To Grandmother's House We Go....

This last weekend, we went to our cottage for Memorial Day! The weather wasn't the best, but it was really great to have a few days just to relax :)

Buddy got to spend some time with his Great-Grandparents, which was adorable:

Here he is reading Great-Grandma Betty a book,  doing character voices!

Buddy went skinny-dipping! The water was only 60 degrees, but he was gung-ho.

"Buddy, cover up your privates. Mama wants to put these pictures online!"

"Mama, I win! I was the first one to swim in the lake this  year! I kicked everyone's butts!" (Not that anyone else was competing to be the first one in the freezing water...)

Playing the various lawn games. We don't buy our sets, Great-Grandpa Ray builds them himself!

Kids Gone Wild!

On Wednesday, Buddy's preschool class took a field trip to Jim Peck's Wildwood Wildlife Park, in Minocqua. It was quite the eventful day! To begin with, we tried to cram 82 people onto a yellow school bus. School bus capacity is 83, and I think that's assuming it's all children. Trying to fit 2 kids and a parent chaperone into a seat was NOT a comfortable ride. Then on our way there, one of the 3 year olds from our group (there were 3 child care centers on the bus) threw up all over. Poor guy, but also EWWWWW.

Once we got there and split up, we realized that the chaperoning ratio was WAY off. the 3 year old class had 5 kids and 4 chaperones, whereas our class had 14 kids and 3 chaperones. Chaos ensued, until I organized it so each parent had a group of kids to watch over. We ended up just splitting up into our groups, and then we had a blast!

Buddy and his friends surrounding a black pig.

Buddy's favorite girl from his preschool class, and a bunny.

The animal whisperer. Seriously, this kid was amazing.

A baby deer!

Buddy and friend anxiously waiting for a peacock to leave since "peacocks are mean".

Buddy climbing through a tunnel in the prairie-dog exhibit

My group of kids.

Buddy and friend making "llama faces". I don't get it either, don't worry!

The baby deer hiding under an exhibit.

I'm really irritated with these pictures, since I had a smudge on my lense the whole time and didn't realize until I got home. But at least it's some sort of record of us going!

The Next Pele

Buddy is playing soccer this spring/summer, and it is a blast! He is learning a ton, having fun, and moving his body. Mama is learning some hard lessons too, such as:

1) If Buddy is running just for fun, and not paying attention to the game, it's OK.

2) Snack after the game is the best part of the game.

3) Stopping on the field to talk to a friend from the other team is perfectly acceptable.

Seriously, I have a really hard time letting go of control and I'm always catching myself yelling directions to him on the field, not just letting him enjoy himself. So this is a learning experience for both of us, and I'm trying not to ruin it for him. I think he's having fun though!

Proud of his uniform

Getting tips on playing goalie from Grandpa.

Waiting for action!

Concentrating hard!

It rained after the game :)

Growth Spurt

I don't know if I've blogged about it here, but Buddy has a bit of a 'picky eating' complex. I went through this whole thing where I tried to make "fun food" to get him to eat and try new things, but my creativity sort of fizzled out.
Anyway, I don't know what's been going on, but all of a sudden Buddy is interested in food and cooking! None of this food is that exciting, but just the fact that I got Buddy to cook and then eat some stuff that isn't in his normal food list is pretty amazing.

This is just tuna noodle salad, but I let him pick out those noodles that are colored with veggie dyes. Plus, check out the adorable container I put the carrots in! Coolest purchase I've made in the last few months :)

See, he's eating it! Hooray!

Buddy decorating English Muffin Pizzas, he loved spreading the sauce and sprinkling the toppings.

The pizzas before cooking.

And after! Buddy ate 2 of these, which was also amazing.

Anyway, it must be a growth spurt. Buddy never eats this much, especially when the different ingredients aren't separated! (He's a little OCD.)

New Hurrrrrrr.

Since it's been a crappy couple of weeks, and everything I worked so hard for all fell apart and I was just feeling really bad about myself, I decided to treat myself to a haircut! I think it's adorable.

unfortunately, this is the only picture I could get and you can't really see it at all... Buddy didn't take a nap (again) and he's being a whiny gross kid this afternoon. Look at his face. Does that look happy to you? Anyway, I have a cute inverted bob, I think I look nice, that's all :)

EDIT: just realized that this photo is proof that I stole a tee shirt from my brother this morning while I was at his house. It totally looks better on me though!

It's Summer!

I'm finished with finals, I'm almost done training at work, and now I get to just sit back and enjoy the fruits of all my hard work!

Oh wait. I didn't get in to UWSP. Well, I'm sure something will work out for me. Possibly begging and pleading with the admissions director? Otherwise, I'm thinking I'll go to the Tech next fall and finish up some Early Childhood classes, so that while I'm in school (hopefully, Stevens Point has to let me in eventually) I will be able to work a daycare job again and I won't feel like I'm slowly committing suicide at my place of employment.

Anyway, all bitching aside I'm really looking forward to this summer. My work schedule is amazing so I won't have to put Buddy into daycare at all, and I have a lot of fun ideas for what we're going to do this summer. (SPOILER: next week, it involves the zoo!) So even though today is rainy, my last final didn't go very well, and I have no idea what I'm doing next year, I'm pretty satisfied.

BUSY.

Just wanted to let everyone know, I'm taking a little hiatus from writing.

Finals week happens to coincide with the first week of real work at Eastbay (I'm still training right now) and I'll be putting in 30 hours of work plus trying to study for 3 finals and take care of a kid. Basically, I'm not going to have time to breathe, much less write cute things about my kid!

He HAS been awfully cute recently though. We went to the park on Mother's Day and ended up staying for 2 1/2 hours because we were having so much fun :) 

Once summer starts and things slow down a little, I'll be back posting regularly again. Stay tuned!