Words to live by
If it is to be, it is up to me.
Stephen's day care has begun to implement a curriculum. He comes home with schoolwork that he did during the day. This is his very first assignment. It is currently hanging on the art/special homework wall in the dining room.
Stephen loves to help.
He particularly loves to help when you aren't looking.
Here he has helped to feed the cat.
With so much going on in the mornings now that we are back into school mode, we have to keep a sharp eye out to make sure Stephen doesn't make it into the bathroom alone.
The fellas are really starting to get into action movies - especially Wyatt. His favorite thing to do is use legos to recreate characters or locations from movies. His second favorite thing to do is to rummage through his clothes and put together costumes so he can be his favorite characters. Here he is as one of the agents from Men In Black.
First day of School 2013 2014.
Short Stack wanted in on the photo op so he drug his back pack over to the line up.
Jack was nervous because his teacher sat him between two girls. He actually told me I couldn't leave. I whispered to him that his teacher has to keep the girls separated because they talk to much. He seamed ok with that and let me get on my way.
It won't be too much longer and he will be taller than the sign!
Ready to get to work!
Home again, home again, jiggity-jig! First day of school chocolate cookies and milk. They hugged me, kissed me and crowned me "The Best Mom EVER!"
I'll take it.
Wyatt is playing soccer again this fall. His team is called The Rockets! They had their first game this Saturday. Unfortunately they lost but at least they were starting to play positions instead of Herd-Ball where everyone runs as one overly large amoeba.
Jack will not be playing soccer. 3rd graders move up to a larger field and they needed so many boys to maintain their team. They didn't have enough players moving on so the boys who chose to continue wound up trying out for competitive teams. That isn't something Jack is interested in doing. So we are going to try cross country if we can get a coach. I'm not sure what we will have J do if we can't come up with a coach. I think he needs to be involved in some sort of sport. We will just have to wait and see what happens.
Mom, Devon and I picked up the boys early from day care last week and took them for a surprise trip to Tropical Sno. They have the best shaved ice!
And these are the SMALL option.
Jack has pina colada with blueberry.
Wyatt selected green apple.
And we saddled Short Stack with cherry (which is now my favorite).
Devon picked root beer float.
Mom opted for rainbow.
I had my standard pina colada.
The best thing about going with friends is the sharing of bites!
Even the small is bigger than his whole head!
We love Tropical Sno!
Wyatt has started reading to Stephen. He only reads Star Wars books to the little guy but he is reading to him. We have also started calling Stephen "Short Stack" so much so that Wyatt now calls him by that nick-name.
The boys often play Rock-Paper-Scissors over who gets to buckle Stephen into his car seat. I love that they help him so much.
John and Daddy share the birthday and their day fell on a super busy Monday this year. Wyatt had his speech therapy at 4:30 then J & W had piano from 5:15-6:15 then it was swimming lessons from 6:30-7 and Wy had 1st grade jump start from 7-8. I was not cooking dinner after that so we went out to Joe's Crab Shack.
And since we are watching the gluten, I made up a GF dessert in advance.
I tried a variation on a graham cracker crust substituting corn chex for the graham crackers. I put the corn chex through the food processor and combined it with melted butter but I wanted a bit of a surprise so I threw walnuts into the processor and added that to my crust mixture. Then I made chocolate pudding and put half of that on top of the crust. I added half a tub of cool whip to the remaining pudding and put that on top of the straight up chocolate pudding. Then I put the last of the cool whip on top of that layer. Then I took a vegetable peeler and shaved chocolate bark on top of the whole thing and put it in the fridge.
The pudding pie was a hit and I have been asked to make it again. That sounds like a win for everybody!
Happy birthday John & Daddy!
