Welcome to Berry Town?

So this morning, Buddy kinda stunk, so we decided to do one of those fancy milk baths...

OK, it was an accident, but his skin was nice and soft afterwards. Today we decided to do something different and play with trains...


Buddy put out all of his stuffed animals and called it Berry Town, which of course you could only arrive at after riding in his Thomas bed and going through Robo Town (duh mom).

Then we went and picked up brother Kevin and headed on down to Grandpa Charlie's where we played trains (Buddy of course is the engine)...

Read books...

Danced...



Listened to music...


Ending with an abduction by aliens, or was it just a car ride home?...



All in all a super fantastic day!

Let the Festivities Begin...

So this morning I totally scored and got placed on-call for work, yay me, especially since today is Shane's birthday. Buddy woke us up @ 0830 to let us know it was daytime, which usually is not a welcomed sight and sound, but since the boys had a doctor's appointment, it couldn't have been better timing. So the boys had their eyes checked. Buddy will be reevaluated before kindergarten, since he's right on the border of needing glasses, and the doctor has suspicions that he's color-blind(not like I haven't been saying that for 2 years). Is it OK to feel bad for passing on some crummy eyesight genes? Anyway, they came back with they're eyes dilated and feeling slightly blind, but they looked cute...

Then you'll never guess what we did...We played with trains today!


Buddy took some pictures that he wanted to share...




He's using step stools as tunnels, it's amazing what you can use as a tunnel.
After that we decided to make wishes on the wish spinner. I think I can guess what Shane was wishing for...



So Buddy got to pick what we had for Shane's birthday meal, sushi-what a great kid! I didn't even have to prod him on that one! So we met Shane's family and friends and had a sushi fest which started with Buddy stretching him tummy muscles so he could eat a lot of sushi...


Followed by lots of noodles, of course dipped in soy sauce and wasabi....


Followed by a meal of fists...

So all in all a super fantastic day...

A Trip to Grandpa Beeder's

Today Buddy and I took a trip to Grandpa Beeder's.

Grandpa took us for a drive up in the hills near his house so we could look for Elk and Deer!

Buddy spotted 3 deer running and walking, and Grandpa spotted at least 80 elk and 50 deer!!!

Buddy was also very proud of the elk poop he found.

Tomorrow it's off to the eye doctor to see how our eyes are doing!

What a day!

This is the kind of day we had! I had to work right after Buddy got back from preschool. So now we're off to bed, when we wake up, daddy will be home-yippee!

Tomorrow Buddy is planning lots of swimming time with daddy, and after work I'm planning a LOT of mommy time with mommy!

Tiny Tigers

So today we played with trains. Did you even question that one? We even used stickers to decorate the computer part that Buddy is using as a tunnel.


Buddy even took a picture of his true love.


This afternoon Buddy went to his first Tiny Tigers class to learn to be a ninja. He introduced himself to the boy next to him so he would have a friend to go to the center of the class with and he had a blast. He learned blocks, kicks and bows, all complete with a HIYA! They had relay races and played Shark, which is basically tag with a way cooler name.





He absolutely loved it, and I loved watching him having such a great time! When we got home we had a cupcake to celebrate daddy coming home tomorrow(OK really, it's just a good excuse to have a cupcake)!



All in all a really, really super fantastic day!

The Beeders'... that's the name of the story....

So we woke up kinda late this morning, Buddy had preschool this morning, and once again he didn't want to go. He was a good boy though and went, and so did I, 2 hours of preschool fun. Honestly, I know why he doesn't like it, it was like herding cattle, yes his regular teacher was absent(it was her birthday-boy, I wish I had a job that I could get my birthday off), but still one project to the next and no loving, cuddling, or talking to the kids in between. So I guess I'll be looking for a better preschool, because I believe in Chuck E. Cheese's motto, a kid should be a kid, and I firmly believe if you don't love your job, no matter what it is, you should leave it!!!!


Then we went to my mom's and played with her walker, then made some marble runs out of rolled up newspapers and tilted blankets. Then we told stories for an extremely long time, ours was about Thomas, Buddy and Ralph and the Motorcycle (we just finished reading that book last week). Afterwards we went to the gym so Buddy could play some more. OK really I've been a slacker, but Buddy did really want to go. My dad, lonesome I guess, even tried to bribe him with watching TV. Buddy would have none of that, it was the gym or bust. When we got home we ate dinner. Dinner of course included lots of straws and lots of milk bubbles.



So then we went swimming, once again we were the only ones there. Lots of fun blowing bubbles to tell the "creatures" where we were and then to do our trick where Buddy sits on the edge then pretends to "fall" into the water... He's really good at it.







When we got home we made use of dad's junk, for train tracks of course. Buddy even had a great idea of putting in a flashlight for the tunnel. So there we sat with the lights out, except for the tunnel light.




Buddy wanted to include some funny faces for your viewing pleasure....






Next up, movie time in the tent....with glow in the dark pj's of course.




Over and out- Buddy!

Louisiana

So I've been staying in the company trailer down here in Louisiana.  I never thought I'd live in a trailer park!

I have been doing company training in the Agusta 119 Koala helicopter, it sure is sweet!

I should be done with my training in a day or two, wish me luck!