Phoenix's new do

Phoenix made a deal with us. If we cut his hair shorter than he would learn to ride his bike. I think he got the better part of the deal because it's been hard to teach him how to ride his bike.

Phoenix has some great hair. After we made the deal, Mike and Phoenix checked out some online places for boys haircuts and they came up with this..... I will say I'm not a huge fan of his haircut. But I have to remember that he is 6 and it's just hair. It will grow back.

Phoenix is a hot body kid and when his hair is really long he gets hot super fast. With warming temps. We felt it was best to cut it. We still wanted some length. So why not give him a mullet? He thinks he is so cool. I'm glad it makes him happy.

The before

The after

First tooth

It's funny how the new tooth is twice the size of the space. Braces here we come. 

Isn't funny, us mothers, we get excited when our babies get their first tooth.

Then it's our children that get excited when they lose their first tooth. 

We get sad because we know that braces are right around the corner. 

This experience happened for Phoenix last night. We were eating waffles for dinner. He had just shoved a huge piece in his mouth. We heard a crunching sound. (I thought, I bet that is his tooth, he just ate it. ) Mike said "Phoenix what is that sound? " Phoenix shrugged his shoulders. Mike asked Phoenix to open his mouth, he smiled. There was a hole but no tooth. We told him that he probably ate it. He started crying(real tears) about how he has waited for weeks for the tooth to come out. He got scared that the tooth fairy was not going to come to him. 

The letter says, I eat my tooth. I am sorry I ate my tooth last night. I brush all day. -Phoenix.

We said he should write a letter saying what happened.

A good story to tell.

 It has a happy ending. 

Since you can't just summon the tooth fairy without teeth, Phoenix is in luck, Jersey had two teeth pulled today at the dentist. Under her pillow tonight will be a box with two teeth and a note.

 Let's see how much money she leaves?

PHX gots some moves

We have known for a long time that Phoenix loves to dance. Well his moves have been improving. When we went to a wedding reception this last weekend he went a bit nuts. I love it! 

Parties are my favorite

I try to do parties for my children every other year on their even birthdays. 

Since Phoenix turned 6 we had a party. I asked him what kind of party that he wanted. 

He is obsessed with Harry Potter not only Harry Potter but Lego Harry Potter.

I was able to find some awesome deals on Ebay for Legos that are Harry Potter. 

I also found some great websites that talked about Harry Potter parties. We of course couldn't go as big as the ones online, but we went pretty big. I got out some of Halloween costumes and decor. I found a Hogwarts banner, a Hedwig, a Harry Potter costume, that came with a wand and glasses. We got a tie and scarf. We also made some chocolate frogs, found some gross gummy bugs, worms and rats. Along with some Bertie Botts every flavor bean. We made dragon eggs and had broom relay races. The boys had a lot of fun. On Sunday some still had their Harry Potter scars on their forehead at church. 

It's a good thing that we will only do parties ever other year since it all starts to add up. We (Mike and I) had a fun time putting together all the Legos together. Mike glued them together so that they could stay intact. The kids haven't stopped playing with them.

The boy who lived

I can't believe that you turned 6 years old on the 23rd. The story of your birth is still talked about. 

How you made your entrance into the world on a stormy night.

You have grown up to be a curious, smart, funny, and handsome. You make my day everyday with your talk about Star Wars or Harry Potter. You are a great friend for your sister and you two play so well together, I never have to worry about you two playing together. 

I love you and thank you for being my son.

Love Mom

Freckles

My sister was really generous and gave Mike and I a great anniversary gift. (It's 10 years in one month) Our camera died a few months ago. I have been sad about it since I was unable to take pics of my cute kids. When I got the new camera. I had to test it out. Something I wanted to do was to take pictures of the kids that were close to catch the freckles that my children have on their nose.

I was able to grab a few pics of Phoenix while he was eating breakfast one morning. I love those "sparkles" as Jersey use to call them. This new camera, a Nixon S9100,  is also fun because it does shoot like a great big camera but it small like a POS (point and shoot).
Another note, this kid, has graduated from kindergarten. I can't believe it we have a 1st grader. I think that is going to be my line for a long time. He had a great report card and he has improved in his reading and social skills this year. Phoenix is so smart. I am really proud of him.

We have a graduate!

Phoenix, graduated from Preschool on May 26th. He was so excited. He was a great storyteller in his class. I'm glad that he had the chance to go to Pre-school. He loved it and loved having his friends. His best friend Luke. They play so well together. I'm sad that they will be moving soon. Phoenix is excited to start Kindergarten in 5 weeks. I can't believe that in 5 weeks I will have to children in school.

I <3 technology

With working late into the night I sometimes miss out on the funny things my kids do during the night. I think they are funnier when they are with Mike.

I'm glad that Mike knows how much I miss being home and seeing those "fun times". So he sends me photos through the e-mail to make me feel like I was there.

Phe is a budding artist and I have said many times that he will either put his artistic talents to good use. Like being a master painter or a highly skilled tattoo artist. I'm leaning towards the tattoo artist more and more. He drew a picture of himself on his leg.
Apparently he was sad at the moment and he wanted his art to reflect that.

