Play-Learn-Grow-Repeat

I was sitting in the parking lot at day care tonight when Andrew looks over at the car next to us. He sees the little girl being strapped into her car seat and yells, “LEYNA! HI! HI LEYNA!” And she’s waiving from her car yelling, “ANDREW! HI! Hi! ANDREW!”

As we pull out of the parking lot, he sighs and says “Mommy, I loooove Leyna.” So I laugh and remind him that the day before he told me Michaela was his girlfriend. The response? “Yeah…I love them BOTH. I love Leyna. And I love Michaela.”

Then he proceeds to tell me that his love interests also include Katie. And Caitlin. And Alli. And Lexi. (“But I love you too, Mommy.”)

So basically my son is in love with every girl in his class, including his teachers. Part of me finds this hysterical. The rest of me is a bit freaked out for the future.

Like most women, I’ve been with guys who have treated me extremely well and I’ve been with the bad boys who wouldn’t know how to treat a woman right if their lives depended on it.

So how do I make sure my little guy is one of the good ones when he grows up?

I don’t have a clue…

Then again, I don’t know how we taught him about sharing or politeness and he managed to figure that out pretty well so far. Somehow he’ll learn to read, write and do math (though the last one will probably be without much assistance on my part since math is definitely not my forte). And hopefully, along the way, he’ll figure out the rest.

Have a great weekend everyone

In the three years of Jack’s life he has made many friends that are girls.  It’s mainly the children of our adult friends.  We joke and say the kids will eventually get married some day.  When we get together with our adult friends and their kids it is always uncertain whether or not the kids will get along.  One moment we hear laughs the next someone is crying and upset.  Every now and then Jack tells us how he misses his “girlfriends” from CA where we used to live.  It makes me sad to hear that because I miss them all as well.

Jack has been in preschool now for about 5 months.  He absolutely loves it, and every day I pick him up he tells me everything he did.  For example, art projects, songs he sang, number of times he went potty, what was for snack and how much he likes Kelsey.  I believe he has his first real crush!  It is too cute to hear him talk about her, what games they played together and how he shares toys with her.  I could only wish his behavior was like that with every kid.

Jack has been begging me to let him have a play date with Kelsey.  He has one concern; we have no girl toys.  He thinks girls only play with pink or purple toys.  I informed him that there are many things in our house that she could play with.  After I named a few he caught on that not only boys can play with trains, cars or blocks, but girls can too if they want.

I am in NO rush for Jack to introduce us to his girlfriends.  I think I might have a heart attack when he does bring home his first.  That seems so far away, but if he is anything like his father it is going to sneak up on me pretty quickly.  For now, I will enjoy hearing him talk sweetly about his first crush!

Throughout the past few months, I have written many blog posts that I promised to update you about. So my blog today is all about “catching you up” on life, love, school, business trips, tickets, and more!

You often hear that when you get divorced the process takes a long time. Well, that is really putting it mildly. We settled financially right away. However, custody stuff continues 16 months later! Brady is doing as well as can be expected. Thankfully, he has a wonderful support system. We both have our good and bad days: thankfully most of them are good.

Having my parents living with us has been an adjustment. But we have been living this way for 16 months now, so we have adjusted. I do worry about the day we move away from them, since Brady is now used to THREE adults doting over him. While I think it is wonderful that they love him, and he can “twist their arms” so easily. I do worry at times since he is an only child. But all in all, I can’t complain. They are great.

I went on my first business trip (minus Brady) to go to Lifetime and be on the show The Balancing Act. Wow – what an experience. From the golf cart to drive us to the studio, make up artist, to the actual taping. It was great fun. If you want to view it, check out Lifetime at 7am (eastern/pacific) on November 30^th. Brady did fine also. By day two, he was exhibiting some extra emotions at school, but he did well. I was very proud of him. We spoke on the phone the one full day I was gone and when he met me at the airport… it was great. We went up to the observation deck and watched the planes coming in. I have to leave him for another two days in December and I am not worried. He will be fine. We will be fine. Another milestone on this journey called parenting.

School is going GREAT. He loves being in the 5 year old class. I am glad that I didn’t keep him in the 4 year old class. He has really thrived and learned a lot. He has been so brave everyday and walking in there as his friends all head into the pre-k 4 class. He has made new friends. Yesterday was his Fall Festival and he just loved dressing up like Scooby Doo. A little girl in his class was Daphne, so that was an exciting surprise.

Our ticketing discipline system has been working out rather well. We still have discipline problems. Brady is currently saving up his tickets to try to cash them in for his first sleepover at our best friends house. He has never had a sleepover. We shall see how that goes. It is so funny, if he looses a ticket – he still runs to his room and lies down. I let him go because he isn’t slamming doors or yelling, and it is OK to be sad and/or mad.

So all in all, Fall has started out well. I can’t believe it is already November. That is one thing I have noticed about school. He is in school 4 days each week, has soccer 1 day, visits daddy 2 days each week, and attends church and cub scouts at church 2 days per week. We are BUSY. We need “down time” every afternoon after school for a good hour. I never imagined that 2.5 hours of school would wear him out so much! But it surely does. I have read that he might adjust better by November, some kids take longer. He loves school, but it exhausts him!! So that is our little update, I hope this blog finds you all well: happy, healthy, and savoring every day of this season of your little one’s lives.