...because I just spent the last 45 minutes deep cleaning James' car seat. Ye-ah Baby! Ok, so if you don't know by now, I am a somewhat anal perfectionist when it comes to cleaning. Apparently, that includes cleaning my sons car seat. If you can just imagine what can happen to a car seat that gets used by a two year old for a year, and all the snacks, drinks, drive-thru meals and the like get eaten in that seat, things get messy. And it's all those snacks that get caught in the teeny tiny crevices and molt or multiply or something over the course of a year that gets super gross. So, in super cool Cerissa fashion (and since James car seat is currently out of the car because I had to take it from the Jeep and put it into his Mimi's car so he could go with her to Dave's track meet today) I got my Clorox Everywhere spray (that stuff is great, if you haven't tried it, Do), about one hundred Q-tips, paper towels and a steak knife and got busy cleaning out the miniscule cracks of the car seat in the middle of my kitchen floor. It was not pretty. I think that old raisins mixed with goldfish and what could possibly be ranch dressing (which I never give him "dips" in the car seat, so that whitish liquid-y stuff that was in one crack sorta scares me...its a mystery as to what it really is...blech...) equals a pretty messy job. But I did it, and once his little cushion-y things are outta the dryer, it will be like brand new. I might even have to enlist a "no snacks in the car seat policy." We'll see how long that lasts.
Aren't you glad you asked what I did on a Friday night. Geez, I am so hip and cool. Somebody stop me.
(I also watched some Scrubs, so I am not totally lame, right. Right??)
5.11.2010
"Now on DVD..."
Don't expect any flow or connection to the thoughts I am about to share.
James just said, as he was eating his bananas at lunch." Look mama, a flat tire (pointing to a toddler induced squished banana on his plate)!" Then, picking up a banana that had not been squished, "It's fixed!" I am guessing he was assuming that this "banana wheel" was not flat. Also, eating Italian Wedding soup (you know the soup whose noodles are little balls??) said, "Momma, I like this popcorns!" Apparently, the look popcorn-ish to him. He is currently half closing his eyes and saying, "Let's pray. Deeeear Jesus. Thank you for this food, and Thank you for Jesus. Aaaaaa-men." What a kid.
I had a dream last night that I was washing dishes. Isn't that an awful dream? I mean, I do it all day- clean, wipe, put away, etc...Why on God's green earth would I want to dream clean as well? I do like cleaning, I know I know. But even this girl would like a break from her house wife, house cleaning duties once in a while. And not only was I just doing regular dishes, I was specifically cleaning a crock pot filled with crusty spaghetti noodles. Again, what the heck!!! It was like some one had apparently made spaghetti in the crock pit and left it on high all night. No fair, dreams. No fair. I expect to be pampered tonight! A pedicure would be nice...
It's raining today. And for some reason whenever it's raining, I have to eat apples and peanut butter. Does that happen to anyone else?
If you are wondering why this post is entitled, "Now on DVD..." I will share with you now. At Mother's Day lunch this past Sunday, we were all sitting around the table at Mimi and Pop's house gobblig down some delicious steak and shrimp shis ka bobs (is that even close to the right spelling??) when James says, "Bob the builder: On site edition...Now on DVD!" We all broke out laughing! What the heck! You know your kid has watched the same Thomas the train movie when he started quoting the pre-movie previews. That just isn't right. But pretty funny.
I'd also like to make a shout out to Clara Dell who is three months old today. We love ya girl!
James just said, as he was eating his bananas at lunch." Look mama, a flat tire (pointing to a toddler induced squished banana on his plate)!" Then, picking up a banana that had not been squished, "It's fixed!" I am guessing he was assuming that this "banana wheel" was not flat. Also, eating Italian Wedding soup (you know the soup whose noodles are little balls??) said, "Momma, I like this popcorns!" Apparently, the look popcorn-ish to him. He is currently half closing his eyes and saying, "Let's pray. Deeeear Jesus. Thank you for this food, and Thank you for Jesus. Aaaaaa-men." What a kid.
I had a dream last night that I was washing dishes. Isn't that an awful dream? I mean, I do it all day- clean, wipe, put away, etc...Why on God's green earth would I want to dream clean as well? I do like cleaning, I know I know. But even this girl would like a break from her house wife, house cleaning duties once in a while. And not only was I just doing regular dishes, I was specifically cleaning a crock pot filled with crusty spaghetti noodles. Again, what the heck!!! It was like some one had apparently made spaghetti in the crock pit and left it on high all night. No fair, dreams. No fair. I expect to be pampered tonight! A pedicure would be nice...
It's raining today. And for some reason whenever it's raining, I have to eat apples and peanut butter. Does that happen to anyone else?
If you are wondering why this post is entitled, "Now on DVD..." I will share with you now. At Mother's Day lunch this past Sunday, we were all sitting around the table at Mimi and Pop's house gobblig down some delicious steak and shrimp shis ka bobs (is that even close to the right spelling??) when James says, "Bob the builder: On site edition...Now on DVD!" We all broke out laughing! What the heck! You know your kid has watched the same Thomas the train movie when he started quoting the pre-movie previews. That just isn't right. But pretty funny.
I'd also like to make a shout out to Clara Dell who is three months old today. We love ya girl!
5.10.2010
this early bird is not catching any worms
Oh. I feel like my head weighs ten pounds and is currently clouded with feathers. That makes sense, right? James woke up a bit early this morning and I was in such a deep, hard sleep that it took a couple of the shouting, "Momma, I'm up!!"'s to actually get my butt outta bed. And now that we are up (at 7:45 no less) I still can seem to function. My head is all fuzzy and my body is apparently filled with lead. Of course, being in this state, the most natural thing for me to do next is blog about it, right? I knew you'd agree. I might just come back later to read this post and think that I am crazy, because I don't think I am making any sense on here.
