OOPS!

WELL, I looked in Ethan's mouth late this afternoon when he was crying and found out that he doesn't just have 5 teeth, he has 7!! Three of those have come in since Sunday...no wonder he's been crabby:) Real observant mom here!

And So It Begins!

I went to a neighborhood cookie exchange tonight and took Ethan. While I was helping dole out cookies he crawled under the table into a corner where I couldn't reach him and started playing with things that weren't his to play with. I crouched down and motioned for him to come to me. "Come Here Ethan" He smiled at me AND SHOOK HIS HEAD NO!!! He's never done that before! The twins just taught him to shake his head this afternoon but I had NO idea that he actually understand that it meant no! Apparently he does:) The end of that story is that I had to get on my hands and knees and crawl into his little hidey hole to dig him out. How graceful that was!

First WORD!!!

Ethan said his first word last night - "Hi!"

Guess who's walking?!?!?!?

Life will never again be the same around the Weiss household! I'll try to get video tomorrow to post. We were at Fehr's for supper tonight and E several times took 4-5 steps in a row to get somewhere. You can tell that he really wants to do it and his little body is geared up for it....and than his mind catches up and says, "WAIT! I MIGHT GET HURT!" so he falls to his hands and knees and crawls since that is the safer way to get around at the moment:) It's fun but what on earth am I going to do with a walking one year old on a 20 hour flight?!?

The Culprit and The Damage

Okay, so it really wasn't too bad. He just has shorter bangs (do little boys have bangs?) than before and has a little tail hanging down that is all that's left of the hair he had.

NEVER say Never!

You know how the saying goes, "Never say never?" Yeah, well it caught up to me this time! A few weeks ago I was having a conversation with someone (don't remember who) about how the twins have never cut anything they weren't supposed to with scissors. Well, that's easy when they haven't had access to scissors. BUT, because of Kindergarten they have a school box of supplies that they keep at home to do "homework" with and in that box are - guess what - a pair of scissors. AND this afternoon I'm sweeping away when I enter the bathroom and find a bunch of hair around the toilet. "How odd" I think to myself. Katie and Matthew are here and are using that bathroom and I'm thinking that Matthew must have given himself a haircut (while on the toilet, apparently) and didn't clean it up. WELL, about an hour later I'm in the basement yelling at - excuse me...asking Kenton politely to get his rear in gear and pick up as we have supper company coming in an hour when I notice - HE'S MISSING HAIR!!! The story went, "Huh, what scissors? What hair?" NOW, this is hard to believe as there is evidence to the contrary - he HAS to know what's going on! FINALLY, "Kaitlyn did it. She was practicing to be a hair cutter." HMMM, Kaitlyn is not fessing up so now we know one of them is lying..."Kenton did it himself!" "Well were you in the bathroom with him at the time?" "NO!" Ryan sat down with them and gave them the "One of you is lying to me and you would have been in less trouble if you would have just confessed" speech. Kaitlyn eventually confessed. LET me tell you that it's so hard to know which child is lying!!!! You just have to keep throwing out consequences until one of them decides that they had better hurry up and confess before they get EVERY thing they own taken away:) There will be a picture forthcoming and I have to confess - Katie and I were laughing through most of the ordeal as it WAS quite funny! She had also noticed the hair and had ALSO blamed Matthew - Poor Matthew - He wasn't around when this all took place so I don't think he even knows that he was a culprit for a short time. Oh well, the twins are now banned from using scissors EVER again (Or until the next "homework" assignment that requires their use) and I have hidden MY pair so well that even I don't know where to find them!!!

Odds and Ends Pictures

These flowers were sent to me from Melissa, Valarie, Katie, and Rachel with a LOVELY note attached to them! Thanks, girls for helping me to feel SO old:)

This picture was from the first day of Kindergarten. They came off the bus wearing those hats...they say,"I'm a Kindergarten Star" - I think that they were made in Art.

Kaitlyn received a haircut before her second day of school as I was tired of fighting tangles! It sure does grow fast! It's much more manageable now but can still be pulled up.

And last but not least - here's the birthday girl! She doesn't look too old, now does she?

Birthday's and such

Well, I'm officially another year older...and wiser:) 30 really isn't all that hard...the gray hairs are completely a different thing! I had a nice birthday lunch with some friends at Jalapeno's - a Mexican restaurant. Joan decided to bring me a cake when she heard that I was going to make my own...I don't usually bother with a cake for myself except the twins are now old enough to know that a birthday means a cake! Don and Eileen stopped by with a birthday balloon and gift basket and to see the twins come off the school bus....we had a really hot, humid wait for them! Oh - and I had flowers awaiting me when I returned home from my lunch...they came from my four LOVELY, young sisters:) Other than that I have been spending my day cleaning out the coat closet...I don't think that we are going to need coats in Singapore. Or hats. Or gloves. Or scarves. Or boots. I'm getting all the things that we're getting rid of ready for a big garage sale to be held sometime in September. I came down to wash up some of our winter coats and realized that I had left the clean clothes in the washing machine, AGAIN. This will make the third time that they are being washed to freshen them up...clothes sitting wet for a couple of days tend to start smelling mildewy! If that's a word. Well, I'm going to go and check the mail to see if there's anything in there for my birthday:)

First Day of School

These pictures are a little out of order. I still need to figure out how to download them in chronological order.



It didn't take Kaitlyn long to make a friend and start putting together a puzzle. We weren't there long when she learned where the bathroom was - always important info for a little girl!







Kenton found some toys after sitting at his desk sizing the situation up!







This is Mrs. Wiley, their teacher. She was very patient in posing for pictures for all the moms:)







AND of course we can't forget Ethan! He and mommy went on errands after the twins left and he was a happy little guy - doesn't seem to miss them too much! I found him pulling himself up to standing on the back of the chair - he'd than get stuck and cry until I rescued him or he fell. He's going to walk before he's crawling!

Kaitlyn and Kenton were ready to go about 30 minutes before the bus actually came so we went outside to take a "first day of school" picture! They were running around the house with backpacks on saying, "Mom, how long NOW before the bus comes!"

We were inside the house when I heard the bus pull up - she was about 5 minutes early. I think that it helped the twins as there wasn't really any time for them to be nervous about actually getting on - they just ran outside and straight onto the bus. Once they were on they may have had some second thoughts. Isn't a cute, little bus?

Of course I had to beat the bus to school:) This is the twins getting off the bus at school - Joan rode up there with me for moral support. AND, I wasn't the only parent there and armed with a camera.

It didn't take them long to figure out where to hang up their backpacks. I felt a little sorry for the teacher as she was overwhelmed with anxious parents in the room - I'm pretty sure that we were more nervous than the children were:)

Kenton went right to his seat and sat for a minute looking around trying to get his bearings. We had gone to school yesterday to drop off school supplies and to find out where they were to sit.