What I Need

Here’s how it works: Google “[your first name] needs” and share the first 10 results. That's it: it is that simple. But be honest!
(*NOTE: Be careful not to pull from other people's lists that pop up, but from actual links.)

1. Jack and I need to get back together. (never dated a Jack)

2. I need way more respect than I am getting from everyone. (Amen to that!)

3. I need to shut my face. (Hmm, very contrary to number 2, I think I will agree with number two and ignore number 3. Haha)

4. I need to embrace my beauty, femininity and vulnerability. (okay, I guess)

5. I need someone to sublease my apartment for the spring semester. (No apartment, but sure maybe I can make some side money off someone else's lease).

6. My cell phone died and now needs everyone's number. (Thank goodness this didn't happen, that would be a catastrophe).

7. I need Sam. (No Sam in my life, hmm, my google name is quite popular with the fellas).

8. I need a place to recover -- so that I can have a better quality of life than being kenneled. (Oh my, my google self needs a lot, poor google self).

9. I need to take up knitting. (Now this is actually a good idea. Of course hubby would say one more thing for me to buy with intentions of doing and then not actually do).

10. I need more time. (Don't we all).

Kitchen Helper

C wanted to help make dinner and we decided lasagna would be a fun way for him to help. I wanted him to be really involved, so I made a few modifications.

Here is the recipe I used:
Bag of Frozen Meatballs, thawed and soaked overnight in sauce
Tub of Ricotta
2 eggs
~2 TBS Italian Seasoning
2 cups shredded mozzarella
½ cup parmesan cheese
Lasagna Noodles

I had him cut the meatball bag, pour the meatballs into a bowl and then pour the jar of sauce over them.
The next day we had to get our hands dirty and dig into the sauce and break apart the meatballs. He loved this part, getting his hands all dirty and breaking them up with his hands.
He got to dump the ricotta in, measure a cup of mozzarella, and a ½ cup of parmesan cheeses and mix all together after I put the two eggs in.
I boiled, drained and rinsed the noodles so he would be able to place them in the pan.
I had him do the layers, he really enjoyed making dinner. We ended up doing a ¼ of the lasagna with no cheese at all. We called that part the cheeseless lasagna since C will not eat cheese at all. The meal turned out yummy and we all enjoyed the lasagna made by C.

My Serious Cooker

My Happy Cooker

100th Day

This week was the 100th day of school. I decided I would volunteer in the classroom for the 100th day. I also got to have lunch with him. It is a pretty exciting day for the Kindergartners especially and the teachers try to make it really cool.
They had a take home assignment to do a 100 Day Project. C painted a plaque red and then I put an outline of 100 and he glued 100 beads to the outline of the 100 and then put some cool wooden figures around it, a boy, bus, school house, and pencil. It turned out really nice. I got to see some of the other projects and they were cool. Some included a poster board with race track and 100 race car stickers, a poster board and a picture of a Pokemon ball with 100 Pokemon stickers, a Lego board with 100 Legos spelling out 100, 100 M&M's on a paper. They were also encouraged to dress for the 100 day. I think around 6 of the kids did, one girl had 100 beads bedazzled on her shirt, a girl had ten hearts each with ten dots in them, a little boy had 100 stars stamped on his shirt (really liked this one), and C had 100 ironed on to his shirt. It turned out cool.
The day in the classroom was a lot of fun. The kids made 100 day glasses, 100 day trail mix, wrote numbers up to 100 on a piece of paper, and decorated a 100 day Mascot, Spot with 100 spots. His teacher is really good and always does some really cool stuff with the kids. All of the kids enjoyed their special day.

Here he is making his 100 day glasses:

Here is the class (me included in picture):

Here is C and the 100 day Mascot Spot:

Here is C and his wonderful teacher:

Circus

We all went to the circus on Sunday. It was such a good show. We went for the hour long pre-show where we got to see Magic acts, jugglers, the guy on stilts and the elephant paint a piece of art. The show was one of the best I have seen. My favorite parts were the elephants, the clowns riding around, and the dogs. I liked the lions, but one of them seemed to be mad. I would never get in a cage with an angry lion, but the guy handled it. It seemed the lion kept trying to get snarky with him and would growl. I thought trouble. But it was alright. Some gymnasts were there and so unnatural that they can put their legs up around their face. One act was this acrobat that was supposed to be the best but the clowns kept messing her up. She ended up in only her undergarments. C thought this was hilarious. Chris enjoyed the motorcycles in the cage the most. It was pretty spectacular.

During the elephant painting I had to give C the camera because I couldn't quite get close enough and he was in the front row:

Here is a clown and C during the pre-show:

Here is the three of us:

Tanner Updates

Christopher's cousin Tanner is now 5 months old. Here are some recent pics.

Hmm, updates?

So it has been over a month. Wow! I have not been keeping up like I should. So I will try to catch up to what C has been up to. He finished up his swim lessons and did not quite graduate from Youth Level 3. I had thought he was an awesome swimmer and he just was average in the class and never really progressed while in the class. I do have to say I was less than thrilled with his instructor. She didn’t have a good handle on the kids and C knew it and was a big goof in the class. Then at lesson 7 of 8 realized she hadn’t even been getting his name right the entire session. Way to get a kid to listen to you, call them the wrong name for 3 ½ weeks. He enjoyed it, so that is what really matters. He wasn’t very happy that he didn’t “graduate” to next level, but he will be fine. We have been tinkering with the idea of swim team, but will probably wait until the next session.
He had his first project to do at school. They are studying Community Helpers and had to pick one to do a report on. He chose Police Man. I tried many times to correct him and say Police Officer, but he said, but I want to do Police Man. He had to write down ways they help the community, what they do, how they become one, and why he would want to be one. He made a nice poster board with police themed pictures and had to present in class. I asked him why he chose police officer and he said so he could have a “real gun”. LOL. I did find out he wasn’t the only kid in class that had decided that.

Halloween 2008

Christopher really enjoyed Trick-or-Treating this year. He said thank you *most*of the time, said Trick-or-Treat and Happy Halloween.
He ran from house to house. We went with the neighbor twins that are identical. So at the beginning of the night he ran with N and then at the end ran with J. They took breaks in between. It was nice that I had someone to walk with and C loves them so much, they have the coolest toys he says.
He got to TOT at his friend Leya's house and stop for a picture with her.
After TOT we went over to their house to warm up, it was so cold. The boys ate some candy, but mostly played some Chicken game on the Wii and then Batman Lego on the Wii. C did not want to stop playing. It turned out to be a lot of fun.
Here are some pics: