New Job!

Well, I guess it's time I make this news blog-official.  I got a new job!  I am beyond excited.  My last day at the high school is this Friday, and I start the new one on Monday. 

So I guess I should share details.  Well, it is really a long story, but I will try to shorten it up.  I am going to be a private tutor to a special needs five-year-old.  He and his family just moved to Longview from Austin.  He has an older brother who is dyslexic, and therefore, also needs extra help.  They based their entire move on a school here for special needs children.  When they got here, though, they hated it.  So she has pulled them out of school and hired private tutors.  I have been lucky enough to stumble into this, and I will be working with the five-year-old. 

My new schedule is Monday-Thursday from 8:30-12:30.  This leaves plenty of time for laundry, cooking, house-cleaning, etc. BEFORE I pick up the babies from school.  That means when they get home...we PLAY!!  Oh how I love this!

Snowman Breakfast

This morning was a coooold one; burrrr.  Although it wasn't snowing, the ground was white with ice.  What better than snowmen to eat for breakfast?  I got the idea while browsing a my friend, Lindsey's, blog.  I didn't have fruit roll-ups so we substituted sprinkles.

Here are a few snapshots from our morning.

These were super easy.  Here are the steps:

1. Preheat oven to 450° and grease a cookie sheet.
2. Arrange biscuits on cookie sheet.  Be sure to pinch them together so they don't fall apart.
3. Arrange chocolate chips on faces of snowmen.
4. Align raisin buttons (we didn't have raisins, so we used chocolate chips here, too).
5. If you are using a fruit roll up for the scarf, attach it after baking.  We used sprinkles, do them now.
6. Bake for six minutes.

The Potty

So.  Here I am.  A little boy (boys are supposed to be harder, right?) who was mostly potty trained at 24 months and completely potty trained--even naps-- by thirty months, vs a 29-month-old girl who just. doesn't. care.  What is a mother to do??

Yes, we have tried M&Ms.  Yes, we have tried stickers.  And dancing.  And singing. And princess panties. And, and, and, and!!  When Santa brought her new Tinkerbell panties she said, "Take those back.  I don't need them.  I not a big girl, I da baby."

So what now?  I am just dying to try the 3 Day Potty Training boot camp, but I am slightly wary.  It can't hurt, right?  I guess I am nervous because there isn't a time when we will be home with nothing to do for three full days.  I guess I could take off work one Friday or Monday, stretching the weekend to three days... But what about day care on Tuesday?  Have any of you out there tried this method?  How much does day care interfere?  They are working with her a lot, but I just don't know exactly what this "boot camp" entails.

Any input would be welcome here.

From one Mommy to another, thanks!

G Got a BB Gun!

We got a package in the mail today from Santa.  He forgot to leave one of Gannon's presents at our house.  Boy, was he excited to get this!!  He was really good at it, too!  Can you see how well he hit his targets??  They were the D, the Y, and the 7, if you weren't sure.

It's Snowing in Texas!

So apparently, there is this white stuff that falls from the sky and accumulates on the ground.  Back home, in Lake Charles, we have heard of this phenomenon, and even claim to have experienced it, but it was really more like an icy slush, or sneaux.  What is this cold, powdery, precipitation you ask?

SNOW!!!

Here is a picture of Bryan and Gannon working on Gus the Sneauxman.

This was such a fun day for the kids (all four of us!).

Gus the Sneauxman

They had so much fun!