Kindergarten

With a tear in my eye, I shipped Eli off to Kindergarten this morning.  He was previously familiar with the building as he visited it many times last year, but it was still a bit weepy for me.

We all gathered on the playground/parking lot to wait to be called into classrooms.  His principal stepped up to the microphone and led us in morning prayers and the pledge.  Then it was time to call classrooms.  Since he's in Kindergarten, he was called 1st.  He was placed in the K-B classroom with a teacher who his cousins have had so I've only heard good things about her.  He has one of his bestest buddies in his class too and both boys were relieved to see that.

He's got 1/2 days this week and then transitions to full days starting after Labor Day.  Since I'm back to school I had to drop him off and speed over to my school to get there in time for our 1st day of school too.  Yikes!!!  I called home on my lunch break and he was pretty excited about everything and said he's got 2 homework papers for me and 1 homework paper for him...Let the paperwork begin!!!

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Gotta love Sammy's expression

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Freezer Full

For those that wondered how I organized my freezer full of baby food...Here ya go...

Lunch is on the left in the rectangular containers and dinner is on the right in round containers...

It's just over a week's worth of meals...

You're welcome!!!

Cape Trip 2011

Saturday...Let's get going...

We packed up most of our gear Friday night and were on the road bright and early Saturday morning...

think we packed enough?

Sammy's ready

The Daisy Express is ready to roll...

Nate's ready

Eli's ready

Ben's ready

On the road...bright and early...

We got to the Sagamore rest stop and fed the babies their breakfast.  They're rocking eating big people food.  Waffles and bananas were on the menu.

Bananas at the rest stop
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The Sagamore Bridge

Since we couldn't get the key to our place until 3 PM we decided to beach it until our key was ready.  We tried Corporation beach first, but it was full so we headed over to Howe St.  Note to self...the hill is huge and not fun for lugging up babies and gear and a sometimes useless 5 year old...




So great weather and fun at the beach and then we head out to get some groceries and go to our rental house.  After unpacking and feeding babies, we went to get some dinner and head over to West Dennis beach to see some fire boom booms aka fireworks.

Eli-Renee-Nate



Sam-Dave-Ben

Super fun and super long day...We weren't home until after 10...yikes...

Sunday...Beach Day...

So we're kind of beach rats and will spend every waking moment at the beach if allowed so we decided to get out bright and early to get some more sand in our toes...and diapers...etc...We chose Mayflower beach for our big day out.  Worked well for us last year, but this year it was a bit tough for us with the babies.  Super weather and super day...

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 When we got home, we decided to put all the babies in the outdoor shower because we thought it would be fun...ummmm...not so much...

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Nate-Sam-Ben

Then we went for dinner and ice cream.  We went to the Lil Caboose place because we go every year and take pictures on the cute little train they have for kids to play on.



Monday...Pancake Day...

There's a restaraunt called Pancake Man that we go to every year also, so we went for breakfast on Monday morning.  The babies loved their silver dollar pancakes and we all pigged out on yumminess of pancakes...

Nate

Ben

Eli...and no...he's not drinking maple syrup...

Sam

Then...you guessed it...we went to the beach.  This time Corporation.  It was pretty empty when we got there so we got our choice of spots.  Because we had forgotten the babies' floats at home, we got these goofy little car floatie things.  They took some getting used to for the babies, but they worked out well.  After one use, one got a hole in it.  When we went back to the store, they replaced it for free for us...yay...and did I mention...they filled them all up for us too...double yay...

Baby Jail
Too windy for the tent so we used blankets for shade instead...

Then we were off to the Dog House for another yearly tradition of hot dogs and hand cut fries.  After that Sundae School for some ice cream...



Are you noticing a pattern?  Beaches and ice cream are what it's all about...

Then home for a tubby.  Since the outdoor shower didn't go over so well, we decided to do the indoor thing.  The bathroom was H-U-G-E and we wanted to steal it.  We piled up all the babies and they were having a great time...until we saw floaties in the tub...GROSSSSSSSS...We got everybody out and cleaned up the mess and tried again...



Tuesday...headin' home...

We had to cut our vacation short this year because Dave had used all his vacay time to stay home with the babies so we only could stay til Tuesday.  While Dave was packing up the van, I was taking pix of the place to post on the blog...

Then...off to the beach...YAY...We went to Corporation again because it was just logistically easier for us. 

On our way home, we stopped at Spanky's Clam Shack for my favorite lobster ravioli and to see the harbor in Hyannis...



Don't worry...we had Ben and Jerry's before we left the Cape...

More on Ben...

Per the SLP's suggestion, I brought Ben to an ENT today.  We went to the same one who did Eli's tonsils/adenoids/tube.  As ususal the wait was hours and silly me didn't call ahead figuring he wouldn't be backed up at 9am.  OY...

So he decided to do a scope to see his vocal chords.  Everything is anatomically fine.  Tonsils, adenoids, vocal chords, epiglotis, etc, etc, etc...

BUT...

He saw irritation in his throat from reflux...

HMMMMMM...

I feel like I mentioned that to the pedi at one of his first check ups and I was told he wasn't cranky enough to have reflux.  UMMM... have you met Ben?  He's as cranky as they come.

So now we wait for his pedi to get back from vacay to see if he'll prescribe some meds for my poor little monkey.  Can we just fix this, please? 

Road Trip

Twice a year, we travel down to the southern part of the state [a whole hour-ish away] to get my ring inspected.  Because Dave bought my ring in Michigan, it needs to be inspected by a jeweler within the network of the store where he bought it...long story and not necessary for this post.

Anyway, while we're ''down south'' we stop in Wrentham to get our shopping on.  We decided to try the trip with the babies.  It's usually super busy so we know to get there early.  It was empty when we got there and got started with the marathon shopping.  I like to buy clothes a year ahead so I'm always prepared wen we go up a size or when the seasons change. 

After 4 hours of shopping we were all tuckered out and needed lunch [don't worry, we had fed the babies].  We headed out and decided to cram our day even more full of fun and excitement and head over to Gillette Stadium [home of the New England Patriots].  They have made the stadium into a day trip and put in a bunch of restaraunts and stores on the the property so we had plenty to do and eat. 

We stopped at Red Robin...yum...for lunch.  The boys were amazingly well behaved.  I ordered steamed carrots for them.  Note to self...Red Robin uses real baby carrots for their steamed carrots.  They were too crunchy when they came out so I had to send them back until they were mushy enough for the babies.  In the meantime, they munched on some french fries.  I feel terrible for giving them french fries.  I swore I wouldn't do it until they were closer to 2, but I caved and I'm still kicking myself. 

After lunch we ran over to the practice field to see if the team was still practicing.  They weren't but, it was fun to see anyway.  Then we walked around and saw some sights and did some shopping.  I can't believe we survived the day with only minor issues and we actually had fun too.  It's sure to be an annual tradition.

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If I had known we were going to Gillette, I totally would have gotten everybody all geared up in their Pats stuff, but alas, it was a last minute decision and we look like bums....