It just occurred to me that I have not posted in eight days, and while I’m SURE that’s not catastrophic to most of the readers, it’s a little overwhelming to me. A lot of stuff happens in our 6 AM-11 PM life. How will I ever catch you up? ;)
(sigh) I’ll do my best.
August 9th: Ava’s second day of school just so happened to be the first day for Dylan and Connor. Connor being a K5 “new kid” had a very short day and didn’t have to be there until 9:30 that morning. This meant he escorted his sister to school, and on the way he made sure to remind her of the most important kindergarten class rules:
1) Don’t pick your nose.
2) Don’t throw things or kick people.
3) Don’t pick up bugs or eat bugs if you don’t know what they are. (Um..Connor, sweetie, don’t eat bugs EVER!)
4) Always do what your teacher tells you to do even if it makes you mad, and don’t show her your mad face if you do get mad, or then mom will get mad.
And most importantly –
5) Never, ever pee in your pants.
Kindergarten sounds like serious business, doesn’t it?
August 10th: Ava peed in her pants (although when Connor tells it, she took her pants off and pee’d on a tree. This makes me feel like I need to tell his teacher to watch him extra closely on the playground). He also told us that Ava took cookies out of her lunchbox and threw them at everyone. Now, there were never any cookies in Ava’s lunchbox, and she certainly doesn’t know how to open her box and throw them directly at someone, right? Yet when I brought this to Connor’s attention he said “Okay well you can believe me or you can let her get away with it this time and not get upset when she does it again!” Wow….ha! Whoever first said children mimic what their parents say were speaking the truth! =)
Here’s a picture I took of the munchkins after their long day at school. Poor Ava, she was so tired!
But Connor didn’t care ;)
August 11th: This day, prayers were answered! Dylan, Connor, and Ava ALL did well at school! Ava didn’t have any accidents (in her pants or on trees), Dylan’s teacher sent home a note that he was trying really hard, and Connor brought home papers with happy stickers on them. You just can’t beat days like this when you’re a mommy.
Also, by this day we had taken two new Wheels 4 Ava donation jars to local businesses who had been offering to help. It’s mind blowing how this mission has taken off! I know it’s redundant to keep saying, but its pretty amazing to see so many people pulling together to get Ava what she needs. This weekend there will be a mass marketing party in Ellisville (Mary Kay, Scentsy, and Premiere Jewelry) who are all offering to donate a percentage of earnings to the foundation. This past weekend in Georgia, a fruzzin (“cousin friend” she made it up…its cute…it sticks), had a birthday bash that brought in over $200 for the foundation as well as a Pure Romance party that brought in $400! We have never even met so many people who are donating. That’s what makes me smile. There are so many people in this world with compassionate, kind hearts. I won’t ever forget it from now on.
August 12th: When I picked Ava up from school on this day and asked if she behaved nicely she said “No.” Ha! Dylan seems to think she misses him and Connor during the day, and that is why she is acting out. She’s not actually acting out, though. What my boys haven’t learned yet is that “no” is an easy sound for Ava to make…meaning she doesn’t always use it as a word. I don’t want to tell them though, because deep down I know Ava does miss them all day. I know she misses Dylan letting her watch big kid TV with him in his room, and I know she misses Connor help feed her lunch. I have the sweetest, most loving babies!
August 13th – August 14th: RECOVERY DAY FOR MOMMA!!! All children were with other family members, leaving me time to sweep and clean floors. MY FLOORS ARE CLEAN! Praise Jesus!
Yesterday, all of the kids did very well again. Dylan came home and told me he was going to read his homework story to Ava. How sweet! She listened to about five sentences and fell asleep (thankfully big brother didn’t notice until the story was over). By late afternoon, the weather cooled off drastically so I took the boys to the park to play right before bed time. You would think I was taking them to Disney World! Ava stayed home with Popi because she had already had a bath, and when Connor and Dylan asked why she couldn’t go I told them it was too late for babies to be out. I should have thought that one over because once we got to the park, we walked into baby madness. Crying. Babies. Everywhere. Connor and Dylan ran around for a few minutes, and then the littlest boy marched right up to me and said, “Abuh’s going to find out about this. Don’t put it on Facebook that there are babies at the park past baby bed time. Are you hearing me? This is sewious, mom! She will CRY! She will cry worse than that baby!” ….to which he pointed at an actual crying baby. Thank goodness the little girl’s mother laughed, because I was down right mortified. ;)
Here’s my big boy reading to my little angel.
I’ve been realizing during this last super busy week, that this life is turning out to be a good one. There is so much positive happening around our family, and we’re learning how to weed out the negative before it hurts us. There is growing love and support for Ava and her needs. Both boys are showing more focus on school each day. If you ask, He will answer. End of story.
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