Baking...

Check out my bakers! Aren't they cute? I think so..... We had some scheduling problems for tomorrow and the birthday cake had to get made.....so.....that left me to do it. The boys wanted to help so bad anyways so it worked out. After dinner, I told them they could help. It is amazing at how good of listeners they are when they want to do something. They were huge helpers. Thankfully, the cake recipe called for 3 eggs so each of them got to crack an egg. I think I got out what fell in but guess we'll find out tomorrow. Then they wanted to stir. So each got a spoon and they stirred until their little hearts were content. And yes, I got out my camera. These are some of the best birthday memories in the making.

Ahh......

It seems that I am catching up rather than writing every night. I need to get better at that again. The boys are all doing well. They are enjoying the nice days, the bath tub enjoys them at night and they are all excited to be done with school in a couple of weeks.

Cody and Dylan had their Kindergarten registration last week. All went well. It was kind of sur-real actually. As I was sitting in the hallway, I could look off to my left and Dylan was in with the speech therapist, then I looked right and Cody was in with the teacher. I got a big ole tear in my eye. It's so hard to believe that they are going to Kindergarten in just a couple months and our school days are starting. The march upward to that big ole Graduation day! There will be little Graduations before that of course but it just is hard to imagine they are this old. Some days it seems like they are still those little babies that were always wanting to be fed at the same time, changed at the same time, etc.

What else....hmmm...this is what I get for trying to remember. I can't remember what I did an hour ago let alone a couple days ago. We had an uneventful weekend. Cookout and bom fire at the Smith's. A lazy Sunday with a sick Cody. Thankfully he feels better today.

T-ball tonight. The boys did good. Dylan has been hitting left handed and is doing wonderful. Everybody has commented how well he is doing and the coach calls him "lefty" and he thinks that is kind of funny. Thanks to Grandpa Jim for straightening him around. He was so proud last week after his game he had to come home and call him.

Tyler is doing great. He is turning 4 in a couple of weeks and we are going to have a really cool firetruck birthday party.

Till next time....

Dylan lost his 1st tooth

Yeah! Dylan lost his first tooth on Sunday! It has been loose for a while and he has worked at it. His adult tooth had started to come up behind it and we knew it wasn't long before the tooth fairy needed to visit. I can't believe he is 5 and lost a tooth already. The tooth had been very loose and just lying there but he wouldn't let us near it. He did however let John David near it (his cousin) and he grabbed it and it was all but out. The blood came and the look of shock came over Dylan. Brett grabbed a wet cloth and out it came. Yeah - the first tooth is out! The tooth fairy came and brought him $5. Some people thought this was a bit much. Whatever! Seriously, what can you buy for under $5 that is worth anything. So....check out this toothless grin! :)

Dylan holding his tooth for the tooth fairy...
And it's out...He's so happy...you can see the adult tooth already up behind it. Now it has room to move into position.

Weekend Catch Up

We spend the Memorial Weekend in Cuba at the in-laws. It wasn't exactly a fantastic trip home but the kids had lots of fun playing outside, seeing the animals, playing with their cousins, etc....and I didn't have to do much house work allowing me to soak up some sun rays and read a magazine.

We did however have some highlights from the weekend. For some Saturday night fun we went with Grandpa to get ice cream and then came back and got out the tee to hit some balls around the yard. Dylan was soaking in every word that Grandpa said. We had told him that Grandpa used to coach Brett and with Grandpa's help they got him hitting off the tee even better. He's now batting left handed and doing really well at it. Keeps his foot planted and can smack it pretty good. Then he showed him how to get "set" in the outfield waiting for the ball. Dylan really enjoyed that special time. Sunday we got the see all the Bradley's (Brett's sister and family) for a cook out and a birthday celebration for Nicole and Daniel. The kids were dying to get into the pool so in they went. It was cold but kids could care less. Dylan picked right up where he left off last summer - swimming like a fish. Cody seemed to move up a notch. He actually ventured away from the sides and experienced the whole pool. Tyler put water wings on so that was also a step up. I can't wait for more swimming days ahead.

So all in all a good weekend. I have some other feelings to post but those will have to wait for another day when my thoughts are more collected.

