Thankful for the imperfections...

Last night was my Parent-Teacher conference at Drew's school.


Last year in Kindergarten, all of our conferences went well...
Very well...
Drew is nice, smart, polite, above average, well-mannered, quiet....ect....


Our first conference of this year, 1st grade, also went very well..
His teacher mentioned that Drew finishes his work quickly, then becomes bored waiting for the other kids to finish, but never distracts them... and she said he isn't very patient when it comes to her reading the directions to the class, he prefers to read for himself and work on his own.. but still a pleasure to have in class....


Last night was a little different... 
Not bad.. just different...


Last night Drew's teacher went over some of his test with me and showed me where it was very obvious he wasn't taking his time to read thoroughly.... 
I thought maybe he was rushing so that he could be done first, but she said that wasn't the issue.. 
the issue is that Drew is OVERLY confident in his scholastic abilities..,
(if you know Drew at all, you know he is overly confident in anything he does... otherwise he won't do it)
Drew simply takes a quick look at a problem, writes down his answer and moves on... 
She wasn't overly concerned with the problem, just a little frustrated since she knows Drew is more than capable of answering these problems correctly. 


I, on the other hand, was not happy .... 
It's not just the information in the problems the teacher gives that he knows... I know that Drew knows how to correctly and affectively solve problems, whether it's a grammar problem, math facts, or any other subject... 
My son knows the correct way to handle his school work, and he's simply chosen not to. 
That is frustrating to me... 
and unacceptable in our house.


Then she tells me we have a potential "bully issue"...
How in the world could MY sweet, shy, tiny, adorable little angel possibly ever be taken for a bully? You've got to be kidding me...... 


Apparently Drew likes to "borrow" pencils from one of the little girls in class... 
He calls it borrowing because he asked once before and she allowed him... 
She calls it stealing because he never asked again after that day and when she asks for her pencils back, he refuses.... 


My kid is a pencil thief.
And if he didn't have a HUGE collection of random pencils at home, I may not have believed the teacher so easily... 
But she had me on this one.... 


So we talked about the pencil drama... reminded Drew he could go to jail for stealing pencils (hey, it got the point across... I hope) and he apologized. 


So my little love is not so perfect after all..... 
Yet I am thankful... 


I am thankful for the little boy that sleeps next to me every night (even though he kicks me)
I am thankful for the little boy who has the attitude of his mother and the smile of his father
I am thankful that I have my little boy.. at home with me.. in my arms... 
I am thankful for my son.. 


Tonight there will be parents going to sleep with out their children... 
and I am thankful that I am not one of them... 


I am thankful for my imperfect angel...

525,600 Minutes...

This weekend was a good weekend...


Drew had opening day for T-ball Saturday morning, and then a game after the ceremonies, so we spent most of the day at the ball park...

First time up to bat

running to first base

waiting at 1st while Dad pitches

Drew, Nate & Miranda

Drew had a great time at the game and absolutely loved it.... 

He was up to bat twice and each time he hit the ball without having to use the tee and ran as fast as his little legs would carry him... 

I had a great time out there too...

It's our first experience with an organized sport like this, and so far we're loving it. 

It was hard for me to stay in my seat though...

I kept getting as close as possible to take pictures and had to stand up and yell and cheer for my baby as often as possible. 

Technically, they don't keep score for T-ball... but we WON!!! Go Angels!!

Then on Sunday

our family had a girls day out... 

Drew went to Disneyland with his dad,

while my mom, sister, 3 cousins, 2 aunts and grandma all went to see a performance of RENT.

First we had brunch at my aunt's house out by the pool, then headed to the theater.

Aunt Dena, Mom, Aunt Doreen, Sister, Amanda

Grandma & Jordan & Shakespeare

I had never seen a performance of RENT and I barely watched 5 minutes of the DVD because I just wasn't getting it at all.. and honestly it just seemed a little weird to me... 

But the show was great. We had so much fun.. laughed hysterically, shed some tears... and really enjoyed the whole thing.

Me, Mom & Sister

After the show we walked around a bit and then went to dinner. 

It was a great day spent with my amazing family..... 

Luv U Grams

Just wanted to take a moment... 


To say thank you...
I love you..
I appreciate and respect you....

Grandma, Mom & Me

My grandma is truly one in a million... 

and the thought of my life with out her is unimaginable... 

I love you grandma... 

Today, Tomorrow & Forever.... 

Learning to Sew

Last night while Drew was playing Madden...


... AGAIN.....


I decided to sew a few more rows onto my rag rug...


Of course once Drew sees me doing this, he decides he wants to sew too.
He wanted to sew the rug with me, but since the layers are so thick I didn't think it was a great idea, so we grabbed two loose strands of fabric and decided to let him sew them together.


He was going good.. neither of us got poked... 
but once I showed him how he had sewn the 2 pieces together and they weren't going to come apart, he asked what we were going to do with them.. ( I was planning to just remove the thread and use them later on the rug... umm.. not so much..)


Drew decided he would make himself a hat out of it... so he kept sewing a little more... 

Drew's Hat... 

