Weekend Update

Friday night was Halloween, which I blogged about here.

We woke up Saturday TIRED.  It was raining outside so soccer was canceled, so I decided to go do a popup workout.  I needed to jolt my system a little bit! It felt so good to have that done by 10!
The rest of Saturday was lazy and it was fantastic! We watched football, did laundry, watched more football and just hung out. 

Saturday night we met up with some friends and their kids-- three boys-- at a restaurant downtown.  We had a table out on the patio (covered on the sides) and the boys were WILD! It was so much fun!

I failed at taking pictures-- it was slightly crazy in there- but this one below was perfect for the night: there was a little couch off by the side where we ate, and the boys were tackling the tar out of each other...obviously putting on quite a show! HA! Fairly sure the restaurant was thankful to see us leave. We commented at least 20 times how nice it is to go out with people who "get" boys and their energy levels.  If only we could bottle the energy from these 4 older ones, we would be so rich....

Sunday morning, the time changed....blah.  The boys have handled the time change fairly well.  The pup, not so much.  He is up and ready to go EARLY.  I am trying to "train" him back into sleeping later, but it isn't easy! I was doing laundry (side note: why do I feel like I am drowning in laundry? Obviously it is because of the weather and the layers and the activities which require change of clothes......but MAN! I can not get ahead of it!), and walked out of the laundry room to find Andy hoarding some football players and helmets... he looked so cute with all of them in his shirt.  

So, we had TWO back to back birthday parties at Pump it Up this weekend.  That is 4 hours of pure fun and excitement...for the kids.  Well, when I received the evite for the first one, I clicked on the date to add it to my iCal.  I received a notification that it was over day light savings, or something like that...so I clicked "OK" and moved on.  I loaded up the boys and headed to pump it up for our 1:30 party....only to find out it didn't start until 2:30.  My iCal didn't adjust the time from the evite.  So we drove around for an hour; got gas, drove through a car wash, etc...just extra bonding time with the boys...! They were MORE than ready to play with 2:30 rolled around!

The first party was for Jack....

 ...and Lilly!

Cal was in class with Jack and Lilly last year and is with Jack this year.  The three of them adore each other and I love watching them play and interact and talk.

After the jump part of the party, the group for together for the group shot:

And then they had some snacks and cake....

And Jack and Lilly's mom asked Cal to sit in the birthday chair with them- hahahaha Cal felt super special! 

After we said thank you to everyone at the first party, we walked out of the room and instead of turning right to head to the parking lot, we turned left and walked back into the party room! The boys had a great time at the second party too...but I could tell they were starting to get tired.  They weren't jumping quite as high or running quite as fast- haha

Owen had a surprise visit from a ninja turtle, which everyone loved (minus Andy....).  Here is the group shot from that party:

After the jumping part, the kids all went into the room to have some pizza and cake.  This is when I started to really feel tired....and the boys clearly were too....

Andy could barely hold his head up while eating cake.  His head kept sliding off his little hand.  Poor kid was exhausted! Daylight savings plus 2 parties wore his fanny out!

I guess Cal thought he needed to get in this birthday chair again...he hopped right up there and posed- ha! Whoops...

Sunday night we were all spent.  I mean overly tired.  I looked over to see Bruce spooning with Beyonce (we named this dog that....just because....).  

Spending 16 hours at pump it up on Sunday didn't help my laundry over load.  Maybe I will accomplish it all this week...?


 

#carriedaway: week 39

Week 39:

 Day 287: this sweet guy doesn't care that I stink after a looooong day and a workout tonight. Or maybe he does. (Every time I would whistle to get him to look, he would cut his eyes up at me-- made me laugh)

 Day 288: "let me tell ya 'bout my best friend..."

 Day 289: cocktail hour at soccer practice

 Day 290: annnnnnnd goodnight

 Day 291: go heels!!!

 Day 292: I love being his mom. As difficult as he is, I am crazy about this boy.

 Day 293: stir it in my witch's brew. He's got magic......


 

A Busy Thursday

This past Thursday (the day before Halloween), we had a FILLED day.  That morning was a teacher workday so the boys and I headed to school. The teachers were SO productive and the kids had a blast playing with the other teachers' kids.  It's amazing how needed that workday was. 

Before we left for school, I had to get the boys dressed.  Andy was rocking his new Halloween jammies and his race car hat.  He loved that thing.

