All my sweet smiles ;)

Today was a Monday, and schoolwork, and all that jazz as usual!  Since that isn't very fun to blog about, I spent 5 minutes going around taking pics of my sweeties....so that I could blog tonight ;)  I imagine there will be a time before next year that C won't be such a good picture taker.  All my kids have gone through that stage where they would rather look at the floor, or run away instead of smiling for me.  So, for now, I am enjoying it, and you gets lots of grinning pics of my baby boy!  (who is very fast moving away from being a baby to a toddler....slow down boy!)

This photo comes complete with a scab on his head where he had a small fall (it just looks much worse, but it really wasn't a big deal)  sticky on his neck from his bandage that came off last night, and nutella beside his mouth after snack time.  But look at that grin!  He was still for 2 seconds so I could get this picture ;)  I could have photoshopped it all out...but this is him, on this day, so I left it all there.

The girls had to give me silly looks....

but then smiled pretty ;)

This one is getting too grown.  She doesn't want her picture taken, she doesn't want me to put it on my blog, and she doesn't want me to tell any of her stories on here.  And I have plenty I would like to share.  Everytime I try to take her picture these days she will say "only if you won't put it on facebook or your blog!"  I didn't comply this time b/c she was being ornery.  She should have just smiled!

Smiled a real smile, not a fake one...

We watched old videos today....oh they are so much fun to watch! 

Look at my sweet little R, 7 years ago

There are some days that he just follows me around the house doing this ;)  Reaching for his momma....if I am in sight, this is how he greets me. Yesterday and today were one of those days.  The only thing is, once I pick him up, then his toddler self comes out, and wiggles out of my arms quickly....and then get mad that I put him down!  He just doesn't know what he wants these day.  It is hard being a baby, and wanting to be a toddler at the same time.

He was in good spirits today.  He finished his schoolwork in a good timeframe today, and was playing legos.  I talked a long while with a teacher today about his schooling....we have been struggling.  But you know what I found out today?  He's smart!  Yes, I already knew that, but when we are doing schoolwork that he doesn't want to do, he tries to make me think otherwise.  I never got back their standardized test scores from school last year, but she was reading them off to me over the phone today, and wow, he did great!  I think he and I BOTH needed to hear that today!

I am almost finished with Z's afghan!!  I think I will be done by the end of the week if I get to work on it.  When he as at the hospital having his surgery, he clung to his afghan.  We have one that I made several years ago.  It is very big....large enough for an adult to cuddle up with.  That is what he likes b/c he puts it all in his lap and it gives him weight.  One of the antethesiologists kept looking at it saying "wow, that is a lot of stitches someone made".  She said it several times.  I keep thinking of that while I make this one and smile.  Lots of stitches = lots of love, for Z to have a blanket made just for him!  I love making him something that I know he is going to like!