Today

Today, Devin lost his first tooth, a bottom one. The new tooth is already half way there. When he was a baby, he was the most beautiful one in his daycare room because he had all his front teeth before all the other babies. Now, he will do the same thing with adult teeth, I guess. They will be halfway there before the baby teeth are ready to come out. I won't have any awkward toothless pictures of my baby.

I took the tooth. It went a little rip...ugh. Then, he cried. It hurt a lot for at least 180 seconds. He might let the next one come out on its own. Or maybe John will pull it. Way he talks, my ripping strategy wasn't really ideal.

School Board

I joined the school board. Then, I think I joined the fundraising committee. I've been trying to find ways to do passive fundraising...ways to raise money without spending more money or doing things much more differently than you would do them anyway.

To that end, I signed MYSELF up as an Amazon associate. If you buy things on Amazon, I will get a percentage of the sale. So, Mom, if you're going to buy a Kindle book anyway, buy it here! The FUNBro is a link to an Amazon Store, and it's the same as using the link to go to Amazon. At least, I think it is.

Mostly, before I suggest we do this as a type of fundraiser for the school, I wanted to see how it works. If any money is made through this site, I will give it to the boys' school. :)

So, that's what's going on.

Sorry the boys haven't been so entertaining lately!

Kindergarten graduation

Trevor at black moshannon

Trevor at black moshannon

Devin at black moshannon

Devin as the long one, msnv kindergarten play

At black moshannon

Dvn's prank

When I was taking a shower yesterday, Devin pranked me by writing this note and shoving it under the door.

He was just hiding in a chair, though. He hadn't left the house forever.

Dressing Up

I wore a dress yesterday. I never wear dresses. Mostly, I just find them uncomfortable.

Anyway, John liked it.

Devin, on the other hand, liked it, but he didn't like it. Why? Because it was too old school. I looked like I was from Texas. It was too much of one color.

Lots of reasons why he didn't like it, even though he did like it. I'm pretty sure he just didn't like it at all.

When I went to get him from school, a buddy of his scooched over and looked up my dress. Then, he said, "underpants." It all happened pretty fast. I'm not sure what he was thinking, and I might should have backed off as opposed to allowing him to do that. Instead, I quickly lifted my skirt and said, "see, I'm wearing shorts!" Yeah, maybe not the right response. I'm not sure I helped Devin's buddy understand that looking up women's skirts is highly inappropriate. Well. Maybe next time.

At the farm sanctuary

Mother's day at DQ

So, we went to DQ tonight and the kids were cuter than normal. Devin threw away some garbage at a trash can that was by our table, and he said, "Oh, that was convenient."

Well, it's Mother's day, and Trevor must have wanted to say something nice to me, his mother. So, he said, "Mom, You're convenient." I must have looked confused. So, he clarified. He said, "it's a comment."

We explained that he probably meant it as a compliment, but it really was more of a comment.

Either way, I liked it.

Later, I gave Devin a napkin. I accidentally tossed it into his ketchup, and he said, "really, Dude?" I looked at him all cockeyed and so he added, "ette. Do you know what a dudette is, Mom?"

It was an all around lovely Mother's Day.

Field Trips

Trevor's schools takes field trips. I think it's pretty cool. Next week, they are going to Philadelphia, but usually they are just local.

A couple of weeks ago, he took a trip to a local recycling plant. Sometime after that, he explained to me that the boxes and cans we recycle will soon end up in big huge cubed bundles! He explained with with just a bit of grandiosity.

I asked what happened after the bundling.

Unfortunately, he didn't know. And, I'm pretty sure he didn't even know why I wanted to know.

:)

Bleep

Yesterday when I picked Devin up from school, Devin said "darn it." I can't remember why. Then, when he got in the car, he said, "damn."

I said, "Devin, you can't say 'damn.' That's a grown up word."

"I'm sorry," he said. "I meant to say bleep."

Timely Post

Given the weather in Oklahoma today, you might find this a very timely post.

This afternoon, Devin comes into the office and he didn't ask for candy or gum! No, he told me about tornadoes.

He told me that he and Trevor could make a small tornado in the house that would make things blow around. Here's how it would work. Devin would wear a coat so that he would be warm. Trevor wouldn't have a shirt on so he would be cold. They would spin around in different directions and that would cause enough wind to blow things around the house.

That's just about how it works, right?

This was Devin, Memaw. Not our clever Trevor!

Horseshoe curve from the train

Lacrosse and fierce faces

Trevor and Joe pa

Snowing

It is snowing right now.

I curse the snow and wish for rain instead.

The End.

Trevor in the outdoor pool at holiday valley

Outdoor swimming at holiday valley.

Doctor, Doctor

Trevor has been complaining of a tummy ache for a couple of weeks, and I kept expecting it to pass. It didn't, and today, it got worse. So, I decided to take him to one of the new urgent care places around here.

The doctor palpated his belly, showed him a really impressive magic trick, and ordered an x-ray. Trevor said, "will I be exposed to radiation with an x-ray?"

He really said that.

The doctor assured him that it was just a little bit of radiation. Just as much as he would get flying to Florida to go to Disney World.

He got his x-ray. And, he's fine. Nothing a little mira-lax won't fix...

The doctor showed him the parts of his body on the x-ray and made a copy of it to bring home and maybe even take to school. Before he let Trevor leave, he quizzed him on the body parts seen in the x-ray. Trevor did ok, he got a couple of them right and the doctor provided the answer before Trevor could on everything else.

The doctor said, "he's smart." And I said that people always notice how he acts older than he is. "No," the doctor said. "He's smart."

