Labor Day Weekend

MANY thanks to our FABULOUS friends, the Danas, for having us for the weekend!

We had a great time at the lake!

Watched some football, drank beer, rode in the boat, drank beer, watched kids bounce off the trampoline "a la Wipeout," drank beer, played on the jetski, drank beer, ate, drank beer...

Pattern anyone?

Baby Chicklet loved EVERYTHING about the lake!

Pumpkin and the Middle Chicklet enjoyed some dusk fishing.

Of course, we missed our Eldest Chicklet, but she was busy ringing in the new football season as as college freshman!

We couldn't have had a better kick off to fall!

Labor Day Weekend

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Out of the Mouth of Baby Chicklet

"Daddy and Tripp are related."

"They both poot."

Well, then...

Out of the Mouth of Baby Chicklet

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Breathe

That's what I need to do.

It has been a crazy several weeks - with no posts!

We had Hell Week at school - CRCT, our annual Crawfish Boil, and changing the schedules/planning for centers for 180 kids - all of fifth grade.

Not to mention, kids and life in general!

WHEW!

Middle Chicklet is thankfully finished with track. That takes one thing off my plate.

Although he didn't place in any events, he improved his time in all his events every time he ran.

Pretty impressive!

Eldest Chicklet....

Well, we have prom this Saturday and then 4 weeks until graduation.

Her graduating really hasn't sunk in yet.

I think when it does, I may have a meltdown.

Baby Chicklet is her normal sassy self.

She's MOSTLY a good sport about having to be drug around to everyone's activities.

It's tough to be the baby. :)

She is preparing for her ballet recital that is coming up in a couple of weeks.

But she's informed me that she does not want to do any more dance.

She wants to CHEER!

(Tear, cry)

I thought I was officially finished with cheerleading!!

And Pumpkin...

He's been in Toronto, Charleston and Chicago in the last 3 weeks.

Life in the Fast Lane.

Gotta love it!

Breathe

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Life Lesson for Middle Chicklet

CRCT

Criterion-Referenced Competency Test

Hell Week for teachers AND students!

We preach to our kids at school to get a good night's sleep and eat a GOOD breakfast.

Last night I took Middle Chicklet to the store to get breakfast food as all we have is Pop-Tarts, Chocolate Chip Waffles, Chocolate Muffin Tops.

You get the picture.

While there, I picked up some candy for my school kids as a reward for testing.

I was reading the Nutrition Facts to see about how many pieces were in each bag so I would have enough.

I picked up a bag and said, "Nope! This only has 50 in it."

MC - "How do you know that?"

I showed him how to take the number per serving and multiply that by the number of servings.

MC - "WOW!!! Now I know how to ready my candy bags to make sure I don't get ripped off!:

MC - "THANKS, Mom! That was a valuable life lesson."

Umm.....welcome.....

Life Lesson for Middle Chicklet

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Hypochondria anyone?

Yesterday on the way home after picking Middle Chicklet up from track practice.

MC - "Mom, I think I have type 2 diabetes."

Me - "WHAT?! Why would you think that?"

MC - "We are studying about it in Health (why, I'm not exactly sure, but ok). I have 4 out of the 5 symptoms."

Me - "Honey, you just had your physical. You don't have diabetes."

MC - "Listen. One symptom is extreme thirst. I'm thirsty all the time. Don't you see how many Dr. Peppers I drink a day?" (Really? Dr. Peppers?!)

Me - "Drinking Dr. Pepper won't help with your thirst. It makes you more thirsty. The concern would be if you were drinking gallons of water and couldn't quench your thirst."

MC - "You aren't listening. Next symptom. Frequent urination. I peed like 4 times today."

Me - "It's 5:30. You've been up since 6:30 am. I would hope you've gone 4 times today."

MC - "Mom, this is serious. Why aren't you listening? OK. Maybe this one will get your attention. Rapid weight loss."

Me - "You don't gain weight because you are your father's kid, and you have a high metabolism (damn you!). You aren't LOSING weight. Son, you JUST had a phyical (didn't I already say this??) The doctor would have caught this.

MC - (PISSED now) "You and the doctor don't know anything! My health teacher (Yes, son, the one who completed SO much medical training!!!) said I really needed to discuss it with you. Fine. What about THIS one?! Extreme fatigue."

Me - "Let's see. Could that possibly be from staying up until all hours playing XBox Live?"

MC - "I knew you wouldn't believe me. You never believe me. I guess I'll just die from diabetes."

Does anyone wonder why I drink?

