School’s out for summer!!!

So summer has started full swing for Ethan , as of Thursday he officially is a second grader- that still sounds sooo weird to me…seems like just couple of weeks ago he was starting pre-K  and now he has finished first grade!!! Time is flying way too fast.

But what better way to kick off summer than doing something fun?!?!? Ethan picked bowling, so Friday morning we heading out to do some bowling. Aaron was home on CQ recovery, but since he is an old man and needs his sleep, we left him home sleeping- kept us busy and house quiet-we all won! As for bowling- I have to admit, that we are terrible at it!!! Ethan actually beat me at our second game, but to defend myself-he did have bumpers! I think bowling is something we are going to be doing a lot this summer- Tuesdays are dollar days- cheap way to keep busy and cool!

sleeping kids and ice cream

  

I just love how peaceful children look when they are sleeping, especially after all the night time routine craziness with baths to take,teeth and gums to brush, books to read,pjs to be put on, cuddles and hugs to give out and then Ethan’s latest thing is to come up with crazy excuses why he shouldn’t go to bed yet. And after they’re both asleep and house in quiet and calm, I feel so relieved yet lonely without the boys…so I go and disturb their sleep by camera flashes.

Earlier in the day we went out for ice cream to make Ethan feel better. At his school he has Accelerated Reader program, where you get points for each book you read. Well this time around Ethan didn’t get the award even though he had the points what required a lot of reading this time around, because he was reading chapter books for the 9-12 age group that were valued only at 1.5 points each(he needs 15 points in 9 weeks and these chapter books took about week and a half each!!!), so we had to catch up by reading extra books to get the points. And after all that his teacher looses his reading log and without it she can’t  prove that he has the needed points!!!  So after all this hard work and no reward from school, it was our turn to make our bestest reader ever make feel better, so Baskin Robbins it was!

SLACKING

 

I have to admit that I have been pretty lazy at doing anything on here, besides spying on people :o) Jack has been going trough some weird phase lately- he’s gone from very good night time sleeper to just about being awake every hour to two hours all trough the night!!! And not necessarily it’s because he is hungry at those times, couple of times he just gets up to play what doesn’t last long if I take him in the room with us and lay him next to me, then he is back asleep within couple of minutes. And on top of that he had his first little cold- just runny nose so it’s not all that bad. And naptimes during the day are getting worse too, on average Jack takes about  3 naps during a day what total out to about an hour, on a good day it might be 2 hours. What a weird little bean he is!!!!

Ethan is getting very excited about school coming to end and his birthday coming up- school ends on the 11th and his birthday is on the June 13th, so he’s counting down days. Last year he didn’t get to finish up school year with his classmates because his legs were still healing from the pit bull attack and same for his birthday, he was still unable to walk and needed occasional pain meds, so he didn’t have a party last year, just some cake and presents. So this year we’ll have to make up for that. Ethan doesn’t want a big party though, he’s decided that in the morning we’ll go to IHop(his very favorite breakfast place) and then to Monkey Joe’s and maybe Chuckie Cheeses  and after that some of his neighborhood friends will come over and have some cake and ice-cream with him. Sounds like a good idea to me- one thing I really do not like is organizing big birthday parties,so thank goodness for Ethan’s idea’s of having good time with us most of the day, yay!!!!

just some pictures

It was so nice outside today..well still is, so why not just sit outside and play in the very overgrown grass in our backyard? So here are some pictures from the boys playing…more like Ethan playing with Jack and Jack staring him down most of the time.

Ethan’s fishing field trip

Today Ethan had a field trip with his class to the NC Wildlife Resources Commission fishing  ponds on Old Raeford road.  It’s a pretty neat program, where you get issued a fishing rod and some worms and can go crazy fishing- good practice for  the real deal. Ethan was so excited this morning that he got up on his own half an hour early, got ready and sat on the couch with his backpack on for just about half an hour waiting to go to the bus stop!!! If we wouldn’t have stopped him he probably would’ve waited at the bus stop that whole time-silly boy! Parents were invited to join in on the joys of fishing, so I packed up Mr.Jack and headed out, what was not too good for Jackson- it overlapped his naptime, so now I’m dealing with the consequences- a grumpy discombobulated baby. All the kids had such a blast and it was quite funny to watch the adults dodge the fishing hooks flying trough the air going every where and what direction.

HAVING  FISHING FUN Ethan did just about got to lift two fish out of the water, but just after we got them above the water surface , they fell right back in the pond! I would imagine that by now those fish are pretty smart, since it is “catch and let go” place. So Ethan was not all that happy about that. He is back in the process of learning that it’s o.k. to not win at all games you play and it’s not a big deal if some your friends got a fish and you didn’t- oh the joys of parenting. But overall it was nice to see my little guy on a school day and just relax outside and do something fun.

Ethan and his teacher Miss Fairley

Mothers day

Mother's day is almost over and what a good day we had- just relaxing and spending time together. Aaron did get called into work in the morning but it wasn't an all day deal- thank goodness!! After he got back we pretty much spent rest of the afternoon cooking out some yummy food and just being silly. Although no one was as silly as Ethan- while Aaron was at the company, he was watching some funny songs on YouTube and all sudden he mooned me!!!! Got all into the song and MOONED ME!!!!! As much as I wanted to laugh my head off , punishment was in pace so he's grounded from his video games for 3 days- not a happy camper, but that will teach him a lesson, wouldn't want him starting doing those kind of things at school or anywhere else in public.

This years best gift was Jack's laugh out loud session, I did take two videos..or so I though, but finds the other one...well I didn't push the button right, but the first one will do. He's starting to really laugh just about anything now. it's so amazing to see Jack's personality come out more and more, he's quite a character already. I am so blessed and privileged to be a mother of these two amazing children!!!!!

been a while

So it has been a while since I blogged!!! But our computer completely gave out 2 days ago and before that for about a week it was not acting right, so to post anything would've been a huge hustle. So we bit the bullet yesterday and just went out and got a new one. We still need to take the old one to a shop to get the pictures and videos out of it- all 4 years worth of them!!! I'm pretty sure that we will be able to get them out (all my fingers are crossed). In a near future we are gonna go trough all of the pics and decide on our favorite ones and print those out, so if anything ever happens with the computer and it crashes to the point of no return we at least have hard copies of our favorite pictures. It will be a huge project but it needs to be done.

Here is a picture with Jack at 15 weeks doing his new thing- eating both of his hands at the same time and Ethan being all silly just before walking out the door to catch his bus to school...gosh, I love those two little men folk!!!!