The weekend before my birthday we traveled to my parents’ house and got to see their regular season ending game. They won! They made it all the way the way to the quarterfinals before being beaten by North Gwinnet. They did great even up to the last two minutes of the game when they scored a touchdown, got a two point conversion, recovered an on sides kick, and kicked a field goal. Dad’s still not sure if this is his last year or not.
It looks like Liam wants to be a pirate. During school time, Liam had a collision with someone or something and injured his eye. This all happened yesterday. I was worried for a little while because he kept rubbing it and it kept watering. He’s much better today and we actually saw the “old” Liam for a long time at MOPS. He’s really adjusting well and feeling much better. Very little “Hol’ me”‘s were spoken today. He had a lot of fun at MOPS and didn’t fuss at all when I went to the meeting.
His first sentence was “May I be excused please?” Probably because we get him to repeat it word by word to us before he gets up from the table. And, no, it didn’t come out that clear but it was recognizable by Mark and myself.
Zoe’s teaching him phrases too. Yesterday they worked on, “I don’t know.” Which his came out “I know,” in a cute high pitched voice. It was very cute. She’s enjoying having a little one to teach all sorts of stuff. He gets a kick out of making her laugh and will repeat the phrases over and over again much to her delight.
Ace was actually saying, “Ho! Santa” Not “Hosanna.”
At breakfast today here was the conversation:
Ace: Hosanna is coming.
Zoe: Who?
Ace: Hosanna is coming. To bring us presents.
Zoe: Oh, you mean Santa.
Yesterday was towel/sheet wash day and I instructed Ace to go to his bathroom and get all the dirty towels and the washcloths that he could reach. As I was loading the washer, I noticed a lot of washcloths. I went back to his bathroom and discovered he had taken almost all of the “clean” washcloths from the drawer and brought them downstairs to be washed. Now they’re extra clean.
Apparently, nobody sent the memo about the time change to Liam and Ace and they were officially up at 6:30 a.m. And when they got up, they woke up Josiah. Zoe slept in until almost 7:30.
After getting up, I attempted to get in the shower, but Liam’s diaper leaked during the night, so I had to change him. Then when I picked up Josiah, he pooped, so I had to change him. With everyone ready for the day, I ran to take a shower.
After the shower, Josiah started getting fussy, so I attempted to put him down and kept trying for about two hours. He wouldn’t go to sleep. Every time I tried to put him down, he woke up. Or if I tried to put him down awake, he wouldn’t go to sleep. On top of that clingy Liam was following me around all morning wanting me to hold him.
After about an hour and half, I decided we would head to the gym. I got everyone ready and as I closed the locked door behind me, I looked in my hands and all I had were my van keys. Ugghh. I locked myself out of the house.
Wait, it gets better…we make it to the gym and clingy Liam (who has been here since last week) starts screaming bloody murder for me not to leave. I eventually get him pried off of me and headed to sweet relief and burning calories time.
After we exercised, I made it to Target to get a birthday present and try to find something to replace our mobile dvd screen without actually having to buy a new system (we have a dual screen and one of the screens went out a couple of weekends ago…we only use it on long trips). We got the present and Josiah was hungry, so I tried to feed him while I checked out, but then I realized I didn’t have my wallet, that I had left it in the car.
So, I headed to the car amidst myriads of why we didn’t get the present. Then we headed back in, paid for the present while getting Josiah situated to nurse and then got a slushy to drink while I sat down and fed Josiah.
Now, back to being locked out of the house. I called one of my friends who had a key and by luck, she was heading out our way today. So, as I was leaving Target she called to say she was at a local restaurant. Great, I thought, I’ll get to hang out with her while the kids play after we eat. I’ll get my key and be home in a jiff after that.
However, Josiah did his duty right after he finished eating and when I laid him down in the car to change him, it was up his back and all over his clothes. I have three kids yelling and/or screaming in their car seats and I stripped Josiah naked. I picked him up to wipe off his bottom and he promptly spit up all over me and himself. I decided then that we would not be going anywhere to eat…it was drive thru city for us. I got Josiah strapped in his seat when Ace announces that he needs to go potty. Out comes our handy dandy training potty (always kept for emergencies) and down he went on it.
I was glad to be back home after that little adventure. I think Liam is so cranky because he’s getting his two year molars in. I’m ready for our happy lovey Liam to come back though.
Now, it’s off to one of Zoe’s friends to celebrate her birthday since we won’t be here to attend the party.
Last night and more so today, I’ve noticed a very unpleasant odor coming from our kitchen. Not sure what it is, my sniffer and I went on a hunt. It kind of smelled like cat spray but both of our cats are fixed and don’t have a history of spraying (one’s a girl), so I wasn’t sure what it was. Plus, we couldn’t see any cat spray anywhere. Mark went on a search tonight. Under the dishwasher, removing the board to look under cabinets. Washing placemats, rugs, anything and everything we could find. It didn’t help.
