Ross

Let's start here. My Aunt Joice is forever giving my kids the funnest things, such as this fabulous vintage plane. It's got to be my favorite!

I have a life long love of reading, always have, and I adore the Harry Potter books! Love them, somewhat obsessively. Yes, I was there at the midnight release of the last four books and read them all by the time the sun had come up the next morning. No need to comment, I know it's a bit excessive. Now as Ethan is becoming an awesome Kindergarten reader, I've decided to read him the series. So last week I started reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to him, just one chapter a day, sometimes two when he begs. Lauren sticks around for it too, but her attention span is not that great. She usually whips out her Leapster and half listens while she plays her Disney Princess game.

Wait! Oh my gosh! I didn't realize what time it is. Happy Fourth Birthday Lauren!!!!!! Oh my gosh, my baby princess is officially 4 years old. Wow. Well, I'm prepared, cupcakes await all the eager little kiddos coming to my place at 1pm tomorrow. Chocolate with cherry frosting, and of course sprinkles.

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So all I can say about the Potter series is that as fun as it was experiencing it for myself the first time, it's nothing to sharing it with my baby boy!

PS Lauren got the birthday song sung to her in church on Sunday and I missed it! I can't believe I missed it. From what I heard though she had the biggest smile possible on her face as they sang for her and then gave her the birthday pencil she's been coveting ever since becoming a Sunbeam.
PSS Ethan gave his 3rd talk in Primary. I'm so proud of him. I don't think anything can top how proud I was when he was a 3 year old Sunbeam and gave his very own talk all by himself, but still, he talks evenly and loudly enough to be heard well, and memorizes the whole thing, gives his testimony at the end and I believe he learns a lot from the subjects they give him. He talked on being a child of god. Grandma Ross, I bet you would get all teary watching him, I know I do.

Our little ying and yang kitties have been returned to the pet shelter and have already found homes! But oh how we miss them. I actually got up in the night so I could go in and have some cuddle time all alone with them and not the kids. Such a nerd.
Do you see her face?! She ran into a door on top of having various scratches all over and another bruise from something I didn't find out about. Poor baby.

(As we are walking in the mall past Victoria's Secret{which I have nothing against except their porn show in the window display})

Ethan, "Dad! I'm not even going to look at those girls because that is so inappropriate."

That's my boy, just never change.

I had something interesting happen. I got the slaw and walked over to the candy isle to pick up a treat for Brett and got a tap on the shoulder; this guy I had seen over by the cole slaw had followed me to the candy isle and asked me if I was a single mom. I was standing there thinking, geez, what's this dude trying to sell me? So I answered that, no, I was married. Then he said oh, well, he just had to ask and that's too bad because I'm really pretty. Then I was floored! Did that guy seriously just try and pick me up when I'm wheeling through the grocery store with two of my kids!? Hahahahah, oh geez. I contained my laughter as well as I could until I got to my car so I could call Brett and share the news; I'm back on the market and he's out of luck. Cole slaw dude just stole my heart. Ha, ha.

What can I say, he was blinded by pure awesomeness, and there's no charge cuz awesomeness is free.

For another first, as awesome as the cole slaw incident was, a seriously dumb woman hit my car the other day. Kind of ticks me off actually because I have never previously been in an accident. Okay, so this was so minor that I didn't even do anything about it other than berate the ridiculous woman for her stupidity, but still.
So as I was sitting at the train tracks with a car two car lengths in front of me, I noticed that the woman driving it, with a handicapped thing in the window, was being weird and her car was going backwards toward me. I started to back up but I couldn't go very far because a truck was behind me and wouldn't move back, so I just had to stop and watch as this women hit my car! I just sat there thinking I couldn't believe she hit me! What the heck was she doing up there!
Anyway, I got out of my car and checked the front of the mini to make sure nothing had happened to it, and then I walked up to this car to see what the heck this dumb woman's excuse was for hitting me. I found a woman around 60 years old, smoking a cigarette and pushing her poodle into the passenger seat. "Oh, I'm so sorry, my dog put it into reverse and I couldn't change the gear back!"
For my benefit I'm glad to say I didn't yell or get upset, I simply asked her why she didn't think to step on the brake BEFORE SHE HIT MY CAR!

Here is my temporary child asleep in Ethan's arms.
Isn't she beautiful! We are keeping her for two weeks and nursing her until she is big enough to be adopted at the pet shelter. I thought being a foster family was an awesome way to cool down my kitty urges and stop all the constant begging for a kitty from my kids. She's so much fun! She slept on my pillow all night last night. I'm such a freak. And I also like the idea that we're helping out the shelter. They have so many tiny kittens that need special care and they don't have the staff to do it, so you can sign up to foster them until they are big enough. So fun.