I found it

I'm talking about 40. Happy Birthday to me. So far it's been good.

Hungry Hungry Hippos

If you wanna win the game you've gotta take good aim
And get the most marbles with your hippo
Playin' Hungry Hungry Hippos
Hungry Hungry Hippos

The boys got a new game yesterday. They are really enjoying it. Oldest keeps singing the song. Littlest just feeds the hippos. It's kept them busy for hours.

It's just like I remember, Loud and Frenetic. It's been fun to play with them.

Lights Out

The power went out yesterday at 5:14 pm. I know that was the time because when the power did come back on that was the time that was blinking on the clock on the stove. The reason the power company reported was that a car crashed into a pole. The power was out for less than 2 hours, not tragic, but I was nervous about how I was going to keep the kids busy without power. It proved to be a non-issue.

The boys were unfazed when the TV went black in the middle of Curious George. Oldest asked if he could play a game on the computer, but I told him that the Internet didn't work when there was no power. So we played some games, sang some songs and they took their baths early because they needed them and again I didn't know how long the power would be out. We found out flash lights and the head lamp I used during the Wasatch Back and we were ready for a dark night.

Littlest was crabby tired and I got him to sleep by 6:30. Summer has been wearing him out!. Oldest and I played some more games and then, the air conditioning started up. Hooray! It was starting to get warm in the house. Oldest checked all the lights to make sure they had power. I restarted the Dryer and Dishwasher.

We made it! We need to disconnect more often. But let's keep the power on.

~Peace and Power

Chocolate Milk

My kids drink Chocolate milk. Neither of them would drink plain white milk when they first turned 1 and it was OK for them to drink it. My feeling was and still is if adding a little bit of chocolate makes them excited to drink milk it's OK. We don't have soda or juice in the house so they drink Water and Chocolate Milk almost exclusively.

Yesterday, Littlest and I went to Costco to drop off a prescription and I knew we needed milk. Costco is still by far the cheapest. Littlest lead the way to the back cooler area and we get a gallon of chocolate milk. He wanted to carry it, so I let him, with some help of course. I noticed quite a few smiles from other shoppers as they watched Littlest over the top excited to be carrying the gallon of milk. He carried it all the way to the checkout, then to the car and finally into the house when we got home. He then got a cup for himself and one for his brother.

Yummy!

~moo

Pedicure

I had my first pedicure right before Littlest was born, so I was 37. I loved it.

I had my second pedicure this weekend, 2 years later. Why did I wait so long? Well, for one I'm not one for spending money on myself and I will not go to a nail shop to get one, too many germs. So my only option is a spa, and that can get expensive. So I dropped a hint to my husband before mother's day that my feet could use a pedicure. He got it.

On Saturday morning I headed to the spa and got my pedicure. It was relaxing. Soaking your feet, getting a massage and then topping it off with great polish that will last a lot longer than anything I could do.

There was a lady there, at least 60's. She was getting her first pedicure. She liked it. Someone commented that it is something you can do without until you've had one, then you are hooked. I can't wait until next Mother's day.

Haircuts and Lollipops

I don't have a lot of haircut memories as a young child, but then I'm a girl and had long hair for most of my life. But I do know that for boys, getting a haircut cannot be too much fun and they get them often. But we have a place here in Salt Lake that does nothing but kids haircuts. I gotta tell you it's such a great idea.

The place is called Cookie Cutters. They have a slide in the lobby. Kids get to choose a video to watch and each cutting station has a different vehicle to sit in. They've made it fun to get your haircut, or at least not a horrible experience. After the haircut they get a balloon, with a weight that is a cookie cutter and a lollipop. Our appointment was for 5:00 we were out of there with 2 kids hair cut by 5:17. Very efficient too!

Why can't my haircuts be like that.

Paper Airplanes and Dinosaurs

Last night Littlest had a gym class that my husband took him to. I stayed home with Oldest. He was getting restless during dinner, so I asked him if he new how to make paper airplanes. He did not.

We got out some paper and I proceeded to show him where to fold the paper. He thought it was "kinda cool". Our airplane flew around the kitchen, then the living room. Soon his was the Scooby Doo plane and mine was the Backyardigans plane and they were chasing each other.

They crash landed in Dinosaur world. My next idea was to get some of his dinosaurs out. They chased they planes for a bit, but it morphed into dinosaur school time. The moving T-rex was the teacher and the others were the class. They were headed to a field trip to the dinosaur museum, which in their world would just be the museum. Tomorrow would be bike day. He did a great job at controlling the class and answering the little dinosaurs questions.

Our hour went by so quickly that Littlest got back from class. Tired and ornery. He had had a long day. Time for Littlest to go to bed.

My husband took Oldest out to ride his bike for a bit then came back in to play a dinosaur card game for a while.

Great night using our imagination.