Memorial Day Memories

We had a few happenings this Memorial Day weekend that I want to always be able to remember. Our most exciting happening is my city kid Waklee FINALLY learned how to ride her bike. She just got on and away she went. We did have a few crashes needing band-aids but that just means it is Summertime.
On Saturday we went to Blue Lake Park which is actually a really fun place. We get there and we are trying to find the perfect spot and our arms are full of all the picnic items and we realize Reese has disappeared. This is not unusual for Reese. She is one of those kids you can turn your head away for a second cause she takes off. So I am calm we will find her and Eric starts looking and isn't finding her and so I start looking and freak out because there is a lake there. This all happened in less than a minute but with everything we have gone through with this kid I tend to worry a lot more. We found her right next to us in this playground but it was so full of kids we just couldn't see her.
So we find our "perfect" spot and are getting settled in and I notice Reese is splashing around in a mud puddle. I think to myself I am going to be a good Mom, one of those Moms I always think someday I will be like, that Mom who lets her kids splash around in the mud puddle. I smile to myself I am a good Mom today and then she slips, falls, face plants into the puddle. I sort of smile and think, "be that good mom, it's only mud on one of my favorite shirts, I can just soak it for days and it will come clean." Reese comes running over and oh my what is that smell it is Reese and that mud puddle is the smelliest thing I have ever smelt. I start gagging and don't even want to touch my stinky crying child and so much for ever being that good mom again. I walk her around the park trying to find a spigot that works and I can't find one and so we come up with a game plan. Eric took Reese to the splash park and let her play and I ran to Wal-Mart to buy new clothes for our sweet Reese. Oh I just shake me head at her. Blue Lake was a lot of fun and we warned many to stay away from the mud puddle.
On Monday I was busy making a relish tray and had many helpers. I took the relish tray and turned around and set it away from my helpers and turn back and Reese has in these two seconds taken the kitchen disenfectant and sprayed herself in the eye. Nice. All in all it was a fun, relaxing weekend. We did take a moment to feel sorry and pout for we once again have we missed out on the fun Kunz Family Memorial Day tradition. We can't wait to come!

This Moment

Yesterday with the nice hot weather 90 degrees Waklee says, "we have been waiting for this moment since fall." In the next breath she says, "but it is exhausting." We are making the best of this hot weather and playing hard. Yesterday we went to Crystal Springs Rhodendrun Gardens and if you are a Portlander and haven't been it really is a place to go especially right now with all the rhodies in full bloom. Oh to be a duck at the gardens would be wonderful. You get to live in a beautiful place and people feed you all day long. Reese had a great time feeding the ducks but every once in awhile she would get a little scared which I was too those ducks were hissing. The pictures of Reese by herself are her, "I am scared right now." She kept feeding them until we didn't have any crackers left and so she decided to throw pebbles at them and at one point so typical of my Reesie girl she picked up duck pooh...fresh duck pooh. Oh I was freaking out. Last night Waklee and I went on our 2nd annual school play date and I saw the Jungle Book. It was pretty good and well worth Waklee thinking she is my top dawg. I love that she is entertained by these highschool plays. She really does love it.

My Pride and Joy

Mothers Day what a nice day we had. Waklee got my Mom to buy a singing card about two months ago and she takes after me in the fact that she can keep a secret....Eric can't. She did tease me for a few weeks that she got me a mothers day gift and okay she did tell me she got a card, come on she is 6, but she didn't tell me it sang and I think that is secret keeping for a 6 year old. So this morning bright and early she is asking me if I want my card. She had drawn on the front of it cute little flowers and wrote: From Waklee and Reese. The card was a little Care Bear singing about how great Moms are and yes it brought a tear to the eye. Eric was sweet and made me breakfast and pretty much let me buy whatever I wanted this week, not that he really has a say anyhow.

Okay so a funny story that I have to remember in 20 years. First of all Eric is a really nice husband, I mean really nice. He makes me laugh alot, but sometimes the the tears come first and then by the end of the day I can laugh at it. So here it goes. At the end of church Eric says I have a present for you when we get home and I think, "oh what a nice guy I told him not to buy me anything because I am really picky and had already bought myself a few things, but oh how sweet." Okay so I am excited right. So we get home and I am wondering what he got me and he says Reese go and get it Mommy's arms and I immediatley know what my present is and I am TICKED!!!! Just so you know I am laughing so hard right now I am crying about this now but not then. See my present from Eric was that Reese was stinky and I was suppose to have the priviledge of changing her. NOT FUNNY. You know how the husband always tries to get a rise out of the wife....well my philosophy is I will give you a rise and I go off. I become a little spit fire and let him have it. It usually consists of two episodes. The first 5 minute firework show and then I walk around and slam cupboards for another 5 minutes and then I play the okay I am not going to be mad anymore so I will let you have it one more time and so I do and then I am done. I am no longer mad I am back to being fine and that night I laugh really hard at how funny my husband is because he is really funny. He thinks is am a really big dork right now because I tattled on him but I think he is just emabarrassed.

I haven't been blogging much lately. We have been a little busy I guess. We have been frequenting the doctors office. We are normally a pretty healthy family but seriously that last four weeks we have been to the doctors office atleast three times a week. Last week consisted of a double ear infection for Waklee on Monday, a blood draw for me on Tuesday, and back on Thursday to check the ear infections and a diagnosis of bronchitis for Reese. Reese immune system is pretty poor right now and she doesn't really seem very sick but she can go from okay to poor very quickly so I am usually a very lax non-paranoia mom but not anymore atleast for awhile with her. I had these big plans to go camping at my favorite spot for Memorial Day and was like uh okay I really shouldn't be taking my weakened immune system daughter out into the cold overnight and so we will stay home some more. Good thing I am a home body. Hope everyone had a great Mothers Day!