What Nicholas wants, Nicholas gets

So, being the baby of the family must rock. I wouldn't know as I'm the oldest, but for Nicholas, he pretty much seems to get whatever he wants. I have some sort of condition in where I am completely unable to say no to the child. Of course since he is the sweetest, most loving child I have ever since, I don't really feel bad about it (at all). I suppose when he turns rotten, I will kick myself and everyone else can have an "I told you so" fest, but until then the spoiling continues.

Anyone who knows Nick knows that he loves Batman. He has finally gotten old enough now that he sees Jake and Connor earning and spending money and he has for some time wanted a piggy bank to do the same. For his birthday he told me that he wanted a piggy bank, but not just any piggy bank, it had to be an actual pig and it had to have Super Heros on it. So I went to Hobby Lobby, got my supplies and went to work because... see the title for this post.

Here are the pictures of the piggy bank. I thought it was pretty good for my first go and Nicholas loves it!

Nicholas's 4th Birthday!

Last Saturday was Nicholas's 4th birthday party. He is very much into Batman so we have been planning this party for well over a month. We invited all of his friends from school and the neighborhood. The party was unreal. We ended up with 22 kids and their parents in our house. It was a mad house, but Nicholas enjoyed every minute of it. We decided to do a Batman Training Program for the kids. They had to maneuver through an obsticale course (including leaping over tall buildings in one bound!) and destroy the bad guys to receive their "official Batgear." My mom and I had spent weeks making Bat capes and masks for all the kids to wear! They all looked so cute!

(Check out the girls in the back. They have on the pink girl Bat cape!)

Here's a cute pic of the birthday boy!

Batman eats his birthday cake!

Let's try this again!

So I have been meaning to get the blog going again for oh... two years! I know, I know. But I am very motivated to start posting so that I can have a record of all the hilarious things my kids have one. And it looks like the scrapbook thing isn't happening anytime soon either, so one day I will just email my kids a link to this and say, "There you go, that was your childhood." Please don't everyone rush to nominate for Mother of the Year.

Moving on...
Tuesdays are very long and hard for the boys and I. The kids all have school and Connor and Nicholas each have private speech therapy for about an hour. Then to top it all off Jake and Connor have RE class and I teach the 5th graders RE class at our church. So the boys only have about 45 minutes of "fun" time before we have to eat and leave for RE. Well tonight Connor decided to extend his fun time by hurrying through dinner and only eating half of it. Well I knew this was going to be bad. As we headed to RE Connor started complaining that he was hungry. We had a calm but firm discussion about how that was his choice any maybe next time he should choose differently. Well this was our discussion on the way home:
Connor: I'm REALLY hungry
Mommy: We talked about this... you shouldn't have skipped dinner to play XBOX. I'm not making dinner again because of your choice.
Connor: I wish live had a Reset button.
Mommy: So do I, so do I!