But I’m sure she had a good time with her cousins last night, and they were having a picnic at Neenie and Poppy’s house today, so they could swim with the girls, Syd and Lauryn.

2010

She’s growing up so fast!

I’m so glad our school does both fall and spring pictures, at least for the elementary schools. (The high school doesn’t do spring pictures.)

Last Spring

2009

She looks so much younger in this picture, even though it’s only last’s years.

Happy Wordless Wednesday!

Mom, I loved you yesterday, I love you tomorrow and everyday.
You were there for me my first day of school, to hold my hand and give me courage to go.
You listened to me when I needed to talk, you talked to me when I needed to listen.
You let me grow and learn from my own mistakes.
You never left my side when I was feeling down, I knew you would be there to pick me up.
I wish there was a way I could repay all the things you have done for me, but there’s nothing great enough to repay the greatest mother of all.

Happy Mother’s Day!

]]> http://the-price-family.net/general-ramblings/arianas-stuff/1128/happy-mothers-day/feed 0 http://the-price-family.net/general-ramblings/parenting/1036/seven-years-ago-today http://the-price-family.net/general-ramblings/parenting/1036/seven-years-ago-today#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:43:46 +0000 Haley http://the-price-family.net/?p=1036 This little angel came into our lives…

Ariana Lynn Price

And now she’s already seven? Where did the time go?

Happy Birthday Bee! We Love You!

His Jr/Sr High has 750 kids

of the 750 kids, 260 kids were absent yesterday due to the flu going around our area

The Facts According to Mom:

I have one very sick child at home today, David.

I have one child who saw the opportunity for a day off and took it, simply because her temperature was one degree higher than normal this morning, Ariana.

We have over an inch of snow – and it’s only mid-October.

So why does it amaze me so, the injuries that Ariana gets. She’s only six, yet she’s had about six black eyes, the latest being at Christmas time from hitting her head on Neenie’s glass end table. Her legs are constantly covered in black and blue marks, lately due mostly to her fascination with trying to hop on all the big stones that line our driveway. I swear we could put her into a padded room, and she’d still manage to get hurt somehow!

Today’s injury, apparently wasn’t too bad, as she failed to report it to me until about four hours after it happened, and I have a hard time believing it actually happened. She came to me just a little bit ago and claimed that while she was playing outside this morning a bug flew into her mouth and bit her on the tongue. While I do believe it’s quite possible that she did manage to get a bug in her mouth, I can hardly believe that it actually bit her tongue, or that if it did she didn’t come running immediately to the house screaming horribly, like she does for every other little bump or bruise.

I wonder if it’s possible to get her a plastic bubble – you know, kind of like the one on the Bubble boy movie with Heather Graham?

Woobie and his peanut butter jar...

What showed up at our house when all the grandkids were supposed to be having a sleepover at Neenie and Poppy’s….

The Kids in the garden cart, clockwise from 12, Sydney 8, MacKenzie 1, Ariana 6, Braden (Jakey) 7, Lauryn (Coley) 5... What a handful!

And how they left…

Happy Tuesday!

So there’s been a lot of barking and bawling this morning.  Barking because the dogs want to see Kenz.  Bawling because Kenz isn’t in the mood to see the dogs.  She’s used to dogs a lot smaller than mine, as her puppy at home is about 4 pounds, a little Shitzu.

And all mommy has accomplished this morning is changing diapers, wiping noses, handing out medicine and making sure the four legged kids stay away from the two legged ones.  It looks like it’s going to be a very productive day!

I know adjusting to a new house, with her own bedroom is hard for her, and she’s done amazingly well considering the fact. But I miss sleeping through the night! (hmm… Maybe she’s just trying to get me used to night time wakings, so that I’ll be ready when that new baby sister she wants comes… But I guess first she has to convince daddy that he wants a new baby sister for her first!)

It seems like most nights she ends up in bed with her brother at some point or another. Even if I go re-tuck her in, when I go looking for her in the morning she’s in David’s room, curled up in a ball, with her white dora blanket at the foot of his bed. He doesn’t seem to mind it though.

But I must say, Ariana has got to have better night vision than her mom, because I have to turn on lights so that I don’t run into anything yet. I haven’t got the layout of the new place down pat yet, like I did the old house. But she never turns on a light, and I never hear her run into anything.

Hopefully, now that we’re almost all settled, and she’s been in her own room for two weeks now, she’ll start sleeping through the night again. I guess that’s the life of a mom, after the kids come – a full nights rest is out of the question. Now I only wonder why dad’s still get uninterrupted sleep?

Word of advice – Do your research on an financial institute before signing any documents!

But then we all must live and learn!

After signing the papers at the bank, Grammy and I did some shopping.

We ran into one of my parents neighbors and she informed me that my daughter, Ariana and her grandson, Stevie, are the talk of the school. They are both in kindergarten, and they ride the bus (van) together both morning and night. Judy told me that all the teachers and aides in at the school think that they are just the cutest, because they help each other out so much when they have to transfer from the big school bus to the van at the larger elementary school. Apparently, they hold hands when the cross the drive, and help each other with their backpacks and such. Ariana has been talking about him since the first week of school, now she calls him her best friend and wants to know if they can have a sleep over. Russ, of course, told her no that she can have Stevie over to play but that girls don’t have boys spend the night unless they’re married.

Well today, Ariana was quite upset when she got home from school. I guess her and Stevie got a little rowdy on the van and are no longer allowed to sit together. She’s heart-broken. She fears that she’ll never see him again because they can’t sit together (the van only holds 10 kids).

Oh, to have only the troubles of a kindergarten kid again!

On another note:

I updated our Construction photo album with pictures of the outside of our house. Just try to picture it with grass instead of dirt for the lawns… As someday we hope to have this!

I also added lots of pictures to our Price Family Snapshots, most of which Ariana, whom is having a love affair with the camera lately has taken all by herself. That would be why there are so many of her I guess. There are also pictures of our first fire in the fireplace at the house. Ariana would like to have a fire every night. She’s also taken a few new ones of our bad boys, Jack, Lewy and Woobie.