Busy and Bees

Well, yellow jackets to be precise. Our house has been under siege by yellow jackets for a few months now. Shelby put some heavy duty, full of chemicals junk on the nest we could see just outside of our bathroom window, and although that did slow them down, it has not solved the problem. In fact, until last week none of us had been stung. Then in a matter of a few days Jessica was stung on her leg and I was stung right on my bicep while laying down to go to bed. Yuck! I was such a baby. It hurt for literally 24 hours and it still itches a little bit more than a week later. We are only seeing a few a week at this point mostly because "bee season" as they refer to it up here, is almost over. I'm just glad none of the kids have been hurt.

Now for the busy part. We are probably the busiest now that we've ever been. I can only imagine that we are also just going to get progressively busier now that I have two kids. Mia is taking piano, dance, soccer and joined a girl scout troupe. Soccer in Stoneham practices one day a week and has games on Sundays at various times. That leaves us with a whopping two days a week that Mia does not have a scheduled activity other than school. I am keeping Anderson typically two days a week and trying to get to the gym two days a week as well. I'm also a co-room parent for Mia's room this year. I'm super excited about being able to spend a little bit of time in her classroom as they didn't really like for parents to be involved in Malden. Mia is still not loving school. She asks to be home schooled at least once a week and almost every day says she doesn't feel like going to school. At the end of the day she always says she's had a good day/had fun etc., so I really don't think it's a social adjustment thing, but who knows.

Right now the kids are sitting on the couch together watching Space Chimps. Every few seconds at the beginning of the movie, Lennon was asking "what's happening?" He's still got some bad days/weeks, but overall he is just beginning to be so so much fun. He's really silly and he likes to tell knock knock jokes and make people laugh.