Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten reasons/excuses for my lack of blogging:

1.  I have three boys four and under.  

2.  I may be a teacher, but I still work in the summer. 

3.  I have been spending lots of quality time with my three boys four and under doing fun things.

4.  My camera sucks, and it won't let me upload any pictures. Blog posts without pictures=boring!

5.  My computer died. 

6.  I'm busy job hunting.  

7. It's nice outside (sometimes)

8.  I like to shop. 

9. I've been busy visiting all of the new babies my friends and family are having lately.

10.  I have three boys four and under. 

I don't really have an excuse

You would think that since I'm working just three days a week this summer, that I'd have lots of time to blog.  I'm still trying to figure out where the time is going.  We have been really busy, even with me working part-time. 

I've been making some serious Target/Cash Wise/Coborn's runs and doing some serious couponing to save some moolah. 

There was the crazy week where Kayden had swimming lessons every night, and then there has been camping and packing for camping and unpacking from camping. 

The weather around here hasn't been real spectacular.  Summer should be hot, but it has been just, eh.  I'm ready for warm weather, sunshine, swimming pools, splash pads, sprinklers, water guns, you know, the stuff you're supposed to do with your kids when you are a teacher and you have summers off.  

Plans for the rest of this week include, a trip to the Lemonade Fair with my cousin, a trip to the zoo with Leah and the girls, and Susan and Blake, and then another camping trip this weekend, including a trip to the movie theatre to see Cars 2!

Our little "big" boy!

Our "baby" is changing so much every day!  He is saying lots of words, and picking up new ones daily.  He says things like, "mama", "bye bye"(including a little backward wave), "Maya", "Uh oh!", and I know there are lots more, but it's almost 10:00 p.m. and I don't think straight after 9:00.  Sorry.  

He is not walking yet, and has really had little interest in doing so either.  BUT, man, can he climb!  I must have pulled him off the top of the picnic table at least 100 times this weekend!

Just tonight, he found it hilarious to stand next to our end table, and then let go, and giggle at himself standing alone until he fell on his butt.  Then, he'd get up and do it again.  So, maybe walking isn't too far away. I was kind of starting to wonder if I should be concerned about his ears.  Kayden didn't walk until he was 15 months old, but he walked the day after he had tubes put in.  His balance was all messed up because of his ears. Tyson already has tubes, but they haven't been functioning as well as they should, so who knows. 

This new skill reminds me that I need to make sure I get my video camera out soon and get some footage of him scooting on his butt (his preferred method of travel) before he doesn't do it anymore!

'Tis the Season

We had our first real camping adventure of the summer this weekend.  We had our camper out one other time (Memorial Day weekend), but we just went to Mike's aunt and uncle's cabin, and basically just used our camper for "sleeping".  I put this in quotes because there really wasn't a whole lot of sleeping going on with Tyson and I that weekend. 

So, back to this weekend.  

We didn't go far.   Just to a little campground about 25 miles from our house. The weather was, eh, but not terrible. The boys enjoyed lots of outside time, and since they were the only kids there, they weren't lacking attention by any means.  

AND, Tyson slept all night on Friday night, and was up just once on Saturday night.  This is MAJOR progress for him in the camper.  I just hope this continues since we have quite a few weekends of camping planned for this summer, and I'm sure we'll be spending much of our fall in the camper at "The Pink House" (Eric's cabin) since Mike was drawn for a bear license this year.

Now what?

I walked out of St. Mary's School for the last time today as the fourth grade teacher. It was sort of bitter sweet.  

I didn't plan on teaching at St. Mary's forever.  I knew when I was hired, that the position wouldn't last forever.  For a few reasons (mainly financial) I was planning on spending a short time there.  But, I quickly fell in love with my job there.  I got comfortable.  They were good to me.  In the three years I was there I went on maternity leave twice. Never once did my principal complain about it.  

Even though I knew the end of my time there was coming, it was still kind of hard.  Maybe it has become difficult because I don't know what's next.  I am contracted there through August, so I will get paid until then.  I am also working 3ish days a week at Kids Company this summer, so I will be busy.  But, then what?  Will I find a full-time teaching job?  Will I go back to substitute teaching?  Will I go back to working in a childcare center?  Will I find the perfect part-time teaching job?  

At this point, I just have to have faith, and remember that everything happens for a reason.  There is a reason I'm not at St. Mary's anymore. Something will come up.  I may eventually end up back at St. Mary's.  Who knows.  

For now, I will enjoy my summer, continue my job search and say a few prayers. 

Little Fishy

Kayden had his first night of swimming lessons tonight.  It's just a half hour session for four nights.  At first, I thought a half hour wasn't very long, but it was actually perfect.  For me anyway.  Kayden, on the other hand, would have stayed in the water a lot longer.  

He did really well. He knew one of the girls in his class from his ECFE class, so there was some familiarity which is what Kayden usually needs.  He was pretty timid at first, but eventually put his head under the water, and even jumped in.  

We're looking forward to night number two tomorrow!

*Kayden also got his very first sunburn today.  It was about 95 degrees here today, and they spent lots of time outside and in the water at daycare.  Our daycare provider ALWAYS puts sunscreen on the kids (I know this because he has NEVER had sunburn before).  He said she did put it on him, but somehow he ended up with some pretty red shoulders and a red chest.  He hasn't complained about it at all, so hopefully it isn't painful.  I think that if I wouldn't have told him about it, he would have never even known it was there. 

Poor little guy....

Last Wednesday, Tyson had a fever in the afternoon.  I gave him Tylenol, and it came down.  This became the pattern every four to six hours for the next day and a half.  

We decided Thursday night that I would take him to the clinic Friday morning.  We were planning on heading out of town for Memorial Day weekend, and I wanted to make sure his ears were ok before we drove all the way up there to spend the weekend in the camper. 

So, turns out, he had an ear infection, and most likely strep.  So, on anti-biotics he went.  This of course leads to some nights of not-enough-sleep.  I am pretty sure he is getting teeth,  and that is what is causing the ear infection.  He tends to get the infections when he is teething.  So, hopefully the amoxicillan will take care of it, and this teething thing will pass soon!