Kindergarten!

Well, I have fully embraced Kindergarten life! It's been a crazy hectic start, but I actually love it almost as much as AJ does. I am room representative, of course. I tend to volunteer too much! I just want to be known! You know... since Jack will be there next year! ha... Jack is doing very well in preschool. So well, that we will probably not hold him out another year. His July 20th birthday is tricky, but I think he will be ready!

I'm also the PTA chair for the yearbook. Um... have they met me? My kid will be on every page! Oh well, that's what they get. It'll be crazy, but fun.

On these notes, I am soooooooo beyond blessed! I have everything I ever wanted and needed (except a bigger laundry room - 3 boys are dirty!) and a hard working husband which allows me to stay home and do all this extra stuff for/with my boys. Life is good! God is awesome!

Growing Boys

Well... it's happened... AJ has learned how to ride his bike with NO training wheels! I was so proud and happy and clapped for him... Then that nite in the shower, I cried. He is growing up WAY too fast. I know all of us moms feel this way, but it still sucks! I want him to grow and mature and prosper, but I also want him to need me and still be my baby. I guess Jack and Ben are quickly next. I can do this! I can!

Fathers DO NOT get it though. Lindsey sees them and says 'that's my boy'. When I say something about them growing too fast, he says something like 'it's supposed to be that way'. So, we moms must stick together and stop this growing! ha! I wish...

This comes to mind... But the child's mother said, "As surely as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you." 2Kings4:30

I will let them grow, but I will never leave them.

It's FALL!!! Yesterday was Labor Day and a cool 87! We played on the backyard fort all morning! We haven't played on it at all this summer cause it's been too hot and it burns our hineys on the slide! I love Fall...

Well, I have a school goer! AJ started school on Monday and he loves it! I knew he was ready. The first day wasn't as bad for me as I expected. I thought I'd cry, but no tears. However, on the second day, I got misty eyed... My big boy didn't want me to walk him in (which is ok since I had Jack and Ben in the car) but he wanted to be dropped of at the Kindergarten hall. With lunch box and backpack in tow, but looked back and I yelled, 'I love you!' He said it back! How long will that last? I figure by 4th grade I won't even get the glance back... They grow up soooo fast! My mom used to tell me I'd blink and be 30. I never believed her. But here we are, in our 30s with 3 kids that are growing at the speed of light! So is our grocery bill!

More exciting events to come! (I need to be a better blogger... I'll make that my new year's resolution - in September!)

Kindergarten...here we come!

In 5 weeks, I will be sitting here waiting for 3pm to get here to go pick up AJ from his first day at big boy school! 5 weeks!!! This summer is flying by! I'm kinda glad too cause it's soooooo hot! I'm so ready for a cold front and fall and football! Oh and school! AJ will LOVE kindergarten! I will cry and rejoice at the same time!

5 weeks to get my house organized and schedules organized and so on! yay!!

Another picture I just love! We all worked goats at my parent's house and Jack decided he wanted one!

Ok I just had to put this one on here to make me laugh!

Here's all of us at the pool. I look like the Spanish nanny! We had a great time in Bama!

Look at his hands! He is getting soooooo big! This is at the pool in Alabama. We had such a good trip visiting Aunt Kiki and Cuz Coco! We love y'all!

Just getting caught up with pictures. I will eventually get this blogging thing down! This is AJ on the last day of preschool! It was crazy hat day! He's getting so big!!

This is Lindsey's Father's Day prize! These pics are sure to make his day a little happier!

Photo Book

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AJ's last day of preschool & other stuff

Well, it's finally here. Today is AJ's last day of preschool. Next fall he will be a big boy kindergartener. I'm happy and sad at the same time. Happy that he's getting so big and smart and healthy, but sad that he's not my baby anymore (he will always be in some ways my baby!).

I'm the worst blogger ever! I need to make a schedule to do this at least once a week to keep up with all the crazy stuff my boys do!

Ben is so funny! He tattles on his brothers all the time. He will also punch them in the stomach if they mess with him! I see victory in his eyes! He's getting so big too! Just had his 2 year checkup and he's 38 1/2 inches tall and 40 lbs! That is a ginormous 2 year old!

Jack is doing awesome in school and is crazier than ever! We will see what the summer brings :)

Spring is in the air!!

Well, we are back from our Alabama visit. I took Ben on a plane and it was interesting. Thank goodness it was a short flight. AJ and Jack went to G&G's house and gave them the stomach bug. Then as soon as we left Bama, Christy and Corey got it. How did I not get it? I must have Jedi mind powers! I'm so tired though from all the cleaning!

