Mom To A Five Pack?

Ok, so Nikolas brings home this little work of art today. Well, no...our house isn't green and we don't have a red door. I can pretty much assure you our garage door isn't all those colors either! Then I open the inside. Inside are all these little cut outs of people. Each person is colored and has a name. I have a pretty red and purple dress on, it also has yellows and oranges in it. I look pretty much the way he likes to dress himself! Let's hope he doesn't pick out my outfit for my funeral! So I am looking at everyone and how he colored them and I notice someone missing! No Shaina! I asked him and he said she was there. I showed him and he said he thought he colored her and pasted her on there....then he said to Shaina "I'm sorry I forgot you Shaina!" and he gave her a big hug! He asked me to write his teacher a note so he could fix his house tomorrow and add Shaina, which I did because it really means a lot to him to put her in there. He also did tell me that his house took the longest to fill (wonder why!?) and his hand was pretty sore from all that coloring. So hopefully tomorrow Shaina will be back in the family again! :)

Amy

One Flashy Dude!

Ok, so I always have the kids take their school clothes off when we get in the house and put something more comfortable on for the evening. So we get in yesterday and Nikolas knows the drill. Well I am in the kitchen going through the daily papers that are sent home and I hear him behind me saying "Mom, I dressed myself!" I was like "Ok, thanks bud!" So a few minutes later I am still in the kitchen, but in walks Nikolas. I froze in my tracks! What an outfit! I am really hoping he has his Dad's sense of style...mine can't be that bad, can it!? I don't think I ever went out of the house looking like that or wearing that many colors! He was happy though, pick your battles, right? BTW, Gabriella also picked out her clothes and dressed herself yesterday morning...at least I have one that has some sense of color coordinates! :)
Amy

No News Is Good News

I know it's been a few days since my last posting. Everything is fine. Everyone is feeling good. Kids are still enjoying school. Pretty much nothing out of the ordinary going on at all.

I ordered Ella a few things from Children's Place online this morning. I got her a few things last week at JC Penney's and Old Navy. It was really chilly one day and I had NOTHING to put on her, she really grew! So I wanted to have a few things. It figures the next morning our temps went up and have been up since. I am not complaining at all, trust me! Still they said by this time next week we will be lucky if we hit 60 so she will be happy to wear her new outfits!

Shaina had her well visit the other day. She's nice and healthy! She got her flu shot and the other 5 are going to get their flu shots tomorrow morning. It's going to be a pretty hectic morning getting them all dressed for school and out of the house before 7 a.m. Oh well, we will do it! I know we can! Luckily most of my kids are easy/early risers. Nikolas would sleep if you let him, but he wakes up usually without a problem.

I watched Modern Family last night and found it very funny! I laughed and laughed! I have The Forgotten DVR'd and maybe I will get to watch that and SYTYCD tonight. I started watching Dancing with the Stars on Monday night but totally lost interest. I don't know...guess I just wasn't in the mood. I am thinking I just won't follow it this season.

I guess that is about it. It's a pretty boring post but I am going with the saying...."no news is good news."
Amy

Lunch again!?

So I told you the story about Nikolas and lunch yesterday. Today it was Alex. He said the lunch was so good! I am beginning to think either the lunch has to be pretty appealing or else I am a horrible cook! So he went back and ordered a second lunch! I think this whole hot lunch thing is going to cost us a pretty penny this year! Honestly though, I am just glad they are all adjusting well and eating! Here I was afraid they would be so upset, trying to make friends, eating lunch alone...they wouldn't have an appetite! Boy was I wrong! I am glad I was wrong! This is all moving along smoothly!

Nikolas made some kind of stick puppets today. I am assuming it's The Gingerbread Man characters. He colored the fox green though! Hmmm, it's a quite interesting choice of color! Of course he's never really seen a fox either! I need to get this kid to the zoo!
Amy

Lunch, Lunch

Ok, so I picked the kids up from school today and Nikolas comes out of the building and he has something on his khaki shorts. It's kind of a reddish/orangish color. So I ask him what it was. He said it was orange marker. Well it didn't look like orange marker. So I said that it didn't look like orange marker and he said "well maybe it's rigatoni?" I said where would you get rigatoni? I mean I packed the kid a lunch today. So he told me that the rigatoni looked so good to him that he decided to get that. So I then asked him what he did with his lunch. He then told me that he ate that too! So my kid, who normally hates to eat, ate two lunches today! I just find it very funny that he wanted that rigatoni so much he figured out how to go up and order it for himself! Wow...my big boy is growing up, and it looks like he might start growing out too! :)
Amy

Does anyone hear.....

A BUZZ!?

