Logan

Logan is a wonderful kid. He has a problem with listening and following directions(which drives me crazy)but he will grow out of that hopefully. Logan's most endearing quality is he has such a loving spirit. He is a wonderful big brother and cares very much for them. Here is one way that it showed itself yesterday. Since it was Lucas' birthday I stopped by Taco Casa(which is my kids favorite) and got lunch and went and ate with him at school. I also took brownies to his class for after lunch. So when they were done I decided to take Lucas home with me. He had a substitute and she actually said to me do you want to take him home we aren't doing anything for the rest of the day. Walnut Creek that is another blog for another time. I got Logan Taco Casa also and ran it to his class room and told him I would be taking Lucas home with me.(remember what I said about Logan's listening problem) So we came home and hung out for a little while and when I was going to pick Logan up my phone rang and it was a number I did not recognize and here is how the conversation went.
A muffled voice said
"Can I speak to Allison Phillips?"
"This is she"
"This is Logan mom"
"Logan where are you?" a little paniced because he sounded weird
"Mom did you pick up Lucas?"
"Yes Logan WHERE ARE YOU"
I just here him stuck a staggered breath in and then all I hear is sobbing I am almost to the school and am now speeding through the school zone. Thankfully there were no police set up because I would not have stopped.
I say to him again
"WHERE are you?"
by now he can not even talk and I am about to the full panic point.
I am saying to him "Is there an adult around you?" and he is just sobbing into the phone.
I say "If there is an adult near you give them the phone now"
I hear an adults voice and I ask
Where is my son?" and they say
"At school."
Okay panic going down. He had used a line that does not come on the caller id as Walnut Creek. She asks,"should I send him to parent pick up?" I was like "UH yes and can you please tell me what is wrong with my son?"
She says,"he would not tell us he was to upset and kept saying I need to talk to my mother."
I said,"okay I will call and let you know what's up." I was pulling up to the school at that point. Logan got in the car looking pretty ragged and I ask him "What in the world was going on?" and he said,"I thought someone had kidnapped Lucas because I could not find him anywhere!" And started crying again. I just look at him and he was so overwhelmed with emotion hugging Lucas and telling him how much he loved him I could not even say to him see this is what happens when you don't listen to me. At the end of all this Lucas looks at Logan and says,"You are a great brother and I know how much you love me." To say the least I had to pull over on the side of the road because I could no longer see it through my tears. What a blessing to have such wonderful children, boys for that matter, who can show and tell each other how they feel. My cup runneth over.

So not so good at the remembering to blog.

Well, I guess I am not very good at the blogging. I just forget. But since my last blog not much has gone on. My wonderful middle child Lucas turned 7 on Friday it is hard to believe, but he could not do it before he made me cry on Thursday night. He came into the living room before bed and said, "You better hug me because this is the last time you will be hugging me when I am six!" He is growing up to fast and into such a sweet kid. Before that anything interesting,...not really. We finally got our couches after a month of waiting. We bought brand new couches last February(the first new couches since we had been married) and it broke. Thank goodness for warranties. So I call and then we take them to get fixed. It took about 3 weeks to get them back and what happens I sit down and they have not done a thing. I'm like really are you kidding me what makes them think that they can get away with that. So I call and tell them the problem and I was not going to deal with this they needed to replace our couches with new ones she said "well I have to talk to the rep and general manager and I will get back with you." I say FINE but you have three days!" I have no idea what I was going to do but it sounded really good. So three days later I tell Stephen if they do not call by 1:00 that they would be getting a phone call from me. At 10:30 they call me and ask what day would be a good day to deliever the new furniture and I said Tuesday after 10:30 and they said o.k. and that was the end of it. I was a little disappointed because I was all geared up for a fight. But I got over it fast. I did not get my furniture till Thursday darn ice.

A Child's Memory (or lack thereof)

So this is the second day of blogging and there is not much to blog about. Well except the fact that the automatic sliding door on my van is broken so I tell one of the children to please come out the front door so I do not have to get out its really cold outside. This is how it goes...
Me "Come out the front door o.k."
Him "O.K. I will"
Me "I mean this front door right here climb up here and come out"
Him "O.K mom I get it I will come out the front door"
Pulling up to the school.
Stopping at parent drop off.
He tries to open the side door.
I look at him and ask "what are you doing?"
He says"Getting out to go to school."
Me "Do you remember what I just said about the front door?"
Him "What are you talking about?"
Me "You are kidding..Right?"
Him " don't know what you are talking about."
Cars are now honking at us and I have to get out of the van to go close the door I am pretty sure this is what saved his behind . I mean this all happened in a 7 minute period of time. Do you think he has a problem with his memory?

I have decided to start blogging. I do not know how it will go or if I will even be able to keep up with it. I just thought well I love to journal though I never keep up with is maybe I would give this a try and see how it goes. I will start with my youngest son Latham, he has a problem with saying s instead of f's so when he told us the other day that Michael Jackson(by the way he is completely obsessed with) turns into a Werewus in the Thriller video I thought well truer words have never been spoken.