Not Everyone's Mama

I have been working on my computer all week and it’s driving me batty.  I have run every spycheck, every virus remover, plus a registry cleaner.  I have cleaned up, defragged, and everything else I can think of.

It has been freezing and going so slow.  I can’t stand it.  I ran a program that my cousin suggested and my suspicians were right.  One of my memory sticks went bad.

Crud.

Now I need to replace those.

Computer problems are torture.

People have regularly had computers for a little less than half of my life.  How did I survive before them?  Pen and paper. Calendars.  Boring.

Here I am on my phone blogging.  Long ways from my first flip phone that took up half of my purse.

Going to see what I can do with my computer until I get new ddr2.

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This post gets me caught up on pictures, which is a good thing because I’m sure I’ll have tons of Easter pics tomorrow.

Katiana turned 7 on April 6.  We had the family birthday party that night and she had a slumber party on the Saturday after that.  My family came to that too.  We had so much food as I had planned for 10 girls but everyone had plans except for (thank goodness!) Kat’s BFFs. 

Kat and Alyce

Nano

Jordan

Kat wanted fruit pizza for her birthday and cake for her slumber party.  This is the pizza.  I forgot mandarin oranges which amazes everyone, including myself because that is my favorite.

Blowing out her candles

I think I need to make some more.  That was so good!

Some of her presents – helmet and roller blades from us.  Pads from my sis and her family.  Her big presents wasn’t ready that day.  She had to wait until Saturday to get her iPod touch.  We bought it used (she’s 7, though she does take better care of her stuff than Jordan), the only thing wrong?  The screen was cracked.  Pato knows someone who fixes screens for like $40. 

She loves her roller blades!  And her helmet which means we can take the training wheels off her bike finally.

Her birthday party cake.  She picked it out.

Alyce, Kat, and her BFFs Olivia (from preschool – I love that they still love each other) and Faith (from school).  Olivia and Kat will be at the same school next year since we moved from one elementary in our district to another (there are 5 or 6 – I can’t remember).  We’ll have play dates with Faith because those 2 adore each other. 

Kat, Olivia, and Faith

And again, Olivia, Kat, and Faith.

I think we need to have another slumber party with the girls.  They were so good and had so much fun!

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Final post on St Paddy’s day.  Thank goodness.  I’m tired of looking at these pictures now.    You don’t even know how many pictures I took that day.  You know, that’s the benefit and problem with digital cameras.  You just keep shooting, never worrying about running out of film.  Then you have 700 pictures of a 2 hour period to go through.

The Deer Slayer

Cool woman on a tractor

One of the belly dancers

Another clown

part of the Green man group?

Pulling the bus

Loved the hula hoopers

And her outfit.  I want those pants.

She’s fun!

Tricks on bikes

Another biker

Pot of gold at the end of the rainbow

People in green

That’s it!  That’s all the St Paddy’s day pics I’m putting up.  Tomorrow…Kat’s birthday pictures.  Then I shall be caught up on pictures.  I didn’t take a lot when I didn’t have my desktop because I knew I wouldn’t be uploading them anytime soon.  It is time to get it all back to normal.

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I think this is going to take at least another post.  I have more pictures to go through still.  Must share the fun ones!

Let’s get this party started since I have a boatload.

Dudes on bikes in green

I love this guy.

And that guy

He (she?) is just fun!  And I want those socks and shoes.

scooter?  Bike?  Big Wheel?

Nano and his mohawk

The clown who terrified Nano.

A pig in a truck

See Junie in the back? 

Nano saying NOOOOOOOOO!

Move back says the guy in the green shirt in front of the truck…they didn’t listen long.

Ducks…or patos if you speak Spanish.

Greyhounds – that one in front is really really skinny.  They aren’t supposed to have their ribs out like that are they?  Rescued?

Love the kilts!

Love her outfit! 

We all need a motorized cooler

Loved listening to this group.

Alright, off to edit more!  Ready for part 3.

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How often do you see that title in April?  I’m going to say not often.  I’ve got to get caught up on pictures though.  I think this is going to be a multi-multi- part post because of how many pictures I took.  I’m not posting all of them but it was hard to choose between all the parade attendees!

Junie Bee – after she calmed down because she saw….. DOGS!  She isn’t actually a dog you know.  She’s just a person on 4 legs. 

I made her the bow that morning because I didn’t have any green clothes for her.  (I know!  Can you believe that?  So much going on after the fire I didn’t think about getting her a shirt until last minute and I couldn’t find one.)

Junie

3 of my 2 legged kids.    Jordan was at his dad’s and didn’t want to come to the parade.  Love the faces.

My nephew Carter – who made it into the paper with that hair.

My cutie patootie niece Taylor

My SIL Shelley

Showing the backside

Ok, seriously, that dog is not spoiled or anything.

I wore the green too.