What will you celebrate this year?

At the beginning of the year. I made a goal to potty train Phe. My hopes were dashed when he just didn't get it and didn't want to try. So we kept purchasing pull-ups. This last week we ran out of Pull-ups and time to buy more. Which led to Phoenix wearing unders (as the are called in our house). He was staying dry at night but many accidents during the day would follow.

The switch must have flipped in his head because he is now peeing in the Toilet!!!!! I can't believe it. Granted the whole pooping thing is still something that we will have to work on since he hasn't gone poop for a couple of days. (so gross I know) After getting a Penguin guy and a Mr. Freeze for his Batman, I told him no more toys until he poops. We'll see what happens. I told him that if he poops he will get the Batman Cave. Yeah!!! more toys. My kids do well with bribery. Jersey ended up with so many ponies because of potty training.

Maybe we will have to go to Disneyland after all this year.

UPDATE:

Phoenix is officially potty trained. He poop in the toilet. He got his Bat Cave! (I'll post a video of getting the bat cave later)

Mike was excited to prove to me that

he really pooped in the toilet,

caution picture does have some graphic images.

Stealing Chocolate

Well on Friday I ran into Wal-mart to grab some salad dressing that I needed. I also had to get some movies from the $5.00 bin. (Superman Returns and Fiddler on the Roof) I decided to stand in the fast checkout lane, which is amazing to me that they say that but most of the time I stand in line for like 45 minutes, no fast. I'm sure most people can relate that when you go to the grocery store the kids love to look at all the nifty gadgets that they have or candy surrounding the checkout lane. Well as I was checking out my three items. Phoenix shows me a chocolate Cadbury egg. I didn't want to buy that so I said "put it back." As I turned to watch Phoenix put the candy back, a lady to people back, yells at me "HE TOOK A BITE OUT OF IT, YOU NEED TO BUY IT" Phoenix in the mean time had thrown the candy in the bin. I told him to search for it. The lady that yelled got on the ground and helped Phoenix find the half eaten candy. I handed it to the oblivious Wal-mart employee and paid for the candy. I was fuming $0.53, ridiculous!
I had to feed the kids some food so we went to McDonald's, I don't like to reward bad behavior but I was in a rush. When we got into the car. I looked at Phoenix and told him that we don't steal, just because the candy is in a open box, it's not free. Then he looked at me so serious and said "but Mom, the chocolate was so good and it was white in the middle delicious." I tried not to smile but he was so cute.
I understand his love for chocolate. When you need it, you need it. But not by stealing.

The Party continues

Around here we like to drag out things whether it be Christmas, Valentine's day or Birthdays they are usually month long or week long celebrations. Sunday we had our family birthday party for Phe. Grandma and Grandpa came first bring there bag full of presents. Phe was so excited he could hardly stand it. We were waiting for the others to come and Phe eyes were getting bigger and bigger just waiting. When he finally got to open his presents he was so excited he was shaking. He was such a nice boy about his presents. He told everyone thank you. Grandma spoiled him and so did his Aunts.

One of his presents was a light saber. He plays with his cousin Miles's all the time so I told Miles's mom to get one for Phe. After everyone left Phe and Mike had a fight Mike with the little pirate sword and Phe with light saber. It was pretty hilarious but Phe started swinging it hard at Mike, I'm pretty sure that Mike has a welt on his leg from the whack he received.

Another cool gift was from Mike's other sister, or should I say brother-in-law. They gave Phe a race track. The track does a loop Dee loop. Phe was playing with his toys into the night last night with all his new toys the kid is in heaven.

I attempted to make a checker flag cake for Phe for his birthday. He wanted a car cake but when I saw how much a Lighting McQueen cake mold was I thought there must be another way. I haven't owned my own cake decorating stuff. So I found a little starter kit and thought I would test my skills. It's a good thing that I wasn't being judge for my cake though it was delicious the checker flag part wasn't the greatest I shouldn't even say that. Though the cake had black and white squares the it wasn't in the right pattern I messed up. After making the first black square I was continuing on forgetting that I needed to space them I didn't so we ended up with some tetris design. Phe couldn't really tell. So an "A" for effort. The funny thing was that because I made black frosting it was coloring everyone's teeth and mouth black.

Festivities

On Phoenix's birthday we celebrated by having pancakes, bacon, eggs and orange juice. I like to make a special breakfast for birthdays. We sang "Happy Birthday" to him and when we were done he kept singing to himself.

He opened presents from us, he loved them. I found some great deals at Target for clearance shirts. I found a Star Wars shirt, a Cars shirt and Incredible Hulk shirt. He was asking for a new Lighting McQueen not that he doesn't have 3 others already. But I indulged in his obsession. He was spoiled by getting a big package from Grandma Laurie and Grandpa Gary. (Thanks MOM and DAD)

Jersey was quite jealous by her little brother getting so much attention. One of Phoenix's toys that we gave him was a little Indiana Jones action figure. It came with a Marion Ravenwood. So Jersey was telling Phoenix this is my toy and the Indiana is yours. We have to remind her that these are Phoenix's things and that when she had a birthday we didn't make her share her things with Phoenix.

