Buddy rockin the new haircut

Girl Talk- I Love It

This is a conversation between Alina and her friend who is hilarious.."M" is also 8 years old and thru this whole conversation Skip was in the room with us-

Me- "So M are you ready for school to start?'

M- "No I hate school but I am changing up my style this year"

Alina- "what are you wearing...Goth?(gothic style)

then they both start giggling

M- "Instead of my usual sweatpants and sweatshirts I got some cool clothes this year- some peace shirts with scarves, jeans ect.."

then she pauses and looks at Skip(my husband)

M- "But my mom has to put cream on my legs because they rub against each other when I have jeans on..

Me- "How is your younger brother Maxie doing?"

M- "He's good but we're not aloud to call him that because that's the name of my mom's pad.

Skip shakes his head and proceeds to leave the room. Poor guy..he's never
going to win a battle living with a total of four girls in the house- he
better get that downstairs basement finished for himself(aka his apartment)

Happy 8th Birthday Alina!!

Today was Alina's birthday and we took her and Courtney to the Baltimore Aquarium. Their birthdays are 10 days apart so we wanted to do something this year with just the two of them. We had a fun and easy time. Easy because I did not have to lug around a stroller or even a diaper bag. It was a nice relaxing time with our oldest girls.I think the last time we were there was when Alina was 2. My wonderful parents watched Kenzie and Tyson for the day. Thanks mom and dad! I think the best part Alina likes about being 8 is that she no longer needs a booster seat. We love you Alina!

Playdate For Tyson

Tyson had his friend Finn over today -Finn is 16months old and just so adorable with his big brown eyes and long eyelashes. This was Finn's second visit with us. I overheard Alina(my oldest) saying no to hanging out with a friend at the pool today because she wanted to see Finn. She loves the fact that Tyson has his own little friend. And today Tyson is 22 months old!

Bad Cake=Extra Cash

Yesterday Alina had some friends sleep over for her birthday-(it is on sunday) I went to Walmart to pick up the cake I had ordered. It was $29.00! I was floored. I didn't expect it to be that much and I didn't need a 1/2 sheet but I figured I ordered it that big by accident. Maybe I just don't know but I thought that was expensive. The dye on the icing stained our hands and mouths and overall it wasn't good but I thought "oh well." Usually I am pleased with their cakes.

My husband comes home later and has a piece and tells me how awful it tasted. He told me to smell it and it smelled like rotten eggs. Real nice- I just fed this cake to my kids and her friends.

Needless to say my husband took it back(Walmart takes everything back) raised hell about it and in return he got the $29.oo back plus $20.00. I think I'm done ordering cakes from Walmart. Nobody seems sick this morning so hopefully we are all good to go!!

Like I Said..He Can Do It!

So today Tyson's OT was over and she was working on stacking leggo style blocks on one another. He ended up stacking 6 of them independently and 10 more with some help from her. The funny thing was when she tried to help him he swatted her hand away as if to say he did not want help. Fiesty little guy...we were both laughing. It was real neat to see him doing it all by himself. Proud momma here if you couldn't tell!

He Can Do Anything

Everytime Tyson does something new I'm always so proud of him. Well I'm proud of him everyday for overcoming so many obstacles. I was joking with my therapist the other day because she was telling me how well he is doing, how it was great he walked at 17 months and how she believes he is high functioning. I said to her." I know- sometimes I wonder if he even has down syndrome!" (I was joking of course) Kids with down syndrome eventually do everything that typical children do...it just takes a little more time. But he ceases to amaze me. I never knew how to discipline him because I was afraid he would not understand the word no. Well let me tell you he does. He looks at me before he is about to throw food on the floor because he knows he shouldn't....he actually waits for me to say no. So now he slides the food down beside his leg onto his chair thinking I won't know.....until I get him out and there is food all over his seat!!! I can't help but almost be happy he does that because he....he just gets it. He knows if he shouldn't do something he'll find another sneaky way of doing it. And I like that. I like that he is finding other ways to do things....even if it is a bad thing!!!