Oh yes...I qualify!!!!

See....I won an award!!!! Just kidding!!! I actually recently started reading this blog and saw this lovely award and felt I was quite deserving myself. My special qualifications for such recognition includes not achieving daily goals/chores because it's more important to be on the computer checking out other people's lives (read: blogs), very rarely commenting on said blogs since I really am busy and should be getting x, y, and z done, and also often not answering/acknowledging comments on my own blog. ( I swear angel jem I will respond one of these days!). So for these reasons and more, I nominated myself and won! Of course plenty of people can win....as I understand anyone is welcome to copy the button and list your reasons for being an award winning guilty blogger!

Sugar Hangover??

So Mason has informed me throughout the day today that he didn't feel good. And yet, he has gladly continued to dig into the Easter candy and listens to nothing I say about so much candy giving him a tummy ache! Matthew has ate his fair share of candy today too; and at this point I have let them have a lot and now it will be time to put some serious limits on the candy and detox my children. The kids really enjoyed Easter this year though, both egg hunts they did (one on Friday with Grandma Leslee and one on Sunday at Grandma Wade's house) and the thrill of their baskets from the Easter Bunny! And Matthew was very good (and very warned! last year he got into all of Mason's candy and toys before Mason had a chance to even see the basket) and didn't touch any of Mason's basket until Mason came downstairs to see it. So at least the kids were happy and now the parents pay for all the sweets that are being consumed.

On a side note, Mason has done so well with his big boy bed! Apparently, we caged him for too long in the crib (although I still sometimes think I would like to keep him there until he is 21!) but he loves his bed and actually stays in it when he wakes up until I come and get him. Yay!!!! So far, so good, because I was sure we were about to have a party boy at 3 a.m. every night.

Signs of Spring

These pics were taken last week....if I would have taken pictures yesterday since it was absolutely gorgeous ....completely sunny and 77 degrees out! The downer of course is that Andy and I are both miserable with a nasty cold. So the kids were outside enjoying the sunshine but Andy and I sat inside and complained, a lot! :) Hopefully we will both feel much better by tomorrow and hopefully the kids feel good too. (so far, so good on the kid front) Happy Spring and Happy Easter everybody!!

Big Boy Bed!!

So today the big boy bed was delivered and assembled and I have a very excited boy!! :) Mason immediately demanded all his crib paraphernalia to be placed on his bed and was disappointed that we had to leave right away to take Matthew to school. But he informed me that we would come back right after dropping Matthew off to "sit on my new bed!". So far we are trying out a nap on it (at the moment he isn't sleeping but I'm trying to be patient!) and we will see how night time goes....I actually am a bit nervous for this because we have had almost 2 years of restful nights but we paid for that with Mason's first year. Seriously, he didn't sleep through the night consistently until he was about 13 months old! He still doesn't really sleep through the night....often at 3 am if I wake up I will hear him playing in his crib. So now I'm hoping he will be willing to stay in his bed (or at least his room) during the night. The truth of how this all works out will be revealed in a couple of weeks...meaning if I'm totally exhausted, he isn't cooperating!

100 Days of Kindergarten

So when I was a kid I am almost certain that we did not celebrate being in school for 100 days (maybe in this day of school budget shortfalls it is something to be celebrated but I guess that's a whole other subject!). But apparently it is a thing to celebrate, particularly for the kindergarten set and so I volunteered for the classroom that day. (Someone actually volunteered to take Mason, Thanks Kate!) There was a huge air of excitement that day and although I actually do enjoy being in the classroom and helping out with the kids, this day was particularly fun! The kids had their 5th grade buddies with them and started off the day making a "fruit loop" necklace with of course 100 fruit loops. I helped set up the tables with Karin (Robert's mom) and there were art projects, books, "100" goggles that they could decorate, and a snack they made with 10 different ingredients so it equaled out to 100. It was very cute and sweet and the 5th graders actually really made a difference in keeping everything from getting too chaotic. Besides, the 5th graders were a bit subdued anyway since on that Friday they were celebrating Dr. Suess's birthday and they got to come to school in comfy reading clothes...i.e. slippers, p.j.'s, whatever. I wish I would have thought to bring my camera with me but I obviously forgot so I had to make do with a picture of Matthew at home, afterschool.


Cute, huh?!!! This all took place on March 1st but I still just had to blog about it!! The Fruit Loop necklace is on Matthew along with his pretzel necklace. On that day of school the kids needed to bring in any sort of collection of 100 things. Matthew originally wanted to bring in 100 pennies but I really wanted something that he had to work a little harder at. So I encouraged him to make a popcorn necklace (and yes I had visions of us happily stringing popcorn together...which I should have know that it wouldn't have been so fun or happy) but me being quite the procrastinator that week, I waited until the last minute and wouldn't you know we did not have one popcorn seed in the house. That is a total and unbelievable sin, considering my husband is a total popcorn freak!! So a quick last minute change of plans evolved into a pretzel necklace and it actually worked out pretty good.

ahhhh...spring break

It's finally spring break....no running around this Monday morning!! No trying to find everyone's shoes and get out the door on time...no panicking that we are going to be late for school and what to fix for dinner! (as for dinner...yes I still have to cook it but at least it's at a much more leisurely pace than what is normal for a Monday) We don't even have a whole lot planned for this week....sure there are projects I would like to get done but I've decided I'm going to (try) not to panic about any of them! Matthew was really sick over the weekend (fever and throwing up, oh joy!) so not a whole lot got done there either. I'm kind of waiting to see if Mason is going to come down with whatever it was Matthew had (which by the way he feels much better and is currently over at Grandma Dee Dee's playing) but so far Mason seems to be just his normal self. I'll post pictures later....:)

Gifts from Louise

Louise gave the boys their Christmas gifts (yes it's late but that's ok....have you ever seen any kid complain about unexpected gifts??) which actually she sent home with me after work last week. Needless to say, the boys were thrilled and enjoyed their new toys, candy, and corn curls! Actually, the boys have acquired a lot of new toys in the last couple weeks...new stuff from Louise and then today we went up to Toys-r-Us to spend gift cards that are left from Christmas. Oh my...$90.00 for each kid, that is a lot of stuff that on one hand I really didn't want to bother with. But the kids came home with tons of toys (or so it feels like) and I feel the need to clean out the toyboxes...again. I think we have finally just about used up the gift cards from Christmas and I hope we are done buying so much stuff for awhile. But the kids are happy and actually Andy is happy they have a bunch of new stuff since he is hoping that it keeps them busy and entertained for most of the day tomorrow while I'm at work! ;)

March 17th

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!!!


By the way....the bear Matthew is holding is one he got at "Build-a-Bear" a couple of weeks ago from a gift certificate that was from Christmas. But I bet you all will never guess this bears name.....any guess's ...huh???? This is no joke...Matthew named him Valentine!!!! Yep....that's Matthew! :)