Partying

The goat dressed up for the birthday party

One of the dog's dressed up for the party

Matt and Jason paddling. You would think they were both out of shape or something!

For Easter, we bought my nephew a Paper Jam Guitar. I forgot to send batteries, which I typically do try to remember to do. I had my mom deliver the toy to him and she later informed me that he did not like the guitar.

This weekend, we visited with my nephew and I asked him about the guitar. Apparently no one put batteries in it for him and he responded to me with, “It’s crap!” I explained to a 3 year old that his mom would have to put batteries in it but I am guessing that will not change his opinion much at this point.

He also asked me if he could come to my house to get presents. I explained that I sent his presents to his house because he did not come home with me on Christmas, as was planned. I listed off the things we bought him, which he did recall but says, “No, mamaw got those for me.” Again, because my mom delivered the presents to him, he associates her with the present. No more presents will be delivered through a third party.

We took the kids to Dollywood Saturday morning to make up for Pumpkin Pie having to miss a trip to Zuma with church. It wasn’t that crowded and the weather was nice (not too hot and not too cold).

We did go to visit my grandparent’s this weekend and cleaned house for mamaw. We planned to mow but it looked like it was going to rain so we put it off.

We also went to Kentucky for a birthday party this weekend. Matt and Jason were hilarious paddling the paddle boat around the pond. It was nice to hang out with friends and I plan to get up there more this summer with an extra day off from work each week.

Blast from the Past:

Sweet Pea has a different personality than most kids. She is quick to smart off and is good with comebacks. A few weeks ago, she was scratching and my mom asked her what was wrong. She responded that she had a yeast infection (which she did have over a year ago). Mom jokingly tells her that she should drink beer for that, knowing we do not allow our children around alcohol and we do not drink. Sweet Pea says, “We have A&W.”

This past week, Sweet Pea smarted off to me. Pumpkin Pie says in her Sweet Pea voice, “I’m sorry, mom.” Sweet Pea says, “That wasn’t me. I don’t say I’m sorry.” She means it too…the child is not known to apologize for anything because she means what she says when she says it and does not back down from it. I wonder where she gets that from!