Piano Piñata.

Hello June. Wyatt's year-and-a-half of preschool was full of awesome art, this is one of my favorites. It was on the bulletin board when we went to open house in April and now it's all mine. He is one awesome little monster dude.

I was a wreck last week, I am so soggy when it comes to endings. I cried when we said goodbye to Wyatt's sweet and wonderful preschool teacher, I wanted to cry all day on Friday when the girls went to their last day of school. We have one more T-ball game this week, I think I will let that one go easy, no tears for T-ball. I'll save them for something else.

Oooooh, I have discovered a few extra hours exist in the early morning. The kids are sleeping later because we have no where to be! It's 7:30 a.m. and I am still alone! I have already showered and washed my hair! To appreciate my joy, just remember that I am usually surrounded, loved up, and often overwrought by five other people...so a few hours to myself is so freaking awesome and very very sweet. *big exhale*

Look at this. We now own a piano. It's old, and ugly but it's a piano, the keys are nice and it works. It's in my living room and I am OK with that. In 15 years I'll be probably be blogging about how I finally got rid of that hideous thing we bought from an old lady for a few hundred bucks back in '08. For now, I'll just be thankful that they are interested in music and get over the aesthetics of it all. It's not a giant one, it's hanging out in the corner of the room, not so bad really. It's funny, Eva has her words mixed up, she calls it the piñata. I'm not correcting her, it's too darn cute.

My kids are not behaving, in general. They have moments of pure angelic selfless wonder but overall, generally they are being bad. So, unfortunately, we have decided that this is not the year to dig a pool. Something had to give. The stuff finally hit the fan, Saturday in the backyard. Tony was adding a sprinkler and they were all out there digging when the mudslinging, literally and otherwise, got way out of control and we just finally let them push us over the edge. It wasn't just that one episode, it was however, the catalyst to quite a heavy discussion. This summer we need to focus on them, and the contents of their little growing characters. We are going to concentrate on safety, responsibility, and respect for people and property. That should do it. Any ideas?

It's too bad. They are such good diggers, they'll save us a fortune when we are ready.


This way we can plan the pool better anyway, more planning is better.

So anyway, let's get going, let's go summer, let's have some fun!!! [While trying to behave ourselves...well, mostly.]
And now, I'm off to make Jello.