Warm weather fun

The unofficial start of summer has been fun already. The weather has been great and the boys are having lots of fun.

Each day I feel better and better after surgery and slowly my energy is coming back.

I got the all clear from the surgeon, so I can lift my little guys again, I know Maks is very happy about that!

Memorial day weekend was filled with activites for the kids. Alek and Maks had their first fishing lesson thanks to Jeff and Daddy. Alek did great, he really surprised us at how well he was casting. So he is ready for some fishing at the beach. They both were fascinated by thw worms used for fishing, of course.

They had a blast at the annual picnic and parade at JoJo's house. Maks loved catching the candy thrown from some of the participants in the parade, he was sticky all morning!

Alek and Maks loved the slides and tunnel and moonbounce as well. Except we couldn't get them out of the tunnel, which held up the line, lots of dirty looks from some angry parents and kids waiting their turn, definitely one of those embarrassing mom moments!

Alek got to ride a pony as well, he loved it. He wants a pet horse now. At least that is smaller than the pet elephant he has been asking for lately!

Alek starts day camp this week. I can't believe it. It doesn't seem real that he is old enough for it. We are sending him two days a week for the month of June, he seems excited at all the new things he will get to do. They have swim lessons in the morning and then free swim in the afternoon, so that is what he is most excited about. I am nervous of course, hoping he won't be scared or shy in this new environment.

Maks' speech has really taken off lately. He has alot of two word sentences and so many new words each day. It is so fun to watch. You can see his frustration level decrease each day, now that he can communicate what he wants or needs. It has been easier too for the boys to play together, although Alek's days of blaming everything on Maks are over as Maks can now tell us who did what!

So we are looking forward to a fun filled summer and lots of time at the beach!!

Boys

This is their favorite thing to do lately, driving. They love it and ask to do it everyday. It is so fun, they chase each other, race each other (altho the John Deere is not made for speed). Maks surprises us at how well he steers and drives. Alek calls his ATV his TVS, he can't get the initials right, it is funny.

Kevin thinks he is ready for a gas powered on, I shot that down right away. 3mph with a battery is fast enough for me!!

Update

Well I am a week out of surgery. Surgery went really well, just as we wanted it to and I was home the next afternoon. Many thanks to JoJo and LaLa for helping out with the boys that day, they had a blast. I missed them so much that one night. Kevin said Maks cried in his sleep most of the night, calling out mama. Alek slept well but was upset when I wasn't there in the morning. I did talk to him and he was rattling off all he did the day before, it was sweet.

It was really hard not being able to pick them up and hug them tight.

I unfortunately have had a couple set backs this past week with infections, but hopefully this week will be brighter! It is really hard for me to feel this fatigued. Alek keeps asking me when I will be better and Maks is obsessed with my boo boos, he loves examining anyone's boo boos (I see a future in medicine...).

Grammom came up on Friday to play with the boys, so I got some good rest and woke up to the wonderful smells of cooking, a roasted chicken, stuffing and homemade mac and cheese, just what the doctor ordered for a cold rainy day! mac and cheese is the ultime comfort food in my book!

Alek got his first buzz cut of the season, which was perfect timing as daddy was trimming we found a tick. So much easier to look for ticks with the buzz cut! It just makes him look so much older!

So I am looking forward to a better week and fun Memorial Day weekend with the family!

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Happy Mother's Day, to all the mom's out there, great-grandmom's, grandmom's, mom's, birthmother's, first mothers, God-mother's, aunt's, friends, mom's to be, and those dreaming of motherhood! I have always felt this was more a day to celebrate all the women in our lives and any woman who is important in the life of a child!

May you have a peaceful and beautiful day!

So while I will not be celebrating Mother's day with our annual party, our family is in our thoughts today!

So I will be raising a glass or two, of the clear liquids I can have today, to all the women in mine and my children's lives!

This was emailed to me the other day and it gave me a good laugh!

You're Really A Mom When...

You count the number of sprinkles on each kid's cupcake to make sure they are equal.

You want to take out a contract on the kid who broke your child's favorite toy and made him/her cry.

You have time to shave only one leg at a time.

You hide in the bathroom to be alone.

Your child throws up and you catch it.
Someone else's kid throws up at a party and you keep eating.

