6 Years of life goes by so quickly

This last weekend we had Tyler 6th birthday party at the local bowling alley. He invited a neighbor, his brother, a cousin, and a friend from school. One kid from all the required friend groups I think. We had a blast bowling and nobody was injured which was good when you have 5 kids running around with heavy objects to drop. My toes made it through. Tyler actually bowled really well. This is the second time he went bowling and loved it. He bowled a 77 the first game and even had a spare, mind you it was bumper bowling but still enjoyable. We also went to my brother-in-law Terry concert later that night and it was really exciting and well performed. I volunteered to help and got put on CD sales and I sold 2 CD's so I am helping the cause (the Paukert Fund), I also helped rock the littlest Beaudry (Oliver). He especially liked the Answer the call song as he kicked in wiggled around during the entire song. It was a blast.

Growing up

Why does it feel like kids grow up so fast? One day you are trying to get them to talk and the next day they are talking like adults. I was in El Bano yesterday and told Tyler and Nate to watch Carson ( I know asking a 6 and 4 year old to watch a 1 YO is not the brightest) and make sure he didn't fall off the couch. Carson is now able to climb up on the couch by himself but not careful enough while walking on the couch. As I was relieving myself Tyler was coaxing Carson upstairs so that he could draw while Carson played. As I am washing up I hear Nate yell that Carson is on the couch and Tyler yells back "I was just watching him up here how did he get down there so fast." Then he says "Aye yigh yigh" It is just so funny to hear the things kids will say. It is also kind of sad as this just proves to me that they are getting older.

Tyler likes to draw no which is really cool. He brings home a book from school every week and he usually picks out really interesting books. Last week be brought home a how to draw book where it splits out the drawing of say a cat into several steps. He is getting really good at following the steps and it is nice to see him having fun at it.

Kids say the funniest things

Last night I was laying on the couch and the kids were in a frenzy and Nate came up to me and put his head on my stomach and bite me and I screamed and said "why would you do something like that". His reply saved him from some serious consequences. He said "I thought you were candy". Which made me laugh and have to squeeze him for his punishment. That kid can be so darn funny and it saves him a lot of times.

We also carved our huge pumpkin that we had bought last week. This thing weighed 37 pounds and was probably a good 2 inches think which made the carving difficult. The kids helped scrap out the gunk and I had them separate the seeds so that I could bake them. I will take a pic and show my great carving skills.

Peace out

MJW

Two down and one to go

Let me recount the weekend of fun for us. Started with Tyler getting his stitches out on Friday and that went as well as could be expected. Saturday was a great day as the kids went to my parents house for the night as Dana and I had a wedding to go to. Oh the joys of sleeping in. Just to think that only 5 years ago I could sleep in until 10 or so and now sleeping in means 7 or 8. At what age do kids start getting there own breakfast. I am tempted at times just to leave the cereal on the counter and advises the boys to do whatever they want as long as they leave daddy alone. Now I am rambling and must be stopped. OK the point of this whole thing is that Sunday came around and was another gloomy day outside so it was spent mostly indoors. Once little Carson woke up from his nap he was playing around upstairs while mommy was getting ready for church that night. As daddy was watching him from the bottom of the steps he decided to grab onto the statue, that sits on top of a pedestal, and sit down. Well that was not a good idea as it fell and conked him on the head. I ran up the stairs to try and stop it from falling but was there too late and of course it cut his head open and started to bleed. So within 2 weeks time we have had one kid with 3 stitches in his head and another with a staple in his head. I feel like we will be getting a call from social services soon. It is not a good time to be a kid in our house. I am about ready to wrap Nate in bubble wrap as it does not look good for his chances of escaping this dreaded black cloud of injuries that seams to be lingering over our house. Wish us all luck to get through this month.

Peace out
MJW

First day of School

I was a little worried about how the first day of school would go for the boys as they both said they didn't want to go but the troopers they are had no complaints and were excited to go back. Nathan advised me that they read a Owl book and had a snack. Snacks are a good thing. Tyler also had a good and bad day as he said school was fun but got a little to excited and hit his head on the kitchen counter and split his head open. It required a trip to the doctor for some stitches. He was a trooper and got through it with flying colors. Good thing is that it is covered up by his hair so won't be noticeable.

Peace Out
MJW