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Kayleeism

3:30 AM-

Kaylee came into our room and thumped a book angrily down next to my head. “Mom! We both put on our CRAZY pants and forgot to read the princess book, and now it’s TOO late!” I could see she was fighting the tears.

Good thing I was WIDE awake having a bought of insomnia myself. I laughed so hard, then pulled her into bed with me and read her 11 pages of the Ordinary Princess. After that she happily went back to her room and passed out.

Jon was less than pleased, “Why are my girls awake? It’s 3:30 in the morning!” He promptly rolled over and passed out. 😉

I highly recommend this book. It’s lovely. I have read it to Kaylee several times over the years. This is the first reading that she is getting WAY into it. I am loving that she is able to visualize the stories and doesn’t need picture books every time we read.

Seriously though, I LOVE this book. And I love my little fellow insomniac so much!

School uniforms

We ordered some school uniforms for Kaylee a few days ago. She and I have been epically excited about their arrival. Well the UPS truck pulled up to our house today with a box for little miss. “Hold on Mom. I’ll go get the scissors.”
“Hold on Kaylee I’ll get the camera.”

Man her happy dance was fantastic. This kid has been begging to go to Kindergarten for the last couple years. And everyday since her enrollment screening she asks if it’s time to go to kindergarten. I think she and I will make a countdown chain.

I imagine that if I ever had a pile of money to swim in, I’d act like Kaylee did swimming through her uniforms! She was thrilled!

She was trying to decide what to try on first.

I got her 6 shirts, 4 pants, 2 scooters, 4 shorts, and a lightweight sweater to wear if she gets chilly in class.

We aren’t really a tuck in your shirt family. Unless it’s Sunday. So when I was tucking in her shirt she started laughing. “Mom, I look like Emilio!” Emilio wears onesis and pants.

I got her one size too big. She has plenty of room to grow. She is likely going to be wearing most of this stuff for first grade as well.

Scooters are the skirt with the built in shorts. I had to explain the difference between skort and scooter to Jon. So if you wondered, now you know.

The shorts and pants come with the button hole elastic. Which is a life saver when you have skinny kids. I was able to find and order slim cut pants and shorts, but still had to tighten the waist a whole lot.

Sadly the scooters don’t have an adjustable waist. I’m gonna have to do some sewing. “Kaylee lean against the couch and don’t move for this picture. I don’t want your skirt to fall down.”

“Great idea Mom!”

I’m probably going to get a few more things, but that will be this winter. Thick leggings, and stuff like that.

We are narrowing down on a backpack. Good grief I know I’m going to be sad her first day of school when she walks away from me, but right now her excitement is way TOO contagious!

I am so happy Kaylee got into this charter school. Best part is siblings automatically get a seat at the school. So Regan will be going there without having to add his name to the lottery! YEA!

Kayleeism

Jon telecommutes two days a week. It’s SO nice. He gets to sleep in, and we get to see Dad a bit when he emerges for breaks. This night I was out the door right at five to go visiting teaching. Jon was solo parenting.

There was an incident. But it’s o.k. He took pictures! When I got home he was all, “Look at your camera.” And then I saw the horror….. 😉
Jon early in the day asked me if we had any orange juice. We did in the freezer. So being the awesome wife I am I made some OJ for the Hubby. TWO GALLONS of it. Which in hindsight was foolish of me.

Kaylee after her successful dinner that she did (see previous post.) had decided that she could get juice for herself and Regan. As you can see it didn’t end well. Jon was in the other room writing code and herd all sorts of commotion. I guess Kaylee was desperately trying to clean up her, “biggest disaster ever!” when Jon walked in on this.

She and Jon cleaned to the best of there abilities. Kaylee I am told first tried using a cleaning rag, but then headed to the garage for the mop.

Their clean was a nice jumping off point for me when I got home. It took four more mopings with fresh water each time before the floor was not TOO sticky anymore.

I asked Kaylee what had happened, and she said, “Something funny!”

I guess Jon told her if they cleaned it all up I would laugh about it. At first I was supper annoyed that he had been in the other room (I thought he was playing StarCraft), but then Jon told me he was writing code for his side job (AKA buy Janice a van job), so then I felt better about my sticky floor.

Oh, and during my second moping Kaylee informed that she “forgot” to show Daddy the spilled juice INSIDE the refrigerator…..

And poor Jon didn’t get a single glass of his request OJ.

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