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Thursday, 22 October 2009

October has been a very busy month for us!!! We have a VERY busy week ahead of us, being that next week is Halloween. We have loads of parties to go to in the next week.

Anyway, school pictures came in yesterday. I am not thrilled with them, as I did not like the way they came out. They did not get him smiling, nor did they bother to fix his clothes. His collar was messed up, and his shirt is untucked in another picture. Come on, he's 3 years old. He doesn't know how to 'primp' himself up for a picture. Shame on the photographer! Boo-hoo. I'll take him to JCPenney and get it done the right way.

The top right pictures is one that I cropped from the bottom right picture. Would you pay 65 bucks for these? Me either. I scanned them for my own personal use though. We'll be making a trip soon to JCPenney for "REAL" professional portraits. I have to say, JCPenney does WAY better than this!

Here is a picture I took of him that morning on the way to school.

Monday, 28 September 2009

Cookout

There was the annual neighborhood cookout at our local park over the weekend. It's always fun going to that. They have free food, free pony and horse rides, balloons, face painting (although we skipped that part) free music, and some raffles that you pay for. Nick won a toy airplane for William.

William hung out near the band to eat his food.

Here he is 'getting down' to the music.

This is his balloon that he had made. It was a turtle. By the time we left to go home, his head was deflated.

Sunday, 06 September 2009

We went to a train show today at the local mall. They had a HUGE table with an electric train set on it. HUGE. For just a small 5 dollar donation, William could use the controller. He earned some kind of a certificate too for it.

Here he is watching the trains go round and round and round........and round.

After the show, we stopped in Old Navy, and we found a Dalmatian Dog costume. We bought it for William for Halloween, but of course he wanted to wear it on the way home. He did all the following things 'all by himself'.

Tuesday, 25 August 2009

This afternoon, William and I were playing with our "Lee Press-on Eyes" (Haha!)

Now, I've got a handsome, two brown-eyed, one black-eyed three-eyed three-year old! I dare you to say that three times!

Boy, do I love my little boy!
Oops, I just turned around and he has a whole face full of eyes now!!!

There was no school today, so we were had some kids over for play.
We went out this morning to wait for Audrey's kids to arrive.
William told me to bring my camera so we could take pictures.
Doesn't he look handsome?

We were giving these shoes to Sami, because William outgrew them. He wanted to take a good-bye photo of him holding the shoes.

While at home, the smaller children were very busily reading some books.

Gabby decided to play games on the computer instead of reading.

Thursday, 20 August 2009

Did I mention that William started preschool Monday? So far, drop offs have been very easy with him.
And then came today.
What a day!!! I should've known it would be a hard day, when my child would not leave willingly with me to go to preschool. He cried the ENTIRE way there. He had ten million excuses on why we had to come home.

"I'm sick. I'm very very sick today, Mommy!"
"I have to pee. Really bad."
"I'm very tired. I want to go sleep on my bed."
"I forgot to put the caterpillar back in her cage."

You name it, he had the excuse.

Then, upon arriving, the children were outdoors playing, and William just refused to let go of me. He was STILL crying. The only child crying. I stayed for 15 minutes trying to comfort him, but he continued to cry. I asked what I should do, because I did not want to bring him home, because that would just show him it was alright to skip school because he was nervous.

The teacher told me that I should just leave, and they would take care of him. She assured me that they comfort children when they are crying, and that a lot of children do the same thing when they first start.

So. I. Left. Feeling extremely guilty. I arrived home. I cried. I sobbed. I e-mailed my mom at work to tell her how upset I was.

Then I called the preschool to see how he was.

They told me he was much better, and enjoying a snack. I was able to relax a little after hearing this.

When I arrived to pick him up, his teacher gave me this:

She took these pictures today and made this, just to show me that he DID stop crying while I was gone, and he DID have a good time. I was so relieved!!!!!

Tomorrow, we start again!