Another Ice Day!

The alarm went off at 6AM, I turned on the TV to see if the arctic blast had landed and school is closed.  Sure enough, another day off from school, so I rolled back over and went to sleep.  8:00 AM, we are awoken by screaming children.  Screaming at each other, I should say.  It went something like this.....

Christian:  Caroline get off me
Caroline:  I'm stretching
Christian:  I was here first
Caroline:  I'm stretching
Christian:  Get your legs off of me, I was here first
Caroline:  I'm stretching
Christian:  Shut up....
Caroline:  Screaming louder, Daddy, Christian said Shut up
Randy:  I guess I will go referee
Randy:  guys we are going to be couped up again today, so we are going to have to get along..
Christian:  I was here first
Caroline:  I was stretching
Christian:  Get off me
Caroline:  I was stretching
Randy:  Both of you back to your rooms
Christian:  See what you did Caroline!

Joy, Joy, Joy, I'm looking forward to the day!! 

Happy Birthday Randy

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RANDY

The festivities began with birthday waffles

Presents after school...

then off to Dave & Busters for dinner and games.  Have you been to D&B lately?  It's like walking into a casino in Vegas.  We hadn't been in years and it has changed a lot and I must say for the better.  Full bar, adult games, seating for dinner in the game room, and everything is bright, shiny and new.  Now all we have to do is convince the kids that it is WAY BETTER than Chuck E Cheese!!  Happy Birthday honey, I love you!!

100 Years Old

Yesterday was the 100th day of school, so first grade got to dress up like they were 100 years old. 

He was absolutely hilarious, all hunched over with his hand on his back and leaning onto his cane.  He walked all the way from the car to the classroom in that position.  He was the best dressed old man for sure!



It's Snowing!!

Ice, ice go away, but this fluffy white stuff is pretty cool!!

Christian prepared for a snowball fight.... He lined up all his snowballs in preparation for the assault he had planned for Randy.

 

If you're wondering about the football pants....It is because today at school they were supposed to have football Friday, tailgating and all.  He came downstairs this morning dressed in his Aggie jersey and football pants asking for his shoulder pads.  He wasn't about to miss football Friday, school or not!!  I sure hope this boy makes A LOT of money one day playing sports, because if he doesn't make a career out of his passion, he's going to be TOUGH to be married to.  I can just hear it now, umm, excuse me could you move your head, I can't see the score.  Wanna know why I think that, because he's done it to me!

Anyway, back to the snow...

It was beautiful, but the forecast calls for 40 degrees tomorrow.  I feel like celebrating!!  I don't know where I'm going to go, but I assure you I won't be home!!

Happy New Year!!

I know it's February already, but since I haven't posted since October , yikes, I thought I would wish you all a Happy New Year and welcome you to the 2011 edition of the blog.  Now, I'm not making any New Year's resolutions this year, because quite frankly, I am apparantly unable to keep them!!  However, I have been up since 4am this morning working on my blog, couldn't sleep, and I do plan on resuming some postings this year. 

Update so far.....School has been out three days due to freezing temperatures and ice.  Apparently, more snow is forecasted for tonight.  You know all those days that I complain about the weather man missing the forecast....I'd like to retract all complaints and have him miss this next arctic blast that is scheduled for tonight.  I really want the kids to return to school, immediately!!!  I turned 41 a couple of days ago.  I cannot believe it's been a year since my big 40 extravaganza in LA.  We rang in 41 more relaxed this year.  I'd like that to be my forecast for this year. 

 Christian also had a birthday in early January, he turned 7.  My boy is growing up.  We started the day with our Schlieker family birthday tradition of cupcakes for breakfast.

The party this year was a flag football game.  The Aggies vs. Longhorns!  Very cool, if I do say so myself.
Caroline participated as our one and only cheerleader!!

16 boys came out to celebrate Christian's special day, it was awesome. 

Tooth Fairy

Christian got a little more than he bargained for at a recent baseball practice.  He took a ball in the face and it knocked out one of his teeth.  Once the drama of the incident was over, he was super excited because that means the tooth fairy is coming with cash!

I wasn't at practice so he carefully saved the tooth until I got home to see it.  Sometime in the very few minutes from the time I got home and time to put the tooth under the pillow.....he lost it.  Have you ever searched the floor of your house for something so small and same color as your tile????  We did, for about an hour.  I don't know what happened to that thing, but he was melting down, and we had to think of something.  A letter to the tooth fairy.

He was so afraid that the tooth fairy wouldn't believe him!!  The next morning I was about to be worst mom

of the year for sure.  Randy woke me up at 6AM to ask if I had switched the note for some money.  I

have never flown out of bed so fast, luckily he was still sound asleep.

Classic Christian

Each classroom in the upper school at CU is located in a habitat.  This year Christian's class is located in the Europe habitat.  As a means to have some control over the wild Indians of Europe, Mrs. Reyna has developed a reward/punishment system.  Each student has the opportunity to earn German francs throughout the week for following directions, using good manners, playing nice with the other Indians, you get the idea, and conversely loses them for behaviors that are less than desirable. 

We have just completed the third week of school and already Christian has figured out how to "work" the system.  I've never said the child isn't bright!!  Wednesday of this week he announces that he has earned six francs for the week already. Apparently he had earned an extra one for being patient.  Really???  Patient, we were dumbfounded the child is the exact opposite of patient.  I really don't know where he gets that
from. :)   He is delighted in his accomplishment, and he announces that means he can be "bad" one time Thursday and still have the required five francs on Friday that is required in order to go to the treasure box.  Sure enough, this morning he tells us that he lost a franc on Thursday and that all he has to do is be good enough not to lose any more francs, and he's golden for the treasure box.  Now does the kid know how to work it or what?  I know the day is coming, all to fast, where he will stop telling on himself, but for now it's really pretty fascinating to hear how his mind works.

Megan our guest blogger

Please give a warm welcome to our guest blogger, my niece, Megan!!!!!  I needed to attend the parent meeting for first grade this week, but Randy is in Connecticut, Roxanne was sick, grandma and grandpa in Colorado, Pop and Mimi in New Mexico, GrandMary and Pop Schlieker in Temple, and our friends have kids they need to put to bed in their own beds, so........what's a girl to do, but call in the most loved cousin Megan!!!!!

When I got home she had some of the best little tidbits from her night with the little darlings, especially Miss Muffett.  So, here is her guest blog.......  Thank you Megan!!!

I want to start this blog with a confession....I am the worst babysitter on earth!  Complete pushover from the word go, and I was a little bit nervous starting my venture with my two favorite children, Christian and Caroline.  I walked in knowing if they could smell fear, it would be a very long night.


We started the adventure off by eating dinner.  Everything was going great except for a particular green vegetable (broccoli) that the kids weren't too interested in.  Not one second after Mom left they started hitting me up for dessert.  Caroline begins this request saying "ummmm Meg, we already had ice cream today, but sometimes Mom will let us have dessert if we eat all of our macaroni".  Christian supported this statement, and I proceeded to call Mom to see if this was ok.  Kim answered the phone with a chuckle probably thinking "I haven't even gotten out of the driveway yet"!  She agreed, but said they must eat all of their broccoli before dessert is given.  I threw out my best lines of "Christian, broccoli will give you strong muscles" and "Caroline, broccoli makes your hair long and beautiful, don't you want that"?  They agreed and suffered through it to get their dessert.


I would also like to make a special shout out to Christian who was the ultimate dream child!  I hardly knew he was there unless I had to ask one of the many questions about Caroline.  He decided he wanted to shower early so he could watch a movie while I got little C ready for bed.  He was gone in a flash and back down showered, teeth brushed and pajamas on.  While Christian was doing this Caroline decided she wanted to play horsey where she proceeded to whip chocolate chip cookie and sugar cookie (stuffed dogs) with a belt (as well as me a few times) so they would giddy up, as I pounded on the floor making running sounds.  Next was the bath time, although she decided to take a shower and wanted to "play" a little bit.  I didn't know play meant washing her arms probably around 20 times as I pleaded that she wash the rest of her body so we could wash her hair and proceed on to story time.  After many, many minutes I finally convinced her to hurry up!


