This year’s Jog-A-Thon was a success.
It was Navy’s first, and she ran like the wind. Even outrunning her buddy Enzo who is in first grade!
I was really impressed with Scout also. We always say, slow and steady is best. I told him it doesn’t matter how fast you go, but to never stop. And he didn’t stop the whole time. And it was record heat!
But my favorite part about the Jog-A-Thon, is the “sibling lap”.
Navy took Dash and Pippi each on a lap.
And Scout walked a lap with Dash during his cool down.
And when they didn’t come back, I realized that Dash was holding his own with Scout’s buddies.
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So who does the award…for best jogger…go to?
Only the cutest of them all, who had the jogging arm movements down…and literally “jogged” two laps amongst the big kids.
Her only hurdle?
Every single parent who was rescuing the wandering baby.
Little did they know — I had my eye on her the whole time, as her determination was beaming.
Skilly ran for president.
Had an amazing teeny tiny campaign manager.
And took the race by a landslide.
Must have been the speech.
This girl spends her mornings dressing herself.
Whatever spare clothes she finds, she works to get on.
And if she does….she gives herself a standing ovation.
Scout wasn’t acing his spelling tests, so we came up with a new plan — test him each day until he knows them backwards and forwards.
Monday’s test — each wrong word is written 5 times.
Tuesday’s test — each wrong word 10 times.
Wednesday’s test — each wrong word 15 times.
Thursday’s test — each wrong word 20 times.
Unfortunately, Nate and Skylar were over during this Thursday spelling test. And when he got “because” wrong, I assigned him the 20 times. Then he whined, so I doubled it. Then he whined some more, and it got doubled again. This went on and on, until that poor kid had to write “because” 130 times.
Poor thing.
But he did it, and I was so proud that he finally did it, that I told him that he could go on a bike ride with Nate.
And as I sent them off, I realized that half of his 130 words were spelled incorrectly.
Are you kidding me!
But I let it ride, because he was out of my hair for a while!
Along with Dash and Navy!
I love Nate.
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They were gone for about an hour, and I was dying. The kids talked him into going to their “friend’s house” that had a talking parrot. He went along with it, and realized something was whacky when the door was answered by a 60 year old lady. She invited them in to see the parrot and collect a few feathers.
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He came back carrying his bike that had a flat tire, and Navy’s bike that was too hard for her to ride up the hill. And then told me about the 60 year old lady.
After I laughed a ton, I told him that she was a lady my mom visit taught. And that she has only met my kids once.
I when this little boy makes his way to my bed in the middle of the night. But it is amazing to me how he can always end up with every blanket by the morning. When I woke up and looked at him this morning, he was hibernating in his own personal blanket cave.
I came on this scene, and asked Dash what he was doing.
He said, “Oh….ummm, I’m just waiting for my toast to jump.”
Anyone who knows my mom, knows that she hides all of her treats under her couch.
Well, all of my kids know my mom well.
So quite often, I see little bodies peaking under the her couch in search of a snack.
Even Pippi know about the under-couch snacks.
And today, she scored with a box of Triscuits.
So she took them, hid in the wrap room, and in an effort to eat them, made a huge mess.
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The question in….
Who cleans this mess?
The Nonnie who irresponsibly hid messy food in a kid-reachable place?
Or the innocent mother?
When Navy was 8 weeks in utero, I was told I had twins, but that one didn’t look strong, so probably wouldn’t make it. Clearly, that one didn’t make it.
But one day I told Navy she had a twin, and she sometimes tells people she is a twin, and I think it is so funny. One day, she asked what her twin’s name was, and I told her it was Tallulah. So every once in a while, someone asks me, “Is Navy a twin?” or “Who is Tallulah?”.
And then between laughs, I tell them the story.
(Is this wrong?)
Pippi learned a great lesson today.
When you are tantruming, don’t head butt the edge of the chair.
this poor boy’s eye swelled up like crazy today.
We know it is allergies.
And we have narrowed it down to one of three things.
Pineapple
Ginger - Seth and Cade’s dog
Pollen from the honeysuckles
My motherly educated guess is pollen.
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