All About Brevin

Brevin....

He is now 6 1/2 years old and in first grade - amazing!! He is a momma's boy.. always has been and still is. Whenever we ask him who he wants to bring him up to bed at night - 99% of the time his answer will be me. He always comes to me for the answers to questions he has - especially if it is something that he wants because I tend to say YES more than daddy does.

Brevin is such a good kid - he is sensative and will take words and actions to heart. If he has a friend that says something mean to him.. he will come home in tears and it will bother him for days. He is a very active boy which is so good. Right now he is in ski lessons and he loves it! In the spring he will start t-ball again and then maybe football? Not sure I want him to go there yet but we will see. He loves to dance... sometimes I will put on music from my ipod and he LOVES to dance with me!!

He seem to be making new friends everyday - he goes to school with some very special kids.. we are setting up new playdates as we speak!!

He is typical in that he hates doing homework from school - always puts up a fuss when we tell him it is time to do homework. He is doing very well in school - he is reading very well and doing math really well (he doesn't take after me in that area). He says he plays tag at every recess - he loves to run and run and run. Lately he has said that he is going to marry Lindsay... a girl in his class - they seem to get along really well and talk a lot.. hmmm... who knows!!

Brevin is very much into Nascar and Moster trucks - his room has a lot of Nascar posters and other things like that on his wall. He loves to watch the races on TV... Mike took him to his first Nascar race last summer - he had an awesome time and we hope to to this year.. maybe he will let mom join him!!

He also LOVES legos!! He got about 10 sets for Christmas and for the first few days after Christmas he wanted to put them all together - we spent a few moments in tears and frustrations but we got them complete and now he hasn't touched legos in weeks - hopefully that phase is over. He is also into Beyblades.. collecting Pokemon cards and Bakugans.

His favorite tv shows to watch are Minute to Win It, Wipeout and Phineas and Ferb. He also loves Tom and Jerry and Thomas and Friends.

Brevin has been attending church school on Wednesday nights and seems to really like it.. we started going to a new church and we just wrapped up a Starting Point class.. learning more about the church - we really like it and everyone there seems so nice.

Brevin is a picky eater... one thing that he eats a lot is cous cous - he loves that stuff!! Pizza is always a plus! He loves taking those pizza lunchables to school for lunch - I let him do that once a week - other than that I will make him a sandwich.. a cheese sandwich - he won't touch lunchmeat or peanut butter lately. He loves fruit.. strawberries, grapes and apples are his favorite along with raspberries! He will eat carrots and broccoli but that is about it. He will eat fish on occasion and steak and chicken. Other favorite snacks are Pop Tarts, fruit snacks, Teddy Grahams and vanilla wafers. If we would let him.. he would eat cereal with milk at every meal!! Every morning he eats vanilla yogurt with chocolate chips or cereal. He likes pepperidge farm cinnamon bread and pancakes.

Brevin doesn't require a lot of sleep... eventhough we try! He goes to be at 8pm and wakes up between 6 and 7am. If we have something going at night where he doesn't get to bed until later.. he still will always get up between 6 and 7am. He never really fights us going to bed and hardly wakes up during the night - occasionally he will come into our room during the night because he had a bad dream.. we always just let him sleep with us then. He will also come in bed with us during a thunderstorm.. I don't mind that a bit because I never liked thunderstorms and I still don't and I wouldn't want to be sleeping alone during a storm!!

Brevin has been such a joy in our lives - he is so wonderful!!! He is such a good kid and such a good big brother - he plays SO well and so nice with the twins.

Never did I imagine how much I could love someone - I love Brevin more and more with everyday that passes. It is so much fun watching him grow up - I will admit that I hate how fast it is going but he is learning so much and just turing into such a great person.

We are SO blessed to have him in our lives... Thank you God for giving us such a wonderful child.. for choosing Mike and I to be his parents!! We love you so much Brevin!!

Patience Patience Patience

I seem to be telling myself this a lot lately. My frustrations are getting the best of me.

You know... I remember a friend of ours... and a Pastor... telling me that he never asks God to grant him patience because instead of just giving us patience.. HE may teach us how to learn patience. So.. instead of asking God for that.. I am just asking Him to help me get through the frustrations.

Lastnight.. my 6 year old son was playing the wii... super mario bros and he is trying SO hard to beat this level - well... after many attempts.. frustration and tears.. I decided it was time to quit and settle down.. it was bed time anyway and he went to bed grumpy. So I decided to try to beat this level for him and guess what.. I did. I ran up and told him and he was so happy. The next morning he was up extra early so he could play a few games before school... well... I must have done something wrong and possibly didn't save the game... thought I did but must not have. He was so upset and the morning started off like this. It was then 5 minutes before we had to be at the bus stop and he reminded me that it was library day at school so do you think I could find his book to return.. nope... Brev was mad at ME for not finding his book that was somewhere up in his room.. so off to the bus stop in tears we go. I know I can't expect a 6 year old to remember where he left his book - he doesn't even remenber if he ate supper an hour after he did eat supper!!
He is on the bus and off for school.. I e-mail his teacher explaining the morning and the reason he doesn't have his book - which I did eventually did find - he will just have to bring it with him tomorrow.

