I win, you lose!

So last week Eli's sunbeam teacher talked to me after class. Apparantly she had gotten some good laughs from him that day. The class was playing musical chairs and while the other little (innocent) kids weren't quite grasping the concept, little Eli catches on and starts shoving kids out of his way so that he could be in the right chair. When the game was over he proceeded to say, "I win, you lose!" while he is pointing and laughing. Who is raising this child anyway?! Then during the lesson they start talking about families and the teacher asks Eli if his family loves him. He says, "No. They are rude to me. Only Rex loves me." What?!!! First of all, he has never said to us that he thinks we are being rude. And I was trying to think if there was anything we had said or if he had gotten in bad trouble lately, but I couldn't think of anything. It's a good thing my friend is his teacher, otherwise I would have been mortified. This makes me really wonder what my children are saying about me when I am not there! So, apparantly I need to do some better mothering. 

Happy Valentine's Day!

I was unsuccessful at getting all of the boys to smile at once. But  they were so cute in their matching clothes that I had to take a picture.

We had a great Valentine's Day. The boys and I had spent the last few days making valentine cards and goodies to give to family. (of course I didn't think to take pictures of any of that) It was a lot of hard work, but the boys had a lot of fun. They made some pretty cute valentine's too. We took them around to everyone on Saturday after we had exchanged our own valentines and had a yummy breakfast. The boys picked out some beautiful tulips with Bob along with some candy. 

Later in the day Bob surprised me with this awesome cake and a gift certificate for dancing lessons! We are going to start next month and I am really looking forward to it. I have wanted to do that for a while, but he totally surprised me. You can't really see all the detail in the cake, but it is a tree stump with our names carved in it. It was really yummy too. Bob and I were able to go out that night together as well. It was a great day all around. 

New to the Family

Congratulations Christi and Byron!

Bob's sister, Christi, got married last month to Byron Nield. The reception was beautiful and there were many people there to wish them well. Towards the end of the evening Rex ran into the sharp corner of a wall and he was bleeding pretty badly. Eli came and found us and he was crying telling us that Rex was bleeding. (Eli is especially concerned with our family's well being, so he was pretty upset that Rex was hurt.) Rex had a good little cut above his eye and his lips were split and bleeding a lot. Rex HATES blood. Once he sees blood the injury is automatically 10 times worse. We calm him down enough to get home and as I am holding the ice on his lips he asks me, "Am I dying?" The poor little guy was scared. He wanted to cuddle the rest of the night. The very next week Bob took the boys to a basketball game and when they came home Rex had another band-aid on his forehead. Apparently he fell on the corner of one of the bleachers and had a puncture wound while there. Bob didn't bother calling me. He said he figured there was no sense of me worrying until they got home because he was fine. Ugh! Men. Anyway, Rex is going to have a lot of scars on his face. This now makes 4. That's ok because he is still a handsome devil.