Wish Us Luck!

Although it may look like Rebecca had a terrible injury to her thumbs, let me assure you she is just fine. We are in the middle of trying to break the thumb sucking habit. I started by using a bad tasting polish on them and she just sucked it right off. Then I tried wrapping her thumbs in medical tape, but she just sucked them with the tape on. Tonight I wrapped her thumbs up with paper towels and put the medical tape over that. We'll see how that works. She keeps telling me she is a big girls and doesn't suck her thumb anymore, but once she's asleep, in it goes. Hopefully curbing this habit now will help keep her orthodontic costs down in the coming years!

Go Cards!

Today, on what I believe is the hottest day of the year so far, I took the kids to a Cardinals game. We had awesome seats, 4 rows up in right field. Unfortunately it was so hot, the kids couldn't sit down. Even with piles of napkins on their seats they were still too hot. Luckily, they are short enough that standing, they didn't get in the way of the people behind us.

Natalie didn't want her picture taken.

I have a friend who does the sound for the games, so he invited us up to the Scroreboard Room to see the behind the scenes action of the sound and video they show at the games. It was also an air conditioned room, so that was nice.


Our pathetic attempt at a group photo

John was super excited to ride the "train" to the game.

We made it to the 6th inning before deciding it was time to get out of the heat and beat the crowds home. We were winning 4-2 when we left, and that was the final score, so luckily we didn't miss much. I was pretty nervous about taking all 3 kids to the game by myself, but they loved it and were super well behaved. We will definitely do it again next summer, but not a 1:00 game in July. I learned my lesson.

My Little Bobbleheads

Today we had a little indoor fun, as it is way to hot for Mommy to play outside very long. I had seen online that Toys R Us was having a Thomas the Train event, so even though John is a little past his Thomas obsession, we went to check it out. Luckily, it was free, because there was not much to see. The kids colored paper conductor hats and played with a train table for a minute. We had much more fun wandering around the store picking out things the kids want for their birthdays. I don't think they realize how far away their birthdays really are. Our favorite "find" was a huge magnifying glass. We had fun making each other look like bobbleheads.

After Toys R Us we headed to the bowling alley to use our free bowling coupons. The kids racked up impressive scores of in the range of 45-61. It came as no surprise that Natalie wouldn't wear the bowling shoes. They did not match her dress. They were green!! So she bowled in socks, while I crossed my fingers that she wouldn't drop the ball and break her toe. The excitement of bowling was soon lost on her when she realized the slippery floor and socks made for the perfect place to practice her spins and splits. Luckily there was only one other person there bowling, and judging by her scores that rivaled the kids, we weren't disturbing some professional out for a day of quiet practice.

Interesting conversation while having our nutritious lunch of corndogs at the bowling alley.

John: Why do we always have milk at dinner?

Me: Because it's healthy.

John: I know where milk comes from. A cow.

Me: Yep.

Rebecca: Yeah, they pee it out!

Me: Uhhh....no they don't.

Natalie: Does the farmer know that?

Tomorrow I am taking the kids to a baseball game. 3 kids, 1:00 game, in right field with no shade, while under a heat advisory...this should be interesting.