Random Ramblings

Last night Lincoln was walking up the stairs to get in the bath when he started gagging. His eyes were watering, and it was apparent that he had something stuck in his throat, but he was breathing. I did a quick finger sweep to see if I could feel anything, (I don't think you are really supposed to do that?) and apparently Lincoln thought that was a great idea because he stuck his whole hand in his mouth, clear up to his wrist and pulled out a nickel and a dime. If only he could pull out a $20 every once in a while.

Savannah suddenly hates the bus. The first week of school the bus was her favorite part of the whole day. Last Monday I was a few minutes (literally 2) late to pick her up and she was left all alone at the bus stop in a parking lot, 2 miles from our house. The next day when I took her to the bus stop she cried and refused to get on the bus. For the past week every weekday morning I've gotten up, driven her to the bus stop, waited for the bus, tried to convince her to get on the bus, then driven her twenty minutes each way to school. She takes the bus home with no problems or complaints. I've tried bribery, threats, physically putting her on the bus, guilt, reason, nothing is working! She says that she is worried that someone will be sitting in her seat, but even when I point out that her seat is empty she still won't get on. (They don't' have assigned seats, but she likes to sit right behind the bus driver) I'm not sure what the real problem is. Maybe the bus driver since they have a different one in the afternoon? Maybe she is worried about leaving me? If anyone has any bright ideas of how to get her to actually get on the bus in the morning I would love to hear them.

I got a part time job. I'm working nights at Target. I'm kind of in denial about it. In fact, today was my first day of training, it was also the first time I told anyone besides Jesse and my friend that I'm working with. I think that once I get used to it I will love having a break from my kids and a little extra money, but right now I'm just having a hard time with the fact that I'm going to be leaving my kids several nights (and weekend days) a week, even if it is with Jesse.

Savannah brought home two weeks worth of phonics work from school today. It might take me a while to get used to the fact that since she goes to a French school, the words don't always look right to me. I mean, take for example her "E" sheet. It has kids (enfants), star (etoile), school (ecole), squirel (ecureuil), church (eglise), and elephant (elephant.) Oh, and all those words should have at least one accent thing on them, but I use an English keyboard, and I don't really want to learn how to type those.

Its no new news that I am obsessed with the band, Muse. Their new CD, "The Resistance," came out last week. Its pure musical genius! I highly suggest buying it. I love every song on the CD. I got rid of my music player on here a few weeks ago, but I'm bringing it back in tribute to this masterpiece. I love all of the songs, but these are my two favorites.

After all of that rambling, I really should have included a bunch of pictures, but I've already shared most of them. Here is one of Lincoln from last night. He is currently obsessed with dinosaurs. Like, I don't even know if obsessed is a strong enough word. Last night he lined up these dinosaurs and asked me to take a picture of them. Of course I got him in the picture too.