We later met up with Mike's sister. She just moved into a beautiful new home. So we went to check it out and to see if she needed some help. While Mike was helping I took the kids to a local splash park where the kids ran around through water features. Jersey loved it, Phoenix not so much. It made him tired though.

Jersey kept asking when all the friends were coming over to celebrate but we just kept it quiet and spent it as a family. We of course will have a bigger family party on Sunday. I love making the whole week about the kids. We like to get the kids a big gift on their birthday as well and the thing that we are getting Phoenix had to be order online so unfortunately it won't be here until Tuesday. I hope he likes it. It is a rug that has a car track on it.

UPDATE: Mr. Phe. had a Dr. Appt. today for his "well child" he is 3 1/2 feet tall and 30 pounds and for the most part we have rid him of his bottle drinking habit. Now on to potty training

computer time

The kids have been enjoying some time on the computer. Whenever I turn on the computer they ask when it is their turn. We have a coloring program, they are pretty funny to watch because they get such serious faces when they are coloring or moving the mouse around on the screen.

Phoenix was on the computer yesterday and I captured his face it was so funny. My brother use to pull the same face when he was working on something. I think he still does

Indiana Jones

Phoenix loves all boy stuff. He is into of course his cars but he has had acquired a new love for Star Wars and Indiana Jones. (My dad would be so proud) Phoenix will sing the theme song and he wears his pirate hat and calls himself Indiana Jones. On Sunday because it was so hot in our house and I refuse to turn on the air, Phoenix was walking around without a shirt on. He put his hat on and his sword through his belt loop on his shorts. He is so cute!

This kid

Have you ever seen Fantasia? Have you ever seen were Mickey enchants the brooms to go fetch water?

Remember how the room started to overflow because of the water. The Mickey segment will now be a nightmare for me because of "this kid" named Phoenix.

This afternoon, I was chatting on the phone with my mom. We were talking about all sorts of stuff, when my battery died on my cell phone. Instead of saying I would call her back on my land line I proceed to talk on my cell phone while it was charging on the charger. I began to notice Phoenix taking water outside and dumping it on the flowers. I didn't see Jersey so I figured that she was helping Phoenix because (my thought) he couldn't think of that on his own.

Well after several minutes of this and watching completely, I ended my conversation with my mom. Jersey in fact was outside playing in the back not helping her brother like I had originally thought. I went to see what was going on with Phoenix only to find my bathroom completely covered in water. Not only was the floor wet but the cabinet and everything inside. I started to grab for towels but they had been soaked through. I had Jersey go downstairs to grab a laundry basket. When she came back upstairs she informed me that water was all over the basement.

Soon my towels were all wet. I called my neighbor to see if she could throw some towels over the fence for backup. I didn't know what to do laugh or cry about the whole thing. Yes, this was my fault for not being a better parent and yes it was my fault to be so naive to thinking that a almost 3 year-old would say out of stuff while I was on the phone. Phoenix just wanted to water the flowers.

Phoenix said to me "Mom are you going to spank my bum?" I felt bad saying yes, I took him to time out and after everything was cleaned up he came out and said "I'm sorry" and "I love you mom" I fell for it, the cheese of hearing my child say "I'm sorry and I love you." So instead of only doing 5 loads of laundry I had to add on a few more to get all the towels and bath rugs clean.

Then (you thought this was the end of my bad parenting day) I was changing the laundry downstairs and I come back upstairs to see Phoenix holding a pair of sewing scissors open ready to cut something. Oh no I thought what things has he done now? He hadn't do anything yet I caught him in the nick of time. He was about to cut out a car that was dangling from his basketball net. AHHHH!!!!! I have talked several times about wanting another kid. Um I think Phoenix is going to do me in with all these crazy antics.

Oh what a beautiful morning!

So as I was playing on the computer this morning. I noticed that I hadn't heard from Phoenix yet. His normal wake up is about 8:30am and that time came there was nothing. So I thought I would check on him. I walked into his room and there he was playing cars on his floor. This is the first time he as ever attempted to leave his crib on his own. Yes he is 2 1/2 and he still in a crib but we had no reason to move him out of it. Anyways I was laughing at this surprise. He starts yelling on me saying "GET OUT LEAVE ME ALONE, I PLAY CARS" I just started laughing and left the room shutting it so he could be by himself. I didn't think he could get out. So I went into the bathroom and shut that door. Next thing I know I see little Phoenix opening the bathroom door. I don't know how I feel about that one. But it was just funny that my child this morning finally learned how to get out his bed and open doors.

Picasso?

I didn't know I had a child so determined after several NO'S and stops. He still managed to find a marker and color all over his bedroom. I have removed 3 markers from his hands this morning and it is only 9:00am.

This time he took the marker to his wall and to his toys. Also his hands.

Now I can handle body parts but walls I am not happy with those. Phoenix is either going to be an artist or a tatoo artist.

I did make him cleaning up. Thank goodness for great paint on the walls.