Hypochondria anyone?

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Six Word Saturday

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"I'm old. Six Flags hurt me."

I took Baby Chicklet, Middle Chicklet and one of his friends to Six Flags on Thursday.

Nine hours of "fun."

The kiddie rides made me want to hurl. Seriously.

Now - raging sinus infection.

Either Six Flags has cooties or walking through gigantic clouds of pollen for 9 hours did me in.

I'm leaning towards the cooties.

BUT - despite my whining and complaining, fun was had by all.

The evidence is in THESE crappy quality photos taken with my Blackberry since my small camera was camera-jacked by the Eldest Chicklet.

Driving the big rig. Oh yeah. Big wheels keep on turnin'...

Chillin' on the tree house ride - checking to see how far they will
D-R-O-P!!!

And how she spent most of the day - hands in the air!! She ain't afraid of no rides!

Six Word Saturday

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Six Word Saturday +1

Cate is gonna kill me. I'm cheating. So completely cheating.

But it wouldn't have sounded right with only 6 words. I needed ONE more.

"You must not be from around here."

Middle Chicklet has issues. Seriously.

Mainly issues with anger mangement & frustration. He expects perfection of himself - especially when related to sports.

He is unbelievably fortunate to be one of those kids who are just born athletes. He picks up a sport and excels at it. Disgusting, I know, but true.

However, in HIS eyes, he can't just excel. He must be perfect. We all know only I am perfect that is never gonna be the case.

HE, however, can't get it through his THICK skull.

So during his last game, he SHOWED HIS BUTT!!!

Yes, you heard me right - SHOWED HIS BUTT!!!

He did his normal shortstop thing (flawless) and was getting very agitated that the other kids on the team were being typical kids and making errors here & there.

He came into the dugout, throwing his arms in the air, bitching & moaning about how "Our team sucks!" TOTALLY inappropriate.

Me to another mom - "Did you just see him show his butt?"

Her - "What?! He pulled his pants down?"

Me - "NO!!! He acted a fool. Oh......you must not be from around here...."

Six Word Saturday +1

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Really?! Gross.

Baby Chicklet is just gross at times, well, a LOT of the time.

I'm going to blame it on the evil BOY influence of middle chicklet.

She loves to poot. Really. Loves. To. Poot. She thinks it's hysterical.

She goes out of her way t0 poot ON her Daddy. Seriously.

But, according to her, it NEVER smells bad.

The other day, she wiped a nasty trail of SNOT on my car window. No lie.

This morning, she hocked a loogie into a piece of paper and proceeded to ask me to LOOK AT IT!

HELLO?!? I'm SO not looking at the loogie. I drew the line when...

I took a picture of the SNOT TRAIL!

Lines MUST be drawn somewhere.

Really?! Gross.

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A Story

Once upon a time there was a baby chicklet whose heart's desire was to play hair salon.

Alas, her normal victim client was out at a faraway land called the tennis courts - getting his butt kicked by the evil villans of B2 Tennis.

Her stage was set.

She roamed the house, lonely and looking for someone else to inflict pain upon make beautiful by using the powers in her special hair potion.

What? Who is that she saw?

None other the unsuspecting middle chicklet. If she wowed him with her charm and showered him with the potent magic of baby chicklet hugs, he would never know the torture fun she had in store for him.

Unbeknowst to her, it seemed the valiant middle chicklet was aware of her plot.

In fact, her hero was pleased she had chosen him of all the fair suckers boys in the land.

He prepared himself for the journey.

Then jumped on and enjoyed the ride.

Much too soon, the tale drew to a conclusion.

But not without a final adieu by our hero.

The valiant, the brave, the macho - Middle Chicklet

THE END.

A Story

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Let's Talk About

Baseball!!!

(But WHO gotta a Salt and Peppa flash back?!?!)

This is the 2nd year for middle chicklet to play travel baseball. If you don't know about travel baseball, it is CRAZY! They play 65-70 games a season. It's pretty intense.

Within the travel league, there are 3 different levels - AA, AAA & Majors. AA is the lowest level with Majors being the highest.

Last year, Middle Chicklet was on AAA team and, talent wise, was about the middle of the team. We had a FANTASTIC team. The kids played very well together and won 3 out of the 4 main tournaments we were in. BUT - one of the coaches was an ass so we felt it necessary to move MC to another team.

