7 years together!

Jason and I have been together 7 years! We went on our first date to Macaroni Grill and then to Mozarts for coffe,e where I got my high heel stuck in the wooden deck (SO me, if you really know me, you know how incredibly klutzy I am!) on the 12th of September 2003! There is a funny story that I thought momentarily Jason was a little odd but he maybe embarrassed if I delve into that on here.

I love you, Jason quirkiness and all!! You are an amazing hubby and father! So excited to celebrate 5 years of marriage with you in November!


Side note: On the house front we lowered the price one last time and then if it still doesn't sell we are taking it off the market at the end of this month. We decided that we can then take that opportunity to put in upgrades because it will sell that way.. quickly! Our coffee maker was leaking unbeknownst to us and ruined our counter top by pulling up the laminate so we have to fix that we may put in granite. We had people come look at it Thursday and we are on their short list! They came to look at it twice within 2 hours on Thursday. We also had someone else who looked at it twice but turns out Maria, our Realtor, found out that she had been her Realtor for a year and a half and the lady NEVER bought anything so Maria told us to not to get our hopes up about this lady.

Counting Kisses

This afternoon I was spending time with just my Grayson and loving every minute I get to share with my kids one on one! Corbin and Jason were asleep. We went to Chez Zee today for brunch with Jason's mom because its her birthday and we ate WAY too much!

I was reading Grayson Counting Kisses, and I was kissing him when the Mommy in the story would kiss her daughter. On the last kiss, they count down from 10-1, Grayson leaned in and gave the baby in the story a kiss! I about died from cuteness and I was totally wishing I had that on video or a picture! I ran up to tell Jason who I am sure didn't love the fact that I woke him up to tell him the cute thing Grayson did! I love the little things my boys do! :)

Grayson is starting to cruise around our ottomans and pulling up every opportunity he gets! He is getting so vocal and will just "talk" to us and himself in the car and everywhere! He especially loves "talking" in the car!

SPEED and walker?

This morning before school Corbin told Jason he wanted to watch Monster Trucks! I asked Jason what he was talking about? I guess one day while I was trying to get my classroom ready Jason had put the SPEED channel (its a little boys dream channel car racing, monster trucks, antique cars etc) on and Corbin watched Monster truck racing. So this morning Corbin got to watch Monster Trucks because it was on. He almost didn't want to leave the house because it was on!

While I was making lunches last night Jason said he saw Grayson let go of our ottoman and try to step towards our couch but then he fell. I kept my eye on him the rest of the night but he didn't try it again! I don't know if Mama is ready for a 9 month walker! ;) We are so proud of our Grayson he has such the best disposition! He is such a sweet, kind little boy who is ALWAYS smiling!! This morning on the way to school he was saying "DADA!" So cute!

potty training FAIL!

This weekend we put Corbin in underwear for about an hour on Saturday and he did great sat on the potty, was dry etc. (We only did it for an hour because we had to go bc someone was coming to look at the house but then never came!) Then today we try it again. He was willing to sit on the toilet, then about an hour later still nothing he is still dry and then I go upstairs to do laundry and Jason is vacuuming and he brings Corbin upstairs and he had peed in his pants! I just told him it was ok and he is still learning! We change his pants then he goes #2 in his pants! Then he is starting to refuse to sit on the toilet by this point and will not even wear his Lighting McQueens because I tell him if he wears them he has to try to go pee pee. Then we have to do our weekly trip to the grocery store and when we get home he wants to wear his Mater underwear so I say ok great! He refuses again to sit on the toilet and ends up peeing in his pants again.

I know this kid is smart and is ready to start being potty trained! He has been staying dry for a few hours at a time and he is soo ready! If he weren't so darn stubborn and would just sit on the potty! I kept reminding him if he peed he would get a sucker! No sucker today! :( Let me just say its not going to be easy potty training while this freakin' house is on the market! I want to do the potty training where you stay home in underwear and t-shirt all weekend and just potty train! Not gonna happen with this house on the market at all!

In the mean time Grayson keeps crawling over to Corbin's potty and pulling himself up to it! Jason keeps teasing that he is going to potty train before his big brother! At this rate he just might!

Survived!

Thursday when I was getting ready to leave to pick up the boys Jason called and said someone was going to come look at the house between 6:15-7 so we had to hang out in my classroom. The boys especially Grayson LOVED it! He loved crawling around my entire room and playing with the wooden cars I have in my room!

I survived my first week teaching Pre-K! I really love it so far! Although it is hard to tell because I had four half days with my class...(the first week of school AISD does staggered start and a 1/3 of my class comes three days from 7:45-11:30 then Thursday the whole class comes half day. Friday the whole class comes again all day 7:45-2:00 like normal.) So my first three days I only had 3-4 children a day.

