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Happy twins. (February 07, 2007)

Play Days

Tuesdays and Thursdays are Connor's days off from preschool. Because this is his last year of preschool, we usually try to make the most of those days. One day is typically spent running errands (think grocery store), and the other day is usually reserved for something a little less like work and a little more like play.

Today was the fun day. We dropped little brothers off at school, ran one quick errand (15 minutes tops) and then went over to the house of one of Connor's preschool friends. We even got a bonus, as there was another friend and his mom there, too. If you were to ask Connor who he plays with at school, both of these boys would be at the top of his list. Not a day goes by that I don't hear about how fast one of them is during play time at school or how he'd love to go over to one of their houses to play, maybe some day.

The boys spent most of the morning upstairs playing. The moms got to sit downstairs enjoying the company and a little break of not being expected to entertain our children every single second of the day.

Fun for Connor. Fun for Mommy.

Hey, I Need You!

Hey, You!, originally uploaded by cheryl.

I started to just do a blog entry of photos, but there were too many for a single blog upload. So I put the progression up on the Flickr site. It's hilarious.

Sawyer and I go through this dance three or four times every single day, sometimes more. This is his way of requesting cereal. It starts with a hug, then he tries to pull you along by the hand. If that doesn't work, he takes matters into his own hands. And, just a few more inches, and he won't have to request anymore. He's almost there all on his own.

Let's just say the boy is going through a cereal phase at the moment. Lucky Charms are apparently the best thing ever. Really. As in he could eat at least a box a day if you'd let him. The marshmallows first, of course. Except for the green ones. He saves those for last. And then he eventually eats them, too. And, if he has too (meaning you won't just get him more cereal with more marshmallows), he will even eat the other pieces so that he can actually get more marshmallows.

Looks like I know what I need to add to the grocery list this week.

The Gallery ... Details

I love this photo of Sawyer. His teacher, Mrs. R., sent it home in his folder along with the string necklace he "made" in class. I'm sure he had help, but that's okay. What I love about the photo is that he's happy, he's engaged and he's actually looking at the camera. All wonderful and amazing things.



Glitter is something all children love. It's also something all mother's could live without. Several of Connor's recent art projects end up like this - in plastic zipper bags - hung up on the refrigerator gallery. Otherwise there is glitter all over my house.

It's a cute cotton ball and q-tip snowflake, if you're wondering.



And that would be my son's very large size two (youth, not toddler) footprint adorned with cotton and real buttons. They definitely do cute crafts at his preschool.



Xander made the animal menagerie. He likes to work with these little foam sticky things, at least from my limited experience. He also repeatedly walks up to finger them on display.

And I've finally discovered how to properly display crafts that are mounted on a rounded paper plate. You take a piece of card stock (I took mine from one of my many online photo shipments) and cut a small strip about six inches long. Then glue it to the back of the plate and you have a flat area to affix with the magnetic clips we use on our refrigerator gallery. Otherwise, just trying to clip the rounded edge means it sticks out all kinds of weird ways and usually gets pulled down by a pair of little hands.



And here we have yet another "special" piece of art, meaning it contains glitter and therefor is enclosed in plastic. This one was fun to bring home from school too - it's essentially a big glob of glue on a paper plate with glitter and other items attached. It was extremely wet and had to dry for two nights before we could even attempt to display it.

Cute though, right?

Snow & Sniffles

Two days in the cold and the snow might not have been the best idea, in retrospect. But, we had three little boys who kept looking out the windows and who kept bringing us their shoes and coats. The two youngest ones may not talk much yet, but that spoke volumes.

Daddy took them all out to play Saturday in the backyard (photos are here). Mommy braved the snow covered roads and went to work. Yesterday, Daddy and Connor went out after lunch to shovel the front drive. And that's when two little boys watched big brother get dressed and decided that was not fair. They kept alternating, one would bring me a hat or a pair of shoes, and then the other would bring me something else. Clearly, they were trying to tell me something.

So out we went again (more photos are here). It wasn't really that cold, and the boys were in layers upon layers of clothes. We start with those tight little kid pajamas (think long underwear without the expense of buying it), two pairs of socks, a pair of cotton lined wind pants, a t-shirt (over the tight pajama shirt), a hooded sweatshirt, and a big winter coat. We also had mittens and hats, the latter of which went on first, followed by the hood from the sweatshirt and then the hood from the jacket. They were bundled, to say the least.

But, as you can see from the photo above, the sniffles have followed our two days of snow play. And so has a little cough. No fever, not even feeling bad, really. Still dancing and playing and just being little boys. Just also sniffling and coughing quite a bit.

So it goes. At least they got a change to get outside and enjoy some sunshine and fresh air for a change. Now, about those 80s I requested a few days back ... we're ready for those now.