Let’s see…At the beginning of the month at Keaton’s preschool, they had Muffins with Mom. We got to spend part of the morning eating breakfast together, listening to songs they had worked on and then go to chapel together. The kids had worked super hard on a number of gifts, and the staff did an awesome job putting together a delicious spread!
The school year is almost over! Last Friday, the kids had a Splash Party and played the morning away getting soaked! You *should* be able to click here to see the pictures 
(I hate uploading pictures onto wordpress….not an easy task! And I’m too tired!)
Tired because Norovirus invaded our home about 2 weeks ago. It slowly made its way through Benjamin…and then Caedmon…and then a “rapid” pass through me, Keaton and now Zach. I’m at my wits end hearing about sore tummies…and the end result (gross….sorry)!
Mother’s Day came and went without much fanfare (or smiles!) 
And what are those crazy boys up to?
Caedmon – talking up a storm. He’s still more of a jabberer, but the big boys like to play, “Caedmon, can you say….” and make him try to say words. C will either try, or scream, “NO”. He’s all over the place and into everything. The big boys weren’t too terribly destructive and over all listened well when I asked them to leave something alone. Caedmon. Not so much.
Benjamin – Just trying to keep up with Keaton. Whatever Keaton is doing, Benjamin has to try to. He’s given up on eating everything we give him (That was a nice 3.5 year run!) He’s getting pickier by the day! (he will still try random things though)
Keaton – I guess the biggest news here is that we (long story short) decided to go ahead with Kindergarten for “this fall.” I quote this fall because we will be in year round school, and that starts in July (my baby goes to Kindergarten in like 45 days….whhhhhhhat?????!!!!)
We’re getting ready to start swim lessons with Keaton and soccer for both, Keaton and Benjamin. The next few weeks will fly by!
Our immediate focus, Keaton’s last day of preschool on Wednesday!
Ok, let’s see…I owe an update from Keaton’s 5th Birthday party…You should be able to click here and see all the pictures, but we did a Cat in the Hat theme and he loved it.
We had Thing 1 and Thing 2 cupcakes – we used red velvet cake mix, red foil liners, vanilla icing and blue cotton candy. A friend printed “Thing 1″ and “Thing 2″ up for me and I used a paper punch to get perfect circles and then I used a black sharpie to outline the circles (to give a layered feel).
A close up of the tags…
Zach slaved over the Cat in the Hat cups (we couldn’t find white electrical tape, which is what I envisioned, so Zach cut strips of white duct tape in half and stuck them on cups. No matter if your cups are circular or square, this will be a battle to the end, so be prepared)
Grandma acquired some paper Cat in the Hat hats for the kids and it was a huge hit!
I made this super fun wreath (we intend to use it for all birthday celebrations from here on out!) a 12″ straw wreath, a TON of balloons and a ton of floral pins (and about 45 mins!)
We also strung a balloon banner this time – Zach blew up the balloons and then threaded them and hung! Such a fun touch – they’re still up, almost a month later!
So there’s the party!
I will update with Keaton’s party soon, but, I had to “jot this down”…
I picked Keaton up from preschool today and he told me that a classmates mom came to read (a mom/former student comes to read every Wednesday) and she read “Fire Bear”. I asked what the book was about and Keaton proceeded to tell me some details and then mentioned that “crayons caught on fire.”
I thought this was an odd turn of events for a children’s book, but decided to roll with the punches. So, I asked, “How did the crayons catch on fire?” (when will I learn?)
Keaton: “I don’t remember…”
Me: “Keaton, she just read the book 10 minutes ago. Were you paying attention?”
Keaton: “Yessss…”
Me: “So, how did the crayons catch fire?”
Keaton: “Well, maybe…”
Me: “Honey…not ‘maybe’… I want to know what happened in the book…”
Keaton: “Well, I think that…”
Me: (Confession, I was getting very upset at this point…just TELL me how the crayons caught on fire…) “Keaton….”
Keaton takes a deep breath. “A dog pooped everywhere and well…that made the crayons catch on fire…”
Me: “Keaton. I REALLY don’t think that is what happened….”
Keaton: “I KNEW you wouldn’t believe me.”
So…if anyone has Fire Bear, I would totally appreciate knowing IF crayons caught on fire and HOW
We had Keaton’s 5 year well check yesterday afternoon. I don’t remember exactly what he weighed, but it was less than when he was sick a couple months ago…but he’d grown almost a full inch since then Our pedi said that he’s just going to keep stretching out and, “I’ve seen his daddy…he’s going to look like that until he’s 25…” I laughed and said, “…or 31.”
I got a little concerned during his vision test, as he couldn’t read some of the smaller letters on line 4 (I was having a hard time WITH my glasses, haha) but, our pedi informed me that your vision doesn’t hit 20/20 until age 6-8, so his missing a few letters (and the letters that they were) was not a concern. However, since poor vision runs in the family, we should consider getting his vision checked in the next year before he begins Kindergarten.
He passed his hearing test (another concern, as we prepare for his Speech Evaluation on Monday). But his hearing is perfect (no excuses when he “doesn’t hear me” haha!)
He checked out perfect and wow’d our pedi with his smarts (she said he has the “intellect of a 7 year old”…yikes! Or as Zach would say, “Our kid’s aren’t stupid…”) She was trying to trick him with various questions and he was (is) sharp as a tack and would answer or correct her faster than she could think.
Her biggest kick out of him: He had an “R” stamped on his hand (each week at preschool they get the letter of the week stamped on their right hand, so they are always seeing the letter, but also so they remember which hand to place over their heart during the pledge). So she asked about the “R” and if Keaton knew any words that started with that letter. Before she could finish her sentence, he spouted off, “Red, Rattlesnake, Robin, Robot, Rooster, Racket, Run, Race, Rocket…” She was laughing so hard – I guess she didn’t expect a list
He had to “endure” a finger prick to check his iron (it was low at his 4 year appt, so I agreed to have it re-checked) – they’ll call us if anything is abnormal.
And that was that. (I make it sound so calm and quick, when it was anything but, haha) But, we “celebrated” with dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant
Yes! All in the same day! Crazy right?
Well, not as crazy as the Easter Sunday he was born
We started off the morning worshiping with our amazing church {Croupy baby in tow!}
Then we headed to Red Robin to celebrate the big birthday boy!
We came home, put Caedmon down for a nap, Skyped with papa & grandma, opened some gifts and stayed outside til we were crispy! (you can click HERE to see the mini-celebration)
After an early dinner, we met some friends at a local ice cream place for dessert and more celebrating!
So much to be thankful for yesterday!
