Last Day for Super

Today was the last day of school for Mr. Super. We got to go to recess, see a fun movie, (Super told me it was the best movie ever! It did have a ton of pictures of him!) and have a special treat of ice-cream! And he got a special KNOCK KNOCK JOKE AWARD it's the award for "always being ready for silliness and laughter". What a fun last day!

Field Trip

Today I went with Super to his "End of the Year" field trip. We had so much fun. He and I got to be on a team with only one other mom and two other boys. With the five of us we were able to cover SO much ground at the huge play/learning center we went to. How cool is that!?! What a great day for us.

Early Easter

Easter came a week early with giant eggs around my house. At least that's what the eggs told me they were.

The Journey

I think my little guy is getting big too fast! I know these PJ's fit him just a minute ago.
My sweetheart teases me about wanting another baby. I don't, but I do wish I had a time machine and could just go back for a moment every once in a while and enjoy those hours of infancy, and toddlerhood all over again.
I love each and every stage they go through and always rejoice when I realize they've entered a new one.
I currently have one entering the years of dances and youth conferences away from home, another going into the teens, another on the verge of middle school, etc, etc, etc. Progress never ends, the "stages" of life last until this earth life moves to the next.
Enjoy it as it goes. It's not the destination but the journey that makes the difference.

Girl Stuff

Ever since Mr. Super started school he loves girl stuff. At least that is what I thought. Almost every day he got to pick a toy to bring home out of the prize box, and more often than not he has brought home girl stuff. Pink pencils, barbie things, hello kittie, you name it. I thought he was enchanted by them because things like that are such a novelty around here. That was until yesterday.

~Lightbulb~

He brought home a tiara yesterday. I told him it was lovely and ask him if he wanted some help putting it on. He told me no and then proceeded to shove it onto my head. Each time I took it off he insisted I put it back on. And when I asked him if I looked like a queen he told me, "No, you are a princess." I love that of course. And that is when the lightbulb went on. Every time he brought home these little treasures he always handed them to me as soon as he walked in the house. I thought he was just letting me see what he got as a prize that day, but he never did that when he brought home dinosaurs or superhero stuff. DUH!!! He has been bringing them home for me. Wow, what a sweet kid. It only took me a year...

On a little side note. Mr. Prince also loved my tiara and made the comment, "You're prettier than the Moms." I don't know who "The Moms" are, but I really don't care. I'm prettier than they are anyway.
Thanks Prince!

He hit me!

I've told you before about our Mr. Super and the fact that he is a bit slow where his speech is concerned. I am delighted with each and every new break through.
And you should know in his world of Super heroes there are villains as well.
So, when he gets into a fight with his brothers I often have had him come to me and announce. "Mom, bad guy hit me!"
One day after his report I heard his brother D.A. yell from the other room. "I'm not a bad guy! I'm a good guy!"
Super's immediate response? "Mom, good guy hit me!"
LOL
Yesterday I did a major faux pax when he came to me yelling, "Mom, Mr. Music hit me." (Okay he called him his real name, but you get the point.)
I was so thrilled at his use of his brothers name I cheered. "That is so wonderful." Poor kid. He gets the most mixed signals from me sometimes.

Tummy Ache

The other day Mr. Super was sick. It was so sad. He kept coming to me with band-aids to put on his tummy. So I put one on. I don't think it helped but he was appeased and afterward lie down and took a VERY long nap. (And then he slept all night as well.) Poor kid. He's better now...just fyi..

A crazy busy day in the Kingdom

Mr. Music lost another tooth. He only has one more baby tooth to lose. He is VERY aware of this and is looking forward to having all of his baby teeth gone. He knows the next step for him is braces, he isn't sure how he feels about those. But he is excited to be growing up. Mr. D.A. for the first time had a friend come over for a sleep over last night. I let him stay up a bit later than usual, but not a ton later. It didn't matter though, he slept most of the afternoon today and even went to sleep on my bed before evening prayers were even said. He LOVED having a friend over and can't wait until the next time we can do it, but it was exhausting!

Mr. Right shaved for the first time today. He has been growing some hair on his lip and asked me a while ago to teach him. So we've been planning and decided today was the day. He was a bit apprehensive, but did a great job. I told him he probably only needs to do it maybe once a week or so for now. But before bed he was already talking about "next week when I shave..." I loved teaching him and he even gave me a voluntary hug and kiss when he was done. YEA!

