The ABC Journal

You might have read the post title and thought "oh, goody, another look into Katie's Journal" (which, again, I honestly do feel a little bit guilty about reading and then thinking it was funny enough to take photos of and blog about...but she's only 5, she'll understand. If you haven't read the previous Journal posts, click HERE and HERE).

Today's look into the mind of 5-year-old comes courtesy of her school.

Yesterday Katie brought home her A-B-C Journal from school. They've done all the letters so the journal was sent home. After she went to bed I went through it and was cracking up, but pretty impressed at some of her spelling attempts. She's a funny gal, and quite creative. Here are some of the highlights of her Journal.

In the world according to Katie, dogs are hatched from eggs...

WM and I had to laugh at this one...I DON'T walk the dogs. I love them, I feed them, I play with them, I even bathe them, but I don't walk them. Unless you ask Katie...she apparently thinks I do.Here is what she would wish for...a "rumbo." You and I know this item as a "rainbow." I love that everyone is wearing their prince/princess capes as they dance across the "rumbo"--everyone except me.

Yes, Katie, what are you doing under the house??? (or as she spelled it--'hais')
Katie seems to really like "Brokcley, chez." I like Chez-Its (or is it Cheez-Its)? I had to include this one because in this family portrait...I'm the only one wearing shoes. Katie knows her mommy and knows how I love shoes...check out the size of my feet, though. Whoa! This is my favorite one of all. Katie's favorite dinner:
Spedgedeey.That's actually true...she does love herself some spedgedeey.

Peace, love and a rainy day to you to (if you're reading from what will soon be The Tropical Rain Forest of NE Oklahoma).

She's Got the Pox

She's got some type of pox!

Oh wait...

I think it's the sparkly-mosaic-princess-stickers pox.

She'll be fine.

She was NOT fine when I pulled all those stickers off. OUCH!

But she's fine now.

And please don't judge me because she's filthy. I do bathe my children--we'd been playing outside ALL day.  Dirt happens.  And I'm just keepin' it real.  

Eights

Silly girl Baloney tagged me on this little game (Baloney, by the way, likes to tease me with my age and other random things, she's crazy, I tell ya, crazy)...but I'm kinda glad because I can't really think of anything witty and clever to blog about tonight.  I'm laying here in bed watching Twilight, so I can't really focus.

Here's how to do this 8 THINGS thing:

- Mention the person that tagged you--that would be Baloney
- Complete the lists of 8's--see below
- Tag 8 of your wonderful bloggy friends--see disclaimer below
- Go tell them you tagged them!

8 THINGS I LOOK FORWARD TO:
Our trip to Mexico in a couple weeks
Facebooking and Twittering and blogging
Getting my daily Starbucks
Shopping
Warm weather
My husband coming home
Hugs from my kiddos first thing in the morning and goodnight kisses at night
Going to church

8 THINGS I DID YESTERDAY
Went to work
Gave a tour of the St. John Center for Women's Health
Stuffed a whole bunch of envelopes for St. John Street Party
Went to Target
Gave the kids a bath
Did Katie's religion homework with her
Did several loads of laundry
Caught up on back episodes of The Tudors

8 THINGS I WISH I COULD DO
Play the piano everyday (I can play the piano, I just don't have a piano in my home right now)
Get a full night's sleep
Keep up with house work
Quit procrastinating
Go shopping without a budget
Sew
Travel with my family more (it's hard with the kids the ages they are)
Keep my kids from ever getting hurt

8 SHOWS I WATCH (I don't have 8, I don't have time to watch TV, but here's what I can come up with)
Dancing with the Stars
The Tudors
Eastbound and Down
The 10 o'clock news
CSI Miami
David Letterman

People I'm tagging:

Well, I don't have 8 people that haven't already been tagged.  So, if you're reading this...you're tagged.  But let me know by leaving me a comment so I can read your "Eights."

Have a super great weekend!!

Phobias

I've decided that I need to be a little better about keeping this silly little blog up to date.  Apparently there really are people out there reading this.  Hopefully you're not checking back daily to see the same 'ol post and say "darn it, I really wanted to know what is going on in her life today, why won't she post something new?"  Actually, I know you're not.  

So what's been up?

Oh, not much, just busy, you know, what's about you? 

Nice weather, huh?  You know this 'cold-weather-hatin'-girl' is loving it!

Oh--have I mentioned that I had a dentist appointment on Tuesday?  No?  Really, didn't mention it?  Hmmm....

It's because I was too FREAKED OUT!  I couldn't do a new post because I was too wigged out about going to the dentist.  

My mind was scrambled...  

...scrambled........like eggs. Scrambled eggs...that was my brain.