You consider finger paint to be a controlled substance.

You mastered the art of placing food on a plate without anything touching.

Your child insists that you read "Once upon a Potty" out loud in the lobby of the doctor's office and you do it.

You hire a baby sitter because you haven't been out with your husband in ages, then you spend half the night talking about and checking on the kids.

You hope ketchup is a vegetable because it's the only one your child eats.

You find yourself cutting your husband's sandwiches into unusual shapes.
You fast-forward through the scene when the hunter shoots Bambi's mother.

You obsess when your child clings to you upon parting during his first month at school, then you obsess when he skips in without looking back.

You can't bear to give away baby clothes--it's so final.

You hear your mother's voice coming out of your mouth when you say, "Not in your good clothes."

You stop criticizing the way your mother raised you.

You read that the average-five-year old asks 437 questions a day and feel proud that your kid is "above average."

A little update and things that I love

Last weekend was a busy one! On Friday morning I was chosen as the lucky customer to have breakfast with my favorite shoe designer, Donald J Pliner. It was so exciting and very fascinating as well, it was a great experience, he is such an amazing guy.

Friday night I had a girls night out at one of my favorite restaurants, great food, great drinks, great friends. It was a lot of fun, although I was up so much later than I am used to and that meant nothing to the boys who were happily waking me up at 6:30!

Saturday Alek and I went to see Backyardigan's Live. He loved it, he was so into it, dancing and singing, it was really cute.

Saturday night friends were over to christen the new grill and cheer the Flyers on as they wrapped up their series over Montreal.

Sunday was a family communion party and then I went to see Hairspray that evening, it was a great show, an amazing performance-we really loved it!

So needless to say when that alarm went off Monday, I was so not into going back to work!!

Today is my last day at work for a few weeks. My surgery is scheduled for Monday, so my nerves have really kicked in, definitely have a lot of fears, so I really just want to get this over with!!

But in the meantime, I am going to try and enjoy the weekend and Mother's Day (even though I can only have a light breakfast, followed up by clear liquids all day--but I have my jello so I am ready to go!).
Yesterday, Alek and Maks gave me a beautiful little flower that they planted in a very pretty mug, at school, for Mother's Day. Alek was very excited about it. It is so cute. He was telling how I have to take care of it and how they plant flowers and how they grow. So sweet!

Things that I love and that make me smile:

They way they say certain words:
Alek: smarshsmellow, gaal (girl), Corlie (for Corie, our dog), tweezlers (tweezers)
Maks: Melmo (Elmo), Alyek (Alek), mooooose and moooon (he just drags the word out so long and when he sees a bus, he yells bus! and that says boop boop for his horn sound.

Funny things Alek says:
"Mom, Dad, you are a genius!"
"Well actually...."
"Mom, your my princess"
When he didn't have a great day behavior wise at school and I was talking to him about it: "Well mom, that is why I shouldn't go to school".
I love how he wants to marry me (well there is me, KeKe, Isabelle, Molly...) I tried to explain you can only have one wife, he said no he is marrying everyone!
I love when after playing with KeKe or Isabelle, he says, "she's my gaal".

Maks-will show a month's old boo boo to anyone new he meets, he says Hi and gets sad and holds his thumb out and says booboo
I love how he holds tight around my neck when we are hugging or when I am carrying him.
I love his excitement now when he sees me, he is smiling and keeps yelling mama mama. I love that he gets excited over family pictures on the fridge and says everyone's name. I love that he shares my love for shoes!!!

I love how daddy has instilled his fascination with trucks in both boys, they love construction sites. Alek wants to be a "worker" like daddy when he grows up.

I love how they all wrestle together at night, poor daddy gets the worst of it! I love to watch daddy pitch them balls in the yard and their excitement when they get a hit.

I love watching them learn new things each day, it just amazes me. I love how excited Alek gets when he gets his letters right in his Phonics computer or how proud he is when he writes out his letters on paper. I love how his drawings of people are all head with arms and legs and no bodies. I love that when the boys are coloring, they only like one color per picture-it cracks me up.

I love their belly laughs and giggles when they slide down the stairs or when they are supposed to be hiding from me during hide and seek-they haven't quite figured out how much noise travels.

Most of all I just love having the opportunity to watch these two little guys grow!