Crying School Kids

At Cael's first day of kindergarten, the pto was handing out bubbles and tissues. I thought that was a little odd, but whatever, I'll blow bubbles on him as he walks in. All the moms were just losing it, and all the dads are hugging them telling them it would be ok, they would be watched after and safe. They were prying all the crying kids off their legs at which time the moms would cry even more. What were Cael and myself doing??? Cael was giving me rock star fingers (I love you in sign language, but the boys think that if they head bang it's rock star fingers while saying I love you) and head banging with his tongue hanging out. I was smiling ear to ear and waving blowing bubbles in complete bliss. He loved and I loved it. Some might think I'm not a good mom for that, or as someone recently said, Why would you wish your kids life away? I, however, take great pride in the fact that I have raised boys to be independant, and confident, and fun, and not to take themselves too serious. They love to go out into life, and experience, knowing that I will be there to hug and tease and love and kiss and pester and eat dinner with later. I love to be with them, and spend time with them, and be a stay at home mom, and shower them with love and kisses everyday of their first 5 years of life, and when the time comes for them to start school and "enter" into their freedom, I love that they are excited to do the same! Being a mom is the best!! Hard as hell, but I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world!!!

Wipe Your Slime

Im in the kitchen making dinner and I hear Cael say, "Wipe your slime!" really loud. I look to see what they are doing and hear Caden say, "Cael, we all have the same slime." followed by Carson saying, "Yeah, we are all brothers Cael, its ok. We all have the same germs." That was good enough for Cael. He immediately put his mouth on the little thing they were drinking from. Everyone just went on like no big deal. I feel that way, so I am so happy that they were so easily able to convince Cael as well. NO germies in my family thanks! I hate when someone cannot bite off of something or drink off of something because someone else has. Love my bunch of rascals!!!

Braces

Caden is not the most rational guy. He kinda loses it at weird things. And when he loses it, there's no turning back. If we are driving and his legs are cramped, he just loses it and starts crying and whining relentlessly that we need to get a hotel. In Wyoming it's not like we can just pull over and get a hotel every 5 miles. It's like 100 miles between towns. Chet and I get a kick out of him though. He's just not rational. He has been begging us to get braces on. It was finally his big day. He was soooo excited. His brothers were telling him how bad they suck and hurt. He didn't care. He was telling them how they were wimps. The night before, I prayed that Caden would be able to handle the initial pain. I was worried. He got them on and couldn't stop looking at himself. It was pretty funny. He told me that his face looked fat, and wasn't too sure he liked them. Then, fastforward about 5 hours. Melt down city. He was crying that they hurt and he couldn't eat. With Caden you don't mess with his food. We had tacos so I thought he would be ok. Oh my. He was crying that we needed to make an appt and get them off TOMORROW! Today he has been complaining that his tooth is lose. He keeps showing me, and of course I cannot see anything. And he wants me to see all his sores in his mouth. The smallest unseen sores in your mouth hurt, but I cannot see anything, which only agitates him more. This is going to be a rough week. But he sure looks cute.

Carson got his braces off. He loves the way his teeth look. He keeps looking at himself in the mirror too. Whenever he talks, he looks like a horse. He keeps pulling his upper lip up onto his gums and sliding his lip down his teeth. It's pretty cute! And I think he looks pretty darn cute too!

Kindergarten

Cael will be starting kindergarten tomorrow. He is SUPER excited and cannot wait. He's been on the countdown for about a year. Tonight while saying his personal prayers he says, "Please help my brother to leave me alone so I can get enough sleep for the biggest day of my life tomorrow." How cute is that!?! Love that boy!

Charity

I was giving my boys a talk before they started the 5th grade. I told them last year was the year of bad words, and this year all their friends will be talking about sex and alcohol. It will be the year of sex talk and looking. Carson says, "Yeah, and we have to have the charity talk!" Carter says, "Carson, youre a dork. Its called maturity." I say, "Are you thinking puberty???" Both boys eyes light up and they both point at me and say, "YES!" Charity talk... puberty talk... they both end with "ty" I guess. Kinda close, NOT!!! Too funny!