Going to be dentist does that to me.  It's not just 'dental anxiety'...I have real dentalphobia.  It just straight up freaks me out.  Thankfully for me I have a dentist and hygienist who recognizes my problem and totally sympathizes.  But honestly, it doesn't help relieve my anxiety.  It just helps that they don't think I'm a total weirdo (which we all know I kinda am). I'm just learning to live with it.  Trust me, this isn't a new thing for me...I've been this way my entire life (ahem, Baloney...I'm not too young...just weird).  My 5+ years with braces almost sent me over the edge.  I do believe it's just a phobia that I was born with and like other phobias in our lives, I learn to live with it.

You wanna know what...I have a cavity and have to get a filling.  I'm just not thinking about that May 19th date ('filling day') yet.  Why torture myself?  But let's just say things could get ugly around that time...expect some bizarre posts.

So now that I've exposed my biggest phobia (I have others, but nothing huge), I would like to know what some of your phobias are...what just flips you out?  I promise not to judge you (just like I know you're not judging me, right?  Right?  RIGHT?????  Yeah, I didn't think so.

We're all different...so tell me your phobia and how you cope with it when you have to face it (it might help me cope with mine).

Later Alligators!

A Whole Bunch of Nothing and Random Picture Post

Usually I do a 'Monday Mumbles' on Mondays...where I just mumble randomly about nothing, about our weekend, about the random things that my kiddos say to me.  But not today! NO...you get something different.  For two reasons:

1.  I'm scatter-brained right now.  I have a dentist appointment tomorrow and I suffer from EXTREME dental anxiety.  I mean, it's bad.  A simple cleaning can send me into a frenzy.  And tomorrow I'm getting a cleaning, but I've also been having a little toothache, so I think there are bigger things in store for me.  Oh my--just the thought of that makes my stomach do flip flops.  In order to keep myself from crying, I think we'd better move on.

2.  Baloney posted this and so I'm going to do the Random Picture Post (click on Baloney to see her random photo).  

Here's what you do...

-Go to your APRIL 2008 or 13th folder

-Then go to your 42nd picture or 4th if you don't have that many.

So here's what you get from me:

That's the Three Little Lams a year ago--April 2008.  Not exactly an exciting photo or even a very good one.  But it's an eye opening photo of how they've grown in a year.

Now, I'm also supposed to do some Mr. Linky thing, but I don't know how to do that, so my instructions to you are this:

Go find your photo (April 2008 folder, etc., etc.) and leave me a comment with a link your blog so I can go see your random photo.

Have Happy Monday!  I'm not sure if I'll be blogging for the next several years--tomorrow's dental appointment might send me over the edge.

Pump Up the Volume

I love Sundays...church, big breakfast, day spent with the family...peaceful, relaxing days.  But, lately I've noticed that the volume in our home has dramatically increased and Sunday's are becoming less peaceful and more chaotic.  It's always been a little loud around here...I mean, we have three kids age 5, 3 and 20 months...even when everyone is behaving and playing nicely together, it's still a little loud.  But in recent weeks it really seems like the volume has been kicked up a notch and I just can't figure out what has changed.

This evening when I was going through my downloaded photos I began to notice a trend.  And then a lightbulb went off in my head.  A-HA!!--could this be our noise problem?

Surely this little gal couldn't be the culprit...

...Surely not?

I mean...she's so.........

.....calm and easy going...

Yep--let's blame it on the baby.

The Girl's Got Style

Over the past year I've displayed some photos of my 5 year old and her sense of style.  For those of you new to my blog let me give you a little background on my girl.

1.  She seriously believes that she will be a princess someday.

2.  Her favorite color is pink--purple comes in a close second.

3.  She wears something sparkly everyday (even if she has to hide it under her school uniform where no one can see it).

4.  She will only wear skirts or dresses...year round.

5.  She wants her hair curled everyday (doesn't happen, but she asks).

6.  She loves to look at clothing catalogs and is into fashion, hair styles, etc.

7.  She's the girliest girl you'll ever meet.

I think you get the point...girly, girly girly and loves clothes and putting outfits together.  For some reason headwear is super important to her.  

Here's a few photos of some of her best choices in headwear.

Stocking cap with kitty ears (this was when she was probably 3--it started early).

If you're ever in a pinch for snappy headwear--just run through your nearest McDonald's--a Happy Meal box works with any outfit!

Panties--you can never go wrong using panties as a hat.  (I think I was in college before I wore my first panty hat).

I thought I'd share a few photos of some of her latest outfits.

Here is she is wearing her raffle ticket vest--nice accessory, don't you think?

And then there's this...oh gosh, I don't know...that's about all I can say about that headband/pinwheel/blanket-as-a-dress outfit.  I just don't know...and don't want to.

There are two conclusions that I have come to:

1.  Thank goodness for school uniforms.

2.  Maybe I should take a serious look at what I wear--surely her sense of style isn't being inspired by......ME!?!?!?!