School daze......

Poor Jarom is just the odd man out in our family these days. Dallin and Ben started school, and I was feeling a little left out, so I marched myself right on over to the counselor's office at Dixie and signed up. I was pleasantly surprised to find that all the classes I took at Dixie 12 (yikes!) years ago are still valid, including my math......whew!! So I only have 2 classes left to complete all my gen ed requirements and the left of the credits I need can be used to be applied to the requirements for a bachelor's degree. WOO HOO! I am quite excited about that. So this semester I am just taking 2 classes, one of which is an online course, so I only have to actually GO to one class. I think that Ben and Jarom just might survive while I am gone, but we will see. The class that I am most excited about is a children's literature class.....mostly because that will give me all sorts of very valid reasons to HAVE to read. I can just hear myself now...."sorry guys, you will have to go without me. I just have to get my reading homework done........"

Our imperfect little family.....

So I was just perusing my blog, and I sure brag about my kids a lot, don't I? Well to dispel any misconceptions, we are all a little imperfect around here. My patience was thin today, Dallin had the most unbelievable melt down when he got sprayed with water (while wearing his swimming suit and trying to get the other little boy wet, mind you!) and Jarom just wouldn't take his usual naps today but was still ornery and tired. Oh, and Ben? ummmm, fortunately for him he is in Salt Lake wining and dining with the Redbox head honchos. So maybe he avoided the imperfect day today......actually, nope he didn't. He had to pick up a prescription for antibiotics on his way up, so I guess his perfection is drug induced.

Mobile home......

Well, it is official. Everyone in our house is mobile. Jarom has worked on perfecting his crawling this week, and our life has forever changed. Dallin is undergoing intensive training with closing doors, and keeping his precious items like pirate loot or homework off the floor. Jarom is a lot happier now that he can pretty much follow me around, although he already would much rather be walking, so crawling just sometimes makes him even madder, because he CAN'T walk! His teeth are growing in, but I haven't been able to snap a pic of them yet.....the little turkey. And his favorite thing to do right now is shake his head "no". CRAP. I'll bet I am gonna hear "no" from this kid a lot during his lifetime.

Dallin is doing well at school, and has had a lot of fun getting to ride on the bus. He is such a good boy, I just can't even stand it sometimes. I just love that he would still rather sit by me at the bus stop than run with the boys, and I am going to savor every last minute that he will let me have before I become chopped liver. I am, however, really trying to get him to spread his wings a little and get to know some of his classmates/bus buddies. His best little buddy has the opposite school schedule from him, so it is a good opportunity for him to befriend some other kids, too. He has a hard time coming out of his shell sometimes, and I hope that this new adventure we call Kindergarten will help that a bit.

#1 song the day I was born....

I have had fun with this website! The #1 song on the day I was born is "Three times a Lady" by Lionel Richie. How fitting, eh? Anyway, take a look and a listen!

http://www.joshhosler.biz/NumberOneInHistory/SelectMonth.htm

Blue day

So this week I have tried my very best to be the "warm cookies and milk" kind of mommy after school. Dallin gets home off the bus at about 12:10, so he is good and hungry when he gets home. Since school started, they have also been having "color days" where they celebrate one color for the whole day. I have tried to have lunches with the same theme. Yesterday was blue day. What did we do to celebrate? We made blue sugar cookies and had blue milk with our grilled cheese and turkey sandwich. I couldn't figure out a blue main course, so grilled cheese was the ole standby.

As I was wandering around the house wondering what I could make that was blue, Ben asked why Dallin was getting all this special treatment for lunch. First off, I am sure that his mom (correct me if I'm wrong, MaryAnn) had warm lunches for him when he got home from school. Ben tried to convice me that all he got was a swift kick in the butt when he got home, but I am sure he deserved it before his warm lunch. Second off, it is helping me feel like the cute mommy I have always aspired to be. I don't do many cutesy mommy things, so this is one place I can start, I guess. It also gives me something to be creative with while Jarom is down for a nap in the morning.

Hmmmmmm, today is orange day........what will we come up with?

August 12th......a beginning and, well, an ending

Dallin started Kindergarten on August 12! All day long I couldn't help but thinking that this was the first day of the rest of his life. The beginning to a long and hopefully wonderful education. He was just so bright eyed and full of energy. I went with him to school the first day to get acquainted with the teacher and classroom, and then he couldn't wait to get to the bus stop on the 13th, and was just bounding the whole way there. I am so happy to report that he did remember to turn around and give me a hug before he got on the bus. What a good kid. He had a great day at school (from what I gathered) and he wasn't even worried about going back today.

Then the ending part of the 12th. My 30th birthday. ugh. The ending of my childhood. It is over. I have to completely check a different box on questionnaires now. I can't mark the 18-29 box any more. No longer am I bunched in with the 18 year olds. And you know? I do feel older on this birthday. That hasn't ever happened to me before! Usually it is just another day, but man I felt this one! I am not trying to complain, because I really have a wonderful life. I have an awesome little family and a beautiful home, amazing friends, and I really can't complain about anything. Besides finally submitting to adulthood.

School shoes

So I took Dallin shopping on Thursday for school shoes and supplies. Man, did that take me back. I used to love going school shopping! (I know that as my mom reads this, she will be cringing because she HATED going shopping with me.) I would have all my clothes and shoes laid out and prepared for the first week of school. I remember having to wait until school started before I could wear any of my new digs, and it was almost torture. I remember even wearing clothes that were a little too hot to be wearing in August but I did anyway because I was just so excited to show up in my best new outfit.

Ahhhh, how things are different now. Dallin doesn't even realize he needs new clothes for school, and he really could care less about the cool erasers and pencils already in his backpack and ready to go (in a week!) All he cares about is that he gets to ride on the bus, and he gets to just go to school. I hope that lasts for the next 12 years, eh?