Am I really this old???

So here we are, first week of school is just about done.  My baby is in school this year.  It is a mixed blessing!  Dan and I are saving a BUNCH of money with Jack being in after school care only...which is great!  But I don't have a baby any longer!!!  So sad.  Am I really this old???  To have 2 school age children?  The answer to that is Y E S!!

The first week of school has been pretty good.  Mason is LOVING the intermediate school and is doing great!  Jack LOVES being in Kindergarten but is having a hard time staying on green.  They have a traffic light in the room (green, yellow, red).  If they are misbehaving in some way, they get a warning.  If they are still not doing what they are supposed to be doing, they go to yellow and so on to red.  Jack has been in school a total of 7 days, including today, and has been on yellow 3 of those days!  What can I say, the boy likes to talk...just like his Daddy!  ☺  Jack's teacher is Jan Hughey, the same teacher Mason had in Kindergarten.  We LOVE her!  She will be great for Jack just as soon as he figures things out and how to act in class.  Jack is already learning how to spell his colors.  So far, he has learned Red, Blue and Yellow.  I have high hopes for this kid this year.  I think he will have a great time!

Mason, my big 3rd grader, has Mollie Evans and seems to like her a lot.  There is not a lot you can do to make Mason NOT like you!  He seems to be doing well.  Mason is also playing tackle football for the first time this year.  We have practices Monday, Tuesday and Thursdays for now.  They are from 6:00 to 8:15ish.  It makes for a BUSY night when he has practices.  I get home with the boys around 5:10.  I quickly make a sandwich or something light for the boys to eat.  I run up to get changed, come down get the cooler ready and Mason changed.  We are usually out the door by 5:40.  Dan meets me at the ball field at 6:30 and then Jack and I come home.  I get Jack fed a real meal, showered, read to and in bed by 8:15.  Mason is usually getting home about that time.  I feed him a real meal - he does any homework that is left over while he is eating.  Dan then gets him in the shower and in bed to read for 20 minutes.  If we are lucky, he is asleep by 9:15.  And then Dan and I fall into bed!  ☺  Mason LOVES football!  He is doing really well.  They have him on the 1st string playing both offense and defense.  The poor boy will never leave the field!  But he has a big grin every time he talks about it. 

Jack will be playing coach pitch baseball this year.  We sign him up on Sunday.  Should be interesting with both of them in sports along with Mason's scouts, my commitment to scouts as the treasurer, school stuff (like homework!), and everything else going on in our lives. 

Below are some pictures of the boys on their first day of school:

Eating breakfast on the first day.

My kindergarten boy, Jack.  The backpack is almost as big as he is!

My third grader, Mason.  We have taken this same picture in this same spot every year since Kindergarten on his first day of school.  It is fun to see how much he has grown!  Would be fun to make a collage of all the pictures for a graduation present for him! (or me!)

My babies waiting for the bus.  (this is actually the 2nd day of school, just missed this shot the first day).  The same bus picks up for the Elementary and the Intermediate schools which is great because they get to ride the bus together.

Getting on the bus.  This is back to the first day.  This is when I lost it and needed to go on inside.  Seeing them so big and independent makes my heart swell and break all at the same time!

Later that night, Mason using his new desk...with Jack's help! ☺  Jack says they are "sharing the desk".  ha!

And then this picture is just for fun because it is so cute.  A friend gave us the "costume" helmet for Jack to pretend with.  He insisted on wearing it into Publix on our shopping trip.  I got a LOT of comments from fellow shoppers.  This kid is too much sometimes!  LOVE IT!

Well, that is all for now.  Everyone have a great weekend and hopefully it will not be so long between updates!!  (ha, we all know the truth about that!)

To Play or Not to Play...that is the question.

Well, here we are again...another soccer game...another non-soccer player. I am thinking of this as "experience" for Jack to see what team sports are all about. Maybe he will just observe this season and jump right in next season. Wishful thinking!!! This is my little sweetie pie in his uniform about to take the field...or not.





















































But this is actually what we got...and notice he is not even FACING the field!!!

Last night we went to see Mason perform/sing at the PTO meeting at school. 1/2 the first grade performed. I could not get very good pictures because of...well...you know my camera "situation". So I got some video that with fingers crossed, will show up on this stinkin blog.

Now, let's end this with a little "Jack Story", shall we? Jack and I had a standoff in the daycare parking lot today. As most of you know, he has had a few problems in the conduct department at school. My spirited little boy. HA! If he is on Green, that is good, Yellow - not so good, and red is REALLY bad. Well, I am thankfull to say that most days are green, but today was yellow. And for some reason, his afternoon teacher thought it was a good idea to let him pick something out of the treasure box. ??? What was she thinking? Anyway, he chose a wand of all things...because you know, he thinks he is a princess. Well, he ran out of the daycare to the car without holding my hand in the parking lot. Well, let's just say it was "game on" at that point. His stuborness agains mine. In the end I had to climb into the back of the van (in work clothes) and drag him out, looked around to see who was watching, and then pulled his pants down and gave him a spanking (as he is yelling I DON'T LIKE YOU MOMMY!), I then took him back into the dayacare so that we could give them BACK the wand that he picked out because I told him if I had to come get him, the wand was going back. I am a woman of my word! Then I put him in the wrestling hold to get him in his car seat. All the way home he SCREAMED "no" at me from the back seat while he was sobbing. After picking up Mason, we enter our neighborhood where we have this one house that has great big huge spiders on the side of their house (and I mean HUGE and real looking - ugh!!) that they pull out every year at Halloween. So, we are driving up to this house with Jack screaming/sobbing away and he stops long enough to say, just as normal as you please...no crying..."look at the spiders Mommy!" almost with a smile on his face. We pass the house and out comes the screaming and the sobbing. He is something!!!

It is a good thing he is so cute, otherwise he would still be locked in the closet right now! Hee hee! But just look at this face!

Is it bed time yet?!?!?! At least cocktail time?!?!

Christmas Wish List

Just for fun the other night, I decided to ask the boys what they wanted for Christmas. Jack's answers were so amusing, I decided to get it on video. One thing he does not say in the video that he told me he wanted for Christmas was a bigger Pooter. Now, just so that you know, he calls our computer, a "pooter".

Here is Jack...

Can you tell that pink is Jack's favorite color? And no, Dan is not worried about it. Pink was also Mason's favorite color at that age, now it is green. Don't know why but boys gravitate towards pink.


And here is Mason's wish list...

I think it is cute that Mason asks for a Bunny.