(So, if you're keeping track, Trevor has made urgent trips to see a doctor for a punctured soft palate, gas, a concussion received while walking down the stairs and now this. Devin, on the other hand, goes to see the doctor urgently because of asthma. I never would have expected it to be this way between those two!)

Trevor the radio star

NVCS.org

Click the link above and then choose radio spot #2. Trevor has a speaking role!

Enjoy!

Send Money Now!

Devin was just asking me, "what if we were rich?" Well, I think we are as rich as we need to be, so I told him that.

But, he persisted. "What if we were rich enough to have people live in our house and do stuff for us?" I told him that I could and should probably hire someone to come in once every other week and clean. We are rich enough for that. But, he'd still have to keep his room clean because she wouldn't pick up his toys. Well, he knew that already, he told me.

He persisted in what he thought it would be like to become rich. "What if there was a way we could become rich?" I was interested in what he had to say.

"We could just get people's money online." I was very interested, so I asked him to elaborate.

"If we had a reason for wanting money, we can just ask people, and they would give it to us." I wondered what our reason would be.

"Because we want to be rich," he said. "That's a reason."

Well, it's not a good reason. But, it IS a reason.

Devin the flexitarian and Trevor the me.

Devin has become a vegetarian. I am not certain why. I flirted with the idea myself last year, his aunt is a vegetarian, and he has a friend whose family is vegan. Between those three things, he decided meat is not for him, except for special occasions. Like trips to McDonalds.Because of chicken mcnuggets. So, he is a flexitarian, eating meat only when he goes to McDonalds. He was so happy when I gave him a word to describe his way of eating. He will still eat fish. I am waiting for a very special occasion to tell him he's a pescoflexivegetarian.

And then there's Trevor. I remember watching The Exorcist as a child. I am still haunted by the memory of that movie, and I can't think the word "DEMON" in my own house if I'm alone. I certainly can't watch the movie ever, ever again. Never, ever, ever. Ever.

Trevor watched a scary show that was on the TV the other day. We didn't turn it on. It was just on. I told him not to watch it. But. He did. I figured he would learn to listen to me. But, that didn't happen. No. Poor guy is just haunted and full of stinkin thinkin. Bedtime is hard again. How do I raise a kid with my insecurities to not have my insecurities???

Central park is a fun park even though it isn't a kid park. Right, Trevor?

View from our hotel

Statue of liberty, meet polar bear and ninja

At fao schwarz. The big piano.

Cavizzi

The pizza at Cavizzi was wood fired. And, divine.

Devin at Cavizzi

Trevor at cavizzi in hells kitchen, ny

Harlem globetrotters at BJC. Pretty cool. Did you know PETA frowns on donkey basketball. It's not so great for the donkeys.

President

Trevor has been staying afterschool a couple of days a week. On Wednesdays, he plays Rock Band. On Thursdays, the play is supervised by the man who teaches PE, and there's always something going on that I wouldn't expect. Forts made with mats, dodgeball, and strings criss-crossing the rooms so the kids can pull themselves along on flat four-wheeled carts.

This week, the play involved a bossy older girl giving people tickets for their driving.

Trevor had given himself immunity from her tickets on the license plate of his cart. It said:

"You can't give me a ticket because I am the president.
--Trevor"

(He's already got a few ideas for his acceptance speech, too. Another story, though. Another time.)

Tuesday Morning Normalcy

This past Tuesday morning, Trevor got up at his usual time. I think it was around 5. He gets to play Lego Star Wars uninterrupted for as long as Devin sleeps. I guess that's the thing that makes him such an early riser. Devin follows about 15 to 30 minutes later normally. I think Trevor is what makes Devin such an early riser.

About an hour and a half later, Trevor starts crying. Sometimes, his video game makes him cry. He gets frustrated at one thing or another. I'll be honest, this cry didn't sound like that, but it was early, and I assumed it was. When I got up to check on him, I was on the more frustrated end of the mommy emotion scale.

I quickly let that go when he told me that his head hurt. Aches scare me, whether they are in the head or the tummy, and my mind quickly "went there." But, knowing there wasn't much I could do in a worst case scenario, I gave him some water and some chewable acetaminophen. I thought maybe he was dehydrated.

I went back to bed, and I heard a few noises that sounded like either coughing or vomiting. Since I wasn't certain, I just stayed in bed. He told me when I got up that he thrown up the medicine. I asked if he had hit his head at school the day before. "No," he told me. "I hit it this morning when I walked down the stairs."

I started thinking concussion. Or, maybe an elaborate ploy to stay out of school. We gave him more water and told him to go lie down. He drank his water, and then threw it up.

So, John took him to the ER. They diagnosed him with a mild concussion and told us to keep an eye on him for the rest of the day.

We kept him out of school. His elaborate ploy had worked. He got to play a lot of uninterrupted Lego Star Wars. He had no more episodes of headache or throwing up. He wouldn't go out and play because he was sure it would make his head start hurting again. I thought that was an elaborate ploy to avoid going outside and playing, but the next day, he was happy his head felt good enough for him to run around outside.

He told me later that he remembered his head was like a ball. As he was coming down the stairs with his blanket, he tripped, and hit his head on the banister. And, his head bounced twice, like a ball.

He wears a helmet when his bikes, scoots, skis and sleds at least 85% of the time. His first concussion happens walking down the stairs. Go figure!

Why?

Why did I abandon my blog? It's awesome!

I forgot the 6 great stories I meant to share. So, I will just try and start recording them again, soon.

Mostly, I'm afraid that the blog might soon haunt the boys. But, I think as long as I keep their stories off facebook, they will be ok. I sure hope so.