Stuff

I don't really have many new photos of the boys. Okay, I don't have any new photos of the boys! With my working night shift and everyone around her alternatively being sick the past couple of weeks, I just haven't had much opportunity or enthusiasm for grabbing the camera.

Let me assure you that both Keats and Sully are still exceptionally cute little boys!

Keats lost his 8th tooth a couple of nights ago. Now he has just the canines (upper & lower) and he's on to molars. Crazy! I guess the good thing about losing them all so early is that if he does need braces we can get started on them early.

Sully is really liking his full-time preschool. His language has taken off like crazy in the past month. He is super-duper sweet and cuddly the past few days. He was driving us nuts with his grumpy three-year-oldness so this is a nice switch. He loves, loves, loves to snuggle. He can write his name, though when feeling particularly stubborn he will place the "U" after the second "L". ;o)

I'm hoping to get them both into swimming lessons soon. We are also considering tennis for Keats but doubt that Sully is ready for lessons there so we need to find something else for Sully. He's probably ready for soccer lessons but I'm not sure if summer soccer is going to happen. Last year it was so hot that we missed half of the sessions. I've heard that a summer session is held in an old (acutally, brand new building but they went bankrupt right away) Circuit City building, and that it is nice and chilly in there. Maybe we'll do that.

With them both being in the same summer school, they'll have lots of opportunities there as well. I think they go bowling once a week, have lots of picnics, and also work on swimming lessons.

I heard the other day that I get to go to dayshift, but I'm not sure how many hours or when the switch will happen. Rumor is mid-June but I don't know how they would hire & train new nurses by then. Two of us are making the switch so there will be two positions to fill. Even if I have to wait, I'm very excited to get off of nights. Sully is just not tolerating my being gone at night and it is very disruptive to Mike's sleep. It also makes Sully 100% likely to crawl into bed with me on the nights I am home.

Today we are separating the bunk beds and will move Keaton out of the boys' room. His new roomwill be the new room. He threw the biggest, longest tantrum last night, not sure why it started, but it ended with him up on his top bunk and screaming at Sully for, literally, breathing. To be sure, Sullivan makes a LOT of noise when he eats and breathes. This does not, however, mean that Sullivan does not have the right to both eat and breathe. Keats believes it is not Sully's right to make noise as he exists. I had to take Sully out of their room last night until Keats fell asleep because I just didn't think he needed to hear what Keats was saying about him. I know there are going to be arguments and chaos as these boys grow up, but making them share a room in order to get used to dealing with each other & learning to get along (which was the reason they were roomed together) is turning out to be very unfair to Sully, and he isn't the one who needs the lesson on how to coexist. So, I am waving the white flag and Debbie & Vince will come help us separate the beds and tonight will be a peaceful night in the Moore household. Cross your fingers!