What am I going to do with him???

Placement questionnaires came in the mail yesterday for the kids for kindergarten.  They just wanted to know things like, if the kids knew their ABC and how high could they count.  Cole happily answered the questions.  Mo on the other hand just wanted to play.  I was asking him about colors which I know he knows  but when I asked him to find the blue(his favorite color) crayon his pulled out pink.  Then it just went down hill from there.  Every question I asked he purposely gave the wrong answer.
So, later in the day the kids were playing in the front while my DH mowed the lawn.  Out of the corner of my eye I saw Mo burying the questionnaire in the dirt.  He took the friggin thing out of the mail box and buried it in the front yard!!   What am I going to do with him???

putting in a claim with the airline

I have to put in a claim for the airline for a lost voice.  I lost it somewhere over the Grand Canyon.  We are home now.  Nicole and I started to get sick our last couple of days in AZ.  Nicole got sick first and now she is fine and it's my turn to feel horrible.  
I wish my parents didn't live so far away.  I really don't like the desert.  It OK during the winter but during the summer it's no fun.  The temp was 105-114 the whole time we were there.  We stayed in the house most of the time.  I will have pictures up shortly when I'm feeling a little better.

Visiting My Mom and Dads

Yesterday was our first full day here.  I still don't think we adjusted to the time change and traveling.  Michael slept most of the day yesterday.  He has not been feeling well.  My poor baby.  The kids behaved on the plane.  Thanks mostly to the DVD player. 
We are having a nice time here.  We just wish it wasn't so hot.  It's been in the 100's for 42 days now.  Yesterday it was 114.  It was even too hot for Dad who loves the heat.  I helped him take the nets down off the grape vines yesterday and we picked some grapes.  I think we are making grape jelly today.  The rest of the grapes are already turning into raisins.  The kids like the orange and lemon trees.   Of course it the wrong time for them.  They are still green.  It didn't stop Nicole from wanting to make fresh lemonade.  I think we are going to get a dwarf lemon tree in our house that we can roll outside in the summer.  May be even a small orange tree will be nice. 
I think it's been about four maybe even five years since I've seen my Dad.  I have to say I'm surprise with how he is doing.  I know he is not well and he has stopped walking but he looks really good.  I'm glad that I finally made it out to see him. 
I have to go plug in the lap top and make me some coffee. 

I'm leaving on a jet plane

Don't know when I'll be back again.  Actually I do know when I'll be back.  In two weeks.  The kids and I are headed out to AZ to spend some time with my parents and my sister.  It's been about 6 years since I have been out there.  The kids are excited about flying.  They have a few things that they want to do and see.  First they want to see the lemons growing on grandma and grandpas lemon tree.  They also want to see a real roadrunner.  This is the longest that we be away from daddy.  I hope the kids survive.  I hope I survive. 
It took me less than 20 minutes to pack our clothes.  I'm impressed with myself.  I had our suitcase open and I just started adding things to it.  Things I knew we wouldn't need.  It was like let me take this and Oh I'll just take that.  I still had room so why not take them right.  An hour later I took all the extra stuff back out again. ????  

Mo and his dreams

Mo loves to tell me about his dreams first thing in the morning.  I think he even adds to them when he's awake.  Yesterday he woke up crying.  I figured he had a nightmare.  So it took me awhile to rock him and try to get him to calm down and tell me about it.  I was not expecting to laugh my a$$ off.  BTW is that possible??  Can someone laugh their a$$ off because I would really like to try it?  Anyway, it was not exactly what he said as the look on his face.  He was sooooo serious when he said he was mad at the sun for making it bright and waking him up before he could finish his dream.  When I started laughing he looks at me so sadly and said "But Mom I only had one more page left!"