Sunday, March 2, 2008

Seans 5 and Paulies first tooth

Sean's 5!!
Sean Patrick turned 5 years old on February 19th. It feels like just yesterday we celebrated his first birthday and 4 years have already passed by. Sean had 2 birthday parties this year. We celebrated at our house on the 8th with Mom and Dad Fell, and the Pagnotta and Fell sides of the family, and our neighbors. Sean also had a birthday party this past weekend at my Mom & Dad's with my side of the family, and some of my close girlfriends, and their kids. At both parties we had a Spiderman theme and a Spiderman decorated cake. We really enjoyed celebrating Sean's birthday with our family, friends, and neighbors. He got some really cool presents and enjoyed playing with his new stuff at home to. We appreciate everyone who joined us for the parties. Sean really had a great birthday!

On the 20th we had parent/teacher conferences at Sean's school. His Dad and I observed the class for a half hour, we participated in some of the activities with Sean and his class mates. Sean was the weather person that day and had to tell the class what the weather was like outside and he stood by the window and his classmates would ask him different questions like is it cloudy out, what color the sky was, if it was raining or snowing, etc. We then sat and looked over his report card, shortly after we met in the other room with his teacher Mrs. Saybolt. She told us that Sean is really doing great and he's all ready for kindergarten next year. He's getting much better at writing his name, he just needs to work on how he holds his pencil. The teacher closed the conference with telling us how proud we will be of him and how intelligent he really is. She said "You don't have to tell Sean anything twice". That made us feel great as parents to know how good he is doing in school. I soon realized the next day what his teacher meant when Dolores and I took the kids to the mall. Sean and Colin ran way in front of us we lost sight and me screaming to them was pointless at that time. As we were walking up the security guard was in sight and was standing there with the 2 boys. The security guard told me how smart they were. He said your older boy was so calm and just told me "It's ok im lost, just call my Mom she'll come get me" and he recited our home phone number to the guard. Of course my heart was racing and I told them they scared me half to death and Sean said "We weren't scared Mom". Thank god Sean and his classmates had to learn their phone numbers for school. I realized how helpful knowing our phone number could be in situations like that.

Colin is getting taller and thinner. He is communicating very well with us, his speech is much better. He likes to answer the phone and most people now mistake him with Sean when he answers the phone now. We still haven't been doing to good with potty training but I plan on working with him more over the summer in hopes that he can start school in the fall. Although most of the mom's that have other children in the 3 year old class say they can tell who just turned 3 before starting school and who didn't. I figured we'll give it a try and if he has to do pre-k twice thats fine. I think he'll enjoy school.

Paulie got his first tooth last thursday!! Yay! I was getting a little worried because he is 11 months now and I was starting to wonder if he'd ever get any teeth. They seem like they're all going to come in at once. He's been up during the night in pain because his mouths a little swollen you can tell more teeth are going to come through. But I guess its better he gets them all in now at one time so we won't have to do it one by one. He is eating everything now and just came off formula completely this week. He had trouble with regular milk so we give him lactaid and he's doing well with it. He is cruising around really well and really fast. He is now pulling up on everything and almost standing freely I have a feeling it won't be long before he takes his first step. He is at such an exciting stage we're getting to see his personality come out, and he's doing something new every day. He is going to have such a funny personality he is always doing things to make us laugh. Along with Ma & Da he is now saying that and c-c-c-aa meaning cat. He's going to talk early to. I can't believe he's going to be a year the end of this month. When we decide his birthday plans Ill let everybody know.

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