I'd better get coffee. And cereal.
Peace out.
I'd better get coffee. And cereal.
Peace out.
5.07.2010
Holy cow it's May.
And that means a lot of things....
-Three more weeks of school! Though I love my sweet girls that I teach, I cannot wait for summer. And sleeping in. And not getting out of my pajamas until noon.
-Clara is just about three months old. Again I say, holy cow! Where did time go? She is just about the sweetest girl I have ever seen. Her little personality is starting to bloom, and it just seems to be covered in smiles and giggles. She's starting to get into more of a routine, which is nice. Her awake and nap periods are pretty consistent now, and once I put her down around 830 for bed, she normally is out for a good 6-8 hours after that. (Now, if only I went to bed at 830 too...) She is just a little gem. My little sugar plum.
- It's almost summer! There are a lot of things planned for this summer for the Hocker family, but a lot are hinging on where Dave will be working next year. They talked to him, and unless some other restructuring happens, he doesn't have a job at Gull Lake next year. But we aren't worried, trusting that God knows what is in store for our family of four (nice rhyme, I know). I'll probably be going to California for a time with Clara (Ho-Ray!), we might take a family trip to Colorado, we are for sure taking a family trip up to the UP in August, and Dave has a golfing trip in June with some buddies. Then of course there are the small little fun things we'll do around here. I just can't wait.
- It's almost our four year anniversary. I don't know why, but for some reason I am really excited for this anniversary. Maybe because we have two kids or maybe because it actually seems like a while to be married and out of that 'newlywed' stage, I just feel it is a good sense of accomplishment. And not only that, but I feel like our marriage is thriving and so good and am lucky to be his wife every day. It's a good life.
I think that's about all May brings. Today, it is bring lots of showers - definitely lovin' the thunderstorms!
Here are some recent photos for ya'll...
James reading Thomas, to himself, wearing a Thomas hat.
Coloring with chalk
James doing the hurdles. We've been going to ALOT of track meets this spring!
Sweet girl!
Helping dad out.
Easter 2010
Easter girl
-Three more weeks of school! Though I love my sweet girls that I teach, I cannot wait for summer. And sleeping in. And not getting out of my pajamas until noon.
-Clara is just about three months old. Again I say, holy cow! Where did time go? She is just about the sweetest girl I have ever seen. Her little personality is starting to bloom, and it just seems to be covered in smiles and giggles. She's starting to get into more of a routine, which is nice. Her awake and nap periods are pretty consistent now, and once I put her down around 830 for bed, she normally is out for a good 6-8 hours after that. (Now, if only I went to bed at 830 too...) She is just a little gem. My little sugar plum.
- It's almost summer! There are a lot of things planned for this summer for the Hocker family, but a lot are hinging on where Dave will be working next year. They talked to him, and unless some other restructuring happens, he doesn't have a job at Gull Lake next year. But we aren't worried, trusting that God knows what is in store for our family of four (nice rhyme, I know). I'll probably be going to California for a time with Clara (Ho-Ray!), we might take a family trip to Colorado, we are for sure taking a family trip up to the UP in August, and Dave has a golfing trip in June with some buddies. Then of course there are the small little fun things we'll do around here. I just can't wait.
- It's almost our four year anniversary. I don't know why, but for some reason I am really excited for this anniversary. Maybe because we have two kids or maybe because it actually seems like a while to be married and out of that 'newlywed' stage, I just feel it is a good sense of accomplishment. And not only that, but I feel like our marriage is thriving and so good and am lucky to be his wife every day. It's a good life.
I think that's about all May brings. Today, it is bring lots of showers - definitely lovin' the thunderstorms!
Here are some recent photos for ya'll...
James reading Thomas, to himself, wearing a Thomas hat.
Coloring with chalk
James doing the hurdles. We've been going to ALOT of track meets this spring!
Sweet girl!
Helping dad out.
Easter 2010
Easter girl
3.12.2010
My Walking Buddy
So lately James and I have been having daily walks because its been so beautiful and sunny out and completely warm. Its been so nice it would almost be wrong not to get out. Anyways, we have this little route that we always go on, and there are things that we are accustomed to seeing now, out on the road. Of course we point the normal, cars, trees, birds we hear chirping...but there are some unique things that come up on our radar. Like, half way along our trip there has been a woodpecker. Now, we have only heard him twice. Thus, on every other walk we go on and don't hear him, we have to have an in depth conversation as to way. "Is he napping?" "He must have moved to another tree." "Is he waking up?" and back and forth and back and forth until we move on to another subject. It's pretty cute. Then we always walk around the parking lot of the Catholic church by our house. There is a statue of Mary out front of the church, and every time he excitedly points out "Mary!" and once we pass it "Mary Go?" He really likes Mary. Then, we always make a stop and sometimes walk on the lake. It's been frozen for a while, but with the warmer temps I tell James that I don't think we can walk on it anymore because the ice is melting. He looks at me with earnestness and says "Uh huh, can walk." He really doesn't believe me sometimes.
Also, I tell him every time, "James, I like walking with you. We are good walking buddies." Then, with all seriousness that only a two year old can have, "No Momma, me not walk. Me ridding..." He got me. How true that is.
So it's been nice because I am getting exercise, but more importantly, it is precious time that just he and I can share. I also hope that it helps he know that he is completely special and loved even if there is a new little one in the house.
Speaking of....
Also, I tell him every time, "James, I like walking with you. We are good walking buddies." Then, with all seriousness that only a two year old can have, "No Momma, me not walk. Me ridding..." He got me. How true that is.
So it's been nice because I am getting exercise, but more importantly, it is precious time that just he and I can share. I also hope that it helps he know that he is completely special and loved even if there is a new little one in the house.
Speaking of....
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