Friday Five

Jason declared today that he needed a tie and a shirt to wear for picture day on Monday. He wants to look "fancy." Of course we don't have anything that would pass for a dress shirt, and we certainly don't have tie for him, so it looks like I get to go shopping this weekend.

I asked him if he was going to smile for the picture this year or if he was going to take one last year. He simply gave me his "Mother, please stop. You're embarrassing yourself." look and rolled his eyes. I'm taking the exchange as a sign that he'll smile this time. It can happen.

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Shawn's two front teeth are very loose. I am doing all I can to help those teeth fall out before Monday, because a toothless school picture is a must have if you can work it. (Jason had already lost his teeth and gotten his adult teeth before he entered kinder!)

Fingers crossed for me (ok, us). A tie for one boy AND a toothless grin for another in a picture would totally make the school year!

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Jack woke us up this morning with a "Hey! Hey! Are you awake?" It's totally cute until you realize that he's hollering at the top of his lungs and the sun hasn't even come up yet.

He is becoming a morning person.

Help me. That makes two of them! He is joining Shawn in the world of the early risers.

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Yesterday (Thursday), during the math lesson, Shawn told his aide that he was going to rest, and then proceeded to put his head down on his desk and SLEPT for TWENTY minutes. (Mortifying much? Jeez.) We've since added discussions on how "we do not sleep at school" to our daily run down of do's and don'ts.

OMG. I totally blame* this on him being a morning person, you know. It is not right to get up at 6 am each morning.

*It was most likely a combination of being awakened by Jack at 4:30 am and some cough syrup he took before he went to school.

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I also wanted to mention that the boys were rock stars at the appointment they had on Wednesday. The entire trip took approximately 7.5 hours, and yet they did very little complaining the entire time. The best news is that both boys let the nurses take their blood pressure! Shawn has never allowed any doctor to take his blood pressure, and Jason has only allowed it one other time. The fact that they both did it this time was pretty dang amazing for Isaac and I. Plus, they both laid on the exam table, another part of doctor trips that always scared them, without a peep! They were so brave!

We are so proud of them, too!