Eating Oranges

I’m not sure how you eat oranges, but this is the way I like to eat oranges.

• Cut the orange in half.
• Squeeze and suck all the juice out, squeezing in every direction.
• Tear the side down to the center and eat the flesh to the skin.

Elegant isn’t it?

Once you can get as good as I am you can do this without getting the orange all over your entire face.

I’ve been doing this for as long as I can remember.

This is the only way I’ve seen my Dad eat an orange.

Because in his words - It’s only a good orange if it SOUNDS like a good orange.

Good job fellas.

Short Shorts

The computer is rejecting the camera card so I haven't been able to download any of the pictures off our camera. It's annoying. I've been using my phone more to take pictures - which I find my children are doing as well. I've found it quite entertaining to see what moments little hands have captured, along with Lucy-produced videos.

I came across this picture and it made me laugh. Not only because of my pasty, shape-less legs, but what my kids said to me that day when they came home just after I'd gotten off the treadmill.

Rylee: Mom, why are you wearing such short shorts?
Clay: Mom, those shorts are way too small - they come above your knee..
Olivia: (when she sees any skin): are you naked?

Nice to know we shouldn't have many girls wearing "short shorts" in our house any time soon!

Learning More and More

I'm learning more and more about myself.
Apparently, I'll do anything for a free t-shirt.
Like run races....and eat one pound hamburgers.
(the weight AFTER being cooked!)

Holding my picture to go on the Wall of Fame.

I ate it.
All by myself.
In less than 30 minutes.
I kept it down, too.
I only had meat sweats for one night and didn't eat again until after lunch the next day.
BUT, I got my free t-shirt:

I ate the
POUNDER
Cheeburger Cheeburger
Lonetree, Colorado

Go me.

I'd like to thank Henry, who is a champ nurser and leaves me constantly hungry - I couldn't have done it without him. And, also, my husband Ryan, for his love and support. You're up next, baby!

Fun Being Me

Examples:

Today. Kaycee is out of Kindergarten at lunch time. Clay's class is out on the playground when I come. As I walk down to get Kaycee, I look for Clay and watch him run and slide into the pea gravel with some friends. I get Kaycee and start walking to the van watching Clay. He is still on the ground and I figure he probably crashed into someone. I waited for him to notice me and wave. As soon as he sees me he runs to me, starting to cry holding his ear.

"Clay, you were fine until you saw me, what's wrong."

"My ear hurts, there's a rock in it."

I remove the tiny pebble I can clearly see sitting in his ear. And, start looking around.

"It still hurts, there's a rock in there."

I twist and mangle his ear trying to get a better look into his waxy ear. I ask him to tilt his head just right so with the sun, I can get a good look into the ear canal.

Sure enough, there is another little pebble wedged just nicely in his ear. Hmmm, let's see here...

By now, one of the teacher's aids comes to me and asks if he's okay. We told her he has a rock in his ear and ask if the office has any tweezers. She walkie-talkies the front office and luckily they have tweezers - but they aren't allowed to use them on students.

"Can I use them and try and get this rock out?"

Sure enough I can use them. The teacher's aid asks Clay to show me to the office. But, before I can go to the office, I have to get Olivia and Lucy from the car. It wouldn't have been a problem if Olivia hadn't fallen asleep and I hadn't drug Lucy from the house without shoes on and still in her pj's. Oh well. I pull the stroller out and put Olivia in and carry Lucy, following Clay and Kaycee to the office.

As we come through the office, I pass a friend from church with two of her little ones - AND also a nurse. We get to the nurses station place and luckily a lady has tweezers skinny enough to attempt pebble removal. After sanitizing the untensil, and my friend helping me hold Clay's ear (and head!) just right, in one attempt, I stick the tweezers in and successfully retrieve the pebble!

By this time, Clay is happy and asking to go eat lunch. We say our good-byes and leave the way we came. Me, feeling pretty proud of myself.

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The other day, Kaycee is laying beside me.

"Mom, you stink. Do you know you're supposed to shower?"

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Lucy getting after Kaycee the other night in the kitchen:

"Kaycee, watch where I'm going"


It's fun being me.