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Yeah, this week has been a wash as far as successful nap time goes. Today was by far the worst!! But since it’s Friday anything can be endured right?? Today’s was a mixed blessing actually. Qade got up, less than an hour after going “down” to tell me he needed to “go pee” and then did! I was very proud of him for “taking care of business” but rather pessimistic about him going back to sleep. I was right on that last part too. He managed to wake up Myles, who has been getting up WAY early from his naps all week anyway, and even though I sat in their room for half an hour reminding them to keep their eyes closed and go to sleep, it didn’t happen. Not to be daunted out of getting a little peace and quiet for my own sanity, I just closed the room to their door. They’ll get up at 3 just as if they’d been sleeping the whole time. I insist on having some “mommy time” during the day even if they are just having room time and spreading their toys all over creation instead of sleeping.

Well, I came back out to the living room after closing the door on the boys JUST IN TIME to hear the girls getting up. *SIGH SIGH SIGH!!!!* Oh well, my mantra for today is “IT’S FRIDAY!!!!” I’m really hoping that the girls ma will show up early(er) today than she has been. It’s been closer to 4:30 or yesterday it was 5 before she came. I know it’s the first couple weeks of school so things are still trying to get settled in, but that’s going to have to change once the little one arrives for sure. I already told you it’s that space in time in the late afternoons that the boys are at their worst, and as I recall both of them as infants struggled in that dinner-bed time block as well. So if little sis follows suit that means that between 4 and 7 will be some tough times in our house for awhile. Therefore the ladies need to be gone by then. That’s my reasoning anyway. I’m sure it won’t be a problem though. Everything has been working out very well despite the daily disputes, which hopefully they are learning to managed better amongst themselves. Seems so anyway.

But back to the topic at hand. The boys will be going to bed early tonight so I can get a jump-start on my weekend resolution of relaxation! I think since they robbed me of my quiet time this afternoon, it’s only fair! Ha ha ha!!

Hope you all have a swell weekend, and get a good nap in if you can! Toodle-oo!!

I’m super-duper excited that tomorrow is Friday!!! Today didn’t go that well with all the munchkins. Seemed everyone was having a hard time listening and following directions as well as playing nicely together! Whew! I may be a fat pregnant lady, but I can still hustle if I have to correct some saucy or out right defiant behavior. If they think they’re going to pull that one over, hopefully today gave them a glimps into reality.

Anyway, I was glad to see the ladies go home, and glad to get my own two in bed! It’s been a long day, and a long week!! I’m seriously looking forward to this weekend, and will be as completely lazy as I possibly can be! Lazy days of parenthood are not nearly the same as lazy days of singlehood or even newlymarriedhood, but they are still good. Stuart comes from a long line of “non-relaxers” so he will most likely be as busy as ever this weekend. I guess it’s relaxing in it’s way, some people like to relax with more work, but I’m hoping that I can get some ACTUAL rest in there somewhere. Perhaps the lads can help their dad with the serious relaxation while I do the easy stuff!

Although, I’m pretty motivated to get baby girl’s room done now, so that might come into play with my weekend plans. My brother, James, came over for the express purpose of painting the room for me!!! Woo-Hoo!!! It was desperately in need of some new paint, and while I figured it would get done someday, I wasn’t terribly motivated to do it myself. Now it’s all shiny and new looking with a creamy color on the walls. The paint I chose has just a teeeeeeeny touch of a pink.. more like a far away suggestion. So that worked out well. It doesn’t look pink when you see it, but if you really look closely it has a touch of that Southwestern deserty pink in it. Now if the chocolate colored polka dots I ordered would just arrive then we’d really make something out of it!! I forgot to take a true before picture, but I’ll take one tomorrow before I put up her little wall quote. At least that has arrived. I’m really excited about this tiny room and the sweet little bundle it’s being prepared for! Yay!!!

