Saturday, November 29, 2008

Happy Birthday & Turkey Day...Gobble,Gobble

Today Luke turned 5, and it has been an emotional week for me, I don't know where the time has gone. Bob and I watched his birth video last night and all I could think about was how it seems like just yesterday I was going to the hospital to have him.

We didn't go home to Arizona for Thanksgiving we stayed in Texas and this was our first year alone with no rushing around to visit family. I've never made a Turkey before and I was afraid of doing the whole meal, but it went off with out a hitch and I received rave reviews from Bob, the boys on the other hand only ate the green beans.

We have been sick for almost a week now, so we were not feeling too hot for Thanksgiving or today for Luke's birthday, so we nixed our plans to visit NASA and took the boys to see Madagascar 2, they had a blast and then we bought Luke some books and he was ready to go home and sit in his new "thinking chair" (bean-bag) and do some reading. We did our little family birthday party of cake and ice-cream and gave Luke his new Transformers robots and he's in heaven. I only hope the next 5 years go much slower...

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Happy Halloween

It's been a while since I've posted so I have some catching up to do. We've had an eventful month...where do we begin. All is settled after Ike, and it took awhile to get back in to our routine but we have learned to appreciate so many things we have always taken for granted.
We took Luke out of school a little over 2 weeks ago, he had been having a lot of behavior issues come up that we had never experienced before at school, church, soccer, and home. So after a lot of discussion and thoughtful prayer Bob and I decided to remove him from school and I started to Home school him. We have successfully completed our second week and it is going really well! We have already seen a significant change in his behavior and his security/attachment issues are slowly improving.
We were not going to celebrate Halloween until Luke's friend Seth started talking about Trick-or-Treating while they were playing at the park the day before and it was all over after that. So luckily he has a Bumblebee Transformers costume to play dress up in and Noah wore my brother Michael's Dragon costume. This dragon costume is probably 27 years old and it still looks great. Noah was walking around growling at everyone, he was a cutie.
After they were all dressed and we waited for Daddy to get home, we started at our next door neighbors house and they had a bowl of candy with a mechanical monster arm that grabs you and Noah freaked out screaming and Luke took off down the walk way to the driveway. Neither one of them wanted any part of the scary stuff. Needless to say Bob had to carry Noah the whole way in his arms and Luke would not walk up to any house with any scary motif. It was fine with me because they received enough candy, and it will be seeing the trash can very soon.