All in a day

So we get home from school today and I notice.... the oldest is scratching... again!!!

So we eat dinner, I take her upstairs, check and yes there it is. HEAD LICE!!

So we put the treatment on, rinse it out and clip her hair up all over the place. While I'm doing this she's playing the PS2. Not a problem until I jump up and tell her to come with me and she forgets to let go of the controler!! PS2 on the ground, lice in the hair, younger 2 running around. Oh what fun we are having now!! So I sit her down and keep combing and combing and combing. I finally finish 2 hours later. Now it's time for the fun stuff, fixing the PS2.

I get the screws out and open it up. Then I have to get more screws out and open that up. I get the disk out, then have to keep hitting the open/close button until the tray is finally back to where it's suppose to be. Ok fine at this point DH is back and he actually did the button pushing. Then I got to put all the screws back and now I think I'm going to play my FFX2 again, just because I can because I fixed the machine damn it!! Ok, I 've got the get the laundry done first, but then I'm going to play!!

First day of school

YAH!!! it's been 2 days since we got home and guess what... School started!!! Ya!!










We're waiting for the bus to get here to put little man on for the first time (the girls have been riding it for years).











Yes I really did go up to the school after they all got on the bus so that I could be there when they got off for the first time!! Little man is doing great, he's all set for school.

Vacation dayz five and beyond

Not a lot to tell. We hung out at the beach, went snorkeling, body surfing and road boogy boards. J and I did go parasailing, that was fun. The water was choppy but once you got in the air you couldn't tell. We saw a sea turtle, a sting ray, and lots of jellyfish!!

Vacation Dayz, three and four

Not a lot happening. We hung out at Jacksonville most of day 3 and left for Destin around 5pm. We hung out with the family once we got there and things got a little crazy (pretty normal for us really). Day 4 was the beach!! The waves were nice and the heat wasn't bad, of course the jellyfish were but then it's ocean water what do you expect.

Little man and the youngest cousin got buried in the sand a few times. The oldest and a counsin have fun finding shells. Younger girl and oldest cousin ran in the waves and body surfed all day. That night we went out to dinner. Good food but I hate being stuck at the kids table. Oh well, hopefully we won't be doing another full family dinner out, I'd rather just eat pb&j at the condo.

Pics coming soon.

Vacation, day two

Well it's the end of day number two of our vacation and we have head lice. Not just nits but full grown lice... 3 of them in my oldest head!!!


I noticed the middle one scratching during dinner tonight so it took her to the bathroom to check... yep I found 3 nits. So we left the resturant and I decided to check the oldest just since I had treated her recently for them and found a few eggs in her head too!! $60 later I have checked 4 heads, had someone check mine, washed all the cloths and linens and the house has been sprayed. Oh and I spent 1 hour on the middle kids and 1.5 hr. on the older one. 6 eggs on one and 3 adults and many, many eggs on the other. Thankfully no else seems to have it.....yet.

I got the robolice comb, it works but the girls kept getting zapped so I had to dothe shampoo and comb thing. I can't believe we have them again!! Oldestcame home from camp and got treated because I found one egg in her head and that was it. The younger one went to camp a few days later and we think she may have come home with an egg and that's how we got it again.

It's almost midnight and we are still doing laundry but all heads look clean.

Vacation, day one

We left on Wednesday at 9pm. We got to Savannah GA around 11am. This is such a beautiful city. All the wonderful old arcetecture and streets. Our first stop was the Juliette Low Birthplace.

We took the tour. We got to see the dining room, the library, the parlors, the bedrooms and the restored bathroom. It was really neat to see where it all began and where Daisy grew up. We got to see some of her sculptures and paintings. She actually did a portrait copy of her mother that she wanted to take with her to England but that her father wouldn't part with. She got her paints out and did an exact copy of the painting and we got to see it in the formal parlor. We got to see some of her iron work too. And the sculpture of her neice that she did was really neat and very life like.

The garden was amazing the plants are huge!! Take a look at this one...

After the tour we decided to drive around and see the city a little and ended up at the river walk area. We saw all sorts of shops some with cloths others with nic nacs and soveniors. But the best shop was the candy store. Savannah Candy Kitchen. They were making taffy when we were there and were throwing pieces into the crowd as it came out of the machine. If you've never had warm taffy let me tell you it was great!! The youngest two had ice cream, the oldest marshmellow chocolate bark and Jer had peanut butter gelato (I can't remember how to spell that!). I have a praline, it melted in my mouth. it was so rich I actually had to save half of it!! I bought some orange vanilli fudge for later. Still haven't tried it actually. Maybe I'll try some tomorrow.

We got down here to Jacksonville around dinnertime and have been relaxing. The kids are all sleeping already, even after sleeping most of the drive to Savannah and then to Jacksonville. I can't get over how hot it is down here. It feels like 100 degrees, every time I step outside my glasses fog up. It was so hot earlier that our a/c in the car stopped working, it just couldn't get the moisture out of the air!! We'll be here for a few days and then it's off to Destin for fun in the sun (or not if it's still this hot!). Great people, good food, ocean view... really can't beat it.

One last pic of the girls signing the guestbook....