Speaking of bundles, a gal in our church is having a shower for myself and another lady who just had a baby girl. It’s going to be on Sunday after church, and I’m sure will be a ton of fun! It’s hard to tell people what you “need” when you’ve already had a kid (or two) because most of the ‘gear’ and such is still usable. My wonderful sis-in-law is getting a car seat cover for our infant seat. I know it wasn’t a necessary thing, but I thought it would be nice to have something a little more girlie for her than the blue seat that Qade and Myles used. The cover I found is a giraffe print with chocolate and lime green accents. I love it!! Think I’ll make a hat or something out of it when it’s done being used! Ha! But anyway, back to the shower, I did mention that we can always use diapes and wipes! So I imagine that’s what we’ll be bringing home! It’ll be a fun day, though probably pretty tiring. I wear out very quickly on Sundays I’ve discovered. I enjoy the preaching and the kind people in the church, but it is a difficulty to live 45 min away and then have to take care of shopping on church days too. Still, I’m thankful for the church and the wonderful ladies who run the sunday school program for our lads!

I’m rambling rather randomly now, so I think that’s a sign that it’s time for bed! Hope that you all have a fantastic Friday!!! I certainly plan to. It might involve a lot of rope and duct tape, but I’m gonna have a good Friday! Just kidding, of course!!!!!!

Here is the other self portrait I took that I posted on FB. I thought perhaps I’ll stick it up here too in case any of you missed it there. It seems to be the favorite based on feedback. Ta ta!

It feels like the entire 3rd trimester landed on me full force today…. well starting last night. Whew! I have been surprisingly energetic during this last trimester when normally I move like a slug through it with no discernible energy whatsoever! I’m still moving like a slug, but it’s been a slightly more energetic type this time around. Not today though, wow! I had a hard time sleeping last night. Good ol’ braxton-hicks woke me up or kept me up and I just couldn’t find a comfy position to sleep in. So I was starting out the day bleary eyed and sleepy, but even coffee didn’t really help. I had planned to sneak in a nap while the kids were down, but they had another idea. *sigh* I kind of stagger putting them down, so by the time the older ones were sleeping and I had a bite of lunch and was ready to attempt my nap, the littlest girl was up and griping very loudly about an extreeeeeeeemly gross diaper. *double sigh* Oh well. But I seriously was suffering this afternoon from lack of sleep.

Not feeling so swell… nope!

So now that the ladies have gone home I’m ready to relax, but my lads have other plans. Apparently they too are suffering from SOMETHING if not lack of sleep as well, and now have commenced to make the rest of this afternoon as unpleasant as possible. I call the time between 4pm and dinner the “witching hour” because that’s how my children behave! I try to combat it in one way or another but the thing that seems to work best is just to put on a movie. I don’t like to do that every day. Kids are “babysat” too much by the tube. Still what’s a desperate mom to do??? Stuart is stuck at school with some delinquent student who already has to make up work due to being suspended on the FIRST WEEK of school. So here I am all alone with my two “happy” lads, ha ha ha!! Funny how you can make anything a drama.

Well, I decided that the behavior did not deserve to be rewarded with a movie today. So Qade is “enjoying” some solitary room time, and Myles, amazingly, seems fairly content to chew on Potato Head parts for the time being. Now I can go get started on that dinner. I think we’ll get food in tummies, bath time and an early bed tonight for all parties.

Happy Tuesday!

Yesterday morning on our “day of rest” HA! I went into the lad’s room to get them ready for church when I was greeted by a fully dressed Qade and a newly changed Myles (in diaper only) and Qade’s cute little voice piping up, “I’m already dressed!” Which I could clearly see. What I couldn’t figure out was how in the world Myles had been changed!! As I was feeding them breakfast and hurrying through the morning to make it to church on time I asked Qade if he had changed Myles, and he said, “Myles changed his diaper.” Well, I didn’t believe that for an instant. Turns out Myles had INDEED taken his old diaper off, but had a little help with his new diaper. While I was getting ready the boys were wailing in their room and Daddy went to check it out. He found Qade dressed just like I had, but Myles was running around in the nude in their room, so he slapped a diaper on him and told them to clean up their room. Ha ha ha!!

