Pain shouldn't be so fun

So I went and played volleyball last night at the church. Church ball you say, no big deal, WRONG, these ladies were serious volleyball players from college and leagues. I haven't played organized volleyball since high school. I had a blast but I haven't used those muscles in years. Luckly I held my own but today I am playing a great price, I have bruises all over my arms, my legs are killin, and I have a softball size bruise on my knee. I haven't hurt this bad in years, its like reliving the first day of volleyball camp but I'm ten years older. So much fun but Soooooooo much pain.

She's walking

Well the house is no longer safe. She has now started walking all over the place. Of course when she needs to use some speed, she drops to all four and takes off but she is getting more stable everyday. So a few weeks shy of her first birthday, and she is walking and LOVING it. I can't believe my baby is so big.

Have any of you had the opportunity to read Captain Underpants. If you haven't you are missing out. We got this little book to read to Tyler at bedtime. It didn't even make it to bedtime before we had read the entire thing. Its a fast read and I must admit pretty silly. Its about these two little boys who are trouble makers at school and who like to make up comics about their made up hero captain Underpants. Their theory is all superheros look like they are wearing underpants so why not have a hero named underpants and have him wear just that.

Anyhow the reason I am posting this is because last night as the kids were supposed to be getting reafy for bed I look up to see Tyler running down the hallway in his underwear and a blanket wrapped around his neck like a cape. He is flinging underwear (clean) around at people claiming to have super wedgie power! (This is the same thing that Captain Underpants does). This kid has a crazy imagination and is super cute. I was going to post a picture but I don't think a picture of my son in his underwear is appropriate for the internet. The funniest thing was how proud he was of himself for thinking to try it. However I have made it clear that he cannot be Captain Underpants for halloween unless he wears clothes.

Kids are crazy, but seriously check out this book, it will have you laughing.

Why?

I just don't understand! All summer long the kids would get up at 6:00 or 6:30 every morning and now that school has started and Tyler has morning Kindergarden, he wants to sleep in until 8:00. All summer I tried to convince him that sleeping in was nice and now that he has to get up and get ready he drags and wants to sleep. It figures right? Oh well I guess I should only worry when he gets excited to get up and go to school.
The other thing that is frustrating to me is is my 3 year old. He flat refuses to potty train even when tempted by all the fun things I can think of BUT he can learn how to use the mouse on the computer to play games. If he can learn to use the computer he should learn to use the crapper. Ugh!!!!!! And since I'm complaining about my kids I shouldn't leave Kate out, she is making the weaning process very difficult. Just when it seems like we are making progress she cries forever until I cave and give her what she really wants. I need to get tougher with these little monkeys.

School Year started

OK so on wednsday we started out first week of Kindergarden. Tyler was more ecited to ride the bus then to go to school but he also liked school. I was a little worried about him riding the bus but our stop is the only stop there is and he goes straight to the school and the bus isn't very crowded. So the first two days he knows I am following him to make sure he gets to the right place. The kids is like a natural, he gets off the bus plays on the toys for a bit before school starts (the bus drops him off early) and then as the bell rings he goes to his class and sits down. Its like he's been doing this for years. And the bus is no big deal either, apparently there is this older boy that has decided to look out for Ty and makes sure he gets on and seated ok. So everything is good until Saturday night when apparently Ty brought home his first stomach virus from school so he didn't get to go to school today but he's going tomorrow! He's got a little friend and is so cute about getting his homework done. Yeah kindergardener have homework!

So another thing going on is the remodel of our bathroom. The shower wall needed retiled because of soft spots and the suspition of mold. So we have the bathroom mostly torn apart the mold cleaned up the walls with the mold replaced and are now in the process of getting the tiles up. We are having help for that one because Brian has such little time and I have so many helpers. So hopefully by the end of the week the shower wall will be finished and one project finished.

Brians hours are better than the last two months. He's ususally home between 5and 7 and he had this weekend off which is why there is a hole in my bathroom. WE figure he'll have one weekend off a month is we are lucky. So any free time we have with him is hogged by the boys wanting their daddy's time. But good news is that we talked to a couple who finished residency last year and he has all sorts of free time. So I figure in three years I'll have more time with the hubby. I'll take what I can get.

Well summer is almost over and thank goodness for that because that mean my husband gets to live under the same roof as we do again. He is done in Boise on Friday and is coming home!! You have no idea how glad I am to have him back. I know that even though he will be home he probably won't be home but at least we might get to see him more than now.... which is never.
I have been home for the last week and the kids are glad to be home. I am fine with it too alhough the evenings are rather long and lonely. I miss having my parents around for company. I also had the hopes of getting somethings done around the house but that hasn't happened. WHy you ask? Well we went all summer without getting sick and then come home and not one, not two, but yes all three kids get sick. Each to a different degree and crankiness which leads to a very distrupted nights sleep (not that they were that peaceful before). And to top it off Zane had an asthma attack last night that lead to a few scary minutes of being thankful we had a inhaler and wondering of it would be enough to help him or not. Luckly it worked and the poor kid went back to sleep. All the crazy things seem to happen when Brian is gone.
Tyler starts school on Monday and Kate is all over the place and climbing on anything that will hold still long enough. The dreadful day of walking for her is soon at hand. Zane turned three and was disappointed to realize that three comes before four because hes pretty sure he will be big enough to drive the car when he turns four. Although the sun os rising a little later the kids still get up at 6:30 lucky me.
SO on to the next chapter of school and a new rotation and hopefully more husband!

Latest update

SO the last few weeks we ahve been in Wendell and Boise. Tyler finished swimming lessons turned 5 years old and we all had our first Chuck E Cheese experience. Tyler had a great birthday because Brian had the whole weekend off to spend with us. We went on a picnic to Shoshone Falls with Brians family, went swimming, had pieces of a Star Wars birthday cake and got to see Brian two days in a row!

When we went to Boise we took the kids to Chuck E Cheese for dinner and games and had a great time. All the games are just 25 cents and lots of fun. Brian kept stealing the boys tokens and playing games "for" Zane. then afterwards we went swimming again. The apartment that Brian is staying in has a outdoor pool which is great because the boys love to swim. Zane thinks he can swim all by himself which he in fact cannot do, not one day of swimming lessons in his little life but he thinks he is a fish. Very cute but very scary.

Of course I forgot my camera but luckly I have a camera on my cell phone and as soon as I get the right hook ups I will get the pictures posted. My mom took pictures for me as well so not everything has gone undocumented.

Three weeks almost down for this rotation and only five more to go. Then everything else will be in Pocky. Thank goodness.

Oh yeah, Kate finally got the crawling thing down and is crusing around pulling herself up onto everything and trying really hard to walk. Maybe she'll walk before her cousin (Just kidding Becky!!!):)