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12/14/08 - Wow, over three months without a story. I hate that I can't don't write more often, but I just don't have enough energy in the evenings to sit and write something. Chris is working evenings and has been since August I think and so it's like being a single mom in the evenings. By the time the kids are in bed, I want to crash myself. And before I moved into a recruiting roll, I had time to write a story at work. Now, I'm lucky if I get a break other than lunch. Hopefully I'll get better, for sure at least when Chris goes to another shift and I have help in the evenings. So since it's been three months, this should be extremely long, but I'll just do a quick update. Nolan is half way finished with his 2nd year in preschool and is learning so much that he amazes me every day. We were riding in the car yesterday and he told me, "The primary colors are red, blue, & yellow." Then he went into what color each of them made when mixed together. I don't know if that's advanced or not, but it still surprises me that he's old enough to know and comprehend that kind of information. He's learning the lowercase of all his letters this year. He's still MUCH better at his capitals, but he certainly tries his lowercase every chance he gets. He's addicted to video games. I know it's Chris and my fault, but when you have a mom and dad who loves playing video games too, it's really hard to stop your child from loving and playing them too. We've put restrictions on him (I think I'm the only one who follows them), but it's something we really like doing as a family too. Even Bennett likes to make the characters jump and run! Bennett is still a character. He's a daddy's boy. He's a charmer, but a controller. He HAS to get his way and doesn't know how yet to deal with his feelings when he doesn't. He has no regard for rules and doesn't think twice in breaking them. He doesn't like getting in trouble, but for some reason it doesn't click that "if I do this thing that I'm not suppose to, I'm going to get in trouble". I think he sincerely feels bad for doing something wrong, but not until AFTER he's done it. I may need some help with this one. Don't get me wrong, he is a wonderful little boy. He cracks me up and is turning into a real sweetheart. He LOVES giving kisses and makes the "MUAHH" with every one. And everyday when I get home and he run as fast as he can to me yelling, "MAMA" never gets old! Chris and I couldn't have gotten any luckier. They are becoming buddies themselves and they can't go to bed without a hug and kiss from each other. I can't wait until Bennett is at Nolan's school next year with him. That will be interesting, I'm sure. I really pray and hope they will always be this close and love each other and be there for each other forever. 9/9/08 - We were eating dinner at Aunt Tammy's and here's the conversation Nolan had with me and his Aunt Tammy Nolan, "What time is it?" Aunt Tammy, "Why? Do you have a date?" Nolan, "No, I'm not old enough to have a date. But when I get older I will have dates." Me, "Well, who will you go on dates with." Nolan, "I will go on dates with Lani. She asked if I would marry her." Totally acting all giddy. Me, "SHE DID?!? What did you say." Nolan, "I told her we could when we get older. And then when we get married that means we will kiss." Aunt Tammy, "Have you and Lani kissed yet?" Nolan, "No silly! We're not married yet!" Me, "Oh, so you have to be married before you can kiss?" Nolan, "Well, duh." Me, "Oh Nolan, Lani's daddy is going to like that answer!" Then when we left my sisters, Nolan says, "We were pretending at school today and Lani was the mom and I was the dad." Me, "Really? And did you pretend to be married?" Nolan, "Yes. But we just pretended." Me, "Well, if you pretended to be married, did you pretend to kiss?" Nolan, "Yes and this is how you do that." Making a kissing noise. "And then we went to sleep" Me, gulping..."You went to sleep? Then what?" Nolan, "Then I dreamed of Mario and Yoshi and how I'm going to find Yoshi and save him." (He big into Nintendo right now) 9/6/08 - Happy Birthday to my baby Bennett! I absolutely LOVE the age Bennett is right now. Sure he has his moments with his tantrums and his hitting and throwing toys, but man, this little boys has some personality. He makes us laugh all the time. He may have just turned two, but there isn't a word he can't say! He's even picking up expressions that his big brother uses already...GREAT!! The day Nolan turned 4 he looked at his Aunt Tammy and said "Tough!" If my two year old ever looks at me and says that, although it will be hard to keep a straight face, I won't know what to do! We got the results back from Bennett's allergy testing. I was devastated at first because it showed an allergy to dog and a slight allergy to egg. I thought for sure I was going to have to make a horrible decision as to what to do with my dog that I've had for 12 years, but once I talked to the dr's office, the allergy is ever so slight that as long as the medicine is working right now, we don't have to get rid of the dog. Since he's so old too, he probably won't be around too many more years and the dr said there is no harm in Bennett staying on the medication for years much less one or two. And the allergy to egg was hardly on the chart and he can still eat it. He goes back in 6 months and hopefully they'll test for more things. The blood test only tested for things that are all year