Happy Birthday!

Well, our little boys are officially 3! The past week has been full of fun....where to begin...I'll start the day after my last post:) Tuesday as Brad went to pick up the cookies I ordered from a bakery for the boys to take to school (yes, I copped out and ordered instead of baking). The bakery is a whole 2 miles from his office. Well, the cookies cost us $199.00- WOW those are good cookies- 15 mph over the speed limit in a 25 mph zone= ticket. whooops:(
The birthday boys woke up soooooo happy on their birthday, which was a nice change from the grumpy old men we've been dealing with every morning. I fed them a donut, with chocolate icing for breakfast- at that point they may well have voted me mom of the year- they usually get oatmeal or pancakes (with no syrup, which is child abuse according to their Gramp).
They had a great day at school, yes even Carson, made all "green" choices at school and got to leave early to head to the doctor's office. They had been coughing like 2 pack a day smokers, or 30 week preemies, smokers sounds more interesting for 3 year olds though:). We left the doc with 2 scripts for prednisone and one for an antibiotic (note: this did give us a ray of hope that at least some of the behavior problems we were dealing with was because of illness). 2 boys on steriods?? on their birthday party weekend?? that should make for some fun times:(
From the doc we headed to the toy store to play with the toys- then to the bakery to pick out an after dinner treat:) Carson picked a HUGE chocolate chip cookie with M&Ms and Parker a pink and purple flower cookie- weird I know, but it was his birthday! They really enjoyed Sumo and the big fire- of course, we did have Parker almost knock himself out by running from the open side of the table to the closed side- he forgot to duck, or else didn't see that it was closed:( Poor guy!
Friday, Parker informed my friend Monica, who baked all day to create the perfect BOLT cake (complete with Penny), that the cake was not cool:( Really, after she worked all day, you are gonna say it's not cool?? It was the 'roids Monica, I swear (see above premenition)
Saturday brought the BOLT party- lots of friends and family came to celebrate their special day, I think someone counted over 50 people! Thanks so much to all who were able to come:) We are blessed to be surrounded by such great people! We bought the boys a Step2 roller coaster- which was a huge hit! The kids were out playing on it in the beautiful, cloudy, dreary, 40 degree weather! Parker cried much of the time and wanted me to hold him:( He said there were too many people and that they needed to go back to their own house!! (see above reference about steriods) They both ended up having a great time and got lots of great gifts- thanks everyone! Where am I going to put more stuff you ask?? I ask too! We are still working on putting stuff away- but tomorrow is garbage day so the mess will be gone soon!
This week has started off well behaviorally (less whining then we have had), knock, knock on some wood, I know:), and coughing is easing up some. Carson is STILL struggling on finding the potty to do his business- he says he poops in his pants because he likes it- really? He likes it?
Thanks to my friend Kayla for sharing her year long battle with this problem (not the liking it, I don't think her kids are as weird as mine, just the refusing to do it in the potty part)- we're 6 weeks in, let the count down begin:( Pooping in the potty tips are welcome at ANY time......geez it's gonna be the death of Carson, I mean death of me!
WOW- we made it 3 years- what a blessing these little guys are to us:) We do remember what life was like before them (ALOT more sleep and time to do "stuff"), but wouldn't trade life with them for anything. Happy Birthday Carson and Parker!