Day 10 and also my 100th blog!

Yay 100th post!!!!!!

Here is today's lunch, it's for Friday so they get to choose everything

Mac, chicken and cheese bites

Landon, on the left, chose pretzels, Casen chose veggie straws

kettle corn 

blueberry yogurt pretzels

applesauce, I stirred in some cinnamon

mash up

For a special treat I added in an oatmeal cream pie, they never get that type of thing and don't know it's there so they'll be excited

Raspberry Ice to drink

Casen had a bad day at school

Casen came home from school today in tears, all out crying. I looked at his folder and in today's spot there is a light stamp but written in red says "got out of seat some today" Casen is sooooooooo upset. He said he never moved his clip from green so he should NOT have been signed. There is a sub there from Wed-Friday and he came home yesterday and said she wasn't very nice and then this happened today. He said the only time he can remember getting out of his seat when he wasn't supposed to was when he had to use the restroom and he had his hand up and she wasn't seeing him so he got up to ask and she told him he had to wait. So no warning, nothing and he has his folder signed for the first time this year. Then he told me to look at his worksheets he brought home and one is a practice D worksheet. The D example looks like 1/2 a 0 it was very narrow. Instead of having the fat ) part of the D, does that make sense? so he copied it exactly! He was a little shaky because he was trying to make it so narrow. She wrote in red over his a fatter D like that was how he should have been writing it. I handed Casen a sheet of paper today and told him to write D's and he did it PERFECTLY, the only reason they looked like they did was because the worksheet looked like that, that isn't his fault. He knows how to do it, but he's very particular and if you tell him to do something a certain way he's a perfectionist and he's going to do it exactly that way. That isn't his fault there was a shitty example. So he is soo upset thinking he can't even write D's and he's in trouble at school now.

Casen has been absolutely loving school, even told me he wished there weren't weekends because he wants to go all the time and even wished he could go until late at night, he LOVES it. But after I got him calmed down today he asked me if we could tell the sub that he is sick so he doesn't have to go back until his teacher is back.  Poor thing, I feel so bad.  I wrote his teacher but I'm still waiting to hear back, he's dreading going to school tomorrow

Day 9

Today was kind of a blah day, it rained this afternoon and I was just feeling really tired and lazy.  Didn't want to do too much today, really dreaded cleaning up the house today.  Hayden was just in a mood this afternoon, picking fights with the boys all evening...was def ready for bed when the time came.  Then it was still storming and Casen and Hayden were really scared but finally they got down and I was able to take a hot bath and relax some.  Then was time to make lunches :)

Ham and Cheese sandwich

Apple banana muffin (in Landon's only)

strawberries

kiwi

pretzels

marshmallows

applesauce

Crystal light raspberry lemonade to drink

grammy sammy and mash up too

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Day 8

Well we got Hayden signed up for baseball today!!!!!  Really "blast ball" which is like tball but for 3-4yr olds.  He is technically too young but they want him to play anyways.  He is so thrilled!  He can't wait for his first practice.  


Tonight was Casen's first practice and he had a great time.  He had a lot of fun and was really happy to be back out there.  


Landon came home from school with his folder signed YET again.  5x in the 7 days of school!  So I wrote his teacher wondering what in the world was going on because this isn't like Landon at all.  His teacher called me back to talk about it and said that pretty much all the kids have been getting signed a few times and that she can tell Landon is a really good kid and he's just adjusting to her rules but she likes to enforce them from day one and she thinks that after he gets used to it he'll be great.  She said he's very smart and well behaved just keeps talking.  She also said though that most of the time he's getting in "trouble" is during math and I figured out why today.   He brought home homework, a math worksheet with about 20questions on the front and 20 on the back, he sat down and was done in about 2 minutes.  So....he's bored!  But they are reviewing from last year so I'm sure once they get into new stuff he'll be fine.  Just gotta get past these first few weeks.  I'm really glad I talked to her though because we had been grounding Landon to his room everyday he got his folder signed.  After talking to her today and realizing what it was about and how he really wasn't being "bad" we won't be doing that anymore.  If later in the year he starts getting in trouble again we will address it then.  


Today Casen left his lunchbox in his locker so luckily I had bought some extra little containers so I packed his lunch in that today.  Tonight for dinner we tried 'chicken in a crockpot' and Casen loved it and asked for LOTS in his lunch tomorrow....so here are their lunches

Chicken in a crock pot (Landon has some BBQ sauce to dip, couldn't find anything to put in Casen's 'lunchbox' to give him some so without for him)

Apple Banana Muffin

2 Carrot Snack Sticks

Cantaloupe and Strawberries

Granola Bar

Bottle of water

Day 7

School just started and both boys have already asked me to buy their lunch :(  WHAT!?  Landon said he just wanted to buy on chicken nugget day so next mission is to find a good recipe for nuggets that the breading will hold up to being in the lunchbox all morning, not get all soggy and yuck.  I think with Casen it's just the new factor.  First year in school, most kids in his class buy so he just wants to try.  I'll eventually give in and let him.  He said the biggest reason is he wanted strawberry milk so fine, that's what they get in their "water" bottles today.  Yeah, yeah I know....strawberry milk, sugar, unhealthy, etc...but I figure occasionally having stuff like that is fine, there is no reason to go fully without and make them want it even more.  


I've been cooking all night since they went to bed.  I was going to do it earlier but I got the new Shark Vac Then Steam and I got a bit carried away. If you have a lot of tile, wood flooring in your house you NEED it!  It's amazing, love it!!!!  Then I cleaned out the fridge, reorganized it and cleaned all the shelves and drawers...looks good :)  Then had to clean the rest of the house, make snacks, get the boys settled so I could jump in the shower.  Then get everyone ready to go to Casen's parent orientation (which went really well!) then home to make dinner, baths and boys in bed.  Then I've been cooking......laying in bed now typing this up about to go to sleep.  Tomorrow evening is Casen's baseball so thinking we'll do a crock pot recipe tomorrow, not so much work!  

Day 7's Lunch

Granola Bar

Apple Banana Muffins

Carrot Snack Sticks

Pretzels

Cantaloupe

Strawberry milk

Day 6

Well today starts week 2 at school!  Casen was very excited to go this morning, Landon was dead...so tired from practice last night, really didn't want to get up.  Hope they have a great week :)


First, snack plate from Friday.  Landon had practice this afternoon so I made more than usual and they were still hungry after eating it all!

PB pancakes with cream cheese and grape jelly inside

apples with PB to dip

granola balls

turkey

cheese

mash ups 

And their lunch for today.  I had to do grocery shopping yesterday then drop it off at home and take Landon to practice that started at 6pm, didn't get home until almost 8 and still needed to feed, bathe and get the kids in bed.  Bedtime is usually 8 but they didn't get in bed last night until 9.  By then I was just tired and didn't really feel like cooking for a few hours to prepare lunch stuff.  Sooo...today's lunch is pretty simple.  Today I need to cook and prepare some lunch and snack stuff.

Landon on left:

cream cheese and strawberry jam on sandwich thin

strawberries and kiwi

applesauce

for a treat kettle corn and a few blueberry pretzels

Casen on right:

PB&J

strawberries and kiwi

applesauce

kettle corn and blueberry pretzels

Both with water