Snapshots of our days

Noah's Party - playing flag football

Ethan's last soccer game

Field Day at School

Someone please explain...

Please explain to me why my boys cannot replace the toilet paper. I can, their dad can, but they seem to not notice. Why?

A Perfect Check-Up

David and Noah had their 6 month dental check-up today. It went so much better than Ethan's. They both received a perfect check-up and I didn't receive any mommy guilt! The boys also had a snow day and we may have another one on Tuesday. I look at snow days as mixed blessings. We get to sleep in but then the boys are home all day long! I sent them out in the snow to play twice today so I had a little break.

Glad to be a Woman

My oldest son is camping this weekend with the Boy Scouts. They are tent camping and the high for Saturday and Sunday is supposed to be 30 degrees. For this, I am glad I am a woman and do not have to chaperon.

Stimulation Overload

My 3 boys are all on stimulation overload. Besides playing too many hours with all their new electronic gadgets, they are also spending a few days hanging out with cousins at our house. There are currently 6 kids in my house, 5 are boys and 1 girl. It's noisy, chaotic and fun all at the same time.

How many days left?

Today is the first day of Christmas break for the boys. They kept busy for most of the day and have now reached the "I don't know what to do" portion of the day. Noah cleaned his room - and he's our pack rat. He did this on his own mind you, I am so proud. David cleaned their bathroom and vacuumed the 1st and 2nd floors. Ethan put away his clothes and made his bed. After lunch, Noah had a saxophone lesson and sounds much better thanks to Zach. We have friends coming over in 2 hours for dinner and yet, they don't know what to do. I am already thinking of what we can do tomorrow to fend off the "I don't know what to do"s. Oh, they found something, I hear them jumping upstairs - my guess is it's off of David's futon. Sigh.

Baby it's cold outside!

Brrrr! I am listening to the wind howling outside of our windows and seeing some snow flurries. Oh, I wish we had a fireplace right now. This would be a good day to stay inside and hide under the covers, but with 3 boys, that doesn't happen often. It has been a busy day already for our household and it's only lunchtime. I took David and Noah to school (before the sun came up) since they had their band instruments. I then took Ethan for a routine ENT check-up and left with a prescription for antibiotics. His virus that I blogged about before is now a sinus infection. Took him to school - hey no fever, he goes to school. I am meeting a friend for a quick lunch, then off to pick up the older two after school to go to David's physical therapy session. Rush home, get Ethan off the bus, do homework and then we are all going to Costco. I hope they have some yummy samples today - like chocolate!

My Little Pumpkins

Say It Ain't So

This afternoon as I was looking thru my 7th grader's papers from school, I found this on the back of one: Preston (heart shape) Karis. BTW that is his name at school - don't ask. My heart went a little south at seeing that. I remember writing stuff like that in school, but now my kid is - ugh! I feel old.