Saturday night

What a day of constant activity does to the B boys.

You can thank Logan for the nice weather today!

That's because he helped with the Weather for the Friday 5:00 news on KNWA. While normally you hear me whining about boy scouts, it does offer the kids some amazing opportunities... Friday after school Logan, Kale and I headed to the KNWA studio in Fayetteville to learn about weather an participate a live new program - Lucas & Steve went to T-Ball practice. We barely squeaked in before it started (man I hate being late!). We toured the offices and headed to the studio. You would think it was a large, isolated area but totally not the case. Those people know how to use space. Dan Skoff and Nellie Jones were fabulous hosts for the scouts. Dan geared everything he was doing towards the boys. The boys helped prepare some of the weather slides for the news, looked at lots of the tools used for weather and asked tons of questions. Then it was time for the news. We were literally within spittin' distance from Nellie and Dan (that is when I was most thankful for T-Ball practice :)). Kale continued his crush on the ladies and flirted with Nellie. The boys were super quiet and so well behaved. They helped open the weather segement and introduced themselves as "Pack 5, Den 3, Tiger Cubs from St. Vincent de Paul" all in unison! Plus Dan mentioned then several times while he was on the weather. We then watched the news play out. Got to tell you that was the most news I've watched in years! Then they were invited up behind the news desk to close down the news. Kale and I went as well. After the news was over they posed behind the news desk and then got to play "Weather Anchor" in front of the green screen. The pix are of the TV screen so you could see what they were pointing to. Then Dan taught them about Severe Weather Safety. It was totally awesome and hopefully something Logan will remember forever! Next time you're over I be sure to show you it, 'cuz you know I DVR'd it!

Goal!Goal!Goal!Goal!

Today was opening day for Soccer and the B boys brought home the gold. Well if there was a gold they would have brought it home but really they just got a G2 and some cookies. They were happy. The Revolution (coached by yours truly) cleaned house. I wouldn't have believed had I not seen it but Logan scored 3 goals! Yes three!!! That is more that he has ever scored in his entire career prior to the game. Down 3 players each of the boys on the Revolution had to play a ton of soccer. They were in shape due to the million yo-yo's they ran at practice. Just kidding...or am I. I am! Yo-Yo's are to hard to make happen on a practice field with no lines. Nothing but laps! Had there not been a uniform screw up, both B boys would be wearing orange. It's not the case. The Revolution represents the baby blue proudly (after just a little bit of whining from the boys). No pictures of the game. I wonder who was in charge of the camera then. Hum...

With just a short break to shove McD's down the boys, it was off to Lucas' first ever official soccer team. The Knights were scoring machines. Lucas has some real hustle and went in the correct direction almost the entire time. Lucas put one ball in the back of the next but he will tell you he scored 6 as his team shares all the goals. We need to work on his counting skills 'cuz they put more than 6 down.

Brothers

Brothers just sitting in the bucket of the front loader that's here to build the basketball "court".

Summer Hair Cut

I wanted to buzz his hair but Steve & Kale both said no. So instead I went for the very short little boy hair cut that closely resembles a buzz. I love it! He likes it too 'cuz now it can be spiked like Lucas.

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Old School Discipline

The boys have done great this Spring Break. Here we are Sunday evening and we are not begging for night fall so that we can put the boys to bed so that morning arrives and we can ship them back to school. We could keep this up for a while longer. But there have been a few ups & downs and my fair share of listening to a bunch of whining, tattle-tells. So tonight when Kale came crying about Lucas punching him the back and Lucas to only scream, "He punched me first!" and then Kale admitting he did it, I turned old school and pulled from the TDonn book of discipline. They had to hug it out. Now, they weren't on their knees on the front porch for the whole neighborhood to see for 15 long drawn out minutes but, by the time I had counted to 60 they were again friends on the verge of a wrestling match that promptly ended the hugging.

Notice how well they cleaned their faces after dinner. I guess that's what baths are for.

Addictions

We all have an addiction to something, healthily or unhealthy. If you don't know Lucas' addictions then you don't know Lucas. The boy need 3 things:

1. Milk in a sippy cup
2. My-My
3. Scooby Doo on the TV

Any combination of these 3 things is the ticket for Lightning Fire. Sometimes he just needs the first two, other times he need all three. Having the entire package can do wonders for him. Proof: Last night at about 4:00 am he comes to the top of the stares hollering for us to come up and see something. He is panicky and freaked out...there are bugs in his bed. Steve goes up and the search every inch of the bed and no bugs to be found. Lucas lays back down. Not 2 minutes later he is hollering again, the bugs are back. So I go up and we find no bugs. I move him downstairs to sleep on the couch and he falls off of it freaking out that there are bugs on his hands. So we load up a milk and grab his my-my and move him into our bed. We talk in detail about the bugs (fyi, my-my doesn't eat these kind of bugs, he just eats big ones. Who knew?). WE remove his shirt and search for bugs. Every freckle, scab, scrape was thoroughly inspected to rule out the possibility of it being a bug. Finally I convince him that there are no bugs and we can turn out the lights and go to sleep. Seconds later he claims the bugs are back and eating holes in his skin. It's clear that he is spooked and we are not going back to sleep, so I offer to turn on a Scooby from the DVR. I fire up Scooby and within minutes he is sawing logs and the bugs disappear to never bother us again. Pulling together the trifecta works yet again! He did tell me this morning that the bugs were real and not just a dream. Let's hope they don't show again tonight.

Lucas and the Knights

Lucas is officially playing real soccer this spring...the Knights. His whole team goes to SVdP but most of the team is made of Kindergartners and just a couple of pre-k kiddos. He won't admit it but he loves it. He had a ton of hustle (surprise, surprise) and doesn't back down from the opponent. The key is to just make sure he's moving in the right direction! He has a kid on his team that is nearly 6 but is the size of a 3rd grader and Lucas takes him right on. Now we have to convince him that soccer players don't wear hats!

Body parts by Kale

Tonight Kale and I engaged in a quiz about why we have certain body parts.

M: Why do we have eyes?
K: To see.
M: Why do we have Mouths?
K: To talk....To eat candy....To drink milk
M: Why do we have ears?
K: To hear.
M: Why do we have legs?
K: To walk.
M: (Trying to trick him) Why do we have hair?

Wait for it.....

K: So we don't look like uncle Jamey!
M & K: Lot's of giggling.

We love Uncle Jamey and all of his baldness!!!!

Post backlog

I built up a bit of a back log of posts. Well I have finally cleared that out. I have posted several things over the last couple of days and back dated them as though I posted things when they happened. You may need to read back several posts to catch them all.