Dear Grandma and Grandpa,

Please send LONGHORN attire!

Love,

Charlie

Some new pics!

Can you find the BABY?

I watch ESPN with my dad... and Discovery Health with mom!

Chelsea and Charlie

Chloe in the leaves

I said, "HEY"!

watch the progression

I'm tired of sitting here!

Mom, help me get up, please...

Okay, here I go. Now where did my pants go?

My confession

Okay, don't laugh... after the school bus picked Chloe up this morning, I came home and watched Handy Manny while I played Webkinz. You know, if I were single (and a drawn cartoon) I would find Manny a little sexy. He has a great voice. Where can I find a handy man like that?

I also think that anyone with kids between the ages of 4 and 10 needs to invest in Webkinz. They can provide hours of fun for either your child or yourself. oops, did I say that out loud? They are super cute little animals and fun games. Safe for kids, too. I don't worry about freaky adults trying to hack in.

... guess not

Charlie and I have thrush. Sweet Lincoln's mullet! Can we not all be healthy???

Evil Pink Eye

We must have an especailly virulent strian of pink eye. Now Chuck has "sand in his eye". Are little Charlie and I the only ones here with uncompromised immune systems?

We had a parent/teacher conference with Chloes teacher last week. Actually, her teacher is on maternity leave and will return the beginning of November. Chloe indicates mastery of 'staying on task and completing work in a timely fashion'. WHAT?!? The only way I can get Chloe to stay on task is to follow her around with a cattle prod.

Are you sure this is my Chloe? She has a alot of fabulous qualities and has masterd many skills, but staying on task is not one of them! She has also masterd communication. Okay, I'll agree with that. She will tell you everything you never wanted to know and always offer her opinion. I don't know where she gets that. There was never a question on her mastering 'talking'. Then she is on target, but not yet mastered everything else. This includes 'getting along well with others.' I don't know, I think she gets along with everyone... as long as they let her boss them aroud. Nobody ever questions her "leadership" abilities. She was pretty far above the average in naming her letters. She was tested against the national average, and I could never get an answer as to if that average was reflective of the class average. Later this year they test for the 'gifted class'. I'm curious to see if she qualifies. Sometimes I think she brighter than the average 5 year old, and ten other times I just think she is 5 going on 16 in attitde, not cognition.

streptococci

My new arch nemesis! Poor Chloe is on her second round of antibiotic eye drops for the evil Conjunctivitis (pink eye). For anyone who has put eye drops in a 5 year old, it ranks right up there with getting a bikini wax. Not fun! Chloe is tired of waking up with "sand in er eye". Pink eye is a nasty little bug. Her eye is all red and puffy and draining green puss. Nice, huh? Who wants pudding??? I guess we have now infected most of St. Charles county. The first time she was diagnosed (a week ago) we were at Chuck E. Cheese. I wasn't too concerned, though. Chuck E. Cheese is known as the bacteria capital of the kids' world. We don't dare enter without a full container of Lysol wipes. She was on antibiotics over 48 hours, so I sent her back to school. Unfortunately, on Friday she started showing symptoms again. Oops, I guess her entire class should be quarantined now. When I noticed the drainage the second time, we were at IHOP. Yuck, infected pancakes! We then went to get our nails done. I had already promised a pedicure, so I had to oblige. Infected nail polish... the worst! Chloe just doesn't understand why she can't go play at her friends' houses right now. The way this bug keeps coming back, one would think she goes around putting her eyeball on every shopping cart and door handle that she encounters. Hopefully, I won't be blogging about Charlie's pink eye next week.