Too busy to blog - I've been to the Olympics!

Mini-Olympics that is. . . . this week we had mini-Olympics for the kids in Zach's playgroup at Denise's house. It was SOOO much fun and SOOO tiring. . . each day the kids did a couple events, a craft and we did torch ceremonies, medal ceremonies, and even sang some songs! It was great fun for the kids and I think the adults loved it to. Zach clearly excelled in the shot put ( tin foil balls ) and the javalin ( pool noodles ) but I have the best picture of him doing the long jump too! : )

Check out my little Olympian! : ) To see more pictures click HERE - my friend Shannon has great shots of her daughter doing all the different events! : ) I'll try to get more on here later!

Got Deer?

Have any of you seen those homemade Deer signs around Chester County? Well, my friend Sarah told me that there is a woman who's made it her job to post them all around town in places where deers exist. So, I can tell you one place she FORGOT to put one of these signs. . . right on Rt 52 near my house, that's where!

So yes, today while coming home from Walmart at 2:30 in the afternoon I hit a deer. I have never hit an animal before - okay, I hit a bat once - it flew right into my front grill work. ANYWAY, I hit a deer. . . with both kids in the car. We are all okay. . . there will be pics tomorrow or then again, maybe not. I can just tell you there was lots of hair and the smell was awful! Either way, instead of hanging with the girls and heading to the launch of Chester County Moms in town, I got to spend the night talking with insurance agents, learning about the role of the adjuster, emptying my car of all its "just- in-case" stuff for the kids, securing a rental car for the next few weeks, and finally, figuring out how in the world I will get Zach to VBS - pick up the rental car - and talk to two different reps for my claim - all by 9am! yeah, that's not so easy for me!!!!

So stay tuned . . . I am sure I'll have to post about the explaination of what happened to the deer when Zach asks me again tomorrow. . .

Cloning is illegal, right?

This is Zach and I . . . take a look closely. You will see that everything about us looks THE SAME. Freakishly so, I might add. Now, truth be told, I am squinting from the sun so our eyes really look the same, but he actually has Mark's eyes. However, when you stop to talk with Zach, you quickly learn he has his father's reserved demeanor, he really only warms up with you after he's gotten to know you pretty well. And, he's a watcher not a doer. He only participates once he knows what to do and how to do it. Then, there's the times when he's been up to long without a nap or gone to long between meals and needs a snack - then he can turn on a dime just like his mom! It's what makes him who he is. . . a little bit Mark and a little bit me . . . but all Zach!


Then we have Sydney. . .who has these gorgeous big blue eyes that really scared Mark and I when she was born. We must have called her bug eyes for the first three or four months - until she actually started to grow into these big baby blues. ( Did ya know that you are born with your eyes the actual size they will be for your whole life? They don't grow. Something I have learned now that she has started to "grow" into her eyes and its all getting to be a bit more in proportion!) Now back to Sydney . . . she's not so much a spitting image of me OR of Mark but we can still see it. When you cover those eyes up . . .you can see it too. You can see those little "cheekies" as we call them, and that cute button nose, the chin, the hair, the shape of her face. Its just thrown off by those eyes. But they say the eyes are the window to the soul and after spending almost a year with this little girl, I think I can finally see in there. She's got the best smile. . . and she scrunches up her nose just like I do when she's happy and she is easy-going. . so easy-going NOW that is. We have already forgotten those first five months! :) But she's starting to show us Sydney and I can't wait to learn more. . .

That is one of my favorite parts of motherhood. . . . figuring out the little person that they will be become. Learning what makes them tick, finding out the kind of person they are growing up to be. Stay tuned. . . . and you can learn right along with us!

Facebook?!?

Okay folks. Its 12:22am and I should not be awake. I mean I did take a 2 hour nap today so I am not tired and Mark went to bed at least an hour ago. . . so why is it that I am up doing nothing but playing on this darn laptop tonight? I will tell you. . .

We were going to watch a movie and Mark wants to watch the rest of the baseball game first so I check my email. Well, I got a note from my best friend Laura about doing lunch and she throws in there a one-liner " BTW - why aren't you on facebook?" Okay - I have time to kill and about three people have emailed me about joining them on facebook in the last six months and I have promptly deleted the message but tonight it was as if I was taunted to join facebook via this message from Laura - who also tells me that another friend Kim was requesting my presence on the social network as well.

Sooooooo two hours later. . . I have written to folks I haven't even talked to or seen since high school graduation! I can see this being addictive. . kinda like this blog. . making me get no sleep so I can connect with the outside world via my computer. Is this what my life has come to? I must tell you. . I definitely think Mark is going to think I am having an affair with this computer if he doesn't already!

I rationalized this blog as a way to update friends/family with pictures of the kids. Now I have joined facebook so that I can add more people to connect with when I already don't have enough time to do the things I really need to do in my life. . .

We'll see but my Junior Homecoming date ( who I went with as friends, but my sister actually dated) just IM'd me via facebook and I'm super psyched to chat with him and see how he's been doing! hehehe : )