The LaGreca Family

That’s right – as of right now, we are in FIRST place for the Playspace contest. It’s a $25,000 grant for a NEW playground!

The first round of the contest ends on Tuesday, Aug 31st — which leaves a lot of time for the 2nd and 3rd place teams to rally their troops.  Little do they know that Fletcher Hills Presbyterian Preschool has a pretty good rally leader on their team.

We still need lots of help!

Fletcher Hills Pres Playspace Page

Click the link above and add to our score.

(1) Register with Kaboom (you need an email address — and an email confirmation will be sent to your address before you are registered)

(2) You have to BECOME a FAN of our page (there is blue button on the right/middle side of our page — click there)

(3) Add points to our score!  There are 3 ways to help.

*Rate our playground (10 pts)

*Leave comments (5 pts each, with a max of 5 comments)

*Post pictures (10 pts for EACH picture). I have a TON of pictures that need to be posted, so if you would like to really help out – send me an email and I will send you 5 pictures to post

Thanks to everyone for all the help. I really think we have a chance to win this thing — but, we have to make it to the next round where the judges will select only 10 playgrounds to advance. If we are NUMBER ONE, I would think our chances are GREAT at making it to the next level.

Day 1 – Back to work. I survived

It was a million times easier than my Day 1 with Nicholas. I was a complete disaster back then….and I was leaving him with Daddy!

This time I was fully confident that Anthony would be in the best hands possible. And I also kept in mind that I only had to work 2 straight days and then I would get to work from home for a day.

Everyone at the office seemed happy to have me back. I missed quite a bit (some of which I am thankful for) but, I think I will be able to jump back in without a problem. Well…I take that back…I am going go be incredibly tired by Friday. That 5:15am alarm is EARLY!

I meant to snap a picture of my baby tonight so I would have something to post..but I was too busy cuddling and staring at him

**It was a big day for NCL, too. Not only did he move up to the 3 year preschool class (today was the first day of the Fall Session at school) but he did his VERY first #2 in a “public” toilet (public meaning: outside of our house!). Sorry if that is gross to anyone, but it’s our current life and we couldn’t be more proud of him. Have to celebrate all the good with Nicholas..seems like things are getting a big better with him. We are seeing some good days…and its nice.

Just another Sunday evening. We had Joe’s sister & her fiance over for pizza & salad. We were chatting at the table after dinner and NCL was spinning in circles — to make himself dizzy. Yes, he thinks this is fun.

And then….CRACK! He bashes his head into the built-in desk in the dining room. I immediately ask Joe to grab ice and then pick up NCL (face down on the floor, crying). I see blood. Ugh.

He hit the edge of the desk right on his eye brow. A deep, wide gash — lots of blood. My first thought was — we are going to Urgent Care.

Both Meg and Steve thought it looked ok — so we gave him a bath, gave him some ibprofen and put him to bed. I checked on him a few times and the bandaid was soaked through with blood.

ER — here we come. Luckily NCL was a trooper the whole night. We got there (he and I) after 10pm and didn’t get home until 1am. And thankfully, he only needed some glue (no stitches). He did great..even when they had to strap him down so he wouldn’t move. And the glue stung while the doctor was putting it on. Poor NCL was crying and saying “Mommy, it hurts!! My eye hurts!”

This child is a disaster. I wish I could wrap him up in permanent bubble-wrap. I will pray that we won’t have to make anymore late night trips to Children’s ER — but let’s face it. This is Nicholas we are talking about…I have to be realistic. And, I should start setting aside my $100 co-pays for ER visits

We actually had a GOOD day with NCL today. We went the entire day with NO time-outs & NO tantrums!! (That is a really big deal for us).

Now, I realize it’s only 1 day…but I am ALL about celebrating the little things.

Oh AND…today was NCL’s 1st successful public pee! He went on the potty at the Zoo! We are so proud of him.

Happy Saturday to us!

Oh, the things you get excited about as a mom. Napping and bedtime are probably two of the biggest for me. We have VBS this week at church (vacation bible school) and it’s BUSY! NCL didn’t take a nap yesterday and we ALL needed one. And then, to make matters worse, he was up nearly the entire night last night (no exaggeration). We were all hurting today (except Anthony – who slept great last night).

I promised NCL that I would take him to the park if he took a nap. The boy was TIRED. He went to sleep right away and slept for 2.5 hours! Anthony slept for 2 hours!! And i laid down to rest (even fell asleep for a bit).

So, when NCL woke up – we went to the park. Just him and me

More VBS fun tomorrow… And for my birthday, I would like another quiet afternoon.