All Hail to Wichita

It is good to live in the land of cheap gasoline! I even get a 2 cent discount here with my Dillon's card. I paid $1.75 more/gallon than this in Phoenix before we left and we drove ALOT more there than we do here. I've been going to post this for a few days, but the gas keeps dropping. So, this may even go lower too. (Oh, and don't be hatin' that we have a Fred Meyer Jewelry in our GROCERY store!)

Pickle Update

As I mentioned, my kids usually turn their noses up at pickles. However, yesterday Paige had a "change of heart" when she found out they were selling them. They usually sell these items at the end of the day, so I took my .50 with me when I picked Paige up from school. When she comes out, she is frantically running out of the building and says that she needs to go to the office to see if there are any pickles left. I give her the money and wait for her outside. A couple of minutes later, she emerges from the building sobbing. Yes...sobbing. Apparently the pickles are gone. They sold them sometime during the day instead at the end of the day. Oopsie. How was I to know a) that they were sold during school and b) that my new pickle-loving daughter would be devistated if she didn't get her dill fix. I feel bad for her, because I couldn't stop laughing at her crying over a pickle. A.Pickle. But, alas, as I stated before, they are on the calendar again soon. This time the money will accompany her in the morning. Sorry, sis! (And no, that is not Paige in the picture. Just a random Google image.)

A Strange Wichita Palate

Paige's school has had a few Friday fundraisers for the 5th graders. We've seen suckers for sale a couple of times. Popcorn has also been sold. So, Paige comes home today with the granddaddy of them all:

Okay, so my kids usually turn their noses up at pickles, so I may be out of the loop. But, do kids usually count giant dill pickles in their list of favorite foods? I guess they have high hopes, because upon further inspection of the school calendar, pickles will be for sale a number of times throughout the rest of the school year. Go figure. Another quirky Wichita way.

Lily aka Sunny Baudelaire

We have a fairly new table...maybe four months old. We would like it to last a very long time, so we are particularly careful with it. Well, as Rob was wiping it after dinner, he noticed that there were some pretty bad scratches on one of the chairs. It only took a split second to realize the culprit......

I think her new nickname should be Sunny. (The biting baby from the Lemony Snicket series of books.) Apparently, she has been hiding out under the table and sharpening her teeth, among other things.

ANTM, Here I Come!

Okay, so not really. Yesterday was a really hard day. Lily really put me through the ringer with a cold on top of her teething. Needless to say, it was an ugly, smelly, frumpy mommy day. After dinner, Paige and I were watching the end of America's Next Top Model and Paige says, "Mommy, why don't you go on this show?" May my sweet, naive six-year-old never turn sixteen. It was nice to know that she thinks I'm "fierce".

Kansas = Sunflowers

I thought that I would start sharing some things that we are learning about Kansas, so our friends and family could experience some of our discoveries with us. The first is this: before we moved here, I found out that Kansas is the Sunflower State. I admit that having the sunflower represent where I would live was one of the few positive aspects of moving here. (Sorry, Rob.) I love sunflowers. They remind me of my Grandpa Francom, who grew huge sunflowers in his garden every year. (The kind that produce the seeds we eat.) I also love the feeling they project. Anything with the word sun in it warms up the room. (Okay...maybe not sunburn.) So, upon moving here, I now fully understand why this is the Sunflower State.They use the sunflower in EVERYTHING here. From their state flag,

to welcoming you,

to their sporting events,

and even in the police logo. You literally see them scattered on the side of almost every road, even in town. So, if their is ever a place that you could get sick of them, we have found it. Lucky for me that I love them.

1st Day of Preschool

I'm a little behind, but Caleb started preschool last week. He has been talking about going to school since Paige started Kindergarten last year. He LOVES it and asks me almost everyday if he gets to go to school today. I can't believe he will start Kindergarten himself next year. Two kids in school!!!