Here are some pictures of what's been going on over the past week (or so)...
Andy is still LOVING school. He asks everyday if he gets to "see mah teachers" today. He loves his teachers and has a great time there.
Andy has been a bit like a roller coaster lately with his terrible twos. One day, he is just a little terror, and then two days later, he is following directions and is just as sweet as can be. Thankfully, he has yet to show his teachers his terror side... instead he is all smiles while he is there! They took his class on an adventure stroll through UNC's campus-- they found leaves and squirrels and other exciting things-- Andy hopped up in the seat to show me when I arrived. How funny are these strollers?!
It's funny because early on in mom-hood, someone told me that your kids would never BOTH be good at the same time-- when one was good, the other would be hard and then right when that one would get easy, the other one would be hard. That could not be truer! Many people warned about the fours (many have called them the F'in Fours.....), but I never thought Cal would be like that. His twos were pretty much a breeze. His fours have been okay so far, but he does get an attitude every now and then. We are super quick to call him on it and nip it in the bud-- Eddie and I are strict :) I think a big problem is dropping the nap all together. He should have quiet time, but spends most of that time saying he has to tell me something, and then the thing he has to tell me is about a play in the football game he saw.... not a whole lot of quiet! He is also waking up way too early. I am about to pull the trigger on those alarm clocks that turn color when it's okay to wake up...
He is figuring out his new teacher at school and making some great new friends. He had picture day last week-- we bathed the kids in the morning to try to tame his hair...
Speaking of football, the kid is obsessed. Like, OBSESSED. It's ALL he wants to talk about, watch, play, read about, etc.... as you can see from the below picture, he can't pull himself away from the TV-- note: I did not let him stay like this. He can't just watch it though-- he has to commentate the entire game. Every play he will ask me if I saw it and then he will ask me what happened-- he really wants to understand the game. I think we've created a monster :)
We've had a little bit more fall weather coming in- especially in the mornings, so the boys got to wear some long-sleeved shirts for school last week. I loved the stripes (and I looked down after taking this and I was wearing stripes too...! what?!?!)
Being a mom of boys means a lot of things... this is one of them....
Andy hasn't had an accident in weeks... he is not consistently going number 2 on the potty, but he has in fact gone on the potty-- he isn't consistently going in a diaper either-- that's a whole different issue though. He likes to hold it, I guess! He gets some softener each morning to help the progress with that. Like I said before, I do not mind him going in a diaper at nap time-- just so long as he GOES!
He walked into my closet last week and put on my heels and reached for a purse and said he was going to work. After a kiss from me, he walked down the hallway with that purse on his shoulder-- he loves that thing! ha!
To manly it up a bit, he stashes his cars and football figures in there. He is so funny. I took the boys out to visit my grandmother this week in her nursing home. As fast as the time is going with my boys, I realize my time with her isn't long either. I don't want to look back after she passes and say "I wish I had gone out there more...." so instead, I decided to do something about it!
We went after the gym on Thursday, and Andy brought along his purse filled with boy stuff... and you just gotta love this pose:
My little guy has been tired this week! On Friday, I had to wake him up in the morning at 8:25 for school:
And then I had to wake him up from his nap to go pick up Cal from a play date!
Playdates are a new big thing in our house. CalBoy is in high demand for a play date! It is awesome! He loves getting to go over to a friend's house and playing with them. We have hosted a few play dates too and I just love listening to them talk and play together!
Our Friday night plans got alllll kinds of screwed up. I woke Andy up and he was snuggly so we took the below picture-- I could just die at his sweet smile. We were supposed to go pick up Cal then head over to the club so the boys could play on the swing set, momma could have a little adult grape juice and then when daddy finished playing golf, we could eat dinner out there..... WELL, the club lost power for whatever reason so all of that was bagged.
We had a little party in the driveway instead and I took the boys on a wagon ride-- the insisted on holding hands and I melted a bit...
Saturday morning, we did our usual game day pic-- and this time, Hank got in on the action. Hank has been attached to my side lately-- like following me around and then staring at me. It freaks me out because I fully believe dogs have a 6th sense about things. (The night I had my miscarriage, I woke up--not knowing what was going on-- and Hank was sitting next to the bed just staring at me with super sad eyes....I think dogs KNOW! Clearly I am not pregnant or anything like that, but now I over think any time Hank follows me around! I probably just smell like bacon....)
We had a soccer game Saturday morning and I swear to you, I could be in commercials for oxiclean. Cal refuses to kick the ball without falling on the ground. He was COVERED in mud after this game-- I mean, head to toe MUD and no other kid was dirty. Everyone on both teams was commenting on how dirty he was... and this picture does him no justice. This was early on in the game! But, I just pulled the jersey from the dryer, perfectly clean! Go figure! All three coaches have two girls and they think it is just awesome that Cal will hustle and get dirty-- great! But, Cal scored two goals in all of his dirty and glory and he had a blast. What more can you want??
And, last night we had a dinner party at a friend's house-- it was so much fun and the girls all ended up in masks on the deck-- fun times with fun friends! love!
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