The Lawry Crew (Declan and his Triplets): Pre-School, Mexico, Hunting and More!

Sunday, November 23, 2014

Pre-School, Mexico, Hunting and More!

It's been a while since I've done a blog post, but we've been busy! After the girls birthday I got to go spend 4 amazing, blissful, kids-free, alcohol as a must, girls only nights with 2 of my best girlfriends... We went to Cabo and had an AMAZING time... I think it's the first time that I've actually relaxed since the girls were born and although I hate leaving the kids and Andy, it was just what I needed. I also came back with a bout of sickness... News flash, don't drink the water (or the ice). I've never had issues before, but apparently I've never drank as much :-) So I was there for 4 nights and I had 4 pretty horrible nights of sickness, after I got home - I'm still recovering, but I'm pretty sure I'd do it all over again (maybe a few less Cactus Stomps :-))

Andy was pretty much at his whits end by the time I got him and recovered a bit, so luckily he's off for a 5 days of hunting back in Wisconsin. My folks are visiting for Thanksgiving, so it all worked out great!

The girls started pre-school right after their birthday and they are loving it! I'll they can't necessarily tell us they like school, they don't protest and they always say "yes" when we ask them if they want to go to school. At this age when Declan was in pre-school, we used to have to bribe him with bacon to get out of the house on his way to school. And he's NEVER liked going to school. I'm hopeful that the girls will, because lets be honest, getting 3 kids that don't like it to school is harder than just one... So as long as we let Stevie wear her tutu, we are good! Oh yea, Stevie has worn her tutu every day to school... Hey - at least they all have clothes on!

Here's a picture of their first day of school (L to R: Bria, Stevie & Aven)... We could not be more pleased with how they are doing and we already see their language developing in just a few weeks. The teachers are amazing and love having the girls in class with them!

Stevie before school last week - in her tutu...

Bria's first smiley face the other night - these girls amaze me...

We also got to see Declan's first concert last week... They did a Thanksgiving concert and he was an Indian. He did so good and the concert was adorable! Still can't believe he's in Kindergarten already!

Declan spotting out his daddy with one of his best friends (Jordan). Here's a funny about Declan... There is always something with him... So a few weeks ago he told me that he doesn't like white people. I politely informed him that he was white, mommy and daddy were white and so was the rest of his family. He looked at me stunned. He said, I'm not white mommy - I said, yea buddy you are... Sorry to tell you that, I didn't know that you didn't know this. He point blank looks at me and said "Mommy, I'm not white, I am TAN!" Duh... I should have known. I'll make sure the EEOC knows about the new protected class of "tan" :-) This brings me to this week... He's been talking about his friend Jordan for a while and how they were best friends. He was so excited for us to meet him at the concert, so I asked him what he looked like so that we could tell who he was and he said "well, he's a little tanner than I am, a little shorter and has brown hair." Clearly this kid see's no colors - which we LOVE! Such a sweet little man...

So it will be interesting when the kids go back to school after Thanksgiving break to see if Stevie prefers to wear her princess dresses or her tutu... Here's Stevie in full princess...