The DM PD ride in style

Guys in kilts w/bag pipes

Dancing an Irish jig

I love him – I don’t know why, but I do.

More wearing paid

Salute!

Who doesn’t love a matching golf cart?

The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick

All hail the Queen

The DM FD

Yes, Junie did wake up for the dogs.  She had to let them know she was in the crowd too. 

This little fuzz bucket is so cute.

What’s the purple hat mean?  He’s in charge of this group obviously.

Yeah, you should have seen Nano’s reaction to the clown.

That will be tomorrow’s post.

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Finally.  I know, you are all so excited!  You’ve been waiting for this.  Haven’t you? 

Ok, maybe I’m so excited.  I’ve been waiting for this.

My desktop is set up.

I pulled over 800 pictures off my SD card and my camera thanks me.

February pictures really only consisted of the boys’ birthday party.

Jordan turned 12 and Nano turned 2 on February 23.

I went through all of the pictures and narrowed it down to a few.

No fancy dancy editing because I need to fix my monitor calibrations.

It’s all screwed up.

So, if the color on the pictures look wanky, you now know why.

I figure every couple of days I’ll go through some pictures and share them.  It may take me awhile.  But boy it feels good to be back on my desk top.  It’s home baby.

Christiano opening the adaptor to his MobiGo – don’t ask why the adaptor and not the MobiGo – I had 2 kids to take pictures of.

Jordan’s new soccer t-shirt

A tad backwards – opening the t-shirt.

Jordan and one of his friends.

Again – we are backwards.  Daddy opening Nano’s Big Wheel

Tell me you can hear what he is saying here.  Mama!!!!  Thomas!  His new Thomas the Train Big Wheel.

Nano and the girls

I didn’t actually get that many pictures of them opening presents.  There were more.  Jordan’s big present was a Kindle.  When your kid asks for something that isn’t a video game, you jump.  May I say, I’m jealous.  I like his better than mine.  I have a Kindle 2.  He has the newest version of mine and it is so much easier to read – and I thought mine was awesome.  His can be read in the sun.  Mine…not at all.

My little prego sister who is due in July.

Mr Nano

Taylor and her a-hem – boyfriend.

MJ has been family approved – he did Michael Jackson The Experience (on the Wii) with my sister and everyone else.  Love that kid!

The birthday cake – the 2nd take. It looked bad the first time they made it.

Nano blowing out his #2.

Jordan blowing his #12.  Yes, that is a huge stain down the front of my sweatshirt.  Nano spilled strawberry pop all down me.

So, that was the boys’ birthday.  Next up…St Paddy’s Day parade!

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I will admit that I was not in my best parenting form last night.  I am still battling this cold and I had something funky going on with my eyes off and on all day.  It was like black/white strobe lights just outside of my main line of vision.  I was chalking it up to hypoglycemia or impending migraine.  It made me really sick to my stomach. 

Laying in bed last night Christiano was calling me a poo head.  Over and over and over again.

Here’s the last part of that conversation.

Christiano: Mommy, you a poo head.

Me: <sigh>  Christiano, I am not a poo head.  That is not nice.  Do not call people poo heads.

Christiano: Mommy, you a poo head.

Me:  I am not a poo head.  Go look in the mirror.

Christiano sliding off the bed.

Me:  No, I didn’t mean go look in a mirror for real.  Get back up here.

Christiano:  Come with me. I look in mirror.

Me: No Nano, get back up and bed.

Christiano: <crying>  I want you follow me. I want to look in mirror.

Me:  Nano, get back up in bed. 

Christiano:  Follow me. <crying>  I want you follow me.  Follow me.  Follow me to mirror.

Me:  Nano, if you want to go look in the mirror, go look then come back to bed.

Christiano: NOOOO!  I want you follow me.

And so it continued until I was finally able to distract him with getting back up in bed.

Night before.

Christiano:  Mommy, I have a booger stuck in my nose.

Me: Great, you going to wait for daddy to get it out?

Christiano: No, I’m going to wait for you to get it out. <giggling>

Me:  Don’t you want daddy to do it?

Christiano:  No, daddy huuuurrrrrt me. 

(Obviously daddy has much bigger hands than mommy.  Mommy has dainty little fingers, the only thing left on her that is dainty.  If you try with a Kleenex, it’s too big for his little nose.  Qtips don’t work as well as the good old pinky finger.)

Me:  Where is it?

Christiano:  It’s in this nose.

Me:  This nose?  (as opposed to the nose on the back of his heel I guess.)

Christiano:  No it’s in this nose.

Did the job.

Me:  All better?

Nano:  It’s all gone.

Me:  dude, next time you get it out.

Nano:  <giggling> Next time you get it out mommy.

Excuse me while I go wash my hands.

Aren’t they fun at this age when they aren’t throwing temper tantrums?

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