I admit that I was impressed with Qade getting himself completely dressed. He even chose clothes that “go” together, and while he wasn’t wearing a collared shirt like I usually put him in for church, I let him wear his own outfit to church. He has been resistant to doing those things “by himself” like getting dressed and putting his shoes on. It’s not for lack of ability because I know he can do it, but he’d rather mom just do it for him. Slowly I’m starting to refuse to do things for him so he is learning though usually kicking and screaming along the way. So it made me happy to see him take the initiative to get dressed all on his own. Myles succeeded in getting his feety jammies off and diaper removed, but we still have a ways to go on the putting things ON part.

Qade is getting more “into” being a big boy. I’ve tried that tactic on him time and again with the whole potty training thing, and for the longest time he didn’t seem to care a bit about being a big boy. Although when I would ask him to do something he didn’t like he’d like to answer, “I’m bigger” as if that excused him from anything he didn’t feel like doing. Hmmmmm… not cool.

But I have to say that while this potty training battle has lasted far longer than I EVER EVER wanted it to, I believe we are making progress. Knock on wood!! I was going to write an exulting post on Saturday about how wonderful of a week we had had and the strides that our “big boy” was making only to have a “double whammy” accident first thing on Saturday. *sigh* He seemed pretty upset about it though, so maybe that’ll help. Last week he really did do great! Last Sunday didn’t bode well for the week being good as he completely wet through his outfit by the time we got to church. This was with us even repeatedly asking him if he needed to go. A huge mommy uh-oh then came to light because while I had put fresh unders in our diaper bag, I completely forgot an extra pair of pants. Oh dear! So we packed him back up in his seat after changing his pants, and pulled out of the parking lot without having even darkened the church door.

(A little aside here, it kind of humored me that because we were seen leaving by another couple pulling in late we got a call from that couple as well as the pastor this week just “checking” to make sure everything was okay. It humored me and also made me think. Why is it that people only feel compelled to “check up” on you if they think that something is wrong? Shouldn’t we be more involved in people’s lives especially other believers to the point where we would know if there was something wrong? Also if something was “wrong” in that sense do we really expect people to tell us about it if the only time we’re willing to put any effort into their lives is if we are curious about “what’s going on” with them??? Just some thoughts. Personally I don’t think there is enough fellowship or unity among believers but that we often try to salve our conscience by putting ourselves forward when something seems ‘wrong.’ I don’t go for that myself. Not that I was in any way offended by the calls this week, just chuckled to myself, but if something really was wrong, I wouldn’t want to talk about it to people who don’t really show real interest in my life or concerns on a “normal” day. Not sure if all of that came out understandable, but maybe someone can relate) Back to the real subject…

Monday I was expecting more issues with the potty training since we’d had SUCH a bad Sunday with it, but surprisingly it didn’t happen! Qade told me several times each day this week that he was “keeping my unders dry!” and he did!!! The week started as usual with me telling him to go potty every so often. By Thursday though, he was taking the initiative to go on his own! THRILL!!! And he’d even tell me when he needed to go “poey” and ask for a story! Ahhhhh!!! I can’t even describe what a relief this week has been on that front! I’ve been so tired of the whole process for quite some time, but this past week I saw at least a glimmer of light at the end of this rather revolting tunnel!!!

Yesterday I was certain to pack an extra pair of pants “in case” of an accident. On our way to church, which is a 45 min drive, Qade piped up from the back that he was “keeping his unders dry” which kind of tipped me off. I asked if he needed to go and he said yes, so we pulled over, (it’s so easy for boys!!) and while he had “leaked” a little bit, he stopped himself in order to ‘keep dry.’ I was still proud of him for telling us. He told us several times through our shopping and driving too. So while it wasn’t a completely dry success, I still chalk it up to a victory in our little adventure. Hopefully this week will be at least as good as last! I’d love to have him confident with the whole process before the baby comes, because I am anticipating some regressions when we add another family member, but perhaps I’ll be surprised!

