Sentences

Spring Break '10 is over.

My boy was a rock star on the electric drum kit at B.est B.uy.

My boy had his first groupies while being a rock star at B.est B.uy.

14 year old rocker chicks dug my little rock star.

Duh?!

It rained today.

No Inaugural Swim 2010 at the my parents' today.

But ipads are cool.

And my mom now has her own FB account.

I love dinner at O.utback.

Especially when someone else treats.

Thanks Mom & Dad.

Back to the grind tomorrow.

I have to set my alarm clock again.

Jordan only has 30 days left of high school.

Wow!

I have to set my alarm again.

'Night.

Shopping Schmopping

...and just like that she's gone again! We dropped Megan off in G'ville last night so she could spend some time with her boy, look for a job & go to her fraternity's Spring banquet. She'll be back again next Friday. (2 hrs away for a week is MUCH preferable to across the Atlantic for 2.5 months, in my opinion).

After much back & forth, Jordan decided last night that she'd go to her prom after all. Prom coincides with her next round of State Cup, which is on the east coast, about 2 hrs. away. Thankfully this round is only 2 games & she won't have to miss a minute of game time. She'll play at 8a Saturday, we'll drive home after the game, do the prom thing & as long as they win Saturday, we'll drive back over for her 10:30a game Sunday. Piece of cake, huh? Oh! Did I mention that this is also Mother's Day Weekend? Easy Peasy!

Anyway, if you've ever met my middle child, you would know that the thought of prom dress shopping with her is frightening. I'm sure my sister-in-law is still wishing she had the 2 hours of her life back that we spent at a teeny tiny book store on Cape Cod when Jordan was 4 & Amy told her she could pick out any book. I KNOW I want the 4 hours back that we spent at Toys R Us on her 5th birthday when my mother-in-law thought it would be a good idea to let her pick out her own present. Oy vey!

Even Megan, my easy shopper, took about 2 weeks to find the perfect prom dress... but Jordan surprised me. We got to the mall at 10:40 & we were back in the car by noon!!! Dress in hand!!! (I need to confess here that she had tried on some dresses yesterday when she went to the mall with her friend & she already had one in mind, but she did try on others). Eventually, it came down to 2 choices and after about a 10 minute deliberation, she was able to pull the trigger. She picked out the dress she originally came for, without ANY tears, I might add. Which is more than I can say for the Toys R Us Excursion of 1997. SCORE!!!

Of course, we haven't even started looking for shoes...

Dear Internet, it was nice while it lasted. Hopefully you will be up & running tomorrow. Mobile bloggy just doesn't work for me.

She's hooooome!

What a day! We woke up so excited to see our Meggie-Poo! I couldn't even let the fact that our router completely died that morning ruin my day...

Or the fact that our air-conditioner also decided to go on the fritz that afternoon... (we're in Florida people, even in April, A/C is a necessity).

Thankfully, by the time we went to the airport the A/C was fixed & the new router was on its' way via overnight shipping.

Can you read the excitement on Ben's face? He's bursting at the seams! ( I tried zooming in on Jordan's text, but no luck reading it, don't even bother)

And here she is! Wearing her hat from Portobello Road in London!

And so happy to have her mom's camera in her face after 16 hours of travel.

Here's where Ben starts telling her every detail of his life since Jan 27. :)

Welcome Home Megs! We've missed you!!!

Megan home. :) Modem broken. :( Be back tomorrow...

No Sunburns Even!

Betcha can't guess where we went today...

and tried to steal our football too... sneaky little thing! :)

I'm a lucky girl! Be jealous.

Great day with my boys! Tomorrow will be even better... stay tuned.

Veni, Vidi, DaVinci

Today Ben & I went our local Museum of Science & Industry to see the touring DaVinci exhibition. The exhibit is copyrighted, so no photos allowed, but it was a great time. I enjoyed the Mona Lisa exhibit the most, I really hope I make it to the Louvre one day to see her in person.

After 4 hours of exploring the DaVinci exhibit, we spent an hour or so taking in the rest of the museum...

Ben tried to pinch his fingers off making a "storm system" in this exhibit...

He showed some "empathy" for his old mama...

Aced some quizzes...

Showed me what he'll look like when he is in between Megan & Jordan's ages...

And what he'll look like when he's 2 years older than his oldest grandparent is now...

And how he'll look when he's Michael's age... (I'm still 19 days, 2 hours, 36 minutes away from that milestone, thankyouverymuch).

He consulted with Zoltar...

And found out he has a healthy BMI, at least by this scale...

I mean who doesn't love a scale that starts out at -3 lbs. (of course, I STILL didn't get on it!)

He tried to build an earthquake resistant building (unsuccessfully)...

And withstood Hurricane strength winds...

When we were done exploring the museum, we went to see Diary of a Wimpy Kid. It was cute! Especially for a middle schooler & a mom of a middle schooler.

We went to theater close to the museum, rather than our regular theater. Ya know the slide show before the previews? The fun quotes & quizzes? When we got there this slide was on the screen. Then this slide came up...

Then this one...
I think I've mentioned before how early I insist on getting to the theater.... So we got to enjoy this entertaining slideshow for half an hour. (Thank Goodness for internet on my phone).

Before we stopped at the grocery store on the way home we had one more stop to make...

Yeah!!! I can see his eyes again! :)