Dang it all I was hoping that I would have had time to update this before now, but NO! I am quite furstrated with myself.
The Festival of Trees was amazing! I had so much fun auctioning off the large trees this year, but we were not able to to go as a family since we were doing so much and time just flew by. I have been busier than I thought I would ever be. But you do realize that this is December and the busyest time of the year for all of us people. Trying to get everything done that needs to be done before the end of the year. There is still so much that I need to do. :( Oh well I guess it is a good thing that there is only 2 more weeks of the year and then the start of a new year and more goals and more time to get everything done. LOL!
Rhett has been a hand full between school work and health issues. He had this issue with something in his back right where his VEPTR is located. Well he still has the issue since the doctor hasn't done surgery on him to fix it. There is a ring on the VEPTR that attaches to the ribs going around the rib and around the VEPTR. It is loose since it is no longer around the rib at all. So the doctor has to fix that this Spring, as long as he isn't in any pain. So far it isn't hurting him but it is annoying him. Grateful that he won't end up in surgery this month. We will have to keep praying that it doesn't hurt him and that he will be ok. He gets so bored with doing homework because he is so smart and he knows everything that he is working on already. I just tell him that it is busy work and he has to do it, too bad. He was like "But mom..." I then told him that not everything is going to be handed to you and you just need to do what your teacher tells you to. I am quite frustrated that his grades are not as good as I was hoping they would be, but I can only do so much. I cannot hold his hand and make him do it he has to choose to do it himself.
Nikole is doing better but still has issues getting her homework done on time. :( Just like Rhett she gets distracted easy. But she has been great making sure her room is clean just like Rhett and Gavin. I am happy to see that she has the desire to keep it clean. But she knows if it is messy and I ask her to clean it, she only has a little bit if time before I go check. If when I check and it is messy I get to pick one of her stuffed animals and she will never see that animal again. She wants to keep all her toys and is willing to make sure that she does keep them. She is enjoying more responsibility now that she is getting older. She wants to grow up so fast and I had to tell her that it is important for her to be a child as long as she could since you can only be a child once. She is trying to accept that and still be a little girl. :) I hope she doesn't grow up too fast.
Gavin is doing great and trying ot do his best at school which I am grateful for, but he does have some issues getting his anger under control if someone makes him mad. We are working on it and so is the staff at the school. I hope between us all he gets over it easier and than remembers how to control his temper. He is so excited to be in school and learn but he gets grumpy often if he doesn't get his way. He is doing great at making sure his homework is done before school. He loves reading and enjoys the fact that he can read on his own now so he can look at more books. He is understanding more and more. I love seeing his face as he gets things and knows more and more everyday. He has also lost 3 of his teeth in less than 2 weeks! At first he wasn't too excited to pull out his teeth but after the first one came out the others followed very soon after. He wasn't so scared after that. :)
Dylan loves school and is finally not crying each time he gets on the bus. He leaves with a smile and comes home with a smile too. Just the other day he told me as soon as he got home, "Autumn here." It was super cute to see how happy that he was to come home and tell me about his day. But what he says over and over again is Autumn. :) Not sure all the signs other than that one since he still uses little boy signs. :) He is trying to use the potty more and more but we are so far from having him potty trained. He does tell mommy and daddy when he is poopy, but mostly he likes telling daddy and making daddy do all the dirty work. LOL! Sweet that means I am going to enjoy this while I can. He loves being such a big boy, but every now and again he tells me that he is a baby and curls up like a baby in my lap. LOL! It is a good thing he is so small. He finally got over the croup that he had, but he did give it to Gavin. Glad that Gavin is over it too. I hope that he enjoys the holiday and remembers school after it is over that way it will be easy for him to go back to school.
Friday, December 16, 2011
Friday, December 2, 2011
Oh the days...
Oh the days that have gone by.
I am so sorry I am such a bad blogger at the moment. Things have been really stressful for me trying to get everything ready for the holidays. It makes me crazy that I feel like I am not doing the best I can do and that I can do better.
Since I am writing this in the middle of the night I think I will finish tomorrow and post it them too. I am too tired to try to stay awake.
So here it is tomorrow and things are rolling fast than I want them too.
Rhett is making me crazy. I have tried to help him make sure everything is ready and have him turn in everything on time but NO! To no end he refuses. I finally told him that his grades do not affect me since I passed middle school a long time ago and those grades will just affect him. He looked at me like but.... GRRRR! Makes me crazy! He has been missing out on scouts and mutual since he is not wanting to do his homework and it is taking him forever to get anything done before bed. He knows it he just doesn't want to do it. It is so very frustrating. I would love some input on how to help him since I am drawing up NOTHING, because I have already tried everything that I know already.
