Spaghetti Dinner

Sweet little Conor tried Spaghetti for the first time and he LOVED it. He was so funny.

He was literally slamming as much into his mouth as he could. I love it!

I could literally eat this child up!

Saint Henry Pre-K- First Half

Patrick has wrapped up his first two quarters at Saint Henry's. He did great and really likes Saint Henry's.  I'll admit that it has taken him a little longer than I thought it would to consistently talk about his new friends vs. his friends from daycare. But he is now starting to talk about all of his new school friends and has such a blast with them!

Patrick goes Monday, Wednesday and Friday to school from 7:55am to 2:25pm. His teachers are Mrs. Azkler and Mrs. Sizemore. They are so wonderful and Patrick just ADORES them!

School Picture Pre-K 2015/2016 School Year

I don't get daily pictures like I did when he was at daycare, but they do send home these precious books so the parents can see all of the children and get to know them!

This was the first book that they sent home of the children with the parent who brought them to school on the first day. So precious!

Afterwards we headed to Dalts to celebrate his first day at school!

We also celebrated with a trip to the candy store after his first week of school!

His artwork was hung in the hallway the first week. His is the one on the left

And another book to learn who our new friends are at SHS

 

They also sent home a book about each of the parent's occupations from the child's perspective. The other parents thought that Patrick's response about Michael was pretty funny. I received numerous comments on his response :)  Clearly we need to work on the definition of accounting and counting other people's money!

The third book was about how each child is special in the eyes of God

Patrick clearly inherited my drawing (or lack thereof) talents

Another book about his family

This is difficult to read, but the highlights from this are that Patrick "likes that Peyton does whatever he says" and he wants to be a firefighter when he grows up.

And another cute book from his teachers

And a thankful book

Patrick also had a Halloween party and I was able to volunteer, which was so much fun

And a Christmas party. Unfortunately I only took one picture at his Christmas party since I had the two little boys with me as well. 

It was a great first half of the year! I am so excited to see how much he progresses in the second half of the year!

The Zoo

For Christmas we received annual passes from Michael's grandmother. The weather was perfect for a day at the zoo, so we all ventured out!

The boys had a blast

Love this picture of the group (minus Michael the photographer)

These two had fun on the playground while the big boys ran around

My littlest buddy

So cute in their matching coats

The big boys!

These two...

They loved petting the kangaroos

This kangaroo was definitely our favorite. So cute!!

Christmas 2015

Christmas is finally here! Conor and I were too excited to sleep much so we were up pretty early. However, the big boys had so much excitement the last few days that they slept in until we woke them up at 8am. They have NEVER slept that late! 

Sweet little Conor was ready for them to wake up!

A little video of the boys seeing their presents for the first time

Unfortunately it was storming pretty badly on Christmas, so we couldn't try out the trampoline that day. I think Patrick didn't realize that the trampoline was staying at our house for good!

After this video, Patrick looked at me and said "Mom, Santa didn't bring me exactly what I asked for, but he brought me presents that are SO. MUCH. COOLER." I'm glad Santa took a chance and decided to stray from the list a little :)

Here is Patrick's Christmas List:

And Peyton's:

Conor exploring his present

Peyton's favorite toy was flying dusty and the boys both had so much fun playing with it.

So excited about all of his toys!

The hot wheels ultimate car garage was definitely Patrick's favorite toy this Christmas

And a little video of them with the marble run. They love it!

After a couple hours of exploring their new toys at home, we headed for breakfast at Nana and Grumps house. 

Attempt #1 at a family picture

And #2

The 5 little cousins. Aren't they just adorable in their PJ's?

It was tough to get them all to sit there and smile, but I think they did pretty well

And my 3 little precious boys. Could not love them more!

This little guy's first Christmas. He loved every minute of it! The chaos doesn't phase him one bit! 

Present time!

Waiting on their big presents from Nana and Grumps

Matching big wheels for the three big boys

A little Christmas movie relaxing time

Nana and her 5 grandsons

We had planned to go home and take naps after Nana and Grumps house in the morning. But, the boys were so wound up that we headed to Big and Allie's to see what Santa brought for them.

Their favorite activity at Big and Allies is throwing tennis balls down the stairs into a bucket or some other contraption that Big has come up with. They think it is amazing that Big lets them throw balls down the stairs. haha!

Little boys have so much energy!

After all of the activities, we came home and Conor took a late nap on the couch. The boys played happily with all of their new toys. 

It was a wonderful Christmas surrounded by lots of family!