Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Monday, September 17, 2007

A few pictures

I was noticing that it had been several blogs since I had shown off my kids. Tragedy! Here are a few pictures from this weekend. Micah, "flying" on Mommy's feet.
Benjamin's new Aggie outfit. Yeah, the hat was a little low. :-)
The one picture that we have from the whole Waco fiasco. This was taken at breakfast on Sunday morning at the hotel. Elizabeth was telling the events of the previous day.

Sunday, September 16, 2007

A long night

Here's how our night went

9:45 Check into hotel
9:55 Begin unloading van and getting kids into hotel. Notice a large group of jolly people.
9:56 Homeless man approaches us for money.
10:00 Homless man in baptized in hotel pool by the group of jolly people, one of whom (apparantly) was a minister.
10:15 Get Micah down in room while Curtis walks Benjamin in hallway, trying to get him to sleep while Elizabeth and I get a little snack.
10:45 Both boys are asleep, now we try to get Elizabeth asleep.
11:15 Give up on getting Elizabeth to sleep, and Curtis and I go to sleep.
1:00 Benjamin wakes up.
1:30 Benjamin wakes Micah up.
The next several hours are spent trying to get the boys back to sleep. In the middle of all that, Benjmain has a MASSIVE blow out diaper, dirtying his PJ's, his blanket and Curtis' shirt.
3:10 Get Benjamin to sleep. Curtis leaves to try to drive Micah to sleep.
4:00 Even though the driving dind't work, Micah is finally asleep.
7:00 Benjamin wakes me up.
7:30 Micah is up, as is everyone else in the family.

Thankfully, the hotel had a really nice breakfast, we got oru new tires, and made it home at about 1:00.

Here's hoping the rest of our week isn't as exciting as out weekend!

Saturday, September 15, 2007

A change of plans

Tomorrow, Curtis' and my niece is being dedicated. Curtis and I really wanted to be there to share in the special day with Chris and Terra. So, we made plans to head up to Wichita Falls, spend tonight with Curtis' Dad, then surprise Chris and Terra at church in the morning.

Surprise is on us!

We were driving down Hwy 6, just about 200 yds from our exit in Waco. I was in the back trying to help the kiddos go to sleep when I hear a terrible noise. I quickly tell Curtis to pull over, but he can't, we're on a bridge. Then there's too much stuff on the side of the road. Finally we get off, and just as we suspect, our back right tire is flat. We call our insurance, and have someone come out to help us.

At this point, it's about 8:20 and there are so tire places open. The road side assistance gets there, and put our donut no, but we can't go more than 50 miles on it. We're 90 miles from home. A very nice man at Pep Boys was staying late to see if we could patch the tire. But, when we got the tire off, we quickly learned that there was no patching that could fix it, we would need a new tire.

So tonight, we are staying at a hotel in Waco. Tomorrow, we will go buy a new tire and head home. Even though we are very disappointed to not be able to join our family for Charleigh's dedication, we are very thankful that we are safe and sound. Oh, and thanks Mom for your help finding a hotel and getting in touch with the nice tire man!

dehydration

This past Monday was the first game in the fall softball season. It was also the first day of ballet, so it was a little bit of a crazy day. To make life a little simpler, we had Little Cesar's pizza, which included a 2 liter of soda.

Here's the conversation we had about soda at dinner.

E: Can I have some soda mommy?

Me: No.

E: Why not?

Me: Because I don't want you to get dehydrated before Daddy's softball game.

There was then an explanation of what dehydration is... when your body doesn't have enough water. At the softball game that evening, Elizabeth has the following conversation with Lindsay.

E: I couldn't have soda at dinner.

L: How come?

E: Because Mommy doesn't want me to get hedydrated. That's when your body doesn't have enough water.

And off she walked, thinking she had just explained something new to Ms. Lindsay.

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Mommy Brain

I had heard of preggo brain... where you can't think straight during your pregnancy and can blame it on the little life growing inside of you and sucking away brain cells. Now, I am thankful that at this moment I DO NOT have preggo brain. But I do have a bad case of Mommy brain. Here's an example from today.

I went to Wal Mart for an odd assortment of items... a toaster, milk, broccoli, glue... only the Bryan Wal Mart would meet my needs (For those of you not from this area, the Bryan Wal Mart is the Super Wal Mart). So, I bravely loaded up the kids between naps, and headed out with the people my momma refers to as "the unwashed masses." OF course, I had forgotten my list on the kitchen table. Mommy Brain.

I head to the check out, thinking that I have gotten everything. After picking what I hope is the shortest and fastest lane, I realize I forgot diapers. Mommy Brain. After fetching said diapers, I head back to the check out. I take my purchases and children out to the van, only to realize that I forgot the crescent rolls, one of the main ingredients in Veggie Bars. Mommy Brain.

Being the loving wife I am (ha!) I take a 12 pack of Diet Dr. Pepper to my hard working husband. While he is loving on the kids, I open the wrong van door. Mommy Brain.

I get home, only to realize that I can't find my broccoli. Mommy Brain? I"m not sure. I don't even know what happened to my broccoli! Weird.