I love my father, I do but he needs to get a hobby! So he hears a buzz downstairs this morning! It has consumed his every thought! I had to leave to take the kids to school and I can't even get in the door before I have to hear that the house is a buzz again! He has me going crazy! It's easier to give in and check what he wants.....the dryer? Nope...that plays a cute little song! I told him that! Still I turned the dryer on and shut it off just to he would know it was NOT the dryer! The central air? Nope, it was in the 50's last night, that wasn't even on...still I had to prove it wasn't that! Oh, it's the damn alarm clock! Someone must have done something to the alarm clock! Yes, that's it! Someone set the alarm clock to buzz every 5 minutes to annoy the crap out of him! Alarm, check! All is functioning properly! Houston, we REALLY have a problem in this house! How can someone be expected to live with a buzz every 5 minutes (he said it happens every 5 minutes so he must have been timing it!) Ok, it is the freezer! It has to be the freezer making the noise! Nope! Alright, so now I am about ready to lose it! How many more things can I check!? Wouldn't a better soloution be to maybe turn up the volume on the TV at this point!?

Ok, so almost a 1/2 hour of this goes on.....and I know how concerned you must all be with what can be causing that buzz (sense the sarcasm)!? You will be happy to know that I have solved the problem! I am a regular Nancy Drew! It was.........................................................................................
THE CELL PHONE! Victoria's cell phone! Oh she owes me big time for this one!
Amy

Happy Birthday Shaina!

Happy Birthday Shaina! You are twelve years old today. Only one more year and you will be a teenager! You were due on September 11th and decided to take your sweet time much like you do right now. It was a really quick labor and delivery! I would say my very best one! My biggest memory was when they pulled you out and they only saw you from behind and the doctor yelled "it's a boy!" I looked at your father and said "it's a boy!" I started thinking, we really need to come up with a boys name now. Then the nurse took you to clean you up and said "this isn't a boy, it's a girl!". Then I looked at your father and said "it's a girl!" Gosh I still remember that early morning like it was yesterday! Daddy picked your name. Your name means "beautiful" and you sure have lived up to that!

Tonight for her birthday dinner, Shaina has requested hot wings and french fries, so that is what it shall be! Shaina is our hot wing girl! She loves those! She's already playing around here with her cell phone. She really loves that! I am glad we took the plunge and got her one a whole year early!

Happy Birthday Shaina!!!!!

It's hard to believe (or maybe not since there is always a birthday happening around here...six kids and none born in the same month) but Shaina will be 12 yrs old tomorrow. We had no idea what to get her. We asked her what she wanted but she said nothing. I know we had the 13 yr rule but it just seemed different this time. She is going to school, the girls she made friends with have cell phones and have been asking for her number, I am sure it's a matter of time before she wants to go to the movies with friends and well....Shaina's just really responsible and I just felt like it was time for her to have one. So we did it! We went to the store this morning and picked one out. John didn't want to wait to give it to her since he won't see her in the morning and then he wouldn't be home til after 5 tomorrow, so we decided to give her it today. Well she was totally shocked! I video taped the expression. She has NO clue she was getting one because she really thought she had to be 13, so the look on her face was priceless! She's a happy little pre-teen right now! :) She's been texting with her friend in Florida since we gave it to her a few hours ago! How a few years change! I remember the days when a new doll was what made her smile! It's so bittersweet watching them grow!

Amy

My Poor Sick Boy

Nikolas wasn't feeling well for orientation or the first day, but then he got over it and seemed fine on Thursday and Friday...he was fine all weekend too! He came out of school yesterday and was coughing, all stuffed up and just not feeling well. So he's on a bunch of medications and I am hoping that it doesn't turn into anything else. I feel so bad for him. I really wanted to keep him home today but he didn't have a fever and I just have a feeling this is going to be the year from hell with sickness. Alex said three kids were out in his class today and two went home sick. The weather is lousy too...it's so chilly and breezy out. The sun hasn't shined all day! It's been raining on and off! I feel like crawling in my bed under the covers and hibernating til Spring! I guess that can't happen though, huh!?
Amy

"I think I like this kindergarten stuff", Nikolas Age 5

Well Nikolas seems to really enjoy Kindergarten! YAY! He didn't have a tear in his eyes when I took him on his first day (I spent the morning with him at orientation). It made it so much easier on me. Sure I felt sad when I left him there but I was also happy for him. He made a new little friend already and he's happy. He said his teacher is very nice! He also told me he's been on green all week. Green is good, yellow not so good and then he said you don't want to get on red! He's such a card! He comes home every day and is filled with stories! I think he's going to really like kindergarten!

On a side note, my house feels so quiet and empty. It's just Ella and me now. I am so enjoying my time with her, I don't deny that but I also really miss the other kids. I can't help but say that. I am happy for them though. I will get used to all the quiet.

Amy

School Days, School Days

I know I wasn't on top of posting last week. It was our first week back and it's taking some getting used to at this point. Getting out of the house is fine. Picking up is nothing short of a nightmare. There is no rhyme or reason in picking up. I will get used to it though. All in all everybody had a good first day!

They made a mistake and had Victoria and Shaina both in 7th grade. That's fixed now! They didn't have a locker for Victoria. That's fixed now! They still don't have a lunch account for Victoria...TBA! LOL Both girls seemed to have met a few people. Shaina met more than Victoria but Victoria is just so much more quiet. She used to be so outgoing as a baby but then once she started getting sick and spending time in the hospital she just seemed to change.

Alex seemed to be very happy. Met a lot of kids. Says he really likes it. So I think all in all it's going to be a pretty good year! I will post about Nikolas in a another post.
Amy