It's been a cranky week!!!

I don't know if it's the weather or something going around, but every child in the Haywood house has been so, so, so cranky this week.

AJ had a not so great day on Tuesday at school. The teachers said he was a little rambunctious. I guess that's a nice way to put it, lol. Honestly, I was glad for the reprieve....well from AJ anyway. Ben was also not a happy camper and refused to be put down all day Tuesday as well. The teachers did say AJ had a great day (he got two stickers) on Thursday and admittedly Ben was a little better as well. Friday yielded a super monster. I took both boys shopping and AJ was just awful. He was jumping on the furniture and climbing in the coolers and doing his own shopping. Even Ben was wide awake and not so happy the whole time. Then we went and picked up AJ's little friend JM and he and AJ pretty much trashed his room in less than two hours. Two days later and it's still a mess. On a brighter note though AJ did take a nap three days in a row (no luck today) and wore his underwear all three days and woke up dry. Now we just need to get him dry overnight. We've been giving him lots of praise. I hope it's working. He also learned how to pee standing up, lol. Lots of splashing...not so fun:) It should definitely make using public restrooms a little easier though. AJ and Daddy went and got haircuts yesterday as well. They both look better, lol. AJ looks like a little boy again. He hates it when his hair stands up and it was doing a lot of that. Very annoying!!!

Kayla had a great, but rather moody week. She did great on all of her tests and took five AR tests this week. Only two more tests and she gets to have lunch with her teacher. She's very excited. If she has time to read all of those books at school, it makes me wonder what else they're actually doing. She's a little slow on the math front. She knows here facts, she's just not a speedy math person. Otherwise, she breezes through everything else. Most days she gets her homework done before she even comes home.

Little Ben turned four months old yesterday. As I mentioned, it's been quite a cranky week. He's teething:( I feel so bad for him. We broke down and gave him some motrin and he's been sleeping a little better. I don't know why babies have to suffer like that. We tried introducing cereal last night. He was really unimpressed. I think perhaps some applesauce or bananas may be in order. He just seems to have an oral issue. He really doesn't like anything rubbery so he really didn't care for the coated spoon. He has been knawing on just about everything else though. Poor baby:( He has his four month check-up this Tuesday so we'll get to see how big he really is these days. He's a chunker, lol.





I'm currently working on organizing all of the pictures so hopefully within the next week or two I'll be ready to put up the link to all of the pics of the kids.