What story will Nick come up with next?

After a PTO meeting at the boys' school tonight one of my friends called me in gales of laughter.  Through her laughter she started the conversation by asking me if I had something I needed to tell her.  I told her there wasn't while I was racking my brain trying to think of what she knew that I didn't.  When she pressed me further I finally said........"We're getting a dog!"  But trust me a dog was not what she was referring to.  Apparently my younger son told his entire kindergarten class today that his mom was having a baby because she had been sick (which I was last week) and I had been gaining weight (thanks Nick).  Then at tonight's PTO meeting a little girl in Nick's class announced to several people that Nick's mom was having a baby!!!  When my friend heard this she pressed the little girl for more details (aka dirt).......hence the phone call with my friend laughing hysterically!  Perhaps the best part of this story is we had Nick's kindergarten conference with his teacher this afternoon.  When I got this phone call Nick was already in bed and sleeping but needless to say breakfast should be interesting tomorrow morning!  Now I'm off to Facebook to squash the pregnancy rumors. 

Archery, Guns, Video Games, Knives & Four wheelers......oh my!

My title describes Jay's favorite things right now and when I say favorite thing I mean FAVORITE things.  He's consumed by them - in no particular order.  Jay is a typical fourth grader.  He plays sports, works hard in school, has a few good friends that he likes to spend time with but his greatest loves right now are archery, guns, video games, knives & four wheelers.  His dad got him into archery and it's been very positive.  Jay and Mike spend time at an archery place where they can shoot their bows.  When the weather gets nicer they will spend time in our back yard.  I've learned that a fascination with guns comes with the territory with having boys.  Jay has his own BB gun and again he and Mike love to target shoot with their guns.  I'm just thankful that Jay has a responsible, mature parent who handles guns safely and is teaching Jay the same thing. Jay is also obsessed with collecting knives.  As his mother and a woman, I don't get it but then why do we women have so many shoes?  I know the answer to that but show me a man who gets that.  Honestly the only hobby Jay has right now that could eventually become a problem is video games.  He got an I Pod Touch for xmas and he's on it constantly!  In fact Mike and I finally commented to one another it is time for us to set some limits with that crazy touch.  However it has worked to my advantage in terms of consequences right now.  When Jay gets in trouble, guess what is the first thing to get taken away? 
As Jay gets older I find it gets harder.  I am not interested in any of the things he's interested in right now so I find it harder to connect with him but I certainly keep trying.  He has asked me several times to start archery with him and Mike and although this doesn't really excite me I'm going to do it as it's something I can do with Jay and it's something we can talk about - another challenge with Jay these days - conversation!  As I always have said.........giving birth to Jay was easier than getting information out of him. 

Happy Birthday Luke

My sweet nephew, Luke, is one years old today!  How time flies.  My sister had an amazing party for him.  She had a ton of good food (notice how I comment on the food first........figures) and the theme was Monkey - since Lukie is our little monkey.  Happy Birthday Luke!

Sick

I have been sick and I mean really sick for about 11 days now.  Yesterday I started to turn a corner with my cold and today I have the stomach flu and I'm miserable.  Truthfully I'm surprised I have enough energy to blog.  When Mike and the boys got home from school today Jay came and checked on me and realized I was no better than I was that morning.  Jay went out to the kitchen and reported....."Hey guys mom is really sick.!'  Then the conversation went like this.
Nick" My teacher told me that George Washington got sick and he died, Yup, he died!" 

Boy did that make me feel better!

First tooth.. gone!

About 3 weeks ago Nick started complaining that his bottom teeth hurt.  When I looked I noticed that he was getting a permanent tooth behind his baby teeth - none of which he had lost yet.  Ouch!  I took him to the dentist and we were told it wasn't 9-1-1 but Nick needed to get his baby teeth out and wa-la one was loose.  Nick promptly called his Grandpa John and ordered him to start making him a wiggle machine - whatever that is.  For 10 days Nick has worked and worked on getting his tooth to come out.  We were use to Jay who simply pulled his teeth out the second he noticed they were loose so this whole 10 day thing kind of threw us for a loop.  Aunt Mimi even gave Nick a big head start yesterday but to no avail.  I knew Nick was getting worried last night when he insisted we pray that his tooth wouldn't fall out while he was eating and that he wouldn't in turn swallow it!  Tonight Mike and I could take no more.  Nick was delighted to suck on a popsicle to get his gums numb for the big event.  A little pull from daddy and out it came! 

Sunday night bedtime

We have a Sunday night ritual in the winter, we all go to bed insanely early!  I usually have Nick in bed by 6:30 and Jay in bed by 7:00.  I was sharing this information with my sister recently and she couldn't believe I got my 10 year old in bed that early.  I told her that for some reason Jay never questions it.  It's just what we do on Sunday nights.  My sister still couldn't believe it and pointed out that Jay is 10 (for heaven sakes) and can tell time - how does he go to bed at 7:00 without noticing it's 7:00?  She had a point but because he never said anything about our early Sunday nights I didn't say anything......until tonight!  I was getting Jay tucked into bed tonight when he gazed at his clock next to his bed and he noticed the time.  "Mom, it's 6:52!"  I must have looked like a deer caught in headlights.  He had never questioned me before on his early bedtime on Sundays.  I quickly responded that it's Sunday night.......didn't he know we always go to bed early on Sundays?  It's just what we Sieberts do.  He wasn't buying it and he wasn't happy that at 10 years old he was going to bed at 6:52.  Thankfully that was the end of the conversation and I'm happy to report it's 7:20 on a Sunday night and I'm sitting in front of a roaring fire, blogging and my kids are sound asleep.  Dang, I'm good!  LOL. 

Swollen & scabby - Gross!

This is going to be one of those me being real blogs!  I am 37.  I'll be 38 in May and let me tell you I have never battled so much with my complexion as I have these last few months.  Honestly my skin has always been a problem but it's like I turned 35 and my face/zits decided I needed a little more excitement in my life or something.  I began having problems BIG TIME in June.  I thought it was because of my job change and perhaps initially it was but my job is not stressful and considering I'm a good 9 months into it, I'd say it's safe to say I've settled in.  Plus - and this may be too much T.M.I. - but I'm not on the pill anymore which may be a good or bad thing, who knows.  I've been off the pill since May so again my body has had plenty of time to adjust.  My morning and evening routine consists of washing my face, cleansing it with a special acne cleanser and then attacking the problem areas!  It's a full time job - seriously!  I never thought I'd spend so much time on my face.  I've been known to drive the boys to school without my foundation on.  It is not a pretty sight.  I usually have scabs on my forehead from zits that are drying up - I'm just saying - or I have big red ones that are big and swollen starting to form on my chin.   Just this morning I woke up and had a new one on my eye lid!  Yes, my eye lid.  I mean really who gets zits on their eye lids?  Clearly I do.  I look like I have a growth of some sort on my eye lid that is only made worse by trying to cover it up with make up.  The whole thing is sort of exhausting and down right depressing!  I'm slowly coming to terms that this may be something I will have to battle from here on out but that along with my weight battle is really kind of a pain!