ELVIS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING!

I had to share some early costume pics. Jayden is TOTALLY obsessed with the TV show FULL HOUSE. I mean this kid will sit at the computer and take FULL HOUSE trivia tests. AND get every question right. He has ALL 8 seasons on dvd. He watches them daily. He even has to fall asleep to them. He pretty much has them memorized. Yeah......weirdo! But hey, I could think of worse things and/or tv shows to be obsessed with. Jesse(john stamos) is his favorite character. Well, since Jesse is his favorite character it is only appropriate that Jayden would love Elvis. SO, out of ALL the halloween costumes that a little boy could choose.....darth vader, indiana jones, john mccain (SO kidding, my boy is too liberal for that), yada, yada, yada, Jayden chose the ONE, the ONLY.........................

ELVIS!!!!!!

Tonight was his boy scout halloween party. Check out my little dude! I LOVE this kid! He was MADE for this costume!

SPIDERS, SPIDERS, EVERYWHERE!

I hate spiders. Seriously, they are disgusting. I do not see the purpose of them. I am NOT afraid of them like some people in my house...........(rolling eyes at jayden and jason). BUT, I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY do not like them.

Well, ever since we moved to this house 2 years ago, we have had MORE than our share of spiders. As always, I am the one who has to kill the spiders. Jason will reluctantly kill them if need be, but like most things he does, he does not do it correctly......okay, okay, he just does not do it MY way. Like I said the correct way. I am kidding, I am kidding. (well, kind of). He smashes them instead of squeezing them. I do not like blood and guts on my walls. When he "tries" to squeeze, they, ummm...fall....yeah, he misses them. Then they are lost. Then someone is freaked out. Then someone can not sleep in their bed. ETC, ETC. Hmmmm.

SO, I am the spider killer. I will give him credit, at least he tries. Unlike, Mr Macho Bad Ass Jayden who runs and screams like a.........................(fill in the blank). Then there is Dom. Remember this is the child that used to be afraid of anything with more than 2 legs or well......that flies.......dogs, cats, moths, white ibises at WDW. lol Okay, NOW, this child picks spiders up and practically plays with them. I am not talking little tiny ant sized spiders, I am talking mambo, jambo, big ass, baby tarantulas. So big that IF you step on them "stuff" will squirt a few feet away from you and you will have to throw away your shoes. I will give you an example............

ISN'T HE LOVELY??????
AND was about the size of a half dollar, nice and hairy. OH, and he is one of the "little ones".


These big ole suckers are also VERY fast and quite adventurous. One night we found a HUGE one on the stairs. Jason and I started arguing about WHO and HOW we were going to kill it. The mini monster got tired of waiting for us and decided to try to escape. That sucker JUMPED....I swear I am NOT exaggerating.... off the freakin stairs. I am not talking one step at a time....I am talking 2 steps at a time. Sometimes landing on his back. Flipping over and running for dear life. I was quite impressed, although I was hoping that one of those stair dives would have resulted in his TIMELY death. Oh well, we had to "help" him out on that.

SO, lately, we have had EVEN more spiders. I mean we are killing up to a dozen a day. They are everywhere. It is quite disgusting. All around our drive-way we have dead mini-tarantulas. If I dare walk outside, my face is covered in lovely spider webs. NOT COOL!!! BUT, Jason just sprayed, so hopefully this will get better. Especially because winter is coming and those suckers LOVE our house. UGH!!!

NOW, if this infestation of spiders is NOT enough, Kayla had spider day at school a couple of weeks ago. SO, fitting, don't you think? It gets better. Guess who had snack that day???? Of course....moi, spider-woman. (seriously, rolling my eyes). SO, being the spider-lover that I am(double eye rolling), I went all out! Yep...spider custom, spider snacks, spider dessert. Spider-Freak!








NOW, if ALL spiders were as cute as this one, I might welcome them into my house!

PUMPKIN PATCH FIELD TRIP

Today Kayla had her first "real" field trip. Her class went to the pumpkin patch. I am still not sure which she was more excited about, the field trip OR riding on a bus for the first time. She was SO excited to be a big girl in a seatbelt instead of a carseat. I met her class at the pumpkin patch, as it is 2 minutes from our house. We went on a tractor/hay ride, learned about how pumpkins grow, and picked out a pumpkin and a gourd. We had a blast.

Excuse my little bragging moment. lol When she arrived, we headed to the barn to learn about pumpkins. As soon as we walked in, the owner fell in love with Kayla (and her outfit, lol) The owner needed two volunteers (a boy & girl). Every kid, except Kayla raised their hand. The owner kept looking at Kayla, but Kayla did not raise her hand. So, the owner picked two kids with raised hands. Then she needed two more volunteers (boy & girl again). AGAIN, Kayla did not volunteer, yet everyone else did. The owner grabbed Kayla and volunteered her. OMG, Kayla was SOOOOO excited. As you will see in the pics by her smiles when she had to "cover" the pumpkin seeds (the other volunteers). She NEVER stopped smiling!

Be prepared for picture overload. ENJOY!!! OH, notice, Kayla "HAD" to be a princess before we left. lol My baby is NOT a baby anymore. :(

TUESDAYS!

Kayla LOVES Tuesdays.She has school, ballet, tap and acrobats on Tuesdays. Tuesday is by far Kayla's favorite day of the week.

I do NOT love Tuesdays.

I think Tuesday is my most hectic day of the week. First off, like most weekdays, my day starts off at 5:45am, which comes WAY too quickly considering I usually do not get to sleep until midnight sometimes later. From 5:45, it is NON-stop running. We are out the door by 7:30 am.

First off is Dom. What really sucks is Dom needs to be to school before 8am, but Jayden does not start until 8:20 and Kayla does not start until 8:30. It may seem like a lot of time, but it is not enough time to go back home. SO, I either sit in the little kids parking lot for 30 minutes, which is NOT fun with 2 bored kids OR we get gas & run to Starbucks. Jayden runs in to school about 8:15ish and Kayla sits and play NDS in the car for 10 more minutes. Then I walk Kayla into class.

From there I run to the grocery store. I have just enough time to grocery shop, run home and put the perishables away, some food in the crockpot and run back to pick up Kayla at 11am. After that, Kayla and I run errands for another 1-2 hours. Then if we are lucky, we have 30 or 40 minutes to run home, eat lunch, put away the non-perishables (remember the grocery shopping earlier) and go potty before we have to pick-up Dom and Jayden. From there we run to the post office to drop off packages. We get home in time to bathe Kayla, put her in her dance clothes and leave AGAIN. Jayden usually comes with me and does homework in the car or at dance. Sometimes, Jayden and I have some errands to run while Kayla is dancing.

Finally, we get home about 6-6:30. From there it is....feed the kids, make lunches for the next day, check homework, get clothes and paperwork ready for school the next day, bathe the kids and FINALLY do MY work(ebay). AND on rare occasion Jayden has boyscouts which puts a MAJOR kink in the day.

SO, as you can see, I do NOT like Tuesdays. It is exhausting. We are running NON-stop until someone LITERALLY hits the sack! On somedays, certain little princesses do not even make it to the "sack". On many occasions, while doing my nightly chores, I call for Kayla just to find her like this.................


SOME days, she still has her shoes on standing on the floor with her head on the mattress knocked out dreaming of next Tuesday.