Beach Photos

This has been the best week! Lance has his boys for the month of July, and while it has been challenging keeping up with his two small kids and my three big ones, it has been the most fun I have had in quite a while. This week, Lance and I had to give the graduation test to the seniors who failed it and so we had to be at the school from 8-11 everyday. Hope watched the boys for us, and outside of a poopie diaper she could not bring herself to change, she did a great job and everyone got along very well. I thought Trey would be impatient and jealous of all the attention two little ones require, but he was excellent and played with them and seemed to really like them. Zane, the oldest, is quite difficult to deal with sometimes. He has Aspberger's - a mild form of Autism - and can get fixated on something and freak out, but overall he is an excellent kid. Eli is three and the cutest little angel. Lance and I worked so well together and kept the kids entertained while entertaining each other. I have never laughed so much at silly little things. We went to the park at the Y one day and Zane loves to race, so I told him we would race while his dad worked out. The race was supposed to be to a slide, but Zane went the wrong way, so I won the race. He was furious and said, "Girls can't win! You should let me win! Girls can't win!" Immediately I said, "Yes, girls can win and I just won." We had to have a long talk about girl power. When we got home I felt bad so I told him I would race him to my front door. Well we take off and I guess I caught my foot on the edge of the sidewalk and feel down. Lance was standing behind me and, as I laid on my back, he came and checked on me. I fel like a big idiot. I was not hurt, but I was mortified. After I began to laugh, he felt it was OK to join in. He said it was a good thing I laughed because he did not think he could hold it in much longer. I now have a new nickname - Stumblebunny. We also took them to the library. That was a treat! Zane was so excited to be in a room full of books, and with excitement comes running and yelling. The library guy was not pleased. He kept calling the boys "Sweeties" and suggesting they use their "inside voices." He was to uptight to be a children's librarian and we had a good time enjoying his discomfort. Which leads me to a list of plans we have for future fun:

(1) Take the boys back to the library and sit in the back of the children's section and read while the boys run wild until the guy is forced to come and get us to do something about the children. Shouldn't take long . . .
(2) Get t-shirts with our pictures on the front and on the back have "Cookiepuss loves Hotboy (our most frequently used nicknames) and wear them to social occasions so we can make our friends even sicker of us than they already are.
(3) We are both going to join Lance's friends in a fantasy football league. We are throwing around some names - Lance says maybe he could be Jocks and Jill's and I could be Jill's and Jocks, but I want mine to be "Baum's Bitches' Ballers" - either way we will make the others sick.
(4) We have also talked about getting married, but decided that we would revisit the issue on July 16, 2008. We both agreed that we would both do it now, but it would be best to wait a little longer. Lance bought me a 2008 calender and circled July 16th. Even though it feels like we have been together for a very long time, we've only been talking since the first week of May and never really got serious until near the end of May. But we both know that nothing before has felt like this. Lance loves to say that everything before us has been preparation for what we have together. I agree, but I wish I could have so many years back. Anyway, below are the pictures from the perfect beach day of last week.