Now its back trying to balance school, home, and now keeping this house constantly clean! I am so tempted to take it off the market!

2 and a half!

Corbin and his cousins riding the train at Barton Creek Mall! Its a cool train that is not on a track and it goes around an area of the mall. He loved it! :)

Corbin will be two and a half tomorrow! I cannot believe it! Time flies! ;) Man is this kid two and a half and has a mind of his own! :) Corbin started in his new classroom this week and really likes it! His teacher told me today that she has to hold his hand when they go outside or he will bolt! He does this to me EVERYTIME I pick him up from school and it started after we started bringing Grayson to Corbin's school. I am trying desperately to break the habit as its not easy to carry Grayson, lunchbox, diaper bag etc while trying to get Corbin to come with me. I walk off more times then I care to admit and he does NOT follow me. So frustrating! We have tried time outs, telling him he can watching his favorite show on my ipod in the car, etc but nothing has worked long term. So I still need to brainstorm on this and see what we can do. The other night he scared me really bad, we were at dinner with my parents because they were leaving to take Brenton to college in Kansas the next day and Corbin decided to almost run into the street in front of a truck. I was so scared that I told Jason to spank him (we don't really spank in our house because it just makes Corbin hit us back and does not work) but my mom and sister both got him away from street in time, said it was too late after the fact.

Our boy is so full of energy! Like me he cannot be stimulated when trying to sleep or nap because he won't go down if there is something fun he is missing out on.

I am quickly learning that Grayson is the same way and cannot have stimulation when its time to sleep because on the first day back at daycare he slept 30 MINUTES the WHOLE day! When I picked him up he looked like a zombie he didn't sleep well that night and woke up in the middle of the night. Grayson didn't like his routine being thrown off! He is starting to nap better now at school! Thank goodness because I was freaked!

Corbin has a new saying and says "OH MY GOODNESS!" So cute! He came up to me this morning and said "OH MY GOODNESS Mommy Grayson made a mess!" He had just dumped out a small basket of toys. I just died laughing!

No potty training on the horizon. I asked his teacher about it at school because they potty train in this class and she said to wait until he initiates and we have been working on it at home to work on it at school. Oh well in time!

We love you Corbin!

Goodbye Summer

Grayson at Suzi's he LOVED IT! Corbin LOVED the Hot and Sour soup! Daddy would have been proud! :) LOVE LOVE LOVE this picture of Grayson! Thats our boy, SUPER HAPPY ALL THE TIME! :)

Our last official day of summer was Friday, (most of which in the morning I spent at a pre-k registration training). ;( I have to go back to work on Monday and start registering pre-k children. I am slightly nervous about this but I know I can do it.


The boys are headed off to school again Monday as well and its back the same routine. This routine is one I am not particiarly fond of because it takes me forever to do the lunches, laundry, housework and dinner once we get home, when all I really want to do is relax and play with my boys! I am really going to miss them. Corbin is really starting to get into books and loves having me read to him, which I love! He has also been super rambunctious the past two weeks as we have been at my parents house everyday because my sister Carrie is in town with her girls and so we are soaking up tons of play time with them. Corbin and his cousin Morgan are quite the pair! They are so rambunctious when they get together. They are 8 months apart and love playing together, maybe a little too much! They have had to go to timeout a few times! Grayson is such a sweet, loving, cuddly baby! He hardly ever cries unless he is tired, hurt, or hungry. Speaking of hungry this kid loves to eat! So different from Corbin who would breastfeed a lot more often and really didn't care for solids. Grayson loves solid food and only nurses once when he wakes up, and then once around lunch time and then sometimes before bed, then he sleeps all night and then wakes up about 5:30 or 6:30 to have eat.

My family is leaving Monday to move my brother Brenton up to college in Lawrence, Kansas. He is going to my Dad and sister Carrie's almamater The University of Kansas-Go Jayhawks! ;0
Its weird to think that on the 18th of this month we will have lived in Texas 15 years! Brenton was only 4 when we moved here from Kansas and now he is going back.

Now we finally have an excuse to go visit my sister Carrie on Kansas City. We really need to its kinda ridiculous but we haven't really ever set aside money to take a trip. We got married, go our house in order and then started having kids and the expenses just keep going up. I am trying to convince him to take a trip with me for our 5 year wedding anniversary in November but now that Grayson is here his one year birthday is 5 days after our 5 year anniversary. So its not really a possibility. I wanted to go to my best friends wedding in Mexico in June but it was going to be too expensive. Oh well maybe some day, for now we can go visit my sister Carrie and her family and Brenton.