Monster Trucks!!

Well last weekend Riley got to see the Monster Truck show with Daddy!  He had so much fun!!  Total Sugar-rush between the cotton candy and snowcone!  He said his favorite monster truck was the Dinosaur that ate the car!  But I think he liked the Batman one too!  He must have had fun because he wore his "earpluggers" for the next two days straight!  (we had to ban them around here because listening became a major issue!)  Here's some pictures Daddy took:

Then came Valentine's Day.  Like I said we aren't much for Valentine's people, but I did make a cake.  And it was a WHOPPER of a cake!!  Hahaha!!  Another Pinterest idea.  You make a chocolate cake, cover it in chocolate icing, and then cover it in Whoppers!  Yes, it is VERY SWEET!!!  And just so you know it took 4 boxes of whoppers to cover the cake! 

I also did some presents this year, mostly because I've been wanting to do this idea (again from pinterest!!) and I thought this was a perfect opportunity.  It's a picture frame that becomes a dry erase board.  The glass is the dry erase board.  But behind the glass I printed onto scrapbook paper "I Love You Because . . ." then I can write on the glass the reason that I love them!  I like that it's a dry erase so that I can change it as often as I want, and for Cam he can write back to me.  I made three of them, and plan on hanging one in each of the boys rooms and our bedroom. 

Also on Valentine's day we started swim lessons again.  This year Riley and Jayce's are back to back.  Riley's is first and then Jayce's is 10 minutes after his finishes.  I like this way better because then I can watch Riley and see how he's doing (and pick up tips for this summer in the pool).  The only downside is then Riley has to sit and watch while I'm in the water with Jayce.  Thankfully, this year Riley's Teacher is also teaching Jayce's class, so he allows Riley to sit on the steps in the therapy pool where we are.  This helps to keep him happy that he's not sitting on the benches freezing for a half-hour!!  Riley's doing really good in his class - still not a big fan of putting his head in the water, but he's getting better.  Jayce is a little fish though!!  He loves it!  Each day he can't wait to get in the water, and then when he does he has no problem sticking his chin in or floating around the pool.  He loves it!  I wish I would've started this early with Riley, he might be better, but oh well - too late now! 

Jayce is doing much more than enjoying his Swim lessons though!  He's growing up so quickly!!  Running is one!  He's not as quick as brother, but he's not far behind and getting faster everyday!  Talking, most of it all sounds the same but other than the typical mama, dada, baba, he now says thank you, uh-oh, peek-a-boo, and all done.  He's also signing too, he's got More down pat, and we're working on all done (he's got it sometimes) and milk.  He loves giving high fives, and getting more consistent in waving bye-bye.  He also is starting to get tall enough to climb on the couch and bonk his head on the dining room table when he walks under it!  He has become quite the little thief too!  Riley's usually really good at remembering where he puts things (even months later he can go right to it if you ask him for something), but lately it's getting harder and harder to find things that go missing.  And ususally Jayce is the culprit!!!  In the last week 2 sets of Cameron's keys have gone missing, luckily we found them eventually.  However, Saturday Cameron's wedding band also went missing.  Riley admitted to being the one to take it from the bathroom counter (where Cam puts it during the week since he can't wear it at work) and play with it behind our bed (hiding because he knows he's not supposed to play with it).  But he swears he left it on the floor when he was done, although it's nowhere to be seen now.  Cam and I think one of two things could have happened 1. Jayce found it and walked off hiding it somewhere.  2. Riley flushed it down the toilet (Cam found him standing in front of the toilet staring at it saying he was looking for something but wouldn't say what).  So either Riley's learning to lie when he's in trouble, or Jayce is getting better at hiding things!!  We have turned the house upside down looking for that ring, but we know as soon as we go out and get another one it will turn up!! 

Well, not much else going on here.  We have three more weeks of swim lessons.  And we FINALLY get to resume our Skype dates with Grandma Wilson this week!!! YAY!!!  See you Friday Grandma!!!  Daddy's going on a business trip next month to Jacksonville, so Mommy will have a week of the boys all to herself (I'm still trying to decide if that's a good or bad thing).  Oh - I almost forgot!!!  One more REALLY BIG thing happening this week!!!  Riley Registers for KINDERGARTEN!!!!  We go Thursday night to register him.  He doesn't seem overly enthused, but that's probably because he doesn't really know whats going on.  I think we're going to stick with just half-day kindergarten.  He's going to be in school for the next 13 years or more, why not ease into it!  And he's smart enough I think he'll do fine!!  I'm still trying to decide about am or pm though.  Mostly because of my MOPS schedule.  Am Kindergarten gets out at 11:05, but MOPS doesn't end until 11:30, add in the 25 minute drive and I'd have to leave MOPS nearly an hour early to pick him up.  Whereas, to drop him off for PM at 11:55 is more feasible.  But then again it's only 2 days a month so I bet I could find someone to pick him up and keep him for an hour or so until I get back from MOPS (Lacey if you're reading this I'm talking about you!  hehehe)  We'll see.  I'm not really set on either one.  And since he doesn't nap anymore I don't think it will affect him too much either!  So I'll update on that when I know more, probably not until next month.  All is going good here!!  Hope everyone is having a good week so far!  See you all later!