your classes". So I am trying to figure out whether or not they are going to show it and if they are at what time. I will pull my kids out b/c I DIDN'T give them permission to show this to my kids. I want my kids to go to school to learn the basics not be brainwashed by the President. People would be in an uproar if they had done this w/Pres. Bush. So I am not sure if my kids are going to get a 3 or 4 day weekend.

Missing the big kids

Last week Kolette was kinda enjoying having her mommy all to herself. Well yesterday she said it was too quiet at home. So we walked to watch who was at recess. We saw Connor but he was playing w/his friends and I didn't want to bug him so I told her we weren't going to tell him we were there. She starts to cry. I told her we would come back and see Ian or Corrin later. So we sneak down and are watching for Ian. We notice everyone else we know and finally we walk by and 2 of his friends tell us where he is and he comes over. I told him she missed him and wanted to say hi. He had a notepad and a pen so he draws her a quick note and puts it thru the fence. She was on cloud nine. She said hi to all his friends that she knows and we left. Then we notice that Corrin's grade is also outside. 8 of Corrin's friends come over but no Corrin. The girls all say hi to Kolette and say that Corrin stayed in to work on writing(optional??? what's up w/that?). So we say goodbye and walk home. Kolette still wanted to see Corrin but we had to wait till school was out.

So we go to the school and are waiting for the kids. Connor comes out first and she gets a big hug and kiss and then she gets the same from the rest of the kids. I just love that she loves her brothers and sisters and that they aren't afraid to love her back. They are all keepers!!!!

Letter to the toothfairy

Corrin has gotten into writing to the toothfairy. Either for herself or Connor who doesn't want the toothfairy to take his teeth he wants his mom to have them. This the the letter Corrin left for the toothfairy tonite

"Dear Toothfairy,

Thank you for the gold coin. What is your last name? Mine is Shuster. Can I keep my tooth for tomorrow so my mo can take pictures and then you can take it tomorrow night. Is it okay if I keep the money tonight? Are you a boy or a girl? Do you like Candy? I do. Are you tall or small? Do you have short hair or long hair? I have long hair. I am in forth grade. I love forth grade. Do you go into different countrys or stay in Oregon? Do you have brothers or sisters or both? Are you oddst or youngest? What are their names?I am the oddest and I have 2 brothers and my sisters name is Kolette. Do you have any kids? Whare is your favorite color? Mine is blue.

Love,
Corrin"

This is the letter that the toothfairy left for Corrin.

"Dear Corrin,

Nice tooth, it came out fast. Can you ask Connor to wiggle his?

My last name is Floss. I have long curly hair. I am a girl. I don't have any kids I am gone too much doing the tooth collecting. I have 40 sisters and 7 brothers. I work everywhere. Blue is my fave color too.

Keep brushing,
Toothfairy"

Letter from Corrin

Corrin learned how to make a man out of one piece of paper and was so excited about it. Anyhow she was susposed to be in bed and I went upstairs and found she had made me a man and this is the letter that was inside.

"Dear Mom,
I made this man for you. You are sweet, loving, kind, nice. I stayed up till 8:45 but it was worth it. We did this in class but it was bigger and you have to guess which desck is mine and it has my girl that I did it looks like me alot and it took two hours to do at school and we did it from a pieace of paper.

From Corrin"

I left the spelling the same and the extremely long run on sentence the same way she did it. My heart is just huge right now w/the love she showed me in a man and a piece of paper. What a kid I will keep her. Like there was any doubt

Open house night

Well after a week of dreading my kids going back to school tonite we went to the school. It was Open House night and they got to take in all their stuff. I am so happy w/the teachers they all got so that has not been my worry at all. It's the letting them go part. However we went to Ian's class first and this is like home to me since Corrin and Connor have been in there for the past 4 years combined and we LOVE Mrs. Forrest. Ian was so happy to find his cubby and spot to sit. He even tested out his seat and it fits just right. Then onto Connor's class. Now this teacher we have never had before but I have talked to her a few times. The first words out of her mouth were "I am so happy to have Connor in my class I know his mom will help out alot" so I guess my reputation is a good one. I love to help in the class and so the opportunity to do it w/a happy teacher makes my day. Lastly was Corrin. She has had her heart set on her teacher and she was not disappointed her teacher is a real sweetheart. She is however battling breast cancer so we have her high on our prayer list. She was a real doll and also very happy to have a Mom help out in the class. I LOVE IT!!! So I am going to go to bed w/a happy heart tonite and tell the tears to not come until after I leave them on Monday. However I don't know that they will listen. Thankfully the good Lord has my back I just need to remember that. Reminds me of the old hymm "Yes, He cares I know He cares ..." can't remember now but it makes me feel good b/c I have spent too much time worrying and God is in control and I have been trying to drive this wheel of life all on my own and it's not working. But I still hate to leave my babies and esp hate to send my Ian when he has never been away from his mommy. Ok I end it here...

Not Me Sun/Monday

Ok I am not even half as computer savy as Tiffani but I am going to do a Amy not as good as Tiff version of Not Me Monday. However my Not't have to do w/Sunday hence the title.

These are just a few of the things I did NOT do yesterday. I guess I should go back to Sat. I did NOT got out on a date w/my hubby for our Anniversary 15 yrs thank you very much. I had every intention to get back early but forgot Donnie's always late. So we left the kids at a friends for her 14 yr old daughter to watch the kids. I did NOT promise we would be back early and not get there till 10:30. I would NOT ever say I was going to be early and not be. So my kids didn't get out of bed very easily yesterday for church. I did NOT take a 7 yr old to the bathroom w/Kolette to have a
"talk" with him. He did NOT protest the entire way there. I did NOT offer to make him miss out on Childrens church if he couldn't keep his hands to himself.

Then to make matters more complicated I did NOT decide the perfect time to get the kids backpacks was yesterday afternoon. I did NOT have 2 boys messing around in the bra and panty section of Kohls. I did NOT hear Ian say he was going to buy Connor a bra. I did NOT offer to tape their hands together if they didn't leave each other alone. I did NOT wonder why I took all 4 kids shopping to Costco after that. I then did NOT consent to dinner out w/my in-laws in town. Now at least here the kids were good considering they were very tired. However since I have decided to be strict w/the getting on school time schedule I did NOT let the kids go to bed after 9. Then I did NOT have a hard time getting all of the up this morn even after 8. I am also NOT looking forward to getting Ian the reluctant up for school. That is NOT going to be fun.

Hope you all have a wonderful week of NOT's I know I will. But in all honesty I am very much not ready for my babies to go to school. And I am really wanting to be able to fall asleep w/o stressing over every little detail of what will happen on the first day/week of school.