Ethan just moved to a new preschool program at a local elementary school. His favorite parts include bringing his lunchbox for the first time, recess everyday and weekly P.E., no more naptime (groan, it's in the afternoon- giving his nap the permanent boot!), and most of all...the big yellow school bus!
The morning began with our first day of school tradition.
Here was his first day at his last school almost two years ago!
And his first day at his first school, our very own Building Blocks Co-Op.
Slipped a special note into his lunch box.
He wasn't impressed, might have to do with not knowing how to read yet.
Ethan said goodbye, no problem.
Gavin was a different story! He sobbed trying to chase Ethan onto the bus!
When we waited for the bus to return a couple hours later, he remembered being mad and missing him all over again.
Every vehicle that went by without Ethan on it was another blow!
He'd watch for more...
Finally a bus came by!
And it wasn't Ethan's bus.
Here is where I put the camera down. Between Gavin consumed by missing Ethan and envying the bus ride, and Ethan coming home after missing his nap...
No one needs to see how the rest of the evening went.
As experienced today by our own December 14 babe Gavin. (TWO ALREADY?!?!)
"Ooo!! [Two!]"
Con: Most people's time, and budget, are spent already planning for Christmas.
Pro: Most people's time and budget are spent celebrating the holidays and spending time together!
Living the life of the baby brother, he tagged along for all of his big brother's events today. Sounds terrible right? But, no! It was all part of my master mommy plan! All of the day's events were also special occasions for Gavin! It was as if a perfectly orchestrated second birthday event list had fallen into my lap!
While everyone else was planning the special events, we got to just attend and give him the best day ever! (I owe you one Leslie!)
We began with Gavin's first pony ride. Yup, I said it, he rode a freaking pony for his birthday. Okay, it was part of Ethan's school's holiday celebration. But don't tell Gavin! He was THRILLED to go INSIDE his big brother's school like a big kid and ride a PONY!!
Look at those little legs!!!
You can't tell, but he was making clippity cloppity noises the whole ride, he's obsessed with horses!
Ethan didn't mind it either!
"I'm getting away with murder here! The perfect gift for him fell into my lap!"
Even his best friend Malcolm was there!
(Who is only a couple of months older, look how much longer his legs are!)
Amazing right? Well that's not all! Instead of napping after the two hour party, we then moved to another awesome event!
A bowling birthday party! In the same day Gavin got to play with a horse and balls, two of his all time favorite things!
Con: Mommy and Daddy are also consumed with holiday preparations!
See, we got Gavin a police car cozy coupe for his birthdays. He's going to LOVE it! I he runs around the house making siren noises and saying "Dada! Car! Weee ooooo weee ohhh!"
I couldn't take it out of the box and assemble it because where the heck can I hide a CAR from these boys!? Nor did I have the time! So last night, after an evening with friends (and a couple of glasses of wine later), I pull open the box ready to assemble his gift.
What the ?!?! Inside I find a Webster's size book of directions that detail the need for a hammer, a power drill, TWO adults, and THREE HOURS for assembly. I thought I'd seen a lot of pieces with last Christmas' toy, but this car took the cake.
So instead Gavin got an empty box and a promise, mommy swears she'll build this for you!
Pro: I got the toy on a Black Friday deal, and bonus win, Gavin IS only two so a box was a pretty spectacular gift!
Con: There's so many sweets all season it feels silly to bake more cakes (he already had gingerbread cookies at the first party and birthday cake at the second!).
Pro: Seeing your chocolate loving boy light up for his own cupcakes is a great excuse for more sweets in your house!
The cowlick will be Ethan's from the haircut he gave himself after finding a pair of scissors, in a LOCKED closet, while everyone else had gone to bed.
(Just a sample of his handiwork)
The greys will be mine figuring out how to preschool proof our baby proofed home.
This weekend I took the boys to a department photo studio for some quick brotherly love pics. There were so many bad pictures!! And the funniest part was which pictures they "enhanced" to put in highlight collages for me to buy!
It took this shot:
To get this one:
Took this picture:
Before we could get one of him seated:
Took this shot:
Before he'd look at the camera:
And it took these gems:
To get the WINNER!
(How cute is that though, yeah it's going on my wall!)
The photographer exclaimed, "Your boys move really fast don't they!?"
Um...yeah they do!
I know they are used to parents wanting to preserve EVERY memory of their precious snowflakes, but they looked SHOCKED I didn't want to pay an extra $80 for a cd with every image. Ha! I see these out takes every day, I went to them for a winner. Good thing I used a Groupon :)