Nikole has been struggling in school when I thought she was doing so well. GRRR!!! This cannot be happening to me! She is really struggling with writing and I am not even sure how that is so since she is always making up stories and drawing. I have informed her that ELP isn't something that she should worry about and that would be considered extra but she isn't in ELP right now anyways. I told her that I expected her to do better and this show me how she will do in middle school and high school. I then told her that I am not going to pay for her to go to college and they are going to have to make sure that they get great grades and earn their way through college. That way it will mean more to them.
OK so I might help a little but I am not going to tell them that.
Gavin is doing pretty good in school. YEA!!! He has a few things that he needs to work on but other then that his grades are awesome. He is having a hard time doing what is right and making right choices, I hope that he will understand that soon and stick to it. He has been doing great on his homework and I am so proud of him for getting all of it done and heck he can write to the point that you can read it. I am loving how he does his best just because I make it fun for him. :)
Dylan is doing great in school and is super smart according to his teacher. He still sometimes has a sad moment when he realizes that him and Autumn are in different rooms but that is ok since she will be in there soon enough. He has been getting sick quite easy this school year. I am praying that he gets better and fast since I hate having him miss school since he really likes going and playing with his friends. But better to keep him home and get him better than force him to school like some other parents probably do.
That was the update on the kids and now to update life.
We had Thanksgiving and I am quite really not enjoying that holiday ever! It is really frustrating that Dylan gets sick following that almost every year! What the heck! I love getting together but not if he is going to get sick right after. Ok let me back up a little bit. The week of Thanksgiving Dylan had only one day of school while everyone else had 2 days. He and of course all the kids were healthy and ready to go play with cousins and maybe eat some food. So we head out to the place of gathering. We stayed there for about 5 hours and came home. Then the next day I went with Nikole and had our hair cut and spent time having girl time which was GREAT!!! We did that most the day while daddy stayed home with the boys. Saturday I ran to a store came home and then daddy took all the kids and headed out. They hadn't been gone for too long before I got a call saying they they were out of gas. Oh ok so I went and saved them all(I am so happy that it wasn't me this time.). After I saved them we all come home for dinner and then sent the older kids to the neighbors house for a birthday party, and within 30 minutes we had to get them and headed to a hockey game. As I am getting kids out the door I notice that Dylan has a whole bunch of green goop around his eyes. I talk to daddy about that and found out that he has been cleaning them out all day. Oh ok great just what I need. We go and watch the game with all the kids and as we are getting ready to leave I am making sure no kids are leaving anything behind and I look around and don't see Dylan. I ask and then the next thing I know he is screaming from a few seats from the isle and he is quite a few rows down from us. I know he didn't fall down the stairs but he did manage to sprain his foot pretty bad. We leave and before we can go very far he is asleep in the back seat. Gratefully he slept the whole night but in the morning his eye was much worse and he was limping. My poor baby! I checked into taking him to the ER or Kids Care and decided to take him to Kids Care but they wouldn't open until noon so as soon as the clock hit noon I ran home from church since daddy stayed home with the kids and planed on just grabbing Dylan and taking him but NO, when I walked in he was in the bath and not even ready to go. So as soon as he was out he fell asleep I let him sleep a little but then I took him and that is when I found out no school for him Monday but Tuesday he can go. Great, that was because his eye are very contagious and he needed antibiotics. They rapped his foot and tried putting a little shoe on him but he has in between feet so nothing fit and that was ok. So Sunday night after everyone had gone to be I am hearing Dylan cough and cough. CRAP! NO!! It is that horrible barking cough that is totally croup. So first thing in the morning I took him to the doctors and yep he has croup. Well no school for a few days for that . Meaning the whole week for him since he only goes Monday through Thursday. He has been home coughing and resting I hope. I hope and pray that he will be able to go back to school on Monday. But As you can see Thanksgiving weekend I could really live without. Don't get me wrong I am very blessed and thankful. I and thankful everyday for more than I can list. I guess a better saying would be I can live without the drama caused by the weekend.
Ok that is everything for now I hope to update sooner since things go quite quick this month.
I am so sorry I am such a bad blogger at the moment. Things have been really stressful for me trying to get everything ready for the holidays. It makes me crazy that I feel like I am not doing the best I can do and that I can do better.
Since I am writing this in the middle of the night I think I will finish tomorrow and post it them too. I am too tired to try to stay awake.
So here it is tomorrow and things are rolling fast than I want them too.
