Basketball and update

I haven't posted in a while, just no time. My days fly by. This is what we've been up to:

Michael and Zac have started their little basketball program. This is Zac's first year. I got to go one and a half times and that's it. Luka won't sit there. I take the kids to tamburitzans on Tuesdays, so Mike takes them to basketball on Thursdays. So there is an activity two days a week and the other days, by the time Mike gets home, we do homework, we eat, do baths, and have snack it's bedtime 8:30pm. Mike and I were just saying that we don't know how people get all this time. We have a routine and we follow it.

Michael is getting so big. He is "6 and 1/2" he tells everyone. I tell everyone he thinks he's 15. He gave up cartoons and watches these kid sitcoms like "Icarly, Drake and Josh, Wizards of Waverly Place, & The Suite Life of Zack and Cody." I don't know what happened to the cartoons. He watches one called Phineas and Pherb and Spongebob and that is it. He is doing very good in school. Still getting mostly A's. They are now counting money in school. He has to add if you had 3 nickels, 2 dimes and 3 pennys that it would be 38 cents. I think it's a little advanced for 1st grade, but maybe not. He is catching on well. His writting has improved BIG time. It use to be messy, but now it is neat. I am trying to get him to be a little more responsible and to try to start helping out. He is lazy. He will take off his clothes and throw them on the floor right by the hamper. He LOVES TV, but I limit how much they watch. He LOVES video games too, but they are only aloud to play those on the weekend. Hopefully he will be starting soccer here soon. If it doesn't conflict with tamburitzans. And he is still lovable sometimes. He will still come over and give me a hug and kiss and tell me how much he loves me.

Zachary isn't too much of an individual. He just loves to copy Michael. He does what Michael does, likes what Michael likes, watches what Michael watches, etc... Reminds me of my little sister when we were growing up. I guess that is what younger siblings do. It goes as far as, when I ask him and Michael if they want to pack or buy a lunch at school, he will wait for Michael's answer before giving his to give the same answer. I tell him all the time that they don't even eat together, but it doesn't matter. Zachary does like to play with Luka though. A lot more than Michael. Michael, just doesn't like to be bothered. Zac goes to school until 1pm and he will play with Luka non stop until Michael comes home at 3pm. Zac acts SOOOO grown up that it is so hard to remember that he is only 4. He talks mature, acts mature, but every now and then he will do something that reminds you just how little he is.

Luka, oh boy. He is something else. He is very lovable and the cutest thing, but boy is he ornery. He gets into EVERYTHING that he can. If I try to get a bath, he will steal the pump bottle of soap while I am washing my hair and go pump it all over the bedroom. He loves to unload the toy box all over the house, dump food on the floor, climb everything, fight and tease Michael and Zac, throw things at people, he is something. You can't take your eyes off of him. The best is how he torments Michael and Zac. They will be watching TV and he runs over and turns it off which makes them throw a fit. He learned how to unlock all of the child locks in the house so nothing is safe! And I know what eveyone is thinking "doesn't he know what no means?" The answer is NO. And he doesn't care if you give him a time out or take away a toy or anything. He is stubborn and he is agressive. Just now, he was climbing on his motorcycle, using it as a stool, trying to get things he knows he is not aloud to have. He is growing so fast. It seems like overnight he learned to talk. He now says or tries to say everything. And surprisingly, he know what everything is. The cutest is when he says "mo my cool"(motorcycle) or "my cool"(Michael), really emphasizing the cool. It is so cute. He feeds himself completely, has for a while now. I am just bad at posting. He is really pretty independent. Even though he gets into everything, he is just so adorable, you can't help but hug him and squeeze him. He is very special. They all are. We definately aren't a perfect household here. They fight, yell, cry, but we are happy. And there is a lot of love in this house even though the boys don't like to admit that, lol.