O' Christmas Tree....

Little Man had a project sent home to do with us over the Thanksgiving holiday. Decorate the tree. And decorate his tree, he did! :)

He drew ornaments & candy canes. We made candy canes from paper & pipe cleaners. He found some stickers and ribbon too. I just love kiddie crafts, lol. :)

Speaking of Thanksgiving Holidays ours was great. It was small & peaceful and the food was oh so yummy.

Complete Chaos

Things have been totally insane around here lately with no shortage of drama and stress. Thanks to all of these crazy/ridiculous things going on I'm finding it really tough to get into the holiday spirit. That's unusual for me because this is my favorite time of year.

Probably the worst of all of these events going on is having $1200 stolen right out of our checking account. Someone, somewhere stole Hubby's card number, made a card & went on a shopping spree.

He had to file a police report, we had to take that info to the bank (like an hour & a half drive from here) & fill out all of their paperwork. We actually got our money back pretty quickly but it was still such a PIA. It was also a huge violation made worse by the fact that it wasn't like Hubby lost his card or something.

So that's why I'm MIA these days. Just been really busy.

I have to say we really figured our little police department wouldn't even bother investigating the case but they are. One of the officers came to the house today to get some more information. They have the video tape from one of these dudes shopping adventures and they have 2 other stores left to get tapes from. That would be AWESOME if they actually caught these jerks!

Peanut Loves Munchkin

Peanut just laughs & laughs with the biggest smiles EVER when he gets to go anywhere near his baby brother. It's adorable. Here he is "holding" Munchkin for the first time.

How Cute Is He?

Our Munchkin. He's sooooo cute!!! :) Sorry about the lighting but it doesn't change how cute he is. I promise. :)

My Poor Baby!!

As the teacher walked Little Man out to me today all I could think the moment I saw him was, "HOLY COW...WHAT THE CRAP HAPPENED?!" Although admittedly the language in my head was probably a little more colorful than that, lol.

Apparently

one should NEVER

turn around

into

a park bench!

My poor baby!

Yes as he was turning around to say hello to someone else he whacked the corner of a bench outside. OUCH! These pictures really don't do it justice. So puffy!

My poor baby!

So much to say...

& yet I can't say a thing. It's driving me NUTS.

I am SO angry about the situation with Hubby's company right now. I always knew when we moved from here it'd be a big move but I always thought it would be on our terms. That WE would decide it was time to move on. I hate feeling forced into this situation.

I HATE that there is no accountability.

It does appear as though the contract that keeps Hubby's facility open is going to be given to 'that other company' after all. SEVENTEEN years of making this type of thing for the military and the contract is gone in a flash with NO accountability.

Anyone with half a brain can look at the facts and walk away asking "whose pockets were lined by this decision?" Nobody will ever know because the names of those involved in the decision will be kept secret. So much for transparency.

I could go on but won't.

I'm just frustrated.

Report Card

Little Man got his first report card today. Ready for me to brag?

Seriously though, he's doing great!!!!! Teacher's comment sums it up perfectly, "Little Man (No...she didn't really call him that) is doing fine! As we knew his weakness is fine motor and speech."

The only two areas he needs improvement on are 'Speaks in complete sentences' and 'able to draw with pencil/crayon' That first one is a DUH thing. He's doing SO well but DUH on the speech. That whole pesky drawing thing is fine motor and he has struggled with fine motor for a long time.

He knows all of the colors, Numbers, shapes, body parts & upper/lower case letters that are listed as needing to know. He probably knew all of those before the school year started though, so no real surprise but it does make me happy.

One of the biggest reasons it makes me happy is because one of our biggest concerns was making sure OTHERS (like the teacher) could figure out what he does & doesn't know. So apparently that is going well.

The other concern we had was how would Little Man do socially? First of all he is the YOUNGEST in the classroom. He is in a 4yo classroom and he missed the cut off to be in the 4yo classroom by a month (even though that's where they placed him). The other disadvantage he has is that every other child in his class (there's only 8 total kids) are in daycare. That is a setting in which Little Man has never been.

However, he's doing great socially. I have no doubt that you could probably tell he's the youngest but he's doing well. Everything from following the classroom rules to controls talking to raises hand and participates appropriately (etc) got an S (Satisfactory which is the best it could be).

Yay!

Sweet Joys

I can't believe he's a month old today. Tomorrow is/was my due date. He is so precious.

While we're at it, how cute is our tank baby? hehe. He's in the 75th percentile for height and just above the 50th for weight. I can't believe he is already 18 months old. :)

Oh Heck, since we're here...When Little Man saw me taking pics of Munchkin he decided I needed to be snapping pictures of him instead. Enjoy :)

Halloween 2009

I survived yet another Halloween. Little Man was so excited to go trick or treating so that is exactly what we did.

Little Man was Thomas the Tank Engine (again).

Peanut was a tourist (cheesy AND cheap FREE!)

and Munchkin was just cute! His booties say "Baby's 1st" and "Halloween" :)

The big boys had such a great time! Fun, fun! Cuties!