Wow- it has been a long time!

Wow!! I can not believe that it has been three months since my last blog post! So many days have come and gone, so many memories made, and yet, I do not know where to begin or what to say. haha.

The days of summer have come and gone. One of the favorite things in this house over the summer was POPSICLES! We could not even say the word without Peyton going into full up and down jumping, POP- sicle.... POP- sickle... POP- sickle. It was always like that. Anytime we went in the garage freezer, we would hear, POP- sickle!! He loved some popsicles. Still does. But, we do not let him indulge *quite* as often. He is down to one every other night versus every single night during the summer. Unfortunately, he is now hooked on lolli-bee-pops! haha. Everytime we get in the car to pick up our brothers from school he starts singing it... "lolli-bee-bop!!!" Thanksfully, you can get a huge bag of dum dum lollipops in the Halloween section for fairly cheap these days. And, he is a very thoughtful brother. Anytime I get one for him, he always asks for one for Chloe too. :-) These two are like two peas in a pod. They really do love to be together...

Popsicle time!



Here they are one day when Peyton decided he wanted to be a make up artist. (I think he may need a little more training on the correct way to apply mascara).

Over the fourth of July weekend Peyton fell down and skinned his knee. As it was healing (and because he refused to keep a bandaid on the boo boo), he fell and skinned it again. This cycle repeated itself one or two more times, before his entire knee starting looking really, really gross. We realized that it must be infected and tried harder to get it healed. After a few weeks of nothing working, we decided to take him to the doctor. The night before his appointment we started noticing these red dots on his leg. The infection was spreading... The next day, it was confirmed. The pedi diagnosed him with impetigo... a skin infection. Yuck! It steadily got worse, even after ten days of antibiotics, he still looked like he had the chicken pox times two. By this time, it had spread all over his entire body. A week later, back to the pedi we went. This time they said that he had eczema. Hmmmm.... okay, that is different. They gave us a new cream to try, and lo and behold, it worked! Well, pretty much... I guess this will be an ongoing battle.

Here is a picture of the kiddos just before the doctor...

(before it got really bad)



Let's see.... what else has happened since July

The boys started back to school. Tyson is now in the third grade!!! He has two teachers this year, which is a nice change for him. Mr. True teaches math, science, and some other fun stuff, and Ms. Foxworth teaches Language Arts and all that comes along with that. He is really enjoying third grade, but we are a bit concerned with the amount of testing he has to do each week. Geez... no wonder we are falling behind in the U.S., there is no way they have enough time to teach new material with all of the testing they are doing. Okay, off of my soap box now...

Landon is in the First grade. I think his favorite part of the new school is that he does not have to wear a uniform anymore. haha. (We are actually really happy about that too...) His teacher is Mrs. Richardson.  He seems to really like his class, and he has a lot of new friends this year. He is still going to speech, but he only goes two days a week now, so that is a step in the right direction! We are seeing a lot of growth in that area for him, and it certainly has not held him back academically! Of course, one of his favorite activities continues to be playing video games. He loves that Nathan is here every once in a while to play with him (Nathan still lives here, but he is not always available to spend time with the boys as he has his own social calendar. ha!).

Here is a picture of Landon and Peyton playing Mario Kart.

As usual, Peyton is running the show. haha!

Both Tyson and Landon will be playing Upward Basketball this year. That should begin in a month or so and run through February. We are looking forward to that. We are also looking forward to our trip to Disney in January. :-)

I realize that this post does not have any pictures of Tyson and only one of Landon. That is because they really just like to run and play outside and are barely around when the camera is out, but that is something that I am going to make sure to change. I need pictures of my big guys as they grow up too!!

Until next time, which hopefully will not be another three months...