Wordless Wednesday - Indiana Jones AKA Mica Apel

Mica got mad when I called him, "Indiana Jones." He looked like him to me. I said, "Why don't you want to be called Indiana Jones Mica?" He said, "Because I don't know who he is!" 

We watched a few action scene's on YouTube, and he said, "Mommy you can call me Indiana Jones now!" We have an Indiana Jones fan in our house! 

 He's been humming the theme song around our house.

I Finally Figured Out Why Mica is Scared to Go See Great Grandma Kent

I mentioned to Mica that Great Grandma Kent moved to a new home now. she was kicked out of the other home. She just needs more care. She has Alzheimer's disease. She was really nice and forgetful. She used to sit and watch the kids with a smile on her face. Our boy's LOVED her! Mica even walked up to her at age 2 and said, "WOW I really love all the bubbles in your hair!" The bubbles were perm curls. I imagine with white hair curls do look like bubbles.

Now she has a blank stare much of the time. She gets snappy when you try and prevent her from doing things like: Hand washing a whole stack of paper plates, leaving out an outside door and steeling chocolate eggs, which she managed to stuff a lot of eggs in her pockets.

Mica didn't want to get out of the car to go into her home shortly before Easter. I was totally not expecting him to act the way he did. It used to be that Mica was Great Grandma Kent's best friend, visa versa.

This weekend he finally told me why he doesn't like going to see her. He's afraid he's going to catch what he calls, "Elder's disease." I reassured him that he can not catch Alzheimer's disease. I also told him that older people just love when young people, like himself come to see them. We'll see how the next visit goes.

I found a site that talks about how to talk to your kids about Alzheimer's disease here. Warning! They have a short film on the site that depicts a 13 year old girl dealing with her mother's Alzheimer's, I just lost it {started crying}. I'll admit it, the older I get the more of a sap I've become. This video won best short film on YouTube in 2007, drawing the attention of millions.

Here's the video. Watch at your own risk. It might make you cry.

School in the Fall Coming Right Up

In some way I'm so ready for Mica to be in Kindergarten, in other ways I'm a little sad that he's growing up so fast. Last year I was upset that he was the only kid not graduating from his old preschool class. They all went on to graduation {with robes and craziness}, while Mica sat out. I actually didn't have him attend at all. I felt like he'll have the rest of his life to experience being left out. Why torment him at such a young age, when he doesn't understand? I still feel like preschool graduations with robes and such are too much! what happened to the simple kool-aid and cookie farewell? He'll be on the older end for kindergarten. He starts just right after he turns 6 years old. He's really ready. The boy has known his letters since he was 2 1/2 years old. But last year at this time he was unwilling to cut and color much of anything. His preschool teachers actually thought that there might be something wrong in the muscles in his hands. Now he's a cutting, coloring fool! Meaning he does it all the time.

Tomorrow we're going to eat lunch at Mica's soon to be school. We get to eat with the existing kindergarten class.

Then Isaak starts preschool. I was a little worried about him because he's so stinking shy! He's a leg clinger. In the last two weeks he's started to be a little more friendly to the outside world. He actually says, "Hi" to random people in stores. That's both good and bad. Good that he's not as shy; bad that you shouldn't talk to strangers. What's your opinion, is it ok for kid's to talk to strangers when they are with their parents? Isaak's just been saying, "Hi" to everyone, and I started thinking about that. He's all into drawing, painting, playing with Play Doh. Not too into letters yet. I swear Mica learned his letters from Wheel of Fortune. We have the TV off at that time of day now. He does know how to spell his name thanks to the book I won around Christmas from Freckle Box!

Go Graham Go! is hosting a giveaway for one winner to win a backpack from Kidorable. Go Graham Go! even has a 20% discount code on her site for Kidorable. I won an umbrella from them, it's pretty sweet! Seeing that I have two kids about to start new schools, I want to win this.

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day readers!

I don't expect to get anything for Mother's Day. I kind of think Birthday's and Christmas is plenty. Mica did make me a frame at school with a photo of himself in the center. Daddy took the boy's out last night to get me earrings, lotion and good smelling sample size hand sanitizer.

I set the boy's clothes out and Mica did not want to wear this shirt. I was an evil mom and told him that it would be nice for him to wear this shirt for me on Mother's Day.

To the left below the boy's were getting ready to fight over a leaf. To the right below Mica was trying to pose with his arm around Isaak; Isaak was being a punk, and was running away.

I knew one of our grocery stores was giving away a free breakfast with the purchase of any other breakfast, so we went there. Isaak gobbled down a ton of food! Mica said it was the best breakfast he had ever had.

Now I'm attempting to make homemade crayons. I've been saving the drip wax from the printers at the school I work at. I'm melting the wax in a tin can, and pouring it in candy molds. If this works I'll buy better candy molds. Something a little more fun for the kids. I only have typical chocolate candy looking ones. I want to see if it works though. I'll also post about it if it's a success! The only thing is, is that the wax is dark in color. It colors green, black or blue, but looks black. I'm recycling something that would be thrown away anyhow.

I thought making crayon's would be fun for the kids, but Mica cranking about wanting to watch a movie, and Isaak's had 2 time-outs for hitting and spitting. It might be a trying day. We will see. Maybe I'll give in and let them watch a movie while the wax is melting. I can get their patches they earned at the Lowes Kid's Clinic sewn on their apron's from yesterday.

