Cody's 4th Annual Easter Egg Hunt 3-14-2010

This year I had to plan Cody's Easter Egg Hunt early since Easter is the day after Derek's 16th birthday and Cody has soccer every Saturday until then.  So we decided to hold it three weeks before Easter.  Forecast was not so promising.  Wind, rain, and more rain was in store.  Was I nervous?  Kind of BUT it seems every year we hit some kind of wind, rain, snow or mud obsticle, and through it all, the kids had fun, so it really didn't bother me too much.  The temperature was supposed to stay around 50 so that was good.  Well as Sunday got closer, so did the rain.  Saturday we got rained out for the most part.  Sunday we woke up to rain and wind, just like the forecast stated.  But that wasn't going to stop me.  By noon the rain stopped (it was only light before then), so to the park I went to hide 548 eggs.  Yes, you read right---548 eggs filled with candy and goodies.  By the time 1 pm hit, all the eggs were hidden and the kids started coming.  Cody was soooo excited he couldn't wait to see all his old friends from Solvay and his good buddy, Cameron.  His smile was so HUGE as each child got dropped off.  We waited until 1:15 to make sure all the kids were there and we did the countdown and they were off!!  Kids were scrambling everywhere picking up eggs and trying to find the gold and silver eggs that could be traded in for prizes.  Cody's buddy, Tyler, found two silver eggs.  His sweet little girlfriend, Kyra, found the gold egg, and my little man, Cody found the last silver egg.  YIPPEE! The best part for the parents is that almost as soon as I said "GO", the sun came out for almost the whole time we were egg hunting.....SUPER!!  It was a great time!  I believe that all the kids had a super time and it makes my day to see them all having so much fun!  I loved watching Cody play with the kids....I loved watching the kids play with Cody.....Can't wait until next year!! 

Twilight Obsession

My new obsession? TWILIGHT. I think that they picked great actors to portray the characters from the book. My fave from the book and movie of course is Carlisle. I started the books about 2 weeks ago. The first book took me 3 hours to finish (I couldn't put it down), the 2nd - 4 hours, the 3rd - 4 hours and the last - 5 hours)....I can't wait until New Moon comes out on DVD in just a few weeks. Funny thing too is that Cody watched Twilight and fell in love with the movie also. His favorites? Carlisle and Alice Cullen (Cody has a crush on Alice). He has even told me several times lately that he wants to become an actor so that he can meet her. LOL. Cody really wants to watch New Moon and Eclipse when they are released BUT I'm not so sure if I'll allow him yet, due to the ratings.  Twilight was low key enough that it was fine.  The other two, I'm not so sure about.  He wants to read the books but I told him he has to wait a few years.  Right now, he is into the Percy and the Olympians books (he has all 5 of the series).  He is also into the Harry Potter series.  It's funny seing my little guy reading such big books.  I am so glad that he likes to read.  The only issue I have with him and these books/movies, is that he memorizes certain scenes or plots and plays them out over and over and over again.  After watching Twilight, he was Edward for a while.  Then he changed to Carlisle.  He is soooo funny to watch.  It's like watching the movie all over again.  I know if he watched New Moon, he would be the werewolf.  I'm not so sure if I'm ready for that.  LOL.

CAN YOU GET ANY BETTER LOOKING THAN THIS????

Getting Ready For Walt Disney World March 2010

Yes, we still have another few months, but it's never too early to START getting ready. This year, I'm taking Cody (Derek doesn't want to go this year -- 16 years old is too old, I guess) to DisneyWorld again at the end of May. Cody is so excited, as well as myself. We will be staying at the Westgate Villas in Kissimmee and we have a 3 bedroom villa (excess, I know, but it'll be fun).....Cody tells me that we'll sleep in each bedroom twice before having to go home. He has it all planned out. And since it's just going to be him and I, I will let him be the plan maker (to some extent, that is).....I can't wait. The only issue that is starting to come up is the "bug issue".....Cody still has a phobia over bugs and a few years ago when I took the boys to Florida, it was "love bug" season and they were everywhere and it really scared Cody. I pray that it's not that season when we arrive......I really really pray not. He goes on the Disney's website often to see the rides and characters so he'll "be ready" when it's time. He's such a little goof-ball.

Cody's First Ice Skating Trip February 2010

The Central New York FEAT (AUTISM) group was having their annual ice skating day at Syracuse University, and I was iffy at first of bringing Cody, since we all know that.....well, he's not the most coordinated child out there...LOL. Well, I decided to go and it was a blast! He had a great time! He was so brave! I loved that they had the ice walkers to help the "newbies". It was so much fun to watch my little guy having so much fun! :)

Cody's new glasses February 2010

From late January to mid-February, Cody had been having some serious headaches. Doctors were blaming it on viruses each time UNTIL finally, it was decided that he just so might be needing glasses. Cody didn't understand why he was seeing "fuzzy"....he just knew that he was. Well, after a specialist appt., we found out that the "Little Man" actually did need glasses and his headaches are now a thing of the past. :)

X-mas card pics 2009

AFTER OVER 50 PICTURES, WE DECIDED ON A FEW REALLY GOOD ONES!!  :)

Cody is such a ham, getting him to take several pictures was easy...getting the "real" smile was a little tough though.  I won't even tell you what I had to say to make the "real" smile break through.  Derek on the other hand.....welll, basically, he didn't want his pics done at all....so he just wanted it over with.  I did get a few shots of him being silly, but he didn't want me to post them, so I didn't.  I was very proud of the Xmas shots this year that I took.  :)

This was one of my favorite smiles on the Codester.  He really made us laugh that day!!  :)

I sure do love my boys!!!