Now on to the twins.. getting them ready now to head to the gym.. I am trying really hard to get some exercise in during the week - I have a free membership because I work at the gym so I decided it was time to put it to use. I change both diapers - both boys pooped so we are good to go... I get the twins in the gym.. which is a workout on it's own and I get them settled in the nursery room... I head up stairs to start some cardio - about 15 minutes in... I get called down.. Alex pooped - so I go down to change him and as I am doing this.. Ian starts to poop. I finished up Alex and now on to Ian. He managed to poop all the way through his clothes so I had to change him AND his clothes and this child really dislikes diaper changes so it is a battle alone to just change his diaper and now I have to change his clothes to... well.. after all of that I lost my motivation and neither of the twins was happy about me leaving them again to finishes my workout.. so I pack them up and headed to the car - I decided to go to Biggby Coffee and treat myself after the morning that I had. Whew... I made it and now the twins are down for a nap and i am thinking of napping myself but to much to do... laundry, cleaning the kitchen etc... Anyway.. so I guess this is just a vent post - not all days are like this and I know I will look back and just laugh at this post.

Life is hectic with 3 kids.. two of them toddlers and one of those toddlers that LOVES to climb on anything he can find to climb on.. if I am not quick enough.. he falls off and bumps his head or something.. he even likes to run with his eyes closed. Yes.. he does this... he has run into things and tripped and fallen into things.. we have had a black eye... bitten lip and bump on the head. But with all this said... I am thankful for a FULL life... Thankful for a husband that will take my calls during the day and just let me vent to him... Thankful for friends who will hear me out and eventually we end up just laughing... thankful for the 3 amazing boys that I have and that there is never a dull moment.

Okay.. enough typing.. on to laundry now!

2010

I cannot believe how super fast this year has gone - the boys are growing up so fast - I still cannot believe I have a first grader and twin boys who are going on 1 1/2. This has been a good year - we did some really fun vacations up to the cottage in Ludington - a wonderful vacation to the Wisconsin Dells with some really good friends and Mike and I even squeezed in a couple date nights - we are hoping to do more of these this new year!

I haven't posted in a while on the boys.. so here is an update!

Brevin is doing so well in school - he was student of the month in October - we are so proud of him. He is reading well and writing well and learning SO many new things. We finally started going to church again - we got away from this when I was pregnant and had the twins but we found a church that we really like and Brevin is already involved in their Wednesday night program and he seem to really enjoy it.

I still struggle with giving Brevin the time that he needs with us... the twins take up a ton of our time and I feel horrible not spending more time with Brevin - he doesn't complain at all but it just tugs at my heart that I can't give him more of "me" time... but as the twins get older.. I am sure more of that time will come - I just have to realize that I can't do everything and any time that i can give him is quality time - even just playing a Mario game on the Wii with him seems to make him so happy - he doesn't ask for much at all. I just love him so much - he is such a good kid and such a good big brother!!

As for the twins.. they are doing so well. Ian is running all over the place and he loves to make a lot of noise.. a lot of LOUD noise - he literally hurts my ears he is so loud. He loves to have someone on the floor playing with him. He loves to "wrestle" and climb on me and Mike - soon as we sit our butts on the floor - he comes running up and literally tackles us!! He still loves to eat and loves a sippy of water. We have to watch this a bit because to much water makes him spit up.

He still tries to bite me... when I say "no bite".. he will look at me and then bite me and see what my reaction is.. it makes me laugh but I still need to say no.

He doesn't talk much but he is loud with noises. He says Da Da and will raise his hands up when I say SO Big. He claps his hands and will dance. He is a lot of fun and he is the one that get me exhausted!!

Alex is still not walking - he "walks" on his knees. He loves to be held. He gets very annoyed with Ian and now has started to push him away when he doesn't want him near. He loves his little blankie - he carries it every where in the house. He says Ma Ma and will say "Mmmmm" when he eats.. it is so cute!! He is starting to make kitty cat sounds when I ask him what a kitty says. He does So Big also and raises his hands up. He is much more of a sensative boy - he will cover his ears when I first turn on the vacuum. He isn't much of an eater - he would rather throw down his food for Blue. But I do have to say that he will try anything I feed him.. Ian will spit stuff out of his mouth but Alex never does that - he will eat anything but just doesn't eat as much as Ian.

Alex follows me everywhere I go and gets really mad when I say no to him and will cry. He is more layed back - not as active as Ian.

Alex LOVES to go to sleep - never puts up a fuss going down for a nap or for Bedtime - Ian still always cries.

I know I am forgetting some things but I just wanted to put up an update. This year really has been good - I am so blessed with having the 3 most amazing little boys and one amazing husband - I love them all so much!!

Here are some pics from Christmas!!