Boys

It's been an interesting week for this momma of 2 boys. People always say that raising boys is a lot easier then girls. I'm coming to the conculsion that it's not any easier but just plain different. Girls and boys are different, no matter what anyone says, no one will convince me otherwise. They are born different, and no matter how much you nuture them the "same", boys are still going to be boys, and girls are still going to be girls.

For Cyril, I swear I'm going to start calling him my nature boy, or I have this nagging fear that one of these days, I'm going to find him outside in his birthday suit. The back yard neighbors have seen more of my 3yr old then I have EVER wanted them to see this week, and last week. On monday, I caught him pulling his pants down in the GRASS, trying to poop. Thankfully stopped him, but his reply was that "I'm not pooping on deck mom." Like everything is ok was his attitude. So had to have the conversation again, about where we need to use the bathroom, darn camping talk. Then on Tuesday, he comes in from outside, I asked if he had to go potty. "Nope, me did all ready" And before I could ask him where or when...you guessed it. He pee'd outside. He tells me though "Me just pee'd not poop mom...that's the rules." I'm at the point where I don't know if I should just die of embrassment, roll my eyes, or just laugh. I've wanted to all 3 this week. So again, we had the conversation about where to go the bathroom for both functions....how long will this last?

For Spencer, it's been still a pretty tough week for him, due to his allergies. Which in turn sends his sensory issues thru the roof. God has been very gracious with me, and giving me a lot more strength and patience to deal with it. I know that Spencer doesn't have control of how he feels sometimes, but it gets SO frustrating for me, I can only imgaine how Spencer feels dealing with it, but I hope last night gave him a fun time, and good memories. For Spencer and his Boy Scout den, they've been working on rockets the last couple of weeks. They were supposed to shoot them off last week, but it was canceled due to the windy conditions that particular night. That was a rough night dealing with Spencer when he found out it was canceled. So thankfully last night they were able to finally shoot them off. Wow!! Can these little rockets go far, when they are launched. I knew they could go high, but we lost track of several of them at different times, trying to see where they landed. I agree with one of the dads, next time if Spencer does this again, we are getting him one with a parachute. Those were much easier to follow then the ones without. We did end up losing one of the rockets last night, and last I heard it hasn't been found. Cyril LOVE chasing the rockets with his big brother and the other boys. I'm not sure what all the boys loved more, watching these rockets launch, or running to be the 1st to reach it when it landed. Spencer did get a little frustrated because he's not as fast of a runner as the other boys, but he still tried.

It was nice to spend an evening with just my boys last night. I need to do more of that I think. Dawn & I have been spending more mother-daughter time too, which has been really nice.

God Bless,
Carlena