I'm Glad You're Not in Health Class

Cole has always been very up front with me and has never been shy to tell me what's on his mind. I absolutely love the conversations we have and that we have open communication.

The other day he came home from school to find me studying at the kitchen table and he said, "what are you doing?" "Math" I said. He said, "Oh, I'm glad it's not health class. I've heard that you have to learn about the penis in health class." I simply said, "I'm thankful it's not health class".

Pumpkin Patch - Here We Come...NOT!

Garrett attends an awesome preschool that I absolutely love. When I was asked to go on a field trip with the 4 year olds, I quickly said yes! My assignment was to ride along with another mom to help keep the kids in order. No problem, right?

We made the 25 minute drive to the pumpkin patch in Flower Mound. There was quite a bit of squealing from the backseat, but completely manageable. Unfortunately, when we arrived at the Patch, it was CLOSED due to the mud from all of the rain. The chaos quickly began. Garrett's teacher quickly sent us over to the next pumpkin patch which was also CLOSED! Well, let the madness begin. Brody (who's mom is driving the car), quickly verbalized his outrage by this with words I did not know that 4 year olds knew. I know my eyes about popped out of my head and his mom calmly said, "Now Brody, we don't say potty words like that". (That will teach him, lol) Garrett (who frequently gets car sick) started his normal ques of about release his partially digested food was quickly given a "barf bag" as he prefers to call it and was asking if we could please just go home.

About 30 minutes later, from the Texaco parking lot, Mrs. Corral found a place we could go where the kids could get a pumpkin. This was another 30 minute drive. The next 30 minutes were filled with me hearing: "Brody keeps saying potty words", "Can we please just go home", "I need to go to the bathroom", and my very favorite, "I think I'm going to throw up". The new patch had no bathrooms and thankfully the very nice gentleman from "Metro PCS" was sweet enough to let 13 four year olds use the bathroom in the back of the store. One very sweet mom was passing out Tylenol to all of the moms which we took with our children's juice boxes.

The kids were exhausted by the end of the day and were happy to get their pumpkins. I am now aware of where Garrett is hearing his new "potty words" and Jason was right when he said, "he didn't get that from me"!

Poor, poor Garrett -

As I mentioned earlier, Garrett was not feeling well with a stomach bug last week. He got the privilege of carrying the "bucket" with him in case of an emergency. He was very sweet when he asked me to take a "sick picture of him".

Yes, it has been a while......

I guess things have been a little busy lately. I have no new pictures since I have not had the camera out (or have been too exhausted to get the darn thing out) . We seem to be very busy lately and I can't quite figure out why. Cole is staying busy with fall baseball. We are all a little bit exhausted from baseball to say the truth. I don't know how some mom's keep up. Garrett is learning so much at preschool. He is so proud of himself.

The boys have been sick this last week. I am assuming that Garrett first blessed the family with the swine flu and later shared it with his brother. The boys were only sick for a couple of days, but Cole was not allowed back at school for one full week. At first, I thought I would go crazy, but we really enjoyed each other and ended up having a great week. The following week, Garrett came down with a stomach bug and I guess time will tell if he decides to share this with the family.

I am starting back to school (yes for real this time) and am getting used to the idea of "Internet" classes. The Internet was not around the first time I attended college, but have found it useful to attend school with a family and an existing career. While Cole was out of school with the piggy flu, we both sat at the kitchen table and did homework. He thought that was really weird.

Anyway, hopefully I can juggle life a little better and will keep up with my blog so my dedicated followers don't think I have fallen off the face of the planet.