Tales of the Tooth Fairy - Part 2 and Random Stuff

I know the suspense is killing you - did the Tooth Fairy return to the ESPN house or did we get another e-mail due to bad behavior?  Good news the Tooth Fairy visited and left $1.  Chatty was very happy and immediately asked if she could put it in her piggy bank.  I don't think she understands the whole money concept and buying things either that or she just expects Mr. ESPN and me to pay for everything with our money!

In other news Bia has been waking up at 5:00 and demanding breakfast.  She comes in our room and lays on our bed and then yells "I WANT BREAKFAST!"  I told her yesterday that her chef (Mr. ESPN) was in the shower and she would have to wait.  Demanding little thing she is!  Good thing she is cute - crazy bed head hair and all!

We finally have a fairly quiet weekend with minimal commitments - ahhhh!  Let's see how long it lasts!  I do have to get up early tomorrow so I can go on a run ... Saturdays are my long runs and since it is still over 100 freakin degrees I gotta get moving early.  I started at 7:40 last week and when I was done at 8:30 I thought I was going to die, it was HOT!

Have a good weekend!

Tales of the Tooth Fairy

Chatty lost another tooth ... pretty soon she won't have any teeth left!  She lost her tooth at school, which is a very BIG deal.  She got to bring home three special "Loose Tooth" books and received a special sticker too.  She was so excited.  Fast forward to last night where things went south in a bad way.  Chatty was screaming and throwing a major fit.  During her tirade Mr. ESPN told me, "I don't think the Tooth Fairy is coming tonight."  This morning Chatty wakes up and comes to me upset.  I asked her what was wrong and she said the Tooth Fairy didn't come.  I explained to her that the Tooth Fairy sent us a note (she asked where the note was - I bluffed and said she actually sent an e-mail - gotta love technology) saying she didn't stop by last night because Chatty was misbehaving so badly.  She wasn't buying it s I pulled the Santa card.  I told her just like Santa doesn't bring gifts if you are bad, the Tooth Fairy doesn't bring money if you are bad.  I told Chatty to try and have a better day and we'll see what happens tonight.

How Long Has it Been??

It seems like these days I can't figure out if I am coming or going.  Seriously I feel like I am going non-stop.  But when I stop and look back at it, it isn't like we are doing anything that exciting or eventful - I guess that's just how life is these days pure craziness!! Chatty has still been fighting us on homework but last week she did awesome in school - aced her Pet Rock Presentation (who knew she would be so excited about a rock), her spelling test and her Rocks & Minerals Test (metamorphic, sedimentary, igneous - weren't we in junior high when we learned this stuff).  She was beyond excited about her achievements.  I tried to remind her that the reason she did so well was because we studied and did our homework.  We'll see if it helps! 

Saturday was her first soccer game of the season.  Of course it was scheduled for the hottest part of the day and of course I had a prior commitment with some girlfriends so I missed it (which I felt bad about but sure didn't miss melting in the sun).  Chatty's team got creamed but Chatty did score her team's only goal (of course she did since I wasn't there).  She had fun but did make a comment to me that parents don't really "watch" the games, they just chit chat with each other - nice!

Bia is ready for the game

A little shade for the princess

Re-hydrating!!

In the zone

Going in for a score

In other funny news, last week was picture day at school.  Guess who was in the very back row of her class because she is the tallest kid?  Yep - Chatty (Laurie feel free to pass on that info to Matt)!  I knew she was tall but was a little surprised by that.

Good thing Bia is cute because she has been so demanding and stubborn lately!  Gotta love 3 year olds!!  She wasn't feeling well this morning and got sick - so she is home with her Daddy.  I am sure she has already given him strict instructions on what she wants to watch on tv, what blankets and animals she needs and where she wants everything placed!  He should be used to it by now, he has been married to me for 12 years! 

We had a little visitor in our dining room last week.  A small (10-12 inches) king snake (not-poisonous).  Needless to say Mr. ESPN made snake chop-suey out of him.  No they won't be calling us to volunteer at the Herpetology Society anytime soon.  My mantra of snakes are better off dead wouldn't go over too well with them.

I think that covers last week's craziness - let's see what this week brings!!