On this new team, MC is one of the top two kids. It's a new team, with about 1/2 of them playing All-stars last year (so no experience with travel) and the other 1/2 coming from various travel teams. As is the case with any new organization, they have to work (play) together for a while before they start playing as a whole. In virtually every case, these type of teams are classified as AA teams. It just gives them time to learn how to play together.

This weekend's tournament was a DISASTER. Our AA team was put up against three different Majors teams. Our last game today was 18-0. The game was called with the mercy rule after a GRAND SLAM put us over the 15 run limit.

MC has enough behavior issues that, truthfully, I don't CARE if we win or lose. I just want him to have fun and have a GOOD ATTITUDE. But this weekend, aaahhhh, was awful.

They played terrible. They really did.

BUT.....

They were put up against boys who were corn fed and had serious meat on their bones.

They were put up against boys who have played together since being weaned from their mother's teats. (Perhap that is a bit of an exaggeration, but you get my point!)

They were put up against boys whose dad's words of encouragement were "It's about time you hit one hard!"

They were put up against boys whose mommas might climb the fence to "whoop their ass" (direct quote, people) if they didn't hit that ball!!!

Basically, the pressure was on....and they cracked. They overthrew balls. They dropped simple pop ups. They swung at pitches that were three feet over their heads. Simply, they were overwhelmed. But who wouldn't be.

It was hard to watch. But I'm sure it was harder to play.

So, I'm sorry, MC, for announcing to the blog world that your team sucked.

Maybe I'll let you borrow my tweezers.

Let's Talk About

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Six Word Saturday

"Middle Chicklet's baseball team REALLY sucks."

No, they REALY do!!

First game - Loss - 16-6

Second game - Loss 16-3

It's painful so watch. So much so I'm blogging at the baseball game. Nobody tell him.

Or he MIGHT want to use my tweezers for something else revolting.

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Six Word Saturday

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Out of the Mouth of Middle Chick

Middle Chicklet - "Can I borrow your tweezers?"

Me - (WHAT?!) "Why do you need tweezers?"

MC - "I have a dried booger I can't get out."

Out of the Mouth of Middle Chick

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"Not Me!" Monday

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

Gracious alive! It has been a LONG week and a LONG list of things that I did NOT do, but I'll try to limit myself in sharing with the world.

I did NOT have way too much fun on the tennis trip to Rosemary and MESS up my stupid foot again. I am ALWAYS super cautious with it because not only would I NOT be able to play tennis, but it also limits my interaction with Baby Chicklet. So it would have been tres irresponsible to drink too much and party like a rock star, dancing like a fool, after I played 4 1/2 hours of tennis. Nope - wouldn't do it!

I did NOT shovel massive quantities of food and adult beverages in my face because, hey, I'm going to start being good on TUESDAY.

I did NOT continue to say all the wonderful things the eldest chick is doing and how great of a girl she is just because I knew it would pi$$ off one person in our group of tennis gals. Ya see, I am now a GROWN UP and would NEVER resort to such childish behavior.

I did NOT come home after being gone for five days and almost immediately get annoyed with middle chicklet and continue to be that way for the rest of the night. As I had an inifinite amount of patience in store since I was without children for, did I mention, FIVE days my patience factor was at an all time high and he would so NOT drive me crazy within a few minutes!

I did NOT forget to tell Pumpkin how much I appreciated all he did while I was gone. I would NOT tell him I noticed how clean the house was and how awesome it was for him to do laundry. Since I'm perfecto wife numbero ONE, I would NEVER have neglected to do those things!

Y'all have a great week and do NOT do any of the things I did NOT do!

"Not Me!" Monday

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Happy Valentine's Day!

I hope you all have a wonderful Valentine's Day!

And if you are as fortunate as me you can:

Leave home at 11:15 for the male chicklet's basketball game.
Leave basketball game to do a drive by the tennis courts & throw Pumpkin & baby chicklet out of the car on the way to baseball.
Leave tennis courts (tire marks probably being left on the road) for baseball scrimmage.
Leave baseball scrimmage to go to high school & pass out t-shirts for seniors for the last home basketball game.
Leave high school to come home & pick up all famly members to go BACK to the high school to watch the eldest chicklet cheer for the last time before she's a senior!!
CRY watching Senior Night knowing NEXT year it will be BRITTNEY! (I'm tearing up all ready!)
Leave high school to come HOME around 10:30 tonight.

Tomorrow - I will have my FIRST giveaway. Let me tell you, I'm PUMPED!! Apparently the comment I left for one of the SITS giveaways was noticed by the company offering the prize. They thought that my Little Ol' Blog would be a great place for another one of their giveaways!

So hold on to your bloomers, girls. This is gonna be GOOD!

Happy Valentine's Day!

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Bubble Gal

There's something about bubbles that baby chicklet just can't resist. And neither, apparently, can Pumpkin.

I'm in the kitchen and I hear a screeching "MMMOOOOOOOMMMMMMMYYYYYYY". I know Pumpkin is with KK, so what would any Mommy do at that point? Ignore and move on.

"MMMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMYYYYYYYY" Still, no danger exists so I continue to ignore.

"MMMMMMMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMYYYYYYYYY!" Good gravy, the child has some lungs. I go upstairs, peek around the corner, and find Bubble Mountain. I run downstairs and get the camera. Of course, middle chicklet HAS to know what's going on so he comes with me.

(Don't forget to pause/mute the songs at the bottom of the page!)

Please ignore the "My tummy, my tummy" and "My tummy hurts." cries and don't call DFACS to let them know that we refused to let the child get out of the tub to go POOP until we got video of her in Bubble Mountain.

Also ignore the frantic sounding "Oh my gosh, Scott. Mom or Scott - you gotta". There was an all important video shoot going on. There were no injury time outs available.

This was by no means her first occassion with bubbles in the jacuzzi tub!

She REALLY is in here!

And of course Daddy and Tripp are involved!

Don't you just want to EAT. HER. UP.?!?

Bubble Gal

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Six Word Saturday

You have to go pee AGAIN?

Baby chicklet has the smallest bladder on the PLANET, perhaps even the universe. God said let there be a teeny tiny bladder, and there WAS - in KK! In the hour we were at the male chicks basketball game, she had to pee THREE times!!!

We've had her all checked out & she's fine. She just pees A LOT!!! Needless to say, I've missed big plays, important parts of movies and maybe even the second coming because of our numerous visits to the pot-tay!

But, darn, she's SO cute!!

Six Word Saturday

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Sick, sick and more sick OH and contests too!

Sicky notes for the day: Kaley bug is home today sick. She's seriously snotty (hope you're not eating right now!), has a fever and a croupy sounding cough. It's very easy to predict/tell when she's about to get sick. Her eyes are the window to her cooties! She gets major bags under her pretty little eyes. It's pitiful. So all morning we've been snuggled up on the couch, watching tv & doing puzzles. At this exact moment, she is on the computer playing games on Playhouse Disney so I'm typing away on the laptop while sitting on the floor beside her.

On to our eldest chick. MRSA is evil. It has been our personal nightmare. Yesterday we saw ANOTHER specialist - pediatric dermatologist. He seems to think that the MRSA was able to get into her ears because of acne/blackheads in her ears -basically like foliculitis in her ears.

Time out - gotta go help with Goofy's Shoe Round Up....

OK - back to business. He gave her two creams to use. One to use twice daily - it's a combination of a topical antibiotic (clindamycin - the same she is taking orally) and a steroid. The other is to use if any more spots become inflamed or infected looking. Our next step is an appointment on Friday with a pediatric ENT. The infectious disease doctor highly recommended we go see both so away we've gone.

In addition to the ear pain associated with having staph infections in BOTH ears, she now has pretty severe stomach issues from being on heavy duty antibiotics for five months. They are pretty sure that all the good bacteria has ben killed while trying to kill (unsuccessfully) the MRSA. She has lost SEVEN pounds in two weeks - weight she has no business losing. She hardly eats because when she does she gets severe stomach pains/cramps. She's pitiful too.

THANK GOODNESS middle chicklet is all well. He's had a couple of days with stomach issues, but Pumpkin & I think it has a lot to do with his chili consumption!! What goes in must come out(again - hope you are not eating!)!! He's crazy busy right now. It's that time of the year when basketball is ending & travel baseball is practicing like crazy getting ready for their season. Add on the middle school day/schedule and it makes for long days! However, he certainly finds time to play Xbox. Heaven help us if he can't get his "fix"!!

Now - on to the contest!!! Bellaziza's Favorite Things has another SWAG ALERT - Get it together with momAgenda. I LOVE LOVE LOVE momAgenda. I have the mini daily, and it's my sanity. Maybe that's debatable, but moving on... I desperately want a desk pad, wall calendar, weekly menu/grocery pad, permission slip pad, etc....... The list goes on. I LOVE (did I say that already) momAgenda! Check it out when you get a chance and go over to Bellaziza's Favorite Things and comment to enter the contest!

Sick, sick and more sick OH and contests too!

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