Fist Day of a New School! :-)

Tyler was a bit clingy, but he was fine when I left him. My niece Grace had just arrived so they were happy. He gets there at 7am and there are very few kids then so they all meet in one room until more kids and the regular teachers get there. Since it was his first day, I didn't know this so I went right to his room and there was no one there. Someone is coming from the other end of the hall and she tells me to go to the first room and why.

I told her this was his first day so I needed to put his stuff down. Now, let me make it clear, we were in the 2 year old room, during this conversation. I told her since he didn't have a bin with his name on it, I was putting his stuff in Gracie's bin. Explained that was his cousin and she said that was fine. We go back to the first room and I leave him there.

At 4:15, I am there to pick him up. I needed to pay so I did that before going to get him. I tell them who I am, who I am picking up and that I need to pay for the week. One of the ladies in the office asked me if I brought Tyler any pull-ups or a jacket or anything. I said yes with a rather bewildered look on my face I am sure!

Then the other lady (whom I have know nearly all my life) says, "Are you sure that is the right Tyler." First lady, "Yes, Tyler and it was his first day." I say, "Today is my Tyler's first day." First lady asks, "How old is he?" I say "Two." They both look at me funny and tell me he had been in the 3 year old room all day.

Now, I realize it just opened last week, but how do you get kids confused???? I told the lady I have known forever what went on the morning and she assured me it would be taken care of today. When I went to pick him up, I met the 3 year old teacher and she asked the same questions and I told her why they thought he didn't have any thing with him. She did at least say that he had a great day. They were just a bit concerned because he wasn't potty trained yet thinking he was 3 1/2 not, 2 1/2.

When I dropped him off this morning, I made sure the same lady from yesterday knew he was only 2 and she said ok. We'll see what happens today! :)

Festival of Marriage

This weekend, Ken adn I went with 8 other couples from our church to the Festival of Marriage retreat at Ridgecrest. It was very refreshing and enlightening as well. We got to know the other couples from our church better than we already did, but most importantly, we got to know each other even better.

They had a variety of sessions we could attend on a variety of topics. Everything from your prayer life as a couple to "Celebrating Sex in Your Marriage." Coincidentally, our entire group showed up to the same session on that last topic so that was a running joke the rest of the weekend.

Steve and Debbie Wilson were the main speakers Fri and Sat night and Sun morning. They were awesome. Based on their testimonies you can tell God is a BIG part of their marriage. They gave us the 6 Mosquitos of a marriage. They started with an anaology of how mosquitos can get in your house and before you know it they have bitten everyone. These six are the same way - busyness, irritability, drifting, financial debt, inability to be open, and I don't remember the 6th one as I write this, but I know it was good too!

We loved the sessions and being able to get away and get closer to each other. We sure missed Tyler though! My sister Laurie helped my mom keep the kids (Tyler and my two nieces Caroline an Grace) while we all went to the retreat. Sherri and Robert got home about 5 minutes before us. Then Lauire had Tyler outside waiting on us and he was just so excited to see us! It was so cute. He was laughing so hard and just ran up to us. Fortunately, I got a hug first. Otherwise, once he saw Daddy, I wouldn't have gotten any love! They had decorated pumpkins and he grabbed our hands to show it to us. He was so proud of it over something so simple!

Today, Tyler starts a new preschool. It just opened last week and my niece Grace goes there, too. So I am sure you will hear more about that later. He was a bit clingy this morning when I dropped him off. I attribute it to a new place and he hadn't really seen us since Thurs. night.

Hope you all have a GREAT day!

No sick days for Mommy!

I certainly don't like being sick, just as I am sure the next person doesn't. Unfortunately, Tyler doesn't understand when Mommy doesn't feel good. It's my usual change of season, cold in the morning, hot in the afternoon, sinus issues. My nose is stopped up one minute and running the next.

Tyler is so sweet though. He will just come snuggle with me and he just warms my heart. He has a doctor kid for Diego and Baby Jacquar and he'll bring the stethescope and "doctor" me.

I go to the doctor on Tuesday for my first prenatal visit. I hate all these doctors appointments, but I understand they are necessary. Pregnancy wise I have felt great! No morning sickness/nausea at all. With Dylan, I was only sick during the first trimester. With Tyler I was sick the entire 9 months. When the sickness never stopped after he was born, I knew something was wrong and found out my gallbladder had stopped working. It was taken out two years ago.

Now, if we can just get Tyler potty trained and to reset his internal alarm clock so he knows we can sleep in on the weekends! Potty training is getting there. He's great about telling us after the fact! Yesterday, he crawled in our bed at 6am. He went right on to sleep but I was wide awake so I got up and did some school work. It was rather peaceful to be up with no one else up. I usually just get up when Tyler does. If I am up before him, it is only to get dressed for work and then I wake him up and we are out the door.

Well, until next time...