While they were "sleeping"

Wednesday night Chad had to go to a CRA Meeting.  So, when bedtime came around, the boys and I went through our typical night time routine.  I was shocked on this particular Wednesday that they both decided to sleep in their own beds in their own rooms.  This does not happen very often!  So after our talks, prayers and hugs and kisses, it was lights out.  By my estimation I had about 90 minutes of Hettie time, also known as tv time where I had full control of the remote!  This too does not happen very often.

The dogs and I cozied up on the couch and then I proceeded to "rot my brain",as my husband so often likes to tell me, with my tv shows.....Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Private Practice, LA Ink, Keeping up with the Kardashians, and Bret Michael's new show on VH1.  I had some serious television to watch which is why I guess I was ignoring all the sound coming from the boys rooms.  

A little while later I heard the sound of a bedroom door opening.  Which child would it be and what would they need?  My guess, Carson was thirsty.  Nope, I was wrong.  Christian appeared first with Carson right behind both with huge grins on their face.  "Mom, we need to show you something", Christian said.  "Close your eyes".  At this point I get home so both boys can hold my hands and lead me to the bedroom with my eyes close.  Upon opening my eyes, what did I see?

The boys had taken all of the stuffed animals out of both their rooms and piled them on top of Christian's bottom bunk.  They were so proud of their crafty little plan as you can see by the size of their smiles!  It was funny.  After a few pictures I insisted that it truly was bedtime and that they now needed to go to bed.  Later that night when Chad got home,  I told him to go give the boys a kiss because they missed him not being home.

Sure enough they had fallen asleep amongst all of their stuffed animal friends.  It obviously was not that comfortable because when the alarm went off the next morning both boys were in bed with us!

October

It has almost been one month since I added a new post to this blog.  I don't quite have blogging down yet but do hope to get better about posting.  I used to be so good about scrapbooking and writing in my journal but I can not tell you the last time I had pictures developed, scrapbooked, or even wrote in a journal.  How shameful is that?  I must cherish every minute of every day with my family.  I wish at the end of the year I could take everything from here and have it made into a book.  Anyway, I am playing catch up tonight. 


This month has been super busy and I feel like I have lived at the Elementary School the last week or two with four big events and each of them a great success....our Fundraiser, Book Fair, Donuts with Dad, and Fall Festival.  Truth of the matter is I love every minute of it...to see Christian's face light up when he sees me at school (I know it won't be that way for long), or to have kids wave and say "Hi Mrs. Cunningham" or "that's Christian's mom", to have Christian ask me what a perk is when I pick him up from school because he got a perk in P.E or to see the wonderful impact PTA is making in our school.  It inspires me.

So let's see.  What has the Cunningham Fam been up to?  There was the annual homecoming parade...

 Our "Boy of Fall"

 I love this pic of these goofballs....Brock, Wyatt and Christian.  It was classic.

One more pic before the parade.  Which leads me to my next point.  

I really think Carson is going to be a rock star when he grows up.  The boy is so funny and absolutely LOVES music.  Is it bad that he can sing "So What" by Pink, loves the beginning of "Cowboy" by Kid Rock, sings "Follow Me" by Uncle Kracker and many, many more.  Any time the kid hears music he instantly stops what ever he is doing to listen, sing, head bang or dance.  He has already asked for a piano and wants to learn to play the drums. In church the past two weeks, he has asked me to help find each hymn we sing in the songbook and proceeds to sing right along with us.  At the homecoming parade there was a dj playing music before the parade started.  The next thing I know, Carson is out there learning and doing the Cuban Shuffle and Electric Slide with his friends.  It was priceless to watch and funny to see the people around us watching. Which reminds me....I must get the video from Misti.

