Tot School

 I have started Tot School (thanks Pinterest) with Hilton.  Really it is an organized time of play/learning just for the two of us.  He has been very receptive so far :) Like the preschool Letter of the Week curriculum, this is a Color of the Week program and we have covered Blue, Green, Red, Orange, Yellow, and Purple, then did a review week.  I only have pictures of green, blue, and review week, but you will get the idea.

 We do projects:

 We find and read different colored themed books:

I think his favorite thing is when we go on our color hunt each week and find things that match the specific color:

We watch videos that have our specific color of the week:

For review week, I found one of Aylin's Science Leveled Readers that had all 6 of our first colors so we read it and made a little test card to show daddy what we have learned :)

 And because it was the week of St Patrick's Day, we painted a rainbow with a pot of his favorite color at the end...GREEN!

We are taking this week off b/c of my surgery on Monday, but up next we plan on covering pink, brown, black, and grey.

Gallbladders

So the blog and I have not been compatible here lately, I really don't know how I get so far behind.   While I am recovering from surgery I thought I would try to catch it up :)  I had my gallbladder removed Monday afternoon after going to the ER late Sunday night in crippling pain.  About a year ago, when the doctors found and repaired my umbilical hernia they also saw a bunch of gallstones in my gallbladder.  The surgeon did not want to do anything with them while I was pregnant b/c 2 surgeries would be too much on Weston while still in the womb.  He told me then, when they got bad it would hit like a rock and I would have to have surgery.  Sure enough, Sunday night, while at worship, it was all I could do to not sit in the pew and cry so I left early and ended up in the ER.  Dr. Andrews, who did my hernia surgery, also did this one.  I can not say enough nice things about that man, he is a wonderful doc and has GREAT bedside manners!  I am still very sore, have 4 new scars on my belly, and something happened with the breathing tube that has made my throat hurt very badly but even so, today was a little better than yesterday :)

Once again we are very thankful for my mom, who was able to come to the house Sunday night and stay with the kids until we got back home Tuesday afternoon.  She even had to deal with poor Weston, who at 9 1/2 months, pretty much only nurses.  They both survived it :)  

I don't have any pics from my hospital stint so I pulled these off the web :)  I'm glad it is hopefully all over and I don't have to have any more procedures anytime soon!

Just a Quick Update With Lots of Pics

I can not believe I am so behind with this blog, but the boys are napping (for now) the house is cleaned (because the boys are napping) Aylin wants to "help me" and I am waiting on the next load of laundry to finish so here we go...

This little guy has changed the most, but he is still a wonderfully happy baby :)

OCTOBER

Really all we were missing from October was Halloween so introducing my Elsa, Jake, and Olaf:

 the back of Weston's onesie:

NOVEMBER

we had a zoo day:

Aylin had her last soccer game and party:

we went downtown and visited the Peabody Ducks:

took our christmas card pic:

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with Bobby's side of the family in AR:

Love my little family:

DECEMBER

and finally some of of favorite pics from this month:

and don't forget Christmas - this year was awesome!  I absolutely love that we have this Christmas Eve tradition at our house with my family :)