We Will Rock You

It's funny.
Our little Sage is learning to speak. He still is at the stage where sometimes I can understand certain words he is saying and sometimes I have no clue. But this morning after the older boys (and admittedly me) had been singing "We Will, We Will, Rock You!" I heard a sweet little voice singing the words. At first I couldn't convince myself that it was Sage. Certainly it must have been Puppy. But no...their voices are so different. I wasn't mistaking it. I went and spied on my little Sage and sure enough it was him. As clear as a bell each of the letters are letters that he can and does pronounce correctly. I laughed and laughed and sang along with him. I will have to teach him the "I'm a little teapot" version that Star brought home with him from Scout camp. There are those of my sons who know the real words, but I much prefer that version.
What was even better was listening to him destroy the pronunciation of every word as he sang "I Am A Child Of God". But he got the melody correct...hey you can't have everything.

Pictures!

YEA! Grandma Crimson sent some pics over of the birthday party yesterday. THANKS! So now you get some pics.
Check out this awesome cupcake-cake that Sunshine made for the boys. SOO cool!
Elmo candle for EZ. He loves ElmoPuppy candle for who else? Puppy!Here they are blowing out their candles. So fun!Puppy got a puppy that wags it's tail and lifts it's head when you pet it. It is so cute. He calls it 'Wings' because it has long ears. And I couldn't resist this cute cute pic of Sage and my cousins boyfriend. Check out that face! I think we washed it about 10 times. He just LOVED the frosting.

Go SAGE!

Potty training. Yes! I am on my last one. I started to potty train Sage a LONG time ago, but I haven't been very consistent, so our progress has been very slow. However, lately I have tried to be better and I feel like it is paying off. Yesterday he had a perfect day. Stayed in the same pants all day. Went both #1 and #2 in the potty. YEA!!! Today he did great but lost it when he drank 2 huge glasses of juice and mom didn't take him every 10 minutes for the next hour. Oh well, he did great until that point and I am encouraged. Won't it be great to have everyone in the house fully trained!!! Now if we could just teach everyone to sleep through the night... (at least the young ones sleep through most of the time, I should be counting my blessings.)

Long wearing lipstick...is it a good thing?

I like RED long lasting lipstick. The kind that stains your lips and you can eat, and kiss, and it never goes away. It's great, stays on for hours, NOTHING takes this stuff off.
And yet is that always a good thing?

It's hard enough to wash regular dirt off the face of a three year old. This is insane. He was VERY upset when I took the fun red paint away. He calmed down when I put him in the shower (he loves showers), but he was not too happy when I kept trying to wash his face. I haven't tried my eye make-up remover which I use as a last resort on myself. But tonight Sage is sleeping with war paint, we will see how he looks in the morning. He did start to laugh when I started taking pictures. I wish I could have caught the one of him seeing what he looked like. Too funny. Kids...you gotta love 'em!

Sage is getting OLD!

My old Sage is starting to show his age. He turned 3 years old this last week. MAN that is OLD. When you think of it from my perspective (the fact that he is my baby) it really doesn't seem possible that he can be that old yet. But indeed he is.
We had two birthday parties for him. He LOVED all of that attention and it dragged out his birthday for a few days as well, which he TOTALLY got into. I think we are done with cake for a while though. Although the boys tell me that they really couldn't ever get sick of having cake. In fact this morning they were asking when the next birthday was. Crazy Kids.
Here he is blowing out the candles on the cake. He didn't even let us finish singing, he saw candles he is allowed to blow out, he blew them out. Plain and simple!Blue Tiger and Sage ready to cut the cake.Opening presents. That is my favorite part, and the gifts last so much longer than the cake.He spends hours playing with all of his new toys. Exactly what 3 year olds are supposed to do.His brothers are happy to play with him too!Our next party we had a couple of days later with other friends. Boy we are so blessed to have so many friends. This is one of our friends who when he found out we were having a party really wanted to come. He loves our Sage, and our Sage loves him. It's a good relationship!Grandpa Crimson, looking quite dashing with his cool (although temporary) beard.Grandma Crimson, beautiful as usual. (I loved what Grandpa Crimson said about her, he told me "I married her because I thought she was the cutest thing ever.")And our Ray of Sunshine. She is taking Cake decorating classes and made a cake for the party. And although I didn't get a good pic of the cake I thought it was darling. It was a clown cake, and Sage LOVED it. In fact he kept trying to put the clown face on it in different places until there was no cake left to put it on. Happy Birthday Sage. I love you!

Sage Started School

Today was officially Sage's second day of school. The first day I dropped him off and picked him up, but today he left and came home on the bus. The bus drivers told me how easily he was transported, how he never cried, how he went along with the other kids, and how cute he is. (I knew that one already.)
His teacher came by after school today and told me he had already gotten into the routine of things. And how incredibly smart he is. He figured out the kid gate they have to keep the kids from going into the play area. Not only that but he got in there twice before they realized how he did it. She told me he did it so quietly and quick, and asked me if we had a gate like that since he seemed to come with the knowledge. I told her I didn't have any gates and all he had to do was watch once or twice and he would be able to figure it out. I then showed her the precautions that I keep on the doors around my house. (I've dealt with the escaping kid problem before.)
She told me that she thinks he will be making big progress. And after what she has seen in just these two days she will probably be sending him on to the more advanced class next year. And here I insisted on this class because I thought the advanced class would totally be too much for him. I guess I should have known...after all....he IS my Sage.