Happy Birthday Waylon!!

It's so hard to believe that my Waylon turned 3 years old today!! Wow. Where have the last 3 years gone? It's so hard to believe that only 3 short years ago, at this exact time, I was sitting up in a hospital bed with my just barely an hour old brand new baby. Today, he's a sweet, funny, smart, very lively little boy. I thank God everyday for these precious boys He's blessed Jesse & I with.

As far as birthdays go, this year was pretty uneventful. We did have presents first thing this morning, then my mom came over this afternoon with more presents and we had birthday cake. (Well, mom, Wyatt and I had birthday cake...Waylon is like his Daddy and not too into sweets!) Here are some pics of the big event!

The cake is a little pathetic (a cake maker I am not)...but it tasted really good!!

Oh, for those of you who may be wondering, we decided to postpone our Sea World trip. We decided about midnight the night before we were going to go that we were insane for trying to take these kiddos to Sea World in the heat of summer! Since our tickets are good until December 2010, we decided to wait and go later this year when the weather cools off a little instead.

Germs-R-Us

I'm sick of being sick. For the past 3-4 weeks someone in this house has been sick. First it was Wyatt, then Waylon, and now for the past week or so me. I don't know what I'm gonna do if this makes another cycle. I swear I'll have the healthiest kids in kindergarten when their time rolls around, because they've had every epizooty out there!

I think I'm sick now solely because I have time off from work coming up. I remember growing up it seemed like over Christmas or Spring Break, mom or Tania would end up getting sick just in time for the break. I guess my health streak has run out, or I'm getting old...it's my turn now. 14 glorious nights off of work coming up starting next Wednesday....I have no choice but to get better!

On a less depressing note, I currently have an almost completely open schedule during my time off which I am extremely happy about. We are planning on taking the boys to Sea World for the day just before Waylon's birthday (so he won't technically be 3 and we won't have to buy a ticket. I'm a bargain buyer!) I'm thinking they'll really enjoy it, especially judging by the fascination they have with the lobster tank at Wal-Mart. Other than that, I'm planning to take them to the toddler program at the library (if my friend would tell me what time it starts - you know who you are!), spend some time playing outside, catch up with some friends over lunch, start potty-training....ok, this is supposed to be a vacation, so maybe not so much on the potty-training. We'll see how ambitious I end up being. I love the fact that I have almost no plans for a pretty good stretch of time.

This is a pretty "Wordy Wednesday" for me, so I'll just end with a picture that could've been on a Wordless Wednesday post had I not been so chatty.

So far, I've had a great weekend complete with not one, but TWO girl's nights out!

Thursday night, Tania and I went out to dinner and then to FBC Ocala to see Chonda Pierce on her "This Ain't Prettyville" tour. We had a great time and laughed till we cried. It was so nice to get out and go with my most favorite sister (well, only sister, so of course she's my favorite!) just by ourselves.

This evening me, my mom, Tania & our Aunt Betty took another girls' night and went to eat dinner at Yamato's in Gainesville. Aunt Betty had never been before, so we took her for a "happy that school is out and one dinner before you go spend the summer in Alabama" dinner. We had such a good time, we ended up being seated with 2 older ladies and an older man. That was great, but not much of a coincidence since Tania told the hostess, "Could we have a table with no children? If we wanted to eat with kids, we'd have brought our own." This cracked me up!! Of course I was feeling the same, but maybe wouldn't have had the guts to ask. But it never fails, if you go out sans kids, you somehow always end up sitting with or near some of the most obnoxious kids on the planet!! Needless to say, our dinner was tasty and we had a great, kid free meal!

On to the boys...just because my dinner was kid free, doesn't mean this post will be! Mr. Waylon is getting to be quite bossy now that he has words. Him and Wyatt were in the kitchen playing earlier today and Waylon thought that Wyatt was coming after something that he had, so he tells him, "No-no Wyatt. Get in bed. One...two..." Yeah, so maybe he's picked up on a little bit of what Momma & Daddy tell him! It's amazing how much progress he's making. I know he still has alot of catching up to do, but it's so fun getting there! Both of them are REALLY into the movie "Cars." Seriously, if I'd let them, they'd watch it 57 times a day. Every morning they get up and go to the TV and say "Teen on?" (Teen being their word for "Lightning McQueen.") Wyatt found a pair of Cars boxer shorts a couple of nights ago that I'd gotten in a box of hand-me-downs from a girl at work. We've had them for a while, but they were a little big so they just got shoved in their dresser and while I was digging around, he spotted them. Boy howdy. When he saw them, he HAD to have them on. And he thought he was something. Like, modeled for himself in front of the mirror for a while. Speaking of, he LOVES wearing Pull-Ups now, not so much for the potty training (which we still haven't gotten real excited about) but just because he thinks it's cool running around with Lightning McQueen on his heiny. Oh these boys. They are so fun right now. Well, kind of like a "want to pull my hair out" fun, but fun just the same. Here's some random pics from over the past few weeks. (By the way, if you notice that there are a lot more pictures of Wyatt, it's because he's such a HAM and Waylon is not so much into having his picture taken!)

PS: I know there are LOTS of pictures, but I had so many that I wanted to share...

Waylon had better start eating before Wyatt starts looking like the "big" brother!

If you give a kid some toothpaste...

...0r a Pop-Tart...

I'd asked him to get the milk out of the fridge...

This is a "John Clark" look for sure...

He likes to snuggle in for a good read...just like Momma!

Finally, I'll "end" with this one...those Cars Pull-ups I was talking about!

Off to school...

We went to TES last Friday to have an IEP meeting on Waylon, which is just the technical term for figuring out what kind of therapy and school he'll need for this coming year. (Let me interject here that I have learned my lesson that if I ever have to be in a meeting to make a decision about my child, it is much better done on a full night's sleep. Never again will I try to do one of these things after working all night and being only semi-coherent.) That being said, after only a minor emotional breakdown, we do have a tentative plan for this coming school year. Starting in September, he will go to Language Therapy (AKA Speech) 2 times a week for 30 minutes with Mrs. Angela and a small group in the classroom. If he does well adjusting to this, then in October he will start going to Pre-K everyday from 8:30-11:30. This is (like I said) a tentative plan totally dependent on how he reacts to the big change. I know in my head that this will be good for him, but my heart struggles with him being a brand new 3 year old and going to school everyday (hence the 1/2 days to start). So, once again, please pray for me girls, we all know we'll need it!!