Construction-struction what's your function.

Position -  Construction drivers, operate vehicles involved in the construction industry, such as forklifts, dump trucks, cement mixer trucks, asphalt rollers, crew buses and fuel trucks.

Skills required - Must be 18 yrs and older with a valid state drivers license.   No experience neccessary.

Working conditions - Dirty. 

Benefits - You get to be adored, respected and idolized by every child born after the year 1997 who will scream and wave at you frantically as they pass by.  Even if you aren't operating your digger at the time they pass.  (you don't even have to be present to be admired for what you do)   Big white 12 passenger vans cars full of revering children will stop on the side of the road to watch you move dirt.   and will no less scream when they leave.

Pay - Who cares how much you make with those kinds of benefits.

This also applies to Garbage truck drivers, street cleaners, Firetrucks, ambulance, oh hell...anything with a siren on it not excluding tow trucks.   If it's got wheels.   you got benefits.
Just sayin'.

Stop and go driving...and slow down and slow down and point keep pointing until everyone is looking in the same direction, hurry before we pass it....THAT IS A BIG DIGGER !

This is what our lives have become on the open road.

And trust me.  There are A LOTTA diggers on the roads.

Conversations between friends !

Scene : 6pm Wednesday night, doorbell rings.   Spencer and Cameron run to open it, revealing their friend Max from across the street.

Cameron : Hi Max.
Spencer : Max, we can't play.
Max : Hi.
Cameron : Yeah, we can't play.  We're going to our grandma's for treats.
Spencer : Yeah, ah grandma's.  We're leaving.   Bye Max.
Max : I can come in and play still.
Spencer : no Max, we ah leaving.
Cam : yeah Max. we're leaving.
Spencer : Max, look at my eye, it's bleeding !
Cameron : yeah, look at my lip it's bleeding !
Spencer : Cameron scratched my face.
Cameron : Spencer kicked me.
Max : Hey look, a spider.
Spencer : Come on Max.  Come in.
Cameron : yeah, come in.

and....scene.

Thing is.  We were never going to grandma's house.   Although coincidentally 2 minutes after this conversation grandma called on her way home from Grandma A's  and is going to stop by.  
The other thing is, Spencer and Cameron were both bleeding from being scratched and kicked.

They are now pushing Max on an office chair through out my house screaming bloody murder.   The babies just joined in for the hell of it.

It'll probably never be "wordless" on Wednesdays :)

This is kinda like feeding the birds, only with much bigger teeth.

horse : "mmm, you look like a big orange carrot"

Ryan : "maaahhh-uuuum, he's lookin at me funny"

open, open, open, open, oh gosh oh gosh

aaaaah, oh my gosh, aaaaaah

but he finally did it. he fed the horse. albeit,looking kinda like a horse.

and then we played and visited.....

Thank you Ratchel :), for letting us play at your SUPER nice, oh my holy mother of mary, please don't touch that, or that, or that...house ! 

The kids are still talking about the horses, the dance room with the lights and the drinking fountain :)

Conversations, sweet and simply put.

We're in the car on our way to gymnastics.   Sydney says, "let's play a new game.  These are the rules.  I will think of a word and give you a clue.   Then, you have to guess the word.  ok.  The clue is, it's in your heart."
Me : "blood"
Syd : "no"
Me : "arteries"
Syd : "no"
Me : "valves"
Syd : "no mom.  it's IN your heart"
Me : "muscle ?"
Syd : "NO !"
Me : "I give up. What is it ?"
Syd : "Love mom.  Love is in your heart."
Simple and pure.

Syd is still having night terrors, just about every night.   Last night was no different.
They had been going on and off for maybe an hour.   
Cam appears at my bedside, 1/2 asleep and with the sweetest little voice says,  "mama, Sydney is calling you, she needs you"
Me : "I know buddy.  Thanks, I'll go see what she needs"
Cam : "ok"  and off he goes back to bed.   
I think had he been more awake he would have said, "MOM !  Sydney has only been screaming for you for the last HOUR.  Do you think you can go in there and take care of her already ?   I'm not transitioning in to a nice REM sleep with all of this screaming going on.   GEEZE !"
Or something like that.
I thought it was sweet that he was concerned about his sister enough to get up.   come in my room.  and tell me.   My little protector.

Mommy J, by Syd

It's uncanny really ! :)

Face it....

Fart sounds are always funny when you are 3.

Aunt Susan's chicken house !

Sydney and Jan flew to Aunt Susan's house in Seattle for the weekend.   
Aunt Susan has some property and on that property she has.  chickens.   and eggs.  
Sydney named them and asked if it was time to feed them or collect eggs all.day.long.

And then Syd prayed to the rain God's to leave her bonfire alone....just until the smores were done.

Ok, so it wasn't so much a prayer, as a dance.

That oughta do it.

And then there was Cousin Jen.  Who Syd loves with all of her heart !

Syd also did her own hair.  Who says you can have too much of a good thing.   Nice combination of headbands, ponytails and flowers kiddo.

Sydney had so much fun and talked non stop about it all when she got home.  

She did have to acclimate to our house, more so her brothers and by the next day I was ready to send her back on the plane to Seattle.   But we all settled back in to our routine.

Syd says that she's going back when Susan get's baby chicks for her to hold.

Next time....I'm going too :) 

Cameron is my comedian.   He will try anything to make us laugh.   Including pulling his pants clear up to his armpits.   There was a little confusion as to my request, but I think it just made for a better ending.  Get it.  end.ing.  You will !

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Spring Party at grandma A's

I don't know why, but I loved this picture of Cameron sorting his eggs in the garden.  I only wished I would have had his face in it.

If you wait. and hide. and are far enough away. you can sometimes capture a rare and amazing picture of the man smiling.

Not a lot of pictures of Ry-guy...because he was a tired grandma's boy and wanted to be held the whole time.

Looks promising.

And then not so much.

So much fun at Great Grandma Argyle's house.