Kealan's first day of school

This summer Kealan started a 2 day a week, one hour each day preschool. He was SOOO excited about it. The night before his first day he packed his backpack full of pencils and even made himself a lunch (despite not being there for lunch).

That night he was up and down and didn't sleep well. My sister went to get him up for school and he was NOT getting up. She tried and tried not wanting him to miss his first day to no avail. When he finally woke up she told him "Kealan you slept through your first day of school! You missed it"

He looked at her and replied "Keke tired"

Trying to get better at this

It has been a crazy few months and now my nephews have a 4 month old baby sister! We have a plethora of stories from not only Brayden but a talking Kealan too! I am going to attempt and upload several stories to repopulate the blog so get ready from more great stories!

Here is a Kealan story.

My sister has a trampoline in their backyard and the little kiddie slide is pushed against it as a ramp. Kealan has a LOVE for rocks and wanted to carry his bucket of rocks up to the trampoline. He would start at the bottom of the slide, attempt to lift the bucket up the slide, but then he would get to the top of the slide and see that the bucket of rocks still remained on the ground where it always one. He attempted this process several more times with the same results. He finally looked up and saw my sister and Brayden staring at him kind of smiling and he shouts out "NOT FUNNY GUYS!"

Poor kiddo he just needed a little help :)

Yeah I am back, but this story was worth the wait!

I am baaack. I was working out of town on an event and November flew by. Here is a good story in return!

My sister and brother-in-laws anniversary was last week. So my mom got them a present. My sister brought it home, but of course Brayden and Kealan got to it first so they tore into it. Brayden looked at the gift in the bag and got a really sad face and said "mommy you aren't gona like this" she asked "why" and he pulled it out of the bag and it was a collage picture frame and he said "because you don't know any of the people in the pictures!"

Reading

I apologize for the hiatus. I unfortunately have not gotten to see the boys very much lately :(

Here is a cute quote from Brayden

My sister was reading this book called "Healthy Sleep, Happy Child" or something because both boys usually end up in their bed at night and it is a goal she is working on better sleep habits overall. Anyways she was reading and Brayden asked her what she was reading. And she replied "how to get you and your brother to sleep better". He replied, "let me see that" He took the book and proceed to look and the page. He said "oh it says, 'kids must sleep in mommy and daddy's bed'," and handed the book back to her. She has her work cut out for her!

My Date with the Ninja Turtle

Brayden and I got invited to a fabulous Halloween party last night. I picked up my date, the cutest Leonardo the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle ever and we headed to the party. He was a hit. Very friendly as always! There were 2 haunted houses at the party. The first haunted house was in the basement of the house. All the kids started to funnel downstairs for the first house and we getting a little spooked. Brayden stepped in front of them and said "Don't worry guys I'll go down first, I am Ninja." It was so funny. He continued down first and walked all ninja like with his hands in karate chop mode to protect the kids from any spooky creatures.

Later as we were getting ready to leave, 2 more kids showed up and wouldn't you know they were kids from his school. So as a good aunt I wasn't going to drag him away. When they walked in he shouted "I KNOW YOU, you are my school friends." He grabbed their hands and leaded down to the haunted house where they played happily for a while.

I have decided that Brayden is the perfect date for the following reasons:
1. He is always excited to see me
2. We always have fun
3. He is never too busy for me
4. He likes to pay (I usually give him the money, but he gets the concept) LOL

Working on the weekend

So Brayden refers to school as his "work". I don't know much about Montessori school, but he always tells us how swamped he is for work. I am starting to be a little concerned that at 4 he is concerned about his workload.

Saturday we had plans to go to Littleton farm. I met my sister, boys and mom there. My sister picked up my mom and Brayden had insisted on brining his "computer" in the car. It is a basic phonics computer with words and spelling. So the comp was taking up a lot of space in my sister's little car and she turns to Brayden and asked "why did you have to bring this?" He replies, "I just have so much work to do. I am soo behind, I had to use the car to try and catch up".

Now that is probably my fault. I was over last week talking about how behind I was at work because I had taken two days off to go visit my Grandpa in Arkansas. I guess I take the blame for that comment. Too funny though!

I'm explaining to a pig

Yesterday we went to Littleton Farm. http://www.littletongov.org/museum/
It was a beautiful fall day and a perfect outing! We saw lots of animals and historical houses. Brayden and Kealan are semi-regulars there because it is free and provides lots of space to run. When we came upon the pigs, they had just been given dinner. One of the pigs was stuck in the mud pit and could not make his way out to eat. Brayden decided to help him out. He said "ok pig just wiggle a little and get yourself out". Then  he said to himself "I'm explaining to a pig?!" it was super cute.

Today I had Brayden for the afternoon. I teach his Sunday school class and I brought him home so my sister only had one kid to contend with for the afternoon. I had gotten him a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle costume at a Kid's Consignment sale on Friday so I pulled it out and he ended up wearing it the rest of the afternoon. His Uncle Jason was a HUGE Ninja turtle fan back in the day so I told Brayden to call Jason and have him educate him on Ninja turtle lingo.

Sure enough he called Jason and said "I am the blue ninja turtle, Leonardo, you need to educate me on Ninja turtles" By the end of the conversation he knew all 4 turtles, April, Shredder, Splinter and the all important Cowabunga dude. He looked awesome