As for the kiddies, Campbell is just a MESS! He is so dramatic these days, we swear he is going to win an academy award one day. A friend actually said to me the other day "see, you DID get one boy and one girl, haha!" He is saying so many more words now and is finally getting a little better at communicating rather than fit throwing ...(fingers crossed). He says Play,Juice,Read Book, Thanks, Help and Please. He is just cute as a button and he steals my heart everyday, after all he is my baby and my last baby so I love I can still hold him on my hip and rock him like a baby :) I know there is a reason he challenges me so much and I know he was meant to be my little "merca"..what i call him for Mercy Me as he makes me say about 10 times a day! For right now, Im going to enjoy that I can still wrangle him and dread what he will put me through as a teenage boy!
Airey has gotten into his treacherous 3's we call them...one thing about the two's is they are learning and doing so many new things everyday and you are watching them become a big boy, well...the three's come with testing and no fear and smart comments and they think they know EVERYTHING now. It has been very challenging and we have come to a winning method to control the authority finally ;) We have started a GOLD star chart that Airey has and he earns one gold star per day that he checks off good behavior on the chart (Saying YES Mam, NO sir, Sharing, Minding, and NOT Arguing back to every command ...thats the biggie!!!!, he says, but...but...but I...I...but I....haha! So as of today he earned his 10th gold star and before you ask, no he missed 4 days w/out one because he didn't check off the Good list, so he would work extra hard the next day to make sure he earned it! Every 10 earned stars he gets to go pick a prize so we know are the proud owners of our 1st scooter (Lightening McQueen of course). He holds the door open for girls, which i love and shakes a mans hand and looks him in the eye of course. He is now into fads, silly bands being the NEW thing and he is just a real BOY now, no more toddler, he is a inquisitive,learning and leaping little man!
I had the most most blessed mothers day and cant believe I get to have these two boys all for me, they truly are a GIFT from God and I keep reminding myself of this in crazy days at home and know I will look back and cherish even the hair pulling moments with them. The family and I spent the weekend as a family and headed to Greek festival for fun and I enjoyed breakfast in bead from my boys and my hubs grilled me a delicious steak. On Sunday we headed to spend the day with Mom, GiGi, My brother,sis in law and the cousins. Jack had a blast with Airey and Campbell and we just loved all getting together. Its so rare these days, so its MORE than nice when we do. Hope you all have been well and we will be in touch....until next time
-the cole patrol
