Rain rain go away...

Im over it.. its been raining for 2 days now.. I hate that wet sticky gross feeling.. I love fall and the leaves and the cool yet not freezing weather-but I HATE rain.

So.. Im going to go to bed tonight hoping for no more rain.. ha, as I type I see the google weather and its looking like rain all week-oh well-theres always hope. :)

Leg pit??

I was putting Bman to bed and he is asking his 1000 questions as he usually does in an effort to keep his eyes open, and he is itching under his arm.... he says-
Mom, this is an armpit right?
I say-yes
he says-so then this (pointing to under his knee) is a leg pit??

HILARIOUS.. I guess I've never thought of that one..

Sleep...

Sleep is something I particularly enjoy doing. I will say it was by far one of the hardest adjustments I had to make when having babies. It took time to get used to running on empty, dont get me wrong-this was something I did often, but it was completley by choice prior to having my first child. We were lucky to have him sleeping all night long by 4 weeks, I think I went back to sleeping all night long by maybe 6 weeks. I unfortunately woke several times to be sure he was still breathing.

there was some time after that initial 6 weeks that I strongly considered NOT doing it again just because I wasnt sure I could handle the sleep deprivation. Clearly-our motto changed and along came AJ. He was a bit longer to sleep all night, but even still-it was about 8 weeks and he was doing great.

We enjoyed approximately 7 months of full nights rest, with the occasional need to get up and locate a stray pacifier-which one can do with hardly opening their eyes.

When AJ turned 9 months old-we totally regressed. He was waking up ALL THE TIME. And now.. to this day-he is 3 1/2 and he still wakes up SCREAMING every night.

I honestly think that if we could sleep the whole night through we wouldnt know what to do with ourselves. Its amazing how you adjust, because I dont often wonder when will this end.. its become normal life.

On occasion-like this morning.. I do sometimes find myself wondering if it will ever end, and if/when it does-am I going to miss it? Am I going to be able to sleep for a full 8 hours-maybe more?! We shall see...

EEK!

AJ has turned into a MONSTER over night.. one day he is this cute sweet little boy, and the next he screams about everything, hits and does anything he can to make his brother mad.

This passed weekend they picked out Halloween costumes and AJ wants to be a devil.. Im wondering if he knows something I dont.. or if maybe he is practicing for the role.

Lets all hope and pray he will "cool it" following the trick or treating at least.

Ill give him until then... maybe :)

Only 2 wheels!

So about 2 weeks ago B-man asked me to take his training wheels from his bike. I did this, and he acted as though his bike was a foreign object by not touching it for a few days. Well I did sneak a few glimpses of him "practicing", but acted as though I didnt notice. Yesterday I was getting the mail and he comes whizzing past me on his bike! I was shocked. My first though was-why are you in the road, and then I realized he was riding his bike all alone with no training wheels!! Such a big day!!

Im back...

Ok, so I have taken a long hiatis. I am back though and ready to do this, or at least make a very hard attempt at it. I have all of these memories and I really want to be able to refer back to them and have some sort of timeline of events to reflect on-this is the perfect outlet for them. So here I am.. and I am about to catch up.

AJ is way out of his crib and the froggie is long gone. He is my little devil-oh so cute yet so mischevious. We are definately in for it with him. B-man has started school-the big step-Kindergarten.

Kindergarten wasnt nearly as tough as I had thought. The Kindergarten screening was more of a battle, in fact-just 2 weeks AFTER school started-we are just finally getting it done. B-man isnt a fan of following direction-or commands shall I say.

I did follow the bus on the first day of school to make sure that he actually GOT OFF of the bus and walked into the school. It was successful.

More recently-school picture day was last week. B-man is NOT a fan of pictures typically, so I didnt have high hopes, although I was hoping to be surprised with a small smile like he did for his pre-school pictures. 8:50--email from the teacher-B-man is refusing. EEK! Final email from Mrs. M-no luck, she tried again and he wasnt having it. He event thought it was "cool" so he was laughing about it with his friends. Not impressed.

Needless to say-we have no wii in this house for 1 week and a box of his fave toys stashed away. I cant wait to see how the shot they did manage to take came out. Lord knows I will have PLENTY of pictures to remind me how they came out.

Well.. enough for now..

ttfn..