New Hardware!

Nate's glasses came today! I think he is a cutie but he is not showing much love for the glasses right now. He is very nervous about school tomorrow, he thinks everyone is going to make fun of him. I hope not, I know how mean kids can be though. I asked if he had any friends that wore glasses and he does have one...

Nate: yeah he wears glasses and everyone makes fun of him

Me: I sure hope you don't make fun of him
Nate: of course I don't make fun of him, he's my friend!!!!

Me: there you go, your friends won't make fun you

Nate: they probably will mom, you just don't know!

We are working on it, if you have any ideas on how to make this easier for Nate let me know.

funny moment the other day, Nate wanted to pack his lunch for school while I was getting myself and Ella ready, he did a good job and I told him to put his lunch box in his backpack so he would not forget it and he decided that he did not need to do that. Long story short he forgot is lunch box in the car and I took it to him at school. flash forward to the next week, driving to school and Nate says:

you were right mom I should have put my lunch box in my backpack. I did forget it. Thank you for bringing it to me at school that was awesome.

I said I know right because I am the best mom!

Nate says:

well you're not the best mom in the whole wide world but you make the top 5!

what???

Nate clarifies:

well to me and Ella you're the best mom but like in the whole world you are only in the top 5, I think your the best, but my friend Riley thinks his mom is the best and my other friend Houston thinks his mom is the best. Not all the moms can be number one, so even though you are the best to me, you're not the best to the world! But you are to me mom!

Nothing like having a six year old to keep your feet planted solidly on the ground!!!!!!:)

TGIF

Thursdays are my Fridays, and mostly Friday is my cleaning and errand day but since my wonderful husband has been cleaning the house for me this week I get to play! Yeah!!! Well I do have to do some laundry and grocery shopping and bank and post office runs but then I get to do this

one of my favorites on my list of things to do in the fall!! I might attempt to make some pumpkin seed brittle as well! Well have to see how ambitious I am feeling tomorrow.

Stop the mad please!

that is what I was told this morning as we were getting ready for the day. I was mad and maybe my voice was rising a bit but good lord why does it take so long to get out the door? It does not matter what time we get up, the last 5 min dash to the car is always so hectic and crazy!!!
Ella my sooo dramatic about clothes, hair, shoes what jacket she is going to wear, everything kid! She walks out of her bedroom wearing a surprisingly cute outfit( I can no longer pick out her clothes and most of the time what she wants to wear is, for a lack of a better word, hideous) and I make the mistake of telling her she looks cute. No that won't do she turns and goes back into her bedroom and changes. Hideous ensues!!! There is no time to change again, Nate's going to be late for school, I am going to be late for work, and I am embarrassed for Ella, who informed me that she did not want to be cute today, to been seen by her preschool teacher.
My blood pressure was up a bit and then Nate, Nate my easy going and laid back about everything kid, who never throws fits over clothes, wants to not wear his coat because he likes the cold and does not care if it is raining/snowing. I am now arguing with my six year old when my three year old says "stop the mad mom it's just a jacket"!!!!
I pray for patience!:)

Happy Halloween!

so Halloween week not the very best but we made it through! I had two sick kids, home from work and no school for a week!! Major stress over high temps and H1N1. We are now on the mend and all ok. Nate was really upset he missed his spelling test, his show n tell, two Halloween/birthday parties and his school harvest party. We did not do pumpkins and I was so tired from all the cleaning, disinfecting and laundry that I did not finish costumes. Luckily for them their fevers broke and were gone so they could still go trick or treating. We just went around the block but it was good enough for them! :)

Funny part of the evening: some friends came over to go trick or treating , they went around the block with us last year, and we have this house on our street that is done up like a mini spook house, the teenage son always dresses up like a werewolf and scares people as they go to the door to get candy. I think it's great fun but it does freak the kids out. So the majority of our little party say no way they are not going to go up to this house, Nate says I want candy but you have to go with me mom, Ella stays across the street with the rest of the gang. We walk up to the drive way and you can see the wolf slumped against some hay bales with his legs on the walk way to the door. Nate is rooted to the ground and then he finally says:

You scared me last year, I know who you are, you're not going to scare me so lay off!!

As we step over his legs he jerks them and Nate jumps about a mile. HA HA , I am a super mean mom because I think this is hilarious. Nate gets his candy and we walk back across the street where my friend is laughing, I think she is laughing about what happened with Nate but no she tells me Ella is standing there and was we walk up to the werewolf, she says

if that wolf does something to hurt my mom or my brother I am gonna kick it's butt!!

Ella our fierce protector all the way across the street.

Here are some of the pictures from Halloween, Nate was a knight ( I still have to upload those pics) and Ella was a princess of course.