A Love/Hate Kind of Day

Love - the boys are making their teacher the cutest end of the year gift.
Hate - trying to figure out what to get the other support people at the school. Apparently I am limited to one creative project at a time.

Love - there are only four more days of school.
Hate (ish)- the boys also get out on the same day I do. It sure would have been nice if I got just one day to recover before we start the summer.

Love - Jack is finally interested in the potty.
Hate - that nothing has actually come of it. All we do is sit and rip up toilet paper. lol

Love - Jack is independent enough to play on his own.
Hate - the aftermath. Everywhere he plays ends in a HUGE mess.

Love - Shawn wakes up in such a happy mood.
Hate - that mood starts about two hours before I am ready to get up. Last night, he was ready for the day at 4:45!

Love - that Jason reads everything.
Hate - it makes it challenging to fool him now!

A Love/Hate Kind of Day

Love that I get to take the day off of work on Monday to finally register the boys for Kindergarten!

Hate that we found out from the pedi that Jason's last blood work was not recent enough to use for the school enrollment papers. Now we have to take him to get it done on Monday before we register. Boo.

Torn about the whole idea of registering them for Kindergarten in the first place...people, how can they be old enough for kinder? It just doesn't seem possible!

Love that Jason's Homecoming Day is tomorrow!

Hate that it is the same day as the Super Bowl. (I checked, and it seems he was released the day before the Super Bowl five years ago. I had no clue it was so close to the Super Bowl back then.)

Love that they have both now been "officially" ours and home from the hospital for 5 whole years!

Love that I got to get some more Apps for the boys' LeapPads with their Homecoming gifts.

Hate that the Leap Frog website was being so difficult this evening while I did it.

Hate that I've been trying to download (and then fix a problem) on the Leap Frog website for two and a half hours now. I still have a ways to go seeing that the download is only 81% done. Sigh.

Love that I am able to type this on my IPad mini while I wait. (So if you see anything funny, it's the auto correct, not me.)

Love that the boys are eating us out of house and home.

Hate that they are so picky about what they eat. Let's just say my kids are made of waffles, peanut butter, bologna, hot dogs, and fruit.

Love that Isaac brought home some Jelly Belly jelly beans. The boys' minds have been officially blown over all of the different flavors. Of course they had no problem eating those. lol.

Love that they don't care for cinnamon and I do. :)

A Love/Hate Kind of Day

Love that the boys are finally starting to act like themselves again after this round of sickness.

Hate that it has taken nearly eight days and that they are still not completely over it. (Me neither, for that matter.)

Love that the boys are into the swing of looking for the elf each morning and how excited they get when they find him.

Hate that the elf has forgotten to move twice already! (Thank goodness for Isaac helping him remember. Ahem.)

Love driving around with the boys after dark and having them yell, "STOP!" each time they see Christmas lights on a house. Let me just say that they yell it often. lol

Hate that it gets dark so early, though.

Love that Jack has finally started to leave the tree alone! And that he hasn't broken any ornaments!

Hate...well, there is nothing to hate about that! :-)

Love this holiday season!

A Love and Hate Kind of Day

Love - having the extra day off yesterday. It was so nice to play with the crew and hang together.

Hate - that it's another three more days before it's the weekend, and we get to hang out again.

Wait...love that there are only three more days to the weekend!

Love - watching Jack give himself kisses in the mirror. So sweet!

Love - the big boys are so...big all of a sudden. It must be that they are 5. What else could it be?

Hate - with turning 5 came these new Attitudes (yes with a capital "A"). Oh my goodness these boys have got themselves some 'tudes. I miss their sweet little 4 year old attitudes, I tell you! Please tell me this is a phase.

Love - Jack has this new found independence. He is exploring everywhere and everything.

Hate - that he won't leave the toothbrushes alone! Good grief, boy. Stop going after those toothbrushes already! lol

Love - we had our first Santa Clause discussion of this season this evening. I LOVED telling them about Santa, writing letters, and some family traditions. I loved that they remember last Christmas and are excited about the season! I'm excited about thinking about presents and planning memories and festive decorations and designing Christmas Cards. It's all so much fun!

What do you Love and Hate?

A Love/Hate Kind of Day

I'm borrowing this idea from the wonderful K, who happens to do the Love/Hate thing mostly on Fridays, but I am wild and like to break the rules. :-)

Love: Jack is a fan of peanut butter and fruit.

Hate: Lately he's been a fan of little else.

Love: The big boys are their own unique individuals with their own likes and dislikes.

Hate: That their likes and dislikes are usually opposite of each other! Lol. You can bet that if one says he likes something the other will immediately declare that the said thing is "ess-cuss-ting." Every once in a while, it would be lovely if they would get together and declare solidarity on something...wait, I want them to declare solidarity on something good...wait...oh, never mind.

Love: We just took family pictures together. (I know! Again?!? We've been hooked!) This time they actually liked going to play with Kym, the photographer, and cried when it was time to leave!

Hate: Hm. I don't hate anything about this one. I guess I could say I hate that I like too many of the pictures and now have to narrow down my choices to only 5. Clearly, 5 is not enough for a photo freak like me. :)

Love: Getting the chance to plan for the big boys' birthday. It's only 18 days away! Yikes. How can they possibly be almost 5?

Love: Thinking about what I kind of presents to get them! I'm like a little kid before Christmas in the gift giving area. lol.

Hate: That they are growing up so fast. Someone slow down the clock, please!

Love: Watching Jack kiss his reflection in the sliding glass doors. I love it even more that he'll do it when I ask him to. Yes, I may be guilty of having him give kisses to the handsome reflection boy often.

Love: Watching the boys play chase around the house. Their laughter and screams of delight fill my heart. (I need this to counter the times when the screams are from something other than fun. Ahem.)

Hate: Yep. My boys are screamers. Sigh.

What are you loving and hating?