loving this!!

I am so doing this with my boys

Ethan's first day of school

Ethan, I can't believe you are old enough to be leaving me!!  enough of that though, you are so excited to go to school.  when we have gone to fill out paperwork and other things you always get upset when we have to leave, so... I am going to be ok with you going to school because I know you're going to love it!!  Today was just a practice day.  We both went to your school today and listened to what the teacher had in store for you for the rest of the year.  You just sat there very quietly, looking really bored, not playing with any of the puzzles on the table or anything while the teacher talked to the parents.  While I know you are excited I can also tell you're worried to be away from me as well.  At night we have conversations about whether or not you'll be able to call me if you want to come home.  You've even thought about it enough to ask whether the teacher will dial the number for you so you can come home if you want to.  But I know that you'll get into the whole routine of things and not need to call me to come home:)  I love you!!

Mason's first un-day of school

Mom:  "Ethan it's time to go to school"
Mason: (all excited) "I go to school too"
Ethan: "Mason, that's silly, you're too little to go to school"
Mason: "No Ethan, I not too little"
Mom: "Macy, you're 2 years old, when you're 5 years old you can go to school"
Mason: "Nooooooooooooo, I go to school" (cry cry cry)

poop?

I decided not to post a picture with this :)

So ... my boys have loved loved loved playing in my flower beds this year. Lately it's almost become intolerable for me, but I take a deep breath and tell myself that it's not that big of a deal.
On Monday I sent my bathed and dressed (hair combed, teeth brushed) children outside to get in the car while I packed Zach into his car seat for his dr.'s appt., it had rained the night before, and when I brought the baby out both Ethan and Mason were covered in mud!!! (it was all in their hair and their nice clothes needed stain treatments etc. etc.) GGGGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRR

however that story does not even compare to my next.

Last night we brought the boys in for the night around 8 p.m. and decided they had to have a bath before bed because they were covered in dirt. well, as I'm taking Mason's diaper off I groan when I see that he has a really bad poopy diaper, but as I'm folding the diaper up I see little sticks ... like what you would see if you put some mulch on your flowerbeds and so I investigate thinking that he had eaten dirt and I was seeing the product of it in his diaper ... at this point I was thinking that he had eaten a LOT of dirt!! well Spencer was brave enough to smell it and then when he gave the all clear I didn't believe him so I cautiously smelled it myself. The conclusion: he or Ethan had filled his diaper, sometime earlier in the day with dirt and after it mixed with liquid it looked exactly like poop minus the sticks, but was in fact just a whole lot of dirt!!!!!

New baby in Staten family:)

and then my parents had 5 grand kids:)  My youngest brother had his first baby yesterday and gave my boys a boy cousin ... thank you for that ... lol

First day of weight loss

Alright, this is the first day of my 4 month goal to lose the baby weight.  I'm not sure the timing is just right (with spencer going back to work today) but when is it ever ...  right?  I'm hoping to lose 40 lbs in 4 months, so I can buy some cute clothes for Christmas:)  I heard it takes 9 months to put it on and 9 months to take it off ... we'll see, I'm still hoping to do it in 4
wish me luck

disappointed with Target photos

So I got all my boys ready this morning (quite the challenge) and took them over to Target for Mason's blessing pictures and our first kids pictures ... well, we had a photographer that did not even try to get my kids to smile and kept telling me that the picture was cute ... rushing me to move on. I will admit that I started to cry by the end of the session because there wasn't a single picture that I liked enough to buy (bought them anyway) so ... afterwards I took my boys up to a photo location I like to shoot at hoping that at noon I'd be able to find some ok light and luckily we did and I got some photos that I'll actually put on my walls. I ask myself why i worry about less than perfect photos when I shoot for other people!! How many times have I been to target or kiddie kandids and not gotten a single picture that I liked. gggggggrrrrrrrr at least it turned out ok in the end!!