After the workday, we headed to the dentist for the boys' teeth cleaning! Cal does great at the dentist-- he is a big boy and goes on his own without me.  The last time Andy went, he got real nervous and I basically had to hold him down.  This time, he told me he wanted to go on his own--without me-- just like Cal does.  I was thrilled with this news!

When they came out and called both boys back, Andy grabbed my hand at the last minute and said, "you can come too, Mommy..." and my heart lurched and I was so so thankful he wanted me there.  Andy walked ahead of me, right beside the hygienist and she was talking to him and he was chatting away with her! I just pretended to not be there and he did SO well! 

Since this was his first time in the chair all by himself, she walked him through every tool she would be using and he got to touch and hold everything.  He was so big....and I was so proud.

Then I glanced down at Cal on the end-- sunglasses on, pretending the chair is a surf board- hahhaah! I don't have to worry about this one!

His teeth looked great and she commented how great he is doing brushing them.  Phew. 

We have been really concerned with Andy's finger sucking because it seems like it is all.the.time.  The dentist looked at them and had zero concerns about it.  ZERO.  She said he must not be sucking that hard because his back teeth are all lining up great and his front teeth are barely moved out.  We decided not to tell Andy that- ha! But we were relieved to know he isn't giving himself the world's worst buck teeth ever.  

Andy got to hold the sucker thing-- it was hysterical.

Here is the dentist checking him out at the end.  She was impressed with his brushing skills too!

After the dentist...and the report of two CAVITY FREE BOYS, we ran home to eat lunch and get showered and ready because we were going to meet Amber for our annual family pictures! I am anxious to see how they turned out, because these two were pretty darn adorable if you ask me!

We took them outside by this trail that had gorgeous sunlight and really pretty leaves. 

Fingers crossed that she was able to get at least one good one we can use as a Christmas Card picture! We were all taking one together- the 4 of us- and I glanced down to see Andy holding up his middle finger in the picture.  Nothing says "we wish you a Merry Christmas!" like a 3 year old giving you the bird.

Merry Merry!


 

Halloween!

I looooooved having Halloween fall on a Friday night! The boys didn't have school so I had a really fun workout (in my pinata dress...) followed by lunch with friends (and a little drink too) and then we came home and rested some before it was time to get ready for the big night!

 First, they rested together.... I mean, seriously.  You tell me that isn't some sweetness right there....

And then they got back into costumes....

And we headed over to the May's and Barfield's pre-trick-or-treat party! Andy was excited to be back in costume (forgot to mention he slept in this hat....twice....)

And and Charlie are in the same class and they have become the cutest little buddies.  They both were really excited the other one was going to be there.  And they spent the rest of the night talking each other's ears off! So much to talk about, these two!

Apparently, when boys reach a certain age, they stop smiling in pictures. Thankfully, I can still get one out of my boys.... even though Cal isn't smiling in this one....

Cal ran off to trick or treat with some of the older kids and Andy and Charlie worked the houses together.  They were ah-freaking-dorable together.  They would talk away to each other as they walked up the driveway and then they would scream "TRICK OR TREAT!" and then they would burst out laughing.  It was precious...

After a while, we met back up with Cal and we had to take another picture...

We left the first neighborhood and headed over to another one, just like we always do.  We met up with a ton of friends over there and had a GREAT end of the night there. 

Two of my friends we saw... love them...

I wore fake eye lashes that looked like spider webs.  I took this picture at the very end of the night...pardon the tired looking eyes! I thought they were so neat looking....

And we sat on the sidewalk together and had dad fetch the car.... these boys legs were done by this point!

 **I also need to note that at the party before trick or treating, I went in to go to the bathroom.  I pulled my pants down and heard a PLOP.  I turned around to find my phone at the bottom of the toilet, right in the middle of the hole.  I grabbed it out right away and dried if off the best I could.  I was sooo worried I wouldn't be able to get the pictures off of my phone if it died... I blew out the microphone hole for a while....and can you believe my phone is still working? I am in shock.  I love my phone case...but now I love it even more! It was completely submerged in the toilet.  I am wondering if this will have a delayed shutting down? Has this ever happened to anyone? It appears to be totally fine today-- I have placed and received calls...and I also backed up the phone immediately and downloaded all the pics off of it.  Fingers crossed it doesn't break....!!!