long. They did that because I can't tell of a time that he hasn't had allergies (now we know why that is). But I believe there are some seasonal things he's allergic to as well. Nolan is LOVING gymnastics. He's been three times and can do a pretty good cartwheel and can push himself up in his backbend pretty good already. It's so great to see him get some energy out. Aunt Tammy and I tried to take Bennett last week and that didn't work at all. He wanted out there with his brother!! I'm going to try to get better videos for Aunt Lori and everyone, but the ones that I had didn't work for some reason. He's also enjoying his second year of preschool. He gets to sleep on a cot two days a week this year and I think he thinks he's so cool! He made it a week and a half before getting sick this year (last year it was TWO days). He ended up with strept throat and was pretty sick. Anyways, please sign the guest book to wish Bennett a happy birthday. I know everyone just did for Nolan, but Bennett needs some loves too. By the way, Nolan LOVED to hear all the messages everyone left - he wants to hear them every time I pull their page up. It's hard to believe that I've had this page going since he was a little peanut in my belly!! 8/18/08 - Happy 4th Birthday to my baby boy! I know I say it every year, but I can't believe that he's already 4!! He's growing into a very sweet and sensitive little boy. He's still my cuddler and I hope that doesn't change anytime soon. I want so much for this little guy that I can't even express it. He's learning so much that sometimes, I don't even know where he learns some of the words that come out of his mouth or expressions that he shows. I have never felt so much pride for another human being in my life. Why does 4 seem so much older than 3? Nolan starts his second year of preschool today on his birthday...what a big day! I think he's so excited, but he actually didn't show it that much. He's become such a 'computer geek' and 'gamer' this summer that I hope that he will still love preschool as much as he did last year. It's totally our fault that he wants to be on the computer or playing 'nintendo' as much as he does. It's just amazing that he's so good at it and he was only 3! This summer flew by, but we got to go to the zoo, the Magic House, took a train to Aunt Lori's, and went to the water park three or four times. So I think the boys had a great summer. I'm sad that it's over, but next summer will be here before we blink. The days fly by these days. So after school today we'll be having Aunt Tammy, Grandma and Papa over for dinner and cake. Then Nolan starts gymnastics on Wednesday! I can't wait for that and he is sooo excited. He has been practicing his 'standheads' (handstands) every day since I told him that gymnastics starts soon. Bennett's birthday is in three weeks (so at least you won't have to wait so long for an update again!) - he'll already be TWO. We FINALLY had him into the allergist last week and should find out soon some answers why he's had horrible eczema and asthma already so much in his short little life. I'm sure that it's going to be something that is going to change our lives, but we will FINALLY have a road to take on making him feel better. We opted for the blood test instead of the pricking. It takes longer for a result, but way less invasive for Bennett. We've been two years without knowing - what's another two weeks? We left that doctor with FOUR - yes I said FOUR prescriptions!! He has an two inhalers - one that we use twice a day every day and the other one is only for breathing problems, we have a nose spray that we use every day, and he gave us a much stronger steroid cream for the eczema. We've used the cream for a week and his eczema is amazingly better already! Hopefully after we get some answers we can control it other ways than with all the medicine! Well, hopefully I'll be back to update much sooner than this time - I have so many Nolan quotes that I have to get into the stories. Please wish Nolan a happy birthday - I will be reading him all of the entries!! ***I don't even know when I wrote this story...I think it actually took me a couple weeks and still never finished it - but I didn't just want it to go to waste...so here it is...*** Can you say slacker? That's me! I think it was actually a whole month before I updated anything on the website. I'm glad I got something up for Father's Day, but the calendar is still May! I did want to get up a background of our zoo trip, but never got around to it. We've been busy and sometimes I just really don't want to get on a computer when I get home after sitting at one ALL day long. Anyways...enough excuses. I'll try harder. This time. I promise. Maybe. Nolan finished his first year of preschool and although he'll be going back there two more years, I was sad that his first year of school was over. I took the day off and spent the morning at school with him. He loved it. He, along with all the kids, had to show me around. They did their circle time and reviewed all the songs they've learned all year long - "The Days of The Week"," The Months of The Year", they did a song with their thumbs. Can you say beaming with pride? And all the while he sat there close to his little girlfriend Lani. The teachers told me that they always try to sit by each other. How cute is that? I wonder if her dad thinks it that cute. They played outside for a while and I got to finally see how crazy all the boys are with the dump trucks. I've