Have a swell Monday!

Wow, having 2 extra little bodies in the house full-time has been interesting for sure! I don’t necessarily think it’s “harder” but just different really. The girls behave very well for the most part and seem to respond to me well so far. Danielle and I have “conversations” sometimes over her bossiness and noseyness. She seems to think that EVERYTHING is her business and frequently asks questions about why one of the boys may have time out or whatever. I don’t mind letting her know that it really is none of her concern unless I’m talking to her. She takes it pretty well most of the time. I just need to get better about how to answer “Why?” and “How come?” questions. I don’t mind them so much when she’s just an inquiring mind, but when she answers me that way when I’ve asked them to do something I nip it in the bud. I do NOT want Qade thinking it’s an appropriate way to respond to me.

I already have plenty to deal with in that quarter. I was telling my mom the other day that I didn’t expect to run into certain attitudes and expressions from my son until he was much closer to being a teen!! Recently though, he has picked up a nasty habit of “sassing” and even pointing at me or Stuart as he get’s this totally teen expression on his face that says, “you can’t tell me what to do!” Oh yeah. I’ll tell ya that it’s not working out so well for him, but his little strong will still has yet to be broken over this one. Poor kid comes by it naturally unfortunately. I know our kids are born depraved little sinners, but sometimes I’d like to think that they aren’t really “that bad.” It’s wrong thinking though, and I just need to pray harder that God will help us get through to our little 3 yr old rebel! Qade gets his stubborn streak from me, I’m afraid, but has also inherited his Daddy’s temper. I’m so glad that God has given Stuart victory over that part of his character. I’m not sure if I have victory over mine yet. But at least since we’ve each had to deal with those struggles ourselves, and seen what God can do in us, we’ll be able to help guide Qade as he has to begin to deal with those same struggles. Right now those parts of his personality are working against him, but I know that they can become some of his biggest strong points if rightly controlled. It’s just the process that’s painful. There are some days where I honestly do just want to throw my hands up in the air because I just do not know what else to do. Then there are sweet days where we are working together, it seems, and can see some good progress. Hopefully the bad days get fewer while the good days get gooder!!

Having 4 little kids in the house does bring up some amusing moments for me though! For instance, Qade is totally “into” going pee outside! He and his cousin Aiden had many bonding moments with this particular activity. I need to apologize to the girl’s mom though because they aren’t used to boys. One day Danielle thought, “Well if he can do it, I can!” I’m sure you can predict the outcome there. We had to change her pants due to the “accident” as she called it. I was smiling to myself over it, but just let her know that if she needs to go while we’re playing outside to let me know and she can go in, because girls can’t go outside like boys can. Ha ha ha!!

Myles has been getting much better with his words lately. I don’t know if it’s the infuluence of the little jabber-jay bird who comes to our house now or if he’s just “getting big” as Qade would say about him. Myles loves a couple special songs and will “sing” them around. One is “If You’re Happy” song that I sing to him when I’m changing his diaper. He gets lots of tickles when I do sing it, so he’ll climb up on his table and grin at me while he starts to sing, “Happy-know” over and over! Cracks me up!! but it’s not nearly as funny as when he sings “Jesus loves me!” When he sings that one it sounds like this, “Ee-suh uhh-me, iss ah-no! For, five six!” Ah, ha ha ha!! I laugh every time he does it!! His favorite “movie” in all the world is this “Farmer Dillo” thing that came with a book. It’s a counting book so he’s learning to count pretty good!

