The 4 Year Old's New Normal

Were you worried that Beebs was going to be bored now that the brothers are back in school?

Let me put you at ease.

Her schedule has more mandatory meetings on it than mine does.  I'm teaching her early that "being busy" equals "has value in this world."  Jaykay.  Although you might think so looking at what she's got going on these days.  She doesn't know the order of the days of the week but she knows which day is what.  For her it goes:

Church Day

School Day

Dance & School Day

Gymnastics & School Day

School Day

No School but the Brothers Are At School Day

Nobody goes to School Day!/JBird Football Day/TBone Soccer Game Day

That's how we talk about the days of the week and that's how you need to refer to those days in her presence, btw.  Or she'll get confused.

School Days:

First day of PreK was on Tuesday of this week.  It will be Monday-Thursday 12:30-3pm.

Quickly getting to work on mastering shapes.  It was sort of an in-your-faces to the other kids.

I won't be here smiling & posing every school day.  Just the first.

Her BFF will be though.

Dance & School Days:

Beebs has now moved up to Ballet/TapII which basically means she could go on SYTYCD if she were old enough.  Perfect form is all I see here.  This will be Tuesdays at 10am.

This pic makes me giggle.

RFTP shot here.

Ah...look who is here again!  The BFF!  

Gymnastics & School Days:

I can't get enough of her leotards.  She shall wear them Wednesdays at 10am.

The BFF is in this class too but I don't have any shots of them together.  I will remedy that soon enough.

Now seeing this 4yo's schedule all laid out like this I'm realizing it's ridiculous.  I think I need to work on changing a couple of those days to "Nap Day" and "Sit Around & Watch Tom and Jerry Day."

In Focus: Report: 90% Of Waking Hours Spent Staring At Glowing Rectangles

That was an Onion tweet a couple of days ago.  It made me lollerz because, at that moment I was staring at a glowing triangle which is of course the joke.


My eyes are buuuuggin.   I've had tons of screen time in the last little while and I'm afraid it's causing irreparable damage to my vision.


a) I've been working on this:

That's the cover of the latest edition to US Yearly: The Anderson Family News Magazine. (photo by Chrissi Richards Photography!) So exciting!!  It's really fun to put together as people send me their photos and text for me to put all together.  But it does require some serious amounts of computer time.  I even had to make a temporary "office" out of the dining room.  Anyway, I just published it and it should be coming in the mail any day.  We are only three issues into it and I already cannot believe how much has changed since the first issue.  (Pssst...this is what I do to not feel guilty about not doing any family history work. kthanksbye).


b) I am speaking in church tomorrow.  Ugh.  So I've been on lds.org reading various articles, looking for stuff I can cut & paste, etc.  I can't wait to check this off my list as DONE, btw.  The constant nagging in the back of my brain is getting tiresome. 


c) I've discovered a new fun app (thanks to Jespy) called Charadium.  It's like having a Pictionary game night at your house where you invite all your friends over and lollerz.  Except you don't have to come up with any finger foods, diet sodas or actually talk to any one of your friends.  Perfect!  Download it ASAP, add me as a friend (landeelu, duh) and let's do this.  


d) I'm working on a new blog banner for my blog.  Aren't you so sick of this one?  Me too.

e) I've been watching the World Cup NON STOP!!!  Just kidding.  Could those horns they blow the entire time be any more annoying?  Intolerable.  Plus boring.  Bad combo.   But I have watched the Glee finale three times now. 


So yeah.


Tired eyes from staring at glowing rectangles 90% of the time.  

It's Their Own Fault

I get home from the grocery store and go to put some things in the cupboard.  I start moving some boxes around to make room and I discover THIS:

ALL. EMPTY.

I hope they like peanut butter on a spoon and canned peaches for a snack.