1) Zeus is growing bigger everyday, of course! He's almost 5 months old! I believe his birthday is March 24th. He's still very jumpy on people, but hey, he's just a puppy. It's inevitable. This is his favorite position every night when he's let inside of the house. He will get up on you, roll around a couple times, and end up on his back so you can rub his belly and chest. He's spoiled I tell you!
2) Lily left for New York for 5 weeks to go see Josh and Heather. I was feeling pretty bad and feeling like something was missing the whole time she was gone. The airport security wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. I had a really hard time letting her leave when it was her time to get on the plane. They gave her a wristband with a QR code on it which they scanned everytime she got off and on her planes. She went from Tampa to LaGuardia, and then LaGuardia to Syracuse. And then the same way back home... Syracuse, LaGuardia, Tampa. Syracuse to Laguardia was an hour. LaGuardia to Tampa was only like 3 hours. Those times don't make sense, but I don't even care anymore. Lily finally got home last weekend and I am so relieved to have everybody together again. Yes, she gets on my nerves just like my other kids but I in no way love her any less or more than the other ones. I would've missed my other kids just the same. Jonathan I would've had a harder time with, I think, because he's my baby. But still! Anyways, here's a picture of her at Tampa International about to leave to NY and the other is her on her way back home from TIA in the shuttle thing going from the terminals back to the parking garage...
She came back so much older-looking. Mature. Skinnier. I'm just glad that she's back home. She's the same Lily, just with new experiences of flying by herself and of visiting New York.
3) Elaina's birthday was on July 24th, her party was on the 23rd. She had a flamingo theme. It was going to be luau themed with hula girl decorations everywhere, but she landed on flamingos. I honestly got zero pictures of her party. I got a flat tire that morning and me, Elaina, Jonathan, Jessica, and Ashley spent about 2-3 hours walking around that shopping center from Dollar Tree to Winn Dixie to McDonald's. My mom picked up Elaina from Winn Dixie while we were inside and she brought her to WalMart where she picked out one of these dolls that looks like an American Girl doll that she named Emily. But I digress.
Chris came to Dollar Tree where my tire was slowly yet quickly deflating, took my tire and rim off, went to Foy's, our favorite tire shop down 41, and got me a new tire. Brought it back to my car and installed it.
That was supposed to be the day that Chris and his guys were going to help Big Chris move his house out to Mulberry. But it didn't happen, not only because of my car, but Big Chris learned what he needs to do and got the papers that he needs to file to the courts so he can legally take his house off of the property without any kind of legal repercussions.
Elaina got mostly money at her party, more than her other presents. Someone gave her $25, $10, and then Big Chris came over here the next day and gave her $20. She also got some puzzles and some kind of teal and pearl-adorned bowl kind of thing, like it's made out of wire and sits a little sideways. I don't know, I was going to use it as a hair accessory holder in the girl's bedroom once we move. Oh and Elaina also got a make-up kit from Chris' Aunt Teresa.
She asked me if she was beautiful and I said "of course!". She had enough to last for like 3-4 days worth of face caking before she used it all. Lol. And one day, Jonathan put some blue eye shadow on. Haha! They're a hoot.
4) The kids just started school 2 days ago, today's day #3. Jonathan is now in "big school" and he's having an awesome time. Lily says that she knows everybody in her class from last year so that's good. Elaina hasn't said any details but she says that she's having a good time. All of the kids' teachers had an "About Me" paper for me to fill out about my kids and on the back of Elaina's paper, I wrote the teacher about how Elaina acted last school year, the virtual school trip, her ODD and ADHD diagnosis, just about everything. Elaina is supposed to be in the gifted program this year and the weird thing is that I didn't see anything around her classroom that said anything about it being a gifted classroom and the teacher never said anything about it either. But the teacher. Miss Weichts (Weeks) seems strict but also tries to throw in a sense of humor. Like she's bi-polar, not in a bad way. I don't know, I can't describe it. Like she wants to be hard on the kids to keep them in line, but she's trying to lightening up the mood also so there's no tension or no stiff feelings. Lily has 2 teachers, her homeroom, reading, and writing teacher is Miss Nelson. Then her math and science teacher is Miss White. Miss White has 2 guinea pigs named Bugsy and Pepper. Lily is having a fabulous time.
Jonathan has a new teacher this year named Miss Perez. He was playing with this little boy at the teacher meet and greet the day before school started and this little boy was like "see you tomorrow best friend". So silly. I asked Jonathan the first 2 days after school if he had played with that boy and he's like "I don't remember". Lol. My kids are nuts. Lily and Jonathan both make friends and don't even remember their names. Elaina has a hard time making friends sometimes and she remembers everybody's names in her class.
I love watching my kids grow up, turning into these unique individuals. Everybody is different and I have to find a way of teaching these 3 different individuals and raise them all properly and get them ready for whatever their futures hold. It's nerve-racking and also exciting. I can't wait to see what they grow up to be and to be like.
Anyways, here's a picture of them on their first day of school 2 days ago:
Kayla Dobbins
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