Life has been flying by...and several things have been happening. I feel sad that my kids will have this period of their lives LESS well documented...but c'est la vie! Second semester of nursing school has been more than challenging. It has been exhausting. It has really taken a toll on us collectively as a family and kind of exploded in my face a while back. Details will not be posted here, but we are climbing back up the mountain as a family and hopefully things will turn out better than we ever could have imagined. I have had to take a step back from school and recognize that I don't need to obsess over getting the A at the sake of my family...B status is OK and I need to let go and be fine with it. So new game plan is to study when Alli naps on the days Colt is at work. At to get up early in the morning and study. If it doesn't fit in during those times, then it is what it is and I will deal with it as it comes! So far it's been working and I feel more connected all around to everyone in the fam. It's all about learning to accommodate everyone AND yourself. Life is a constant learning curve!
So....other news. Jace threw up in the car on the way to school this morning. :( He kept telling me his belly hurt, but he didn't eat much dinner last night so I figured he was just hungry. And even though his stomach hurt, I had to get Caden to school on time. So after we dropped Caden off Jace ended up throwing up right before getting to his school. It was fine, I pulled the car over and got him cleaned off and pulled everything that had throw up out and put it in a bag. I called him out of school and then we drove home to clean everything up. Sometimes Jace just has to throw up to feel better, he didn't have a fever or anything, so I knew it wasn't the flu. When we got home he was chitty chatting and happy as can be. He was trying to ride his bike and do all things boy...so after a little rest and eating all of his lunch I had packed for him for his breakfast, we headed back to school. He was fine when I dropped him off and I told his teacher what had happened. She said if he threw up again she would call! So far, no phone call so it appears as if all is well.
Jace is learning so much at school! He can actually recognize numbers now, and amazed me the other day when he was looking at my shoe box and said "So mom, you wear a 7?" We did a quick little quiz with him and sure enough he nailed his numbers 1-9. He can count to 20 AND can almost count to 60 using 10's. He can also write his name, for which I think he is a GENIUS. His smile took up his whole entire face when he realized how cool it was that he was doing these things. He holds hands with girls AND boys at recess...and his best little friend has ALL kinds of girlfriends that he 'loves'. Jace told me yesterday that today was the day HE was going to get a girlfriend. Oy.
Alli is growing up and sassy as ever. She has recently discovered screaming when she doesn't get her way and is SO sensitive if you holler at her to stop screaming. She immediately starts to cry. She has also figured out a fake cry, that is incredibly obnoxious. She loves to be indnependent and do things herself and she LOVES to be involved with whatever her brothers are doing. Caden usually lets her tag along, but Jace is wishy washy with when he will let her hang out. She thinks grabbing things off the counters is a game...and loves to stick things in her ears. She calls Colton "MOMMA" and he tries to correct her every time to "Dadda" but she will just sit there and yell "Momma! Momma! Momma!" over and over again. I think she does it on purpose though because when I'm talking to Colt on the phone she will ever so sweetly lean over and say "EEEEYYYYYEEEEE Dada." She is really great at pretending to have conversations and fluctuates her vocals and everything. She hates bows and pony tails and rips them out of her hair almost immediately. She does not like jeans or long sleeve shirts because she doesn't want to feel confined. She takes one nap a day and is off and on about sleeping through the night. She is 100% weaned, HOORAY! She has figured out how to take off her diaper and we are trying to introduce her to the potty. So far she likes to stand IN it as if it's a step stool...so that will probably be a process but it's never to early to introduce! :) She loves to rip things and in fact, as I type this there is a paper towel littered about the floor from her tearing it to shreds.
Caden is just blossoming into this incredible human being. He is generally the best little boy and is learning how to be responsible. He really loves reading and LOVES having the highest AR points in his class. I get emails almost every day saying that he has taken and scored well on at least 1-2 tests a day. He learned how to ride his bike without training wheels and it has been absolutely life changing for him. Every day he's out riding his bike for hours. Colt found a used racing bike and bought it for him and he just cruises around on it. Yesterday I took their bikes to school for pick up and he was happy as could be that he got to ride his bike home. He told me he wanted to do it EVERY DAY! Caden doesn't really like doing chores...but understands that if he doesn't do them, his favorite things get taken away so he will grumble his way through them, just so he can get what he wants. Smart boy. :) He's starting to really want to be around Colt more than me, and I can tell that he is just soaking up everything he sees his dad do. He is very sensitive about girls, and cried one day when we were talking about kids in his class who had girlfriernds/boyfriends because he doesn't have one yet. Both Caden and Jace have started loving to wear polo shirts to school, which I think is darling and hilarious at the same time. They have always been t-shirt wearing dudes, so I don't know if they feel fancy or if they just don't notice, but both of them have been wearing their polos regularly. They sure do look sharp!
