We dug through the Halloween bins today and the boys had fun trying on wigs and masks. We also found a funny spider that we’ve had for years that makes a crazy buzzing sound while it vibrates when you engage it. I was amazed when Levi told me right where to hang it, same spot as last year. He has a great memory. We also got out some Halloween flashlights and glow sticks, so the boys went into their bedroom to play. Kind of like the light saber fights in Star Wars, toddler style. Levi and Carlos were playing nice until Trey came in for the kill. Typical at our place, one of them always has to tick the other two off.

Interesting fact that you might not know about our family….every night before the boys get tucked into bed, the boys have decided that they need to kiss our legs and noses. Seems submissive, but it’s not like that, just showing some love.

Dee and I have started our new workout regime. Day 1 and we’re still going strong! Dee gets up in the morning, goes on the treadmill then comes in to wake me up, I get on the treadmill while she showers. The only downfall will be if she decides not to get up when the alarm goes off. I can be honest here in saying that I HATE the treadmill, it’s boring but does it’s job. Now we’re on the lookout for a little tv that we can put on a shelf in front of it so we can watch the news while we work out. That would help. Radio/music just doesn’t cut it as I’m a total visual person. If you have a little tv you are wanting to get rid of, talk to me.

No school for the boys the rest of the week, who knows what we’ll do to stay busy. Speech tomorrow in Silverdale so we may spend some time goofing around and shopping beforehand. The boys can get some playtime in the playstructure at the mall and burn off some energy and I can have some retail therapy!

Time to get ready for dinner out with our dear friend, Mary Jones!

We’ve got a baby coming for respite care on Thursday, we’ll get some pics up.

So we got back in time this afternoon to get a couple loads of laundry done, let the boys play with their toys (they didn’t have any toys for 4 days!) and upload a ton of pictures….if you want to see them, check the previous post.

The boys favorite thing about our hotel room at the Shilo? A phone and television in the bathroom. They were amazed and each time they went in to use the potty, the tv would go on first. Forget the potty-tv, Dee and I liked the king sized bed and the extra pull out sofa. Lots of sleeping room for us all.

The conference was good, I’m totally excited about making lifebooks for foster kids. We had fun networking with foster parents from all over the state as well as social workers. We were also very lucky and won a pair of Seahawks tickets and cool sports and kitchen items baskets. Oh, and got Zoo Tycoon 2 and a bunch of expansion packs for our computer. We were lucky, lucky, lucky.

Ok, go look at the pictures!

Ok ladies (and gents),
As you know, I’m at a foster parent conference this week and I just took a class on “life books”. The ones we made were REALLY simple (a 99 cent little photo album with very simply scrapbooked pages that a foster parent can add photos to and send with the child).
In this, I had a revelation….maybe some of our friends/family are into scrapbooking and would want to make/donate some of these to local foster parents. I would be more than willing to get them to foster kids. In the community we are in, it’s sometimes hard to remember that there are some kids out there with very few pictures of themselves and something like this could mean the world to a child.
Just thought I’d throw it out there, let me know if you are interested. I am planning on making some myself to send with our babies, as well as ones geared toward older kids to donate. If you wanna come hang out with me and do some, let’s do it! Like I said, they are super easy and only end up costing about $2 to make.