Being a Brown is Never Boring

Well last week was so boring there wasn't anything to post about.

The only thing exciting we did was wash and hand wax our Durango. Caleb loved helping!

My truck is so happy to be clean. Can you believe there are no good car washes in our area?

All that is around us are those gas station ones. We miss Danny's Family Car wash and BJ's. Our truck hasn't been cleaned inside or much outside since we moved here. And I am use to having a very clean car.I bought wax and cleaning supplies and we went to town on it! We even steam cleaned the carpets!

Our kitties are a handful. They are worse than having a child. Don't they look so innocent? Don't be fooled.

With my kids, I never had to put up or hide breakables. I told them not to touch, and never had a problem. The kitties on the other hand....

They have broken my vases on my bathtub, candle holders on dressers, glasses on the counters. They knock off papers on the desks. They drag toys out of the playroom and spread them all around the house. They attack the computer screen while we type.

Anyone want a kitty?

So, anyways I thought it was a boring week...

I should know better than to think anything about our life is boring.

On Friday, Christina and her friends left our house to go to another kids. This is what happened after they walked across the street to the sidewalk on the opposite side of our house.

Tyler fell in a sinkhole. It took Mikey and another neighbor to pull him out. I took this picture after Christina and them pulled him a little bit out. He WAS literally over his head.

Look at how big he is (black tank top) Can you imagine if one of our boys (or other neighbors little ones) fell in it? I'm not sure we would even be able to see them, or hear them. .Mike put a slab of wood over it. Since it was after 5pm (of course) all the city and county road places were closed for the weekend. So I emailed several names and places to get someone to fix it.

This is what I woke up to Saturday. The doorbell rang at 8am. I open it to find 3 firemen standing there handing me my newspaper.

Hello!!! Good Morning!!

No, I didn't call 911. But whoever read the email called them. They put up a some yellow tape around it, spray painted DANGER on the board. Caleb was outside with me, so they gave him a fireman helmet and badge stickers. And they offered to take our picture! Now Caleb wants to be a Fireman for Halloween. He LOVES wearing his helmet, and wears it quite often. Zachary missed out because he was on the computer playing Toon Town. He was sad.

About an hour after the firemen left, the sheriffs pulled up. The other person got my email and called THEM!! Turns out its a HOA problem to fix. So we have a call in to them.

Sunday morning the boys went outback to play in the pool only to run in yelling there were 'things' in it.

I'll say!! Tadpoles. Tree Frog Tadpoles! Thousands and thousands of them!

So Mike and the boys scooped them out because they didn't want them to die.

Then they took them to the lake.

And saved their lives. Then they played for awhile.

Today when we left for school, there were hundreds of baby frogs all over the driveways, and in the bushes, and on the house, and on the windows. They were every where!! And thanks to my sensitive children we added thousands to the population.

My poor Zachary. He and Caleb were running thru the house and he ran right into the corner of the wall. Ouch!!!!

This morning Zachary let Nascat in from outside. (Him and Freeway Love being out at night). This is what he left by our door. EWWWWWW!!!!!!

That was a nice (not) start to Caleb's FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!!

He goes to VPK. Voluntary Pre Kindergarten. Its FREEEEEE!!!!! 9-12 Mon-Fri.

He was so excited to go, he pulled us into the room. Then let go of our hands, waved bye, and walked off to play. That was that!

Then Mike and I had a parent teacher conference with Zachary's teacher. So far, so good. Zachary is still behind alot of the other kids, but has improved greatly! That's what we are looking for. Make sure he progresses forward. The teacher is very impressed with him, as was his first grade teacher. He said that "Zachary is a wonderful student and is working hard to meet second grade expectations. He is still adjusting to second grade and requires accommodations and assistance in completing his work independently. He gives 110%."

We are very proud of him.

Mike and I came home today for the first time in 7 years without a child. It was weird....

When we picked him up the teacher said he did wonderful. Sang with them, participated in all the activities. He even tried to write the letters they practiced. His school is very close to Zachary's school, and Zachary's lunch is at 12:14, so we went to have lunch with him!

Our boring week ended with lots of excitement. I can only hold my breath for what surprises await us this week, and next. Tonight we head back to Zachary's school because he is joining Cub Scouts! Yeah Zachary! Maybe he will follow in Uncle Leonard's footsteps and become an Eagle Scout!