My little kindergartner!

It's been about 2 weeks since that emotional (for me, anyway) 1st day of school for my Jace. Can I just say that if I didn't have Brylee keeping me on my toes every waking moment I'd STILL be emotional about this whole big boy/big school thing! As it is she doesn't give me time to think about it! As for Jace, he unfortunately already dreads the homework, but absolutely loves recess and the bus! In fact, when I went to pick him up the first day, the first thing he said when he saw me was "MOM! I'M RIDING THE BUS!". Needless to say the apron strings have been cut whether I like it or not! How did this happen? He also said "I was so good I didn't even have to go to the principal's office!". I'm wondering how he would even know that's where you go when you AREN'T good- hmmmmm......

We went to lunch with a little girl from his class and her mom the other day. The mom helps in the classroom once a week and told me how friendly Jace is. This was no surprise. He'll talk to anyone (even adults) and his most common questions are "what's your name", "are you 5 like me?", and "what are you doing here?". This last question is kind of rude, however that's not at all how he means it, he just wants to know! He told me today that he has a new friend and he's "a REAL cowboy, mom- he REALLY is!". Speaking of cowboys, one of Jonathan's friends told Jace he was a contractor- just like his (Jace's) dad. Jace said "no way- my dad's a cowboy!". He's so much fun and hopefully not too much trouble for his teacher!

Next post will be about my almost finished new house...I know you all can't wait for that!

BAD hair!

I just had to post this bath tub picture of Brylee that I took this morning. Keep in mind it's a phone pic and my new phone's picture quality is less than average! Her hair is always bad (see last post for proof!) when she wakes up, but this mohawk (with the help of yesterdays ponytail) was hilarious!

Since I haven't posted any health problems lately, I'm sure you won't be too surprised to hear we've had an entire 2.5 months of good health (knock super hard, many of times, on wood!). Now that doesn't mean we've had an EASY 2 months as Brylee has turned into a holy terror! Example: This morning I got out of the shower to find her sqeezing a juice box she got out of the pantry and just watching it splash onto the floor (rental house+new carpet=big trouble!). As I was cleaning up mess #1, she goes into my bathroom, finds the q-tips in the drawer, and starts feeding them one by one to the heat vent in the floor. So while I move on to get what q-tips I could out of the vent, Brylee finds the Windex under the kitchen sink and I caught her in the act as she dumped it out onto the carpet and herself. Can you say "terrible twos" 3 months early? Not only that, but for the past 3 nights she just won't sleep! 2-3 hours at a time and up for an hour in between. Needless to say I'm exhausted but so happy to say that my baby is doing great! I'll take all these messes and sleepless nights any day over a sad and lethargic baby confined to a hospital room requiring round-the-clock suctioning! She's running all over the place, saying all sorts of funny things, and keeping life exciting in our house. I love her more than life itself!

PS Her forhead had a little run-in with the driveway- the driveway won!