Belt #3!

Adam did his testing for his next belt on Friday, and passed!

He's now onto orange stripe belt, his 3rd belt since he started

(4th if you count the white one that he started with) a year ago.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to watch him do his testing,

Michael would have sat still for it, but David still tries to join

in on the classes anytime we try to stay to watch! Based on

his scores it looks like he did really well, and we're pretty proud

of our little "karate kid".

Captain Croup

aka: Captain Cling-on, Sir Sickie, Hank the Crank

Well, David has croup...again. So much for the doctor's assurance last time that kids usually only get it once, this is the 2nd time in 3 weeks that he's had it! We spent 3 1/2 hours at emergency on Thursday night (10 pm - 1:30 am), none of which he slept for. Of course he was up at his usual time of 6:30 am on Friday morning, which meant so was I. It was a really long day on Friday, I stayed home with him and basically listened to him whine while I carried him around. Last night he coughed in his sleep for most of the night, so we've had another "sad sack" morning. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this is it for him, I'd hate to think that this was going to be how our winter goes!

Three men in a tub!

It was bath night tonight, so I thought I'd kill 3 birds with one stone! Even though I have vowed never to let Adam and Michael have a bath together again (they fight over the toys), I let them talk me into putting all three of them in the tub together. They were pretty good through the whole thing, most of the splashing was done by David. Once David was out of the bath and dried off, I let him play around for a bit and watch the other boys play. He kept running up to the tub and leaning over to give Adam and Michael kisses. Adam was right into it, but Michael started to get tired of having his games interrupted. If they are this good all of the time, I may have just found a way to save myself some time at night!

What's cooking?!

Anyone who knows me well, knows that I am not a baker. So, I'm not sure what possessed me to suggest to the boys that we make muffins tonight, I guess I'm more sleep deprived than I thought! But, once it was out there, Michael and Adam ran with it, promising to take turns and planning the meals that they could work the muffins into. It actually went alot better than I'd thought it would, I'd even go as far as saying that I may just do this again with them. They had a blast, and they did take turns, as promised, patiently waiting until it was their turn again, and understanding when it had to be my turn for safety reasons. I guess they're growing up! Of course, David was as good as gold during the whole thing, he was happy because he was eating, and then just before we put the muffins into the oven, he went to bed and fell right to sleep. I guess watching all of the activity wore him out...I completely understand!!!