Happy Birthday to Me and More

Preston was Star of the Week at the beginning of March and they get to fill out this poster and color it. Preston loved filling it out and started doing it without my help. He likes school and is doing well reading. He's at a 2nd grade level right now. He likes Mrs. Hooper (kindergarten teacher Kate had too) and gets sad when he has to miss school. We've had some days where he's gotten a warning stamp b/c of touching/pushing other people or not following rules, but for the most part he's doing good. 

Preston's smile before...

And after losing 2 front teeth!!! They have been loose for a while and a couple weeks ago he fell and hit his mouth making them more lose. I took a kleenex and yanked them out. I don't mind doing it. :) I hate loose wiggly teeth that hang there. I told him he looks funny without his missing teeth and he said, "I don't think I look funny." haha. 

When I pull out the camera others always want to get their picture taken too. Lindsey and Chelsea, my little sidekicks during the morning. Chelsea always pulls her ponytail out so I wonder why I even fix her hair. 

Happy Birthday to me!

My birthday was on a Sunday this year. I made pasta with meat sauce and alfredo sauce, cesar salad, breadsticks and cookie cake. We invited Tom & Angie Harward and Jeff & Paige Harward (they are brothers) over for dinner and to play games. We played scattergories and visited. It was fun. The day before didn't start off too fun though. 

On Saturday, the day before, I was very discouraged about house stuff and not finding anything for us to buy. (We had put an offer on a house a week earlier and there were 8 other offers on the house, but it was assigned to not very good schools so I was a basket case mess worrying about it. I didn't feel good about it, but the house and yard were amazing! Like magazine worthy. So it was odd when I felt relieved that we didn't get that house. It wasn't meant to be and I was okay with it.) I wondered why we were even moving and wondered if it was going to be worth it because I liked my life the way it was. I don't want to settle for something and all the houses we have looked at aren't what we really want. I also was upset about the idea of having to move twice, like to a rental then to a house. I was in a bad mood and Kyle told me to go do something on my own. He was sick of my attitude! So I ended up leaving in the morning and went to the Temple. I was glad I went. Then after the Temple I went and met up with Marci at Southcenter. We ate at Chipotle (yum) and went shopping to Nordstrom Rack, DSW and Old Navy. I vented to her and she gave me some good advice and listened to me. I'm grateful for sisters. When I got back home Kyle and I discussed things and were fine. We were going on a date that night so our babysitter came and we left to go to PF Chang's. It was fun. We met up with Kayla & Ethan Giles and Jenn & David Mize. Then after dinner we went to the Mize's house where more friends came and we played a game and ate yummy treats. It was a lot of fun. Jenn planned it which was so nice of her. The day ended much better than it started! And on Sunday, a sister missionary spoke in Church about putting our Faith in Jesus Christ even when things seem hard or it's the unknown. It was exactly what I needed to hear. I felt better about things and knew that I just needed to put my big girl panties on and deal with having to potentially move twice if that's what happened. And understand that things will turn out fine. They always have and it will be okay. 

Chelsea climbs out of her crib all the time. When Kate went to bed one night, she told us that Chelsea was in bed with Lindsey. I ran up to get a picture. So cute. One week she crawled out of her crib every night and would get onto Lindsey's bed and fall asleep with her. I move her back to her crib before I go to bed. We probably will move Chelsea to a big girl bed soon anyway. 

Preston had his annual eye exam at Children's Hospital. It's always a long wait. I swear the doctors don't care how long you wait! Ugh. They had free playing cards so I played one handed solitaire and thank goodness for smart phones to pass the time. The cell service isn't great though so it's hit and miss. Preston was good. He cooperated when the doctor wanted to check his eyes. My friend was watching the other kids and Kate was in school. It was very nice not having to deal with the younger kids since it took 4 hours for the appt!!! The doctor increased Preston's prescription in both eyes. On the good eye he didn't even have a prescription before, but the doctor felt like it became a little nearsighted. He also mentioned that he didn't think his vision in the bad eye would get any better or worse if we continued with patching every other day for 4 hours (I've been bad lately and probably only patch 2x/week). So now I'm really bad about patching since he told me that. Basically, he didn't think I needed to keep patching, but he couldn't promise anything. I'll probably still try to do 2x/week at least. You have until the age of 8 when your eye stops developing so that's what we were thinking we'd patch until. 

I wanted to include a picture of Chelsea's masterpiece while she was supposed to be napping. She pulled all of Lindsey's clothes out of her drawer. The other morning, she got some nail polish off the top of the computer armoire and unscrewed the lid and painted the couch, iPad, pillow, pajamas and carpet. I got it off everything except the pillow and pajamas. She's a climber!