Pity party recovery

Involves lots of baking apparently. I just made three batches of the best peanut butter cookies ever! Click here for the recipe from allrecipes.com

I made them just as the recipe stated, and they are delicious. I made half into sandwich cookies with the filling and the other half just regular cookies. Thomas took a few to work, me and the boys ate a few, and the rest are being shipped off to a good friend in Iraq tomorrow. Anyone have any tips and tricks for mailing cookies over there? Seems I read somewhere to freeze them first? Put them in gladware? Something about a slice of bread to keep them moist? Share the info please.

Now for a few funny things the kids have been up to.
Dayton has been sneaking off to a personality and attitude 101 class apparently. He has become so talkative, not that anyone can understand him. Every once in awhile we think we make out a word. Mostly just "Mama, Maaammmmaaaaaa, MMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMAAAAAAAAA" and "Da-Da!" When he says Mama, it's in a very demanding way until I answer him. When he says Da-Da its in a more serious tone. Tonight everyone was up really late. It's just a minute after midnight and Dayton just fell asleep. He was doing everything possible to keep himself awake. Dancing silly, spinning around in circles.
Apparently he was practicing for the "Attitude 101" class final at the library yesterday. Keegan had to get some blood work done, and the doctore was going to call the cell phone. So, I took it in the library (I know, shame on me). The doctor called while Dayton was playing the phone. When I took it from him, the flailing began. He screamed and screamed, and ran, and threw himself down on the floor, until we were finally able to get our butts out of that place.

Braden is destined to become the story teller of the family. Tonight while I was baking he brought me a ziploc bag full of Legos and a few pieces of paper with his spectacular artwork. This is the story that followed.
"Mama, I went to the BX and bought this for you. It's a lego set. I went and got it just now. I climbed out the upstairs window and I saw a trampoline. I jumped from the window to a tree branch then fell down on the trampoline. I got in your car then and drove to the BX. I didn't drive fast Mama, I drived slow. I drived all the way to the BX. When I got to the BX I didn't have an ID. But, because I was a boy, the said it was ok. So I went in and I bought you this lego set. It was four-seven-eight-ninety dollars. So be careful, and don't break it ok Mama? Acuweey it was infinity dollars Mama. So then I came back home and I tried to climb back up to the window. But then I saw Daddy left his keys in the door. So I just came in the front door."
The funniest part is, when Thomas woke up and he retold him the story, at the end he added, "It's ok Daddy it was on sale!"
Oops, wonder who he heard that from?

Keegan..well let me just show you a picture.

He has decided all summer to wear his shorts pulled up to his armpits. We have argued and persuaded to no avail. Then a week ago, he has decided to wear his shorts a few inches lower than I would like. Anyhow, he is now sporting a 2 inch wide pale waistband.