Nolan's 4!! (photo's)

Birthday Party Pictures

Birthday party tomorrow.

Tomorrow is Nolan's Birthday Party.  His Birthday is August 30th. 

I just spent a couple oh hours decorating his cake.  I found these instructions for decorating your cake.  So I decided to try it.  Nolan Wanted Octonauts.  So I found a coloring page, and am trying this out.  hope it works out.

Still to do, I have to clean, and buy the boy a gift. 

I am very far behind on this, and should be cleaning now, but instead I have been putting in what I ate into the calorie counter on sparkpeople. 

so relieved

One of the hardest decisions I have made as a parent was to "place" my middle child in 1st grade.   I was anxious when making the decision, I was worried all summer.  We had decided that it seemed, to us,  that most of what Ethan was missing was related to not being able to write all his letter correctly (and sometimes when asked to write letters at random he would confuse upper and lower), and wasn't writing in his journal very well.  But he was reading what seemed to be well, he knew his alphabet, recognized letters, could count to 100, by 1, 5's and 10's.  he could also do the beginning addition and subtraction (touch points) they were doing.  So we pushed on.  We also asked for him to be evaluated for a IEP which he didn't qualify for. 


 Now school has started and so far so good.  Ethan continues to write some letters backwards, but this has improved.  And, really he is not that great at writing his letters correctly (as in touching the top and bottom of the writing road or just penmanship)   But he has not brought a grade lower then a 90 home.  And most have been A's ( we are on a 7 pt scale)   Today he brought home his spelling test 100% (he did write one letter backwards).  Yes I am bragging a little.

I realize that this is only the first week.  But it is a GREAT beginning.  I almost want to do a jig, but I won't because I don't want to jinx it. 





Thanks to my Aunt Sue for tutoring Bryson and Ethan over the summer.

I am so relieved. 

168.8.... still

o.k.  I know that I shouldn't really weigh myself more then weekly, but I just wanted to check.   And here I am still at 168.8.    Yesterday it was 169.4.  So I guess I should be glad I went down, but I was at 168.8 last Friday.  I was hoping to have lost more this week.  Hopefully by tomorrow am it will even itself out and I will loose a pound or two.  I am not totally sure what I am doing wrong, but do have a few ideals 

I hope I have some more gone tomorrow.

and he is off...

and he is off.  He was on the bus at 12pm and on his way to his first full day of school.  Not a tear in sight (even from me), just a kiss and he got on the bus and was gone.  Can't wait to see him after school to find out how his day went! 

And away we go

Yesterday was meet the teacher for pre k.  I thought I might have issues with my 3 almost 4 year old (aug 30).  I thought he might be a little clingy.  I thought he might be a little teary eyed.  I thought yesterday might just be the begining and getting on the bus this afternoon would be hard.


Well I was wrong.   Nolan was asking to go all morning.   Nolan jumped right down and sat on the carpet, played with the toys, follow the teacher during the tour, and went on the bus to talk about the rules,  without a fuss at all. 

He is soo excited for Pre K.  He wants to go to school like his older brothers. He has already asked me about it this morning. 


Today is the first regular day of Pre K.  I will let you know how it goes, but I have a feeling that this little man is going to jump right into his future. 

Met my first short term goal

So for losing weight, I had decided to not set a goal of 145 and then just going for it.  I decided it was probably better to make some short term goals, with the long term goal of weighing 145-150.    my goals are

1)  weigh 170   (check)
2) walk daily (umm not check)
3) drink water (check)
4) give up soda for one week (almost check)


So I am doing pretty good.  today I weigh 169.6.  yea me!!   (yes I just quoted London, if you don't know who London is then you haven't been watching Disney channel in the last few years).  I am just a day or so away from giving up soda for a week (although if I am going to weigh on fridays, maybe I should just count this as a week, today is day 6).  I have been drinking water daily.   Well the walking, I just haven't been fitting it in.  Eventually I will have to pick up some exercise, but right now I am ok with what I am doing. I am keeping it as a goal though. I have been walking a little, just not daily. 


So now for new goals.

1)  weigh 165
2)  walk daily
3) give up soda for 2 weeks total
4) drink water daily.

These goals at this point are not going to change much. I might start a ticker, or something to keep track of somethings, like weight and soda free, for on this blog.  I also have a blog on my spark page.  if you are interested this is my spark page.  http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage.asp?id=JESSIEJACK76

First Day of school

Today is Bryson and Ethan's first day of school.  Bryson goes to a new building.  We had Ethan's open house on Monday and Bryson's last night.   We did miss the bus, since I forgot to look at pick up times for the bus.  I checked to make sure the bus number was the same, but didn't check the times.  But that really doesn't matter, they just caught a ride with Scott.

Nolan starts school next week.  We have a parent meeting tonight (the same time as soccer practice for the older boys) and a meet the teacher for nolan next week.

Everybody is getting so big.

Headache Today

Did I mention that I was giving up soda?  I really don't remember.  I am.  Today is day two of no soda, and like yesterday I have a headache, from no caffeine.  I have tea, but hadn't gotten around to making any.  My lovely husband, Scott, is now running to Motto Mart to get some soda for him, and tea for me.  I am having unsweetened tea with some raspberry flavoring.  It will add some sweetness and calories, but not as much as the raspberry tea out of the fountain.

Tonight is Ethan's open house.  On Wed, Bryson has his open house.  Thursday is the first day of school. Tues is Nolan's first soccer Practice.  Next week, Nolan has his meet the teacher and his first day of school.  All these first especially for Nolan.  This is his first year playing a sport, his first year of school.  He is getting so big.  I really can not believe that I will have 3 kids in school this year (one will only be half days though) . When did they get so old.  If I wasn't enjoying these ages so much, I would almost want another baby... but not quit.   (I really like having kids who can dress themselves, and get their own breakfast amount other things.)



Jessie

Back again!!

Well it seems that I took the summer off, didn't it.  Blogging has just fallen to the wayside recently.  But I think I may try to start again, again.

School starts soon.  I will have one in Pre K, one in 1st grade and one in 2nd grade.  I really can not believe how big my boys are getting. 

I am also starting on a weight loss journey, I realized yesterday that I have one pair of shorts that fit, and they were dirty, it sucked.  So I started on Sparkpeople again.  I have redone my goals, and am starting at the beginning.  My short term goal is to get to 170, give up soda for a week and go for a walk daily.  (I am going to have to make this short so I can go outside and take a quick walk.)  oh and drink my water, 8--8 oz glasses. 



Well I better go and get that walk in. 


Jessie