Ok - Boys are loud. If anyone ever says my name in a normal tone again it may be a miracle. Every sentence is ended with MOM! That's just my statement for today not actually what this post is about.
Mike and I took the boys for coats as they are "cold MOM". Which is fine and expected. Except that they go to the door, open it and stand in the house as the cold air rushes in and scream COLD! Our answer, "yep, now shut the door."
We had to buy some smaller sized jeans for Eli today. In the Philippines he wore 5T, I had gotten smalls and 6/7. The little draw strings didn't even work unless we hung them around his neck. We'd been given some hand me downs (thanks Lynn) that worked to get us to the store without flashing anyone.
Coats were another experience. I didn't know boys were so opinionated on color. Nor did I realize that getting the boys to actually put their hands completely through the end of the sleeves would be such a chore. They both thought they should keep them up inside the sleeve as they were warm there. Therefore we moved onto gloves........mmmmm we sat in the Target aisle explaining how only one finger per finger hole. Eli opted for mittens, he looked at me like duh why didn't we just try these first. Sorry son, mommy is a little slow.
Boots, well they've never had shoes that fit so any size we put on them was "Good MOM", once we finally found the size then it was a matter of getting them to walk a little to see how they fit....ummm you'd have thought we put cement shoes on them. Two very unhappy boys when we told them they had to wear them when it snows. Maybe they'll build leg muscles before snowfall?
One last note for this post. Whenever we go somewhere 90% of the time we have to drive by the school. Lucas really wants to go to school right this minute. Rachel left this morning for college and Sydney decided to head back today also. He was really disappointed to not be going with her. So everytime we passed school it was "School now MOM?" Bet he's not that excited tomorrow about the doctor's appointments as he is about school.
Shella May always says that she's not cold, but just you wait a few weeks. It's hard to believe they have never worn gloves or a jacket before because we are so used to it here. So many little things that are firsts also.
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