I'm shrinking!

I have to come here and tell the "world" (all one of you who reads my blog) that I'm back on the wagon with Weight Watchers. This time I have my beautiful pal Kalani along with me for the ride, and we're in for the long haul. I have about 50lbs to lose, and the first week I lost 3.8lbs. It's a start! I will wear a bikini next summer, just you wait and see!

Time for an update

Well, in the last few weeks, we've had quite a few changes here at the Kuhn household. First of all, we took our house off the market. We decided we were just not motivated enough to sell in the current market. Soon after that, Colby started junior kindergarden. It's kind of "kindergarden-lite." They still go every day and have the same hours as kindergarden, but it's a little less pressure and a little more casual. Basically, it's like kindergarden used to be, where now they're doing formerly first grade work in kindergarden. He had a couple rough days where he didn't want to be dropped off, but overall he's doing fine.

About a week after Colby started school, Tyler turned 2 years old. We had a Mickey Mouse party for him and a Pluto ("hot diggity dog") cake. He's working on potty training, and I'm working on being PATIENT with the process. After Tyler's birthday was mine- the big 30. I'm good with it. :)

Most recently, we added a sweet little girl to our crew- a little Maltese named Phoebe. I have tons of pictures of her on my myspace www.myspace.com/baak She's really sweet and even tolerates me dressing her up and carrying her around in doggy purse.

See ya!

Well, we turned someone away from seeing the house today. The realtor called at 5:00pm and said they'd be by at 6:30pm. That's usually when we eat dinner, and since I figured I didn't want dinner smells in the house, we'd wait until after they left to eat. So I got the house all ready and got everybody outside so the house would remain in a ready state for more than 3 minutes. We all sat out there until 7:00pm, when I declared we were going inside to eat. Sure enough, the doorbell rang at 7:30pm. She started in by apologizing for being "a little late," which is when I cut her off and advised her she could come back at another time. We were in the middle of dinner and bedtime routines with our kids. Honestly, she could have called and said they were running late, and I would have been fine with that. But we are not so desparate to sell our house that we bend over backwards and let people treat us with disrespect. We are sellers in a buyers market, but we are still people with lives. Maybe we lost a sale, but we still have our self respect. :)

Let's pretend

Today Colby came up with a game: "Mom, let's pretend we're animals at the zoo and you're the guy who takes care of the animals and feeds us lunch."

Gee, that should be a real stretch of the imagination. :)

Spelling lessons

Me: What letter does "bread" start with?

Colby: B

Me: What letter does "spaghetti" start with?

Colby: S

Me: What letter does "milk" start with?

Colby: A cow

Burger King- BOO!

Burger King now features the Simpsons movie on their kid's meals, along with a generous warning on the bag: "This movie is rated PG-13. Some material may be unsuitable for children under the age of 13." So knowing that it's an unsuitable movie for children, they still go ahead and market it to....children. Fantastic.

Shouldn't be this hard

In this modern day and age, why should it be so hard to find Peter Pan birthday party supplies? I mean, you can find anything else under the sun including Tinkerbell and Captain Hook partyware, but poor Pete just doesn't get any respect.

What is a video camera?

The definition of a video camera:
An expensive piece of electronic equipment useful for catching the moments just after your child spontaneously performs an incredibly cute, funny, endearing, or adorable action.

The faith of a child

This week was VBS, and part of the program is hearing missionary stories each day. As we were driving home last evening, Colby saw the lights of the prison near our house and asked me if that was the jail. He went on to say that maybe he could go to the jail and tell the bad guys about God. And then they could let the bad guys out and they could change and become missionaries and tell people about God too. My prayer is that this wouldn't be just a childhood game of imagination, but that God would be working on his heart at this tender age, to mold him and shape him for a great calling in the future. Watch out Chuck Colson! :)

We ALLLL scream for ice cream

Apparently we weren't the only ones who heard that Baskin Robbins was selling ice cream cones for 31cents tonight. When we got there, the line was wrapped all the way around the outside of the building! Since we had already spilled the beans to Colby about going for ice cream, we had to go to plan B. We ended up at Cold Stone, where we spent as much for 3 ice creams as we would have for 48 cones at Baskin Robbins. So much for cheap ice cream!