Happy Halloween !

Hi everybody- I am sure that we are all trying to put our "SUGAR BABIES" to sleep right now! Actually, I have one asleep one my shoulder and the other one snoring on my leg. Dan is trying so hard to stop the sleepies, as he calls them, but I think they got the better of him. Zach is like his dad, he can fall asleep within 2 seconds anywhere, anytime. Dan was Spider Man and I think he actually thought he could leap tall buildings in a single bound, oops that is superman. I did not know he could run as fast as he did today- sugar can perform miracles. Zach was a cute Skeleton in a skin tight outfit 2 sizes too small! You could not help but laugh. His outfit made him look like Brian Boitano, it was so tight I think his wedgie had a wedgie! He loved it though, and we ended up going out with our friends, so the boys had a great time. The best part was that they did not cling to me at all this evening. We are very blessed to have friends with boys their age, I am blessed to have made such great friends out here. Believe me, I was ready to move back to Chicago 2 months after we moved here, but things are happy here, and the boys love it.
Dan had a party at school today, so I decided to attend it. In the beginning of the year his teacher asked for volunteers to be "room moms" but I turned her down because I needed Dan to get used to not seeing me. Why was I not thinking about that when I walked through the school doors today? As soon as he saw me the water works began... oh my goodness... not infront of your friends, I thought. Then I thought why the hell did I do this? I know Dan needs to have everything the same, seeing me throws of his normal day. His teacher was very nice though and had him be her special helper and she asked me to stay. He is fine unless his schedule changes and he has always been like that. I was finally asked not to help out in his preschool class last year because he could'nt take it and then he would spend the rest of the day crying. I know things can only get better, and I have noticed that if I make up a schedule every morning (sometimes picture) both boys act alot better and fight less. It is almost as if they need to know that there is an end in sight. Zach really likes being on a schedule also, they do it at school, and he loves to repeat it all morning after I tell it too them. Hey, whatever works. Well, here is a funny little story! Last night we went to Jay's aunt and uncles house, while Jay was off with his uncle, Auntie Lois brought out some games. One was Labryinth, you need to move a marble around a maze, the other, chinese checkers. In case you do not know... I am a chinese checkers champion, well at least against my mother. She and I would play for hours when I was younger, and when I was on bed rest pregnant with Danny, she would bring the gane over everyday and the two of us (sometimes my sister Mary would join) would play until Jay came home. So, the boys and Lois were playing chinese checkers while I played the other game and of course after a while I could not take it anymore and had to stick my nose in to help the boys. We were crushing Auntie Lois when Dan turned torward me and said: " mom, can you help Aunt Lois?" We almost fell over laughing, he was not trying to get rid of my help, but he could not stand how bad she was doing. Out of the mouths of babes! Oh well, they mean well. Just a note to my friends in the Bartlett area, in next weeks examiner they are going to have an article on our support group at Independence. Make sure you waych for it, it should be interesting. Have a great night and happy tummys to all... uugggghhhh... too much cccaaannnndddddyyyyyyyy!