What an exciting day here

JJ has his first loose tooth. Its wiggly alright. Bro is kinda grossed out by the whole thing so of course JJ is wiggling it in front of him every chance he gets....

Just get Halloween over with

Man, this is one crazy time of year... I have so much to do in the next few days I have no idea how to fit it all in. Good thing Bro is taking over pumpkin carving and painting duties.. that saves me a good chunk of time.

I'm almost done the Halloween costumes, then I just have cookies to make.

Not the way to spend a day

I started with some innocent tidying up... that turned into emptying my kitchen and re arranging all my cupboards and furniture in the dining room...

All I can say is JJ better sleep tonight.. he had me up 4 times last night (well he was actually calling daddy but do ya thing he woke up?? ) sucks to be mom some days..

poor kid has a cold, that he caught from me... he was coughing and had a sore throat. I know just how he feels but man is it hard to get him cough medicine in the middle of the night when I'm doped up with cold meds, no glasses on , blinded by the bathroom light and making sure I'm not giving him the wrong dosage... why is the type so tiny on those bottles?? seriously, 9 times out of ten I'm reading it at 2am....

My new crusade.... dosage info on bottle must be in BIG typeface from now on ...

The last of the windows and doors....

my last window (the HUGE one) and the last door came yesterday...

They are in and I am DONE with window people for a long long time I hope.

on a totally unrelated topic... My preschool got invited to go on a train ride to fit in with a transportation theme. And I get to bring JJ along, it will be his first train ride ever and he is so pumped... the best part.. its at the beginning of December so they are going to make sure Santa comes along for the ride too.

I just don't understand some people

So JJ's class has started a program called snuggle up and read. Every day they bring home a simple book to read to an adult in the house, the adult records the title and what words they struggled with. He can read it to any adult as many times as he wants and you record it every time.

So JJ came home with a prize yesterday for hitting the 15 book mark (he already hit 5 and 10 ) I asked who else is on the star for 15 books, he said he is the only one in the class on any star...

NO other parent had time to read a 5 page story with 10 words in it before bed or after school?? now JJ does get ahead since he has me, DH and my brother that lives here to read to but really in 2 weeks no other kid hit 5 books even??

Boggles my mind

Heck he drives me nuts constantly wanting to read to me and we had to get him a library card on the weekend but man... read to your kids people, its the best way for them to learn!!

ok getting of my soapbox now, JJ wants to read ;)

He can read!!

It just clicked this week, JJ sat down and read an entire story to me, ok it was an easy story, but he did it all by himself!!

I'm so proud of him.... now how do you get him to stop, thats all he wants to do is read to me , LOL!

So its super busy around here right now, and I have to find some time to make the Halloween costumes. Jen decided it would be awesome for the kids to be the characters from wizard of Oz and I foolishly agreed. Now I have to sew a tin man and a scarecrow costume. The lion is easy since my dog is dressing up for that part. I have to make sure to show you the pics.