Since my last post we've celebrated my 31st Birthday and Austin's 3rd birthday, enrolled our big boy in Preschool for the fall, watched Connor start trying to walk and eat handfuls of dirt in the sandbox and Austin become a very responsible little man doing chores and earning Daddy Dollars.
Oh, I can't believe Austin will be starting school this fall, I know it's only 2 day a week preschool but still...who said he could grow so fast?! We started a new responsibility chart with Austin and he's been doing really well with it and even reminds us when he has earned his smiley faces and Daddy Dollars. His Daddy Dollars are pretty cute, I went to this website that you can print any currency and put your face where the "rulers" face was. So I put Allen's face on the front of a Dollar bill, made lots of copies and laminated them. When Austin earns 3 or more smiley faces on his responsibility chart or we see him making good choices he earns Daddy Dollars and he can use them at the Mommy Mart to get things like extra stories at bedtime or stay up 30 minutes past bedtime, family bike rids and campouts in the backyard. I read about the idea for the Daddy Dollars in a magazine a while ago and thought it was a great idea. And Austin thinks the Daddy Dollars are really funny. They are great too because it helps him with counting and saving. Austin had a great firefighter birthday and had so much fun celebrating with all his friends and family. It's still hard to believe he's 3 years old already.
Connor is a man on a mission:) He has been pulling himself up on furniture for a while now and holding on as he walks around but now he thinks when he gets to the end of whatever he is holding onto, he can just let go and continue walking, it has not worked out so well! So he's figured out he still needs to stick to sinking back down to the floor and crawling for now:) And just like his Mommy he seems to like eating the sand out of the sandbox, I turned around a couple days ago to catch him putting a gigantic fistful of sand in his mouth. To his credit he didn't whine or cry, instead he just threw up and went on playing!
Well, looks like Allen is leaving for Japan again right after Easter. He's only supposed to be there 2 1/2 weeks this time but we'll see, that have a habit of prolonging trips.
We've all been enjoying the past few days of sunny weather and can't wait for it to warm up a bit. Hope everyone else is having a wonderful spring so far!
Connor is a man on a mission:) He has been pulling himself up on furniture for a while now and holding on as he walks around but now he thinks when he gets to the end of whatever he is holding onto, he can just let go and continue walking, it has not worked out so well! So he's figured out he still needs to stick to sinking back down to the floor and crawling for now:) And just like his Mommy he seems to like eating the sand out of the sandbox, I turned around a couple days ago to catch him putting a gigantic fistful of sand in his mouth. To his credit he didn't whine or cry, instead he just threw up and went on playing!
Well, looks like Allen is leaving for Japan again right after Easter. He's only supposed to be there 2 1/2 weeks this time but we'll see, that have a habit of prolonging trips.
We've all been enjoying the past few days of sunny weather and can't wait for it to warm up a bit. Hope everyone else is having a wonderful spring so far!
