Events this week.

This has been a super busy week. For starters, we finally got a new dishwasher. Our old dishwasher came with the house and I think that it was the original dishwasher in the house, which makes it around 18 years old. Every time it broke, we had American Home Shield come out to fix it, but albeit, it was really loud. When I ran it, I literally sounded like an airplane taking off in my kitchen. I had to run it at night, with the bedroom doors shut. But AHS would not replace it unless it just quit working. So, I just ran that thing into the ground. It did its last little load, and did this kind of cough, and then a little smoke rolled out of it. I had to say, I was not sad about the death of my dishwasher. We got a new Frigidaire, with the little buttons on the top, and stainless steel, and man it this thing quiet. But the first one we got, did not work, and we had to take it back and get another one. It was like opening your gifts on Christmas, and having your favorite toy not work. But we have another one, and it is installed, and it looks fabulous.

Tonight, I was tucking Sidney in bed, and she said "Can you get me a juice box please?" I said sure, since she said please, and then she said "And like don't take all night doing it".. I thought that was hysterical, and she did not get in trouble, because I do get quite sidetracked, and it ends up being 10pm before she gets her juicebox. Another thing she said two weeks ago that was of profound wisdom, was that I was combing through her rat nest hair, and she of course was yelling out loud because I was yanking her hair with the comb. I said "Sidney, your hair is like a bird's next and impossible to comb". She then said "Difficult, but NOT impossible". I swear, they should have a show called, "Do you think you're smarter than a 4 year old". I wonder if I would pass.

We switched gymnastics studio, and now she goes to WOGA. (www.woga.net). Nastia Liukin trains there, who just so happens to be going to Beijing this year. There are posters PLASTERED all over the place of her. I have dreams of Sidney now going to the Olympics. These folks are serious. At ASI, if they wondered off into the parking lot, no big deal. no discipline at all. Here at WOGA, it is like "Little Girl, GET BACK IN LINE, and DO THAT SOMERSAULT, NOW"!!!! Sidney has done more in two weeks, than 2 years at ASI. What a waste of money.... I want Sidney to be successful in life. Some people may think that I am pushing her, but for real, here in Plano, all kids are in at least 2 different activities. If you are not in some sort of activity, then you are behind. So, she is in gymnastics and dance/tap. But dance does not start back up until the fall. She was not too happy with soccer, so I am thinking of violin lessons, or tennis. Who knows, maybe both.

Garrett's new nickname is "THE BARBARIAN". He has now figured out how to torment Sidney. Yesterday she was happily eating her cheerios, with milk, on her picnic table upstairs. It was like watching a scene from MI2. Garrett, zoomed in on his target from 10 yards away, crawled as fast as he could over to the little picnic table, hiked himself up, and grabbed the bowl and FLUNG the cheerios, and milk, everywhere. Of course, what followed was a bloody scream of "MOMMEEEEEEE, Garrett took my CHEEERRRIIIOOOOSSSS. Then she was shaking her finger at him and saying "You are a BAAADDD boy". I so wish I would have gotten that on video. This leads me to believe that at 8 months, he now has the cunning capability of a lizard. You put him down for 10 seconds and he is gone. You are like, where in the Hell is that baby?????? He has not swallowed any barbie shoes yet, but I crawl on the floor and scour the perimeter for any choking hazards, every hour.

I am still reading up on Dafar, but it is so depressing, that you all can just go google it yourselves instead of me turning my blog into something far too political. But it makes me be grateful and humble, that I don't have to worry about my house being burned down every night.