The preschool part of life is going well. I was a little overwhelmed at first because there is SOOOOOO much packed into that curriculum, that I’d be doing school all day to get through it all. Not a possibility right now. But it even tells you at the beginning of the teachers guide that you have to taylor it to your own “school” needs and gives great guidelines on how to do that. I’m just an over achiever. Yeah, we’ll go with that! Anyway, I’ve been keeping it as simple as possible and focusing on the MAIN concepts. For example today the kids were supposed to color some triangles and then cut them out!!! Well this is the first time that Qade has been legally allowed to touch scissors so of course he wasn’t even going to come close to cutting the lines of the triangles out. Rather than put that stress on both of us by trying to “help” him cut them or “make” him cut them, I just let him get used to holding scissors and figuring out how they cut without getting his fingers! We got lots of little pieces of paper, and not one triangle out of the deal! BUT he was really concentrating, and I could tell that he was proud of his “accomplishments” anyway. Plus he knows what a triangle is. Success!!! The boy really does astonish me with how well he learns, but I don’t want to push him beyond what he’s really ready for right now. The other day I read the kids a story about the city mouse and country mouse. It was a short blurb from the curriculum so no pictures! Then I asked some yes or no follow up questions just to see how their comprehension was. Qade got EVERY ONE right!!! I was shocked!! He’s a good listener…. sometimes.

One more Qade story and then I’ll quit. The other night Stuart asked Qade if he wanted to pray for dinner, and Qade said okay. So Stu prompted him a little bit and then Qade added, on his own, “Thank you for mommy and Daddy and Myles and playing outside.” Awwwww! I love to hear him pray or hear Myles chirp up “AMEN” at the end of a prayer! It’s neat to see the way that bringing them up thinking about the REALITY of God really does make an impact on them, even at this very young age.

Have a great week friends!

I hear distant rumbles and although the sky is sunny at our house, there’s a pretty dark cloud just over the hill! I’m willing to say that we’ll probably be getting at least a tad more rain this evening. It’s been “storming” every evening here for a week! I like the rain, love the smell and sounds of a storm, but the higher humidity has me slightly miserable right now. Our cooler doesn’t work so swell when the air is already moist. But that’s okay, I’ll take the rain.

It’s FRIDAY, Friends!!!! Woo-hooo!!! I just love that “Friday night feeling!” Wish we could have it all week. Today we experienced a bit more grumpiness all around from the small people in the house. A little more bickering, teasing, and general rudeness as well. My children got “time out” for several of their behavior blunders, and the girls each got some firm words. I haven’t yet initiated the time out chair with them, but all in good time. I know they are adjusting to the fact that they’re going from a stay at home mom situation to a full-time babysitter. So I’m trying to give them a little space to fit into. Next week I’m hoping to start preschool with Qade and Danielle. Having some extra activities at regular intervals will help alleviate some of the drama that tends to occur when they are left to their own devices for too long.

Tonight I made a German pancake for dinner. It was yummy!! I was in the mood for pancakes all day so I was browsing recipes online to see if I could come up with something. We are out of bisquick so that wasn’t an option. I actually found several that I wanted to try. One was just an “old fashioned” homemade recipe, one was for Swedish pancakes, that to me seem to be kind of crepe like, and then this German one, which is basically a “puff” pancake. It was really good!!! There were 1/2 a doz eggs in the batter, but boy with a little maple syrup and some powdered sugar it was SOOOOOO good! Stuart told me that this meal made his top ten list, so that means we’ll be having it again sometime!! I’m a sucker for breakfast dinners anyway!

Well, I had a lot I was going to say about some of the struggles I’m facing with my oldest lad and his recent attitude issues, but this post doesn’t seem the place for that right now. I’ll “share” later. Right now I’ll leave you with a funny conversation I had with him instead. We were spending one on one time in the recliner before bed the other night when our conversation turned to our cat. I asked him what the cat’s name was, because typically we just call him ‘Kitty.” He told me he was “Wiam” he’s not so good with his “L’s” yet. Then he told me, “We can get another cat when Wiam pops.” !!!!! I cracked up so bad! I said what? and he repeated that when Wiam pops we would have another cat! My fat belly was jiggling so much from my laughing that Qade started laughing too! It was a sight I’m sure! Fun moments happen, even when daily life can seem like a struggle.

