Togetherness...

The following pictures need a warning. Possibly a warning that maybe Shane and I aren't doing the bang up job bringing up Buddy we thought we were, or perhaps he was taking the bang up job too literally? Buddy did this during school today, and yes, I am very embarrassed. But that's why you have kids, right, to make sure you're always on your toes and slightly afraid to look the teacher in the eye the next day?



Yep, that's right, my sweet innocent boy associates our family fun time with shooting. Wow, my deep south roots are showing!
Now to show some togetherness not based on violence...

All in all a super fantastic, not shooting, day!

Protection!

You can never wear enough protection!
Happy Thanksgiving! Buddy put up my parents Christmas decorations while I was at work today. To end the day, he played outside in the freezing cold with a wooden sled he found (shhh, don't tell my mom), now he has dawned on his sledding helmet and is trying on all of my mother's jewelry. He looks quite fetching I must say. So now I will bore you with my thankful list.
1. Buddy, cause he's the coolest kid I know
2. Shane, cause seriously I don't know that many husbands that will go out at 2am in the freezing cold to grab a box of tampons for such a cranky wife.
3. My parents, cause they rock!
4. My sister and her enormous family, without them we'd be bored!
5. My job, as much as I hate to be away from my family it has fed us, sheltered us and paid for someone to learn to fly!
OK, there is tons more, but there is a six year old needing accessorizing!
All in all a super fantastic, thankful, day!

Blizzard....

It's difficult to look cute when wind and snow is whipping you all over the place, yet you insist on playing in a blizzard! In other news I finished putting up the rest of the Christmas stuff today (OK, there wasn't much to put up since my tree has been up since October, but I'm not telling anyone that)! So all day long Buddy keeps sticking his hands down his stocking, just in case Santa is on an installment plan this year I guess?
All in all a super fantastic, I am so glad I didn't have to work and drive in that snow, day!

Snow days....

So what do you do after the first huge snowfall of the season? Well, if you're me, you curse the skies and wonder why you still live in Utah! If you're Buddy you whip out your birthday present and go for a ride, or a hundred, or until your mother gets carpal tunnel from the repetitive pulling of the coolest sleigh ever up the mountainside!

Buddy even talked an entire family next to us to race him, not just once but continually for an hour (he's definitely got some people skills)! We are proud to announce that not only is his sled sleek and shiny, it's fast too, he won all the races but one when he crashed overboard! My boy, destined for speed!
All in all a super fantastic, hanging with my boy, day.

Bullseye....

Buddy needed a haircut today (according to Shane, I'm still living under false hopes that underneath the shaggy, calicked strands there is some lovely, golden, curly hair). When notified of his impending appointment for the cut, he requested a stylish do, namely this...


I do believe he is quite the trendsetter, just last week the mother of twin boys in his class told me they specifically requested from the barber "The Buddy Cut".
In other news Buddy told me he missed his old school. His old school was a nasty little dump that I put him in for a couple of hours every other day for socialization (it lasted 2 months before he came home with some fantastic manners, such as "I can see your yuck" when someone was chewing with their mouth open, and "I look fat", seriously!). He was quickly pulled from there and then we found our heavenly home at our Montessori. When I interrogated him (because I couldn't believe it, I stayed a couple of times and it was truly a cow herding program), he relented and told me that he just missed the rice table. So today we converted our 10 pound bag of rice that has been sitting around for a ridiculously long time into a wonderful world of play. Buddy is quite happy and I am happy that hopefully we will never need to mention the former school of shame!
So for now a very super fantastic, trend setting, day!

Walking the plank...

Someone has been wearing his pirate hat and eye patch nonstop since we went to Pirate Island on Friday. That certain someone has also been known to have lately taken up riding the front of the grocery cart, in said outfit, with sword raised and pirate talk escaping his lips. To feed this new obsession, some one's mother found the perfect sweater to complete the ensemble...

I know all you "landlubbers" are totally jealous, don't be too much, some one's mom is making him swab the poop deck tomorrow after school!
All in all a super fantastic, Argh me hearty's, day!

Gun slingers....

There seems to be a theme in the Beeder family...


I'm not sure if I should be proud or slightly afraid that Buddy had a 99% accuracy with his gun toteing skills. In other news Shane and I had a hot date night planned for my birthday since I had to work on the actual day of. Somehow the date night turned into a slumber party with two kids and a hotel with a hot tub in the room and an aquarium for the bathroom. Seriously, every time I went to the loo, I had little visions of this...

spying on me. Not very comforting. Afterwards we sparred with some pirates for dinner. Captain Buddy fought and won against this scallywag...

Thank goodness he's such a fine swordsman or we would have had to walk the plank instead of having supper!
All in all a super fantastic, gun slinging, sword fighting, book reading day!

The throwing of tantrums...

I signed Buddy up for a hip hop class. I was excited, he loves to dance and he's constantly shaking his groove thing. Buddy was excited and kept preparing for his "hopscotch" class. I believe he may have done better at with a hopscotch class. He kept running to the side away from his class to come tell me how miserable he was. According to him, he "just likes to dance, not learn how other people dance". My boy, wise beyond his years. Here's a picture from the most recent tantrum which began after he declared that he would not go to bed until he had played "enough", of course with him, there is never enough playing...

All in all a super fantastic, kicking and screaming day!

Hallmark moments...

Today is my 38th birthday, I'm still not sure if I'm sad about it or not (other than the fact that my eggs are rotting, and every day I feel that I'm just getting one step closer to menopause). Unfortunately I had to work, fortunately I work with a bunch of super fantastic people! When I returned home I had a little something waiting on the table for me...



I do believe that private school tuition is totally paying off, seriously, Hallmark will be wanting to patent this card any second now!
Awww, my boy, such a poet at heart, don't ya think?

All in all a super fantastic, poopy?, day!

Hogging the stage...

Buddy came home with a mustache from school! He told me they put on a contest of impromptu plays with teams of 3 using the mustache as a prop (the winner got money to use in the school store). I'm sure you can't guess who won, and I'm sure you can't guess who had all the lines in the play except for introducing themselves (Buddy at least was gentlemanly enough to let the girls say their names- but only their first)! His play was about a mustache that turns into a fish, just what I needed to hear after a very draining day at work!
All in all a super fantastic, go donate blood and save a life, day!

Eat it...

So after baby sitting my sister's 7 kids last night I was feeling a little maternal and decided to make cookies...




Hmmm, however I guess I don't quite cut the maternal grade since Buddy and I decided that we should make this....

and then make Shane eat it! No worries, I used my maternal instincts and delivered it with milk!
All in all a super fantastic, motherly day!

Sitting...

All in all a super fantastic, baby-sitting (if that's what you call it when half of them are teenagers) the cousins overnight and loving it, day!