Cute Big Boy Saturday

Birthday snuggles with my boys...

Friday Five

The boys both had a decent week back at school. The highlight according to Jay was that one of the little girls broke her ankle and they got to sign her cast. Lol. Shawn's highlight was that he got to play Bingo and call out the numbers. He thought it was pretty awesome that he won the game while he was at it!

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Just got word that starting next week, the boys will have to do weekly book reports. Someone kill me now. This does not sound at all fun for me...I mean them. ;)

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Potty training = so! much! fun! 

Or, you know, not. 

He completely understands what he needs to do. He can do it. But, his desire to walk away from whatever he is doing to go pee in the potty is pretty much non existent. And he's stubborn, which of course comes directly from his father. Ahem.

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A cute thing that Jack started doing is to bring his stuffed Mike, from Monsters, Inc., to lunch every day. Mike sits at the table and "eats" with us. Jack insists I feed Mike whatever he's eating, too. The funniest part is that Mike has this way of eating all of his food the second my back is turned. Cracks me up! 

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Jack continues to hone his photography skills. He managed to get a hold of my camera this week and took these...

Not too shabby!

Le Sigh

Left him on the potty a little too long...

Spring Pictures Are Here!

I am THRILLED! :)

Can't you just die from the cute? Love them!

*Unfortunately my scanner is not playing nice with my computer, so you'll have to settle with pictures of pictures. The real deal is even better! ;)

Conversations With 7 Year Olds

After telling someone more than once to go to bed...

"Why are you so mean? You are VERY mean. No, you are a HUNDRED PERCENTAGE mean!"

It was complete with an exasperated sigh and a storming off to his room.

Isn't it a little early for the preteen drama? Lol.

Big Day

Today was the boys' first day back at school after vacation. Both boys had good days back at school.

Today we got serious about completely potty training Jack. Until now, we've been really laid back about it, having him go mostly only when he intiated it. The goal is to have him be fully rained by the end of the week. (May this be a fast process, please!) 

Today the big boys had their biannual eye exams, too. 

Both boys got new scripts for glasses. Shawn's script change is because of  a stigmatism in his right eye; Jason is going to get glasses again to have when his eyes are feeling tired or for when he's feeling eye strain, so they don't need to be worn all the time.

Both boys had their eyes dilated, which is always fun. Shawn did much better with this process than Jay. :) They flipped roles for the actual exam with Jason doing much better than Shawn for that process. Lol. The way these two tag team each other kind of cracks me up.

Sea World - A Picture Post of Our Trip

We headed out Wednesday afternoon.

We started with a little fine dining. :)

Jay claimed the sofa for himself.

Shawn decided he was going to sleep with mommy--and loved every moment.

This was Jack at 11:00 pm. He had mounds of energy
the entire trip!

Thursday was our day at Sea World.

Jay pet some sharks.

Jack did, too, but he was a little too rough.

Jay grabbed Jack's hand and showed him what to do, though.

We read every single sign we passed.

The dolphins were a hit with all of the boys!

A little girl fell in love with Jason. She and her poor mom
followed us around for the longest time. lol

We pet some stingrays, too.

We even got to feed the rays some fish.

The rays sucked the fish up like little vacuums. It was odd.

We watched a show.

Shawn thought it was okay. (It was kind of hokey.) 

Shawn was fascinated in the sea turtle exhibit. He thought it
was fun to try to count all the fish. lol

We did play in the water pad a bit.

Although it just didn't go over as well as it had in the past.

Jack loved the roller coasters.

And would have rode them all day if he could have.

He also played a little "Wack-a-Mole,"

Jay and I enjoyed a yummy funnel cake, too!

After Sea World, we went back to the hotel and spent some time in the hot tub. It was so nice. The big boys were worn out at the end of the day!

It's so funny that they are sleeping in the same position.

They never sleep together, so this was pretty neat to see.

Jack, on the other hand, had the same energy level he had the night before...no sleeping pictures of him to be found. :)

We headed home after breakfast Friday morning. All in all it was a fun trip!