Amy J. Bennett

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Just about to melt

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My van told me it was 101 degrees today and supposedly it’s supposed to stay in the hundreds this week.  Our pool was 91 degrees today.  It was insanely wonderful. 

The girls started swimming today with only their floatie bathing suits and without their swimmies.  Now when they jump in, they go fully under water.  Emma holds her nose while Lexi doesn’t but they both do well handling going under water.  There was a lot more coughing and spitting of water without them but we’re one step closer to full-on swimming.

Good morning

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WARNING, LOTS OF #2 TALK 

(the end is funny though)

I’ve tried not to talk about Emma’s #2 issues too much just because I know no one wants to hear anything about that.  I’m still having to give her medicine and she does it in the right place about 10% of the time.  It’s bad.  And that’s another reason I’m glad she’s not going to school this year.  Anyway, the other morning Emma had woken up before me and apparently decided she would “go” in her pull up while she sat and read a book in the middle of her bedroom floor.  I’m still sleeping and she comes with her pajamas up in her hand and says Moom-my, come hee–rre, I have  me-ess.  Oh boy, I realize immediately that that’s not good.  I jump out of bed and walk in to find that the medicine has worked a little too well and the pull-up didn’t hold it all.  So within 30 seconds of being woken up, I’m cleaning Emma from head to toe almost literally and then have to clean the carpet.

People, this is what is refered to as…a crappy morning.

Coughin, Coffin, same thing

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Emma and L were playing with this stuff called Moon Sand.  It was made by the devil and sold in Target stores just to drive mothers crazier than playdough ever thought it could.  Lexi apparently got ahold of one of Emma’s creations.  And then this is what Emma says:

Let go of my coffin! I need my coffin. (pause) It makes you cough.

Nothing like a good friend and late birthdays

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D and I have been friends for at least 10 years, right about the time each of us got engaged a few months apart.  She’s one of those people I just knew I was going to be friends with for a long time.  We had the same style in just about everything, even our mothers were similar.  Although now we have added 5 new people to the world between us and we both stay busy, I can’t tell you how cathartic just 2 hours is with her.  Tonight we met at Starbuck’s for coffee and just sat outside for over 2 hours actually and talked.  I felt sort of bad after I left after dumping weeks of drama and kids stories on her but somehow I know she enjoyed it just as much as I enjoyed every story she had to tell. 

Her twins are going to kindegarten this year even though our oldest are only a few months apart, they made the cutoff while Emma didn’t.  I’m sort of glad too.  I don’t think she would mind if I told you the story of her having her one emotional moment about her kids going to school.  She was in the grocery store one day buying Capri-Suns that were on sale, knowing she would need them for lunches.  She questioned, as I did when she told the story, who would open their straws for them?   It’s that realization that they’ll be one in a sea of 20 kids and no one is going to reach over, without even thinking to make sure their little girls straw is opened.  That makes me choke up just thinking about it.    I’m very sure teachers are competent, attentive and loving but no matter what, it won’t be the same.  Oh, how we both are looking forward to 7 hours straight quiet house but until then, I’m really going to try to smile every time I have to open a straw for one my girls and more importantly, hopefully I can teach Emma how to open the straw so my big girl will be all ready for lunch time.

Weekend catch-up

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Wow, that was a pretty busy weekend. 

WW Day 11 or 12

I’ve been holding steady all weekend despite having to use Flex Points for two days now. 

Saturday

Saturday was pool day.  We got in and out of the pool from about 10 that morning to 3 that afternoon.  Scott and I were working on getting the water clean.  Turns out our filter had parts that were broken, causing sand to come out of the filter thing and also we needed chemicals so although the water is a little cloudy still, it’s a clean kind of cloudy now if that makes any sense.  Word on the street is this is the hardest year “pool people” have seen trying to keep a pool’s water clean, so I don’t feel so bad that we haven’t had crystal clear water since filling the thing up back in June.

Saturday was Heather’s birthday so we had dinner at my Mom’s, took the kids to IL’s and my sister and parents and us all went to see Bourne Ultimatum.  Wow, that was a great movie.  I’ll have to post a separate review on that.

Sunday

Sunday our church choir was having a spaghetti dinner fundraiser after church.  After all that, we came home and swam again.  It was definitely a “pool weekend”. With temperatures here hanging around 100, there wasn’t really much else you could do.  Yesterday evening we took the girls with us to a surprise outing with the youth group to a church member’s house.  Can’t really say just house though, more like ponderosa or something.  They live on 14 acres of land.  They have a log cabin which is fixed up as a retreat type thing with a big screen tv, pool table, etc.  They have in ground pool with a 13 foot deep end with an attached little pool house where you could change/use the restroom.  They had a frisbee and volleyball net set up.  It was really, really nice. 

Lexi was having a time with the diving board.  Everyone would clear out when it was their turn.  They’d see Lexi walk up and say there’s “daredevil” (they learned quickly she is no stranger to water) and she would jump off that board, trying to hold her legs up like the big kids to do a canon ball and jump right in.  Emma was much more timid.  She’d walk to the end of the board, hold her nose and sort of fall in.  That’s the way it is with them though.  I’m just glad they both aren’t scared of water and even went off it at all.

We had around 50 people go altogether and besides one leader about break her nose when someone dived on her right after she jumped off the diving board and then someone that pushed our pastor who doesn’t know how to swim in the deep-end and people had to jump in with all their clothes to literally save his life, it was a really good time.  Yes, some very serious close calls but honestly the rest of the time was enjoyed by all and I’m sure we will be invading their “house” again for another outing.

Matching UNO

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Emma got a pack of UNO cards from Wendy’s today.  Pretty cool actually.  But Emma decides she’s going to spread them out, face down and have me play memory with her.  Well, that’s pretty creative, I thought.  But wait, Emma, do we match on color or number?  Emma insists color AND number.  Well, Emma, that’s going to be pretty hard, there’s only one number per color.  No, we have to match on both she still insists.  Alrighty, I’ll play along.  So we start turning cards over.  I turn over a yellow 2 and  green 2.  Emma says Nope!  They don’t match.  A few rounds of that and she says, Man!  No one’s ever going to win.  Ha, I’m thinking, she’ll see this really won’t work, like her wise mother insists.  Oh, but then, she turns over the wild card that has each color.  And then guess what else she turns over?  The other wild card that has each color.  They match!, she screams and then singingly taunts, I got a ma-atch and yo-ou do-on’t.  I’m winning and you don’t have anything!  Yes, Emma is quite competitive.  Ok, great.  So we continue playing, and all I can think is man, this game is going to be a while

she hearts the internet

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Emma is a computer-holic.  She’s very familiar with playhousedisney.com, noggin.com, barbie.com, etc.  She was sort of whiny yesterday, asking me to go to different sites.  She’d look around at her toys and go, I want to go to HelloKitty.com or I want to go to HollyHobbie.com.  Ok, I would say, assuming there was such and sure enough there was.    One time, she walked in her play room, looked around and said, Mommy, I want to go to princessandthepauper.com.  LOL.  Em, I don’t think there is such.  I checked to make sure and no, there is not a princessandthepauper.com.  Maybe I should tell Mattel though they need to buy that domain, there’s a little 4 year old expecting it.