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~i opened the lid on the toilet in the boys' bathroom the other to sit down and found a rooster and a hen staring back at me. plastic of course. thank goodness i looked before i peed on them!

~out of the blue the other afternoon, monkey turned to me and said "i want to go swimming in the ocean mommy!" hmmm, me too! maybe we will have to make that happen in the distant (but not too distant future).

~i'm currently sitting in my bed typing with the window open listening to the rain fall quietly. except for my yellow lab, sam, who i can hear snoring. i don't know how shiloh (our chocolate pooch) puts up with it. i would have kicked him out long ago! thank goodness hubs only snores when he's had a few brew ha ha's. those days are few and far between now!

~i love the smell of rain!

~i love june for many reasons. but one of the main reasons is that i get a little dose of home for two weeks thanks to espn's coverage of the college world series on tv. the boys of summer. the ting of the metal bat. the desert dome large and magnificent in the background. beautiful midwestern blue skies. good ole' rosenblatt stadium. so many memories i have of the cws and that stadium. sad to see it moving somewhere new. please take zesto's with you. it really won't be the same without!

~i had my wall all prepped and ready for it's fabulous face lift the other day when i went to go find my roller and pan. nope not where they should be. not in the garage or the shed. then i remembered hubby using them this summer to paint the shed. i'm sure they were actually no where to be found on our property but instead buried in the landfill. urgh!!!!

~me and the mower had a moment (or 500 yesterday). you would have thought i was a sailor for the words that were coming out of my mouth aimed straight at that stinkin' mower. it started when i couldn't get it to back down the ramp. then i didn't even get around the backyard once and it had lost it's belt. after 15 minutes and two dogs licking my face, legs, and smelling my butt (tmi...sorry), i discovered the teeny tiny sticker that shows you the track the belt must take. enter swear words. then it's chute kept plugging up and consequently the cut grass was dropping in big huge clumps around the yard instead of dropping into the bins like it's suppose to. i won't bore you with the rest of the details. just suffice it to say....i didn't dare start up the weed whip because it probably would have landed on the moon at some point!

~i'm ready to go to warm weather. i'm tired of dressing the boys in long pants and long sleeves. it's depressing. for goodness sakes, i was wearing my fleece coat today when we went to see the fire truck. and it was still chilly! maybe i should delete my comment from above about loving the smell of rain.....

~as i was getting bug dressed after his bath last night, i asked monkey to start picking up the tub toys and putting them in the bucket. his reply, "no thanks mommy. i'm still playing in the tub!" does he get points for being polite about not doing what his mommy asks? hmmmm!! toddlers!

~poor little bug. he has cut three teeth in 10 days with two more soon to make their appearance. thank goodness you don't remember this time in your life for that very reason. he's such a trooper about it too!!

~monkey just makes my heart melt when he randomly out of the blue kisses things. we finished reading his book the other night (ironically, where do kisses come from?) and he leaned over and kissed each member of the fox family that was on the last page. so cute! he will kiss the computer screen when we are skyping with my parents too! makes his grandma's heart melt too!