Three-O

Yesterday was Sean's birthday and I am happy (maybe a little too happy) to say that he is now in his 30's!!!

We took it easy, unfortunately his birthday gets lost in with the kids birthdays for the most part every year (and he loves it because as he says "It's like Christmas in September"). This year we had dinner on the beach, Sean surfed (his favorite thing to do), the kids and I played in the sand and water, and we sand him happy birthday over a plate of frosted brownies!

Josh's Top 10

In no particular order.....

1. Mommy! Just like his brother, Josh loves me!

2. Zach! They're BFFs and when they're not I think they enjoy fighting with each other because they do it so often!

3. Grandma and Grandpa! Josh loves when they come and visit. Sleeping with Grandma is his favorite!

4. School! Josh loves school, his teacher Mrs. Francis, and his best friend Dylan.

5. Hot Lunch! All of the kids in his kindergarten class are in love with getting hot lunch. He looks forward to Fridays when he gets to buy hot lunch!

6. Playing in the neighborhood! Josh has so much fun playing with the neighborhood kids. We live on a street with too many boys to count and there is always someone outside to play with!

7. Being like Daddy! Since his preschool graduation, Josh loves to be like daddy. He tries to wear his hair like daddy's and dresses like him. I often hear "I want to wear this so I look like daddy."

8. Counting! Josh has learned so much in school, that he brings it home with him and even likes to quiz us. He lets me know daily that there are 6 in our family, but when grandma and grandpa come over there are 8!

9. Swinging! We have a playground in our backyard and Josh learned to swing over the summer. He loves that he can do it all by himself. He won't even let me give him a little push!

10. Cartoons! Josh loves to watch TV, or movies rather. This is another thing he loves doing with grandma. He loves Madagascar, Ice Age, Bolt, or just about any cartoon movie. Even though he loves to watch movies, we really try to limit him in his TV time.

Disneyland

Yesterday we went to Disneyland for Faith, Josh, and Zach's birthdays. We went on Faith and Josh's actual birthday since they get in free on their birthdays. We had a great time. Zach loved seeing Mickey Mouse and riding on the rockets! I think Faith just loved missing school for the day! And Josh loved Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. It was Josh's first roller coaster and he had the biggest smile throughout the entire ride. And he got to ride twice because he went with me and we did a child switch so he could go with daddy also!

Sean's parents went with us and I don't know how we would have done it without them. It's nice having one adult per child! Although things still got crazy, like when Josh punched Pluto in the nose and when Ben tried to eat Mickey's nose!

It was so much fun seeing the joy on my children's faces. We will have to go back soon! And we got a great deal on our tickets from Ebay! Maybe when Ben is older I can talk Sean into a family season pass!

Let's Party!!

This morning we had Josh and Zach's birthday party. Josh invited his whole kindergarten class (although it was mostly the boys in the class that came), we invited our neighbors, and we invited family.

We had a giant jumper for the kids, a pinata filled with candy, and a doughnut eating contest. The kids and adults had a blast. I think my favorite part was the doughnut eating contest. it was so much fun to watch the kids try to eat a mini doughnut hanging on a string. I think it was torture for the kids, but fun for the adults to watch!

And as always, we ended up with way too many toys. Guess that's why we have 2 playrooms!

Zach's Top 10

1. Mommy (of course I'm his #1, haha daddy!) But, I'll put daddy in his #1 spot as well, because he does love to do things with both of us. Zach is our little helper. When Josh is at school he sticks to me like glue and helps me with everything, whether I want him to or not! (These are in no particular order, I just had to put myself first!)

2. The Vacuum! I almost put this as his #1, because he is obsessed. He has to vacuum daily, drags his toy vacuum with him all over the house, even bogarts the toy vacuum in his Sunday school class, and makes us go down the vacuum aisle every time we go to the store! The last one works to my advantage when I tell him he can only go down the vacuum aisle if he behaves!

3. Josh! What can I say, they're BFF's.

4. Sugar or anything sweet! Zach has such a sweet tooth (he must take after his mommy!) He loves chocolate, soda, candy, cupcakes, and anything else sweet. Really, Zach will eat anything I give him, but some how he know when there is something in the house with sugar. He definitely gets his share of treats, but not on a daily basis.

5. Walking Daddy out! Whenever daddy or anyone else leaves the house, Zach begs to walk them out. And by walking them out, we have to wait until they drive out of site before we can go back inside. Zach loves walking daddy out in the mornings and after lunch. When he knows it's time for daddy to leave, Zach gets so excited and says "I want to walk daddy out!" or sometimes when we are in the middle of something (like putting his shoes on so he can go outside) and he thinks daddy will leave before he gets the chance to walk him out, Zach screams and demands to walk him out.

6. Showers! Anytime Zach hears that Daddy or I am going to take a shower, his clothes come off and naked Zach goes running to the shower.

7. Bare feet! What can I say, the boy hates shoes! He takes his shoes off the second he goes inside the house, in car rides longer that 5 minutes, when he goes to the park, and on walks in the stroller.

8. Grandma and Grandpa! He loves his grandparents and asks almost everyday if they are coming over.

9. The phone! When it rings, he races to answer it. If someone answers it first, he usually has a meltdown.

10. Trucks! He loves to push them around inside and outside, fill them with small toys, and even sit/ride on them!

Labor Day Weekend

For the long weekend we went up to visit Grandma and Grandpa Kabo at their house. Josh and Zach absolutely love going to their house...they love doing anything with grandma and grandpa!

On Sunday, we went out on the lake. Sean and Faith went wake boarding and we went tubing. Josh and Zach really enjoyed being on the boat. It's the coolest thing to them. Faith thought it was the coolest thing when she got to drive the boat! I'm not sure what Ben thought, but he sure did look cute in his life vest!

After the lake, we swam in their pool and just enjoyed ourselves for the rest of the weekend!

High School, OMG!

Oh my gosh, not only do we have a Kindergartner, but a Freshman as well! Faith enjoyed her first day of school! She managed to find her way around the school. The thing she hated most was having to wear her cheer uniform on her first day of school. In fact she has been told that she has to wear it on Thursday and possibly Friday as well, so 3 of the 4 days in her first week of school. Oh the drama of being a freshman cheerleader!

Faith is happy about her classes and they are as follows...

1st Period-Geometry

2nd Period-Freshman PE

3rd Period-Drama

4th Period-Biology

5th Period-English

6th Period-Spanish 1

Faith has friends in all of her classes and the boy she likes is in her 5th period English class. She said that she got a lot of funny looks because of her cheer uniform. She got some glares from other girls. Why are girls so mean? I told her that the girls stare because they are jealous and the boys stare because she is a cute cheerleader!

I find that the older she gets the more I find myself praying for her! I pray that this year will be a good one. One where she makes strong friendships, continues to walk with the Lord, keeps up with her studies, and doesn't turn all my hair gray!