Blah Blah Blah

Almost a month without a post and no comments saying, "Hey, where are you guys?" I don't know about you, but Winter just makes me blah. The weather is crappy. Brantley has sensitive skin so his cheeks and lips get chapped all the time. He hates for me to put stuff on it, but he let's me because he knows it really does hurt when your skin cracks and bleeds. He continuously licks his lips because some kid told him that it makes it better and we all know that makes it worse.

Did I say I hate Winter?

We've just been busy with school work. Brantley started to type a post the other day but he didn't. He was excited about the 100th day of school and the trail mix that they made. Lately, we have been working on math skills. They have this math superstars thing going on. He has these tests that have 20 addition problems and they are timed. The problems are single digit addition. They have 1 minute to complete them and have to get them all correct to move on. He's really good at math but gets flustered because he wants to finish as fast as possible. I think his best time so far was 37 seconds. He also brought home another worksheet that we aren't supposed to help him with. It has 3 word problems on it. I listened and made sure he read them correctly, but I didn't help him with the answers. He got the easy one and the hard one correct. The medium one he missed. I didn't tell him, but he'll be upset when he finds out he missed it. I was really surprised that was the one he missed and he got the hard one correct.

I can't wait until Spring.

Are you ready for some....basketball!

Brantley is. He is playing in a recreational/instructional league. All they will be doing is learning the basics. They don't have to try out or anything. It's nice because he gets some winter exercise in before baseball gets started. I jokingly told Lawson this is probably the only time he will play for UT. And, probably his only chance to play basketball. He'll get to do it until 5th grade. I'm guessing in middle school they have to actually try out for the team. Unfortunately, my camera won't take pictures inside a gym but it will take video. Go figure.

Officially moved in

Well, it's been over 5 months since we moved and I think we are now officially moved in. We finally got furniture for the great room. I'm really happy with what we got. The couch that I really wanted cost about 3 times as much as what we spent on this one, and that wasn't including tax or delivery. We decided the first one was just too big. We put tape down on the floor so we could really see how it would fit and decided it was just too big. Just as well because we saved some moolah by getting this other one. I was nervous about it because we ordered it online and didn't get to do the sit test with it. But, it was a lot cheaper and delivery was included so we took a chance. After we ordered it, I found a magazine page that I had ripped out a long time ago and it was practically this same couch. It worked out great. I think it fits in the room perfectly and it is so comfy! What's really cool is now we can watch tv from the front living room and the great room.

I do not like the Tooth Fairy

3:40 AM "Mommy, I think I lost my tooth."
Half asleep, "I'm sure you didn't lose it. It probably fell off the bed."

This was the beginning of over an hour his dramatics. It was after 5 when I fell back to sleep. Good thing I didn't have to work today or I would have been more mad than I already was. He slept until about 9:30 this morning. He comes down the hall and has a sad look on his face. He hopped up in my lap and said the tooth fairy didn't leave him anything. So, here we go to search his bed. We ended up pulling out his bed and the golden dollar left by the tooth fairy was there on the floor. We are going to have to talk to that fairy about leaving it on the shelf instead of under his pillow. ;) Oh well, his sheets needed to be changed anyways. By the way, if you click on the picture and look at the big version, you can kinda see his black eye from the boo-boo from Sunday. I ended up taking him to the doctor today to have him look at it. It had started bleeding again and I was a little bit concerned. It's all fine though. He's never had a band-aid on that long and he was actually having a little bit of reaction to that and the neosporin. The bleeding was more than likely from him not being able to sit still for 5 seconds and being too rambunctious. Note to others with sensitive skin, gauze and paper tape are better for your skin than band-aids.