Sunday-Happy Easter!

Here are the babes Easter egg hunting. Jake shot out like a bat out of hell, getting as many as he could. Liv was happy with what she got, but a couple of times he had to be told to slow down and let poor Liv get some lol.

Smiling with their loot =)I feel bad-I totally spaced on buying Liv some dress shoes, so she had to wear her new summer sandels with her dress. Oh well...

Me and my babies!

Saturday-Meet Ms Bunny and Mr Peep

Ok, so I took some pictures of the kids on Saturday. I initially was just taking a picture of them holding a sign that said "Happy Birthday Nana" (Jake was making Nana a birthday card) but they were being so agreeable (who am I kidding? I was bribing them with a sucker-As any good parent would! LOL) that I just kept taking pics. I got some good individual ones of the kids as well. I need to get them out via email. Anyway, here they are....

Ms Bunny and Mr Peep, Circa 2009

And a visit from Easters Past, 2007

Maybe I'll torture them every year with the headband/glasses-What do you think?!?!?!

Friday-Stupid Deer... (Oh and Happy 100th Day of Blogging 365!)

Apparently they like to eat my pansies...The white stuff you see is the shredded soap I put in AFTER the fact...Thankfully that seems to be detering them, but I think I need to shred another bar and get it out there since it's been raining here off and on. The Dove smell is leaving LOL

And apparently Friday (I would say today, but since I'm posting this on Saturday...) was the 100th day of blogging 365-WOO HOO! It's been alot of fun so far!

I think I'm Crazy...

No, scratch that, I KNOW I am! So, if you guys remember, I posted awhile ago that I was going to do a 5K run that they hold here in town in May. I found out that they're not doing it, but doing a walk/bike/walk thing. Walk 2 miles, bike 10, walk 2. I am going to sign up for it. I am super crazy, I've deducted. I know I can do all those things separately, but all on the same day? ACK, not so sure...I guess we shall see, huh??

Nighty Night, Foofs!

I went to put Liv to bed last night. She was stalling and kept saying "Mommy, puppy? Mommy, penguin? Mommy, bear?" until every last stuffed animal was in bed with her lol. She still takes a binkie at night, and she's clutching her favorite blanket, which she kneads in the middle of the night. It's very cute to watch. Jake used to do the binkie sweep and keep 3 binkies with him, and Liv has her blanket lol

Tuesday-Day 2-NO FROWNIES!!!

No pictures, just a proud moment in my house! Back story-His teacher forgot to give him his prize on Monday. Jake was alittle panicky, so I told him not to worry, that I would email her. So, when I emailed her, I asked if she could give him 2 prizes as an incentive, since he didn't get any frownies. I bought 2 bags of those glass stone thingys (you like my technical terms??) They are the kind that you put in clear glass bowls and then put dried flowers in-they're for decorative purposes, but Jake loves them. He's currently collecting them so that he can put them in a fish tank. He's determined to get a fish for his birthday. I bought 2 different shapes, so he's picking different colors, etc.
So, I see him walking down the hallway with this satisfied grin on his face. When he reached me, I said, "So, how'd it go?" He slowly opened up his hand-he had 4 stones!!!! I just looked at him and he said proudly, "NO FROWNIES TODAY!!" I am so proud of him! It is so hard for him to concentrate and sit still in class, so this is huge!
I have to say, I truly don't expect him to be frownie-less today. Today is CCD, and for some reason, he has it in his head that he HATES it. So, he almost always acts up worse on Wednesdays. I guess we shall see!

All Smileys Today-First Time!

Jake gets his behavior monitored at school, so his teacher basically gives him a smiley if he pays attention, keeps his hands to himself, isn't disruptive, etc. She has it broken up into each section of the day. If he's any of those things, he gets a warning. After that, he gets a frownie. 2 frownies in a row, and he has to leave the class room and go into another class, which he HATES and has only had to do once. He also gets a prize at the end of the day (that I provided to give extra incentive) if he only gets 1 frownie or less. We've averaged 2 frownies a day, though most days are 1 or 2, there are the occasional bad days. Today was the FIRST day he got ALL SMILEYS! I think its because I told him last night that we'd go to dinner to either DQ or Mickey Ds (his choice-he chose DQ because of the ice cream LOL) on his first all smiley day. I told him his new goal is 3 days in a row no frownies-He's not liking that LOL He'd said in the past that it's too hard to be good all day, and that it's much easier to be bad. Hank and I had to explain to him that being good is WAY easier than being bad. SO, today, after he told me he got all smileys, he said "Mom, you were RIGHT! It IS much easier to be good than bad!" lol Let's see how long it lasts :p