Lowes Build and Grow Clinic

• We went to our first Lowes Build and Grow Clinic this morning. It's for ages 7 and up, but the man that runs it says that he has all ages of kids come in. He also said that you don't actually have to register. They usually have enough kits for everyone. I registered anyhow. It's every Saturday at 10 am.
• Thanks to Grandpa Spiehs for meeting us there! He helped Isaak, while I helped Mica. Grandpa Spiehs took some hammering against his fingers. Isaak just is too little to have a lot of aim. 
• They got to keep their aprons, goggles, they got a patch and the vase they made for me for Mother's Day. All for free! We might become regulars. Now that I know what it's like, I probably don't need Grandpa's help. But I'll be the one getting my fingers hammered. LOL

• After we were done with the project's Grandpa shopped around Lowes for a bit. Mica was bouncing off the walls for some reason.
• We went two places to find two single flowers to put in the vases. No such luck. The grocery store only sold bunches of flowers, and the gas station we went to didn't have flowers at all {I've seen single roses at gas stations before}. Mica was still bouncing all over the place. He was pretty crazy. 
• On the way home I stopped by a middle school track to have the boy's run! Just to run off some energy. Mica ran/walked 1 1/2 laps, Isaak ran/walked 1 lap. Mica can run fast. Isaak's more of a lazy butt. Isaak fussed 1/2 the run/walk. Aunt Terra says that all the time about Isaak, that he's lazy. She takes them to go pick up Cousin Evan at school all the time, and Zeek wants a free ride in the stroller all the time! At least he's starting to run more. Mica's ran since he could run. 
• When we got home Mica crashed. Either I wore them out, or he now has our bug. He didn't even want to eat. Totally unlike Mica.

The Things Isaak Says!

Before I get into what Isaak said, I should tell you about our night:

• We went to cousin Evan's Ice Cream Social. There we had pizza, water and a cupcake. Ya no veggies tonight. They don't serve what I call "the good stuff" at events like that. 
• Isaak wanted to eat his cupcake before his pizza. I wouldn't let him and he wasn't happy with me. He got over it when he realized that we all had to wait to eat our cupcakes. I was stupid for not asking for white frosting on all our cupcakes! Aunt Terra's boys were all clean looking, and Isaak looked like a Smurf by the time he was done! Mica got white frosting, so he was pretty clean.
• We played a few games. Then it was time to go home. I wanted to catch some of Daddy's art opening. You can see his work here. The boy's clearly didn't want to leave the Ice Cream Social. Of course not! What little kid would want to leave fun games that their cousin's get to stay and play? 
• We went to walk back to Aunt Terra's where our car was parked. The whole way back I listened to Isaak cry about how he needed to go number 2, how he wanted up, he picked his nose and wanted me to take care of his booger {yuck}! I made him walk {it wasn't too far}. I know I'm a mean Mommy. We got back, went into Terra's house, and he wouldn't even go potty. 

That leads into what Isaak said:

• Isaak's nose was snotty, so I wiped it with some toilet paper. 
• He looked up at me and said, "Gross don't wipe my nose with toilet paper! That's what you wipe my butt with Mommy!"
• I explained to him that toilet paper can be used for both purposes. He wasn't buying it!

Off to Daddy's show:

• Ya it never happened. The whole way home Isaak complained of his tummy hurting. Mica was hungry and thirsty. I looked back at them, and thought they looked dirty from playing outside and eating cupcakes.
• Daddy was totally fine with that. It's not like we haven't seen his work before.

Sick Update

• Daddy is fine. I've still got a lingering cold or allergies. I think I had both. 
• Uncle Tyson got sick with the same thing we're sick with. It travels.
• Aunt Terra started it all, so she's the one to blame. ;)

Yesturday I Stayed Home Sick

• I went into work just long enough to announce to my students what they had to do for the day. The PowerPoints of my lectures were on the server. 
• I went home sick.
• Daddy had taken the boys to the Henry Doorly Zoo for a field trip with Mica's preschool class. 
• They got home around lunch time, and Daddy looked like a mess. He was sick too. 
• He went to take a hot bath. Then I had kid duty. Lucky for me I had made PBJ sandwiches earlier for their zoo trip. Lunch was easy.
• Then it was a relaxing movie, while Daddy slept. I feel asleep 1/4 of the way through the movie. 
• Then it was nap time. It took awhile to convince Mica that it was a good idea for him to take a nap. 
• We all slept from 2 to 5. Daddy fell asleep earlier then that. It was some well deserved sleep! I woke up to Mica in my face saying, "Mommy are you going to get up?" Over and over again. 
• Daddy heard him, and took him outside. Mica must of been extremely board! He yelled over the fence, "Somebody needs to come play with me!" That's not really like Mica to be so rude. With two parents under the weather; I think he was really board. It's days like that where I wish Mica was in kindergarten already.

Wordless Wednesday - PBS Kids Inspired

This is Mica's version of Arthur from PBS Kids.  
Arthur is at the library. The squares on the sides of Arthur are books on bookshelves. ;)

He gets really frustrated that he draws hands too big. I explained to him that he's only 5 years old. He has plenty of time for practice!
The cartoon Arthur can be found here.
 

Mica created this image to just be a pretty girl. 
I think she looks like Prairie Dawn from Sesame Street.  
Maybe it's because she has a pink face.
The puppet Prairie Dawn can be found here.

What is your favorite PBS Kids character?

I like Wyatt from Super Why. The cartoon Wyatt can be found here.

If I went Old School, I'd pick the Yip Yips {Martians} from Sesame Street. I'm so bummed that they aren't on much anymore. They amused me! The Yip Yips {Martians} can be found here.

Birthday Ideas for Mica

I have Isaak knocked out for birthday presents. Now I'm starting to think about Mica's.

Two of a Kind, Working on a Full House has a $50 giftcard giveaway going on right now to HearthSong.

They have a lot of arts and craft ideas, outdoor toys and much more. Mica likes any building/constructing things, so I know he would like this: