The difference a year can make...

Here we have the first day of school last year vs. this year. The difference is amazing! Not just how much older he looks but the confidence in his eyes about going! Now on Friday when we used the carpool drop off I saw the face you see from last year. He was brave but a little apprehensive. He went with a Teacher he did not know but did a great job!! We are going to blink our eyes and this will be a post about kindergarden. (Insert sad face and tear.)

Number One for First of the Month

Since it is "slightly" cooler this week...I decided Daniel could sport the jersey without completely overheating. We have many sizes of this outfit Thanks to Cousin Garreth's hand me downs. :)

Here is the little man being too big for his britches. :)

First Day of School

Wow! Another school year ready to start. Aidan has only asked me an average of 80,000 times a day for the last two months when he is going to school again. We finally made a calendar for him to mark each day off. Aidan enjoyed this and only asked about school 800 times a day. :) He was super excited to meet his teachers on Monday and to find out who would be in his class. As it turns out his school has MANY more three year old classes than two. His little class of 8 from last year is divided up between three classes of 12 or so. His class has 7 boys and 5 girls in it! Luckily he will see some of his friends from last year on the playground. It appears the majority of them went to three days a week this year too. We had a quick snap shot session prior to walking out the door this morning.

We tried to get a picture of all three. Andrew held on to Logan and Daniel until the camera was ready. This was our first and only shot. I thought we would be late if we tried for anymore. Definitely not an easy or successful task. :)

We had a minor meltdown when passing his classroom from last year. We thought this may arise as an issue. I had to pick him up and he held on for dear life. We walked down the hall pointed out the number of his new room, his hook for his bag and his little cubby. That got him to stand on his feet and check things out. He very soon went on into his new classroom and quickly found the easel. He loves to draw but it also was one of the least crowded activities at the time.

When you are a three year old you participate in afternoon carpool. This was his very first time doing carpool of any kind. I wanted to snap a picture while he was walking to the car with a teacher however, our camera was set to video. We opted for a picture once we had buckled him in his seat. We did not get too much out of him. We keep waiting for him to tell us about his day. I guess we'll find the details out of the first day in a few weeks. :) He is more apt to tell his Grandparents what he did than us. The more we ask the less information we get. Crazy, he's only three not 15....really don't want to see what getting information out of him at 15 is like any time soon. Hehe. He is super excited to go back for his second day and to try morning carpool for the first time.

Another Baking Man

Aidan and I made Banana Muffins for breakfast tomorrow. He helped me out a lot! He helped measure the dry ingredients, mash the bananas, crack the eggs, line the muffin tins and stir it all up! I put on an apron and asked if he wanted one. We have a little one from a grill Logan got. I had to nap a picture, instead of baking in underwear he was baking in underwear and an apron! :-)

DHR the other day and Aidan Today...

Our DHR was sleepy but decided that the crib has more to offer than just sleeping.

While getting some things done today..Aidan was playing with the Jack in the Box. He was cranking it and singing the words. I then heard a funny voice repeating it back. It happened again. I went to investigate as to what game he was playing on. (I knew he had an iPod earlier too.) Andrew has a game on his iPod called "Talking Ben." It is a dog that drinks apple juice, reads the paper and repeats what you say. Now, Ben's apple juice is in bottles (labeled apple juice) but I think his voice sounds a bit inebriated. What do you think? (Aidan thought this was hilarious.)

And the list goes on...

Yesterday, during Logan's feeding therapy he was refusing the food they offered. While refusing, a pink mark showed up on his face. It then turned red, he started rubbing it, then little hives started to manifest. He was done with food at that point. We went out into the waiting room to wait for the OT to be ready. Another little boy out there nicely said, 'That BABY'S FACE is RED!!" Logan's speech therapist was out there and said, "yes, it is, it's OK." We headed back with the OT not long after. Within minutes of starting his OT session his hand (that he was wiping the food off his face with.) looked like he had sat on it. It started to get pink, then red and then erupted in little tiny hives. He was not very compliant during OT, he refused all the oral work and then started getting really sleepy. Now his appointments currently are during nap time however, it was a different kind of sleepy. The hives began to subside and we headed home a little early. The van needed gas while filling up I rolled down the window so I could keep an eye on him. Heh. His face was puffy and splotchy and he was getting more hives again. We quickly headed home for some antihistamine. I can finish filling up the van later.

We are think we may know what it is. We'll find out eventually. ( I hope.)

When it started I texted Andrew to let him know what was going on and Andrew's response was just what I was thinking, "Oh come on."

We are dysfunction at it's best! :-)

Never a dull moment!!

Yard Sale Part Two

Saturday we had a rain date for our neighborhood yard sale. We managed to sell most of our large things the weekend before, we just set up shop in our garage. Today I was not there for a bit of it because I take a Boot Camp Class nearby. The rain did not start until late morning. We had promised the Boys the night before that they could play outside today. It then started pouring. A little rain never hurt anyone right?!

They had a blast!