Let it Snow and other Christmas Cheer

The last time I posted was around Thanksgiving. Wow been a few weeks. So let me get to a blog. I may not finish this before Logan wakes up or Kaleb demolishes the bathroom, but here it goes.
We have limited the amount of sugar and red dye Kaleb gets in his diet as well as set challenges (that we draw on his hand) for him to reach. It is working somewhat. He has gotten more smiling faces than sad faces in the past two weeks. In fact for the whole week after Thanksgiving break he had SMILEY FACES! When he gets the sad face we talk about it and that is it. He knows he cannot get the prize if he does not get the smiley face. So I think we are crossing a bridge here. We are leaving him off of high volumes of sugar.. which means NOT MUCH CANDY here for Christmas.
Logan is still talking a mile a minute making sentences better each day. A few weeks ago my mother in law and I went shopping for CHristmas and he was with us. While I was waiting at Target for my Starbucks my mother in law was giving him some drink.. well some fell onto the floor and he says Excuse me Lady, get a towel and wipe it up. He is definitely a monkey see monkey do kid. It irritates his brother but he does it anyway.
Brady is doing well. Still traveling to New Orleans once or twice a week to cover Saints football. He loves his career. We were praying hard this past week. There was a round of layoffs at The Advertiser and we were worried he would be sent off. God willed us for Brady to still have a job and for that we give much THANKS! He has to work for Christmas so we will not be going to Chauvin for Christmas, but we will make it down either before or after. He tells me to go and be with my family, but I do not want my boys to be without their daddy on Christmas day.
I have a new joy in teaching. I have learned how to teach this kids finally. I have to look and talk like a crazy person, but it is working. I have been more positive then negative with teaching and I am staying away from the negatve vibes of other teachers. We are almost half way through the year, but it is getting there.
Now this week we had some action in our neck of the woods. Old Man Winter and Jack Frost decided to pay us a visit. We had some pretty think frost about a week ago and Kaleb asked me if it had snowed. I thought for a while and told him yes, because we know good and well that it usually our snow. If we get a thick frost that is snow in South Louisiana. Well On Thursday we woke our boy up at 3 AM to see sleet because again that was as close to snow as we were going to get right... WRONG at 4 AM we woke Kaleb yet again for him to touch snow.. real snow. Yes that's right at 4 AM on December 11... there was snow in Carencro. Not just flurries, but snow. That was sticking even though we heard it would melt. By six AM we had enough snow on the ground to sink in and build snowmen. Oh it was wonderful and I am so glad my boys got to see it. Now will they ever see it again in their life... maybe this the second time I see thick snow in my life. I will post pictures later because my son number 1 is saying I hate him because I am not letting him play the playstation and I hear number 2 calling for me to get him out of the bed.