Charts

All of the sudden our kids would not go to bed. I always thought I was the model parent on that one :) Our kids starting flailing on the ground, screaming, ect. Leaving them in the room screaming didn't work because we all live on one floor and they wouldn't stop. Steve suggested making a chart as we did for potty training. Brilliant. Worked like a charm. They get stickers for seven days of going to bed straight and then they pick out a dollar store toy. I have now started doing charts for everything. I'm obsessed. There's the "going to bed chart" and the "getting dressed by yourself chart". I am about to add "wiping yourself chart", "sharing chart" and soon to come "eating your vegetables by yourself" chart. I think by the end of the year my fridge will be full of charts.

I know...I know it's not Halloween yet. . .

Yes, I realize this is a little premature. I do love Halloween however. I took Hudson to pick out his costume the other day and he decided on the muscle spiderman, I really tried to lean him toward a pirate or a knight because we already had some of that gear and would only need a few pieces, but he was determined to have spiderman or shrek. I didn't give him a choice with shrek (I didn't want him to walk around making grose noises, did anyone get that McDonalds toy? hated it.) so spiderman it was. He tried on the costume for Steve and pushing on his chest said "these are my feeders." I said "what did you say?" (thinking he said teeters and wondering where he learned that) but indeed he said "feeders". He then went on , "yeah, I feed the baby with them." We quickly explained those were muscles not the other.
By the way, sorry if I ruined the Halloween fun by revealing the costumes early. And Sadie is dressed up because if he was she had to be too. Of course.

Daddy Long Legs Are My Friends

This is a scorpion. Unfortunately it is something we have become acquainted with here in the desert. I was pulling a bike out of a friends garage and she said "watch out", I moved to the side and she killed a scorpion with her shoe. I was shocked. When Steve or I see a scorpion it takes us about five minutes before we decide how we are going to kill it, "will it go through that shoe?" "don't get to close." "How are we going to dispose of it?". After the sighting I can't sleep for the rest of the night. I couldn't believe she just said "watch out" and killed it. I could tell she was desert bread. The one fortunate thing about these scorpions is they do glow in black light and only come out at night, so for the most part they are easily spotted. Daddy long legs are now my friends. I miss them.

Batman and Robin maybe?

On his own doing Hudson decided to make paper glasses for him and Sadie, however to be wearable they needed a little help. Originally Hudson had tiny holes for the eyes and they were taped to his face. So I helped him make the side pieces and made the holes bigger. Maybe Hudson can make his own costume for Halloween.

Yes We Live in a Basement

Sorry I am not so detail oriented and never did well in English or grammar. If Steve had two minutes to add things to the website you would get stories full of details. So, yes we rent, yes we live in the basement and we are not relatives (directly) to the Seiters. They are our brother-in-law's (Bret) parents. We moved to Tempe for Steve to go to business school at ASU and it is a two year program. Who knows where we'll end up after that, but I must say I am hot (that came out wrong). It is hot here. I went on a jog this morning with a friend and it was 90 degrees, the sun had not even come up! Wow. It was worth it however because I ran into an old man that had jogging pants and a shirt that said, "Who needs hair with a body like this".

First Day of Preschool

Sadie bawled when we dropped him off. She kept saying "Ahmmy go?" For some reason she calls him ahmmy. Anyway, it was cute.

Is that the biggest slide ever?

The funniest thing is that Steve Seiter built the slide to be like his childhood slide and later learned his childhood slide was normal size

Everett just after a bath

Hudson is learning how to use the camera and is enjoying taking many pictures. He does a pretty good job! Sometimes he catches me off guard (like doing laundry or something) and I find I have to put the camera up high now.

The Biggest Sandbox Ever (aka volleyball court)

Some photos from the Seiters backyard...our new living quarters.

Are we on?

Wow. We have finally entered the blogging world, it is great to have an online journal and scrapbook for friends and family to browse. We have sure enjoyed browsing yours. Now that we have made the official move it is critical we update the grandparents on the latest happenings at our house :)I just need to figure out how to make the words bigger and the pictures smaller, I'll work on it.