Another one bites the dust!

Tooth number 7 came tumbling out. By tumbling I mean a slight tug to a dangling tooth with a lot of whining and crying and freaking out for no reason. One step closer to braces.

Beefcakes

Who would have thought that fat little baby would have a hard time hitting forty pounds? Luke is stuck at 38 thus still not in a booster seat. Forty, where are you?

Lazy Morning

Today we had the benefit of a lazy start to our day. No draggin' kids out of bed at 6:15 am and then for the next 45 minutes broken record requests to just accomplish getting dressed, eating breakfast and grooming. Today we could move at a slower pace and it was nice. Here's how the fellas started their morning:

Caught!

This is apparently what my children were doing this morning while I as in the shower. I had about 16 short videos of pretty much the same thing on my camera. Did they not think that I would know that they were playing with my camera?

Naughty Note #2

Oh Lucas, my dear sweet Lucas, what are we going to do to with you? Waiting in the Houston airport I get an e-mail on my blackberry. Being the dedicated employee that I am I quickly check to see what it was. Come to find out it was in my personal e-mail and it was from Lucas' teacher. It was barely 10:00, what could he have done already? Turns out quite a bit. He had flooded the boys bathroom. Why you ask? To make Dwayne laugh... and it worked. Dwayne did laugh as well as get in trouble with Lucas. How do you flood the boys bathroom you ask? Rapid repeat flushing of the urinal until it overflows. No need to try this on your own, Lucas has already proven it works. I floods and it is funny. Of course, he would tell you it was worth it even thought he lost all of his recesses and had to sit by himself at snack. Then I made him right an apology note to the janitor that had the joy of cleaning up his mess. He promises never to do that again. Let's not bet the farm on that just yet! Anyone want to borrow his shoes?

Nugglin

In order to avoid bedtime all 3 boys needed to nuggle with me. How can you say no to that? Obviously I didn't!

Houston

As most of you know, traveling for work is not my favorite thing to do but often a necessity of my job. This week the boondoggle business trip took me to Houston. This made traveling not so bad...not because it was Houston but because it gave me the rare opportunity to see Jeff, Allison, Charlie and Henry. I don't think I have seen them on Texas turf since before I had kids. The other rare element was that there was no one I had to share myself with or the boys with....ahhhh, nearly 6 glorious hours just playing with Chachie and Hen. The Highlights:

• Hide and seek - they have a very giggly and wiggly blanket there!
• A multitude of different games involving a jump rope - Tug of war, snake, swamp fishing, etc.
• Many secrets were told to Thumper
• Colored pictures
• Made it halfway through a puzzle
• Read books
• A bike ride
• Enjoyed a delicious home cooked mean courtesy of Allison - so you know, never challenge Charlie to a bite race. He is a very thorough chewer and you really have to fake chew forever to let him win!

I'm sure I'll end up in Houston again in the future and I now know that Next time I need to take a bigger backpack to fit Charlie in so that he can come back with me.

To think I will get to see those kiddos 3 times in just 4 months this year. I love it!

THANKS FOR PUTTING UP WITH ME!

Voting

Apparently voting has been a big topic of conversation at school as they boys were ready for today. They were going to vote. We are a split house. Here's how it lays out:

Logan: John McCain - Not really sure why. He has recruited Maybel to his side.
Lucas: Barak Obama - because the whole contire Pre-K is voting for Obama. Even Dwayne
Kale: Barak Obama - I'm pretty sure his reason is because that's what Lucas said. I was surprised he could even say that name.


Off to Houston!

How I Spent my Saturday

Finally a weekend with no games, no B-Day parties, no social activities, no commitments... Ahhhh. You would think that I would have camped out on the couch making a dent in my DVR list. Oh, no. I took on a HGTV project, I redecorated officially decorated the upstairs bathroom. We've only lived in the house 3 1/2 years, give me a break! Here it is:

Yes, I figured out too late that the date in my camera is off by several days. Consider it fixed.

Happy Halloween

Halloween was good to my little monkey and two recon commandos (that's what I'm calling their camo polyester jump suit that was made only for skinny kids...not a big fan of the "outfit"). I volunteered to help with the 1st grade party (1/2 way through my hours!) and will help with Lucas' Christmas Party. The first graders said it was the best party ever...I think they need to raise their standards. They had pizza and decorated cookies. We did relay races with candy corn and more races that involved digging through "brains" for spider rings. Then a marathon game of hot pumpkin that came down to Logan and Natalia. Natalia won. What a gentleman that Logan is, letting the lady win. Then they played freeze dance. To my surprise Logan actually played and made it down to the final 5. Didn't really think he would go for it. He has his Mama's dancing skills...before beer! The evening was not full of trick or treating from door to door since there is too much space between doors in our neighborhood. Instead we went to the SVdP Trunk-or-Treat. It was our first time. While our trunk wasn't very tricked out, we did give out a lot of treats. Next year we will definitely have to take more. They got the perfect amount of candy...not too much so it won't last forever but enough to make them happy. Several of their buddies were there so after making a couple of laps of the parking lot they ran around and played on the playground. The boys crashed early watching Star Wars.