UGH!! I am officially OLD!!!!!

I went to the doctor today to have my yearly physical. I was telling this new doctor that I have been having some pain in my back when the kids try to climb on my back or just bump my lower back. It feels like a sharp stabbing pain so I am thinking it is a horrible knot in my muscles or some weird nerve thing. But alas, it is ol' arthritis!!! YUCK! I also tell him about a pain in my right toe and in my knee (knee I suspected because I injured in back in high school during my one and only ski trip). He has prescribed some naproxen and this evening I am actually feeling a lot better, just hating to have to admit the old part!

On another note, the other night I was up watching TV and Miko was still awake and just jabbering away about this and that and I ask her "Miko, how come you're so cute?" As a mom I am thinking because she is mine and she looks like me but the response I get is..... "Cuz you're not!" I am flabbergasted, and say "Hey, that's not nice!" her reply is "you're not cute, you're a mommy!" From the mouths of babes! I guess mommies can't be cute, we are just mommies. Well at least she had learned to be honest, that I must be happy about.

Evanslee turns 8 this weekend and I cannot believe it. She is getting so mature, she is at the age of wants to play but then feels too old to play with toys. I took her to WalMart to get an idea of what she wanted for her birthday and to my dissatisfaction, no dolls or Barbies, she wants games, animal figurines, and movies. They grow up so fast. The next thing I know boys will be knocking on the door to ask her out on dates, I wonder who will be more upset me or dad, hmmm!

Another funny, this time Caddis, I go on Mondays to his HeadStart class to help the kids pick out a book that they can take home for the week. Some of the books are written in Spanish (most of the class have Hispanic heritage). So I am helping Caddis pick out a book and he insists on a book by Eric Carle with a big gorilla on the front, I do not know the title in English. I proceed to try to convince him that he cannot take it home since it is in Spanish and he insists that that is the book he wants. So finally I give in and tell him well if you take it home only Grandma Alice will be able to read it to you, she is the only one that speaks Spanish. He decides that that is just fine and selects that book for the week. A little while later while I was helping one of the little guys, Caddis comes over and says "don't pick that one it is Chinese!" I about died! The little guy's mom is standing there and overheard our conversation earlier, and I try to explain that it is not Chinese but Spanish to Caddis, his little friend says to me, I can speak Spanish and so can my mom and grandma, even my dad can speak Spanish. I told him that he was very lucky to be able to speak Spanish and he just grinned from ear to ear. I think that impressed his mom. I think she would die to realize that my little blonde boy is 1/4 Hispanic himself. The only clue he has is his brown eyes. I hope that he can one day learn Spanish, his grandmother would be so proud. She did not teach her children to speak Spanish and one of her grandsons served a mission in the Dominician Republic and it tickles her to death to have him call and speak to her in Spanish, she just eats it up. I would love to see Caddis be able to do the same. I just have to get over this hurdle that if he does not understand it, it must be Chinese!