3 Years Old

3 years ago today we were blessed with our sweet little boy Colton Walker Garza! He definitely keeps us entertained and on our toes. He is 100% little boy. He loves race cars, tractors, trucks, tomtrucks (dump trucks), fire trucks, pman cars (police men), bulldozers, hairplanes (airplanes) and mootercycles (motorcycles). Most of the time he would rather sit and play by himself than have to subject himself to his sisters torturous games, ie... dress up, prince and princess. Sometimes he will give in and play but I think it's just mainly to get her off of his back. Some of his favorite movies right now are The Wizzard of Oz, Jungle Book, Finding Nemo and Cars. He still does not want to have anything to do with potty training, but we are slowing working him there..... keeping my fingers crossed that he gets it soon. People say that raising a boy is way different than raising a girl and I have to totally AGREE with that statement. But we love our little Colty and we wouldn't trade him for the world... most of the time :)

This past weekend me and the kids, along with Uncle Ross, loaded up the car and headed to see my Grandmothers for the weekend. My Granny, who is 91, came home from the Nursing Home last week. She is doing very good and is really enjoying being home. While we were there my dad decided that we need to clean out her store room. We started Saturday morning and finished around lunch because it was SSSOOOOO hot!!! My Granny is a bit of a pack rat and never throws anything away. We kept getting side tracked from cleaning because we were too busy looking at all of the stuff we had found. (Yes I should have taken some pics of some of it but I wasn't thinking... sorry). 91 years of memories (and crap) are in this room. It was really neat to see all of it.

While we were there I got to meet my new niece Hattie Jane Williams for the first time. She is so sweet and precious. Someone asked me if I was ready for another one after holding her and I just kindly replied "Absolutely not." :)

We also had a small birthday party for Colton with my moms side of the family. He LOVED it!!!!! When he went to bed last night he took with him his fire truck hat, fire truck and his race car keys. He took his crane took school with him today and took a bath with some of his other trucks last night after playing with some of his new race cars. ALL of his presents are being used and getting quality attention :) He had a blast and is loving everything he got so Thank you all for everything. It was a busy on the go weekend but it always feels so good to spend it with family.

DRAMA

Well we survived our first week at Little Pirates.... YEAH!!!!! We only had one melt down and that was Wednesday morning when I dropped the kids off. Rylan was supper tired (AKA Needy Nelly) so she was screaming for me as I walked out the door. (And I admit that I cried when I got into the car and she could no longer see me) The rest of the week went good. Colton is LOVING it but I think it will just take some time for Rylan to get use to everything. She did tell me this morning when I dropped them off that she (and I quote) "Hated Little Pirates because they make me play centers and go outside and I miss Mrs. Percy"...... Seriously?!?!?!?!?! What kid HATES going outside and playing centers?!?!?!?!?! UUUGGGHHH she is soooo full of drama. She is going to be the child that cries everyday in Kindergarten. She just doesn't do change very well so it takes a while for something new to become part of her routine. We shall see how week 2 goes.... Wish me luck!!!

Growing up

Today is a bitter sweet day for the Garza household. Today is the last day that the kids will be going to Mrs. Percy's. Rylan has been going there for 4 years and Colton almost 3 years. She has been so good to us over the years and I'm not sure how I am going to handle the next couple of weeks without her. The kids are growing up and now it's time to move on to bigger things. Both of the kids are starting Little Pirates Learning Center on Monday. It is a daycare/preschool and I know that the kids will LOVE it and make lots of new friends as it prepares them for Kindergarten (oh just typing that word makes me want to start crying). I can't BELIEVE Rylan will start Kinder next year..... where oh where has the time gone.

On a different note..... This year is going to be a busy year for us (and exhausting for me I have a feeling). I have signed Rylan up for Dance and I think she is going to LOVE it!! This sort of thing is right up her ally. I know I loved dance class when I was younger and this will bring back lots of memories for me as well. Rylan is also old enough to start the CCD program at our church and she can't wait to learn about Jesus! I also signed Rylan and Colton up for soccer (this will either turn out good or really really bad). Colton is very excited about soccer and he will really love it.... I mean what little kids doesn't want to run around chasing a ball. So to recap we will have Dance on Mondays, CCD on Wednesday nights and Soccer games on Saturday mornings and sometime during the week Soccer practice. I'm not going to lie I am actually looking forward to watching the kids be involved in things.

So on my sad day I look at all the wonderful and fun things that the kids are going to be doing and be involved with and that does make me happy.