Preschool Graduation

Wow! Roo is a preschool graduate! But he's not going to K next year, he'll go back to preschool for another year, we're just not sure where yet.

His graduation was great, he was adorable and looked so handsome all dressed up. I won't mention how mad he was at me for making him get dressed up, but it was totally worth it.

Grandma and Grandpa came to graduation and Roo put on his best show yet. Still no singing or hand motions; well, there was that one during one song, but he was hilarious. He had plenty of sleep the night before, but he just kept yawning and yawing. So much so that he had Grandpa in tears, which put me in tears. It was just too funny. At one point he even rested his head on his hand, yeah, standing up; that's our boy!

In one of the songs, the kids sang each letter and then made the sound of the letter and said something that goes with the letter, he was right on cue for the letter "Y" when his yawn couldn't have been timed any better.

The best song of all was when each child was given an instrument and one of the kids from the class conducted. What a riot, just a bunch of kids banging on instruments for a minute until the child conductor stopped them, all the parents loved it.

Once the singing was over each of the kids went and got their diploma. After the ceremony Roo took pictures with us and his friend Kristina whose parents we carpooled with all year. Roo also got to spend the rest of the day with his Grandma and Grandpa and he had a blast. They got him a cool watch for his graduation and he hasn't taken it off since!

Roo was really sad the next day when he couldn't go to school. I don't think he realized that graduation meant that the school year is over. He really loved school all year long and learned a ton. And though he never sang in any of the shows, he sings constantly at home and likes to remind us that he knows all the words. What a great first school experience!

Lightening

Last week there was a ligthening strike near or at our home. When we got home the computer wasn't working. Yikes, no internet. What, no DirecTV either! We picked up the phone and realized there was no dial tone. What's going on here. While I asked our neighbor if there had been a storm, which she confirmed and said it was the scariest thunder she'd ever heard, Daddy checked around the house and found that the phone box attached to the house had blown up. Seriously, there were parts in the neighbors yard.

I called Verizon on my cell and they were able to come out the next day to fix it since Bug's allergies are something we should be able to reliably call 911 from a landline. The gentleman who fixed the box said he'd never seen anything like it and that we were lucky the house didn't burn down. He fixed that and got the internet up and running again. Whew!

DirecTV came a couple of days later and fixed that and we got 2 new remotes, woo hoo!

Not being an expert in lightening or electronics, I have been wondering if anything else would suffer as a result of the storm. Looks like the modem is dead. Verizon is sending us a new one. No internet again, bummer.

So for now, I can't update the blog with pictures. It'll be a couple of weeks before I get pictures up, but there will be some great updates from my phone over the next week.

Some of the teaser topics include, Lobstah, Pre-school Graduation, the boys being crazy and oh Maine!!!

The moral of the lightening story is that when we fixed all of the electrical in the house last year, we added a whole house surge protector.....worth every penny!

One of my Favorite Rooism's

I love how Roo will say "oh my cow" it's such a great combination of two different phrases. I caught myself saying it today when a huge storm was rolling in. It's definitely a keeper!

What Are Little Boys Made Of?

Frog and snails and puppy-dog tails!

Now that the warmer weather is here the boys have been playing outside everyday when we get home and almost all day on the weekends. Last weekend Roo found where all the worms live. He was digging around by the shed and found at least a handful of worms. I gave him a tupperware so he could store them, with holes in the lid. He really wanted to sit at the kitchen table and count all of them but that didn't seem like a good idea to me!

And if it's not worms it bugs. Caterpillars are his favorite but he also likes most any other bug that is nice. He loves the ladybugs at Grandma and Grandpa's house.

Did you know that caterpillars breathe through holes on the sides of their body and that some have fake eyes that make them look like snakes to scare away predators?! And, did you know that ladybugs use the same weapon as skunks to scare away predators, just on a much much smaller scale. We are learning all of this and more in Roo's insect book that Uncle Matt got him for his birthday.

This would all make Grandma squirm with eewie's!

