Another Day In Paradise

4/23/11

Not much has been going on here at our house. I have been trying to get back in shape, which if this blog was about me I would have PLENTY to talk about! As far as the boys go, it is just like the movie groundhog day, same week over and over! We are really just waiting for our new cousin Greyson to arrive down in San Antonio so that we can go see him. In the meantime the boys have been playing in the back yard alot. Yesterday they started a new game where Chars puts a bucket on his head and Ben hits the bucket with a stick or another bucket. This was a really fun and entertaining game for a few minutes until Charlie figured out that it hurt!

Another thing they have been doing is going to the YMCA with me during the week. They now LOVE the song "YMCA" and think it is even cooler that the Village people sing it because our YMCA is known as the Village Y!

My sweet Ben is at the age were he wants everything he sees on TV. Although it literally drives me CRAZY that we have to repeat the same discussion over and over about each thing he mentions, I do it anyway and really can do it in my sleep at this point. MOM, I want that! Ok, what is it....It is a dragon that spits up goo....Oh, how cool Ben. Well you will have to wait til your birthday or Christmas. He is on to the fact that I literally pay no attention to what he says about these toys now so he started asking for the larger, more ridiculous items to make sure I am listening. For example the other day it started out the same....Mom, I want that...Ok, what is it...that, you have to look at the TV....Well Ben that is a commercial for Disney World, does that mean you want to go to Disney World....No MOM, I want it, I want Disney World.....Ok, maybe I can get it for your bday or xmas (I am not falling for that)! So now to avoid the discussion altogether we started a game where he gets to earn stickers for going to bed on time with NO FUSSING OR BACK SCRATCHING and for cleaning up his toys. He puts the stickers on a chart and when he gets ten he gets any toy he wants (under $20). This is his chart below, he did have 4 stickers on it but he lost 2 of them yesterday for not minding!

Token Ellodie picture in her outfit from Maggie...