Time out VS Roll out

Ear we go again.....another Childrens Museum!

So we started off the day.....well I started off the day at 5am on my way to work. Got to work, got sent to PICU and then got sent home. Thanks a lot, get my butt out of bed on a Sunday and forget to cancel me. So anyway here I am on my way home and its only 730am. Its a rainy (but warm, 50 degrees woo woo) so I am planning on taking the boys to the Grand Rapids Children's Museum. All is going as planned when Kyan starts complaining about his right ear again. He had been complaining about it for the last few days so I scheduled his well child for Monday and was trying to hold off on taking him in until then. So the complaining got worse and I figured the "attention pain" may just actually be real pain. So now we are off to urgent care. We walk in and the place is somewhat empty but they tell me ALL the rooms are filled in the back so expect to wait. Another family walks in the door with two kids a little boy around 4 and girl around 1.5. We keep hearing a squeaking noise. Something like a really loud annoying dog toy. Ky finally says, "Mom that noise is annoying me" I hush him because I think its the little girls toy and didn't want him to offend anybody. So the squeaks keep happening over and over and over. Now I am annoyed. Turns out, the little girls shoes squeak every time she takes a step!!!!!! OMG who the heck takes there kid to an urgent care where they will be sitting (or if your the little girl, running around) for hours, with those types of shoes!!!!!!?????? I am pretty "squeak squeak" sure that family is lucky "squeak squeak" to be alive by the looks of everybody "squeak squeak" in the waiting room, including the staff!!! I think the mom finally realized her purchase sucked! She now decides to hold her very active child so she begins to scream her head off. OH GAWD!!!!!!!!! So now Ky looks at me and says, "my ear is better, lets go" Over my dead body! We just heard this little girl squeak and scream for an hour! We are staying!!!! The MD sees Ky and asks him how his ear is feeling. Ky replies, "It got better while I was in the waiting room" And it sure did! The doc said his ears looked great. RRRRRR KYAN! This sympathy pain stuff has got to end!!!!

We still end up going to the Children's Museum for Pies sake NOT for the kid who cried wolf! But I do have to say the kids were absolutely wonderful little boys for the 2hr. we were there! The Grand Rapids Childrens Museum from my opinion puts the Ann Arbor one to shame. This place was so much fun. And so like like for the kids. To sum it up, its an adult world on a child's scale. They had so much fun. Everything was so life like, from the grocery store, to the post office and bank, a little ice fishing and tending to the chickens hatching eggs. OK, OK I think I had a blast! We will definitely be going back soon! Thursday nights, only $1.50 admission!!!!!

Hope you did some coupon clippin' kid!!!

Pop Bottle Fun!

Amazing!

Our Trip to Wisconsin

I took the boys to Racine and Kenosha this past week to visit an old friend from Ann Arbor. Melissa and her son Gavin flew from Salem OR and we couldn't let them be so close without having a reunion. The boys had a blast! Here's a few clips of the events........

Skate Town.

The Jelly Belly Factory Tour

Gazing at the Mirror Ball at Skate Town.

"Home Boy" meets "Cooker Man"

"Frosty" but overall....not too cold!

Error

I just knew it seemed like more than that. For the official record, I forgot to mention our minny move to Grand Rapids in the summer of 08 for Mick's internship. That adds 2 more moves totaling 9 in the last 6 years. Nice!

We like to MOVE IT MOVE IT!!!!!

So here it is....2010! WOW! The family remains in Grand Rapids, content for now. At least for the next few weeks until we move again. I want to back track for a bit and shadow the past, say 6 years. How many times does the average person move in 6 years? Lets just say we are no where near average! So back in 2004 I made an exciting move out west, followed by Mick a few months later, how could he resist? (ME not Arizona silly!) So that's move #1, a big one or far one which ever? It was exciting to move back then. We settled into a cute little apartment on the north side of Phoenix. Along came Ky and we "needed" to have a house (and a dog....what were we thinking?) So move #2, our first house together as a family. Then the housing market went out of control and we realized, "hey we can make some money and buy a bigger nicer pad." That brings us to move #3 to the West side of Phoenix, nice place, not bad for a couple young kids with a baby, a dog (what were we thinking!!!) and a cat. A year later a law school admission letter came in the mail and welcomed move #4 back to Michigan (what was I thinking? Back to Michigan??? Thanks U of M) Three years later, the housing market is.....well, lets not talk about the housing market! Mick is done with school and we need to move to Grand Rapids for Mick's new job (Yes Mickey is getting a job! I know, I know, that was a lot to let out all at once, sorry) BUT we own this house (we could never rent again you know?) that we can't sell and need to move out of. What do we do? We let if foreclose!!!! NO NO NO we don't let it foreclose like the rest of the damn country, we rent it out. Simple right? No! The "perfect tenents" we found need to move in in June and we (I) am contracted until the end of summer ( or so I thought) So we happily took on move number..... hold on what number are we on? Oh yes, #5 about 10 miles down the road, a sublease until Aug. 1st so I can finish up my contract and Mick can study for the BAR. Then, my contract gets cancelled and I find myself commuting 2hours to work everyday to Grand Rapids!!!!!! UHG!!!!! The summer is coming to an end and we are near closing on our new home in Hudsonville (sub of Grand Rapids) and we find out there is a problem, an undisclosed easement in the back yard, something my husband could not live with. Now, this is where it got interesting, we have NO HOME and we need to be out of the sublease!!!! So we'll call this move #5.5, we buy a camper and go camping! Yes I said we moved into a campground for 2 weeks! Hey, it had WiFi! Over that 2 weeks we browsed the Internet endlessly and found a great house on some acreage for a great price. We place the offer, they except. But its a short sale and it could take months. I now endlessly search the Internet for another short term rental home and I'm in luck! A cute California contemporary house on the river. What a great place for the rest of the summer. That would be move #6. Now! So here I am blogging to you from that very house. Our lease was for 3 months and now month to month, perfect contract terms for not knowing when we can close on the new property. The house we are waiting on....big issues. The seller went bankrupt, home fell into foreclosure, we continue to wait! UGH! Our landlord tells me 3 days after Christmas that she will be renting our home out to a "needy family member" HELLO LADY I think we are as needie for a house as they come!!!!!!! So tomorrow we are on our way to check out an apartment. Yes folks that was no typo.....I said APARTMENT!!!! This will bring us to move #7 and then after the redemption period of the sellers bankruptcy I hope the bank will still agree on our purchase price and invite us to a very anticipated move #8 (that should have been move #5) DID YOU GET ALL THAT? I hope this year is NOT like last!

Showin' some love in 2009, Happy 2010!!!!