Ten for Tuesday

1. Basement photos!

2. Missing something? "Yup, my front tooth." Finally! (He wiggled that one forever.)

3. When S. went on a field trip to a plant nursery and grocery store her bus drove past new(ish) Chuck E. Cheese restaurant. It's only seven minutes from our house. She doesn't know I've purposely been avoiding car trips to that part of town for months.

4. I'm loving the warm weather, but our yard doesn't exactly get the attention it needs from me and Ben. I really should teach the boys lawn-mowing skills. I put on a construction mask and mowed some of the lawn the other day with a minimal reaction (I wasn't trying to amuse the neighbors, just very allergic to grass and dandelions). And poor Ben's got no time to mow with his night shift work schedule--on good days he has almost enough time to sleep and eat, though.

5. R. ran in a 3-5th grade race at school and came in 10th! He could have been faster, he says, but someone punched him in the stomach right before the race. I don't know about that, but he enjoyed himself and the whole family was there to cheer him on. Daddy got off in time to watch, then he went home to sleep.

7. I posted about thumb-sucking earlier, but C. has started incorporating a new element: Belly Buttons! She sucks her thumb and puts her finger in her belly button. If I see her walking around like this, I know she's tired.

8. We got a new table. (yard sale $40). Now to update our chairs. . .

9. Ben won his Biggest Loser Finale at work and used some of the money he won to buy an outdoor basketball hoop/stand for their work parking lot.

10. We moved the saw horses out of the basement and the kids turned them into goals. We have become the most popular house on the block. Every kid on the block has been over to play, several of them come every day after school. They play, among other things, "Baby Soccer" a crawling game they made up. I'll have to remember this for the next time my kids beg for an expensive toy.

Excuuuuuuse Me

So I've just been reprimanded by a member of the blogging community because it's May 18th and my only post in May is three words long.

The thing is, I promised basement pictures. But I haven't taken any. You see, the camera is upstairs. The basement is downstairs. And I'm tired.

We aren't putting up much drywall these days anyway.

Ben started his night shift today. He'll work five days a week from 6:00pm to 7:00am. And in an effort to make his weekends family friendly, we decided to tweak our family's bedtime. The plan was to have long daily afternoon siestas and then a midnight bedtime. The plan didn't work for two of us. The baby can't stay asleep longer than an hour in the middle of the day. And J. ended up being late for school. (R. and S. were awake at 7:00am, but I didn't have the heart to wake up poor J.) Come to think of it, the tweaked bedtime didn't work for three of us. When babies wake up, their lucky moms get to wake up too.

So basically, I'm too tired to take pictures of the basement. Not just the basement though. I thought about taking pictures of C. under what she's nicknamed "The Bugga Bugga Tree" (a blossom-covered apple tree humming with "Bugga Bugga" bees). Gorgeous white blossoms, darling, awe-struck baby, but again, no pictures. Probably because we were outside and the camera is inside. Does your picture-taking go in bursts? I'm good about taking lots of pictures sometimes and other times I go weeks without taking any!

I hate drywall.