Monday, May 26, 2008

answers

The answers to the hink pinks are here at this link...

http://www.wuzzlesandpuzzles.com/hinkpinks/hinkpinks10answers.shtml

Friday, May 23, 2008

Hink Pinks

Megan brought home this little activity from school and it was fun trying to get all the answers. See how you do. I got 8 of them....

Hink pinks are fun rhyming word riddles. The answer to the riddle is a pair of words that rhyme with each other. For example: Large Feline would be Fat Cat.

1. smart award
2. sodium safe
3. solar enjoyment
4. serpent dessert
5. sea lion cry
6. large boat suggestion
7. silent fighting
8. skinny adolescent
9. sniff great
10. salmon plate

have fun and let me know how you do!

Friday, May 9, 2008

Happy Mother's Day from Ethan



Ethan brought home a present from preschool that he made me for mother's day. It was a cute wooden frame he decorated and inside is the picture here. Along with the gift was a card. Here is what it said inside...

Happy Mother's Day

My mother's name is Melissa.
My mother is 6 years old.
My mother has brown hair.
My mother weighs 6 pounds. (LOL not even at birth)

My mother's favorite...
television show: Spiderman
store: walmart
color: pink
food: crabby patty
drink: orange soda
place to eat: chick-fil-a

If I could buy my mom anything in the whole, wide world for mother's day, I would buy her an orange soda.

I love you, Mom!!! ETHAN

LOL I was cracking up. He got a few things right. I am saving this forever. He is such a fun kid to have.

Monday, May 5, 2008

Ethan's thoughts

Friday we had some scary weather and the tornado alarms went off. I got blankets and piled the kids in the closet and I watched out the window. Ethan came out of the closet and asked me, "Is a volcano coming, mom?" I laughed so hard. It was a great comic relief in a stressful situation.

My friend, Heather, came to visit Friday and she brought my kids these little rubbery toys that you put in water and they grow. Ethan picked the dinosaur one. Heather told him that the next day when he looked at it, it would be bigger and even bigger the next day. Later Ethan asked me if dinosaurs were mean. I told him that some were mean. Then he said really worried, "I don't want my dinosaur to grow!" I told him it wouldn't grow that big and then he said in a very disappointed way, "But I want to ride on its back!" So funny the way kids think.

Friday, April 25, 2008

new addition to the family... rodent size


Megan has been doing such a great job cleaning her room, making her bed, and getting great report cards. We decided to reward her with a hamster. She has been wanting one for ever and we just didn't want to get one. Last night we picked her up from gymnastics and took her to petsmart. She held a chinese dwarf hamster and it kept jumping right out of her hands, it was so tiny. The guy told us those kind were good about not biting, but they were fast. Megan liked the winter white ones, but he said they are bad about biting. She wanted to hold one anyway. He got one out and it was so calm and it didn't bite her or the guy so he is the one we got. We didn't name him yet, I told Megan to get to know him a little bit first. I am sure the name will be corny. The hamster hasn't stopped running around. He loves the wheel. It is so fun to watch him.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

first pictures!



We had an ultrasound yesterday and everything looks great! It was fun to see the little baby, he/she was wiggling around a lot and the dr thought it had the hiccups. How fun! I love to hear the heart beat, too. Then the dr said something that did not make me happy. He showed us this little thing off the bottom of the baby, he said it was the fetal phallus and it would become the girl part or the boy part. He said the way it looked, it was probably going to be a BOY!!!! NO!!! I didn't want to hear that. I want a girl too bad! I will be super depressed if we have another boy. I hope he is wrong. We will see in June. I am going to pretend he didn't say any of that LOL!

Friday, April 18, 2008

hail or no hail...

Last night I got a call from my friend Heather and she told me the craziest story about golf ball size hail and broken skylights and windshields and a husband running out in the hail with a pot on his head to rescue chickens. There is video of this and as soon as I can I will post it LOL!!! So I am worried about our van. We can't fit it in our garage because of a ton of crap in there and we are too lazy and poor to buy some organization stuff. Anyway, with the storm headed our direction I knew it could either slow down or gain strength. I wanted the van in the garage. I made Jared go out with me and we shoved and stacked everything so we could get the van in. It is a funny site. I think you can only get in on the drivers side. And you would know it, there was only rain when it got to us. It would have been hail if the van was outside. I think I am motivated to get it organized now.




The garden stinks. The only thing doing well are the green beans. You can see dead plants in the background. I guess it is all the cold nights we are having. Who knows.