heard stories all year about how all the little boys play with the big dump trucks and they'll take off running, get the trucks going fast, and then jump in the back until the fence stops them. It once again made my heart beam with pride watching him and all his little friends playing so well with each other and having a blast. Also made me love his preschool even more than I already did. They then were taking a walk to the child development class at the high school. That's when I ducked out and went home because Aunt Tammy and I were surprising Nolan with a trip to the zoo. I wish I could have seen him in the 'Big School', but I knew he'd get more out of it without me there. I went and picked up Bennett and Tam and we got everything ready for the zoo and when it was time we went and got Nolan together. Bennett immediately called out for Nolan (he says Dowen) when we got inside. When he saw him, he ran up and gave him a hug...too adorable! We told Nolan what his surprise was (which he had guess the day before from the clue we gave him..."We're going somewhere there are dinosaurs and mice." How he got the zoo from that, I'm not sure). He was excited, but didn't like that we had to drive a while before we got there. It was so very hot, but we still had a wonderful time. We went towards the dinosaurs first and Nolan was weary the whole way there. I finally had to tell them the dinosaurs were not real because as we got closer and closer, he kept getting louder and louder with protest about not wanting to see them! Once we got there it again took some coaxing to get him to sit next to them to get some pictures!! I guess he's got such a great imagination, that he can imagine them to be alive. (That's much better than saying he might be scared or something!) But after he realized they weren't alive and figured out that none of the other animals could get to him, he was fine and really relaxed. Bennett loved it too! Bennett's favorite animal was the penguins, I think. Actually I think that he liked anything that was in water (fish and the ducks were also favorites). We took them to see the sea lion show also and while we were waiting for it to start, there was loud music playing and Nolan and Bennett were the start of the show at that point. Bennett was dancing his butt off and everyone around us just laughed and loved him! Nolan of course had to get in on that action. I wish I would have gotten some videos of that, but I was too busy trying to make sure Bennett didn't fall off the bleacher and/or run away! The rest of the day they were awesome also. We were going to take them to Chuck e Cheese, but thought that might have been a little much. They both were getting pretty tired. So instead we met Uncle Mark and just ate at one of his favorite restaurants. It was a great day to end the first year of preschool. So the summer has been good so far. I think Nolan is having a little difficult time with how the days are so unstructured. He's always done so well with change, but I think this going to somewhere different and someone different watching him every day is a little too much for him. He's spending a lot of time with a family of FOUR boys ages ranging 15 to 4. He loved it soooo much at first that he'd ask me EVERY hour if he was going to Wayde's tomorrow. But last week he didn't want to go. He just wanted to stay home. What? Nolan doesn't ever want to stay home. I asked for a good reason and all he could say was he just didn't want to go. I really think that it's hard that one day he goes to Aunt Tammy's, the next to Grandma's where he may or may not spend the night, the next to Wayde's, and the next day home with Daddy. Not to mention the weekends when mommy actually stays home with him. I'm sure that's hard for even someone who likes change. So this week Wayde came over to our house instead. We'll see how that goes. School will start in 6 weeks again and he will get his OWN cot. Now that's a BIG deal to Nolan! Swimming lessons went great and we just started Nolan's second session yesterday. He's doing great and is getting more and more comfortable in the water every time. At the community center he will actually swim from one side of one part of the pool to the other (only about 8 feet), but it's because he knows the distance. I took him to my brothers pool then and he wanted nothing to do with it because it was unfamiliar and because he couldn't touch I'm sure. I was pleasantly surprised though with what he learned during the first session though. I was hoping that he would learn to feel more comfortable in the water and like putting his face in - that's all. Instead he can float on his belly and back and swim under water when he feels comfortable. We're doing it one more session and then he'll start gymnastics in August. I can't wait to see that. Bennett has been great too. I looked at him the other day and noticed he's starting to not look so much like a baby anymore. Sniff sniff. He's showing so much of his personality and his sense of humor that he definitely amazes me every day. He says every word possible or at least tries. He even says complicated words like "Einsteins" (for Little Einsteins) and "Higgytown" for (Higgleytown Heros). He's even had small conversation with us already and I LOVE it. Although, I also want him to be a baby again. It's a catch 22 - you can't wait until they learn new things and grow, but on the flip side you don't want them to grow too fast.
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