Toy Story Adventure

Last night the kids (all 3!!!) stayed with my parents. They took the kids to see Toy Story 3. Of course, Greg and I got to have a great date night, however, I lobbied to go see Toy Story 3 (at a different theater) so I would know what the kids were talking about. I love everything Disney so Greg lost the movie choice. Anyway, after seeing the super sad movie - I cried for over 30 minutes in the movie - we had a nice relaxing night and morning with out kids.

At every Disney store today from 11-2 they had a free Toy Story Adventure. The family went after lunch. The kids did a maze, searched for Jessie & Bullseye, played memory match with Toy Story characters, and then hunted for some of the other characters. They gave each kid a Toy Story bandanna, stickers, activity books, and coloring pages. I just LOVE Disney! They create such fun stuff. This was all free, of course.

Well, kind of. We went home with a Buzz and a Woody, the deal of the week. ha! I'm such a sucker! However, we did get a free reusable bag for spending over $30. Score!!!!

The Scrub Down

I'm waiting for the shower to finish "soaking." I just Tilex-ed it and it needs to sit for awhile. I hate cleaning the shower. Who in the world thought to make glass showers all the way around? Obviously, not someone with 3 kids and a life. Or maybe they just had a maid.

My goals lately have been to

1) Workout 3 times a week
2) Do something fun with the kids each day
3) Keep the laundry up to date (with out my Mom's help)
4) Try to keep the kitchen de-cluttered and the sink clean

As you see, the shower does not have a place on my priority list. In fact, it sits dead last. Greg and I had a little "tiff" about it this morning. Occasionally, over the last few weeks he has mentioned that it needs to be cleaned. I think that us being gone and the a/c set to a higher temp during our lake vacation really set it to nasty.

Anyway, Greg told me 5 times today that it needed to be cleaned and that was in the hour he was here getting ready for work. Needless to say that annoyed me, but, hey, the shower is getting a scrub down.

So that is the update here. The Tilex has set in. Now to scrub and then Comet the shower floor.

Sorry if this grossed you out, but I just wondered what was at the bottom of your list? Maybe I should make this #5 on mine.

The Youngest Mom in the Class?

Me by Dylan

HA HA HA! Yes, if you read below, note he knows my hair color AND eye color. Can you guess what his favorite color is???? When I first saw it in the line up, I thought, "THAT is Dylan's picture of me." Then on they back they had answers to questions by your kid and I was pretty sure he knew them so I doubted my first instinct. NEVER doubt your first instinct as a mother. ha!

So where did this come from?

We had a Mother's Tea in Dylan's class yesterday. Dylan served me a plate of food and a drink and we sat together. It was way cute! Ms. Klink really planned for this day. There was a guess the portrait of you by your child game, the sticky bubble gum song, a Mother's Day gift of a decorated plate, and some cute answers to questions by your kids. I'm really not describing it too well, but it was so special.

Best thing about the tea - Spending time with Dylan and him guessing the youngest age for his mom out of the whole class. Must be my super spirit. ha!

Anyway, here are Dylan's answers.

My Mother has brown eyes and dark brown hair. She is 25 years old.

My Mother is prettiest when she goes to scrapbooking.

When Mom has free time she likes to play with us.

Mom is really funny when she she is never funny.

I love when she cooks Ramen noodles(*insert laughing moms with funny stares here*), but I don't like chicken.

She likes me to help her clean up the house.

Spying on the Yard Next Door

Dylan and Logan are at Elijah's next door playing in the backyard. I opened my blinds to look in their yard as they sound like they are having too much fun. It was one of those watching your kids while they don't know it times which I love.

As I look out, Dylan is turning on the water hose which is connected to the sprinkler that Elijah is holding and pointing at Logan.

I open the door and ask, "Are ya'll supposed to have that thing out?"

Elijah, "No"
Logan just looks at me.
Dylan, "It was Elijah's idea."

Me - "It doesn't matter whose idea it was. Ms. Naiomi would be upset to know you were playing with it."


It made me crack up laughing! They are just too cute and when did I become such a mom????

One Good Choice

So for those of you who are around me on a daily basis you know that I have been trying to lose some weight. Not huge amounts, but I want to get down to pre-pre-baby weight. What is that? The weight I was before I thought "I'm going to get prego and gain bunches of weight. Why worry now?"

