sick day or pj day debacle

So does the little boy in these pictures look so sick that he can't stay at school?  He was fine in the morning especially if you consider how much of a morning boy he is not.  But they didn't have school on Friday so he was excited that Thursday was his last day for the school week.  Both he and Charley did have runny noses for the last couple of days and a little bit of a cough......but you cant keep them home for every runny nose, right?

10 minutes after I dropped him off I got the dreaded phone call from the school.  The secretary said "Jack has a runny nose and he is pretty upset about it."  WTH, Okay, I will be right there.  When I walked in the door by the office I saw several kids walking around in their pajamas.  PJ day and we forgot/didn't know.  (I looked at the bulletin and did not see it anywhere)  As soon as Jack saw me he smiled and said "you dressed me in clothes!"  So we just went home and had a pajama day here.  Little faker was just mad that he was missing out on pj day.  It is so normal!

like getting back on a bike?

I have never been a very prolific blogger but even for me it has been a super long time between posts.  If I want this to be a diary/memory book of sorts, I am not doing a very good job.  So, I am going to try and get back into this little blog.

This fall and beginning of winter has gone fast.  I can't believe Jack is pretty much halfway done with kindergarten already.  Crazy!  He is doing good and everyday I notice that he is a little more mature, more of a big kid.  There have been tears a few mornings but overall he is resigned to the fact that he has to go in the morning and seems to be okay with it.   Charley hasn't gone back to pre-school since September.  I guess we will just keep him home with me until next Fall and then send him to pre-K.  I am really okay with that and enjoy our alone time during the day.  He is so funny and sweet even if he is a turd sometimes.  He never went through the terrible 2's or 3's instead he was a cute,sweet little munchkin.  But 4?  Kind of a different story.  His big thing lately is to say, "I love my daddy, I don't love my mommy."  I know he is just letting me know that he is a daddy's boy right now.  Big time :)

 My sweet friend Jessica was home for the holidays from Texas. I haven't seen her in at least 2 years.  I also got to meet her very nice husband Brandon.  I have missed this girl so much.  I hope we don't let it go too long before our next visit.

 We also made it to New Jersey for a visit with my parents and my little sister Brooke was there from Florida.  We had such a great visit even if it did go way too fast.  John and my dad cooked the best dinners for us.  We had prime rib one night that was one of the best things I have ever eaten.

 Speaking of good food!  John and I like to watch Man Vs. Food sometimes and on one episode he was in Philadelphia at the Reading Station and was talking about this sandwhich.  Since we were so close and all we had to try it.  That place was very cool.  Just a huge indoor food market.  Think of the worlds best food court.  I love this picture because it has all my favorite guys in it.  John, Charley, Jack and my dad.  Pretty cool.

 Just a fun picture from instagram on my iphone.  They are doing cute hugging wrestling instead of scratch your brother's eye out wrestling for a change.  And I have evidence now that sometimes they are cute.

All 3 of them on Christmas Eve.  Sigh  What a fun night and even more fun morning the next day.  Now that Mackenzie is 19 and living with her dad, I don't get to see this very often.  I had some tears Christmas day when she left to go back to her dad's.  We don't have enough sleepovers since she moved out.

Well,  that kinda sorta catches me up a little bit.  Next time on kookas I will probably get more serious and about my baby fever or something else super exciting.  hmmm no wonder it is so long in between posts.

No morning people around here

It is only October but I am already looking forward to a holiday or in service day or....even a snow day. Although, I hope the latter is off in the future a little bit.

We are getting into a routine and haven't been late once. It is just so slow going. At least this year Jack is darn right easygoing compared to last year. Still some whining but no serious meltdowns. It feels like he accepts that he has to go. It just feels somuch better than putting a dragging,kicking, and screaming Jack on the bus. THAT broke my heart. I can totally take slow moving Jack....I just have hard times staying on track myself when I just want to cuddle with them.

P.S. Ummm yeah, they totally started head butting about 2 minutes after I took this picture.

iLove iPhone

OMG! I can't believe I finally have an iPhone and I totally get what all the hype is about. My mom has been raving about hers since the first model came out. I still have so much to learn but .....so excited I found the blogger app.

Kindergarten Krazy!!

