Three months since my last post. Crazy. Well things are good. Still breathing, eating, sleeping, taking care of my kids. I miss blogging on my own time. I love it but have found a new love, not to replace blogging, of course just to help with the brain keeping its wheels turning on creativity.

Connor is almost done with his second year of preschool. He is registered for Kindergarten and just a little over a month he’ll be five years old. Time flies. It really does. He has grown so much learned so much. He can finally write his name lower case and upper case letters all by hiself. He also tries to write other words but asks for help which is fun to do with him.

James is doing well. Though he wants to go to school so bad with his brother. He will have to wait until next fall(2011)but I wont know for sure until the middle of May when I get his preschool screening results back. He apparently did well. When he came out he told me he wrote an “E” along with a few other letters. His face just lite up like lights on a Christmas tree. I feel bad that he has to wait. Stupid deadline. He has to be four before October first and well, his birthday is on the thirteenth.

Everything else is going well. I became an aunt at the end of February to a girl. I’ve been babysitting her the past three weeks and love it! She is such a cutie. James adores her so much he wants to hold her all the time, kisses her as well.

And on to that new love it is playing as characters from the Twilight Saga Series by Stephanie Meyers on Twitter. It’s fun. It’s inventive. Some really great stories have happened in their lives after Breaking Dawn;TwiTwitter.

I hope this was a good update for some if I still have readers. Thank you for sticking around. I am heading to bed.

                  To my oldest, who is four years old and in his second year of preschool.  Such a tall kid at such a young age, 44 inches.  You did well with your shots.  You’re good until you go into middle school, jr high.

                   You enjoy being out and about all the time, but with mommy babysitting that’s hard to do when we have a car that doesn’t have the room for three carseats in the back.  I wish we could get a van.

                     I love the way you talk to your brother sometimes it’s funny. “You like it,” is what I heard in your recent conversation with James.  You had just given him the Bob the Builder top for your guys apple juice drinks.

                     You have been very interested in art and pretend play lately.  You like to pretend you are the chef and mommy is the customer.  You had made me chicken and rice it was very delicious.  I hope you keep it up because it could lead to something big!!  Like Chef Ramsey from Hell’s Kitchen!!

                      Once mommy gets a house that has a bigger kitchen we WILL spend most of our time cooking and baking all kinds of food.

                         I can’t believe you will be 4.5 years old in December!  Going through photos from years past has been great.  Those days were great!  These present days though are still great and just different in their greatness.

Keep learning and keep amazing me Connor Boy.

I Love You,

Mommy

Got Woopra back on my computer! Now if only I could get one review done a week that would be SUPERFLY! I miss blogging so much.  What I’m able to type is so spacey that I wish I had more time to spend on one subject in each post.

So for those that are looking for reviews from a mom with two boys ages 4 and almost 3 please don’t hesitate to email me, caleenna at gmail dot com. I am able to check email mostly on the weekends so send it Friday and you will get a response by late Monday night.  Also from the time I receive the product or the time I receive confirmation of the review it will start the week of using the product, website or what have you.  Then on that last day I will compile on my notes and type up the review, it will sit for a day so that I may come back to it and reread it before posting.  I will also send you, the vendor, a link to the review so that you may do as you please with it.  I will have this posted on the PR page of my site as well so it will be in on spot at all times.

This will be my policy from now and until I can afford to have internet at my own home.  If you have any concerns or questions please email me at the above address.

In other news, my family has been sick the chills the aches you name it we are now starting to get over it but I just went to the doctor today and I have a slight case of bronchitis. Icky stuff I tell you.  The boys though seem to be doing alright and I’m sure they won’t get worse.

Gotta go home and call the parents of the child that I babysit and let them know that I now have antibiotics to help me get better.

Enjoy you Monday Night.

This little guy, I call Squirt will be three in just over a month.  Time sure does fly.  It amazes me how much he knows and how much better he has gotten with just observing his big brother.  Happy Wordless Wednesday.  Enjoy your day.

All-Star Buddies is a new interactive online site for kids.  Their mission is “to provide a safe, entertaining and educational virtual world for kids 6+. All Star Buddies takes you on a virtual adventure throughout the town of Varsity Heights.”

They what they call Buddies that you can play with there are at least seven you can play with such as Blitz, Deke , and Duce .   The All-Star Buddies site teaches lessons such as good sportsmanship, teamwork and the importance of leading a healthy and active life, that I’m sure all of us are working to better.  Your children can play an assortment of games while socializing with others.  The site was built by two mothers who share a passion for sports and fitness. While their children were growing up and became more interested in the internet all the things that come with it they decided to create a fun envirnoment for all kids.  And so All-Star Buddies was born.

