Goofing around on vacation this weekend…I love snuggling with my boys!

Trey loves his brussel sprouts!  I found this at the store today and he’s so excited to cook them up and eat them tomorrow.

Don’t have much to add except I’m blessed with this breathtaking view.

 So I know it’s nerdy to get excited about an appliance, but apparently that’s what moms do.  It’s fabulous!  Problem we have now is all the extra space.  Seems a trip to T&C is in our near future.

Sometimes you are just so tired that you fall asleep on the couch with legs dangling and your face buried in your brother’s stinky feet.

I love this picture of Carlos amongst the pile of stuffed animals.  We were purging (not all of these actually left the house but a lot did) and cleaning out what I lovingly call our “Hoaders” room and Carlos made himself comfy.  We made great progress and you can actually walk in and see the floor now!

Levi has been in school for over 6 weeks now.  For some reason, even though he’s known his teacher for the past 3 years (she’s been at the school all that time AND she’s the mom of one of the kids in his class) he still didn’t know her name.  We would ask him over and over and he would scratch his head and say “Really?  Again?  I don’t know!  I told you that.”  We would then say, “Your teacher’s name is Ursula” and go on from there.  We brought this up to the assistant teacher in the class and she thought he must be joking with us, but he wasn’t.  We let the teacher know that he was struggling and we were working on it.  Well, this weekend I finally had enough of the shoulder shrug and “I don’t know” attitude and told him he was going to sit down and write her name 50 times.  He, being the sometimes all-knowing and often times back-chatting 8 year old he can be said “How about 100 times?”  I agreed.  I got the paper ready, wrote her name at the top and numbered to 100.  He got to work, writing and saying her name 100 times.  Now, you may think this is harsh but Levi is a very visual learner and it only took him about 15 minutes to finish.  He came in and said “My teacher’s name is Ursula!”  By the end of the weekend, he had it down and he was proud to be able to greet his teacher on Monday morning by saying “Good morning, Ursula: 

Here’s the link to a cool thing I do each year – it’s a great way for us to go through our gift bin and get rid of things we aren’t going to use and get new things we will!
Love it!  Anyhow, the more who participate the better the selection of stuff.

http://www.givingexchange.blogspot.com/

OFFER: Gallon bag of trick or treat candy PLUS an almost full Tootsie Roll mix bag that was confiscated by the Great Pumpkin. PLEASE get this out of my house before Dee and I eat any more. Must be able to pick up during school hours as not to blow the whole “Great Pumpkin” deal for my kids and ASAP because, well, I’m home alone with it.