'Round Here

Annalise has always wanted a battery powered car to drive around.  We have always tried to help her understand that we just don't have room to store it.  Well, last week, my neighbor was cleaning things out and brought out his (12 year old) daughter's Barbie Jeep and asked if our kids wanted it.  (They were standing right there.)  So suddenly we had a Barbie Jeep and oh the joy!

However, we truly don't have room to store it.  So we left it on the front lawn patch of earth while we deliberated what to do with it.

By the way, it is battery powered, but it doesn't have a battery, you have find someone willing to push it.  

After we had the car for about 4 days we got a letter of "friendly intent" from our HOA asking us to "remove the children's toys" from our yard.  So the Barbie Jeep has moved on.

Brian's wedding is only a month away!  After living in Miami for (ack!)14 years, I only have one dress that isn't a summer dress.  Actually I don't have many summer dresses either.  And I really don't want to wear that dress.  We get 90lbs of hand-me-downs a year and I am a huge fan of thrift shopping, so my kids hardly know what the inside of a retail clothing store looks like.  We happened to be in the Dadeland area today and I took the opportunity to do some dress shopping.  I picked out a significantly discounted dress to try on and herded everyone to the dressing room.  Just as the attendant shut the door, Caleb roared out, "This dressing room is a LOT nicer than the one at Goodwill!"

Well, it was!

 That dress, and the 3 other ones I tried on in another store, left me feeling really bewildered about what kind of dress to get because I did not like the way any of them fit.  Style is not something that comes naturally for me.

Birthday train - note the frog passengers.

We went to a birthday party at Chuck-E-Cheese on Saturday.  The kids decided to pool their tickets to get a "big" prize.  Even after pooling their tickets, there were only about 200 tickets, so they ended up splitting them anyway.  Annalise picked some glow in the dark Dracula teeth, Natalie got a box Nerds and that left enough tickets for Caleb to get 9 plastic frogs.

The other day, I looked out my front window and saw this huge crane casually walking down the road.  I thought it was funny :) 

Otherwise, we are building a paper mache tunnel for Caleb's train set and we got quite a bit of schoolwork done this week.