Early Fall - 2011

Round two - Blogger is acting up again! Hopefully the picture show will post this time.

Late Summer/Early Fall Picture Show

Turtles
Picnics
Pirates
Kindergarten
Preschool
Wrightsville (Labor Day)
Dinner over the fire (oysters & spaghettios - ha!)
Football in Chapel Hill
Playdate with one of Devlyn's besties, Luke
Mommy in the rain at Fleet Foxes
Superheros dining

OMG!

Banks and old college buddy posted this on Facebook today. Make sure you watch until 1/2 way through when his buddy has to jump out of the way! Good God!

Diary of a Kindergartener

So yesterday, as we're outside playing after supper, Devlyn offers up that two girls in his class say they're his girlfriend and he doesn't like it.  And he launches right into it just like that.  No intro, no warning, no additional information...just a twitterpated stupid grin on his face and a 1/2 embarassed, ridiculous stance to match.  Oh, and some silly noises to go along with it.
I managed to drag a few more details out of him - that they blow him kisses on the playground and which two girls it was.  It was hilarious and shocking all at once.  A) I was NOT expecting this in kindergarten and B) it was hysterical to watch him work through all the different things he was feeling about it.  He was a little mad about it.  He was trying to temper his excitement about telling me while also exhibiting a healthy dose of embarassment mixed with a side of dopey lovestruck.  All in all, after I got over the loss of innocence quality to it - it became my new favorite parental moment.

Tonight, Devlyn was in the bathroom while I was working in the kitchen.  He peered out at me with a similar look and "can you believe this" hand gestures and simply said, "Again with the girlfriend stuff."  That he boils something down like that into five words, like an older, sarcastic, witty kid might, just cracks me up.  He is so funny and he's growing up so fast.....unbelievable. 

Beebsie Weebsie Puddin' & Peebsie Goes to School

Doesn't that title just say it all?  Blake did well for his first day at Soapstone today.  He was a Stage 5 clinger all morning but didn't even cry when Miss Debbie pryed him off of me at drop off.  When I arrived to pick him up, Miss Ann was holding him and both teachers said he had a good day but that he got very upset when the first Mommy came and picked up one of his classmates.  Seeing his face full of grief stricken angst when he spotted me coming to get him just about killed me : (  Miss Ann handed him over, he gripped tight, buried his face in my shoulder and sobbed - no doubt letting it all out!  Poor little weebsie - this is  a HUGE transition for him.  Knowing him, though, we'll have to drag him out of there by next week!  I have no idea what kind of response we'll get when it's time to go back on Friday! 

So Glad to Hear This!

As you can imagine, I'm hyper-aware of any prescription medications that come near anyone in my family these days, especially my children.  We put off using steroid creams for as long as we could with Devlyn for his eczema but this past Spring - it became necessary.  So glad to see the results of this study!  We haven't had to use the steroid creams in a few months but at least I'll feel better about it if we need to use them again in the future.


http://www.wral.com/lifestyles/healthteam/story/9494667/

2011 Lake Vacay

As usual, we took a LOT of pics. I added lots of comments in the slideshow. Enjoy - we sure did : )