Conversations at Circle K

I left for work earlier than usual this morning (which much to my dismay seems be more the norm than the exception these days).  On the way I stopped for a Diet Coke at Circle K (which I do most days).  This morning a different person was working the register.

Circle K Worker: "Good Morning Sweetie"
Me (trying to hide my annoyance):"Hi"
Circle K Worker: "Need some cigarettes with that?"
Me (getting even more frustrated): "No"
Circle K Worker: "$.86 then, Have a good day dear"

WTH - why is he referring to me as sweetie and dear and what possessed him to ask me if I wanted cigarettes?  Seriously?  I worked in retail and I know all about the "add-on" sale at the register but cigarettes?  Come on? 

I Finally Did It

I signed up for a half-marathon.  I have been wanting to do one for awhile now although I am not sure why since I have a love hate relationship with running.  But there is no turning back now, I paid the entry fee.  That in an of itself is a little crazy to me.  Basically I am paying them to torture myself, but I get a free t-shirt! 

Mr. ESPN and a couple of my girlfriends are running it too.  When I told Mr. ESPN my girlfriends were running it too he said, "Oh good, now you will have someone to run with" - as in now he doesn't have to feel bad about leaving me behind!  Nice huh? 

Needless to say Mother Nature better cooperate and send some fall weather our direction so I can start training outside, this 105 degree heat isn't going to cut it.  So if you are going to be in the desert in January (the weather is great here that time of year) come on out and cheer me on at the PF Chang's Rock n Roll Half-Marathon.  I have already enlisted The Kingston Queen but I need all of the encouragement I can get.  Is it too soon to think about what I am going to wear for the race???

Conversations and Sunday School

Friday Chatty came home from school chatting about 9/11.  I was really caught off guard as I didn't know they would talk so in depth about it in first grade.  She seemed to know all of the facts and on Saturday insisted on wearing her Flag shirt.  We talked about the military and Uncle Lee, the people who serve our country and the people who died that day and we talked about Pap-pa.  It seems like every time death comes up we come back to him!  She had me in tears again Friday afternoon telling me how much she missed him.  So sweet and a great reminder for me.

Chatty knows the way to my heart ... "You're the BEST, better than daddy.  You are the best and he is the second best" (although we all know that is subject to change at any moment). 

Not quite so sentimental but out of the mouth of my youngest was "I farted in my seat mommy" - anyone who says potty humor is just for boys hasn't met Bia!  She was cracking herself up over it and kept saying it.  Of course I didn't help by joking - ooh it smells!

Sunday was the first day of the new Sunday School year.  Bia has graduated from the nursery and is in the 3 year old class across the hall from Chatty's 1st grade class (that I am co-teaching).  We'll see how long it takes for Bia to get mad I am not teaching her class.  I foresee a tantrum in our near future.  To celebrate the first day we snapped a few pictures before church

I wanted one of the girls and me ...

As you can see Bia was doing her own thing

So Mr. ESPN focused in on Chatty and me and cut Bia off

Finally one with Bia sort of looking at the camera

OLD and Tired

It's not like I didn't already know it, but I am really starting to feel it lately.  Yes it is official, I am OLD.  Last night at Bia's swim lesson my phone rang .. my ringer is my Alma Mater's fight song.  After I got off the woman next to me commented on my ring and said she went to school there too.  I asked her when she graduated ... 4 years after me ... at least it was 4 and not 10 years after me like some of the "kids" that work in my office.  On Wednesday, I was talking to a fellow soccer mom at practice and she made a comment about turning 30 next year ... I almost spit my water out when she told me this - yep I am old.  As if my gray hairs and wrinkles weren't enough, it seems like everyone I interact with these days is quite a bit younger than me!   

See the thing is I was always the youngest person.  I have a late birthday and all of my friends were older than me in high school and college.  In my Bunco group I was the youngest for the longest time.  Now it seems like everywhere I go I am the old lady.  I will be closer to 40 than 30 in a mere 2 months - where did the time go?  I felt even older when I woke up before dawn this morning (seriously - it was 4:15 am) and my body ached as I walked to the bathroom (stupid, stupid, stupid 5:30 am conference calls) ... so now I am OLD and TIRED! 

Good thing it's Friday, I need to rest up my OLD and tired self!