Seth's 4th Birthday

I have blogged on SJ's every birthday until now.  I have a good excuse though...it was Thanksgiving, so things were a little crazy.  Couldn't be a better day to have a birthday.  So he knows his birthdate and that it was Thanksgiving, BUT he was VERY confused because his birthday party was last weekend.  He has been asking for a Buzz Birthday since the SPRING!  AND he invites/has invited every person we meet. My super friendly little guy walks up and talks to anyone and every conversation somehow always turned to "I'm going to invite you to my Buzz Birthday!"  So he had his birthday complete with Buzz decorations, pinata, balloons, and of course you can't have a Buzz Party without Buzz so we got SJ a Buzz costume to wear.  He LOVED it.  And of course loved his family party. 
So we have come so far this past year.  This time last year, Seth was easier to handle than the year before but still very difficult.  He is no longer very difficult, but he takes a lot of energy.  He is super energetic, sweet, lovable, and DETERMINED!   His personality is that which when he says "Mommy what flavor is that yogurt?" and I say "strawberry," he responds "no it's grape." Doesn't matter that I can read and read the package, he's got the right answer...must get that from his daddy the lawyer. 
Since his Birthday was on Thanksgiving this year, I need to say how thankful I am for his outgoing personality. He is 180degrees different from me.  I do not like to talk to strangers/random people, and I'm not outgoing enough to approach people even to make friends.  BUT, my son is forcing me to be better and for that I am forever grateful to him.  God gave me that child so that I would have to work on being more outgoing, that I can talk to random people, he knows...
So as I write this, I'm sitting in the dark living room with out Christmas tree lit, and I think about the month following his birth that we sat together while Daddy was at work and watched Christmas movies in the dark, and snuggled, and napped, and what great memories they were.  I say it often, but I'm so lucky and blessed with all I have and I would be just as lucky and blessed if the only thing I had was my family.  The truly mean the world to me...

Seth's first day of Pre-K3

Today is Seth's first day of School!  My big ole guy is getting too big.  I put the kids to bed alone last night and struggled saying prayers, praying for a great first day of school.  I know he loves it, he's been asking for friends to play with (poor guy) and loves to socialize AND learn!  I'm so excited too, to have a few hours each week with just Abby - to run errands, clean, and we may even take mommy and me swimming again while he's at school! 
Seth was very excited for his first day. Daddy and he went to get a big boy backpack yesterday - he calls it his camoflauge backpack (I'm not a fan of the grey, black, and blue thing), he picked it out himself.  Last night, he got out of bed once which he hasn't done in forever, because I think we got him a little too excited about the whole thing!  This morning he got up and got dressed, took pictures with Daddy before he left for work.  Unfortunately it's a court day for Daddy so he couldn't stay.  We had a good breakfast and then Mimi came over to help get everyone out the door.  Of course 15 pictures later we left!

We found his classroom, he picked his cubby out himself, gave his papers to his teacher, foudn his name on the school bus and put it in the basket.  Then he went and foudn the fishing game that he played with at his Orientation the other day.  I think it's his favorite toy already!  I asked for hugs, he gave us all hugs and we pretty much left. He ran and started playing!  Couldn't ask for a better drop off...for him.  Mommy struggled to hold the tears back for him - like I am now.  Abby was sad in the car, but is good now. We came home and she asked to go snuggle in her bed.  Couldn't ask for more!  Sounds like a perfect idea to me!  And thus begins, the next I don't know how many years of "First days of school..."http://www.facebook.com/#!/KGreer5http://www.facebook.com/#!/KGreer5

Wow, it's been a while

So I guess as the kids get older and life gets a little more crazy, I post blogs a little less. Luckily, I find I'm not the only one this is happening too. I see many of my friends haven't updated blogs in a while either so that makes me feel better:) Obviously a year has gone by so lots has happened. In July we went on our family vacation to Myrtle Beach. What a great time, but right now the age of the kids makes things a little less relaxing, but I think that may start changing this year. In November we had SJ's 3rd Birthday! Holy cow! I can't believe it's been 3 years. We have definitely gone through our rough spots but we are learning how to deal with his personality and realizing how we deal with him affects how he acts. So, we are working on how we act towards him and he is starting to learn to deal with his feelings and reactions. He's definitely a total boy! He's got a TON of energy! He's got such a personality too...and very smart might I add:) I'm a proud mommy! Seth had 2 birthdays this year. He had a party in Maryland and then we flew to Louisiana on his birthday and we had another party there with the Greer's! We had a Robot cake (thanks Aunt Step) and everything. That kid was spoiled because a few days later we celebrated christmas down there. So he got presents in Maryland, birthday presents in Lousiana, and then Christmas presents.
Christmas was in Maryland this year and I think I was just as excited as the kids. We had Snowflake the elf stay with us from Thanksgiving until Christmas and the kids were excited to see where he landed each day. Seth was super excited christmas morning when he saw Santa brought him a Rocketship! Just what he asked for! Abby was just happy with whatever. She kept telling us that she cried when she saw Santa. Hopefully she'll be happier seeing him next year.
Next week is Abby's 2nd Birthday. She is definitely all girl. She loves her dollies and dressing up. She LOVES shoes which she totally doesn't get from me, must be daddy...he loves his shoes too! Abby is totally into Peppa Pig on Nick Jr. so we are having a Peppa Birthday this year. She better realize how much Mommy loves her because the decorations are coming all the way from the UK. That will never happen again because mommy thought the price was already converted to US $ and it wasn't! Let's just say when I saw my bank account I tried to cancel the order but it was too late. So...Abby is now potty trained! Our biggest accomplishment for her this year! She is still wet at naps and in the morning so stays in diapers then, but she is in big girl panties the rest of the day! So proud of her and excited to not have to change poopie diapers anymore! HOORAY!
I think that's all for now. Better get back to my stay at home mommy work! Still loving every minute of being home during the day!