birthday celebration

Saturday night, Bug and I took a walk.  I did the walking, he rode his scooter.  I think he liked going down the big hills around the neighborhood. 

Sunday morning, Bug delivers the paper to Pap when we go over to pick up Mam for church.

We still have breakfast at McDonald's on Sunday.  The ladies at "donalds" still make sure Bug is supplied with toys.  He ate his breakfast and then worked on putting stickers on his new cars.  He was very focused and detailed in his work today.

Church is Kid's Jam for Bug.  We were signing him in since this week we were on the schedule to hand out bulletins at the side door.

Spinning around while he waited for people to come to our door.

We celebrated my birthday today.  Mam made dark chocolate cake with dark chocolate frosting and cherries on top for me!!!  yum, yum.  Bug was helping to put the candles on the cake.  per the number of candles on the cake, I am 10 years old today.

I leave you to figure out the distribution of the candles.

 Ooops- you can see it here.  Oh well

Listening to everyone singing to me.

He loves to blow out the candles, so I was trying to stop him, we were both laughing so hard.  It was too funny.

he ended up blowing out the candles for me because I was stilling laughing.  I managed to blow out 1 candle, I think. 

Bug really wanted the cherries

It was a good birthday.

Love and hugs,

Deb

out with friends

After school and piano lesson today, we headed out to meet up with Hermano and his parents.  We meet for dinner half way between our houses and had a great time talking and playing for 2 hours. I forgot to take pictures until the very end.

The silly boys

the girls.

It is my birthday weekend, so this was a great start to a fun weekend. 

Love and hugs,
Deb

Soccer photos from this week

All the pictures are from warm ups tonight.  Bug was having fun as usual.  I signed him up for the next 6 week session (starts mid February) and he seemed happy.

This is dribble the ball, stop and head to the ball- all to see which kids are listening.  Bug likes this one.

His soccer skills are really coming along.  I see great improvement over the last few years and I am seeing the progression of skills that he is learning.  I like this way of learning soccer.

Love and hugs,
Deb

finally some pictures

going back to last Thursday and soccer (futbol).  Bug has really started showing the skills he has been working over the last 2 years.  it is a joy to watch him playing and enjoying himself.

Bug had just kicked the ball and it was going in the goal!!!!!!!

a happy soccer playing little man

Friday night we got freezing rain.  This is Saturday afternoon after 2 applications of ice melt.  Clearly- it did not help.

The sheet of ice driveway.  If the driveway was not a sheet of ice, we could have left the house, as the roads were clear by this time (or mostly clear). 

We hung out in our jammies all day though.  Bug is happy to show you his silly face.

so that was it so far. this week is very busy at work, but I am trying maintain a normal routine for Bug. 

Love and hugs,
Deb

not much going on this week

The camera is somewhere in the house- I used it this morning to take pictures of the ice covering everything outside.  I just can't find it now.  There are pictures from some other point this week on there too.

Monday- work, no school for bug, dentist appointments and both of us not feeling great
Tuesday- work, school, both of us sick
Wednesday- work, school, both of us sick
Thursday- work, no school for bug due to no heat at school, momma still feeling sick, bug is on the mend
Friday- work, school, both of us exhausted.  Freezing rain due in the evening, so movie night at home
Saturday- we stayed home due to the coating of ice every where, some TV watching, some napping, some coloring, some playing- that was the day.

Sunday- we are staying home from church- ice still present until the temperatures warm up around noon.  We have a birthday party in the late afternoon.  and somewhere in there, I should do laundry.

Yep, the excitement never ends around here.

pictures tomorrow night.

Love and hugs,
Deb

off to the dentist office

Bug was off school today for Martin Luther King day, I was not off work.  This is how Bug looked most of the day, snuggled under blankets, food nearby, his lovey, and watching TV.  The most interesting comment of the day- me telling Bug to take the swords out of my office.  This was said while I was on a conference call for work.  Good thing my coworkers are all parents too.

In the afternoon, we had our 6 month dentist appointment.  Bug decided he was ready to sit in the chair all by himself.  Of course, Miss Patty gave him dental tools to play with while he was in the chair.  Bug had no cavities, all his teeth are coming in great.  In fact, so great that right now, he might need braces. This is a complete change from this time last year when they were thinking he would need braces.  But his permanent teeth are coming in correctly and the deficiency that was present with his baby teeth is being corrected naturally.  YES!!!!!!!

Bug and Miss Patty

I was second in the chair, no cavities for me either!!!

6 more months we will be back to see Miss Patty again for teeth cleaning and a check up.  Bug has 2 loose teeth right now, so the tooth fairy could be visiting us in the next few months.  it could be faster if Bug really worked on loosening his teeth by wiggling them, but he is content to let them loosen without him doing anything. 

Bug's ear drum burst tonight.  He had no symptoms of an ear infection- no fever, no complaining of pain in his ear and definitely no loss of hearing (the way the last 2 ear infections have been discovered). even when the ear drum burst, he still had no pain.  We are off to the doctor tomorrow to see if everything is OK.

And finally, the bug grew another half inch this week- yes that is .75 inches in 2 weeks. He is now 47.75 inches tall.  I am not sure if I can keep up with this growth.  His school pants from the beginning of the year are now at the tops of his shoes.  I might make it thru the next month or so with these pants for him, but I am not counting on it.

That's all for tonight.

Love and hugs,

Deb

building Bug's car for the cub scout pinewood derby

Pinewood Derby is coming up in a little over a month.  Since this is Bug's first year in cub scouts, I have no idea what to expect and I definitely do not have the tools to build the car with him.  Our local Home Depot ran a clinic today for the boy scouts and cub scouts to come and use the tools to get started.  What an awesome idea.  we took Pap and Mam along for he fun.

 step 1. picking a design for Bug's car.  He picked the one he wanted and we worked together to transfer the design to the wood.

Working together.

Step 2. after the Home Depot work cut out the design, we worked on sanding the car down.

Step 3. painting, I am smoothing out  some paint runs here.

Bug working hard on the rest of the paint job.  He did most of the painting.

more painting

While we waited for the paint to dry on the car, we did one of the Home Depot crafts- a child size tool box

Bug is great at hammering this year.

Back to the car- working on nailing in the wheels

I had to do some hammering

A test run

Bug, waiting for his car

Mam and Pap checking things out.

Bug and I still have to work on the wheels, add the weights and add stickers.  I think Bug's car looks great.  Bug is ambivalent right now- he is bit tired from the whole weekend.  Good thing he has tomorrow off school.

Love and hug,

Deb