Where does the time go???

Just an update to fill everyone in on the last 2 weeks. Brady still is not poop trained...I am SO tired of changing poop on a 3 1/2 year old I could puke! Today I took him in to the Doctor and he has pneumonia, so trying to nurse him back to health.
Madie is having a play date with her friend Sydney on Saturday and is so excited. They have been planning this for weeks!
This weekend we went to my sister Kerri's in SD...what a long drive! The kids were really good. Thank GOD for travel DVD players in the car. We watched Mitch play basketball, did a little shopping and just hung out.
Friday night on the way to SD, we listed to the MSU Maverick Women's BB team win the Division II National Championship....GO MAVERICKS!

Thursday of last week, Madie has her last session of Swimming lessons. She passed Polliwog!! GO MADIE~~
Madie and Brady both start swimming lessons next Tuesday. Madie will be in Guppy1 and Brady will be in Pike.

Stressful week for me at work...our Dean's position was eliminated last Monday and we are being reorganized, but yet to know what that really means. It has been stressful, lots of anxiety...just the not knowing is driving me crazy!

Ok, so that was all random! Hopefully it will not take so long to post next.

My Life would Suck Without You

My new favorite song...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bap-oZI-Grc I was walking around the house the other night singing "My life would suck without you" and Madie asked why I was singing...I said because I like the song. She said, well mom...my life would suck without you too!

This weekend I played Volleyball in the cities with the girls. It was AWESOME. We had just the right number of goldschlager shots! We took 3rd place...yeah for us!!

Monday I had the day off and got a body wrap, lost 7 inches! Too bad they came back plus some:) (just kidding).

Another day in warm sunny Minnesota!

Monday March 16th

Jean had the day off and after Brayden came back from Speech class she took him to 5 C's preschool for a visit. He loved it and wanted Jean to leave him there. During the visit Jean took Brady to the restroom. While in the restroom Brady had a hand full of sudsy soap bubbles and when the automatic toilet flushed, since he doesn't like the noise, covered his ears with his hands and got soap in his ear and on his face. Wish I could have been there to see that.

Oh No...

Madie had swimming lessons last night and she ROCKED! It was awesome to see her do so well. Today was BEAUTIFUL outside. The kids played a lot.
I just went online to check the score of the MSU women's BB game and they lost:( When I saw the score to the game I said "Oh shit"...Brayden walked over to the computer, looked at the screen and said "Oh No" (having no idea what I was looking at). It was the cutest thing ever!
On Friday I am going on a field trip to MSU with Madie's kindergarten class. They are celebrating Dr. Suesses Birthday.
The weekend will bring the kids at Grandma & Papa's...Kevin and I SLEEPING!! YEAH. Looking for a new matress and going to the hockey game with Jen and Ross. A fun filled weekend for all.

Another week went by....

Here we are Sunday night again...Monday I had volleyball in the evening, so headed out with the girls. Tuesday, Madie started swimming lessons again. She is going at the YMCA and is a Polliwog. She did GREAT! Swam with the boy teachers and everything (which is a big deal because during the summer lessons, she cried about boy teachers). Brady and Kevin came with us to lessons and Brady cried because he wanted to swim. Kevin took Brady and went to his volleyball game. Madie and I met them their and the kids and I watched Kevin's team play.
Wednesday, I stayed home sick...I think I had the "after flu"...I had the fever and body aches, but did not have the pukes, which is OK with me. Lent started today--Kevin gave up swearing and I gave up soda.
Thursday, was another snowstorm...make that storm 500 of the winter--at least it seems. The kids got out of school early, so Madie did not have swim lessons on Thursday night. My first of the caffeine withdrawl headaches happed today.
Friday...the caffeine withdrawl headache was HORRIBLE today. Good thing it passed. My sister Sherry and I went to the play at MSU on Friday night. Kim was sick, so I was Sherry's date. The play "Noises off" was hilarious!
Saturday...we went to the MSU basketball games today. We watched the entire women's game and some of the men. The women won their game and finished the season 26-1. After the games we went out for supper.
Over the week...Brady ate us out of house and home. We need to take out a loan to feed that kid. All he does is eat right now. On the Wii Fit, he has gained 3.5 pounds in the last month. I am afraid how much that kids will eat as he gets older. Today he ate, breakfast, lunch, snack, a TON of supper (chicken, corn, rice, apples, cottage cheese, salad), then we went to ColdStone for ice cream, he ate all of his, we got home and he was hungry---ARGH!
Brady also has been getting dressed himself. He says..."I need to get my dressed on". It is really cute.
Brady has been asking for a pull-up when he needs to poop, so that is nice. At least we know he is getting the understanding of feeling he needs to go.
We are hoping the flu has passed...not only through the 4 of us, but also all the daycare kids.

Love,
Jean