Rhett is making me crazy. I have tried to help him make sure everything is ready and have him turn in everything on time but NO! To no end he refuses. I finally told him that his grades do not affect me since I passed middle school a long time ago and those grades will just affect him. He looked at me like but.... GRRRR! Makes me crazy! He has been missing out on scouts and mutual since he is not wanting to do his homework and it is taking him forever to get anything done before bed. He knows it he just doesn't want to do it. It is so very frustrating. I would love some input on how to help him since I am drawing up NOTHING, because I have already tried everything that I know already.
Nikole has been struggling in school when I thought she was doing so well. GRRR!!! This cannot be happening to me! She is really struggling with writing and I am not even sure how that is so since she is always making up stories and drawing. I have informed her that ELP isn't something that she should worry about and that would be considered extra but she isn't in ELP right now anyways. I told her that I expected her to do better and this show me how she will do in middle school and high school. I then told her that I am not going to pay for her to go to college and they are going to have to make sure that they get great grades and earn their way through college. That way it will mean more to them.
OK so I might help a little but I am not going to tell them that.
Gavin is doing pretty good in school. YEA!!! He has a few things that he needs to work on but other then that his grades are awesome. He is having a hard time doing what is right and making right choices, I hope that he will understand that soon and stick to it. He has been doing great on his homework and I am so proud of him for getting all of it done and heck he can write to the point that you can read it. I am loving how he does his best just because I make it fun for him. :)
Dylan is doing great in school and is super smart according to his teacher. He still sometimes has a sad moment when he realizes that him and Autumn are in different rooms but that is ok since she will be in there soon enough. He has been getting sick quite easy this school year. I am praying that he gets better and fast since I hate having him miss school since he really likes going and playing with his friends. But better to keep him home and get him better than force him to school like some other parents probably do.
That was the update on the kids and now to update life.
We had Thanksgiving and I am quite really not enjoying that holiday ever! It is really frustrating that Dylan gets sick following that almost every year! What the heck! I love getting together but not if he is going to get sick right after. Ok let me back up a little bit. The week of Thanksgiving Dylan had only one day of school while everyone else had 2 days. He and of course all the kids were healthy and ready to go play with cousins and maybe eat some food. So we head out to the place of gathering. We stayed there for about 5 hours and came home. Then the next day I went with Nikole and had our hair cut and spent time having girl time which was GREAT!!! We did that most the day while daddy stayed home with the boys. Saturday I ran to a store came home and then daddy took all the kids and headed out. They hadn't been gone for too long before I got a call saying they they were out of gas. Oh ok so I went and saved them all(I am so happy that it wasn't me this time.). After I saved them we all come home for dinner and then sent the older kids to the neighbors house for a birthday party, and within 30 minutes we had to get them and headed to a hockey game. As I am getting kids out the door I notice that Dylan has a whole bunch of green goop around his eyes. I talk to daddy about that and found out that he has been cleaning them out all day. Oh ok great just what I need. We go and watch the game with all the kids and as we are getting ready to leave I am making sure no kids are leaving anything behind and I look around and don't see Dylan. I ask and then the next thing I know he is screaming from a few seats from the isle and he is quite a few rows down from us. I know he didn't fall down the stairs but he did manage to sprain his foot pretty bad. We leave and before we can go very far he is asleep in the back seat. Gratefully he slept the whole night but in the morning his eye was much worse and he was limping. My poor baby! I checked into taking him to the ER or Kids Care and decided to take him to Kids Care but they wouldn't open until noon so as soon as the clock hit noon I ran home from church since daddy stayed home with the kids and planed on just grabbing Dylan and taking him but NO, when I walked in he was in the bath and not even ready to go. So as soon as he was out he fell asleep I let him sleep a little but then I took him and that is when I found out no school for him Monday but Tuesday he can go. Great, that was because his eye are very contagious and he needed antibiotics. They rapped his foot and tried putting a little shoe on him but he has in between feet so nothing fit and that was ok. So Sunday night after everyone had gone to be I am hearing Dylan cough and cough. CRAP! NO!! It is that horrible barking cough that is totally croup. So first thing in the morning I took him to the doctors and yep he has croup. Well no school for a few days for that . Meaning the whole week for him since he only goes Monday through Thursday. He has been home coughing and resting I hope. I hope and pray that he will be able to go back to school on Monday. But As you can see Thanksgiving weekend I could really live without. Don't get me wrong I am very blessed and thankful. I and thankful everyday for more than I can list. I guess a better saying would be I can live without the drama caused by the weekend.
Ok that is everything for now I hope to update sooner since things go quite quick this month.
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