Jack started kindergarten today, regular kindergarten, all day kindergarten, I am freaking out kind of kindergarten.  I am so excited and nervous for him.  I have had butterflies in my stomach since yesterday.  If you asked me a year ago if I thought he would be in regular kindergarten I would have a hard time answering.  Last year he wasn't even in pre-k for the whole day, still having to get pulled out for special ed parts of the day.  We had him looked at again for autism or something on the spectrum but he still doesn't fit on the spectrum.  He just does some things that are quirky and sometimes he doesn't know how to handle social situations.  He gets nervous..makes funny faces, or weird noises at other kids sometimes.  I don't know if some of his things he will grow out of or if he is just always going to be a little bit different.  Probably more of the latter and I am okay with that.  I just hope the other kids understand and he makes some friends.  I want him to fit and make some friends and I fear that he will always be on the outside looking in a little.  But I guess that is normal to wonder what the future holds for your little (big) kindergartner no matter who they are, right?

He is still going to need some help with occupational and physical therapy.  So he will get pulled out periodically for that and they also have a room that they can bring him when he gets overstimulated which will probably happen.  I am hoping not very often but it is there for when he needs it.  He gets frustrated easily, especially when he is being asked to do something that is hard for him to do.  Like writing and coloring and cutting and lots of the things they do in kindergarten daily.

I think we are in a good school though and I will just have to believe and trust that we are in the perfect place for us and so far it feels good.

 One of Jack's first words was apple and he freaking loves that word apple.  He likes to google it lately.  He also carried a wooden apple around a lot when he was like 2.  Right above the doorknob in that little yellow apple is the name Jack.  I think that is a good sign right?

New Jersey

On our way to Grandma and Grandpa's for a week.  Yay vacation and 12 hour car rides.

 Totally unrelated but still cute.  And I hope we have no rain for our long drive.  I hate driving in the rain.

summer vacation

I haven't posted in so long that I had forgot how to log in.  I think after such a long blah spring that once summer finally got here.....I haven't bee here.  Ahhh, but this summer is going too fast.  I am sad that we are just a couple of days away from August and that school supplies are the main display in the grocery stores instead of grilling supplies.

The biggest thing that happened to us this summer was this....

 We were having such a good and promising to be even more fun on the weekend of July 4th.  Life had other plans on July 3rd.  We went over to our friend's house for a bbq and within 5 minutes of being there Mr. Charley daredevil fell off the top of their backyard slide.  I didn't see it happen but I heard him crying and expected to just calm him and kiss a boo boo.  One look at the boo boo, though and I almost passed out.  Arms are not supposed to look like the that... I thought, as I went into tunnel vision and almost passed out.  John wasn't there at the time... he was on a bike ride and was going to be there for dinner.  So one of my kind friends drove Charley and I to the ER and Jack stayed behind.  John was able to meet us at the ER within minutes which was good because I was freaking out!!  Charley broke his forearm in 2 places and he was such a trooper.  They had to sedate him to re-set the bones and we couldn't have asked for a better group of people to take care of him.  The bad thing was you have to wait a week for the swelling to go down before you can get another x-ray and get the cast so we had a week with the fiberglass splint and ace bandage to keep dry and keep protected.  Try that in the middle of summer with a 3 year old.


But then one week later we got the hard cast (not waterproof :(  )

 But at least sturdy and we could go to the park and play areas without me worrying about him hurting his arm further.  When he got his cast he noticed his thumb was separated from the rest of his fingers and he asked me "why can't he play with his friends?"  So we had big ole ugly glow in the dark not waterproof cast for 2 weeks.


Now we have smaller red waterproof cast.  Yeah!!!  

We have already been to the splash pad twice.  We still have to stay away from sand they recommend not going into lake water but hey we will take being able to take baths and going to the splash pad for now.  It is finally summer and it is hot this year and I LOVE it.  Even on some of the most humid, hot days, I really don't mind.  The sun is blue the clouds are beautiful and it is wonderful.  And I am most happy that while it was traumatizing to have my 3 year old break his arm and I was so worried about his pain and stress....it was just a broken arm.  He was pretty high up when he fell and it could have been something so much worse.  I don't want to even go there, but you know...... you know?