Little Man is 8 Months Old!!!

Time is flying by!  On Friday little guy turned 8 months old!!  He is scooting now, he prefers to scoot on his back.  When he is on his stomach he face plants a lot which upsets him.  He is now getting rice and oatmeal cereal and doesn't like either still.  He got his first tooth on Wednesday and has been very cranky because of it.  I can't believe in a couple more months and he will be ONE!!! 

Gigi's Raspberry Cupcake

I am actually not sure what the name of this cupcake is.  There wasn't a label on it when I bought it.  The cupcake lady told me that it was a raspberry cake with a chocolate icing.  I wanted to try something that I didn't think I would like.  But unlike the two that I got that I figured I would like, I actually loved this cupcake!!!  It is a pink raspberry cake with chocolate icing with a white chocolate drizzle and a raspberry drizzle.  It was so good!!  I would love to get this one again.  I am not sure how often they sell these though.

Gigi's Mississippi Mud Pie

Gigi's Mississippi Mud Pie is a chocolate cake with coconut and nuts inside.  Then chocolate icing with chocolate drizzle and a couple marshmallows.  When I got this cupcake, I didn't know there would be coconut with it, I am not a fan of coconut at all.  The cake was ok, I could taste the coconut, but besides that it was good.  Now the icing was wonderful!!!  Love the icing!  It was a perfect chocolate icing.  Fluffy, creamy, rich... super yummy!

Gigi's Smore Cupcake

This is Gigi's Smore Cupcake.  It looked so cute in the display and I love smores that I make at home, but this cupcake isn't the same.  I actually wanted to return it for a refund.  The cake was a chocolate cake, that was completely dried out.  Then I guess they "toasted" the top of it.  Then the marshmallow icing on top with a tiny hershey bar.  The Hershey bar was the best part.  I like marshamallows but the icing was too much especially since the cake was so bad.  I wouldn't get this one again. 

Gigi's Kid Kraze Cupcake

Today I had to go to the doctor, which made today not so great.  So after the appointment the little girl (and little boy), and I went and got a couple of cupcakes.  Too bad the little guy didn't get any cupcakes, he was just along for the ride.  But this is the one the girl picked.  Of course!  It's pink!  Pink icing, with sprinkles on the inside and out, with a gummy worm.  She only ate about half, she LOVED the icing.  I got a tiny bite before she licked the icing off of the whole thing.  The icing was very good!!  The cake was pretty good too. 

New journey....

Tomorrow morning starts a new journey for my little guy!  He will start Kindergarten.  :sniff sniff:  Mommy isn't ready at all.  He seems to be ready for the most part, I do think he is nervous about it though.  He is excited to be at school with his older brothers.  I know we will love this teacher, so that will be a huge help!  He did awesome on Friday on his Evaluation test.  I am sure this week will be hard on him, he isn't use to being away from me like that nor am I use to being away from him either.  But I hope he has a wonderful year!!! 

Cereal Time!!

Little man started cereal three days ago.  The doctor keeps telling me to give him cereal so he will sleep better at night.... LOL!!  ummm no that isn't happening.  He is STILL getting up every 1-2 hours... I am TIRED!!!!!  He is tired.  I am lost on what else to do now.  He hates sleep.  I don't need a lot of sleep, but 4 hours without interruption would be AWESOME!!  I use to get 5-6 hours every night and be fine.  But now I am getting 4-6 hours hours but that is more like an hour nap then up for 30-60 minutes, then another nap.  Ugh!  So he has had cereal every night, just Rice Cereal.  Nothing special.  And he doesn't like it at all either.  He makes awful faces and spits it out.  My little picky guy.  Hopefully he will get better.  I started my younger two between 7 1/2 -8 months on cereal and they are my best eaters!  And little man will be 8 months old on Friday.  So hopefully with time he will like the cereal and learn to SLEEP!  Or at least one can hope.  :)

Day One...

These are from the morning the boys started school.  It was a STRESSFUL morning.  But now all is well.  The boys like their  teachers, we have a meet the teacher night on Thursday. 

My oldest being silly.  :)  He wasn't all that excited but he is a pretty good actor!

My little 2nd grader!!  He was more excited then this.

And my 3rd grader with his eyes closed.  He isn't a morning person at all!!

First Day....

Well today is the first day of school for 3 of my 4 school aged children.  This morning was rough!  My 6th grader didn't care to even go to school.  But he went, we aren't sure about his teacher yet since she is new.  But he will have several teachers this year, since he switches classes.  My 3rd grader hates change (much like myself) and started crying this morning.  I couldn't leave him while he was crying.  He was hoping for a different teacher then he got, but I think he will like her once he gets to know her.  Thankfully one of his male friends who is also in his class came in and he was better.  My 2nd grader walked into his class and informed the teacher that she was messing up his tv time... got to love his personality!  He isn't shy at all.  Then I found out that my soon to be Kindergartener (he starts Monday) has a teacher that we were not hoping for.  It flipped me out badly, but thankfully the school switched him and he has the same teacher my last Kindergartener had... and she is awesome!!  You can tell she loves her job and the kids!  So now it is 12:40 and I still have 2 more hours till the older boys get out of school so I can find out about their first day and see them again!!!!  I hope they all four have a wonderful year!

Back to School

Today is the last day of summer break... wait, what?  Summer is over?!?!?  How did that happen?  It seems like it was just May and we were just starting summer break.  Tomorrow morning 3 of my 4 school aged children will start school.  My little Kindergartener doesn't start till Monday, so I get a few extra days with him.  But I know there will be tears on Monday... and possibly tomorrow too.  I am not ready for them to go back to school.  I am not ready for alarm clocks, home work, bedtimes, and everything else that goes along with school.  I hope my little guys have a great year and learn a lot... now to count down to Christmas break!