Bad Blogger

I have been really bad about blogging and I always say I'm going to do better, so we will see if I really stick with it this time.

Ford started preschool a few weeks ago. He goes to the church preschool that Parker went to 2 years ago. He goes on Tuesday and Thursday mornings for 3 hours and LOVES IT! Mrs. Dorsch is such a wonderful lady. The boys have both loved her!

We are gearing up for Halloween at our house and boy are the boys ever excited. Parker is going to be an OU Football player and Ford the Bumblebee Transformer. This morning Ford had his Halloween Party at preschool and he was very excited. Last night when I told him that tomorrow was his party, he said "Yea!, That will be so fun!" He looked adorable! Pics to come soon.

Parker's school party is on Friday afternoon and he is also very excited for that! And of course they are both totally pumped for Saturday night for Trick or Treat! I think we are going to "sell" our candy to the dentist and take the money to Walmart (or Wilmart as Ford calls it) and buy a fun toy! Figure our teeth are something we'd like to keep, and seeing that Parker is a couple short due to his candy loving mimi's, we thought we'd try to hang on to all that we can! Ha!

Brian has two more football games. If we win our last game, then we make playoffs. The boys have worked really hard, so they definately deserve it. I'm staying very busy with school and the boys. My Christmas shopping is almost more than half done, so I need to get to wrapping!

Speaking of wrapping, I need to wrap this up. Catch you later!

Potty Training Time

Ford trying out the potty!!! He was successful!!!

Yep. It's that time. The dreaded potty training days. Dont' we all just wish that this could happen overnight. That our kiddos would just wake up and know how to use the potty for #1 and #2. But it is a process that we have to go through and luckily I have the most fantastic parter to do this with. I bet you all thought I was going to say BRIAN... LOL! No, his babysitter Barbara (aka Grammie) is going to be working very hard with Ford starting now. She sent a note home today that said to only send Ford in elastic pants that they could pull up and down easily and several pair of underwear. So, I told her that I would work with him at home as well.

Ford is very lucky that he goes to Barbaras and the only other one that she watches is her grandaughter Ruby who is exactly one month younger than Ford. So they are both ready to start potty training since they are now 2 1/2. They are quite the buddies. Ford wakes up and says "I go Grammies day". He started out with lots of days of crying when I would leave him and now he loves it. Who wouldn't love going there. It is like going to grandma's everyday. She is wonderful. Her house just feels like home when you walk in. She is very loving yet strict and structured which I love. They do lots of fun things like fingerpainting and cleaning the tables and windows with shaving cream. She just really enjoys them and doesn't worry about making a mess. The other day I got there and there was a kiddie pool in the middle of the living room with a jillion easter eggs in it. They had a hay day swimming in easter egss. Who would of thought of that!!! What fun!!

Long Time, No Blog

Long Time, NO blog.. Sorry. I have had a hard time keeping up with things and finally sat down to update you all on our busy lives.

Parker with his "Monkey". This monkey goes everywhere with us and sleeps with Parker....

First I will update you on the happenings in the life of FORD ARTHUR...

Ford has become scared of lots of things lately. He is scared of rain, bugs, elevators, riding toys. We were driving down the road the other day and it was raining and he began to cry and said, "That Rain Scare Me". And then my mom called me at the school the other day and Ford was hysterical. It was storming and hailing and she couldn't get him to calm down. She said he was saying "I want my momma, rain scare me." She finally (at 1o:30 in the morning) asked him if he wanted to take a nap and when they woke up the rain would be gone and he quickly took her up on that offer. If you know my boys, then you know that they love their naps and are normally very willing to go down. And alot of times Ford tells me "I go to bed".

Below is a picture of him on a truck that moved at Chuckee Cheese which he hated and told me, "Help, I fall out.." It was quite comical.. so I had to snap a picture before I got him out.

This morning Ford was banging a toy on the coffee table and Parker said "Ford if you do that Momma won't like you anymore". Ford quickly said back "No, Momma like Me, Daddy like you"! Brian and I both died laughing. Some of the things kids say!!! Ford is talking very well now and as Brian puts it "When did you start talking so good and so much!!!" ha!!!

And now moving on to PARKER DYLAN...

Parker is busy as ever and doing great in school. He is trying to join the "50" club by counting to 50. When they do this their teacher takes them and lets them pick something out of the snack machine. He can do it sometimes but most times skips forty and goes straight to 50, so we are working on remembering 40 and hopefully he'll joint he 50 club soon and then we will move on to 100. State madates say that they only need to count to 10 in Pre-k. Is that not absurd.. Ford can do that at 2 1/2 and has been doing so for a while.

Parker had his first actual realization of what death means the other night. I was watching a lifetime movie and didn't really think he was paying attention and then he crawled up on the couch beside me right at the time some boys grandmother died and this is how the conversation went from there....

P (Parker)- "What Happened"

M (Momma) - "The boys grandma died"

P - "Oh, she was sick and died? So, when people get sick they die?"

M - "Not always but sometimes people do get sick and die."

P - "Is their grandma ever coming back"

M - "No, honey when people die they don't come back"

P - bursts out in tears and in utter hysteria says "I don't like this movie, it makes my eyes burn"

Then we were watching spiderman which he has watched a million times and when Peter Parkers uncle died parker started crying and said "Peter Parker's uncle isn't coming back is he momma?" So, I think he now understands a little more what death is all about. He is very sensative and emotional... Just like his momma!!!!

Parker is so sweet and affectionate. When he sees me at school he raises his arms and says "HUG" and proceeds to give me a hug and a kiss and it doesn't matter who is around. I hope he doesn't ever decide that hugging his momma in front of people isn't "cool". I love to see a high school boy who will still hug their mom in front of people.. It just melts my heart.

Little boys sure are special and they sure do "LOVE THIER MOMMAS" and this Momma sure does LOVE HER LITTLE BOYS!!!

Parker's Sick!!

I have been home the last two days with Parker. He has flu like symptoms but they swabbed him for the flu and that came back negative. He is pretty pitiful. Fever, headache and real tired.. Nothing else too eventful around here to report.

Poor Zoey

Well we had a horrible pet experience this week. For those of you who don't know we have a 7 year old yellow lab named Zeke and a 2 1/2 month old chocolate lab named Zoey. Tuesday night Brian went out to check on the dogs and came into the house and showed me Zoey's eye. My first comment was "Her eye is coming out". And I'm not kidding when I say her eye was coming out. Long story short, the vet said she lost her eye. He was able to get it back into socket but she is now blind in that eye. It was terrible. Parker was in tears. Our first sadness over a pet. We still don't know what happened.. maybe Zeke and her played too rough.. maybe a head caught in the fence.. But it is really sad to see her trying to get used to seeing through only one eye.

It did put things into perspective for me though. I decided it was good for the boys for use to have a dog with a disability. Through Zoey we will be able to show the boys that even though Zoey has something wrong with her, we still love her and wouldn't want people to make fun of her.

A few new pics

Ford Funny

Last night we were trying to get Parker and bed and we were saying "Parker you need to go to bed, right now"! So of course our little copycat who is learning to say sentences really well was following Parker around saying, "Doe Doe, go bed, right now"! And then of course Parker was saying, "Momma, bubba is trying to tell me the rules!" Never a dull moment at our house!!