A babble here, a babble there. . .

I can't believe I've been blogging for a year now. Amazing. Maybe I should finally make it public so people can read it? LOL I love talking to myself though. Or maybe it's just that I'm not critical of myself. :P I find people these days to be very critical. Every little thing because something to criticize about. Which in turn makes me feel bad. Sometimes they know it makes me feel bad, but sometimes they don't. I'm way too good at hiding my feelings... But I digress...

The kids are officially enjoying their summer. And I have to say for the first time, I actually enjoy sending them outside to play! We've had our pool up, the slip 'n slide and the sprinkler and they just run around and get really tired and then are pooped by the end of the night! Well, Emily anyway. Max is another story. He's having daddy seperation issues. Takes him til 10pm to fall asleep some nights. Hubby has been working til 7-8pm and doesn't have much time to play with the kiddos. Max, I think, is more affected by that for some reason. He NEEDS that daddy time. On the good side of it though, they don't wake up til almost 9am most mornings! So I get my sleep again! Woohoo! (We're all in trouble come Kindergarten time!)

I've still been having baby fever bad again. Hubby and I talk about it - or rather, I talk and hubby rolls his eyes over and over... At one point he said we were finished. I was crushed. It was a LONG week. I cried a lot. He felt bad a lot. By the end of the week, he said he wanted to get his MBA and then after that we'll talk. He gave me the hope back. Will it ever happen? I don't think so. So why does it make me feel better to THINK that it MIGHT?? The kids are driving me crazy with their fighting and screaming and tantrums and teasing each other, WHY would I want to add to that craziness? I know why... Cuz I miss my babies. I loved being pg and the newborn/baby stage. I miss breastfeeding and as crazy as it sounds, I miss diapers too. My two aren't babies anymore. They still have a lot of growing up to do, but they aren't babies. I don't know. My crazy mind...

School is out and summer starts!

The kids last day of school was Monday, June 5th. Today. Well, 2 minutes ago. LOL I can't believe their first year of school as gone by so quickly. Seems like they were just babies and I was hesitating on even letting them go and now they are done. It has been an amazing year and I think they have learned SOOOO much! They have grown so much too!

In the beginning they were shy and didn't do transitions well. They threw tantrums like you can't imagine. IN SCHOOL! I had many talks with the teachers and many cries afterwards. I thought for sure they'd kick my two out! But they have come so far. The teachers really loved them and were so proud of what they've accomplished this year.

They learned more then just basic academic stuff. . . They learned about religion, the different holidays, and about the world around them. I see how they look at the world just a little bit differently then they did a year ago. Not at all what I expected from a little presbyterian nursery school. And they made some great little friends. I'm gonna have pictures to share with them down the road of their "first" boyfriend/girlfriend. :D

Now onto summer though. I don't think the kids really realized that they aren't going back to school and when they do it will be to a new teacher & classmates. They are excited about summer and what it holds. They know they will be taking swimming lessons, a fun with reading class among all the other things we do with them, like baseball games, aquarium trips, zoo trips, Sesame Place trips, our annual vacation to nana & papa's! Drives to the boardwalk and days on the beach! Ahhh to be a kid in the lazy days of summer. . .