Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Report Card Week!

Well, I'm a working girl again. Its actually going OK. Mike takes Zachary to the bus stop in the mornings so I can get ready, then I take Caleb to Preschool at 9. I am only scheduling myself from 930-1130. But most days, since Mike is usually home, I can stay longer, and he picks Caleb up at 12. I have had clients every day, with 2 rebooking! yeah! Ive only worked 10 hours so far this week, but have made enough to pay rent if I had to pay it, plus some! I get 4 weeks free, then 4 weeks at half price. Then we will go from there depending on my income. Everyone there is nice to me, so far! It seems like they are a good group of people.
The Salon is called Clix Hair and Nails. My business is called
Hair & Nails by Corinna.
I have my own business and tax licenses.
I went out yesterday to get the paper and there were so many frogs on our house, I had to run in and grab my phone. By the time I took the picture about half of them had jumped off. Mike got an aquarium for our tadpoles. I cannot believe how big they are getting! Caleb did not like the smell of them when Mike was changing the water. Zachary's favorite thing to do is play Toon Town on the computer. Here he is playing himself (the red cat) and Caleb is playing the blue cat in the den. It is such a cute fun game. I am still addicted to it, although not as much as I was this summer. Now, instead of playing me, I am playing both Zachary and Caleb to get them more points. Zachary would rather play me since my character can go any where on there, while him and Caleb's are still limited. But we drive Mike and Christina crazy because some of the games take a long time to play, and we hog the computers. We still need more computers! 3 is not enough. We each need our own.
Get busy Mikey and build us a new one!! Our kitties are getting big, and into even more stuff. Every morning there are toys scattered around the house, pens and pencils on the floor, toilet paper pieces on the bathroom floor. They have ruined our fake trees by climbing up onto them, and biting the leaves off. This picture is funny because the tiniest one of the bunch is 4 pounds and she wont let Nascat climb up to the top. He is not happy about being on the seat below her. Christina is going to Homecoming Saturday. Since her boyfriend and her broke up she and her girlfriends are all going. Wait until you see her in her dress. Is she 16 or 22? Soccer tryouts are next week, so wish her luck! Zachary got his report card. 1 A, 3 B's & 1 C. We are so happy that he didn't get held back. He really seems to be doing good. Caleb is enjoying his school and is learning to write his letters and numbers quite well. He even has his name almost down pat! Christina has 3 C's, 1 B, 2 A's. She is also a mentor for freshmen. She has spirit week this week and dressed as a rock star. Her outfits have been fun. Monday she was a child. She put on one of ZACHARY'S shirts! What a skinny tall thing she is! There was no school yesterday due to a Rosh Hashanah. And no school Oct 9 because of Yom Kippur. Someone around Seminole County was a prominent Jew, because no other school district in Florida has these days off. So in honor of the holiday I made Matzo Ball Soup and Potato Latkes. The kids LOVED the soup! Both boys had 2 servings. They didn't care as much for the potatoes, but ate it anyway. We had no idea what we were celebrating, or honoring, but the food was good!

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Jesus Christ Walk The Frog

Caleb loves to watch videos. He especially loves You Tube. Yes. Our 4 year old spends more time on You Tube than any of us combined. And then some. His sites? Universal Studios Theme Park, Disneyworld, Roller Coasters, and airplanes. Under the Universal site he can click on the different rides and watch them. He loves watching Jurassic Park the Ride. For those of you that don't visit You Tube, after you watch a video there are many more to choose from relating to that video. His clicking brought him to this site:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9AVTlvbhKM&feature=related

If you click on it, you will see a video of 30 second clip of the movie Jurassic Park. Its the part where the scientists see the dinosaurs for the first time. Usually I make the kids listen to the computer on very low volume, so I never paid much attention to the WORDS. Then last night Mike and I HEARD the words.

"Oh my gosh, is that guy singing what I think he's singing?"

We go in the den to find the boys singing along. Mike immediately clicks out of the video. "Why are you listening to that? That has bad words. We don't use those words."

Zachary and Caleb both said, "What bad words? We aren't saying bad words. We like the dinosaur video, its funny!"

So Mike clicks it back on, and asks the boys to tell us what the words are.

the words are actually:

Holy F**king S**t its a dinosaur. Jesus Christ what the f**k. Oh my f**king god f**king dinosaurs. Holy s**t what the f**k.

Here is the boys version:

"Holey walking sheep its a dinosaur. Jesus Christs walks the frog. Oh my flying dog walking dinosaurs. Holey sheep walk the frog."

See? No bad words there!

We took Caleb to Beef O' Bradys yesterday after school. It was our first time in there. Caleb wanted to play video games while we waited. The nice driving one? NO. Of course not.

The Lets Shoot and Kill Deer and Bears one. Not to brag or any thing, but this is the temp our truck said this afternoon. Christina was actually cold walking to the bus stop at 6:20am. I think camping time is coming soon. Mike got to display his He Man skills again opening a coconut for our dessert. Today we had lunch at Zachary's school. I cut Christina's hair. Isn't is soo cute? I think it makes her look older. Our tadpoles are getting big. Scary big. We need to put them in a small aquarium SOON! Because we don't want to ask Jesus Christ to Walk our Frogs.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

My Secret Idenity... THE HULK

Zachary joined Cub Scouts last week. He starts off as a Wolf Cub. As most of you know, he has his favorite pet in the world...Wolfy. So he was very pleased! Caleb could not join until he is in 1st grade. In AZ it is kindergarten. He was sad. But a T-shirt cheered him up.
Remember those frogs I posted about? They are over taking over!! They are everywhere! Dozens, hundreds, maybe even thousands all over our yard! And IN OUR HOUSE. Caleb did good his first week of preschool. Day 2 he came home and I asked him what he did, he said "Nothing. I just wanted to play. I didn't do any work." I believed him. The next day I asked the teacher how he was, and she said he participated in everything! Was never a problem! He did wonderful! Completed all his papers! Had no clue what I was talking about. Hmmmm. I guess that's better than hearing, "I did everything." Only to find out they didn't. This is his first ever paper. He really enjoyed writing 'H'. Our kitties love to be held. They don't even mind it if the boys hold them.... Really. Our first ever study time. BOTH boys had homework. Kids say the funniest things. On Friday Mike and I did the lawn. I mow, and he edges and does all the clean up. Well, I mow in my flip flops. I know. I know. But I do.
When I came in Caleb looked at my green feet and said so seriously, and very concerned,
"Mommy, are you turning into
The HULK!??"
Saturday we went to Universal Studios.
We hadn't been since June, and we all missed it so much.

Christina brought her best friend Katelyn. Caleb went on the water ride for the first time. Yeah Caleb! You are so brave!!!They already have it decorated for Halloween. Starting the end of the month, I will no longer be a stay at home mom. (well sorta)

I am going back into business for myself!

I will be renting a hair and nail station at a salon in downtown Oviedo called CLIX.

I will be my own boss again! My hours will be Mon-Thurs 9-12. The owner made me an offer I couldn't refuse. It will be nice to not have an 'Annette' situation like before. I will be able to run my business, and not worry about a boss not allowing me to take time off. It will be nice to get back into a salon. One of my coworkers husbands does the same type of work that Mikey does, with a sort of, but not really, competing company. And they just moved here 3 months ago. We have alot in common with them! (so far)

Its funny, up until recently we could walk into stores and not have a single person know who we are. Now we are starting to recognize people and be recognized. In AZ you could almost guarantee that when I went to the stores I would see someone I knew. Especially working and living in the same area. Our anonymity is slowly leaving us. Florida is wrapping us up around her fingers. And we are really enjoying it!