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And just how cute is this....There are times when they want to pumel each other to the ground, take their toys from each other to hear the other cry.....BUT...they love each other 100%

One of THOSE days

My day started out typical....hit the snooze on the alarm until the last possible minute. Then roll out of bed to get ready. Just to look forward to fighting with the boys to wake them up and get them ready. Once they are awake they are monsters and all the while I am trying to keep them quite not to wake Brett and Tyler up - who are so lucky to still be sleeping. Off to school we go and all is well. I decided not to have Tyler to go to school today so I could use my lunch hour to do errands instead of going to pick him up.

So at work, the managers were away so the mice must play. I did accomplish some major stuff but then Michelle, Jeff and I decided it was time to finally switch my cell phone over to my new phone. Not really new, new but new to me. Michelle gave me a flip phone so now I can text and write on a keyboard instead of punching the stupid button 4 times to get an 's'. So we are online and it's going smoothly until the very last screen where I forgot to change the number. Mind you I had only changed it 3 other times on the website. So we continue and yep, I de-activated Brett's phone. Oops. So I had to call him and get some numbers and it wouldn't work. Had to call Verizon directly for their help. Except I'm not "authorized"....so Brett had to add me and when the lady asked him if there way anything else she could help him with he just said "yah, help my wife fix my phone". Through it all I did get a "your amazing" from my husband. I think he was being sarcastic! :)

Then I was covering the reception desk (as our office was short staffed) and wouldn't I get a call from our CEO. He's a great man but aging and is around 80+ , his normal helpers weren't in the office and he asked "who else can help me get a flight"............darn it - that would be me! So I spent the day worrying about that and hoping he gets on his flight tomorrow morning.

At lunch I ran my errands and one of them consisted of going to Wegman's to get some snacks for our trip to grandma and grandpa's. As I was loading the groceries into my car - do I not realize in the cart, next to my purse is a bottle of hairspray I had picked up. And no, it wasn't paid for! OMG - I still feel really bad about that. Then I was waiting for store security to come and yell at me. Honest mistake really!

Finished out my "work" day......printing out Tyler's birthday invitations. Just to realize that I never put the date down on the invite. His birthday falls on a Saturday this year and so the party is on that day. I'm still shocked that everybody doesn't know when Tyler's birthday is....kidding.....so I had to many printed that I just had to write it in. UGH!

As I was driving home and heading to the highway do I not realize that I needed to go to the bank. So had to take a little detour. Tonight has just been crazy as I am packing to go to the in-laws and I have no idea what to pack. Wondering what the weather is really going to be like.

So I had one of "THOSE" days and I probably was trying to accomplish one to many things today. As soon as my kids fall asleep - I am going to go sit and relax in QUITE!

Happy Memorial Day!

2nd Game - kind of commical

So tonight's game was a little bit more interesting. Not sure if we got better or took a step back. The first snag came when we learned the coach wasn't coming. I guess he had to work. So that is tough as the assistant coach was there but he didn't have the line up, didn't know what team we were playing, and the kids really don't know him. And there are way to many kids for 1 person. They have a hard enough time listening to a couple. So....Daddy got to be helper tonight. Which when it was over Brett said he wasn't sure if he could do that all the time. Some of these kids I have no idea why they are playing. I realize that none of them are fantastic and it's not the pro's and these kids are just starting BUT when they won't listen at all, they don't stay on the field, they are off doing god knows what and the parents are no where to be found. It makes it super tough. Me along with a few other mom's feel like we are stepping in. So just those couple of kids make it very hard to keep order amongst the others. Seriously, the parents should see that they have 0% interest in the game and should just go with that. I would!

Dylan hitting....
Cody hittingIn the outfield with Dad....Yes, Brett is dressed up...that's because he was able to come on his lunch. And here is about the funniest thing I have seen in a super long time. Leave it to my children...We are up to bat for the first time in the game..because we didn't have the line up sheet Brett suggested we just bat in number order. So that means Dylan goes first. So he hits and runs to first. GREAT! Then it's Cody's turn. He hits and on his way to first - Dylan should be going to second. Instead, Dylan take a tiny detour and gets the ball in the outfield and throw it to first! OUT! :) LOL......yah, we needed to remind Dylan that they are on the same team and that he shouldn't try to get his brother out. That is what the other team is there to do. OMG!! To freaking funny!

So I'm hoping that next Thursday the kids can get back to a normal game. Hopefully the coach is there.

Field Trip - Part 2

On Wednesday both classes met at Pizza Uno for a fun field trip of making pizza and getting a tour of the restaurant. The kids love this as they can have hands on making their own pizza. And what kid doesn't like pizza! The pizza's were super yummy too! Thankfully the kids share! :)