Ben's First Day and Happy Birthday Seth!

 1st Day of Preschool - Round 3

 Mad dog T-shirt and light up super hero shoes!

The little bugger is off to his THIRD year of preschool.  What a difference a year makes!!  He is THE man now and has his "group" at preschool that he plays with.  Total trouble.

Happy 3rd Birthday Sethie!!  What a sad day that he missed his first day of preschool and it was his birthday too :(  Despite the complete lack of sleep I've gotten over the past week, I decided I still had to at least try to make a great cake for the little guy.  He helped me on Sunday to flour the pan and mix the batter while the other boys were out with Dad and I raced around on Monday to frost it and make it spectacular!

Cal was shocked Seth wasn't going to have a party.  I told him Seth wasn't up for it and that we'd all go to Chuck E Cheese (Seth's favorite) when he was feeling better.

 Even though he's barely eating anything else, he did eat some cake and ice cream!

Loved this gift from Grammy and Grampy Gotlieb!!

This tonsil recovery isn't going as smoothly as I planned.  I planned for a lot of crying and a lot of sleep!  I specifically remember Ben screaming his head off until I'd put him in his crib (he couldn't talk yet) and he would pass out and sleep for hours after his surgery.  Not so with Seth.  Thank goodness for the spectacular results I know this surgery is going to produce because right now I am cursing that I have one more week to go.  Seth decided last Friday to stop taking meds.  I'm using suppository for his pain meds STILL six day later.  We scrapped the antibiotic completely since he just spits it back out at me.  One day he ate nothing but five mini muffins.  I literally sit by him every second of every minute with a sippy cup in my hand saying, "Can you take a sip now? Just one.  Ok, I'll hide the treasure then you take a sip.  You found it?  Ok, take a sip and I'll hide it again".  A half an hour later, our sips have added up to an ounce!  He's supposed to be drinking 20 ounces per day!!  Not to mention I have to try and get him to eat too.  That goes something like this, "Would you like some soup?" No.  "Some ice cream?  A popsicicle?  Pudding?"  Nothing.  I think I ruined yogurt for him forever.  I mixed some of the amoxicillin in it last week and now he goes beserk if I ask him if he wants yogurt.  Nighttime isn't going much better.  He'll wake up moaning and still have two hours to go before the next dose of medicine.  So I just have to lay there next to him until he goes back to sleep.  One night I tried not waking him up for doses every four hours.  Luckily that night he didn't wake up either so I got one night of decent sleep only to pay like hell for it in the morning.  His throat, ears, head was so sore that he didn't eat or drink for hours after he got up.  Oops.

BTR, First Day of School, and Surgery...

Here are my not so stellar pics of our Big Time Rush concert.  I had asked this lady who was taking awesome pics beside us to email me some and so far she hasn't.  I guess it's still a possibility but I'm kind of bummed that we don't have anything that we can REALLY see so the boys can remember their first REAL concert.  The concert itself was actually very fun!  It was unfortunate that it happened to be the night of the first day of school though.  We brought the boys to Hampton Beach (it was in the casino ballroom) and told them at dinner what we'd be doing.  They were super excited but as soon as we got in the place, it was a 100 degrees at least, and they realized they'd be doing A LOT of waiting I think the excitement kind of fizzled out.  Cal was exhausted before we even started.  Two bands opened - Lilly Halpurn (?) and Hot Chelle Rae which was actually kind of nice since the boys know and like the "Tonight Tonight" song.  At 8:30pm when they were still "testing" for BTR to come on, the whole crowd started booing.  The average age of the kids were between 6-12 I'd say.  Lots of younger ones there that I didn't expect.  I thought it would be tons of teenage girls.  They made a speedy entrance, within 2 mins, of the booing and played almost all their songs.  I guess that's feasible when you only have 15!  haha...what the boys remember most?  The fireworks outside of the concerts on the beach afterwards...no kidding!!

Cal and Ben at the BTR concert!  Did I mention we got a major workout and I lost some serious water weight at this concert?!  Yeah, it was impossible for the kids to see just standing.  So we have to lift them up the ENTIRE concert.  It was so hot already and with the effort and body heat I was drenched within two minutes!

FIRST DAY OF 1ST GRADE

Cal was happy to start school.  He's got one of the new hire teachers this year.  I'm withholding judgement but so far I'm not overly impressed.  Cal's not jumping up and down about her either.  Sigh...maybe one of these years.

In other news, Seth had his tonsils and adenoids out on Tuesday.  Surgery went great.  The doc said they were both HUGE and that he'll have a much better airway to breathe now.  He said it should definitely take care of all his snoring/sleep issues!  Good to know because let me tell you...we're having a hell of time now that he's home.  He did ok in the hospital.  He was having a hard time keeping the pain medicine down and kept throwing up.  I did a decent job of getting him to take the regular tylenol on Wed and Thurs...but now it's Friday and he's done.  He's refusing to swallow just about anything liquid.  So we've moved on to my first ever suppository that I've had to give.  That was fun.  I guess it's better than 30 mins of crying and 1 drop swallowed though.  We're hanging in there though and hoping better times are coming soon!!!