Skinner Family: February 2009

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Our Fun Week.

Finals Week is over!!! Woo HOoo!! Only one semester left!

Every morning Dane sees Ryan put his backpack on, grab his keys, and then slip his sunglasses on before he goes to school. Lately Dane has been coming to me with his backpack saying "backpack school"and makes me put it on him. Then he heads for the door and says (in a very high pitched voice) "See ya mom!" This particular morning he grabbed his backpack and then sunglasses. After he got them on he made me get him a set of keys so he could go to "school". Maybe next time he will remember to put on some pants first.

Dane and I packed a lunch and picked Ryan up from school last week so we could go have a picnic. The weather has been sooo nice lately so we went to the park. After lunch Ryan and Dane had a friendly game of soccer until Dane decided he wanted to play basketball and went and stole a ball from some 10 year olds that were already playing.

Dane and I also got to hang out with our good friends Heidi and Jamie who came over to visit. We never get to see them anymore so it was fun catching up- even though Dane and Jamie could care less that the other was there.

We have all been suffering from allergies in our house this past week. Dane usually wakes up all boogery but the other morning this is what he looked like. Poor kid got his first bloody nose in the middle of the night and it was all crusted to his face by morning.

This past week I also celebrated another birthday even though it fell smack in the middle of finals week. My friend, Criscell, let Dane come over and play with her little girl while Ryan and I ran and grabbed dinner on my birthday. My other friend, Britni, let Dane come over and play with her kids while Ryan took me out to dinner on Friday night. We never really leave Dane with babysitters so it was REALLY NICE to get out on our own for a change. (Hopefully he was a good boy and Criscell and Britni are still my friends).

Ryan took me to Chevy's for ONE of my birthday dates and I scored a sweet sombrero and balloon when they sang to me. First thing in the morning Dane grabs the balloon and puts on his "bowboy" hat and ALWAYS says "ye haw bowboy". This picture is not staged. He watched the whole show like this and then everytime we leave the house he runs to get his bowboy hat first.

Monday, February 16, 2009

Our Trip to Idaho

At the beginning of the month I went to Idaho to visit my mom and dad for almost 2 week! It was really fun to see them and work on little projects while I was there. My sister picked me up from the airport and we made the drive with 4 little kids in the back. The whole week that my sister was there was really fun for Dane because he had a 5 year old to follow around and who he thought was the funniest kid ever, a little girl 6 days older than him to bully, and brand new baby to hold and give kisses to.

All the kids helped my mom make some fresh bread and Dane was so proud of his mini loaf of bread that she made for him.

I let Dane practice being a big brother on my sister's new baby. He was obsessed and kept kissing her and would say "hi" and wave to her everytime he walked by and kept calling her "cute baby"

EVERY time I take Dane's shirt off, this is what we get.... a free trip to the gun show..

cutest little BIG trouble-maker

Ready to play in the snow and ride the sled.

He loved the sled ride grandma gave him and all the kids

Everytime I turned around Dane was eating either snow or icicles. I was funny until I saw him come from the other side of the car eating a handful of black snow from the tire-well. I ran over and made him drop it and then he just said "mmm....good!" SICK!

Ready for a mattress ride?

While we were at my mom's house she got a new bed for one of the rooms so instead of carrying it down the stairs we decided to let the kids ride it down. The only one who enjoyed it was Tyson. The other kids didn't love it so much!

Patiently waiting for his "gi-geem-cone" aka ice cream cone.

Just hanging around. He was able to hang on by himself but never long enough for us to get a good picture. He thought it was so funny hanging on the bar.

I glance over to the climbing wall where Dane had been watching his 5 year old cousin climbing and this is what I found. I really shouldn't be shocked by anything this kid can and does do. He loved following Tyson around all week.

When the kids needed something to do and we didn't feel like taking them out in the snow my mom would just go borrow the neighbors dog and it would entertain the kiddos for quite sometime. Poor dog...