Goodbye Christmas 09 ... How I will Miss You

I am taking all the decorations down today.... :( :(


So Sad because It has been a great two week of being together. I love these kids.


I already miss them as they have trotted off to school today.

Christmas this year was a lot of decorating





A lot of Game playing and puzzles






And of course a lot of laughter




Please hurry back Christmas...We will be waiting.....

Maddie Growing up, but still young at Heart

So Maddie decide at the last min to go to the New Years eve Dance. That translated to mom..."New Dress".... She did not really want to shop.....because a few friends were getting together to play with their American Girl Dolls...... So 14 ... Ready for Dances .... Still wants to play Dolls ... Gotta love that in between stage.....

Buried Alive

 

This is my clever mom trick to get Kate to help me with the laundry....We make it a game....Every Monday morning is "Laundry War". She gets so excited to get out of bed on Mondays because she gets to pelt me with laundry. Now I know some of you are saying, "yuck, dirty laundry", but I try to look at it on the positive side, Someone else has collected all the laundry and brought it downstairs for me, she usually helps sort after the war too. Now if I could just figure out a game to get it all put away after it is clean.....that would be good.....

Graduation

This past week was filled with Graduations. Monday 5th grade. Tuesday 8th Grade, and Wed a gymnastics banquet. All and all a great week at the Aase house.

Third Grade Picnic

It was fun to spend the day with Kate and her friends outside for “Survivor Day” Their t-shirts all said …. “I Survived The Third Grade” …. If they only new how much harder it was going to get…….

Fifth Grade Dinner Dance

I must admit I was a little skeptical of the idea of a “Fifth Grade Dinner Dance”. Kids are growing up way to fast these days. But there was no way Abby was going to let us get out of this one. Abby is the social one and had been talking about this dance almost since the day we moved in. It was parents and kids dance. I was not sure if any of the kids were going to dance, but boy was I wrong. What a great age to have a dance, they all had so much fun. It was such a kick watching Abby and all of her friends. I would just love this age to last a little longer.

Kate's Arm

I almost titled this post...

"Things not to do the day before your Birthday....Cartwheel in the back yard"

One Saturday evening early in May, Abby came in from the back yard and just gave me “that look” She was seriously rolling her eyes at the Drama Queen Kate. I went out to see what was a miss and sure enough she was on the ground crying in pain.
Mom.......“Kate just come into the house and lay on the couch so I can see what is wrong”
Kate......“No, I don’t want to move, I just want to die here”
Mom.......“ Kate I will just carry you”
Kate......“NO I DON’T WANT TO MOVE”
Mom.......“Well maybe I should take you to the Hospital”
Kate......“NO, NOT THE HOSPITAL”
Mom.......“Kate if it hurts that bad we have got to get the doctor to look at it”
Kate......“But PLEASE not the hospital where they run, I AM NOT GOING TO RUN” (I think she has seen too many hospital scenes in the movies where the doctors are always running”

Well after much ado, she did have a radial head fracture on her arm. She got a bright green cast and was out of gymnastics for 3 weeks. I asked the doctor for his card, I have a feeling that we may be back……