Murder Mystery Party

This group of ladies is not only my co-workers (all 1st grade teachers and one kindergarten teacher), they are also some of the closest friends I have. We got together for one of those Murder Mystery parties where you have to dress up. The theme was a Class Reunion but we all had a character we had to dress as and act as for the evening.

Can you guess which one I am???

That's me! I was supposed to be a Hindu Indian. We had so much fun!!!

Little Man relaxing in the pool at his grandparents' house (Pop & Hunnie).

By the way, we are so proud of our Little Man, he is about 95% potty trained. He went about 5 days with no accidents and he has stayed dry all night for the last few nights. YIPPEEE!!!

Sassy Mouth

Many people have told me that the Terrible 3's are worse than the Terrible 2's, mostly because their children got such a sassy mouth, but I didn't think much of it. But I am already beginning to see exactly what they were talking about. Little Man is only 2 1/2 and has already started it and it is NOT FUN for me. I am always telling him "That's not nice" and he has turned it around on me. Any time I correct him or don't give him what he wants, he points his finger at me and yells "YOU NOT NICE MOMMA, YOU NOT NICE". He also tells me "DON'T TELL ME BE QUIET" or "DON'T TELL ME SIT DOWN" or "GET AWAY MOMMA, GET AWAY FROM ME" or "TURN AROUND MOMMA, DON'T LOOK AT ME". I'll say "Don't talk to Momma like that, that's not nice and he yells "NO, YOU NOT NICE MOMMA, YOU GO TIME OUT". Lovely, my child is repeating exactly what I have been saying to him. It is so true that our little ones copy exactly the things we do and say.

This isn't the best video, he had just recited his letters, letter sounds (a-h) and numbers perfectly before I ran to get the camera. Of course he had to be silly when I got the camera, I can never get it on camera. And if you noticed, stupid me told him the wrong sound for g. Poor child...his mother is confusing him more. He also knows his colors (perfectly), days of the week, months of the year and shapes (not so perfectly). I didn't even know he knew the days and months until he started saying them one day. They must have taught him at day care.

Dominick has been doing so much better from his little surgery. The first 2 days were bad and then he quickly started acting back to his normal self by the 3rd day. I'm glad we decided to do the surgery now that things are better, although I had doubted our decision the first two days. I kept him home from daycare for the whole week and I played with him all day but he was so bored by Friday, he was asking to go to daycare. I said "Do you miss daycare?" and he said "No, I miss Hannah."






This is a splash park we took him to a few days before his surgery.

We spent the last week visiting my parents. They bought Dominick (& cousins) a water table and swing set just like the one we have for their house.

We took Dominick to the beach in Biloxi, MS It is only 30 minutes from my parents' house. We took him there only to play in the sand with his new dump truck. I had not planned on allowing him to go in the water. I thought he'd be a little scared, plus it is nasty looking water. The sand is pretty but the water is a little gross. But Little Man decided the water was fantastic and he had a wonderful time playing in the water and with the sand at the beach!!!



Excuse the fat chick...I'm not sure who that is (hee-hee). I am on a diet by the way. It is so funny, you can actually walk at least 1/2 mile out into the water and it is so shallow it will not even get up to my waist.