date night

as our time comes close to saying goodbye for a year were trying to enjoy a few date nights, without kids....this is incredibly hard with zach and the boys. so what we managed to do was get the boys to bed and asleep and when the night nurse got here at 10 we headed out for a movie. we drove out to the new theater around here and watched death race, i had no idea what the movie was about but was suprised to see it was very action packed and i was enjoying it. we made it thru about an hour when the film jerks on screen and before our very eyes the frame melts! then it jerks again and they attempt to fix it, only the next frame melts too....needless to say we missed the last 30-45 minutes and we ended up with a raincheck...hhmmm since it was SOOO easy to just go to the movies on a whim im wondering how long it will be before we can try again. sigh. thank goodness for redbox dvd's, they rock! how easy is it to drive up get a dvd and then drop it off the next day.

we spent a majority of the weekend doing projects to the house, we finished painting the boys bathroom, just need minor touchups and we started painting our bedroom, nearly 2 walls done now, we bought boards for the attic to add things for storage and enjoyed hanging out. tomorrow is mikeys first day of school and he is semi ready, we recieved a postcard from his new teacher yesterday, how sweet that was. mikey picked out his uniform for tomorrow, he wants the red shirt, and pants not shorts. we bought him 5 shirts and 2 shorts and 3 pants for now, we will add as we need to, but this will get us a week each time. he has batman shoes and a batman lunch box, he is very excited about that.
chance also believes he is going to school, he got a backpack, some new clothes adn a lunch box too, he however will be having school here at home, we bought some workbooks from dollar tree for him to do some letters and numbers and such, he is already ahead of what pre-k requires in that he knows all shapes and colors, and many of his numbers and can count to 20 i think the small school we can do at home will give him even more of a edge:) for next year.
im hoping mikey feels more comfortable this year with the new teacher adn can come out of his shell a bit and not be so shy when it comes to showing the teacher he does know his stuff. last year the teacher was concerned saying he shouldnt go to first grade, but other than having some very real difficulty with his reading he is ready, i think the reading issue is his attention span on this, that darn ADHD, im hoping his new schedule of ritalin will help.