Enjoying the Sun

While many of us have been lamenting our mild winter and lack of snow, Chloe has decided to embrace the beautiful weather. She loves being outside and has taken full advantage of every sunny day she can! I have to admit that her joy is contagious and even I am beginning to get some spring fever.

The Heat

Well, Evan played his last basketball game yesterday. He improved a lot throughout the season and says he really loves the sport. I never did master photographing basketball games. The last game I took my camera to, I used manual settings and although the lighting was better I had almost no pictures in focus. Maybe I'll practice more next year if he decides to play again.

In other news, Evan has declared that he doesn't want to play baseball this spring. I am really struggling with this because I think he is the best at baseball out of all the sports he has played. Also, we've played with the same team for two seasons and I'm good friends with lots of the moms and I will miss being a part of it. If he doesn't play this spring, he can play in the fall. I've been trying to get to the bottom of why he doesn't want to play. Honestly, I think he is just burned out on activities right now. He wants to have time at home. I understand that. I'm not sure that he understands that he does have a couple of months off before baseball starts, though. He has also expressed fear of being hit by the ball. He did get hit a few times last season, but never injured. I don't want to force him to play if he doesn't want to, and I won't. But I also want to make sure he is making the decision for the right reasons. Sign-ups started yesterday. We are letting it go for now and then we will talk to him about it again before the sign-up period is over and see how he feels then. This is one of those tough mom moments for me, though.

Happy Valentine's Day

Evanisms and Chloe Cuties

After finding a rather large, oversized chair had been scooted across the family room floor, I said, "You guys have moved the whole chair! How did you manage to do that?"

Chloe: Well, Mom, it was pretty easy.
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Evan: Mom, are you ever going to have another baby?
Me: Probably, not.
Evan: Why?
Me: Well, your dad doesn't want to have another baby.
Evan: Well, don't listen to him! You make the babies!
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While I was making Chloe's bed in the morning, she found me and said, "Mom, what are you doing? It is your turn to brush my teeth and you are wasting my time!"
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Me: Evan, if it is raining when you leave school today, get your raincoat out of your backpack and put it on.
Evan: What if I don't?
Chloe: I guess you'll be soaking wet. (matter of factly)
(at least one of my children has enough sense to get out of the rain)
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Evan let out a super loud, uber disgusting belch in the car the other day. I promptly started lecturing, "That is disgusting! I don't ever want to hear that again! yadda, yadda, yadda."
Evan responded, "I'm surprised I pulled that off. I've been practicing, but I'm not that good."
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Matthew called home to tell the kids goodnight when he was out of town recently. Chloe said, "I'm busy watching cartoons right now. Can you just let me know when you're home?"
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Chloe wanted to make a sock puppet the other day. After completing her art work on the sock, she began playing. Soon I heard, "My sock puppet is the walking dead!" Matthew said, "Why don't you pretend your sock puppet is a princess? It can be an Ariel sock puppet."  Chloe cheerfully agreed and then turned to me and said, "Mom! This Ariel puppet is pretending to be the walking dead!"
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Chloe told my mom she wanted to be a cheerleader. My mom told her, "Your mommy used to be a cheerleader." She said, "REALLY? That is hilarious!"  (I somewhat take offense to that!)
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Evan is the star of the week this week. He gets to answer five questions from classmates each day. On Monday, I asked him what they asked.
1. What is your favorite video game? A: Halo 3 Me: Evan! You've never even played Halo!! Why would you say that?  E:Well, I'd like to play it.
2. What is your favorite movie? A: Terminator Matthew: You've never seen Terminator!
I was afraid to ask anymore. We had a long discussion about he needed to answer the questions truthfully and not what he wanted the answers to be. I mean I feel guilty enough about the things we do let him play/watch, we don't need him stretching the truth! Geez!
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Thank you, folks! We're here all week!