new raincoats...

and bags and underwear!
recently i have NOT been on top of mom duties:

wrens normal backpacks strap broke so she was using her old messenger bag i made last year. it was too small so she was carrying in her arms almost as much as she had in her bag.
dylan same problem. so momma made a mad dash to the bat cave and came back up hours later with these. they are perfect the kids love them and both their teachers let me know how NEEDED the new bags were. (strike one)

raincoats. wren has been wearing this super cute little whale raincoat that used to be dylans. what size is it? size 4-5. how old is wren... in one week she will be 7! yeah she was crying because she was sweating and couldnt move her arms.
dylan tried on his and there was a huge hole in it where the pocket ripped and it was a 3/4 sleeve jacket. (strike 2) so once again i went to the bat cave and emerged... after two days with finished rain coats. and ... happy kids and TEACHERS once again.

ok now comes the underwear. wren had been complaining of wedgies. unfortunately this is the life of a girl. we always have them... but wren insisted that SHE really HAD them. so i glanced at her pantycakes... size 2/3 and some 4/5. she is almost seven. YIKES!

yeah and mr dylan was having some stomach pain the other night. i noticed that he had a rather crazy waistband indent. this kid has ripped abs and no pudge... he should not be getting waistband indent. so i look at his underwear size... 4/5. the kid is going on 10! so needless to say... target got some traffic from us. i am happy to report that dylan now has size 10/12 and wren has size 7/8. whew.... i am now back to not completely horrible mom. the kids are punishing me as i type by barfing, fevers, coughing while they are on a 12 day break. KARMA!