Memo to Mommy

I found this in Parents Magazine (September 2008)

You have a lot of lessons to teach your little one, but he has a few words of wisdom for you too.

"Stop freaking out about the mess! There's always time to clean-but how often do we get to make mud pies?"

"Love me, even when I'm naughty. I'll only be this age once."

"Be patient. I do everything for a reason, but I don't know enough words yet to give you an explanation."

"Let me do it. I know you can do it faster and better, but sometimes experience is the best teacher."

"Don't expect too much of me. I want to do what you ask and make you happy, but I'm still little."

"Don't try to reason with me when I'm having a tantrum. Trust me-I can't hear you over my own screaming."

"Keep your promises. It's all about trust. When I'm a teenager, you'll understand why it's so important."

"Don't keep asking me if I've been good. I'm not even sure what that means, but if I was bad I'd never admit it!"

"Don't let me think that you are perfect. I feel a lot better knowing I'm not the only one who makes mistakes sometimes."

"Set limits. I can't actually eat a whole box of cookies-I just want to see if I'd get away with it"

My little "kitty"

Today I was reorganizing the boys toy room and Z came across this cute little outfit mixed in with some gifts that were being stored in that room. It was meant for one of our nieces. (She had outgrown it by the time we gave her the gift. ) He said he was being a baby kitty-pretty smart given the print on the shirt. He also said the skirt was shorts since there were attached shorts underneath.

He kept it on until dad, coach and his brother came home from school. Daddy was not very happy with his little guy, but also understood where he would have come up with the idea.

I didn't mind since he thought it was a costume and not a little girls outfit. Play and make believe is important so we just had fun and didn't make a big deal out of it.

We survived our first week of school.

Well we made it through the first week of school with out too many problems. We had TIRED boys who were somewhat crabby!

N doesn't talk much about what goes on at school but he is having fun!

Tonight is the first home Varsity Football game. The boys will be all dressed in their authentic Patriot jerseys ready to cheer on the home team. Grandma and Granpa D and Grandpa B will also be attending.

We will keep you posted on the game and will also post a pic of the boys

First Day of School 2008

Today was the first day of school...2nd Grade!!!!!

N decided he wanted to ride with Daddy today so mom couldn't follow the bus up to school :(

I did take pictures of them in the front of the house before they left. Z was still sleeping so it wouldn't have worked to travel to school.

I have found that boys aren't very talkative about certain things. The day gets summarized pretty quickly but then throughout the day you can trick them into giving you more information.

He is pretty pumped about being able to stay with Dad after school and go to football practice. And Thursday's are almost as good as Fridays (game night) because he gets to eat dinner with the team.

It was so cute -- Last night on the way home from camp he was reviewing all of the paperwork we needed to send back in to his teacher and was taking it all pretty seriously. Now if I was to sit down with him and tell him the rules and all of the other info he wouldn't have listened but since he read it himself it had new meaning to him. He was such a big boy. I was very proud of him.

Happy 4th Birthday!!!

Our little guy turned 4 last Wednesday!! We had his party on Friday night. He was soo cute. He said he wanted to have a Hulk/Princess (Barbie) birthday party because the girls would not like Hulk. So we did half n half. What a little sweetie. The weather was beautiful so we really didn't have to have any formal games-the kids just played outside. Anne & Chris were able to get home to celebrate with us too!

I was pretty Martha-ish too. I made a chocolate cake and frosting from scratch as well as a different frosting for my store bought cupcake mix. I thought they both turned out well. I did buy Z trick candles so when they didn't go out all of the kids started to help. I guess that wasn't a great idea --who wanted to eat spit that flew across the top of his cake. I didn't get any pictures of the cakes since my husband went back out to play bean bag game while we did cake ( I had the video recorder).

Our niece was sweet enough to help Z read all of his cards before he opened them. He was very patient and looked at each card as they read them.

We then of course let both boys stay up really late that night so we had crabby boys the next morning.

Oh how quickly they grow up...