Summer update

At a pioneer day activity the other night we had a watermelon eating contest.  We each got a slice of watermelon, and a partner to hold the slice steady for us.  The first one to eat all the way to the rind won.  My partner was Hayley, and I think I got a pretty good glimpse of how she's going to be on the sidelines of her childrens' soccer games someday.
 The poor kids.

She was brutal.  After the 'go-ahead' I took my first few bites of the watermelon and started to chew.
HURRY MOM. GO!  she screamed.
I was going, couldn't she see that?
GO!  DON'T CHEW, just HURRY!!!
My mouth was full, but as she advised I bit off a few more pieces.  Watermelon juice was dribbling down my face and neck.  It was awful. She kept yelling at me not to chew.  How do you not chew?
She then shoved the watermelon INto my face, and yelled.  "MOM STOP CHEWING JUST GO I DON'T CARE!"
The "I don't care" statement came out more as a growl.  A fierce, threatening, crazy person growl.

Who was this child, and seriously...what is wrong with her?
I didn't even come CLOSE to winning.  Pretty sure that I was in last place actually.  I was drooling, and sticky, and scared of this child I had given birth to.

You can see why I'm feeling the pressure to perform well at the MudManX run coming up this Saturday.  If I don't, I will be the loser parent of the century.

 I have been sore continuously for the past 27 days as a result of my race prep.  I've been running, jumping, lifting, squatting, pushing up, climbing, crossing monkey bars,  and balancing on balls in ways I didn't know a body could balance on a ball.

I still don't have a bicep to call my own, but I'm convinced some people are just born without those things.  
And really, who needs them anyway.

My strategy is to pretend like I'm a completely different person altogether....a woman, but equal to Jack Bauer in strength, agility, sneakiness, intelligence, ability to dodge a million bullets but able to kill with only one.  I can deal with pain.  I can deal with torture.  Plus I have rock hard abs. ;

J and I are really excited for this weekend.  We'll definitely be posting some pictures!

Just a few updates  on our kids.  I've been feeling pretty guilty lately about not writing things down like I used to.

Ty is seriously the most entertaining and charming child.  He knows how to work a crowd, and I have no idea where that came from.  His expressions seem practiced, his smile is outrageously bright, his sense of humor seems years older than he is.  His dances are ridiculously funny and he can feel the beat in any kind of music at any time of day.   He folds his arms and squints his eyes for prayer.  He's big into cuddling, and makes sweet little sounds as he lays his head on your chest.  He hits us sometimes, and his scream is piercing.  He also is starting to say "Nah!"  which means 'no.' We're trying to teach him to be soft..and to not scream when he wants something.  J gets after me for laughing when he does these things.  I need to set the kid straight!  But everything he does is adorable to me, even when he's being very bad.  Obviously someone has someone else wrapped around their finger.

Tia and Hayley were watching "Johnny Lingo" for the first time yesterday.  After the movie was over, J asked the girls, "So, what did you learn from that?"
Tia said,  " I learned that if you're ugly when you're a kid, you aren't always ugly when you grow up."
Wow.  That wasn't the moral of the story at ALL, but good try girly.  I always love hearing what she has to say. She has a unique perspective on just about everything.  Today she invented frozen bubbles.  Put some liquid soap at the bottom of a cup and fill the cup with water so the bubbles are sitting on top.  Stick it in the freezer for a 1/2 hour and the bubbles are frozen on top.  It was the coolest thing.  She uses huge words every chance she gets, even if she doesn't know what they mean.  She recently had tubes put in her ears which has helped clear out that fluid.  The surgery took about 10 seconds but we'll be paying for it for months.  You've got to love how that works.

Hayley is just such a funny girl. She is lovestruck at the moment, as I mentioned in a previous post with her permission.  I asked her today if I could talk about this on my blog and she just shrugged her shoulders and said yes.  We joke a lot about it, and she's such a good sport, jumping right in and joking about it too.  Once  I asked her to show me the smile she gives to this little boy when he's around...and she flashes me this super over the top scrunched face smile.  Then she giggled and said  "He probably is like 'whoa she's creepy.'"
hahaha.  Creepy is the word.
She had a play date scheduled with him today, so she sprayed some perfume on her shirt beforehand.  The smell was so strong I had to make her go change, and told her that deoderant would be good enough.
She loves her friends, playing legos, and creating things.  And I think she is so beautiful.
A few weeks ago when I told her so, she said, "I know I'm beautiful but I don't like people telling me that I am."
I love her personality.


 July is flying by, I can't believe it.
More updates coming soon.