Sheesh

So it hasn't gone unnoticed that I didn't post my 10 on Tuesday this week.  I have gotten several emails wondering where it is.  Sheesh.  

It's been busy around here.  Doing what, I don't exactly know.  But it has been busy.  The weather has been great too....so we've been spending a lot of time outside.   I even had by 52 Weeks done before Tuesday!

1.  Little J has not napped for 4 days straight.  This little bugger better not be dropping his naps on me!  He is napping now, thank goodness, but I'm stressing that this might be the end of my freedom.  He doesn't sit in his room quietly for as long as Miss C does.  I maybe get an hour, but that's it.  I know, I know.  I should be lucky I at least get an hour.  My mom loves to point out that I dropped naps when I was 15 months old.  Little J is 22 months so I should feel lucky.  Well I'm just going to hope it's a fluke anyway.  Here's my two guys.

2.  Miss C got a new bike.  We finally put it together last weekend and she loves it.  She can zip around so much better than the tricycle.  She picked out the princess one.  Nice and girly.  Although she did ask for a new helmet and she wants a Lightning McQueen one.  Girly but not too girly.  That's my girl.

3.  Little J insisted on riding a big bike too.  A little too big, but it's what he wanted.  We have a rule, no riding without a helmet.  So we grabbed J's old baseball helmet.  

4.  Chillin' after a bike ride.  Enjoying a nice refreshing juice.  That's the life.

5.  Dance like no one is looking

6.  We celebrated Goompa's 75th birthday this past weekend.  He actually turns the big 75 on the 14th, but they have other plans, so we did it early.  It was a nice dinner out and then we went to their house for cake and ice cream.  Goompa loved all his gifts.

Don't you love how Miss C took it upon herself to jump in this shot.  I swear, that girl never wanted to see the camera before.  Now she kind of likes it.

7.  So I decided to take advantage and try to snap a few of her.  This is how it went down at first.  Of course.

After the promise of candy, this is what I got.

She's no dumb cookie.  She's figured out that if she behaves in front of the camera she gets a treat.  Hence why she decided to jump in on the shot of Mee Maw and Goompa.  Little stinker.

8.  I tried to start swimming lessons this past week.  My dilemma was that Miss C is supposed to be in a class where the parents do not get into the pool.  They wear flotation devices and learn to swim without mommy.  Yeah right.  Like that was going to happen.  So I had the bright idea to start them off in the same class and then move Miss C up to the next level once she was comfortable.  So I'm thinking that having them together in the lower level class should be pretty easy, right?  Wrong.  What a disaster.  Miss C was ok with going in the water but would not release her death grip on me.  I have no idea how they are going to expect her to be in the water without me.  She's used to wearing a flotation device, but she still wants to cling on to me just in case.  Now, Little J wanted nothing to do with the water.  I was surprised because he loves the bath and loved the pool last year.  He eventually warmed up to it after about 30 minutes, but it wasn't easy.  Even then he didn't want to get his face near the water.  Forget trying to turn him on his back to float.

So after 20 or 25 minutes of this, Miss C announced she had to go to the bathroom and I decided to leave class early.  We had disrupted the class long enough.  We're going to try again this Saturday, but J is coming with me and they will be in two separate classes.  I'm not letting J get out of this fun.  

9.  Little J's two bottom canine teeth finally poked through.  Finally.  Man, that was a long time waiting.  Poor guy, I know they have been bothering him.  Now probably a month or so of a reprieve and then the 2 year molars.  He had a much harder time teething than Miss C did.  I swear I don't remember her teeth bothering her half as much. 

10.  Here's my 52 Weeks.  Notice anything different?  I decided to be sassy and dyed my hair dark.  It was a impulse purchase at Target on a Thursday night.  Don't ask why I did it.  I have no idea.  I'm slowly getting used to it.