Battle Won!

You know you may have a guitar hero addiction when you hear a song on the radio and immediately begin to think "red, green, red, blue, yellow. . ."! You may also be an addict if your 5 year old son promises that he is going to teach you how to play "hard" on guitar hero when he grows up, but you can't possibly wait that long. And if you challenged the babysitter to battle before you went out on your last date-you too, are addicted.
Hello, my name is Amy, and I am a guitar hero addict-and I just beat Slash!! I also shorted out the orange button on my guitar and am unwillingly being forced into recovery.

Don't eat the Fruit Loops!

Now that Kaden and Sterling are in school, I get to spend some alone time with the craziest kid of them all-Jack Jack! He manages to get into more trouble alone then he ever does with his older siblings. Here is just one example of just one incident that happened today.

Fortunately, I believe blogging has made me a better parent. When I walked in on this, my desire to take a picture and document it, miraculously overcame my desire to send him to time out. . .for the day.

And by the way, you may not want to eat the Fruit Loops when visiting the Kartchners because you better believe that I scooped up what I could (top layer only) and put them back in the box!

Back to School

I thought that I loved summertime until I dropped off 2 of my 3 children at school this morning! That is when I realized I was just as excited as they were to report to the 1st grade (Kaden) and second year of preschool (Sterling).
Kaden couldn't wait to wear his new shoes (no one tell him that they aren't skechers) and carry his super cool Star Wars lunchbox. The preschool and elementary school are located on the same campus and Sterling is just happy to tag along anywhere Kaden is headed.

Supersonic Hearing

This morning, Sterling received his 3rd (yes, 3rd as in three) set of ear tubes to correct negative air pressure that he has in his ears. We discovered this problem after he perforated his ear drum twice (yes, twice as in 2 times) in the last 2 months-ouch! We soon realized that he couldn't pass a hearing test. Between our 3 boys this is our sixth(yes, six) set of tubes and second adenoidectomy. The surgeon said that everything went well and to expect better hearing immediately. She told us that with the amount of fluid and infection in his ears that he wasn't hearing his school teacher (and may I add his mother too). Sterling was a trooper because he was so excited to hear "really, really good". He also asked if the doctor was going to take the monkey out of his ear. Mission accomplished! I was able to talk to him without facing him as soon as the car ride home.

Enduring Triathlon

My brother-in-law Steve, came in to town about a week ago. Among his to-do list was the Tri-for-fun triathlon, at Rancho Seco. The "for-fun" part of that title is for people like my brother-in-law. He has been running since he was a fetus. "Tri-andkeep-yourlife", would be a better title for a race that a 32-year-old mother who hasn't trained in 3 months and enters 48 hours before race time. Athletes like Steve "do" triathlons (and place), casual exercisers like me "endure" the sport of triathlon (and win a raffle for a gigantic box of Clif shots if they are really lucky). All joking aside, although Steve surely coerced me into this race, he also unselfishly supported me through it. After finishing his race, he doubled back and ran 3 miles in with me!