Tigers Game!

We went to the Tigers game Sunday with JC. It was a great game. We got to see Clete Thomas and Brandon Inge hit back to back homeruns. The kids enjoyed having soda, popcorn and carousel rides. Here's some pics.

In other news, the Chief has his first loose tooth, which is very fun.

Oh man...July is tomorrow!

Since I do such a good job at posting regularly, I thought I would post some pictures from our recent trip to Greenfield village with Grammy and Buster.

The kids really enjoyed the old school lawn games, riding the train and the carousel.

Happy 6th Anniversary to us!

In honor of our 6th anniversary we spent a great day together and with friends enjoying the beautiful weather.  First we ventured over to see the U of M engineering team race their suped-up Go Kart.  It's so loud that we could hear it from our house in Northwood V, so we went to investigate.  The kids thought it was really awesome...but too loud.  Here are some pictures.

After watching for a while, we continued on and burnt off some energy at U of M's "Wave Field" - a really cool environmental sculpture by Maya Lin (creator of the Vietnam Memorial).  You can check it out at this website http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/lin/card2.html

We ran, jumped, and tumbled our way through this amazing ocean of grass.  See for yourself!

Inspired by the engineering club, we came back home and built our own race cars out of legos.  After lunch we went back to watch the race car, this time dragging our neighbors along.  The 6 kids (the 4 actual children plus the 2 dads) had a fun chasing one another over the waves for a second time.  Everyone had a really great time.  And what better way to close out a great day than with ice cream?  All in all, the perfect day, and the perfect way to celebrate our anniversary.  

Kindergarten Sing

The Kindergarten sing was last night.  I thought I should post a short video of the Chief's musical talents.  The footage isn't great....sorry.  Guess it's time to invest in a video camera.  Sigh.

Pie Makers

  

So obviously I'm not an avid blogger, since my last post was over a month ago.  Can you believe that some people update their blogs most than once a day?  Where on earth do they find the time???

Anyway, while at work last night Clay and the kids made Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie.  I wanted to post some pics of the proud bakers, lovingly working on their culinary creation.  No one has tried it yet, so I can't attest to taste.  They all need a little work in the presentation area though.

Report Card

Well, I'm claiming the title of proud mom and therefore bragging as well.  The chief has brought home an excellent report card for the second time this year, reminding me of what an exceptional child he is.  We celebrated with new bionicles and milkshakes from McDonalds.  

Confessions of a Mom....

I managed to get up shortly after the alarm went off this morning.  This is in no way an amazing accomplishment for most of the world, but I am not a morning person and I'm not feeling particularly well today.  Anyway, I woke the Chief up and stumbled downstairs to grab a blanket and lay on the couch while Clay took over getting the Chief ready for school.  

I admit that I laid there until I heard Zu Zu around 8:30 or so.  I hauled myself slowly off the couch and headed upstairs to get her up.  I walked into her room and immediately was told that she did not want me.  She wanted her daddy.  I told her, "I'm sorry honey, daddy is at work already."  To which she responded, "WHY?"  After accepting that her daddy was not at home she refused to get out of bed.  "Go Away!" she said.  So I let and immediately  she began screaming because I left her room.  I went back in to get her, only to have her stop screaming and roll over to ignore me.  This went on for 10 minutes, so I finally gave up and went back downstairs to start my day.  After a few minutes of silence, she began yelling again, but I figured she could use a few more minutes alone.  Finally I went back up, hoping she was ready to get out of bed.  I picked her up against her will.  This was meant with more screaming and some pushing, so I put her down.  She went to hide behind her bed and started screaming, "Go Away!"  After a couple minutes of trying to calm her down, I went back downstairs in the hopes that she would follow.  She stayed upstairs for another 15 minutes, finally giving in because she wanted her binky that I had taken downstairs.  She went straight the couch and wanted to watch cartoons.  And to be perfectly honest reader, I confess, I turned them on in the hopes that they would improve her mood.  We'll see how the rest of the day goes.