There’s a place to learn more about each charactor so your child can pick the one they like. You can also purchase toys for your little ones. Althouh you will have to use their store locator to find a store near you to be able to purchase them.

Thanks to Toni of A Daily Dose, I was referred to Caitlin of MommyGeekology for a little bit of a site design change.  I’m excited because I already love the header she has done up for me. 

WHY OH WHY!! Sorry just a slight mishap.

Anyway on with my Sunday Snipits, Connor has been back to school for two weeks now and I have been enjoying the semi quiet mornings.  I started babysitting after I was laid off well now I’m babysitting an eleventh month old who is just now getting her canine teeth.  Boy is she clingy sometimes.  So I babysit two that go to preschool both in the morning and two that are not old enough just yet.  I think I’m going to like it but it’s only been a week with the little one.  A little funny fact that I learned is that Punky, the eleventh month has the same birthday as I do.

James is doing better with the potty training than I thought, I just had to put him underwear to get him to notice what he was doing.  Apparently my brother was like that.  He didn’t care while wearing diapers or pull-ups.  Yesterday he finally went poop on the potty. Funny thing though, he watched what he was doing.  So he will deffinitely be ready for preschool next year but I’m not sure I want him to go although he’ll need it for the socialization.

I’m doing a little better myself about things.  Chris is so serious about doing painting projects for people.  I will be helping him get a booth for the festival that is coming up at the end of the month, Septmember.  Fingers crossed we get a wonderful turnout.  Just need to get him to do something other than planets and mountains.

There is a Wordless Wednesday coming this week.  Along with another post tomorrow morning.  I have finally been able to do a few things today since my dad helped fix my computer!! YAY! Now I’ll be able to show off more pictures along with maybe one review every two weeks.

This is Connor’s first season.  Daddy is his coach and just recieved kid/parent information.  He has five kids including Connor,  one other boy and three girls.  Chris just left to see if he could get the second practice changed because he just found out that one of the players wont be able to make it to Friday’s practice because their oldest son plays for the high school football team.

We have five soccer balls at the moment but we also need a few other things to help teach them how to dribble and keep away.  There are a few games such as Red Light Green Light and Sharks and Minoes and more.  I will of course be out there as much as I can to help him as this is also Chris’ first season coaching.

This is kind of exciting and kind of scary because we aren’t sure what we are really getting into.  I know and he knows that there will be some parents that are a bit more competitive and so while others just want their kids to learn the game while having fun.  We will have lots of fun this fall.

In other news I’ve been babysitting a two year, she’s just two weeks younger than James and head of him in the potty training game.  She’s also going to start preschool but only for three days a week while my four year, Connor will be going four days a week.  I’m also hoping that at the beginning of September I’ll be babysitting a six week old baby, but I’m not sure since the mother has been having issues with her c-section.

Connor had his physical for school yesterday(Monday) received four shots and was a good boy.  He’s also is 44 inches tall and 43.5 lbs in the 90th precentile for both.  I have a very tall boy on my hands.  I’m honestly curious as to how tall he’ll be come his sophomore year of high school but that’s gonna be awhile.  His shots are good until 2016 when he goes into sixth grade.

I’ve started hard core potty training with James.  Strictly underwear during the day except for naps and bedtime.  So keep your fingers crossed for us that I can get him potty trained either by Christmas at the earliest or Valentine’s Day at the latest.

Thanks for reading and keep a look out for tomorrow’s Wordless Wednesday.

I know it’s been a LONG WHILE Since I’ve typed but I’ve been busy and with having NO internet at home it’s really rough to do anything. 

We went to Michigan around the Fourth Of July for a family reunion, before that we had Connor’s fourth birthday.   I will soon post pictures of both events but for now I will give just a few to show the fun that we’ve had the last few weeks.

Or the start of a good week? I hope it’s a good start to a very wonderful week for everyone out there. I know I’ve enjoyed some great family time along with some NICE 70 degree weather. I know I’ve gotten emails from some companies and have considered there proposals but at the present time I just don’t have the time nor the internet capablities to contribute to those reviews on my blog. I will keep those emails though to email back when I’m ready to get back on the blogging horse. I was able to change up my blog look for now. Simple, sleek, purple, and EASY for me to work with at the present time.

For now enjoy some pictures from Connor’s Birthday to our trip to Michigan and back.

There’s more I just don’t have a whole lot of time.

I also want to share with you a contest that a blog designer has emailed me.  Her name is Vanessa and she does wonderful work.  The contest is for a package worth 450 dollars.  From her site the first entry is to “write a short review about PaperBack Designs on your blog, social networking sites, or whatever website you have with links to her sites homepage.”  The deadline for the contest is September 25th 2009 (PST).