Carson's preschool went on a field trip to the Pumpkin Patch and he was so excited to have Daddy go with him.  Unfortunately they did not come home with any pics of the two of them together but Daddy and Carson both came home with a lot of good stories to tell.  Carson told me all about Farmer Rick being lost and finding him stuck in the hay, and the goat taking his cup of food.  Chad laughed about Carson picking a triangle shaped pumpkin (and the inclination to have him turn around and pick out a more traditional looking pumpkin but then saying to himself if that is the pumpkin he picked then that is the pumpkin he will bring home) and Carson asking if they should tell a lady when walking out that they found Farmer Rick in the hay.  They had a wonderful day together and it was fun to meet them for lunch after.  Here are a few pics...

 Which gets me to thinking that this little child of mine, my baby, is about to turn 5 years old.  (He told me last night to make sure for his birthday we put 5 candles on his cake).  I am not sure why he thought we needed the reminder but o.k.  He will go to Kindergarten next Fall and I absolutely CAN NOT believe it.  I already joke that he is a Kindergartener in training as much time as he spends up at the school with me.   How we got from this...

to this so fast, I will never know.

Football...Soccer....Football...Soccer...Football...Soccer...You see my point

Carson is enjoying his first season of Soccer on the Celina Storm with Misti and I as the coaches and all his best buds on the team.  We are having a great time but having a little trouble keeping Carson on his feet.  Let's just say he likes to go for the whole karate-fall down backwards and sideways every time he kicks the ball move.  I keep trying to tell him that if he stayed on his feet that he would have a better chance of scoring a goal.  He has made one goal so far this season.

Here the boys are before their first game.  Ready to play soccer and really cute!

Holt, Merritt, Tyler and Carson (Ben is missing)

I love this action shot!

Celina Storm (Ben #12, Carson #8)

"Yes" back to the circle

We spend the weekends traveling to and from soccer and football games in different towns but love every minute of it.  Christian absolutely loves football and I love watching him get excited about it.  Every day he talks to us about practice, good plays he made, runs routes, so on and so on. Here is his football picture for this year.

Christian "Bones" Cunningham #40 just like his Ettie

Wyatt and Christian aka Mongo and Bones

I love this picture.  Christian is in the top left.

Going to make the tackle.  

Pics are not in order but Christian was captain of first game.

Christian loves having family come watch him play.  Every game day he asks if he is going to have any family there!  I'd say he has a pretty good cheering section!

We are Celina Bobcats and We are Proud!!

It's Going To Be A Good Year

School is off to a great start for the boys.  We are 5 weeks in to the school year and Christian lets me know everyday that he has not gotten in trouble one time this year.  He has Mr. Pasqua walk him to the car each afternoon to tell me what a wonderful day Christian had and that each day he gets better and better.  Let's hope I am not jinxing anything.   It is very refreshing.

Sunday afternoon I left the boys to watch football while I went to trade days with the girls.  As we were walking around my phone rang and when I looked down it was Mr. Pasqua.  I thought to myself, why in the world would Christian's teacher be calling today, so I nervously answered.  He immediately asked for Christian and wanted to talk to him about the Cowboys game to let him know that if the Cowboys lossed, Christian would be missing out on recess.  I told him Christian was home with dad watching the game but I would let him know I called.  To my surprise when I got home later, I went to tell Christian Mr. Pasqua called for him and he said, "I know, he called dad's phone".

At the start of the year Chad had told Mr. Pasqua that when Christian is interested in something he wants to know anything and everything about it.  Starting from about 3 years of age it went from dinosaurs to Nascar and now the Cowboys!  He can name players from way back when, tell you their stats, nicknames, etc.  The boy is obsessed with football.  During the first week of school Mr. Pasqua offered Christian some trivia questions about the Cowboys in which he answered all of them correctly.  I am really looking forward to the rest of the school year.  Let's hope we end the same way we started!

Carson is loving his new school too.  His teacher this year is Mrs. Kitty (Carson "because she likes kids").  Here he is on the first day of school.

 

Look What I Did Today

Since it appears that my scrapbooking efforts have gone out the window and I could not tell you the last time I had pictures developed, I finally broke down and decided to create a blog.  This will be my online journal so that I can remember the day to day happenings of our family.  While I am excited about the potential I am also completely overwhelmed about how to actually go about doing it.  It will definitely be a work in progress so stay tuned......