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Strangest Start To The School Year

This has been the strangest start to the new school year for me ever...

Jason and I left town on the second day of school for a 10 day European trip (I'm waiting for him to send me all his pictures before I share our trip with y'all) and then I missed another 10 days with Ethan (details below).

So, in the meantime, here are the pictures of life between our return and now...

 Right before we left for Europe, we had some new neighbors move in a couple houses up from us that had a little boy right around our kids age! Finally! While we were gone, our kids became fast friends so since we've been home there has been a lot of this happening again - kids filling up the cul-de-sac playing. This is exactly why we bought this house.

 We brought back a few treasures for the boys from Europe, including this little soldiers from a castle on our way into it...




 And these crossbows from our walk down the hill from the castle back to our bus back to the hotel.




 The boys LOVED them!

 We were traveling home on Bandit's birthday (August 11th) so we celebrated that weekend with a big bone for the big two year old puppy!

 It was so big he didn't know what to do with it!!

 Wyatt decided to play lacrosse this fall, since he enjoyed wearing his brother's equipment anyway! Now he's got his own.

 Unfortunately, just to make my life extra difficult, the don't practice at the same times as each other, except for Friday's. So I'm still having to entertain one or the other during practices.

 But there always seems to be something to do for this active kid.

 Life got even more hectic for me this school year when I agreed to chair the Health & Wellness committee for the PTA. I'm really excited for this position but it will definitely keep me extra busy.

At the end of August, Ethan got accepted into the Marcus Autism Center's Severe Potty Training Class to help him with his BM's and self awareness. For 10 days I got the boys on the bus and then drove downtown for this class. These were the bags that got us through several of the days of multiple activities while Jason was traveling. It was tricky, but we managed to survive with only one little mishap of dropping a kid off at the wrong lacrosse practice field!

 I spent some time diving into this book while Ethan was at his potty class. I haven't finished it yet but it won't be long. Can't wait to learn and share with Ethan's teachers.

 Part of the fun of spending six hours downtown was being able to shop at different stores. At one of them I found the Jellybean Challenge. Where you have to try different jellybeans not knowing if it was something yummy (lime) or something gross (grass clippings).

 The boys got brave and tried it.

 The gross ones were gross! I just smelled the canned dog food jellybean and almost threw up from it.
Whoever came up with this idea has some issues. LOL

Ethan got released from the potty class at Marcus the end of last week and we're continuing at home. He charmed the pants off everyone there and has come a long way. We're not 100% there yet but we are so much better off than when we started and I know we'll get there soon. I'm so proud of him!

Life is starting to get back to normal. We are definitely busier this year with my on the PTA Board, Wyatt and Jack both playing lacrosse, Ethan doing two different therapies and Wyatt also doing Cub Scouts but I know from watching my friends with older kids that these days are fleeting and the best days of our families lives. One day it will be over and we'll look back and miss them.

But I may finally have a chance to sleep!

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