Today at martial arts class Mr. Perfect was informed that next week he would be promoted from yellow belt to green belt. Whahoo! He is really excited. He also got his hair cut today. He wanted to grow out his hair, but hated having to comb it every day. So, short it is. He looks great either way. Mr. Prince loves the United States. Today while we were doing all of our taxi driving from lessons and such he was listing all of the States in alphabetical order saying what each state was. "Florida- the sunshine state. Missouri-the show me state. etc. etc." I don't know them all and I definitely can't say all of the states in order but he can. Last week during conference this was one of his things. He is making a map of the US state by state. When he found he didn't have room for them all he drew an outline first. See next pic...He discovered it was much easier if he had the outline first and then drew the states in. Boy this kid is good! He loves to play this game with me where he draws half a state and I have to guess what it is. If I get it right he draws the rest, if I don't he gives me hints like..."This was the 12th state." or "This state is one of the eight smallest states. (WHO KNOWS THAT?) Mr. Prince knows it. He loves his United States. And finally my sweet Mr. Super. We dragged him along with us as we taxied kids here and there. This is a pic of him waiting in the van while some of the boys were still in their classes. Boy he is a cutie!

The blind leading the blind...

For those of you who don't know my D.A. he is loud, but that doesn't mean he speaks well. We have had him in speech therapy for a couple of years now and though he has made progress he is still lacking in verbal skills. Just because he talks a million miles a minute doesn't mean he does it well. Anyway, the point of my telling you this is because tonight overheard him trying to give a little speech lesson to Mr. Super. It was the cutest thing I have heard for a long time and went something like this.

"Okay say 'I'"

"I"

"am"

"am"

"a"

"a"

"swooper"

"swooper"

"heew"

"heew"

"wo"

"wo"

"I am a swooper heewwo"

(Translation: I am a super hero.")

I especially love the fact that 'hero' is not only two syllables it's two words. So cute! He deserves an A for effort in my book.

Batman (squared)

Mr Super has had Batman Pj's for quite a while now. But when we went to the store today and he saw superhero pj's he didn't care that they were exactly like the ones he had he insisted we get another pair. So we bought a pair for D.A. Oh my goodness. They LOVED that they were "The Batmans" I think they are both my heroes!

Little Breakthroughs

Mr. Super wanted to make a picture on Dad's Iphone. With a little help from Mom he did this. Oh what a cutie. My Little Superman has been talking quite a bit more lately. He has always talked a lot, but recently I hear him actually saying real words and phrases. Oh it is wonderful!
For instance, just now I was listening as the boys were downstairs playing and his sweet little laugh found its way up to me, just before I heard the sentence, "That's so funny!"
Normally it shouldn't be a cause to rejoice, but Mr. Super is not in the normal realm. "That's so funny." Might as well be a symphony. It was certainly music to my ears.

Happy Birthday Mr. Super

It's been a few days, but we have been celebrating... and there are a few more people we would like to celebrate with but just haven't found the time to do so. But I thought if I didn't get it blogged soon it would never happen. So....
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. SUPER!
On Super's birthday morning we made muffins and he got candles on his. He loved it. He got to spend the day with Mom. We went to several stores running errands and he found something at each store. Mom totally indulged him. He totally scored. (Mom did save some of them to open at a later date, but for the most part he got everything good on his birthday.)
Nana and Papa sent birthday cars both in email and snail mail. He loved them both. The one on the computer had a dog that went bizerk and he watched it over and over and laughed and laughed. It was fun to watch. He also enjoyed getting mail in the mailbox. It was a 3-D card too (Nana is so cool, she made it!) He carried it around for the whole afternoon. I also have to note that he was dressed as SuperWhy and told me that his card was his book. Cute. This actually was a few days before his birthday. He and Grandpa Crimson were playing with Grandpa's Itouch taking pics. I love the look on Super's face. He is such a happy guy.

Mr. Super shares a birthday with a good friend of mine. So for their birthday she made him a Superhero cape. He loves it! (His brothers do too. And he shares it well too. Cool!) Thanks Bluebell, you're so wonderful.

