boys birthdays 2011

Each boy got a cupcake the morning of their birthday so we could sing Happy Birthday and let them blow out a candle.  Everyone seemed to get sick this week and so we have held off on the big cake, but stay tuned.

Then Little Dude got down to business.  You can see Sprout is very interested!

Munchkin helped a bit too.

A tow truck!!!

Little Dude helped Munchkin out with some of his presents.

This was on the 15th, after Little Dude's birthday.  They had played and played and both boys were getting sick...by early evening they were ZONKED!

Munchkin carried this little puppy around all day!

Sprout didn't get a birthday celebration this week, but he had fun none the less.  :)

Little Dude is 5!

Hard to believe that only 5 years ago Little Dude was born, this tiny little guy 7 weeks premature.  How time has flown.  This morning he woke up, had breakfast and waited impatiently for Big E to get home.  Once he arrived we had a cupcake and candle so we could sing Happy Birthday and opened presents.  He is so excited to play marbles, try out the playdoh tools and he's been playing with his tow truck all day.  We went to a new MacDonalds (which was really nice) for lunch.  His own happy meal (not an everyday occurrence) and unlimited time in their play world....or at least it was unlimited until Munchkin pooped in his pants.  Next week we'll do it all again (though maybe at Burger King just to have something a bit different) for Munchkin's birthday.  I'll post the pictures as soon as I can. 

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Well, I've been a bit stressed over here lately.  I don't notice it normally, but then something happens that highlights just how stressed I am or was.  Like yesterday-Big E stayed home from work because he was really sick, and the car wouldn't start.  I figured the universe was telling him to stay home and sleep!  But I got thinking about what would happen if the new job he'd just started fired him because he hadn't come in to work (and didn't have the number to call and so ended up leaving a message at the human resource office-which isn't open Sunday's).  My heart rate increased, my blood pressure rose and I thought, "Wow, I didn't realize I was this stressed."  And then today I was reading our credit card statement that came in the mail.  They have revamped their statements and they let you know how long it will take to pay off your current balance if you only ever pay the minimum payment and ours said, "It will take a gazillion years and 9 months to pay off your current balance."  I went, "EEEEEEeeeeeKKKKKkkkkk."  Literally. That's what happened.  So I'm trying to take a deep breath and bring myself out of this stressed, depressed, no-motivation slump that I'm in because I don't want my kids around a shlep (I'm not sure if I spelled that right, I heard Stuart McLean use it on CBC radio and decided to adopt the term...hope he doesn't mind) of a mother who just wants to do nothing all day. (Actually I DO want to do something, but I'm not allowed...I want to eat chocolate, drink milk, have yogurt and cheese...and you get the picture, just one more thing for me to be down about.)  I think I'm coming out of it but by golly it's not fun, it's even haard.  (Yes, I meant to spell that with 2 a's.)  I have a bit of 'Lemuel-itis'...for those of you unfamiliar with this, it's based on a person who did a whole heck of a lot of 'murmuring'...also known as complaining.  So that's me lately.  I'm determined to wake up tomorrow a bit more motivated and a bit more happy and less stressed.  We'll see how that goes, in the mean time I keep making chocolate-free brownies (which are FREAKIN' AMAZING) and complaining about gaining weight.  I can't have milk and now I have to cut down on my brownie consumption...it just isn't fair.....did I mention that sometimes my compression stocking falls down??....and this is what I mean by Lemuel-itis.  Ciao all!

SMS

This is just a video post.  I'll get more pictures up a bit later (after I've emptied my memory card, which is full....completely maxed out).  This is Little Dude singing the Thomas Song...here's the lyrics for those of you not up on your 'Thomas and Friends'.  :)
They're 2 they're 4 they're 6 they're 8
shunting trucks and hauling freight
red and green and brown and blue
they're the really useful crew!
All with different roles to play
'round Tidmouth Sheds or far away
Down the hills and round the bends
Thomas and his friends

Thomas-he's the cheeky one
James is vain but lots of fun
Percy pulls the mail on time
Gordon thunders down the line
Emily really knows her stuff
Henry toots and huffs and puffs
Edward wants to help and share
Toby, well let's say he's square
Chorus again

Here's Munchkin singing one of his favourite songs "Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam"
Jesus wants me for a sunbeam (finger pop) to shine for him each day
In every way try to please him at home, at school, at play
a sunbeam, a sunbeam, Jesus wants me for a sunbeam.
A sunbeam, a sunbeam, I'll be a sunbeam for him.

And here's one more of Little Dude trying to walk in his new (for him) skates.

And here's some more Sprout...also known as SMS.  (some more sprout...get it??  heehee)

 He is the chairman of our Sunshine committee that's for sure.  So quick to smile and eager to laugh.  I'm so excited to see the little guy he's becoming.