After nap time, I go to pick Curtis up from work. I had to get out of the van to get Elizabeth's snack, which had fallen onto the floor. Curtis comes out, and stops abruptly, pointing at the ground. I look, and he's pointing to a Wal Mart bag which has part of my groceries (including the broccoli!). Of course half of the groceries are now bad from sitting out in the sun for two hours. Apparently I lost a bag of groceries when opening the wrong door for Curtis. Mommy Brain.

So tonight, I went back to the Bryan Wal Mart, to pick up pictures, and to replace my lost and spoiled groceries. I'm not even going to go into details about the craziness of the Wal Mart! But the most annoying thing was that there was no one there to get me my pictures, which was the whole reason I went to Wal Mart rather than HEB!

Now, I'm going to bed to rest my Mommy Brain.

Friday, September 07, 2007

The things kids say and do....

Elizabeth was talking to herself in the bathroom mirror. She came out and told me (she was pretending), "Micah was a bad boy. For punishment, I locked him in the bathroom." Sure. That's logical!

Micah found the pepper at a restaurant, and of course felt the need to dump it out. I moved it, finished putting his shoes on, only to realize that he had the salt. I told him to brush off his hands. He stuck his hands in his hair, and pretended to brush his hands in his hair.

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Day at the zoo

Today, we went to the zoo! My kids had never been, so it was a fun day for all. all the kids had on their "zoo shirts", which were coordinating safari shirts.


Elizabeth had a giraffe on her shirt. She was very excited to see the giraffes, especially the baby giraffe. The day got even better when we were able to feed the giraffes! At first, she was very nervous, but after she let Micah give it a try, she was good to go. The funniest part was when the giraffe was looking for more food, and started licking Elizabeth on the neck.


Micah had a rhino on his shirt, which says "Rhino Crossing." Maybe it was because he had been hearing "rhino" all day long, but he was very excited to see the rhinos. Before we left the rhino habitat, he was saying, "nino" and pointing to his shirt. At the end of the day, Grandma took us to the gift shop, and guess what Micah found... a rhino! Micah had a lot of fun at the zoo. I think his least favorite part was feeding the giraffe, who managed to get his lips all the way around Micah's arm.


Benjamin did a very good job. By the end of the trip, he was hot and tired! The most fun he had was hanging out in his Grandma's arms, just taking in all the sights and sounds.





Hopefully, I will be able to upload all the pictures we have soon, and make a slide show. We got some great pictures with Grandma and Aunt Shannon. It was a great day!

Sunday, September 02, 2007

Fishing with Grand-Daddy

The kids and I are in Wichita, Kansas spending the last part of the summer with my parents. They just bought a new house, and moved in this past week. One of the perks of my parents beautiful new home is a pond, complete with fish. Grand-Daddy bought both Elizabeth and Micah fishing poles. While Micah hasn't had a chance to use his yet, Elizabeth has. Here are some pictures from her first fishing adventure. Grand-Daddy explaining that part of being a fisherman is being patient. That was a hard lesson to learn for Elizabeth.

My favorite picture.

Saturday, September 01, 2007

Future Aggies

Class of 2026, 2028 and 2029

Friday, August 31, 2007

A boy accident

When I became the mother to a boy, I was a little worried about "boy accidents". Now, this has nothing to do with the different "parts" I had to learn to deal with. A boy accident is when a boy is just being a boy, and something breaks.

Well, I've had my first boy accident.

Micah love to play with balls. You can literally play fetch with my son! And there's nothing cuter than watching his chubby cheeks bounce as he runs after the ball. So adorable! He is also quite good at throwing balls (I think his father would even call him a natural!). We have a rule that you can't play catch with Mommy while she is nursing the baby. But of course, being a typical one year old, Micah often forgets this rule.

This past Wednesday, I was nursing Benjamin. Micah approaches with one of his bounciest, and of course hardest, balls and beginning to "wind up". Curtis quickly redirects Micah into the kitchen, where Micah throws the ball to Curtis, who deflects the ball right into a shelf full of cute little decorations. On of these decorations is a tall bottle of oil and different herbs, which falls onto our tile, breaking into tiny pieces as oil run all over the kitchen floor.

A boy accident. The boys weren't being bad, they were just being boys. But, as a result, Micah and Elizabeth had some "crib time", Benjamin screamed his head off in the bouncy seat, and Curtis and I cleaned up a big mess.

But I lived to tell about, what will probably be my first of many, boy accidents.

Life

One could assume that because of a lack of posts, that very little has been happening the Krajca home. Quite the opposite! Things have been crazy here. Curtis and I think that parenting might have gotten the better of us. And of course we mean that in a good way. :-) But a tired way too.

Stay tuned for more details about the Krazy Krajcas!

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

A three year olds thought on Marriage

While watching Cinderella, we had the following exchange with Elizabeth.

Elizabeth: How did Cinderella's Daddy die?

Me: I don't know.

Elizabeth: Probably because he got married.

Curtis: That would do it.

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Our Stick Family

We copied the Bollines! You can too, just go here.

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Summer Smiles






Video of baptism

Check out Benjamin's blog!

Spider

This GIGANTIC, CREEPY, NASTY spider was on MY back porch yesterday. Time to call pest control!
UPDATE: We saw another spider, just like this one, outside our bedroom window. Curtis thinks it's another one because it was smaller. And now, the goose bumps are back!