It wasn't as much for his birthday as it was just because he loves tools. But the Crimson's bought a tool set specifically for Super to play with at their house. He loves it. Maybe in the future he can become Mr. Fix-it. ;)

We had the Crimson's over to dinner last night to celebrate with cake and ice-cream. We missed Grandma Crimson who is out of town waiting for her grand baby Smudge to be born. (*soon-fingers crossed*)

Happy Birthday little man. You are already four years old and progressing so beautifully. I love how much you are trying to talk and use real words. Your sentences are getting better and it is getting easier for me to understand you. I love that you say, "Hello Mommy" and "I love you" those are two of my favorite sentences that you know. You are Super to me. I love you!

Oh and just a note...did you notice in most of these pictures he is dressed as some sort of Superhero? I'm just saying...

Super Caveman!

I have mentioned it before....Mr. Super loves to dress up. Well, the other day, in the middle of the afternoon Mr. Super comes upstairs with nothing but one of my woolly winter scarfs on. We thought he might have been trying to dress up like a caveman. Whatever he was. He sure looked cute!

Fun in weird ice-snow-stuff

I wanted to give a little glimpse of some of the fun we had today in the stuff that fell from the sky last night. It wasn't snow, it wasn't rain, it wasn't sleet, it wasn't hail. Maybe it was slush. That sounds right about right. We didn't go out into it until it was slush anyway. We were all sopping wet by the time we came in. But it was fun. (And the boys did like getting an extra day off school for it.)
Here is Mr. Perfect trying to do a snow board type thing on the sled. Nice wipe-out. But he sure loved the adventure of doing it.

Mr. Right and Mr. Prince walking back up the hill. That's the hard part of sledding. But I didn't hear one word of complaint. YEA!

Mr. Perfect. One happy camper.

Mr Music even joined us outside. WITHOUT being asked to come . That's almost a miracle! Mr Right, on the other hand, was one of the first ones out and the last ones in.

Mr Right was also so helpful with all of the other boys. They all would ask him to push them, and he obliged them quite a bit. I was really glad to see how much he was willing to do. Mr. Prince is such a cutie.
Mr. Super kept telling me where to go. I wasn't ever in the right place. Mr. Right got the snowboarding thing down pretty well.

Mr Right keeps asking for a snowboard. After watchin him today I am starting to think it's probably a good idea. One of the neighbor boys came to play for a while. He just hopped on with a couple of the boys. Our neighborhood is full of boys. It's great!

And my sweet Mr D.A. is so adorable. Look at that face. Who could possibly resist it?

New Blog for the New Year

With the New Year comes new nick-names. I actually quite look forward to this each year. So, to fill you in on the names for the new year here is some help.

This is Mr. Perfect, he will be 10 this summer. He says his favorite thing is drawing. (I thought for sure he would say Pokemon...but what do I know.) My Mr. Perfect is a perfectionist. He is sensitive to the feelings of others, and always tries to help when someone is in crisis. This is Mr. Prince, he will be turning 8 this year (YEA we have a baptism to look forward to.) and his favorite thing is maps, especially maps of the States, but world maps are almost as cool. This kid is royalty. He is a perfect gentleman and wonderful when everything is going his way, and if it isn't...well let's just say he likes to get his way. This is Mr. D.A. he will be turning 6 this year. His favorite thing is Baby Dog. But really anything soft will do just fine. We have been through a few Baby Dogs, as long as it feels soft to the touch chances are he will love it. We're not sure if the D is for Destroying or Delightful but the A is certainly for Angel. My D.A. is my best helper, and has a larger than life personality.

This is Mr. Music. He will turn 12 years old this year. (Oh my goodness, is that possible?!) His favorite thing....MUSIC! He spends any spare time he has browsing Pandora, ITunes, or Amazon.com's music department. Music is this boys whole life. If he isn't designing his latest CD cover he is listening to, singing, playing, or in some other way performing his music.This is Mr. Super, he will be 4 years old in a few days. His favorite thing is Super-Heroes. But he also loves to jump, loves to play, loves to sing, loves to dance, and loves to laugh. Mr Super is my own personal Super-hero! He loves Super-Heroes and even when he isn't dressed up like one he is a Super Great Kid. This is Mr. Right, he will be 13 in a couple of months. (AAAHHHH I am going to officially have a teenager!! He already eats like one.) He says his favorite thing is video-games. See he's acting like a teenager already. I would rather have him focus on video-games than girls though. This guy is not only my right arm, he is also (very much like his Dad) always right. He loves to make people laugh and is a great example! Me and Dad are part of the family too, but we're not nearly as cute.

So here is your official welcome to 2011