ThirtySomething

You know, when Jack turned five, I thought I was struggling MORE with his growing up, but now that it has rolled around to Aeryn’s birthday, I am feeling the same as I am with him.  I cannot believe my baby girl is FOUR already!  Time is just flying by.  I really miss the itty bitty years of my children.  I have loved watching them blossom from itty bitty newborns into the beautiful children they are today. 

We celebrated Aeryn’s birthday yesterday with family.  Uncle D was there, Nannie and Poppy, us (of course) and my mom and Samantha.  My dad couldn’t make it, he was sick.  We had a great day.  The weather was BEAUTIFUL for a February day.  The cake Aunt Sheryl made for Aeryn was beautiful.  She truly outdoes herself each time (she has made most of the birthday cakes for birthdays in this family).  So, her party was a great success and she loved EVERY minute of it.

Today is her actual birthday and she woke up saying, “I AM FOUR MOMMY!”  Awww, such bittersweet words.  I had a rough time getting out of bed this morning since Jack was up ALL. NIGHT. LONG. for one reason or another.  I think he got us up every hour through the night, some times Chris went in to see what was wrong and other times it was me.  I think the last time was at 5 this morning when I told him that if he didn’t go to sleep and stay asleep he would start to lose privileges.  This by far has been the worst EVER for him.  He was not sick and was not waking us up for good reason.  One time he was upset there was a string on what he was wearing, another time he wanted covered up, another time he wanted a drink, another time he was afraid of something in his room, another time he just forgot to kiss me goodnight.  And this was just the reasons he gave ME as to why he wasn’t sleeping.  I think the true reason was because at 8:30pm he ate an entire pack of mini M&M’s that he got at Aeryn’s birthday party.  Poor judgment on mommy’s behalf….I sure did pay the price.  Aeryn was up at 7:30 this morning and I am still dragging my feet.  I have SOOOO much to get done!  Jack, is still sleeping at 10:16 am.  So, here’s some photo’s from Aer-Bear’s birthday party: