End of Soccer

Nathan, Andrew & Luke

It's been a great season. See you in the fall.

Breaking bad habits

So its decided it is time to break the bad habits we have created. Well two of them anyway. Nathan still climbs into bed with us anywhere between 2-4pm and Andrew still wears a pull-up to bed. These bad habits are totally and completely the fault of there parents begin to lazy.

We started Friday night. We cut off all liquids after dinner and told Nate he was staying in his own bed. Andrew went to bed pull-up free(he was very excited about it) and made it through the whole night without an accident. Nathan slept in his bed and didn't get up once. WOW this is going to be easier than I thought... Think again..

Saturday. cut off liquids at dinner, only thing was dinner was later than normal. Nathan went to bed in his own bed as he always does and woke up at 11pm. put him back in bed laid with him for a minute. All set. Nathan woke up at 1pm. put him back into bed laid with him for a minute. Nathan woke up at 3pm, put him back into bed paid with him for a minute. Andrew woke up at 4pm because he had a accident. Daddy changed him, took the sheets off the bed. put him in the bed in the guest room. Nathan woke up again at 6:30 up for the day. damn. what happened?? Yes this is why I haven't wanted to tackle this.

Sunday. went on a 3.5 mile bike ride on the river trail. boys did great no complaining. It was so fun and such a wonderful sunny day. The boys took a 2 hour nap. they haven't napped in forever. must have been that bike ride or maybe it was all that getting up the night before. to bad I didn't get a nap. Went out side for the rest of the day had a late lunch which equalled a late dinner again. Went to bed pull-up free (gave him the choice because I didn't want to pressure him) and in our own beds. Nathan woke up at midnight. put him back to bed. Nathan woke up at 2pm. put him back to bed. Andrew peed at 4pm. changed him, pulled the sheets off and put the sleeping bag on his bed. Nathan woke up sometime after 4pm daddy got up and put him back to bed. daddy's alarm went off at 6am. mommy had to go find daddy asleep with Nathan in Nathans bed. ohh so tired today. not doing anything! but not giving up. tonight earlier dinner which will mean earlier to stop drinking anything. What did we do Friday night that made it all go so smooth???

writing

Nathan has been working on writing his name for awhile, but his N's were backwards and he didn't get all the letters in there. today was a big day he spelled and wrote his name without any help.

Andrew's paper had other things written on it before we started but you can see Andrew is also working on writing his name. He can write all the letters by looking at the ones you have written. He is writing them in lower case like they need to be for kindergarten. which isn't for another year for these guys.

"life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass… its about learning how to dance in the rain"

Yet another rainy day in Redding. Despite going swimming and playing in the play area at the gym the boys just needed to be outside.

Shoes,Shoes,Shoes!!

I hate kids shoes! One of the most frustrating things right now with my kids are shoes. Well to be more exact Nathan's shoes. Nathan has been blessed with narrow feet and none of his shoes fit him tight enough. I can't tell you how many meltdowns we have had over shoes. (him and me) We have tried all sorts of shoes slip on, velcro, and now laces.

Today I have put on Nathan's soccer shoes 10 times. I'm really not exaggerating. He wears them for a few minutes then starts whining about how they are not tight enough. So we put on another pair of socks and I pull on his laces as tight as I can and we try again. He now has on three pairs of socks and medical tape wrapped around his shoes to make them feel tight enough. The summer months are great because half of the time we don't have shoes on and the other half we have on flip flops.

Please bring on summer!!

Ice Cream

Noni and Papa were in town and we took the kids to McDonalds for a soft serve. mmmmm