Is it bed time yet?!?!

Is it bed time yet?!?! You can tell my kids have been out of their routine for a few days....they are really cranky today.

Thanksgiving Weekend

Had a great Thanksgiving weekend in Sacramento and South Lake Tahoe with some of my favorite people!

Happy and Completely Satisfied

I am so happy and completely satisfied with my two beautiful boys!

But every now and then that part of women that makes them want more babies gets going...especially when there are a lot of people around me having babies. I sometimes think what it would be like to have a little girl.

Maybe one day I will have more children...but if I don't I'm totally okay with that. I definitely don't miss the sleepless nights and diaper changes

Peter's Birthday Coming Soon....

I am both excited for and dreading Peter's 6th birthday this Saturday.

Poor Jimmy every year has such a hard time with it not being his birthday. Some years we put Jimmy in his room so that Peter could open his presents. Some years we get one or two presents for Jimmy to open, but then he's upset that Peter got more than him...UGH!

Thankfully Peter is so sweet and pretty good at sharing. And thankfully Christmas is right around the corner and we can kinda distract him with that.

This year I decided to get two presents for Jimmy to open, as that seems to help. Keep your fingers crossed though.

Super Hero Training

It was fun, the kids and I did super hero training today. We went to the grassy area by the library and ran around, did jumping jacks, punching the air etc...it was a lot of fun.
Because of how I was playing with the kids someone asked me if I was the kids babysitter. : D
Am I an awesome Mom or what?

Batman

My kids are big into Super Heros. Sometimes they wish they could have super powers etc. Then one day it dawned on me that there's one super hero without special powers...Batman. He's just smart, has a lot of money, cool gadgets and is strong etc. So I told the kids they could aspire to be like Batman.

I got the kids to eat veggies and chicken...because that's what Batman eats. He he he.

Likes and Dislikes

I've been back in the States for 3 months now and the thing I dislike the most is all the bad food...even the "good" food is bad food. I think I've gained about 30 pounds!! UGH!

I've been back in the States for 3 months now and I think my favorite thing that I missed the most....public libraries.

I just did something that I haven't had to do for the last five years...I packed away the kids short pants.

In Central America the temperature doesn't change enough that you need to have winter clothes and summer clothes.

They also don't do Daylight Savings....I loved that part!

We've created a traveling monster.

Jimmy just told me, "I want to live in a car!" I asked him why. He said, "so that we could go places and always be home. We should get a big bus...lots of people live on a big bus. We should do it"

We've created a traveling monster. :- )

Trick-or-Treating

The kids were so excited to go trick-or-treating last night.

This is the first time they've gone trick-or-treating around the neighborhood. When we lived in Costa Rica they would knock on the bathroom door and the bedroom door etc to trick-or-treat. Some years we would just dress up and watch cartoons.

Last night they kept saying, "We're trick-or-treating FOR REAL!" On the last house we went to there was a spider that jumped out at you when you walked by. It scared all of us. So we got both a trick and treats