My Little Puppy Dogs

So another amazing pre school day for Dylan. They were learning about the letter D, so they all got to make doggy ears and a collar and pretend to be little puppies! His teacher is so amazing with him! And seriously have you ever seen such a cute little face?!

Of course once the camera was out my second little man came running (he's definitely not camera shy) and then he needed a turn to wear the puppy ears too! I am dying to see the Halloween crafts she has planned.

Some Fall Fun

Okay so I'm still not too good at consistently blogging but I'm trying. Last week we took the boys to the zoo and they had so much fun. Since we took them on Saturday I just knew the place was going to be crowded so we decided to be there right when they opened, and especially because once it reaches Christopher's nap time there's nothing you can do but stop what ever you're doing and get him home before the mother of all tantrums. So we accomplished our goal. We were there 20 minutes after they opened and we got a parking spot right in the front :) We decided we didn't want to bother with a stroller since the boys would want to be out walking the whole time anyway and planned on using a little monkey back pack leash thing for Chris (Some people are so against those on kids but really once you try it you won't go back. Don't get me wrong parents can use them wrong and drag their kid around.) Anyways we were just going to use ours for Chris but Kelly forgot to grab it as we left the house. So when we got to the zoo we each took a little guy and when it wasn't crowded we ended up giving them a little more freedom and letting them see the park like this.... I couldn't believe how good they did. It was so nice not having a huge stroller to push around and try and get close enough to things for the boys to see. Instead they could walk right up to the fence, glass or whatever and see the animals so much better! Can't wait until they have the new exhibits open next year and when we go again!

Dylan would not go anywhere near the gorilla for some reason so it's just a picture of Chris
gator wrestling

A Mother's Heartbreak

So Dylan has been sick for a week+ now. He's getting better, just a lot slower than I would like. Tuesday I didn't go to work because he was still really sick and I didn't want any chance that he might give what ever he had to the kids I watch. I was so sad that he would miss pre school Tuesday. He loves it. He loves his teacher and playing with all his friends. But I kept my chin up. I thought it's one day, and if I don't tell him he wouldn't know he even had class he can't be upset. Well Thursday came around and he still wasn't better. So instead of me missing work again Kelly called in and stayed home with him while I went to work. This is when my heart really started to break. I got to work and the little boy I watch that is the same age as Dylan kept asking where he was. Then it was time to get Coop ready and walk him to pre school. I was almost in tears walking him to class with out Dylan. I felt like such a baby. I'm dying waiting for him to get better because I don't know if I can handle that again.

I love my little man!

Dylan trouble

Let's go back to last Saturday. I'd gone to bed and woke up to Dylan coughing and hardly breathing and a fever. So this was around midnight and with nothing else open I took him to the ER. There diagnosis was that he had croupe. They gave him a breathing treatment and an oral dose of steroids to help with the swelling and help him be able to get some sleep (and Mommy too) Well he's slowly been getting better but still coughs a lot at night. Since Saturday and since he's not been sleeping very well I've become even more of a light sleeper than usual, listening for any sound that he needs help or is getting really sick again. Well last night everyone was in bed. I was almost asleep and the boys had been asleep for a couple hours when I was jerked back from the verge of sleep by Dylan crying and coughing. I ran in his room to check on him. He was so upset and crying and coughing I could hardly understand him. Then I finally got him calmed down enough to understand what he was saying.... He was asking for candy. I made him repeat this 2 or 5 times just to be sure I heard him right and sure enough he was asking for me to go get him candy. At this point I'm relieved he was okay but still confused enough to not be too upset that I wasn't still in bed asleep. Needless to say he didn't get the candy he wanted and had to go right back to sleep.

Christopher's Terrible Hair Cut

So I have been learning to cut hair, I practice on my boys and occasionally Kelly (There was an incident that I will talk about another time as to why cutting Kelly's hair doesn't happen a lot) This last time though cutting Christopher's hair there was another incident.... I was almost done and he was getting a little impatient. As I tried one more time to just blend the sides with the top he had, had enough and arched his back and began throwing a tantrum. So up the side of his head the buzzer's went ruining his cute little hair cut and leaving him with even less hair than he was born with. Poor kid.

This was about a month ago and now I'm happy to report that his hair is growing and I'm not cutting it again until after Sherry's wedding....

The Daddy Potato :)

We've recently been collecting Mr. Potato head pieces after I totally scored finding a buzz light year potato head with all it's pieces at DI. So after a good cleaning Dylan has been so obsessed with building as many Potato men as he can. I was still shocked by his creativity the other day. He came running up to me saying, "Mommy, Mommy look I built a potato daddy! He even has his hat on backwards!" I'll let the picture do the talking now :)

PRE SCHOOL

Okay so WOW I'm behind on blogging! Things have been so crazy around here it's not even funny, so I'm going to use some time tonight to try and catch up. For starters, my oldest little man just started pre school. I was so excited and heartbroken (if that makes any sense) He grew up just a little too fast.

This was Dylan's first day of pre school......

And this is how excited he was to go....

He loves his teacher and she is so amazing! She does the cutest crafts with them and works on teaching them everything to do with writing and reading! I seriously need to post pictures of the stuff he comes home with. I'm so in Mommy heaven now starting a book of all his little school pages and things :)

Now I will tell a little secret about my self, you know those story problem worksheets you get in like 2nd and 3rd grade and so on, they are seriously one of my favorite things in the world (how lame I know I like math) and I can't wait until he is bringing home actual homework that I get to "help" him on.