I don’t know what it is about costumes that opens my wallet, but I literally can not resist if I find a good one.
Wouldn’t you be?
Seriously — can you dream up anything cuter — the answer is no.
Have you ever seen a cuter astronaut?
This little astronaut is dressed up all day in this beauty from Costco. Costco — you did me proud with this one!
And Icka not only loves being Elmo, she won’t go to bed without him sleeping right next to her.
But she really loves when Scout becomes Elmo. She hugs him non stop.
These minor investments make me happier than anything. I only wish they came this cute in my size.
When I was taking off to Utah, I was sick about leaving my kids. Micah was going to be in Vegas for work, so I asked Megan if she would do the honor. She not only accepted, but she acted like she had won the lottery because she was so excited. Of course she did! And I was not disappointing. While I was in Utah, I got about five pictures every day of what new activity they were all doing. She even pulled Trey and Chloe from school on Friday to hang out with their cousins. Needless to say, I wasn’t worried for a second while I was gone. The only feeling I felt was guilt. How could my kids do more in four days than in an entire month with me. I honestly don’t even know where to start, because not only did she do a million things, but I came home to over 300 pictures documenting the entire time. So here are some of the highlights.
My biggest fear was Megan taking on the whole load, so I put a little incentive out there for the cousins. they were stoked, and Trey and Chloe took the lead and earned $30 each. Not bad for just playing with their cousins!
Within the first minutes of getting there, Megan had Scout and Navy’s true love hot off the stove for them — Bacon. She said they consumed an entire pound while they were there. Look at my little self-appointed vegetarian cheating!
We had a layover in Phoenix, and I got this picture of the kids at donuts. Now can you understand why Megan is the saint of all saints!
Here’s Icka playing with her BFF Chloe.
Here’s Scout on what he claims as “his swing”. Unfortunately, Trey was a little annoyed with Scout’s claim.
But most of the time he was a good sport and was Scout’s BFF. Trey got him going high on the swing with this push.
Megan said the majority of the time was spent with all of the cousins on the tramp. Scout was totally into wrestling, and Icka was just a good sport at everything.
Chloe had her own personal doll. She spent countless hours styling Icka’s hair. Here is Chloe’s go at ponytails. Not bad!
this is where I really started feeling the guilt come on. megan did arts and crafts with the kids every day. I avoid them at all cost! I can’t stand the clean up — especially Play Dough, and I have a problem with wanting everything to turn out really cute, so I have been accused of “not letting anyone else do anything”. (Mostly from Skylar during our pumpkin carving contests.)
Megan’s only concern was how the kids would sleep. (Understandably after she witnessed the wrestling move I had to put on Icka in France.) But I told her that my kids were actually really good sleepers. And they really did end up to be almost perfect sleepers at her house. Especially Icka — Yay!
Scout insisted on sleeping on Chloe’s floor. How cute is Trey’s little gift to Scout while he slept.
Or I guess it is from the “stuffed animal man”. How cute!
Of course the total highlight was swimming for the kids. Megan’s community has a foot and a half pool that Scout fell in love with. He taught himself how to swim in it, and is utterly obsessed.
Here is Scout in one of his many Target purchases. Megan let them go in and browse and put anything in the cart they wanted. Talk about setting a precedent.
Scout couldn’t believe that Megan had an underwater camera. He tells me like I am a bad mom for not having one!
But in the end — Megan was not so excited about the whole swimming thing. Mostly because Scout drank so much water which turned into diarrhea in the pool and it had to be completely cleared out of over 100 people. The worst part is that amongst the 100 were many of her and the kids friends. Too bad the underwater camera didn’t catch that one!
When Megan yanked the kids out of school, they headed to the Wild Animal Park. Scout is now a season pass holder — she is out of control!
Neither of my kids is a huge animal lover, but Icka is Way ahead of Scout. Megan said Scout was a disaster with the lorakeets.
Here is a moment of “sibling rivalry”… I guess after Scout had stayed over for more than a few hours, Trey and Scout were like brothers. No more cousin pleasantries.
We are a water family — so Megan even hit it big with the little things like juice boxes.
Here are the kids playing a little “chubby bunny” and laughing hysterically. This is actually a video, and everybody was cracking up because when Icka’s mouth was so full that things were falling out, she would grab her cup and take a drink.
The brothers were in love again at Jake’s x-country meet.
Jake is running Varsity this year and has improved his time a ton! Scout loves watching him run, and every time we drive through our gate, he insists on getting out and running the rest of the way home. I yell at him like I do to Jake in his meets, and Scout thinks he is so cool!
Going to church — looking GOOD! What a handsome bunch.
I brought a present for each of the kids to earn if they were good. Scout earned his “knight in shining armor” costume, and Icka got her flower umbrella. Nice work kids. But if you have to know — Megan would have given them to you if even you were rotten.
And FINALLY — A MOMENT OF SILENCE — PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER FOR THIS WOMAN. SHE IS THE LADY OF THE HOUR…..MRS. MEGAN BROCKBANK!
My only complaint –
The first morning he woke up at home he came in and said, “Hey mom — how about we go to Denny’s for breakfast, and then we go swimming, and then we go to Chuck E. Cheeses, and then we can do something else really fun.”
Well—we did swim.
Brit and Sug had a group of us girls up for a Swiss Days Visit. And what a blast we had! The hits of the party were these four:
We spent quite some time on the beauties above. As you can tell….
The other hit of the party was Ure Mama….
And here “Queenie” is in her WitchyPoo’s get up for the parade we were the finale in.
She’s in the middle, and her two lovelies are on either side.
I don’t know how I ended up so hideous — but I definitely took the cake.
Some cuter and more glamorous witches.
Ashly looking good!
And the woman who made it all possible.
Sug — (and Brit) The award for the Hostess with the Mostest — goes to you.
If you have had problems with your one year old biting their nails down to nothing — I have the solution:
Best $5.00 I have spent in a long time. Now I am going to try it on Scout who has picked up the nerdy habit of putting his entire fist in his mouth when he is nervous or uncomfortable. And I give it my seal of approval, because when I accidentally put some on my fingernail and tasted it — it was NASTY! No wonder it works so quickly.
How sweet is it when your child just starts having a somewhat uncontrollable meltdown as you are chatting it up with your neighbors. (Keep in mind that these are the neighbors that have two really sweet and well-mannered girls.) I was trying to tell him to toughen up, but he just kept complaining that his nose hurt. We have been having a problem with him picking his nose lately, so I said, “that’s what happens when you pick your nose so much Scout.” But the little neighbor girl interrupted me and told me that he put something up there. Truth be told — I didn’t really believe her. But after five straight minutes of him crying, I finally excused myself and went in to see what the issue was. I really couldn’t see anything, but after really inspecting (thank goodness the girl gave me a tip off) I saw a light colored ____? After an interrogation, Scout admitted he had shoved a corn nut up both sides. Talk about a bad flirting strategy. It took a few minutes, but after plugging up one side, and making him blow — the really large snotty corn nut reared it’s ugly head.
Pre Surgery.
I could not believe how big it was.
When I showed it to him, he started laughing. When I said, “we won’t ever do this again — right?” He responded with, “But you got it out.” Awesome — next time try something cooler like a quarter.
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