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Tomorrow is the beginning of a new era in our household routine. It’s not going to be “normal” yet for a while since we’re kind of stuck in a transition holding pattern it seems. But it is a new beginning. That’s one positive thing about Mondays, you always have a chance at a new beginning…. any day really, but before I start waxing eloquent on that little thought I’ll move on….

The girls are coming over tomorrow. Their mom starts some extra first year teacher training and they will be here through Wed then not on Thurs and then “for real” on Friday! Wow!! I can’t believe summer is gone and school stuff is starting!!! It goes so fast, especially when they keep adding extra stuff to the school year, seriously!

We got back from Colorado and a quick visit to “Tiff’s house” as Qade would say, and we are minus one son!!! Yep, we actually left Qade behind to spend a couple extra days with his cousin and grandparents. Stu’s parents are heading back this way tomorrow with our Monkey in tow. Hope he does well in the truck for them. I imagine he’ll be just fine eating up all the extra grandparent attention he can. It was difficult for me to drive away and leave him there. Not because I don’t think he’ll be okay, I couldn’t imagine leaving him with people would be taking BETTER care of him, but just because he’s not supposed to be ‘big’ enough to spend weekends away from Mommy yet. Selfish, I know, but he’s just getting all grown up way too fast for my liking. *sniff sniff* Plus I’m exceedingly pregnant and subject to random emotions, so it was a bit of a twist on this lil mommy’s heart (heart is little, not the mommy) to leave her ‘baby’ behind. BUT I am still glad that he got to stay and I know he’s having way more fun than is good for him!! Myles misses his brother. He was extra fussy today and couldn’t seem to figure out what to play with when no one was trying to take it from him! Ha ha ha!!

So I’m not sure if I’m quite ready for tomorrow. It’s going to be atypical anyway because Qade isn’t home, and I have to leave in the afternoon for an OB apt. So poor Stu will be holding down the fort till I get back, but fortunately for him it’s during nap time!! Here’s hoping that the girls will settle down and actually take a good nap for him being in a different place and all. But hopefully by next Monday I’ll be able to start putting that great structure that I’ve been mentioning, into place and we’ll all ease into the new routine together. I picked up our preschool curriculum from my mom’s house last week, and just briefly glanced into it. It’s going to be so much fun, and I’m super-duper excited about what the kids will be learning!! I’m really going to try not to be too high pressure about it, especially with Qade since he is only 3. I do want to make it fun and something that they look forward to each day, so I’ll have to really be creative about how I package it for them.

Anyway, I have a half folded basket of laundry, a dishwasher that needs to be emptied, and a coffee pot to schedule for my morning cuppa since I now HAVE to get up! Yet, here I sit chatting away to you guys! Ha ha ha!! I’ve missed you though, so there you go! Hope that you all have a fantastic Monday. Wish me luck, I have to grocery shop tomorrow! Ugh!

Toodle-oo

Stu found this funny post on this blog he reads and shared it with me. I thought it was so funny and so terribly true that I had to share it with you all! My toddlers are making great strides in their sharing capabilities, but sometimes they still revert to this default. Ha ha!! Hope it makes you chuckle!

