You would think...

You would think life would be great once Kyle got a job (he starts Monday), right? Wrong. Our washer broke and is leaking water all over our garage floor and needs to be fixed. Our upgrade to HD was annoying b/c the TV's HD isn't working so our entertainment center is torn apart for when the TV repair guy is coming. The school district wants to put Preston in PM preschool (sooo not a good idea- I'm not happy and will be telling them so tomorrow- hello he takes naps!). Kate forgot to turn in her homework and her library book that she's had for 2 weeks because she forgot last week too. Both tubs are plugged and need attention. It feels like our house is falling apart!!!! Oh yeah, and Lindsey doesn't want to eat today. She's only had 4 oz since she woke up this morning. She screams when you try to feed her. We have her on Prevacid, but may have to try soy formula. uggghhh!

Smile :)

I love that smile!

Dee Ann bought her this cute onesie with ruffles all around her middle- like a tutu. It is really cute and I wanted her to wear it even if it is cold outside so I paired it with leg warmers that a friend gave me.

This morning I hurried and got ready so I could drop Kate off at school and then go straight to Walmart with Preston and Lindsey. Kyle stayed behind because we were getting our new HD receiver and he asked me if I would be okay going to the store on my own. I told him, "yeah, it's only 2 kids" thinking it would be great. WRONG! We get in the store and Lindsey starts crying. She wouldn't take her bottle and would only suck on her pacifier for a few minutes before spitting it out and crying. Preston was crying/whining off and on. I wanted to get out of there! I got home and had to laugh about how I thought it would be easy with only 2 kids and it was awful.

Just Words

I helped out in Kate's class today and I think being a Kindergarten teacher would be SO hard! It was a whirlwind with all those kids for 2 1/2 hrs. The 15 minute recess felt like 5 minutes. The teacher has to train all those kids to get their folder out every morning to turn in papers being sent to and from home, raise their silent hand, stay on task, put the apple on their desk when going to the restroom, sit on the colored line on the floor for story time, wait to be dismissed and on and on and on. By the end of the year those kids should be pretty well trained. I agreed to help out 2 times each month. I was going to do weekly, but thought that might be a bit too much with a little baby. Maybe later in the year I'll go in to help more often.

I'm so excited for the season premieres to start this week of my favorite shows like The Middle, Modern Family, The Office, 30 Rock and The Biggest Loser. Kyle found some amazing deal to get HD for life and it didn't even increase our bill. (He's been wanting HD forever!) They are coming tomorrow morning to hook everything up. We will lose all the stuff on our DVR so I'm having to watch it all before tomorrow. Good thing there's not too much on there for me, mostly cartoons for the kids.

We are in the "fun" stage of trying to get Lindsey on a schedule. She's 7 weeks now and weighs over 12 lbs. I love her smiles and when she talks to me. She's always wanting to talk the most during the night feedings. She doesn't take consistent long naps through the day yet. Usually one good long one with a few short one's or just a lot of short one's. I'd prefer 2 long one's. :) So goes the joy of establishing a schedule. She's been challenging to feed too. Last week she wasn't interested in eating and that stressed me out (a lot) because how would she gain weight without eating as much? I took her to the doctor after a couple days of crying whenever I tried to feed her and she checked out fine (I was thinking she had an ear infection) and even had gained weight from the week before. The doctor kept saying if she's having wet diapers then she is fine. Well, I still want her to drink her bottle peacefully and not cry. Since Sunday, she's been doing better and seems to be eating more.

Preston will start preschool after his 3rd birthday in October. It's preschool through the school district and he'll continue to get speech therapy. He's like a parrot and copying everything and talking in sentences more and more. He'll go 4 days a week and it will help him even more. It's going to be nice to have him and Kate in school at the same time. If Lindsey takes a long nap in the morning when they are at school then I'll be set. :) I have some projects in mind...I need to work on baby books (I was good with Kate's and half-way good with Preston's), I need to organize my pictures on the computer and I haven't finished scrapbooking all the pictures that I had developed years ago.

Oh, and Kate got a dollar from the toothfairy. She picked out a ribbon baton, but then accidentally broke it while playing with it outside. Amazingly, she didn't cry.

Bumbo and Rain Dancing

We put Lindsey in her bumbo chair and she liked it for a little bit, but then...

she was done.

It's been raining a lot lately and the neighbor kids wanted to play in the rain and get even more wet with the hose. Kate was having a blast. Hope they don't get sick. (The picture is blurry because I had to turn my flash off or else the picture turned out dark- I don't know photography :))

"I Loth my Tooth"

We were eating yummy corn on the cob (from my Dad's field) tonight for dinner when Kate went to bite into it and said it hurts her mouth to bite. At first, I didn't know why it would hurt, but then I asked her if she had a loose tooth. She felt her bottom tooth and said it was loose. I felt it too and sure enough it really was loose!!! What?! She's only 5 1/2. I had no idea! Me the dental hygienist Mom had NO IDEA she had a loose tooth?! She never complained about it hurting or being loose until tonight. Next thing I know she pushed on it and I heard a clink on the chair! She had pushed it out and I had to go find it on her chair before it got lost (baby teeth are so cute and tiny. I'm scared to see the large gnarly permanent one's come in. I love her spacey teeth she has now.) She was SO excited. She said, "I loosed my tooth! That means I'm getting older." I told her she can put it in the tooth fairy pillow and she said, "maybe I can get a dollar!" Yeah, maybe. ;)

I was sitting on the couch trying to get Lindsey to sleep when Kate sat next to me and pretty soon Preston came and sat next to me also. They were watching Yo Gabba Gabba so they were preoccupied, but Kyle took a picture of me with the kids. It's challenging to have 3 kids, but in this moment it felt so good to have them all around me.

Animals

We went to the zoo last Tuesday after Kindergarten. Preston wanted to take a nap, but when I asked him if he wanted to see elephants and giraffes he was excited and forgot about his nap (he likes his naps). We picked up Kate, gave her a lunch to eat in the car and had Preston tell her where we were going. She was excited too. We used to have a zoo pass, but haven't had one for a while so it was fun to go again. The kids were actually well behaved (shocking!) and so we all had a good time. Plus, it wasn't busy so that made it nice.

I love this picture of Preston pointing with such excitement when he saw the giraffes eating the trees. He's been to the zoo before, but now he could express himself and actually enjoy it. It was fun to show him the animals.

The Elephants! Preston's favorite animal right now. He was so excited to see them and we stayed and watched them for a while.

They actually were moving around, eating and breaking bamboo sticks.

I had to include this picture of Preston because he is up on the table next to Lindsey in the bouncy chair often. He will talk to her and most of the time be nice to her.