bounces off of me like rubber

Let me start by saying I don't think Cormac will live to see 5. If you are still confused about the bull in a china cabinet second child syndrome this story might help clarify things. First look at the picture below and understand that Cormac was on the chair and I was leaning against the counter where the sink is, (please ignore the mess).

I was talking to Jason who was standing roughly where the picture was taken from. We were having somewhat of an intense conversation which had my full attention. Suddenly someone yells "cannonball!!" and I feel a small body bounce off of me and then hear a loud thud!! Yep, it was my Cormac. He jumped from the chair assuming I would catch him, and I didn't, and then he fell, hard. Luckily Jason was there to be the supportive, comforting parent because I literally laughed so hard I peed myself a little!!! We are very impressed with his air-time between the chair and the counter and are seriously considering signing him up for basketball. Don't worry, he's fine, just a bump or two and a small weird bruise next to his nose. I'm sure he'll live, for now, but I might die from laughter or embarrassment from admitting I peed myself a little.

woo hoo!!!

So this post is a bit of a retraction, or maybe it's just an update to my oy post.

So they got the paint color right the third time and my car is perty again!!

It turns out I'm not stupid, I'm incredibly smart because I got a 96 on my 2nd test!!! mmhmm, that's right I kick ass!!!

We've only seen two cockroaches since the last post and they were both dead!! We've also gotten some excellent advice on how to get rid of them completely so hopefully really soon we wont find any, ever!! I guess cockroaches are just a part of AZ in the summer which makes me feel a little better oddly enough. At least we know how to take care of them and prevent them in the future!!

See occasionally I am optimistic and happy, just not often. But that's why you love me!

Happy Farters Day!!!!

Isaac has been really excited about Fathers Day this year, I think it's all the hype from the Sprout channel. But he keeps asking me if it's farters day and I kept having to tell him not yet, and then he'd say something like "I just really want it to be farters day so I can celebrate my farter." (by the way, you have no idea how accurate that pronunciation is.) So it's finally here and Isaac is thrilled!!! Happy Farters Day Jason, we think you're kind of special.


And here is my farter. He's a great Dad and has become one of my best friends in my adult years. He taught me to never take myself too seriously and always find the fun in every situation, or at least the funny.

And this is Jason's dad. He has been a tremendous help to our little family and we have really appreciated all the fun bbq's we've been able to have since moving here. I feel grateful to him for raising my husband to be such a good man.
Happy Fathers Day to all the dads out there!!!

Pictures by Isaac

I was uploading pictures from our trip to the pool and came across these gems. I love when Isaac takes self-portraits

this ones my favorite

He has the best lips ever!!! It always makes me smile because the night I met Jason one of my friends said "if you two ever had kids they'd have the best lips" (no joke) and she was right!!!

This one I took. Isn't he beautiful? I love that his hair is starting to go a little blond again.

More conversations with Isaac

I literally just had this conversation with my four year old after hearing my two year old getting pummeled.

me-"Isaac, you can not hit your brother. Go to your room for time out."

him-"I didn't hit him."

me-"I heard you hitting him."

him-"Uh uh, I didn't hit him. I punched him."

oy

That's all I can really say about the last couple of weeks. It started when we got some new neighbors. They look like they are roughly 12, but apparently they're old enough to live on their own. However, they are not old enough to know how to be quiet!! On one of these nights that they were having a shindig my car got hit!! Of course nobody left a note or anything, they just scraped my car and drove off!!! I was ticked, am ticked. So we took it into the repair shop that our insurance required we take it to (we wanted to take it to a Nissan dealership but the insurance said they may not cover it if we do) and they assured us they could match the paint exactly. Turns out it's a little more difficult then they initially thought it would be. We're on to round 3 of them trying to get the paint right and, their last chance to get it right before we take it in to Nissan. GRRRRR!!!

Then I had the bright idea to go back to school. I feel so old and so stupid it's not even funny!!!! I'm taking a math class, and math has never been my strong point, but it's just ridiculous now. I feel like a kid again, every night Jason stands over my shoulder showing me how to do my math homework and I only half get it. At least we've found a way to spend some time together. But, I always said I would finish school and damnit I'm gonna!!! It just wont be with honors like I had originally planned. And for the record, if I had finished before having kids it would have been with honors!!! At least my incredible GPA from that era will help bring up my ridiculous GPA from this one!!!

And the final doozey, we have cockroaches!!! The bug guy assures me we don't have "a cockroach problem, we've just had a few bugs that happen to be cockroaches" but still, ew!! He told me to poor bleach down my drains and then plug them before going to bed, which I did, and then in the morning my drains looked like a high school science expierement. They were all black and had crap growing on them after just one night. I have no idea why either. Can anyone tell me? Is it because I rarely clean my bathtubs? Or is it something out of my control? (please let it be something out of my control so I don't have to feel guilty!!!)

Thanks for listening to be complain for a few minutes. I already feel much better!!

Iser The Piser Man

Since the last post was all about Mac I thought this one would be all about Isaac. Our fantastic, funny, fierce, four -"almost five" year old!!! He is learning to read and write, he does better with the writing but we're getting there with the reading!! He's in swim lessons and he rocks at video games. He is a fantastic big brother and loves Cormac soo much.

