divine intervention...

Have you ever have one of those days weeks where you feel like nothing is going right? Well,  Welcome to my world! School started on Monday & we have been BUSY little beavers since. A lot of stress comes with the start of school. I do NOT like stress! The tribe moved up to the 3 year old class & D started HIGH SCHOOL! YIKES! Seems like yesterday he was in Kindergarten! We would drop him off & all of the girls would chase him around the playground! Ahh... now those were the days! Funny how life comes full circle to where we are now! He is in a NEW school & I can just about imagine the girl situation! LOL! =] Not only does Cam have regular preschool like the others she ALSO gets to attend a speech program too. EVENTUALLY she will be riding a bus to & from preschool & I must say she is VERY excited about that! Of the foursome she is by far our most acclimated child. She can pretty much go with the flow & thoroughly enjoys school! YAY for me since I have had to take her until the bus gets set up. There have been MANY challenges this school year. I am the parent that needs things mapped out, I need a time line & wish for things to run smoothly. After MANY bumps in the road we are hopefully where we need to be. Dustyn has his schedule, he's getting used to his new environment, the tribe has been assigned their classes, teachers & Cam may FINALLY know where she will be attending speech. The best part is that I really like this school & hope that she gets to stay. I tend to look for "signs" to see if this is meant to be & when I saw signs, I saw signs! =] The staff there are WONDERFUL, very accommodating & really LOVE the children. When I walked into her classroom it was completely set up unlike the other one. They gave me paperwork on what was expected of me whereas the other school gave me nothing. Now I am not trying to knock the alternate choice but remember I am new to this game, I need instruction, I need to know what is expected of me. But even putting all of that aside the BIGGEST sign would have to have been learning what their mascot was, an eagle. My Dad LOVED eagles, in fact my mother still has his HUGE collection of them at home. If ever there was a sign that this was where she needed to be it was that. I feel like he is watching down from above & it was sort of like...

divine intervention... 

getting down to business...

I got creative for Christmas this year & gave each of the babies a potty as part of their Christmas presents. I am trying my hardest to have these four babies potty trained in 2009! I know I am out of my mind for attempting this BUT I am alway's up for a challenge. We started out with one pink potty at Grandma's house. I wanted to peak their interest so once Christmas came they would understand the concept. I purchased 4 of the same, basic, plain white, Baby Bjorn little potty's. I was not going to put out a ton of money for them so these fit the bill. They LOVE the idea of it but Camryn is the only one to have actually peed in hers. It is rather funny to watch them line the potty's up and sit down on them. Sometimes they sit the correct way sometimes not. They even stack them up like they need them in order. I think they learned this from me. I am VERY anal about having things lined up straight, labels facing front, etc. I realize now how this can be a very bad habit for them to inherit from me. The sad thing is that I have ALWAY'S been this way. Old habit's die hard! LOL! Now if I could just get them concerned about...



getting down to business...