A Boy and His Frogs

BOYS and TOADS...

Cooper loves toad hunting...

Summer Basketball

Braedyn's summer basketball league in Hillsborough and daddy was asst coach. He loves basketball if only he could be tall...but he's quick!

Our Friday Treats

OUR AFTER SCHOOL TREATS WE MAKE SOME STOPS AT THE ICE CREAM SHOP OR FROZEN YOUGURT SHOP ON FRIDAYS!

Cooper's Birthday celebration

A Big 8 Year Old Today. I love you! Here is your birthday brownies you requested !

Blowing out the candles! Make a Wish!

He chose Red Lotus for a family dinner on his birthday. A nice Chinese place in town.

I hope you had a wonderful day buddy!!

We love you!

Getting Back

I haven't kept up my promise to myself of keeping with this blog. 

Just when I think I will have time to sit down for myself something else comes up.

It's amazing how my days get filled up even while they are all at school.

Before I know it, it is time to pick them all up from school.

Also it is almost time for break again and they will be out for three weeks. Then I get nothing done and will enjoy the time with them. They have two weeks left.

I have been catching up on stuff around the house, fitting in time for friends I haven't been able to visit with, some runs with friends, and cleaning the house which also has been put off for way to long.

Also I have been trying to enjoy the last month or so of this nice weather by the pool by myself when I can. The days will be limited come the end of September to October. 

I also signed up for a 5K which is also in a couple weeks so I have been training for that since I haven't really ran in six months and a 5K which used to be my warm up is now my first racing goal.

It should be a fun race at PNC arena with the Carolina Hurricanes and the money goes to the Kids and Community fund they are a part of. The boys were also going to do the kids dash.

I will take this weekend to try to get up to date on this and hopefully be able to get back to it on a regular basis.

I have quite a bit to talk about and get up to speed on....

Saturday Morning Music

A little music to my ears this morning...

He has been picking up the guitars a lot more lately and practicing.

There's hope in sight. I haven't been bugging him about it so it's on his own time I guess.

He loves music and I figured one day he will start picking it up again.

And my ears aren't ringing! It actually was nice to listen to!

Rainy Day

Woke up to a rainy gray day. 

These are the days I really miss my lil man who would quietly come downstairs and crawl into bed with me and snuggle up under the covers. 

He would quietly find the TV remote and turn on the Disney Channel and curl up next to me with his stuffed Curious George. 

The other two boys would be off to school in our carpool.

He would just lay here and let me rest and I loved the snuggle time.

Today was different. I had to get up and get everyone's lunches packed, make breakfast, get them dressed, and be out the door on time. I dropped them off at school and headed back home. 

I crawled into my unmade bed and pulled up the covers. I usually don't do this because I wasn't quite ready to face that "lonliness". I had kept busy with errands or catching up with friends. I thought I could crawl back into bed this morning but it still a little depressing to me to do this alone. 

I am going to try to take a nap and clean this house today. Since my surgery I haven't been able to clean at all and I saw some cobwebs accumulating around different areas of the house. I also think the boys sheets are turning 50 shades of gray!

Usually my rainy days were filled with cartoons, snuggles, coloring, play-doh, baking and indoor crafts. 

Now it's naps and cleaning. I guess that is a good thing but I need to get used of it. Some habits are hard to break so I might just make Cooper's birthday cupcakes today!

So on the weekends when ALL of them come down and shimmy in the middle of us and snuggle with Disney channel playing in the background I will treasure it and let them do it as along as they want! 

There's a Billy Dean song that I absolutely love and rings so true to me these days!!

Let Them Be Little:

http://youtu.be/XwCZzIyCf3Q

Let em sleep in the middle!!!