Valentine's Day field trip

Kylie's preschool class...the RED (see all the RED bandanas!) group.

Where too but the sweetest place in town...Norms News!
Hmmm chocolate ice cream is the BEST!

How to explain?

Kylie Life lesson #????? I give up trying to count them all! Well here's the story....We had two frogs we have been raising from tadpoles...Bubba the BIG one and little ol' Boo the small one. Well for some reason Bubba has been growing and Boo hasn't. Bubba was about the size of a silver dollar and Boo well maybe a quarter is he's all stretched out. Even tho' both are getting the same amount of food (or so I thought) I guess having them in the same water was not a good idea. Let me repeat...Having them in the same water WAS NOT a good idea. I thought they would be buddies! Well this AM I went to check on them and lo and behold NO Boo....gone, vanished! Well I finally deducted survival of the strongest and Mr. Bubba ATE HIM! Buuurp! So I've been trying to explain to Kylie what happened as I keep looking in the water hoping to see baby Boo. It hasn't fazed Kylie as we've been joking for quite some time this might happen...tho' I NEVER thought it would for some reason. Still...he ATE him Ewwwwwww! So no wonder Bubba wasn't hungry this AM when I tried to feed him. Again Ewwww! Survival of the strongest is never wrong I guess!

Valentines weekend

We took Kylie to Spokane to see the Disney Live stage show. It was really cute! And we got to see cousin Geo (Dad George and Mom Colleen too). We stayed here. It was GREAT! Except I did not know that walls could be so thin and the rule in a kids hotel is to run down all the halls AND to slam all the doors?! Then Sat. we stayed at Triple Play and swam all day. And saw our other cousins....Brooklynn, Conner, Kyle, Mathew and Pearl and of course their Moms and Dads too. But the kids were more important to Kylie :-) Oh Annnnnd we got to see Wendy and her kids Sophie and Jacob. So a busy time was had by all. And the worse part was we took absolutely positively NO pictures all weekend. OY! Slackers I say! But it was still a fun get away.

Fish anyone?

Daddy took Kylie fishing last weekend.
Just strolling on the ice.

All ready to go. Mark "made" a fish hook by bending a paperclip. Hmmm wonder if this is how ALL Bobcats fish? They used jerky for bait. Since that's all they had at the conveniance store. So needless to say we didn't have a fish fry when they got home. But Kylie had a blast!

My birthday....

Since I have the next birthday in our family I thought I would share this cool website my FIL sent me.....Thanks BOB!

27 February 1968
Your date of conception* was on or about 6 June 1967 which was a Tuesday. *Umm not real sure I NEEDED to know this fact!!!! No, I KNOW I Did NOT need to know this!!!
You were born on a Tuesday under the astrological sign Pisces.
Your Life path number is 8.
Your fortune cookie reads: If you want the rainbow, you must put up with the rain.
D. Parton Life Path Compatibility:
You are most compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 2, 4, 8, 11 & 22.
You should get along well with those with the Life Path number 6.
You may or may not get along well with those with the Life Path numbers 1 & 5.
You are least compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 3, 7 & 9.
The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2439913.5.
The golden number for 1968 is 12.
The year 1968 was a leap year. I knew I was really close!
Your birthday falls into the Chinese year beginning 1/30/1968 and ending 2/16/1969.
You were born in the Chinese year of the Monkey.
Your Native American Zodiac sign is Wolf; your plant is Plantain.
The date of Mardi Gras on your birth year was Tuesday 27 February 1968.
As of 2/6/2009 7:36:29 PM EST You are 40 years old. Thanks I needed this pointed out...NOT!
You are 492 months old.
You are 2,136 weeks old.
You are 14,955 days old.
You are 358,939 hours old.
You are 21,536,376 minutes old.
You are 1,292,182,589 seconds old. See I always knew I was a millionaire somehow :-)
Celebrities who share your birthday: Josh Groban (1981)
Chelsea Clinton (1980)
Rozonda 'Chilli' Thomas (1971)
Mary Frann (1943)
Howard Hesseman (1940)
Ralph Nader (1934)
Elizabeth Taylor (1932)
Joanne Woodward (1930)
Ariel Sharon (1928)
John Steinbeck (1902)
Marian Anderson (1897)
David Sarnoff (1891)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807)
Top songs of 1968
Hey Jude by Beatles
I Heard It Through the Grapevine by Marvin Gaye
Love Is Blue by Paul Mauriat
Honey by Bobby Goldsboro
People Got to Be Free by Rascals
The Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding
This Guy's In Love with You by Herb Alpert
Mrs. Robinson by Simon & Garfunkel
Love Child by Diana Ross & the Supremes
Tighten Up by Archie Bell & the Drells
Your age is the equivalent of a dog that is 5.853228962818 years old. (You're still chasing cats!) Yah baby!
Your lucky day is Thursday. Hmm this is my favorite day of the week!
Your lucky number is 3 & 7.
Your ruling planet(s) is Jupiter & Neptune.
Your lucky dates are 1st, 10th, 19th, 28th.
Your opposition sign is Virgo.
Your opposition number(s) is 5.
Today is not one of your lucky days!
There are 21 days till your next birthday on which your cake will have 41 candles.
Those 41 candles produce 41 BTUs,or 10,332 calories of heat (that's only 10.3320 food Calories!) .Eeeeek!
You can boil 4.69 US ounces of water with that many candles. Umm DOUBLE EEEK!
In 1968 there were approximately 3.7 million births in the US.
In 1968 the US population was approximately 179,323,175 people, 50.6 persons per square mile.
Your birthstone is Amethyst is used to increase spiritually.
Your birth tree is Pine Tree Who knew? AKA Who cares????
There are 322 days till Christmas 2009! Start shopping folks!
The moon's phase on the day you were born was waning crescent.
Copyright © 2006 Paul R. Sadowski (http://www.paulsadowski.com)

No Boys allowed trip details

Well I DID it! Miss Kylie and Momma are going on a cruise. AKA the NO Boys Allowed Vacation of 2009. After several days of inversions in the Flathead and way too many e-mails from cruise lines screaming "DEALS DEALS!!!" I called and got specifics and conferred with Mark. Who by the way is really looking forward to 10 days of ALONE male bonding (he and Lucky) and Peace and Quiet from his 2 Leading Ladies. SO I BOOKED A CRUISE on Norwegian Cruiseline(ncl.com). Miss Kylie and I are are flying to New Orleans (the end of March) which I am so excited about. Not only to see the city of New Orleans but hopefully to meet up with another adoptive family I have known online since 2003. They have 2 daughters and a son from China. And I'm excited to just to get the heck out of town and to share my excitement of travelling with Kylie. Here is our itinerary:

Depart Sun New Orleans
Mon At Sea
Tue Costa Maya 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Wed Santo Tomas De Castilla 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Thu Belize City 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Fri Cozumel 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Sat At Sea
Sun New Orleans 8:00 AM

So this morning Kylie and I were looking at the website about the ship and she asked:

KYLIE: "Momma I really would like daddy to come with us"

MOMMA: "I know Kylie but this is a Girls only no boys allowed trip this year"

KYLIE: "Well do you think Daddy and I could take a trip without you and go camping this summer?"

MOMMA: "Sure Kylie I think that will work"

KYLIE: "Good then you can stay home and clean the house and Daddy and me will go camping"

Hmmmmm doesn't that sound like fun?! Do you think that's what Daddy will be doing while Momma's on vacation??????