Happy Birthday John!!!!

Tomorrow is John's birthday. So I took the kids shopping for birthday presents today and let them pick out gifts to Daddy from them. It is kind of fun to see what they pick out for John. It reminds me of when I was little and my Dad took us shopping for my Mom for Mother's Day and her birthday and we always seemed to get her the same pack of doublemint gun. Sorry Mom....we should have varied the flavor a little bit!

Wyatt told me that Daddy needed a pink boat for his birthday...and then he saw a pink canoe hanging from the ceiling at Dunhams and insisted that was exactly like the one that Daddy needed. Seriously can you believe that they make pink canoes? (Of course I should try and find the picture of the boat that Al I had growing up. We made my Dad paint it pink and named it the Stephal. True story!) Anyways, I told him that Daddy already had a boat and didn't need that one so Wyatt said that he wants it for himself for Easter!!!!!

Jonah picked out some football game highlight DVD's for Daddy. I talked him out of that gift.

Sam picked out some women's slippers for Daddy. Veto!

We ended up with a mitten with a snow scraper attached for clearing the windshield on Daddy's truck. They all agreed that it was the perfect present and are going in on it together. Not a bad gift actually.

In other news I rushed out of the house this morning in a snow storm to get to the preschool that I would like to send Jonah and Samuel next year. They opened registration on Jan 1 and I wanted to make sure that there was space for them in the fall. It is truly competitive around here for "good" preschools and morning sessions. I would love to avoid all of the drama and competition as far as preschools are concerned because it's absolutely ridiculous, but if I don't play the game then my kids will not have a place to go to preschool in the fall!

Anyways, I filled out all of the paperwork and wrote the checks and they were able to guarantee me two spots for the boys in the morning session 3 days a week next fall. And it cost me $270....that's just for Jonah and Sam!! Holy cow! If you include Wyatt's tuition next year we will be paying almost $500 a month for preschool for all three boys! I should open up my own preschool....it's quite a racket!

We have been getting snow every day since we got back from Michigan and John is still waiting for his snowplow attachment for his four-wheeler to come in the mail. I have a feeling that when it finally arrives tomorrow it will stop snowing for the rest of the winter! He is just dying to use it. I am looking forward to seeing how John handles all of the kids fighting to ride with him when it finally does come in the mail.