The Connell Chronicles: A new school boy is born :)

Well, the first day of school went how I was so afraid it would.. HUGE TEARS WHEN PULLING IN, ONE BY ONE THEY WELLED UP AS HE SOFTLY SAID.. NOOOOO… NOOOOO… WITH THE BIGGEST POUTY LIP EVER. Ugh. So sad. He started real full time school on 9/4/12, all day, Monday through Friday… such a big boy. He is going to a school that a dear friend of mine has entrusted her sweet babies too since they were just wee sweet peas. I love everything about the school and all that they do, the teachers, the facilities, and all of their offerings are some of the best that I feel we can offer our little man. BUT…. The big raindrop tears and soft nooooo about had me in tears in the parking lot. Luckily my friends husband pulled up beside me to drop off the sweet pea so I dried it up real quick :). I called mid morning and they said he was doing great at circle time (sitting on a carpet in a circle with his classmates and teacher for activity time) and did great eating his snack and having his milk. Most importantly he was his normal self saying “Hi” and “Bye” to all that come and go across his path :). Then little jewel came into my inbox and my heart melted and the day that started so sad became rainbows and unicorns as it came closer to a close :).

Well until tomorrow morning anyways :).

I have taken on a new challenge of keeping notes on my phone for the funny, or not so funny things that my little does! Um, that is a hard thing to do these days!! That kiddo is throwing at him right and left!! So, aaahhheeemmm (let me clear my throat) heeeeeereeee weeeeee gooooo!

MMYYYY PPPPRREEECCCIIIOOOOUUUSSS (creepy frog on the Hobbit). I felt like I could just eat him up one morning when Brad was taking him on a father son date to Lowe’s, this little heart throb of mine comes up to me as I am laying in bed with my eyes closed, plants a kiss on me, and then runs off without saying a word to me!! COULD YOU NOT JUST DIE! Then I hear him yelling (most of the time that is our only volume :)) to Brad- MOMMA A KIT (KISS, REMEMBER?? :)), MOMMA A KIT! Uhhhh, just take that one and put it in your memory bank. Love it!

Every once in a while when NO, is not the first word to fall out of his mouth (man it comes at a steady pace now!!), I will tell him something, either informative or directive and he will say, OK MOMMA… LIKE WHATEVER KEEP ON TALKIN’ :). I would like to think that it is him being respectful and minding, but yeah, then I wake up and we aren’t there yet :), ONNEEEEE DAAYYY!

So we call Brady “Buddy” A LOT….. so this weekend Brad was hanging some stuff for me and had a tape measure that Brady so dearly was in need of, he says, DADDY’S BUDDY HAVE THAT?? HAHAHAHA! I thought we were going to fall out of our chairs!! SOOO FUNNY!!

A sign that you need to consume less wine… keep in mind that I love wine. Most, OK all, evenings I have a glass of wine to just chill the heck out and enjoy the paradise between our 4 walls of my boys and I. I LOVE IT, however, I think I should stop loving on it so much. WHY YOU ASK? So Brad and I take shifts on the weekends, each of us gets to sleep in one day and the other one tries to keep our “little” quiet (yeah good luck, although I think Brad would tell you that I do a MUCH better job than he does ;)) so that the other can sleep in a little bit. Well, with there being the possibility of 3 sleep in days over this Labor Day Holiday weekend, Momma lucked out and got the 2 out of 3. Well let’s just say that I gotta keep my eyes shut for a little longer then normal :), I am such a light sleeper, IT STINKS! So my fellas could finally not keep from barging in any longer and here they came (OK I yelled for Brady :) there was no more shut eye for me). So Brad did not know that I had already been up with Brady at 430 am to give him some juice (shake your head all you want hahahaha, when it is between getting up at 430 to give him a cup of juice and him sleeping until 730, or getting up at 430 and telling him to go back to sleep and him getting back up at 6, HERE HONEY, HERE IS A WHOLE GALLON OF JUICE :). Pickin’ my battles, as good or bad as I may be :). Annnnyways, so I tell Brady to tell Brad that I had already been up with Brady at 430 while he was lovingly picking on me about getting to “sleep in”. So I told Brady, “Tell Daddy that momma gave you juice at 430”. All of a sudden Brady goes running out of the room, and then returns with an empty wine glass that was on the counter from the night before! Why you ask, because if he ever tries to get some I tell him no and that that is “Momma’s Juice”! HAHA, So in the sentence, Tell Daddy that MOMMA gave you JUICE at 430, all he heard was Momma’s Juice. Then he went and grabbed Brad a Monster from the fridge, DADA JUICE. Soooo funny he is… ANYWAYS, I NEED TO FIND THAT WAGON TO JUMP ON!!

ISSSSSS GOOOOOOOOOOD! He is so freaking charismatic!! He will take a drink of something, very often a baby spoon with a dab of coffee on the tip and stop and look at you and say, NNNNUUUUMMMMYYYYY IIIISSSSSS GOOOOOOOOOD! HAHAHA! So funny!

I am going to stop with all the cuteness for now and get to the proof! PICCCCTTTTUUURREEESSS!

Indians!

He has a game of "KITT (KISS)" that he loves to play with Daddy. He loves to say to Brad- "KITT!" then when Brad comes in with some puckered lips, it's wrestling time trying to escape the puckered lips :). EEEVERY NIGHT :)