1st Day

Karissa was late to class because I made her walk with us to Cara's class, so no pictures of her with Mrs. Peters.

Peyton

We have had a crazy two weeks. We had VBS last week, ending with a Saturday party at the waterpark. This week I started watching my neighbors 6 wk old daughter. She is a tiny thing, only 5lbs 12oz. All the kids love her and are very helpful. PTA activities also started this week. I don't know how people do it. How can you work meet the teacher night and meet your kids teachers. Thursday was BTS teacher luncheon plus meet the teacher night. I feel like everyday this last week I had twice as many kids in my house as I actually have. We babysat, a lot. Kirk is gone to WF to run a trail run half marathon on Sunday and do his Fantasy Football draft. I opted to stay home and rest for a night and a day before school starts. Kirk took the kids with him, except Cara who is spending the nigt with Aunt Linda. I am struggling with just being lazy and enjoying the peace or working my tail off and getting a lot done while I can.

Pool Time

Every summer I take tons of pool picyures. This summer I haven't taken hardly any. It was a little bright today but I got some cute shots. I almost had a great shot of the foursome. Someday, maybe!

Sleep, Running and Pictures

Caleb went to sleep at naptime with no swats at all!! Last night Kirk thought it would be fun for all of us to go to the track with him while he ran two miles with 100 yrd sprints. We loaded everyone up at 6:30 and went to the oven, I mean track. I ran and walked with Kirk and the kids came and went along the way. Kylie ran and walked almost the whole two miles and she ran faster than I did!!!! So, I got on earlier to check my mail and blogs and I got an e-mail from Kelly. She said her photographer was having a give away and to sign up and say she referred me. I went to the photographers webpage and an hour later I pulled myself away from all her beautiful pictures.http://www.xanga.com/fotobydeedra I hope I win because I probably can't afford it otherwise:)

Sleep training (AGAIN)

A little over a month ago I posted the cutest video of Caleb crawling out of his crib. He has turned our house upsidedown. We used to have a naptime/ bedtime routine that worked great. The past month we have spent hours sitting by his bed or in his doorway waiting for him to go to sleep. We tried shutting him in his room with a kid lock on the inside door handle but we felt really cruel. We tried putting him back in bed over and over but that didn't work either. Saturday, we had a garage sale and took the kids to the water park (thanks Mom!!). Needless to say we were exhausted and everyone fell into bed by 8:30, everyone, except Caleb. We gave in and put him in our bed as we couldn't even keep our eyes open. I think he fell asleep somewhere around 9:30ish. So, Sunday we silently agreed we'd had enough. We put him in bed and everytime he got out we swatted his leg and put him back. It took a few times but he stayed in his bed and went to sleep. Today is the third day second nap. I can't say it is getting any easier but I think he is learning. At least he stays in his bed even if he doesn't fall asleep right away. I don't know how you all feel about the dreaded spanking, issue. I have never really had a problem with it but I must say my mind is being bombarded with all the physo babble out there. One minute I feel mean and I feel sorry for him, the next minute I feel like I am just doing my job as a parent. The whole time he is crying and getting up my mind is warring within about the right and wrong and damage I am doing. So, if anyone out there agrees with our method I would appreciate some moreal support on this. If you don't agree don't bother adding to my stress. Thanks.