I rounded up the troops and told them to pick out books.  Christian decided he just wanted to go to bed without a story, which prompted Caroline to say "Meg, Mom reads me two books if brother goes to bed early".  I thought ohhh of course she does!  We started to read, and she made sure to correct me of how to say "Poodlelina" and "Goldilicious" the proper way.  We finished the first book, and she was already hitting me up for more..."Meg, can we maybe ready these books twice"?  And of course who gave in immediately?  ME!


Finally, it was bedtime.  I climbed in bed with little C, by request, as she talked and talked about everything she could think of, fighting her heavy eyes.  I decided to pretend that I was sleeping so I closed my eyes and stopped responding to her.  As I laid there I got this feeling that someone was staring at me.  I open my eyes to find two crystal blue eyes three inches from my face.  I started laughing, as did she, and finally she gave up the fight and fell asleep.


I had an absolute blast with the little angels.  I hope that when they grow up and read this entry they will be filled with as much laughter as I have.  Love you C&C!!

Lost post from Tello this summer

Better Late than Never…


It’s time to play catch up! Whew…its week 5 of summer fun with Christian, Caroline, and Will

and everyone is still accounted for! We have had some fun.

Week 2 of summer was full of camps for all three kids! Will and Christian had Camp Thurman

and loved it! Miss C had Princess Dance Camp every morning, and almost every afternoon

she had a play date with Nina, her best friend who was also in camp with her. Let me tell you

those two little ladies together are a force to be reckoned with. I would give the options of

activities to do and they would say we want to do it all, of course we have time to have lunch,

play dress up, play at the park, swim, go to Chuck E Cheese, and play with puppies in all of 3

hours time before it was time to pick the boys up from Camp Thurman. All in all a busy week!

Week 3 Vacation Bible Camp for Everyone! There were smiles and tears this week. Everyone

enjoyed it but had their own ways of showing it. The boys would walk in go straight to their

teacher, Caroline on the other hand would hold on to me for dear life and cry a little but every

afternoon when I would pick her up she would have a big smile on her face and show me all of

her art work she done for the day! The boys enjoyed it, every afternoon when I picked them up

them would be soaked with water because they were sooo hot outside their class would have a

water fight. Yeah for VBC!

Week 4 Boys have basketball camp! Camp wasn’t great the first day but got better as the week

went on. The boys weren’t sure about camp because there were some older big boys who

weren’t so nice but everything got better. I do believe the highlight of camp was going to the

snack stand and getting snacks. I would ask how basketball was and I would hear “I got pizza

and skittles” or “I need more money for snacks”.

On Wednesday after camp we went on an adventure to Fossil Rim and the kids LOVED it and

I on the other hand would not use that as my word of description. As we went through the

scenic trail the rain came down but it didn’t stop us or the animals. The kids fed and touched

every animal. I was a little freaked when I could feel the deer breath down my neck from the

back seat. I mistakenly said aloud “I don’t like this” and a voice from the back seat says “well

Ms. Botello you chose this, so maybe you made a bad choice of coming” thanks Christian!

All that matters is that the kids loved it, and I would take them again and I feel like I overcame

some fears too!

Quotes from the Kids

Christian to Will “Will always ask your dad for money because dads give more money then

moms”

Will to Ms.Botello “Ms, Botello when a man smiles at you he thinks you’re pretty”

Week 5 more to come….

Back to School

My little boy, isn't so little anymore, weighing in at 70 lbs., measuring 4' 5" tall, wearing a size 10 shorts and size 3.5 shoe as he begins first grade.  I'd try to keep him from growing so fast, but he's too big to hold anymore. 

Miss Muffett is no small fry herself.  Weighing in at 50 lbs., measuring 3'6" tall, wearing a size 5 dress and size 13 shoe as she begins pre-K.  We don't grow them small in the Schlieker house.

Christian is over the moon because his buddy Erik is in his class this year.  Lots of new faces, mostly boys, in Caroline's class.  She's thrilled, as she is unbelievably boy crazy. 

Christian's First grade teacher, Mrs. Reyna

Caroline's Pre-K teacher, Mrs. Powell

It's going to be a great year!!