Hooray, hooray for Tuesday!

I know it's still Monday, but Tuesday is Orientation/Registration for summer quarter and getting back into the whole nursing school thing. I've been through this before and I really shouldn't be nervous, but it's a whole new group of people with a whole new group of expectations and standards, and yadda, yadda, yadda. I should be excited, and I am, don't get me wrong. I'm just ready for this whole damn thing to be over and done with.

I'm tired of being a professional student.

4 Year Old Humor

Emily has become quite prolific in telling jokes lately. This is her latest,courtesy of our neighbor Carol...

Why was Tigger looking in the potty?

Because he was looking for pooh!

Ya' just gotta love toilet humor!

GooberBug and GooberBear

I was on the phone with Kim this morning organizing our Friday Burger Bo-Nan-Za, when the girls came into the TV room wearing the following "costumes"...

I love my family!!!

He Stole My Post!

I love my husband more than I can say, but he stole my last posting! He claims that his was funnier, but I think mine was more in depth (thanks, Kimmie!). So, to get back at the plagiarising hunk 'o man I married...

I Love You, Bay-bay!!!!!!

Package from DeeDee

The girls got a package from my Mother today, and it contained the following:

• One book for each girl
• 2 pairs of Speedo pool shoes
• 2 pairs of Speedo goggles - one pink, one purple
• Jilly's afghan, in green
• Speedo swimsuit for Emmy

As soon as I opened the box, Emmy went straight for the wrapped package (Jilly's blanket) and demanded that she be able to open it. Jilly grabbed her book and immediately started coloring in it (it's an Eric Carle board book of colors, and not a coloring book), and Emmy pitched a fit until I got the blanket unwrapped. Typical reaction from both girls.

Jilly wanted to wear her goggles as soon as she saw them, so Mommy obliged. Emmy saw Jilly and wanted her's on as well. Mommy again obliged. This is what ensued...

Are they cute, or what???

Speachless

I checked my e-mail a bit ago, and this picture was forwarded to me by a friend from nursing school. I don't know if the gentleman is married or not, if he has children or not, but we should all take comfort in the bit of normalcy he is bringing to this small child's topsy-turvy life. Enlarge the photo and read the caption underneath. It's sad but heartwarming.

God Bless our Servicemen and Servicewomen. May they return to their loved ones very, very soon.

Let's Go Swimmin!

The pool is officially open in our subdivision, and we've been a couple of times this week already. Jilly likes sitting on the steps and splashing - but who doesn't?!?!?!



Emily wasn't too sure the first night, but she's very quickly become a little fish.



We're also working on teaching Emily to swim WITHOUT her floaty suit or her swimmy ring, and I think that's not really going to be an easy task. However, it just so happens that our neighbor Chad was a lifeguard/swimming instructor during his time in the Marines (boo-yah!).

Hopefully, she'll pay a little more attention to Mr. Chad than she does to Mommy during swimming lessons!