Here we go again

Today Alli followed in the steps of her big brother and had tubes put in her ears. I was so proud of how well she did, we had to wait forever and she handled it like a champ. In fact a few hours after surgery she was back to normal, you never would have known she'd had surgery this morning.

Here she is on the way to the surgery center. More cheerful than I was at 6:30 in the morning!


After waiting a couple hours we resorted to putting on lip gloss.

And here she is right after surgery, it was so sad for me to see her laying there passed out with her little oxygen mask!

Cubbies

Well, tonight was the last night of Cubbies, we had a really great year. However, we are all ready for a break! To celebrate we had a little ice cream party........

The leaders were starting to turn on each other!


Then we finished the night with a little silly string fight...............

Totally fun!!!

Let's Eat

Ok, so I have been seriously slacking on the blogging lately. There just hasn't been much exciting happening at the Schmidt household. So here is a boring but cute post....

Allison LOVES ranch dressing, she would eat just about anything as long as she could dip it in ranch dressing. Here is what she did after dinner when she thought nobody was looking.....

Birds, Birds, Birds

We have this bird at our house that is insistent on having a nest right outside our front door. It's in a basket that is right at JJ's eye level. Ryan has thrown the nest out 3 times but the dumb bird just kept rebuilding it. Well, once there were eggs in it we couldn't throw it out again.

Last weekend we went out to check on the eggs and discovered this.

I felt like I had a little bit of a hand in these little (ugly) robin babies, after all, I did keep my own kids plus neighborhood kids from touching the eggs for 2 weeks. And I thought how neat it would be to watch these babies get bigger and fly away. The kids love to check on them everyday. This morning while Allison is having physical therapy at our house I ask her therapist, "Did you see our babies outside?" She says, "I saw the empty nest.....". Apparently some animal had himself a nice snack last night..............so sad.:( Good thing my kids are too young to know the life cycle of a bird, as far as they are concerned those babies learned to fly last night and they are happy and healthy.:)

Future Tiger Woods

JJ got his first set of golf clubs and he and dad and grandpa hit the golf course yesterday. He lasted for 9 holes and when I picked him up he informed me, "Mom, I didn't hit it in the water one time!" And later I found out that daddy let him use a sand trap as a bathroom, wonder if Tiger Woods ever did that?!?:)

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Let the gardening begin

Today we tilled up our garden and planted our first seeds, lettuce. Let's hope we actually get something to grow or I think JJ will be more dissappointed than I will be! They really had a great time!

New Cat?

Did the Schmidt family get a cat? No, wait, that's just JJ eating ice cream on the counter without a spoon! We are raising a bunch of savages!:)