Long year in a nutshell....
Chris Big moved in,
New kitchen put together by my dAd
we got engaged,
Lorenzo made it through kindergarten,
Tayshon graduated preschool,
Lil Chris (Lc) moved in....

And so it begins another school year.............

PLEASE!!! write your names....

Lorenzo has been able to write his name for awhile now... I'd say at least a year!..Super proud...I get teary eyed and overcome with emotion everytime I see him write it!...He always makes sure he has all of his letters in...if he runs out of room he will cram them in anywhere!..I LOVE IT!!!

Tayshon....yup my Tater!!...he can do it, he can spell it, but "NO I CAN'T" is usually the response I get when I ask...If I hand him a pencil...He will say "together, I need together pllleeeeease"....awww shoot!...

So finally I resulted to positive reinforcement, some may call this bribery, I prefer positive reinforcement...$4.97 Lego train for each...

So it went like this "boys,if you write you name for mommy, I will give you a surprise!"
Lorenzo "OK mommy!! I will write it 2 times!"
Tater "I can't do it!"
Me "come on Tater for me?  I will tell you the letters to write."
Tater "OK PINE MA!...T...A...I need helps, TOGETHERZ"
Me "please Tayshon I love it when you write your name for me like a big boy"
Tater "OK PINE I JUST DO IT MYSELF!"

and he did.......

BLESSED

The Drive Thru....

We went through the McDonalds drive through the other day...I started to order "could I please have a" cut off by Taters voice (with his window rolled down) "please a cheeseburger, two cheeseburger. NO pickle, I dont like pickle. Oragnge pops. Apple juices. OH and three chocolate chip cookies for Beebo brother. he lubs cookies"...I was so proud and embarrassed and laughing so hard!!!....LOVE MY LIL MEN!!

Welcome Back!!!

It's been a long long time since I've been able to blog!...And I'm sooooooo happy to be able to again...This first one back I'm going to just give a couple of my favorite Lil Man quotes;

• "It could be dangerous Mommy!!"
• "I just cant Mom!.I just so busy" (every time I ask them a question)
• "Are you kidding me!"
• "Are you crazy Mom"
• "Can I go wit you" (while looking so cute!)
• "Mommy, I just misseded you so much"
• "I LUB poops on mines toilet"
• "Mommy Santa is pretty awesome"
• "Look Mommy I made a Heck it Chopper"
• "Hey Mommy, we need tape! His head fell right off!"
• "Mommy, I'm pretty good looking guy"
• "Mommy I'm Tayshon not ermal!"  (after I told him normal people are still sleeping!)
• "I just so sleepy"
• "No Sank you"
• "What you do that for"
• "psst, Beebo!"..."sshhhhh Tayshon I sleeping"
• "I'm berry sleepy mama"
• "Tayson my name is lolorenzo, not beebo!"..."ok beebo!"
• "Tayshon, i will open presnts, you eat cake".."yeah cake!"

Everyday I smile and thank God for these two little Boys that changed my life!          
      

so far this week...lols....w

so far this week...we have had lots of laughing moments...some that i couldnt laugh at until afterwards....at 210 am...benzo crawls into bed next to me and said lmommy i snuggle you...of course benzo..the next thing i know there are little fingers pinching and poking my face...he said oh mommy your face is soo squishy...i replied yes benzo yours is too. go to sleep...umm mommy wanna play trains...no benzo go to sleep...so for the next 2 hours i heard recites from the movies..chipmunks. rio. backyardigans. toy story and every kind of animal noise he knows....my alarm went off and he rolled over and said mommy im segsawstead and went to sleep...awesome...lol                                                                              well then we are driving to daycare and tater wakes up...i hear..dave watch out...what the heck...chipmunks...nice...i get to daycare today and of course tayshon is the only kid playing in the puddle...soaked...lol...we get into the car and benzo tells him...tayshon you all wet. gross...so apparently tater developed a complex from this...because the whole way home he kept saying pants off grossssssssss.....lol...love these boys

ahhh....wonderful mornings!

Yesterday morning I believe I was beat up by my 4 year old...LOL...yes this is funny because he was sleeping..It was 335am and I snuck into the room to put the boys' clothes on for daycare...usually, USUALLY, they remain sleeping while I carefully put their little clothes, coats and hats on...well, I got Tater all dressed and ready...then moved on to Benzo...Well I got his socks on and he was still snoring...I rolled him over, he was still snoring...Suddenly he started yelling in between snores..."QUIT IT OUT MOMMY! QUIT IT OUT RIGHT NOW!" and his little fists were flying..."I NOT GOING TO SCHOOL!  IT BROKEN!  SCHOOL BROKEN!"...calm..snoring...legs and fists!...snoring...LOL!...and throught this 20 minute sleep battle, Tater remained asleep...We made it to daycare...ontime!...

So this morning I had a new plan...be slower...lol...Nope same results!...but this time he woke up and ran downstairs yelling "I JUST NOT GO TO SCHOOL!"...but by the time we were in the car...he was calm and excited to go to "learning school"..YAY!

our first few days

well we moved into grandmas...i picked them up from grannys and brought them to our new home...lorenzo walked downstairs and said wow this is  wicked...wicked huhn i dont think i love my 4 year old saying that one...lol...tayshon saw all of his toys and said mine toys mine toys...lol...he is definately at the mine phase...lol...the first night went well...everyone in bed and sleeping by 9pm...the second day...woke up and headed to learning school for benzo...that all went well...i picked benzo up instead of him riding the bus to daycare...he saw me and screamed hey thats my mommy...he pretty much scared the crap outta all the other kids...haha...then walked up all cool and calm and said hey mom what you doin here...lol...my boy.ne..anyways...we came home and played...went to jaryns last cheerleading...and groceries with grandma...benzo had this cough and little fever...so we went to bed...i woke up 1215am to benzo saying uh oh mommy and puking all over me and everything on the way to the bathroom...awesome....then in the middle of that tater came running in holding his bottom yelling i poooooooooop....so one puking in the big potty and one on the little potty...not so fun...thank god thats over...so far everything is ok...the boys adjust well to new places as long as their toys are there...thank god for that too...so this mommy is praying this will be be very temporary...then back to charlotte and back to a somewhat normal life for my boys...