Happy Love Day

Valentine's Day this year was a heart breaker for this mom.  

Half of my boys, half of them, decided they needed to get a girl a "real" valentine.  

Should I be more concerned about my 14 year old who has a girlfriend, or the 6 year old? If it's starting at 6 what's going to be happening when he's a teenager???  

 Dilon actually chickened out with the flowers because, "nobody gives girls flowers at school, mom!"  Okay then. You're wrong kid, but whatever.  She still got a bear and candy so that's good enough.  Grandma Taco got the flowers instead. 

Baylor picked the perfect 6 year old present.  A chocolate shark that says you're Jawsome (that there is hilarious).  

She brought him back a Valentine and I forgot to get a quick pic but it was so dang cute. 

Then there's this kid

According to Grif, "ain't nobody got time for that" when it comes to Valentine's Day and girls.

It's only a matter of time before Dax realizes girls are cute, but not as cute as him.

Then my man scored major points bringing me home my favorite treat (oh who am I kdding, I have a billion favorite treats)

and 5 minutes later.....

Happy Love Day!

4th place, baby!

Another year of wrestling.  

The stress of this sport may give this mama bear a heart attack.  For real, it feels like it's going to explode some meets. 

Dilon has made huge improvements over the last few years.  

The wrestling team up here is massive. Like 60-70 kids. So that means there are multiple kids in his weight group.  Varsity is out of the question right now as a freshman. We thought JV wasn't going to happen, but it did.  He wrestled like a champ all year.

Ended up 4th at JV State. I know every parent says this but he seriously should have been 1st.  

Dilon had the kid who got first pinned several times.  We have it on video and it's torture to watch.  They told Nate as a coach that all the refs there were new and still learning so Dilon got robbed, but it's okay. He has come so far.  I'm super proud of this kid. After that loss he had to wrestle his way back to the top so he had 8 matches. Some of them basically back to back.  He was one tired kiddo, but he killed it.  Now on to off-season wrestiling....heaven help this mom.

Cutest little four-eyes I've ever seen

 This cute kiddo got him some new glasses. He didn't pass the eye exam at school so off to the eye doc we went.

Turns out Baylor has a lazy eye that needs fixin. 

Good news is he only has to wear them for 2 hours a day. The good eye has a bad lens in it he can't see out of to try and strengthen the bad eye (did that make sense?). They make his eyes look HUGE and it's hilarious.   He was encouraged to watch T.V. while he is wearing them to help strengthen it.  The problem with that is.....

 ....he literally has to sit right in front of the T.V. to even remotely see it. 

Hopefully he only has to do this for a few years then we may be able to ditch the glasses if it gets strong enough.  The problem is the little stinker doesn't like the blurry vision.  I caught him the other day watching T.V. with them pushed all the way to the bottom of his nose and him peeking over the top of them. That kind of defeats the whole purpose of corrective glasses. 

If he keeps doing that they are going to give him a patch to wear instead (arrghh matey!).

It probably is best we fix the vision problem because the other day he put his own tie on for church and this was the outcome. 

So close buddy! 

Love you, little four-eyes.