He bit his tongue while eating and told me that it broke his little heart to bite his tongue. It broke my heart too.
He loves being "canando" (commando). Every morning when I get him dressed he says "I'm still canando mommy". He does have a naughty streak, who knew.
He loves bugs and he names any bug he sees and calls them his friend. I said that I didn't want him to be friends with bugs because they were a bad influence. He told me that he loves his bug friends as much as his people friends.

I told him that he melts my heart, he got all sassy and said "well you melt my heart, but daddy doesn't". I thought maybe he didn't know what it meant so I told him that it meant I loved him so much that every time I look at him I love him even more. He quickly changed his story to "only daddy melts my heart, not you mommy."

Mac Attack

Cormac has been cracking us up lately and here's why. When he gets in trouble or doesn't get his way he acts just like his older brother and folds his arms, pouts his lips and lets us know he's "angwy" (angry). Of course we laugh which just encourages the behavior but seriously, it's friggin cute.

He has started to ask us why. I'm not sure if he actually knows what he's asking, or if he's just mimicking Isaac but when he gets told no or that we're going somewhere it's always followed by "whyyyy?"
He actually went potty in the toilet the other day. We were all so excited and proud, he couldn't have cared less. He did it and walked away without so much as cracking a smile.
He uses the other side of his spoon to eat his cheerios, just to go against the grain!! That's my boy, you be as unique as you want to be!!

We adore this little man.

New Caution Signs for Utah

In my last post I talked about the procession of cars that can be seen going to and from church on Sundays in Utah. Well that has been replaced in my parents neighborhood with families walking because they built a church at the end of my parents street. Now every Sunday morning and afternoon you get herds of families going by the house and I really, and I mean really want to put one of these signs in front of the church..........

Does anyone know where I could order one?

More tales from the china cabinet

These next stories are some of my all time faves. If you have known me a while you've probably heard them but if not enjoy they're fantastic.
I forget the year, or our ages but I remember the snow. Utah had record high snowfall and there was concern that your roof would cave in if you didn't get up there and shovel it off. So a couple times a week we were getting up there to clear the snow. Then Josh had the great idea of piling all the snow at one corner of the house so we could jump off the roof into it. We did, it was fun, but after a day or two the snow became more ice and less fluff. Then Josh had an even better idea of turning this pile of snow into a sledding hill where you could start at the top of the roof, fly off the edge, hit the ice hill and "safely" slide to the bottom.
It took a couple hours of preparing the hill so that there was a track that the sled could easily slide on. We also had to put some snow back on the roof so that there would be something to slide on there as well.
We finally have it ready and are getting set for the inaugural launch. It has been decided that Josh and I will be the guinea pigs (again, I have no idea how I got dragged into it). It just so happens that we are doing this at about the time the procession from church is arriving in our neighborhood on Sunday afternoon.
Most of my readers probably know what I'm talking about, but if you don't I'll try and explain it really quick. In Utah if you're mormon (and most people are) you go to church with the people in your neighborhood, so every morning a line of cars can be seen going to church and every afternoon they'll be coming home. It looks very similar to a funeral procession.
So now we have an audience. I think there were 4 or 5 cars that had stopped, everyone else just ignored it and drove past. Now at the time I thought these people that had stopped were really excited for us and were thinking oh this will be really cool to watch. Looking back I'm pretty sure they thought they were about to see 2 Schultz children end their lives. I would also like to take this moment to point out that they didn't get out of their cars, they didn't try to stop us, they just watched. I can only assume they were in their cars planning the celebration of 2 less Schultz's in the world (it would have been complete with funeral potatoes and green jello I'm sure, and maybe even some sparkling cider to show it was a happy event). Well we didn't die. We flew off the roof barely grazed the ice hill and landed quite hard on our rears destroying the sled and any hopes of making it bigger and better. It was awesome!!! All 5 cars drove away, probably a little disappointed.

The next story happened much later in life. We were adults, or at least he was and I almost was. That morning I had followed him into the basement where both our rooms were and where it was quite dark. He just walked through the hall all brazen without a light on, and I said "don't you want to turn a light on so you don't step on something?"
He replied "no, I've got my steel-toed boots on, nothing can hurt me!" He was working county fire and thought he was bad ass.
That day my father decided to install a door in the basement hall where there had never been a door before in our entire life. My brother comes home late at night, so of course it's pitch black in the basement, I'm laying in bed and all of a sudden I hear this huge THUD "what the hell?". Steel toed boots can't protect your face from smacking a door you didn't know was there can they Josh? Next time you should turn a light on.

Memorial Day trip to the zoo

We went to the zoo on Memorial Day. It was perfect weather and Jason had the day off. We had lots of fun, nothing too exciting happened so I'll just post some cute pictures of my boys.

Poll closed

Thanks for your input everyone!!! I think I'm gonna leave my hair the way it is for now, but next time I go in I'm going to start heading in the direction of blond!!!! I probably wont ask anyones opinion next time, it was quite harsh to have so many people think my hair color was that bad. Oh, well. I shouldn't have asked if I didn't want to know.