Today we went to the Waterpark with Medline. It was our first planned activity for work. It went really well.. except that they did not tell me that they did not take checks.. UMMM HELLO.. that may have been something they want to put on the contract. They ended up taking them.. but duh.. really.

Anyway we were there from 1-4. Tanner had fun with Will and Addison. He even went down the water slide by himself... it took a bit .. and he saw that the other kids were doing it.. and then he decided it was ok too.

I am sure he will sleep well tonight!

Last night I took Tanner to the Monster Truck jam at 5 Flags. Man it was loud. But Tanner loved it. He watched the Monster Truck portions... all of it. But there was also quad racing and motorcycles racing.. and he was only mildly interested in that.

They can really fly up in the air and at times are almost perpendicular. I could not believe that they did not flip over backwards!

Today Rick took him to some basketball games at Walhert! And he ran and ran and ran! Thus he is now taking a nap. It been a very quiet day here.. Tanner and Rick were gone from 12-3. and at about 4 he fell asleep.

Sunday we have a Medline Activity at the Grand Resort Waterpark. Tanner is pretty excited to go! It will be nice to do something different.

Today.. although... its SNOWING OUT! WTH! there is really like 3 inches on the ground... so not happy about that. Thankfully its supposed to be 50 on Monday so it will all melt away. I did pack most of my stuff for the Scrap weekend I (and Michele and Jamie) are headed to on the 3rd. We are headed to Coralville. Its just a crop.. but its with Reminisce, one of my favorite companies :)

Well I am headed to take a bath.. as my neck and shoulder are really hurting me. I must have slept wrong!

Well we have decided to start giving Tanner an allowance.. of sorts. I had a nice long talk with him about cleaning up his toys.. because quite frankly I am tired of putting them away. I know I am a clean freak.. but geeezzzz.. he is insane and gets so much out at a time, and I think he knows that if he doesn't clean it up mom will because it drives me nuts.

Soooooo... with us planning on going to Disney I came up with a plan to get him to clean up his toys, brush his teeth, eat all his food.. and so on. If he is good all day and does everything he is supposed to he will get a Disney Dollar. (He calls them Mickey dollars) He knows that he can only use these in Disney and I told him he could buy whatever he wanted with them. I also told him that if he is naughty and did not behave.. we can take a Mickey dollar away. I was going to order some Disney dollars online so that they were the actual ones... but it is a cost of 14.00 for shipping and handling.. otherwise they are 1.00 for 1.00. So I found the pics of them online and printed them in word and cut them apart. So I figure I will add up what he has and then actually change them for Disney Dollars when we get there!

I hope this works and he begins to pick up his toys and brush his teeth ect ect everyday. I guess that it could get costly.. but we were taking spending money anyway and it would have been spent on him so he will just get to choose what he wants. I guess after our trip we will have to give him a real allowance!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU>> HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! Its my dads b-day today.

Tanner signed and wrote out his card all by himself. All I had to do was tell him how to spell Papa.... which by the way he noticed was a pattern!

Tanner has been busy with his new gymnastics and his new level. Its hard for him.. but then there is less time to screw around... which is good. He also took an art class on Robots last Saturday.

Its been super nice out so we have been spending alot of time outside. Today it was 70 out. Yesterday I went and bought Tanner a scooter.. and elbow and knee pads. He is learning to ride it and getting better! He is use to a 3 wheel one and this one is only 2. We played a bit of Soccer in the backyard today as well. he has befriend the neighbor girl Emily. Today he said he like to play with her because she is so pretty! She is in kindergarten this year .. so just a bit older then him. He loves to play with her.. and her swingset!

Papa and Grandma had him out side for a couple hours as well. They played with a remote control car, airplane, rode a big wheel, play be Frisbee and baseball, and swang on the swing! It was a busy afternoon at the Hoerstmans!

The leprechaun came to Tanners school today and lead them on a hunt around the center.. to a pot of gold candy! But then when they got back to their room.. that darn leprechaun had messed it all up! it was to cute when he was explaining it!

We had a mostly lazy weekend. It was great! Saturday.. I cleaned the house.. scrubbed the floors, cleaned both bathrooms and in general tidied the house. I also spent sometime on the computer and looking for things to keep Tanner occupied on the journey out to Colorado this spring. He is very excited to go. I am going to by a few things every week.. then bust them out on the trip.. so stuff is new. I found a Game boy Advanced for 8.00 on Ebay! Since they have a new version out.. no one wants the old stuff.. but is perfect for Tanner. He will also have his leapster that he loves to play. I wish I could get him to play other games .. other then the Cars.. but maybe on the trip out. I will also pick up some movies at the library since we can have them for 7 days and that is how long we will be gone. I planned out the trip and found a good place to stay. I am hoping to go to Casa Bonita again. We went there with Tanner when he was 9 mos old. He didn't like it then.. but I am sure he will now. They have cliff diving.. and a dinner show. It is pretty fun!

I am currently looking for a tray that Tanner can put over his lap for the drive.. for coloring and such. I have found a few but some are $$$$. I don't want to spend a whole lot on it.

On Sunday.. Tanner and I went to the library. Rick and Tanner also went to Grandma J's to check on the place. They are due back this coming weekend. Tanner watched his movie that we got from the library. He also picked out 2 I Spy books, they kept him busy for a while. (I bought 2 on halfcom for the trip)

Today I was off work and changed the sheets on the beds. I then scrapped booked 14 pages.. I was trying to clean out a bin of kits I had made up. I then made up 40 kits to take to the scrap event that Jamie, Michele and I are going to. I also got to shop at Target ... it was nice and leisurely... I spent an hour there! Tonight I am going to take a bath too.. :)

It was another nice day. When we got home I opened some windows to air out the house a bit. Then Tanner wanted to ride his big wheeler. We went outside to play and he was riding when the neighbor girl came out and wanted Tanner to come over. So he went to Emil's backyard and they rode bikes and played on her big swing set.. (that he has been dying to play on for 2 years) then they decided to come over to our house and play in our backyard. So then 3 other little girls show up... (well there is 1 that is older...) Tanner was a bit sad as I think they (the other gals) were not playing with him much. But Emily was. He said he wanted to come in and read magazines. Then the other girls ran back to their house and then he got sad because they left. Emily had to go home to dinner.. which made him even more sad. LOL This was the first time he went to someone else's house in our neighborhood.

Rick was teasing him and told him he was going to tell Addison that Tanner was playing with another girl... and he said "don't do that... she wont marry me then. "

Well its about time for hockey!

I feel better. I am not sure what the deal was.. and I no longer care. I believe I was right.. I know some of you do not know what I am talking about and that's fine. I just need to put this out there for me. So please skip over this part :) If she was truly going to mail this box.. then why did she wait over a week to mail it out.. and not say anything. If I was selling something to someone I would email them and tell them that I sent 1 box out and another is coming. I also would not wait a full week before sending it, and that is why I don't think she was going to send it. I find it amusing that on her blog she said she sent the box a couple days later... so I guess a couple days in her book is 8 days.
Anyway... today was a gorgeous day! It was 64 out. Tanner went out and rode his big Wheeler! We were outside for quite a bit. He then went on the deck and red some magazines in a chair. He is very excited for it to be nice out. Then again.. so are we!

Yeah for Tanner. He is moving up a level in Gymnastics. He will be attending the begining class instead of the Preschool Class. His teacher, Debbie, says that he is strong enough to move up. He is very excited as he will now be back with Cameron and Isaac.