Then, Mark decided to sniff a pumpkin…that was it. One of the kids had brought home a pumpkin from the corn maze and apparently, it had gotten a hole or was rotting away and left a pleasant odor behind. Ewww! I really was worried that something had crawled under my cabinets and died…thank goodness it was just the pumpakin.
My plans for today included getting up and grabbing breakfast (since we had no milk, oj or eggs) and head to the gym. Then after the gym, go to Wally World for our monthly grocery run and to restock on the weeklys (bread, milk, oj). Then we would head home happy and content and fix lunch then clean up and head to bed for naptime.
However, plans change.
Liam woke up this morning with a fever. This is on top of his runny nose that has been going on for almost two weeks. So, we skipped the gym and headed straight to the big store for groceries and drugs.
Monday while we at Josiah’s check up, Dr. B checked Liam’s ears again since he was still runny. His ear had clear fluid in it but no signs of an infection. She started out saying that we could bring him in if he didn’t get better or if he started running a fever, then she decided to just write out teh prescription if we needed it. Needless to say, we needed it and now he’s on zithromax. I feel so bad for him. He feels really yucky and you can tell. I’ve tried motrin and it didn’t keep the fever down long so we’ve added tylenol into the rotation.
Sick season has started in our house!
I’ve just been enlightened as to how the word “literally” is “literally” overused. I’m addicted to a blog called “Literally…a Web Log”
So, imagine my surprise when I open our local county magazine and find a sweet article about prayer for a young high schooler who had some health problems. The article states, “But less than three weeks after the glowing article her world came crashing down–literally.”
All I have to say is owie for the people that were on her world. Mark asked if the crash created a black hole. I also am wondering how she wound up with her own world when I have to share mine with 2 + billion people??? No fair.
Just thought that was funny.
Alright, I’m officially posting on our cuties for Halloween. So, technically, the polls are closed. Thanks everyone for voting on my sweet peas.
Here’s the results:
Zoe: With 14 people voting, 71% said she was Strawberry Shortcake, 21% said Georgia Peach (which she is to me), 7% were goofy and said Bob the Tomato…and 71% of the people were right. Miss Zoe was Strawberry Shortcake. Okay, all you late 20 early 30 somethings get out of thinking about the “old” frilly Strawberry Shortcake. Zoe was the updated new and improved one. Blue Jeans, striped shirt, jacket around her waist and the ever present big floppy hat. She had the jeans. I found the shirts at a store. The hat I found at a consignment sale with the cheap one piece jumpsuit costume. I sewed red hair to make her hair. Total cost probably around $10. The jumpsuit costume was about $20 online. A lot of people made comments on her. She was the only Strawberry Shortcake that we saw at the Trick or Treat thing last night.
Ace: With 92% saying he was Peter Pan and merely 7% saying Spider man. Mr. Ace had a time trying to come up with what he wanted to be for Halloween. Decisions are not his strong point. When he said Peter Pan I jumped on it and found out how to make his costume. I ordered the hat though. I found instructions on how to make his costume here. He informed me after I had finished the costume, that he didn’t want to be Peter Pan. However, we informed him that if he didn’t dress up as Peter Pan he wouldn’t get candy. Yes, I know I bribed, but I knew he didn’t want to miss out and I was not going to make yet another costume for him. Everyone thought he looked adorable and so do I. I actually bought the hat on ebay because of time constraints. So his costume probably cost about $10 too.
Liam: 92% of the people were right that he was a pirate. He had been practicing for a long time saying, “Arggghhh!” But getting him to put on the full costume has been a bear and so we haven’t pushed it. We did manage one decent picture with the eye patch. His costume was probably the cheapest because I made a quick vest out of red broadcloth and tied it off with black broadcloth. We used leftover red to make a bandana which he didn’t wear. I found cheap pants at Goodwill that I cut off for pirate pants and that’s that. His probably cost about $5 to make.
Josiah: I guess I stumped people on that one, but if you know me you would have been correct in guessing with 66% of the voters that Josiah was the Cat in the Hat . Of course, that costume was cheap too because it had been used by previous children. Someone had given me the hat which is an adult hat but fun to try and put on them. I made the costume using black sweatpants and a sweatshirt and that nifty sticky back felt. I drew the shapes on the back of the sticky paper, cut it out, and voila! Instant Cat in the Hat. He got a lot of cute ooohs and aaahs too. Although, no candy for him.
Okay, I know we’re not the only ones who do this. Maybe I’m the only one to confess though. We really send the kids out trick or treating to fill up Mark and my sugar fix! Yep, there it’s out in the open. We are sugar addicts when it comes to Halloween and well, I just don’t see people dishing out candy to two goofy dressed up adults. So, that’s why we send the kids out. Free labor for our sugar.
Last night, after they were in bed, we dumped out their treasures and ate some of the yummy treats before putting them all in the candy bowl for the whole family…hehehe. I think I remember my mom doing that as well, so I know I’m not alone.
So moms and dads, who will join me in putting our kids to work. After all, this is the one time of year they can earn their keep 🙂