He put the hat on and was very impressed with his work.. 

He says "Mom remember one of the Lakers wears one like this?"... 

Ummm.. ya babe.. of course Mommy remembers...

Modeling his new head ware... 

The show off had to be in the picture of my rug-in-progress.... 

My Itty Bitty

Last night right before bed
Drew and I started looking through his baby book.


Drew liked reading about the toys he had as a baby
and the friends he met in daycare.


We filled in the chart about his first loose tooth 
and then I went to record his current height and weight....
and my heart broke just a little bit....


The height and weight chart only goes to age 5.
The yearly fill-in pages for info only go up to age 5.


According to the baby book, my son is no longer a baby....
This was very disappointing.. 


So I just took matters (and a pen) into my own hands
and added the sixth year onto the charts... 
along with the info.... 


Check out my boy rockin the Buzz Lightyear chonies... 

sorry for the horrible picture quality..

have i mentioned how much I HATE this camera?

The love of my life... my 6 year old...

Weighs 36 pounds and is 42 inches tall.... 

Yep, he's an itty bitty one....

Best friends....

In other news....

The street in front of my office has become the official 

city dumping ground for dogs...

(ok, maybe that's not officially true, but keep reading and judge for yourself)

Every.Single.Day there are at least 2 different dogs running around down the street in front of my office...

Along with these random dogs are the dogs that I'm convinced the neighboring office uses for breeding, out there running loose in the street...

Monday this lovely little man graced me with his presence...

I am a true dog lover.... LOVER...

every time I see a dog out there, I want to take it home...

and this guy was such a sweetheart and was begging for attention..

Unfortunately my landlord (grandpa) says my yard isn't big enough for a large dog...

otherwise this beauty would have become our 4th family member for sure.

Then Tuesday, by the end of the day I had counted 7 dogs that had run by at one point or another throughout the day... SEVEN...

After trying to catch the first 3... who weren't so friendly and ran away....

I gave up for the day... 

I am currently working to convince my boss that we need at least one (or 8) office/yard dogs... Doesn't every office NEED a dog?

Post It Note Tuesday

Hello March

The year is coming along....
slowly but surely.....


I am looking forward to the time change...
can't wait to be outside at 5:00pm and still see the sun...


I am also looking forward to winter officially being over...
Hopefully this Spring will be a warm one.. NO MORE RAIN!!


This weekend was a pretty calm one for us... 
almost seemed like we were back to normal... almost...


Saturday morning we got up WAY too early...
I guess that's what I get for putting the munchkin to bed so early Friday night.


Drew wanted to make breakfast, which we hardly ever do.. so we hit the kitchen..
(and unfortunately I didn't take a single picture all weekend... I suck, I know... )


Drew decided to make "Panchalidas"... his word for breakfast enchiladas... 
Rock on my future chef.... 


and after breakfast we headed out to do some shopping, run errands and hit Lowe's for their Build & Grow workshop so he could make a cute little car-robot-transforming-thingy....


And for the first time in a LOOONG time, we were home by 1:00pm and didn't leave the house the rest of the day...


We spent the rest of the afternoon with Drew playing way too much Madden on the Wii

While I cleaned up a little, did some laundry, and worked on some on-going sewing projects ( it is seriously going to take me a year to make a rag rug...)


Sunday we knew we were working on a weird schedule (thanks to Father of the Year wanting to borrow Drew for a friends birthday party in the middle of the day)...
After breakfast we went out to shop for a boy thing.... yep, a BOY thing..... 

Thanks to baseball, Drew needed a cup....

the first store we tried didn't have his itty bitty size...

and lucky for Drew, the next store just happened to be right next to Chuck E. Cheese...(did you know CEC opens at 8am on Sundays??.. wtf??)... so we went in to play a few games....

But our CEC just remodeled and had a bunch of cool new games, so we ended up staying for awhile....long enough for FOTY to decide to just pick Drew up from CEC.... 

After the kiddo was gone, I decided to do a little Mommy Shopping.... 

However; I completely SUCKED at Mommy Shopping this weekend....

Other than a new set of bed sheets (which I was already planning to buy since they went on sale), I didn't buy myself a single new thing... Boo for me!

Luckily, the munchkin was returned safely to me a little earlier than expected (which is EXTREMELY rare... the early part, not the safe part).... 

So we headed next door to Grandma & Grandpa's house and hung out with a couple aunts, uncles and the grandparents for awhile (forcing them all to buy raffle tickets for baseball)... 

then spent a quiet night at home, making dinner together, playing Madden..... again.... playing around on my freshly made bed with the new bed sheets, and playing Battleship....

Oh, and also, trying to figure out the whole 'wearing of the cup' deal.... 

I'm not a man.... 

I not at all familiar with the 'wearing of the cup'.....

But I handed it to Drew and told him to just give it a try and move it around until it felt ok..

It took a bit of maneuvering... TONS of giggling... and laughs by Mama... 

but he finally got comfortable.. and refused to take the thing off until bed time.. 

It was a good weekend... 

I'm thankful for our time together... and for our normally chaotic life...