There are a lot of pets in this house. We have dogs, and a cat; a terrarium full of lizards and frogs; a gecko and some fish; a rabbit; three rats; and a tortoise. And well, sometimes when the tortoise gets out the boys forget that they have gotten him out. Then, two days later while we're sitting in the kitchen home schooling, he walks on by like he owns the place. I have to then ask the inevitable question of "Hey guys, how long has Deleno been out?" The boys get all shifty eyed, blame each other, and refuse to give me a straight answer. Best I can guess, this week, Deleno roamed my house for two days without a care in the world. And that folks, is my life.
I'm going to make this quick, because in just about an hour Calib will be home, followed by Hayden and Spring Break will be upon us. Then I'll have very little time or desire for blogging. We have our fun plans all out on the chalk board for the next week, but I left out the Spring Cleaning projects I am determined to accomplish, the great clothes shift-down of 2013, and a required reading and academics time slot every day. Geography for Calib, flash cards for everyone else. They can whine about that later.
Our highlights of the last week or two, included Asa and Calib making a trip to One Buc place. As I mentioned, we are season ticket holders for 2013, so we get invited to special events. While I LOVE football, I wasn't thrilled with going to a regional combine and having a tour of One Buc place at 8 am on a Saturday, so I passed. But, Asa and Calib had a good time.
We also got a lot of stuff done. I finally turned Calib's closet into a study area, and my new freezer came. Both, super exciting. Which makes me old and lame, but I really don't care.
Asa's birthday present arrived early. He his thrilled with his nexus, and is pretty engrossed in it. But that's ok, because he's playing draw something with me. Which is the most I've gotten him to play any game with me in awhile.
Saturday was a fresh market weekend, and the boys were not into going so Asa and I got an unexpected mini date. We're working on going a little farther from home every time. So far, so good. And I picked up the herbs for our newest home school project- an herb garden. We're going to work on it over spring break (Peyton doesn't even know he's getting tricked into 'school' work over spring break!) I spent the rest of Saturday cooking to make all kinds of freezer meals. One day of cooking for a bunch of days of not cooking, kind of an awesome deal.
Monday was our Florida Anniversary, but everyone had school and work (Hayden even had a zoo field trip, so he didn't want to skip) So Sunday we headed out to celebrate. Our passes for Seaworld and Busch Gardens expire soon, and with Disney, the Bucs passes, and a VERY full summer, I don't think we'll be renewing soon. So we decided to kill two birds with one stone and go to Aquatica one last time. We had an awesome time. Sadly, Hayden is just a smidgen too tall to be in the kiddy area. He was not thrilled with this, as he isn't such a dare devil, and doesn't want to venture onto the big slides yet. But maybe by the time we have passes again he'll be excited for it.
We all filled out our March Madness Brackets. We aren't usually basketball people, but we try and get into it this one time of year. Everyone has a different pick, and they're all still in. Winner gets to pick someone to go out to dinner with. Two years ago Hayden was the winner with the surprising pick of Butler to go all the way, while they lost in the finals, it still got him enough points to win. So we're seeing if his Colorado State pick holds up. He does have them losing in the finals to Florida though. I think his Florida pick is much more realistic.
Monday we officially celebrated our seven years in Florida with a cookout. A waterpark, and a cookout in March, a nice reminder you don't live in Ohio anymore.
Other notable events this week:
The rats are getting pretty tamed, and we're having luck with getting them to settle down when being held.
Asa passed his very very difficult Database exam, so we had strawberry daiquiris (non-alcoholic of course) to celebrate!
Oh, and Peyton and Hayden got a fun package. Their flat selves we're sent out to our friend Rachel Baker in Alabama. She took them around to the Space and Rocket Center, and sent the boys some things. Kind of awesome.
Next Up: Asa turns the big 3-oh, and we have spring break plans! Yippie!
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