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Home for Sale!

No~ not ours! I am helping a client prep her home for sale and thought I'd spread the word. It's a six bedroom, three bathroom home in GILBERT for under $250. No, its not a short sale. I would seriously move in myself if we could get out from under the house we're in now. It's got a ton of storage and its a three level, almost split-level and it's basically a FUN project house. It doesn't need any major renovation and its in a great neighborhood. If you know of anyone who might be looking, have them leave their email address!

Going Private!

Yes, it's true... I have been meaning to set our family blog to private for quite some time now, so please leave us your email address so we can invite you back once we're settled into our new and private locale. Even if you're a friend of a friend of a friend... we like having friends! You have until the end of September and then you'll be locked out FOREVER! Or until you ask nicely.

First Day of School!

Kleven had his first official day of Preschool on Tuesday this week. We had the opportunity to visit his classroom last week and were the last to leave after staying an extra 45 minutes. He did not want to go home! We've been doing our best to keep him excited since then, and I think it worked. His preschool teacher is a really good friend of ours and he knows her from church as well. She used to be our nursery leader and she really loves kids. She recently re-did her entire downstairs to accommodate her new hobby and its AWESOME! I will post photos when I get a chance!
Tuesday morning came and Kleven had a terrible case of fit throwing. He spent a good part of the morning on the floor kicking and screaming. I figured he was nervous, but excited and confused. He was fine after a long warm bath. He didn't want to wear the clothes I had set out for him and he was mad that his 'eagle' shirt wasn't clean. The kids' a Hurley junkie. He opted to wear his other favorite Hurley shirt, the burgundy one with the jackal-ope... He tried telling me that his school clothes are the ones with "animals and stuff on them". Not the preppy cute Polo's I had picked out.
He then got mad because we were out of Eggo Waffles and he had to eat cereal for breakfast. But that fit didn't escalate too much... he was hungry. We got his bag ready, found his shoes, made him brush his teeth and wash his face and then had to chase him through the house and pin him down to put gel in his hair. He hates having his hair done... but he looked SO handsome! We were ready a little early so he got a bit antsy and we ended up having to have another 'talk' about how the caterpillars in the jar could not go with him and that he didn't need to pack the entire toy room in his bag and that he wasn't going to starve because he'd get a snack at school. As we were getting the boys in the car to leave, we realized the video camera had given up the ghost and refused to work and had a small scare with the regular camera, but it ended up working. I had all kinds of hopes for getting some cute pictures with him in his classroom but when we got there the teacher met us on the sidewalk and escorted the kids in one by one. Kleven was SO cute! When his turn came, he walked all by himself to the front door, let himself in and never looked back. I couldn't believe it! It was a strange feeling, driving home without him.
Two and a half hours goes by pretty quickly. At first, I didn't quite know what to do: jump for joy, or go to my room and cry. Ezra and I attempted to clean up the toy room, but I noticed quickly that even Ezra was a bit weirded out by brother not being there too.
Before we knew it, the time had come to pick him up. We loaded up the car once again, only this time, included Titus for the ride.
Kleven came skipping out to the car with Chris wearing a hand print on a necklace and holding his bag full of projects and he was beaming! I could tell right away he looked older and wiser. He was excited to tell us about his morning. We learned that they had read a book about a raccoon who obeyed his parents and that he had been allowed to paint his hands, that a girl tried taking the animal toys away from him, that he told the kids to stop running, for snack they had orange, brown, and white crackers, they're not allowed outside, colored pictures, played with play-dough, they have a play-dough knife, he saw a HUGE lizard in his teachers backyard ("it was like this mongus, mom"), he played, found raccoons everywhere (pictures of one), he did NOT make new friends, he"knowed" all of them(which he doesn't), "one of the little girls wanted the giraffe and I telled her there was other toys over there. I told her that."
It was a pretty intense day!