Sleep I must do

Today I need to get as much sleep as I can. I work tonight. Then tomorrow at 9:30 I must have Joey at St. Paul's Lutheran Church for orientation. So the plan is Kev will drop the boys off at Mrs. Kristie's tomorrow morning like normal. I will come home from work and get myself ready and get the needed paperwork. I will pick Joey up at 9am. I will just call when I get there, so Luke doesn't see me and think he can leave also. Then I will take Joey to orientation. We will stop get some lunch, then I will drop him back off at Mrs. Kristie's house. I will head home for some much needed sleep, so I can return to work on Friday night.
We are watching Gustav and hoping that it isn't that bad. I did talk to Joey about it a little this morning. He is suppose to start school on Tuesday, but I am sure that if this storm is going to be here and bad then it will be canceled. He will be heart broken.

Sleepy this morning

Well the boy who likes to go to sleep no later than 7pm was up till 9:45. Then at 3:30am he came running to my room yelled "Mom" and then went running back to his bed. I decided it would be a smart thing to just lay down with him for a little while. Well he kept getting up and saying "My bed!" He had such a proud look on his face. I never knew you could be so excited and proud over a bed you couldn't sleep.
Kev ended up coming into help me around 4:45. Thank goodness. As much as I find it cute now, I didn't find it much cute then.
This morning I woke him up at 8am and he didn't want to get up.

Finally

Finally at 9:45 with his daddy sitting at the foot of his bed, he got to sleep.

My baby is growing up

Today is the big day. I went to Koala Mattress and bought Luke his very own big boy mattress. Now we had to move Joey by this age, because he was trying to climb out of his bed and I feared he was going to fall out and hit his head. Luke is a way worse climber, but has never tried to climb out only in. We decided to move him out of his crib because of my shoulder.
Sunday we took him to Target and he picked out his bedspread. He made it very clear that he liked the one with balls on it and the sports theme. So we got that for him.
When Kev got home he went up to Koala Mattress and picked up the mattress that I had purchased earlier. After we ate we started converting the room over to a big boy room. We first took down the crib. This made me a little sad, it has been up in our house for 6 years. We had it down for a little while between Joey and Luke, but we knew it would be used again.
Then we got the new mattress in and ready for Luke. Luke was super duper excited about this. As soon as his bed was ready he got on it.
Now it is going pretty well. It is 8:23 and he isn't asleep yet, but he hasn't been crying or anything like that. We have learned that he is way quieter than Joey was. He can play in his room very quietly.

This bed is all mine

I must check it all out.

I love this bed

Ready for a Good Night's sleep.

I get my own pillow!!!

My boys

Luke is getting so big. Just in the last several days have I noticed a huge difference. He is his mother's son. He keeps learning new words, but it seems his words revolve around food. He says Apple, Banana, cookie, watermelon, juice, bread, popsicle and candy pretty well. The other day he was playing in his room and he went to the bathroom so he he gather up the supplies about 20 diapers and put them in his bed where I change his diaper and came to get me. He was so happy to say "See!" and was pointing at his bed. He talks about Joe frequently also.

Now that brings us to Joey. He starts school next Tuesday, on Friday we will go to Open House. He is super excited about this. He got a post card in the mail from his teacher yesterday. He is ready for school. I always said I wouldn't send my boys to K4, but the time is right and he is ready. I am not sure I am ready, but it is the right thing for him. He says that he is most looking forward to making friends. He also told the babysitter that at VBS that he met some kids that weren't nice and if he doesn't want to hang out with them he doesn't have to. That is smart thinking.

Is it over yet???

Today has been one of those crazy days. We took Luke shopping for new bedding. With my shoulder still bothering me, we decided to move Luke to a mattress and box springs on the floor. This week we are going to go buy the mattress and box springs. So today we took him and he picked out a new bedspread. Joey tried to talk him into Spiderman or Superman or The Hulk, but Luke is his own man. Luke knew exactly what he wanted. He wanted a Sports theme bedspread. He kept saying "Ball! Ball!"
This afternoon I put some more Over and Out down so that we don't have fire ants. I have to put it down in March and then they start appearing again about now. So I put it down again.
This evening I cooked a pork tenderloin, mashed potatoes, carrots, and asparagus. We had some bread also. Now hear lately Joey is trying to get us to cook something different or eat no dinner at all and then wants to snack all evening. Kev decided that tonight was the night to put a stop to it. He ate his bread with butter, he choked done a small bite of tenderloin and screamed and cried that he hates carrots. He sat there for an hour then was put in the bath and to bed. In his bed and proceed to cry and scream and throw a terrible fit until I went in and let him have it. Since then he has been very quiet. No he didn't take a nap so that is the other issue.
Luke seems as if he still isn't feeling right. Today he has been messing with his ear some. He has been fussy and he also didn't take a nap. So I plan to take him to the doctor tomorrow.

Why would I need sleep???

So since Saturday someone at this house has been sick to their tummy. We thought everyone was over it yesterday. I took Luke and Joey to the babysitter this morning. It was no time and the babysitter called and said Luke was sick he had really bad diarrhea. She said he was crying and just seem to feel bad. I went got him. He went down for a nap at around 11 and got up at 2pm. Since he has been with me he has had no diarrhea and he doesn't seem to feel bad. He went down for a nap without lunch, but ate some macaroni and cheese and a popsicle after his nap.

I have to work tonight and well I went down after Luke and was afraid I wouldn't hear him so I didn't sleep well. So tonight will be a long night.