Summer's Over

So it's only been 2 months and some change since I updated this. O.K. closer to three months. Whatever happened to once a month? I'm laughing at the thought that I once had the goal of updating this weekly. I hope there's some followers out there still. And if there are...thanks for being patient.

I've actually been trying to get Bryan to update this for me because he's been spending lots of quality time with the boys....and we know that this blog is really all about them. He was a stay-at-home dad for the summer and was counting down the days until school started back. Which was today for anybody wondering. Although he loves his boys, he knows that it is a much harder job staying home with them than being at work/school. He definately has a great appreciation for stay-at-home moms. So he is back to school and this semester is his OB/Gyn and Pediatrics rotation. I don't think he's very thrilled about it. But he is looking forward to the end when he has a canoeing trip planned to the Everglades with my brother Jeremy and his brother Travis.

I don't really have any news about me. I'm just working and taking care of boys on my days off. I'm still working nights and still counting down the days until Bryan finishes school. I'm considering applying for grad school since I have a nice new GI Bill that will pay 100% for my school and then pay housing allowances along with it. The GRE scares me though...we'll see what happens.

The boys are doing great. We are still having a lot of sibling rivalry...which means Clark and Taylor team up against Logan most times. Logan holds his own though. He's turning into quite a bully. He'll just randomly go up to one of the twins and start hitting them. And he's learned how to bite. He's becoming familiar with the time out stool. We started a reward chart for Clark and Taylor. It is a space chart and they are spacemen that have to get to the top. There are ten spaces and they move their rocket-man up if they are kind to their brothers and have to move him down when they hit/kick/push etc. When they get to the halfway point they get a small treat and when they get to 10 they get to go out and get ice cream with mommy or daddy. It took forever, but they both finally made it to the top. Taylor finished first and went with daddy, and Clark finished about a week later and went with mommy. They both picked out birthday cake ice cream with sprinkles and M&M's. Now the rocket-man is back at the bottom and we're going to try and work our way back up again. Clark and Taylor are still into their trains. We were at the Container Store today and they were running around like trains whistling and everything. Good thing the sales people thought it was cute! All three of them have had a good summer. They have had many expeditions to the park and the zoo. And for a month during the summer we had a membership to an indoor playground. They loved this place. They had a couple bouncy castles, a tricycle race track (with an adult tricycle too), and lots of other toys as well. It was perfect because it's been too hot to spend too much time outside. They could go there and run around and play and use some of that energy without getting heat stroke. They have also gone to the pool quite a bit with Christine and are getting pretty comfortable with the water. They even went down the water slide at the base pool last week...with help and life jackets of course.

The heat here has been really bad this summer. Way too many days off 100+ temperatures, and we've only had rain maybe twice. Our yard (and most everyone else's) is really sad looking because we have water restrictions. You can water anytime if you hand water with the hose (not using any kind of sprinkler). But that takes too long and I'm not interested in paying that high of a water bill. The grass crunches when you walk on it because it's so fried. Pray for Rain!!!