We are playing outside lots more since spring is here. We love this weather! Yesterday it was so windy and we went outside and Jack screamed, 'oh no...a tomado!' It was so funny!!

Puke Puke everywhere Puke...

Holy crap this day has sucked! 2 days ago Ben had a stomach bug all during the night... of course... the night! Today, Jack didn't eat his breakfast. Well, I knew something was wrong cause it's Jack and he ALWAYS eats his breakfast! Here we go... AJ said, 'oh mama, i won't get it.' Bullcrap! He's the worst. He's been puking all evening and is finally settled in the bed only to come in here and say he puked in his bed. Really? Gross dude! Use the trashcan I put right there!!! ugh!

Oh, and so now Ben has diarreah... awesome! So today I've been puked on and sh!t on. #$%^&$&*$#%^@#$% I know I will miss these childhood days, but not this one!!! I'm so tired and oh yah... I feel nauseous. yay! crap!

Wandom Wednesday

Random has been how this morning is going...

Thoughts/Memories: Made egg, spinach, feta cheese omelets for boys for breakfast. Jack and Ben ate and ate... AJ said, 'mama...these smell like feet.' But then ate it anyway... haha

AJ wants to be a fireman... which is awesome except that he just built a StarWars ship/plane out of tiny legos... and it's way better than I could ever do!

Ben is ginormous... that's it...

Blues

Today has been a rough one... Boys have been balls to the wall all morning! My mama and daddy are keeping them for me this weekend (husband away for work) so I can have a break. I hate leaving them but I desperately need a break. I'm about to cry! I want to sleep as late as I want and watch on tv whatever I want, actually sit and eat a real meal and not worry about who needs what and who is spilling what, and take a long bubble bath uninterrupted! So, I need to be selfish at least for one day. They need a break from me too!

I miss my sister so much it sucks big ones! I want to hang with her and drink 'grape juice'! Ok...that's my rant for today...

It's so hard to get to this blogging thing! My kids do funny stuff all the time but we are usually in the middle of it and then I forget!

Well this morning I had had it! I screamed at the top of my lungs for them to listen to me and to mind. AJ then shook his head and said, 'Aw crap... we made crazy mama come out.' I then laughed til I peed. Crazy AJ!

Wow oh Wow oh Wow...going crazy!

Day 3 of snow and ice and NO school or leaving the house! I'm going crazy and so are the boys! We have resorted to making things out of chips and screaming at the top of our lungs. Right now Jack is crying uncontrolably cause he wants a BB gun. Really? So random, or is it? Maybe he wants to shoot me!

We are now watching the 3 stooges. It's so funny! Howevery, I'm sure to see reinactment later in the day, which kinda scares me. I'm just so tired that I don't know what to do. It's like we are bored to death... really, death! I may cry!

The husband came home yesterday from work and looked at the house and I could tell he was thinking, 'what happened here?'. Really? Have you been stuck at home for 3 days with 3 boys? I think not! It's so hard 'explaining' what I (we) do all day. It's like I'm soooooo busy, but do nothing! Crazy life of a mommy/wife I guess.

More crazy...

Last nite I gave Jack some tylenol. I looked at the dosage and it said 46-59lbs AND 6-8yrs. Really? Have they seen Jack? He's 3 and 55lbs! So, what did I do? I gave him the bottle and said, 'Here, take a swig!' I may win mother of the year for that one! Then a couple of days before... Jack wanted to help Ben brush his teeth. Ok you say... Well, Ben comes in the kitchen with Beaudreaux's Butt Paste all over him. Jack said, 'Well, it's paste!' Wow!!

Good Things

Sometimes I forget to be thankful for the good stuff! I have 3 healthy beautiful smart little boys! I have a warm house, a car that goes, and good coffee in my coffee pot! It's so easy to get caught up in the daylies (?) of cleaning, cooking, teaching, disciplining! Sometimes we just need to stop and look at what all we have! There are people out there with way less...

We goin' to Bama!

Can't wait... we are going to visit Kiki and Coco next weekend. Coco's bestie Connor will go with us to help me with my crazy brood! I miss them sooooo much! I wish I had magical powers so we could just blink ourselves there instead of drive the crazy 11 hours!

Oh how my boys make me laugh! (and cry!) Jack crawled up into my bed this morning to 'nuggle' with me. He told me I was his bestest friend! Its was such a sweet moment. I hope when he's 16 he'll still think that! yah right huh!? They are now building forts of blankets and pillows in the living room. AJ, of course, is bossing the others around telling them exactly how to do it while Jack is jumping off of the couch onto the fort, which is pissing AJ all kinds of off! Silly boys!