Halloween!

So here I am sitting at home with Scream 4 on.  Well I recorded it to watch later.  Its lame.  I cant find myself to sit and watch it but I left it on the tv and came to sit at the computer.

Its just me and Diesel and the twins are alseep.

Where is everyone else!?!?

Trick or Treating!  Oh how I wish I could go too.

But 38 + weeks pregnant and walking door to door isnt in the works for me!

Im happy to say that I at least got to contribute to the costumes.  E was able to get me some red and black fabric and I made Ryu's Vampire Cape!

But E had to put his touch in it too.  I wanted the cape to have the bat wing type too it.  He drew that on the fabric for me and I was really not good at pinning this on Ryu.  Lets say that Dad to the rescue was able to get the kids all ready for trick or treating.  I got Clara dressed and the big kids dressed themselves.  I put Haileys hair up Dad got Clara's hair up.  Then Dad spray colored everyone's hair and did Ryu's face up!  Its not that easy doing much but watching with my big o belly in the way!

Things for Thomas

So I have meant to write a blog about this.  But ill blame it on pregnancy forgetfulness.  Bc every time I looked at my blog I couldnt remember what it is I wanted to write!

It wasnt that long ago I was telling E, we dont have much for Thomas's arrival.  We need to start thinking about this.  We need to at least get one or two onies and  a back of diapers!!

Now no sooner did I mention this, we started to get a few things from our family and friends and even an unexpected person all the way in New Mexico!

I have a good lot now in New Born, and 0-3MO and one to two in each month for his first year!  I also got some diapers!  I got one box of size 1 from my sister and GiGi gave us a pack of NB.  SOO glad we have those things.  I am less worried about that part of Thomas's needs!

AS you could tell from another blog I wrote, I made him several blankets.  I made a crochet blanket, 3 receiving blankets and a plain Jane flannel.

AND in a long story short. The blanket I made for Clara I purchased to many yarn to add to the ends.  So this weekend when the Flannel was on MAJOR sell, I was able to take that back and get some more flannel.  I wanted to make some burp cloths.  I made them 18in x 9in.  They pretty much look like a dish towel.  I have seen some with the rounded part but I may attempt this later on!  Yeah they happen to be skulls.  What can I say.  This fits Daddy's personality!  But I can tell you once you get past the part of another skull addition it just fits.  I know some see it as a bad thing.  AND you may look down on it.  But thats ok.  Its your opinion and thats that.  PLUS it will be awesome for Thomas.  They say black and white for babies is easiest for your baby to look at and thus will capture his attention.

FUN facts about vision : http://www.babycenter.com/0_developmental-milestones-sight_6508.bc

I also decided I'd try out making a diaper bag.  It was fun making it!  But im definitely not good at enough to make this for someone else.  But I know the more I make the better it will become!

Clara is 2

I have an official 2 year old in the house!!

Saturday Clara turned 2 and we were also able to celebrate with family and friends on this day as well.  It went great we had no complications leading up to the party it went smoothly.  Except by the time it was party time I had to sit on my butt and enjoy the view!  I know I had to have been completely out of it too.

The morning started out with the Hubs and Ryu off to the store to get the things we needed for the food for the party!  Hailey and I cleaned house a little and she took her bath and I braided her hair while the boys were gone.  Once the boys came back Ryu and Hailey helped me crack eggs and stir batter for the cake.  Then the hubs and I put all the sides together for the hot dogs!

As people arrived he started up the grill and grilled the hot dogs and we all ate hot dogs.  I had got to try out different kinds of hot dogs as I have only had chili and cheese hot dogs!!  So that was fun.  After which it was present time!

Clara made out.  She got some fabulous things.  She was ready to play with the first gift that she opened she seemed unsure of setting it aside to open more but she got the hang of it.  So now my big girl has so big kid toys and some new duds to wear and show off!

She weighs 26lbs and is 34 inches tall!!  She also got her up to date shots today so I expect her to be crabby pants..which im sure will all change the moment her Daddy is home...total daddys girl!!

School

So this week we had our first parent teacher conference with both the big kids!  I could not wait to hear what their teachers were going to tell us.  Not just the positive but the things I can do to help them from home.

Hailey was the first one up. Of course her teacher adores her.  She is such a little helper.  She said she wished she had 20 more of her in the class.  She basically said she had a rough class.  Hailey tells me that her teacher needs some quiet time sometimes.  I can tell from Hailey that she is having to disciplined the kids a lot.  I feel for the kinder teachers.  Its the first year for the kids and not all parents teach there kids to respect others/adults. Any who she says that my Hailey is a great help and keeps others on there toes and sometimes tells others when they arent listening to instructions to listen or they're gonna get in trouble.  As far as things to work on.  She is right on spot of where she needs to be and we can help with some activities to ensure her knowing her ABC upper and lower and the sounds.  The meeting with her teacher was short and sweet.

Now to my Ryu. He has two teachers they both were present for the conference.  Im glad they did it together I had imagined having to wait to see both.  I cant even tell you in words how happy I was to hear the things they had to say.  They both agreed that every year they have at least one student they will not forget and they both feel like Ryu will be one student they wont forget.  They said that Ryu will stand up for himself and others but not to think he is picked on he has plenty of friends.  That at first they had to figure out how to work with him and his creativity side.  He loves to build things, draw and even will be reading in class when its not time too.  They have figured away to still let him do this plus what he is suppose to do.  She said that they tell him that if he does it correctly that he has 2 minutes free time afterwards that he can draw, read, ect.  His reading teacher told us that he is right where he needs to be with reading and in fact that she was going to move him to a group of above level reading. (AWESOME!)  She said you can definitely tell that we are working on reading at home.  That his only draw back with the reading area is..(here is something we will work on at home!) That when they ask him what he read he can verbal explain in great detail about it but when he comes to writing it down he is not the best at it.  His math/science teacher says he is doing great in those area.  That in math he is one of the few ahead of the game.

A few stories they shared of Ryu.

One of the kids in his class told Ryu he should be a lawyer.  That the reasoning of thinking this was because he stands his ground.  He lets others know when they arent doing right.  Another story, they have a behavior chart sent home daily.  They have 3 levels of positive.  good day, great day, and awesome day! He has usually got the middle and a few awesome days.  Last week he was aiming to get all Awesome Days.  (which he did)  One day the teacher was putting the great day down and Ryu tells her nooooO!  And gets her the white out for her to put awesome day.  She did say that she actually meant to put that one day as awesome anyways for him.

Im one proud mother.  My children strive to do there best and im proud of my babies for working so hard to get where they are right now.