I'm Mellllting

Our air conditioner has kicked the bucket. We were hoping it would make it through the summer, and I guess technically it did.

If only September brought with it a little chill. But we haven't been that lucky, the last couple days it's been almost 100° outside.

So I have stocked up on popsicles and the boys carry around squirt bottles cool off with. I'm hoping we'll have air up and running before the end of the week. Wish us luck.

We had a long night...

Derek is back to work, I don't think I've mentioned that. His knee is healed and he's back to patrol.

I'm sad to have him gone. The boys are too.

Corbin has a hard time with change. At the beginning of Derek's time home with the broken knee, Corbin would tell him that it was time for work. And wanted him to go like he usually did at night.

Now it's another story....

You see Derek would lay with Corbin until he fell asleep at night. It was a great break for me not putting Corbin to bed every night by myself. But let me tell you, I am paying for that one.

Last night was the first night with out Derek in a long time.

Things moved along smoothly, we did the whole routine that Derek started, play with race cars, play memory game, lay in bed and read books with a flashlight. Corbin was all calm and relaxed....

Until I got up.

First he started crying for "Mama", not "Mom" or "Mommy", "Mama" the way Cooper cries for me when he's hurt or sad. The way a sweet, helpless, little baby would call out. "Mama lay down with me, I love you, Mama, Mama". This kid has game.

When that didn't work he decide to try and get my sympathy by crying for "Daddy". The daddy who left him all alone with mean mommy, (the daddy who started this whole thing). That didn't work either.

I just kept putting him back in bed.

What started at 8:30 wasn't finished until after 11:00.

This morning when I woke him up for school, the first words he mumbled were "I'm sorry Mommy".

Melt my heart.

Friday Activites

Corbin loves to anything if you tell him it is an "Activity". To him that means we are going to do something fun and special that may just include using scissors.

Today our Activity was making whirlybirds.You know, you drop them and they spin all the way down...way better than a paper airplanes, because these actually work.

We gathered up the supplies while Cooper was napping and sat in the shade in the front yard. We measured and cut and folded and clipped and voile,we had a whirlybird.

We started dropping them just standing on the curb for a little extra height, then the back of the truck and on to the stairs in the back yard.

It was a fun activity we followed up with a trip to the Burger King playland with a friend from his Sunbeam class.

Now we are off to Disneyland with Daddy....which just might trump our whirlybirds, even though scissors aren't involved.

Corbin loves Hot Wheels

Corbin loves things in rows.


Corbin found my quilting ruler and gave each car it's own "parking space".


It was like a dream come true for him, to be able line up cars in their own little squares. He was so excited to show us his organized toys.

I'm hoping that this will mean that having a clean room will be easy for him. A place for everything and everything in it's place. I can imagine him getting frustrated with me for messing his stuff up....could I get that lucky?

We Made It

We are tired....

We are hungry....

It was hard to keep the boys happy at church today....

Ahhh, but in the words of Corbin "We made it".

(And if you were sitting near us today you may have heard him shout those words from the front of the chapel after the closing prayer...)

The Buzz

I decided I wasn't really ready for summer to end. So I gave our little Cooper his first buzz.

It's not a real short one, but I did use the clippers.

Well, the real reason I buzzed him is Cooper has this little swirly right on the crown of his head that always sticks up. Now it blends right it. I don't know if I'll keep it this short for long, I do think it makes him look more like a little boy which I have mixed feelings about. Somehow cutting his hair makes him look taller to me....hmm....yep he looks taller.