Walker

Walker was gone to Aunt April's house and came back with this creation. " I make Mommy happy?" and when I told him he was getting to go to Hastings Garden for playgroup he said " you make me happy too, mommy" Other "Walker-isms"..."What are you doing , mommy?" "I'm playing with your hair" "It's not toy hair-it's my hair" Asking me/paul/nana/april/poppa "What are you doin?" even though it's evident what we are doing...eating, driving a car ...so now we say "i'm flying an airplane, eating worms, shopping for groceries" and he'll grin and say "i'm playing in the dirt" and this goes back and forth either at the table while we are eating or driving. He is always asking "What are you doing?" and "Are you happy?"...over and over so we started asking him the same and his response is "Stop bothering me" or "Are you messin' with me?" Mother's Day was nice...sweet home made cards from all the kids , clean house , and time to shop.

End of the Year Activites

Wow~ we have been slammed with end of the year activites. I had alot of school volunteering projects to finish. I was able to do both publishing book/parties for Coleman and Olivia's class. It is a "big deal" I have found out for the kids/parents/memories but no one likes to sign up to do the work so since I have 4 kids the odds were I needed to figure out how to do publishing. Nikki (Jack's mom) helped calm me down when the first few (our boys ) books had the pages falling out. I didn't want people to ask "Who in the heck was in charge of publishing this year? These are horrible" B/c of course, I hate to lead....but I was with women who didn't like to be in charge either so still not sure how I became in charge but it went amazingly well for both classess andpages didn't fall out. Although, I did go home and hot glue 6 books that had some loose pages. The school had bought a new binding machine and the school bought a laminator like mine b/c our front art work turned out so well using it and I heard using the iron was horrible. Both parties went well with no complaints (at least to my face ) and no major typos...but I guess they could volunteer next year- ha. Glad to have the knowledge and next year will be a breeze. Paying my dues and I appreciate my mom and I'm glad I get to be involved and do projects like this. Coleman's book was "ABC all about Me" book and Olivia was "What I Want to Be When I Grow Up"

MY BOYS

Walker

Walker got a haircut at the end of April. He did great although i made the mistake of telling him one day when he said he couldn't walk b/c his legs were hurting did he want me to cut his legs off....well it stuck with him and he is always asking if the doctor is going to cut his ear off...or cut Coleman's throat off...b/c of a sore throat so he was worried it was going to hurt to cut his hair even though I have trimmed it at home. He tells everyone "me can no like you...me like my nana"...this includes strangers, his wonderful mother, his teachers so we are working on loving more than one person and not saying things to hurt peoples feelings. He told me "whatever" this week when he couldn't find his clothes on the couch and when I showed them to him he mumbled "whatever" and I said " what did you say?" and started singing "i'm so sorry...I'm so sorry". He's a little obsessed with my mom..takes the phone out of the room to talk and wants me to stay in the other room. When she comes to visit, he asks her the whole time "you staying at my house..you not going home" and when she does leave he cries and pleads "please , don't leave me nana. I want to go with you. I love you nana" I told my mom if you didn't know him you'd think he lived in an abused home but ususally 30 min. later he is ok and I'm his #1 as along as Nana isn't there...but she is always there in our discussions and only mentions her 30x a day..but i'm glad he loves her that much and that she is able to put up with his obsession. Coleman was like this but they lived in AR so she kept him for 2 weeks and he didnt' want to come home when he was around 3 so no telling how bad it would be if she had lived in GA when he was little. Olivia was always a mommy's girl..although she loved nana/poppa's she was noton the obsession level.