Michael:
was living in a combination of dental school and residency life this week, which is a terrible combination. He has 12 long days in a row right now because his Saturday and Sunday was spent at an Advanced Trauma Life Support course, and the little while leading up to it has meant studying when he gets home from work around 8pm. It brought on flashbacks of those weeks in dental school when all free time was dedicated to an upcoming test and I do NOT miss that life. I'm excited for him to get home tonight and have his first real free time in a long while. He's going to fall asleep probably 10 minutes into it, but still. :)
Maddie:
is craving our fall routine (maybe I have a color-coded weekly schedule in the works? Don't judge me...) and so excited for Westin to start preschool on Tuesday. Monday is also his first weekly swimming lesson. August has felt longer to me than all of June and July combined, and this week has kind of been a struggle. Too many long days without dad in a row, too hot to get out as much as want to, too much lack of energy around here (but not from the toddlers ... never from the toddlers). I'm in a cooking rut too and we've just been kind of surviving. Time to get it in gear again! On Friday night we took pizza to Michael's work and it was fun to eat with him and see where he's spending his days during this VA rotation. The boys loved running down the halls.
Westin:
loved meeting his teachers and seeing his classroom at Back to School night. He was ready to go to school right away and wasn't too happy about having to wait until Tuesday. He was also SO good in church today. Michael was working and I had to teach Sharing Time, and Bennett still doesn't do nursery without us so I knew it was going to be a lot. But he was so reverent through sacrament meeting, and loved making eye contact and smiling and shaking his head with me when Bennett was less than reverent :) Haha he felt big being my helper for the day and was great in primary too. He also even sat quietly by himself in sacrament meeting all while I went and changed Bennett's diaper, threw it away outside, and came back in. When I came back in the chapel and saw him sitting there I just felt so proud of that sweet 3-year-old boy. He's growing up, and he's so good and sweet. I love him so much. He got a bloody nose before bedtime on Saturday night and it really scared him. He got out of bed an hour later (which he never does) and was scared it was bleeding again. He just had a little bit of sweat on his lip, not blood, and he was so so nervous about it. I suddenly remembered all these real feelings of being nervous about this or that as a kid and I just had so much love for him. He got up two hours later with the same thing and was just so nervous, but we told him his nose was all better and he didn't need to be scared of touching it anymore. He's always the sweetest in his tired state of mind, and cuddling him in those moments are when I feel like he's growing up just crazy fast.
Bennett:
Bennett did ok in nursery without us and ended up coming to my second sharing time but it's progress for sure! He loves to run up to Westin, wrap his arms around his brother, and pull him down on top of him like a wrestle-hug. He loves to bug Kitty until she swats at him. His favorite words are "nana!" (banana) and "Turtle!" He absolutely loved our zoo trip this week after our long break. It's so fun to see how much he loves animals.
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