Ethan's refocus note

I thought this 'funny things the kids say' should have it's own posting. Read it and let me know if you have ever heard of another Kindergartner doing this.

On Thursday, the Principle of Ethan and Isaac's school called. At first I thought one of the boys was sick and the school nurse was calling. I was so surprised to hear Mr. Baldino on the phone. He said that yesterday Ethan had gotten a refocus note because he was batting at the other kids mobiles in class. Instead of taking it home that night like he was suppose to, he signed it with my name at the bottom and returned it to Mrs. Bott the next day. Mrs. Bott had spotted that it didn't look like my signature and Ethan had to talk to him in the hall. Mr. Baldino said that Ethan didn't want to disappoint us and he was very sad when he talked to him. The next day I got this email from Mrs. Bott;

I have to tell you that Rick (the principle) and I had a hard time keeping straight faces when we were reading Ethan the riot act. You have to be pretty smart to try and pull that one off! Aren’t children humbling?

See you on the field trip!

Judy

Thanksgiving and new pictures

So I have been slacking in the blogging department. Last month we went out to Utah to visit Derek's sister Ashlee and her family for Thanksgiving. The car trips went surprisingly well for an 8 hour one way trip. The only part that was hard was the last hour our two when Lizzie started screaming for a book when it was to dark to see anything. The kids had so much fun playing with their cousins; and Ethan and Isaac got to sit in uncle Chad's airplane, which was a thrill for them.

halloween fun

Ethan and Isaac LOVE Halloween!! They were so excited to decorate for Halloween that we did it the weekend before October! This year Lizzie is going to be Cinderella; Isaac is going to be Lucifer her cat and Ethan is Bruno her dog; Derek is prince charming and I am the fairy godmother. I'm not so sure how the adult costumes will turn out but the kids are so cute! Everything worked out so perfectly this year. I found Lizzie's dress for $2 and it is a Disney store outfit!! My sister found the cutest dog costume and my mom and I pieced together fur from a skunk costume for Isaac's cat. At first the boys kept changing their minds and Isaac was going to be a shark and Ethan a dolphin because he sounds like one when he laughs. Then they both wanted to be B.O.B. from monsters vs. Alien and then when I found Lizzie's costume luckily they wanted to be the cat and dog and haven't switched. I was trying to talk then into doing an Alice and wonderland theme; where Ethan and Isaac were twiddily-dee and twiddily-doo; maybe next year.

Isaac got a visit from the Tooth Fairy

So Isaac's tooth had been loose for two weeks and at Grandpa's house the first week he was so scared Grandpa would pull it out, when we told him, that he hid under the kitchen table and wouldn't come out for a while. The next week when it was really loose, he let Derek pull it out and he had to ask if Daddy actually did it because it didn't hurt. So, Sunday night he put his tooth in a baggie and made it hang from the top bunk of the bunk bed. In the morning he found a shark toy in it's place. We found out that if you want to see the color of your tooth fairy you leave water on your dresser and it will drop some of it's fairy dust in the water and it changes the color of the water... Isaac's fairy was yellow, his favorite color.

More car trouble

So, on the way home from work on Monday Derek's car, the fun Neon, started to act weird. So Derek called Tynan's and the next morning he called right when they opened. They are suppose to look at it this Monday since Derek had to go on a work trip to Oklahoma until tonight. So now we get to see what happens again. Luckily Derek got a 12 month warranty on the engine and the check engine light is on again. Personally, I am hoping that the Tynan's dealership just gives Derek a better car like our old Saturn.

Lizzie is 2 !!

Lizzie is 2 but if you ask her she will say she is 5!! She turned two on Friday and she's starting to act like it. We had a lot of fun the whole day acting like Mickey mouse club house, that's what she finally settled on. First it was whinny the pooh and then it was Princesses and then it became mickey mouse. Grandma found some old Minny mouse ears that she wore the whole day. We had a mickey CD from the library that had a whole bunch of birthday games on it and so we played those before the boys went to school.

Derek's week off

Derek had a week off before Ethan and Isaac went to school. We had a lot of fun that week so I thought I would share the pictures. We went swimming (at the Windsor swim beach), fishing, bowling, to the aquarium, the zoo and a candy factory tour. It was so much fun I wish we could do it all the time, but I'm sure our pocket book wouldn't like it.

First day of school

Ethan and Isaac star:ted Kindergarten yesterday!! They were so thrilled. Getting on the bus at 11:34 was great with only their kindergarten buddies, but coming home with the big kids was another story. When they got off the bus I asked them how it went and Isaac said, "That was a nightmare." He was talking about the bus ride home. Ethan heard someone being mean to another Ethan and he thought they were talking to him. But other than that school was fun.

It looks like I have two sets of twins!!

A couple of weeks ago my sister Tammy and I went to the zoo with our kids. Her daughter Julia and Lizzie are close to the same age, (Julia is 4 months older) they are the same height and almost have the same hair color. They have always held hands and walked around and they love to be by each other. Lizzie always pretend to talk to Julia on her phone. So we had to take pictures of them together while we were at the zoo. (Just in case you are confused, Julia is in the dark pink, Lizzie is in the light pink.)

More on the elusive car that I purchased on June 27th

Late Thursday afternoon (July 3rd), I called Tynan's again. I hadn't heard from them. After talking with 3 people, they took my number to call me back. A few minutes later, they did call me. They had found an engine to put in my car. It had 75k miles on it though. I immediately told them I didn't want that engine. If I had wanted a car with 75k miles on it, I would have bought a completely different car with that many miles on it. I told them that the mileage needs to be at most the 55k that the car I bought had. They said that they would continue looking.

So now, it's early Monday afternoon (July 6th). Still no calls. So this time, I called and asked for my salesman (Otto Palmer). I expressed my frustration that I haven't gotten any calls from them unless I initiated the call first. I told him that I've owned a call now for about 10 days and I've only driven it that one day to work. He apologized for the bad service and said that he would notify the service department of my frustrations. He said that the service department continues to look for another engine for me, but he hasn't heard if they have found one or not. I sent him my email so he could pass on the info to the service department so they could even email with updates if they get busy.

In my email to Otto, I included a link to this blog too... maybe they'll read it and see your comments... So comment and let me know what you think that I should do and what Tynan's should do. I'm curious to hear your opinions.
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I just got a call back (I guess that call to Otto put a fire under things a bit). They found an engine with 61.5k miles on it. That's much closer to the 55k that it had. I told them that I would prefer to have a less miles on the engine, so they are going to continue looking. He even told me that he'd call me back this afternoon.
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Tuesday Morning
I got a call yesterday evening and again this morning. They're doing a much better job communicating now. They still haven't found an engine with less than 61.5k miles. They've offered a 12month/12kmile warranty on the engine in addition to the 3month/3kmile warranty on the rest of the power train. I imagine that they'll call me back this afternoon.