Ways to freak out kids... and Xavier's birthday!

Tips on how to "freak out" a 6-year old... When daddy brings home "bait minnows" and has extra that he puts in a vase... DO NOT attempt to freshen water without holding something over the opening to keep fish inside the vase. They WILL jump out... and land inside the garbage disposal! They WILL flop around. Well, at least until you run water and turn on the disposal... then, not so much! Of course for me, all of this occured in front of Anna, whom Jerry had told the fish were "hers". Traumatized... she screams, "NO!! You killed my fish! My fish! My fish! You killed my fish!!" Yeah, I got to be the voice of reality on that one! While I am trying to explain as rationally as you can while being screamed at... I am continually trying not to burst out laughing at her! Finally, I gave up and had her call daddy so he could explain that those fish were going in the freezer that night anyway to be used as bait at a later time! Bless her little heart... she is so sensitive. Next time, it is all dad dealing with the fish!

We celebrated Xavier's birthday two weekends in a row! We went home for a last minute family get together and had a great time. We got to see family and the kids and I got to see Uncle Andrew and Aunt Sandy's new house. It was so beautiful out that weekend that we played outside on Friday and Saturday. Then we came home and three of our kids came down with allergies! Isn't that fun?! I ended up getting a touch too, however, I always end up getting the hideous cough at the end of mine... and that has been LOADS of fun.

This past weekend we took the kids to brunch at the Big Boy up the road from us. We questioned our thinking on the way out the door with a SCREAMING Sydney, and again when we were seated. But as soon as food was put in front of her (we did the breakfast bar), she was as good as gold! We had such a good family time on Saturday and it flowed over to Xavier's actual birthday on Sunday... it was nice. We spaced out his presents and I think he savored his birthday far more then if he just tore into them.

All in all he had a good birthday. He got books -which he loves, a scooter, helmet with knee and elbow pads, Pinnochio, and an outfit from Gma!

It is amazing that he has grown so much. I have to start thinking about Preschool with him next year... Makes me wonder how Sydney will react when he starts doing "school". Anna didn't like being left out when I started with Jay... Sydney is her own little person though... she might not care on bit!

We are still trying to decide if we want to rent or buy in Ga. We have a realtor and are approved for a loan. Now we just have to find time to go down there and look! We will keep everyone posted!

Time to shed.

This week a neighbor moved out of the neighborhood... and two more are scheduled to move in the next couple of weeks too. I am feeling the itch to move. Mainly because all of my close neighbors are moving. I can't wait for the nicer weather to get here. I want to go through a lot of things and shed things that we have out grown or don't need anymore. That makes it sound like we have a lot of unnecessary things in our house, and really we don't. We just have 5 kids and along with that comes all of their "accessories" that are needed at one point or another. So my goal will be to find an organizational way to have things where they need them, when they need them, and be able to FIND them! Ha! In other words, get rid of things that are not going to be used again for another child and label what I store.

We are going to head over to IN this weekend to celebrate (Aunt) Mary's birthday and Xavier and see family. My brother and his wife and child moved to Fishers, which is a suburb city of Indianapolis, so we want to stop by and see their house. My parents put their house on the market so we might have to stay with Jerry's parents more. Which will be interesting! My father-in-law told us if we ever needed to stay with them they would pull their camper into the driveway to stay in, and we could have the house! I thought that was pretty funny at the time, but now... I see his point! So it will be interesting to see how it all pans out.

Next week Jay and Anna are getting their 6 year old molars capped and I get to get a temporary crown put on a tooth! Yeah for me... did you catch that bit of sarcasm? I really do not like the dentist. I am glad the my kids don't mind going. It will be interesting to see if that changes for them after Tuesday. I wouldn't think that it would, but you never know. Jerry had his teeth capped when he was younger so he hasn't ever had a cavity. He doesn't know how lucky he is! Thankfully, my MIL will be coming over to help watch the kids so I can get their appointments and mine done.

Other than that... I don't know that we have anything else going on. We finally got Sydney over the bug that Jay had. Poor thing got sick all over again on Saturday after she had it on Wednesday! It was not good. But we are past that and moving on!

I hope everyone's week is going well!