Little Mick in the making

I love it when Mick and Justin dress alike, it just so cute!

The Dangers of a Wii

Mick and I decided to spend some of our tax money on a Wii. We like to play games together and a Wii is just so much fun you cant go wrong. The kids can even play witch is nice too. Its easy enough for Sky and Justin just rocks at Bowling (his first game he bowled a 182).

Well last night my sister was over, Mick was playing Wii bowling with Justin, Skyla and my Nephew Jessie were running around playing and My sister was helping me put together a DVD bookshelf we just bought. SO the house was just crazy. All of a sudden out of the corner of my eye I see Skyla run out of the room and before I could look up she ran behind Mick right as he was swinging his arm back to bowl. I looked up all the way just in time to see Sky get whacked right in the eye with Micks hand and the Wii controller.

So here are some Pics of her pretty black eye. She didnt cry to much and after about 30min of Mick totally babying her she was fine and wanted to play Wii too LOL. Needless to say when we play now we make sure there isnt anything else going on in the house.

Even with a black eye she still has some stand out gorges Blue eyes.

My Valentine's XOXOX

Last night I was at my book club from about 7-9pm. Boy did I have some busy bee's at home wile I was gone. Mick did some art with the kids and they all YES even Mick made me Valentine's cards. Justin did his all by himself it has lots of cut out heart's and he even took scrap paper and glued them together to make a rose. He did such a good job it was really impressive to see how creative he is becoming. Skyla gave me a cute paper that she drew a pic on and colored, cant tell what it is but hay she is 2 it was still really sweet.Mick made me a WONDERFUL card it made me cry. He wrote such a sweet little paragraph to me and even found a old pic of me and him from about 7 years ago and glued it to the inside. It was so sweet, but he made me promise I wouldn't show it to anyone but he didn't say I couldn't tell you all about it :).I love my family. XOXOXOXOX

Justin lost his first pet

Justin has had a hamster for about 3 1/2 years (his name was Hamsterveal from Lilo and stitch). He finally died yesterday 2/13, when we woke up we found him. When Justin got up I had to break the news to him. He took it really well and was ok with the fact he was now in heaven. After school we took him to the open lot next door and buried him, right in the view of Justin's bedroom window (so when he looks out he can see him and remember all the fun he had with him, Justin's Idea). Once we got back the kids got to play outside with their friends Jack and Nate. Justin seemed to be fine and getting over his loss so I thought.

When it was time to go home we got up stairs and he broke down BIG TIME! This was the first time Justin has ever lost something (besides fish witch he thinks are fun to flush). It was so hard to see him cry and feel the pain of losing something he loved. The worst part was I knew I couldn't do this for him and he just had to go through this. This hit me pretty hard as I realized he is growing up and I cant make everything go away for him. He has to feel and go through these things by himself. The only thing I can do is be there for him when he needs a hug or kind word.

Last night at bookclub we got on the subject of helping your kids be independent. I really though about how I can start stepping back a little and let Justin do more on his own. He is going to be 6 years old in March he isn't a baby anymore. As hard as it is for me to let loses my grip even more then I all ready do, I know I have too. Man I hate my kids growing up, know matter how old they get I don't think I will ever be ready for it.

I looked out my window and what did I see?.......

3 house's getting leveled to the ground right by me :) These pics were taken right outside the kids bedroom window. We had a great view and the kids just thought this was the coolest thing ever.

It only took about 5min for them to get the house completely torn down. Pretty cool thing to watch.

For those of you who dont know this used to be a really trashy trailer park. There is also a Brick building about 100 feet away the used to be a bar so as you can imagine it used to be really bad. About 2 years ago someone bought the land and cleaned it all out except for the 3 house and Bar (witch is about 30 feet from the Becks living room window). It has just sat like this for the passed 2 years. Its nice to see them finally doing something with it, but Im not looking forward to all the construction noise. I'll just be glad once there all done with it.

Skyla and Jesus's play date

We drove by the church (her castle as sky calls it) the other day (fri), just driving by on our way to a store. She asked if we were going in and I told her no it wasnt time for church, thats on sunday in 2 days. She started yelling and crying saying she wanted to go to church and go to nursery to play toys and color. I tried again to explain to her No one was there so we couldnt go. She got mad at me and didnt talk to me for just about the rest of the day unless she wanted something to eat.

When Mick came home she asked him If she could go see Jesus. Mick told her she could see a pic of him and gave her a small pic we had on the wall by her bed for her to hold. She got mad and started crying and saying she wanted to go to Jesus house and see him. So we told her Jesus is in heaven with Heavenly Father and we cant see him right now. O my goodness that just made the whole situation worse! Needless to say this went on just about all night.

Finally in bed I was laying with her and she asked again if she could go see Jesus. I told her we would ask Heavenly Father in her prayers if she could go see him and that made her happy. So we said her prayers and she fell asleep with no problem.

My kids are sleep talkers and with Justin you can even talk to him and he will answer its really funny. So in the middle of the night last night (wednesday) out of no were Skyla yells "Hi Jesus" in her sleep. When she woke up this morning she went off about her and Jesus went to the park and he pushed her on the swings. Then they said "WEEEEE" as they went down a "swide" (slide hehe). I asked her if she had fun and she said she loves Jesus and cant wait to see him again.

I know Heavenly Father answers our prayers. It may not be the answer we want but he still answers just the same, but I guess when it comes to kids prayers he goes all out :)

Proud Mom

Justin has really taken to school this year, he is just enjoying every new challenge his teacher can throw at him. The best part is he LOVES it. He loves the work he does in class and even doing his homework ( I better enjoy this part wile I can). One of his fave things to do right now is to write sentences. They are writing sentences in class now along with writing shot stories and drawing a pic to go along with their story.

SO last night we are playing with the kids in their room and Justin is drawing pictures on his magna-doodle. After about 15 min of him drawing pic after pic he gets up and goes in the living room and yells at us to not come in. So Mick and I are playing with Skyla and about 2 min later Justin comes back in with a huge grin on his face. He turns his magna-doodle over and revels a wonderful sentence that he wrote all by himself with NO HELP AT ALL!!! He even spelled all the words right all by himself. Then he drew a pic of me and him smiling. "I like my mom" How can you not love that. He said he would have put I "love" my mom but he didn't know how to spell love :)

Coming from a family that runs high with dyslexia, and having it myself ( and hating school because of it) you have no idea how worried I have been that Justin would have it and struggle in school because of it. I have been setting myself up to hear the words that he has a problem, just in case he did have it....... I'm so glad to be wrong!