Anyway, I've been doing this since last May off and on. After Thanksgiving last year, I decided to start working out on a regular basis. I don't think I ever worked out before in my previous life, nor did I ever enjoy it. And all that bull about actually having more energy? I thought it was a lie. My next door neighbor introduced me to Zumba, which I love and since the Round Rock YMCA offers it almost everyday its a good bet that I can get there 3 times a week unless someone is sick or there are special plans or we are out of town. You can imagine this is fairly often. Anyway, I actually feel like I want and need to work out. I'm a much happier person these days. (Kristen a year ago is laughing.)

Last week, Greg challenged me to go 5 days without any sweets. Again, for those that know me, that is a big deal. As my children know, I bake homemade cookies at least once a week. However, I did actually have will power and I succeeded! I also ended up losing over 2 lbs. last week. Maybe I eat a few too many sweets.

So why am I writing all this? For background. So we are in Katy this weekend to visit Greg's family. What do we do when we come here? Eat and Eat and Eat! It's like any family's get together. It's all yummy! So here was today's meal plan -

Breakfast: Go take the kids to Mr. Donut.
Lunch: DoubleDave's buffet
Pre-Dinner: Queso, chips, onion dip
Dinner: Hamburgers, Hot dogs, and birthday cake at Heather's house.

Don't get me wrong. I love me some good, fatty food and any special event as an excuse.

My one good choice? I skipped donuts with the family and went to a BodyStep class at the Y at 7:30am.

It may not seem that good of a choice, but here is what I was thinking as the chicka was killing my quads.
Donut: 300 calories
Kolache: 250 calories
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550 calories

My breakfast: granola bar: 90 calories
banana : 105 calories
pb cracker snack: 50 calories
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245 calories

Calories saved by not donuting =345
Calories burned working out = 450 (it says 660 online, but I take the low intensity route so I round down)
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795 calories I could eat today to equal my other morning option

That is a HUGE difference! What if I made a good choice every day? Now I'm not planning to eat donuts every morning so it wouldn't be as much a difference as today, but whoa! I'm motivated for the rest of the week.

Now will I make bad choices this week? Maybe. Probably. But today I made a great choice. Let's see if I can resist the birthday cake tonight.

I challenge whoever is reading this to make their own great choice this week regarding working out and eating. Once you do it, you don't miss what you didn't eat and you feel better, too.

More Random Kid Sayings

I've been meaning to get these down for awhile and since I have a cute comment from today's snow play, I thought I would go back and catch everyone up on the cute things my kids say everyday. Some are from a few days ago, some are from months ago. Greg will just be excited to get our answering machine messages down to zero. Every time I hear something I want to remember I call and leave myself a message so I won't forget. Turns out now that I have listened to the 14 messages on the machine 11 of them were actual people calling that just needed to be deleted. So here are the 3 off the machine plus Logan's snow day quote. Enjoy!

Dylan: "When I get older, I'm going to have a green minivan. I'll need some paint and gas to get it started." **He's going to build it himself.

Response when Dylan is asked what he likes best about IHOP: "Why don't they have green syrup? I always like green syrup."

Since 2 Dylan has always been fascinated with the walk/don't walk signals on the stop lights. He calls them handicaps and came up with that name on his own. I've tried correcting him by calling them "walk men," but that has never gotten through. Instead, he just calls the picture of the man a walk man and the picture of the orange hand a handicap. One day in the car he asks, "Can we go handicapping tonight?" which though mommy translation means 'Let's go push the buttons and cross the street.'

Someone has been watching too much Frosty!

Mommy: "Now we need to get this snowman's other arm on."

Logan: "And then he'll COME ALIVE!"

This guy would scare me if he came alive for sure.

Logan's Love

So Logan is going though a rough spot in the 3 year old world. He is into randomly screaming when not getting his way, sticking his tounge out, and just being difficult. Greg and I have decided to respond to his sticking out his tounge with "I love you, too, Logan." which tends to annoy him enough to stop.

Here is today's response:

L: (sticks out tounge)
Me: Love you too, Logan.
L: I DON'T love you.
Me: That makes Mommy sad. (pouty face included)
L: I love you, just not that much.

I guess I'll take that over nothing. =)