Mother's Day Show

The preschool had a nice mother's day show for all the mom's at preschool today. It was really cute, the teachers read a nice description about each mom that the kids helped fill in. Roo's was great:

My mommy's name is (he got it right).

She is "23" year's old. (the age range for mom's today was 6 - 60 based on what the kids said)

She has "light black" hair and "brown green" eyes.

Her favorite food is "anything my daddy cooks."

I make my mommy happy when I'm "playing."

I like when my mommy and I "swing together outside."

And then he drew a picture of me! Very very cute.

After they read each child's paper, they sang a few songs. Roo was a riot, I thought for sure he would sing since he stood there so nicely for the readings. Nope, not at all, he hid behind the little girl standing next to him.

Once they were done, he was the first to break the order and said "I want to give my mom and hug and kiss," and ran over to me!

After the show, they had a few small gifts they had made for us, which were really nice, one of which I brought back to work with me.

It was really fun and I enjoyed seeing Roo during his school day. His teachers are so nice, he's really going to miss going to school this summer.

Karma Is...

I meant to post this 2 weeks ago when this happened because it was perfect karma for a 2 year old. Bug had a lollipop and was having a temper tantrum about something. During his tantrum, his lollipop got stuck in his hair. How's that for karma!

**no hair was lost in the lollipop removal process

Snuggle Time

Every morning, Bug wakes up early. He's usually up before 0600, sometimes way too early like 0400 but on a good day is 0530. When he wakes up he stands on the end of his bed and cries until I hear him and come and get him. I'm not quite sure why he cries and have thought about telling him to start yelling for us to come. I'd rather wake up to his 2 year old yelling voice than crying. Anyway, I got in his room and get him and turn off his noise, yes he still sleeps with white noise, maybe another thing we need to work on. He hand me both of his blankies, his B doggie, his cup and makes sure he has a good nuk. I throw the blankies over my shoulder and once I pick him up he snuggles into my shoulder. I take him into our bedroom and put him down on the bed and he runs over and says good morning to daddy and gives him a kiss. While he's doing that, I fill his cup up with his morning coffee; his soy milk supplement, really...but you'd think it's his morning coffee. I open the doors to our armoire and daddy turns on Disney Junior. I get back in bed and bug usually snuggles in with me. He lays his head on my chest and I wrap my arms around him and sometimes hold one of his feet; when he's in a foot holding mood, we'll even switch which foot I'm holding. On a good day, he'll lay there for a long while and daddy and I will usually fall back to sleep. I've caught Bug falling back to sleep once in a while but when he startles awake, he gets a bit antsy, so it's usually better for him to stay awake. Buzz Lightyear sleeps in our room on a pile of pillows. Somewhere along the way in the morning Bug will ask for Buzz, so daddy gets Buzz and we resume snuggle positions. At some point Bug will switch and lay on daddy and I'll cover him with his blankets. During the week, Timmy Time is on a 0530, though sometimes they change the programming which gets confusing. When Timmy Time is over, Bug always says he wants more and I'll say to him we'll see what's on next, and the quiet time usually continues. This may very well be my favorite part of the entire day. We do our best to not rush through this time and sleep or relax and enjoy it as much as possible. There's really no better way to start your day! And on the weekends, sometimes we'll get a bonus....Roo!! Roo sleeps in....for those of you without kids, that means as late as 0830 but 0730 is pretty normal for him. Family snuggle time is awesome, I wouldn't trade it for anything, a good consolation prize for the early rising!!

Bug Ate Baked Banana

Bug ate baked banana and loved it!!! That's right not only did he love it, he didn't have any sort of immediate allergic reaction to it. I'm beyond excited! He's been asking for bananas at the grocery store and Dr. Wood had advised us to trial it at home baked into a bread. I made an amazing vegan banana bread and have included the link to the recipe http://www.theppk.com/2007/10/banana-bread/ . Maybe we'll let him try a bite of raw banana this weekend...we'll see.

We Love our Mama!