Toddler Property Law
If I like it, it’s mine.
If it’s in my hand, it’s mine.
If I can take it from you, it’s mine.
If I had it a little while ago, it’s mine.
If it’s mine, it must never appear to be yours in any way.
If I’m doing or building something, all the pieces are mine.
If it looks like it’s mine, it’s mine.
If I saw it first, it’s mine.
If I can see it, it’s mine.
If I think it’s mine, it’s mine.
If I want it, it’s mine.
If I need it, it’s mine (yes, I know the difference between “want” and “need”!)
If I say it’s mine, it’s mine.
If you don’t stop me from playing with it, it’s mine.
If you tell me I can play with it, it’s mine.
If it will upset me too much when you take it away from me, it’s mine.
If I can play with it better than you can, it’s mine.
If I play with it long enough, it’s mine.
If you are playing with something and you put it down, it’s mine.
If it’s broken, it’s yours (no wait, all the pieces are mine).

That’s what I felt like yelling to my day as it apparently decided to take off without me this morning. Bah! Yes, my morning went something like this… oh wait, I should start with last night first: Memo to me, don’t watch scary CSI type real life crime shows before bed, thank you! Due to the fact that I was positive that the murdered woman’s husband was probably going to come in and push me down the stairs (never mind there were no stairs) my eyes were wide open when they should have been sleeping. I hadn’t realized just how much I rely on Stu to be my big hero, even when there’s not really any heroing that needs to be done, ha ha ha!! Anyway, that combined with Qade throwing his apendages all over the bed made for a less than restful night of slumber…. at least for me.

So this morning, early, I was still ready to be sleeping when I felt/heard the familiar stirring of children waking. Oh dear! It was accompanied by some very violent yawns though so I was HOPING that perhaps they’d just roll over and go back to sleep which is exactly what I was about to do. That is until the Grand-daddy of all leg cramps decided to attack!! OWIE OWIE OWIE!!!! I was doing my best not to scream, and not to eat the stuffing out of my pillow as well, because I didn’t want to ruin the chance (if there was one) of getting some more zzz’s. But this leg cramp was BAD, oh my! Finally I had to get out of bed and put some pressure on my leg for it to kind of ease up. It is STILL incredibly sore FYI, just thought you’d like to know. Once that sorta ended, I did crawl back under the sheet (it’s WAY too hot for covers!) and close my eyes again. The boys were still lying down and quite so I thought to myself, “Yay, they really did go back to sleep” and I relished the thought of more morning snooze time for me! Ahhhhhhhh!!!!

After awhile I thought I’d open one eye to peek at Qade and make sure he was really sleeping. Imagine my surprise when I noticed that he wasn’t even in the bed!! I popped up like a piece of toast and imediately noticed that Myles wasn’t in HIS bed either! Oh bother!! Here I was thinking in my head what wonderfully well behaved boys they were being for mommy this morning, and low and behold, the little scammers have figured out that if they want “loose” they just have to be REALLY quiet so Mommy doesn’t hear them!!! Well, of course I hopped out of bed, and hobbled down the hall (my leg is sore remember?). I found Myles quietly playing with machbox cars on the coffee table while Qade was helping himself to the bottle of Hershey’s chocolate syrup that he had routed out of the fridge. *sigh*

I won’t tell you exactly what happened next but for the next 1/2 hour we were all LOCKED in our room and I insisted that they stay just as quiet as they had been while I ‘rested’ HA!

After that memorable begining to the day that I couldn’t quite catch up with, I had a gloomy presentiment that it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day all around. It started to come true as BOTH of my lads had fits during breakfast and had to be removed from the table. I was begining to turn into the wicked witch of the west, but things actually did get better! First I went to the chiropractor and had a very very needed adjustment. Sounded like a 21 gun salute in my head when he cracked my neck! THEN my mom called and suggested we go shopping for the little girl! Yay!! There’s this great mom/baby consignment shop here and we found, probably more than she’ll need, adorable gently used baby clothes! That was fun, and the lads went with us and were very good shopping helpers right up till we were walking out the door. So I was able to deal with those fussies without my hair going all frizzy!

This afternoon while the lads were recharging napping, me and mom went and got pedicures! Ahhhhhhh!! Happy, happy feet! Plus the calf massage felt really good on my sore leg!

So even though the day started without me, and I was playing catch up for part of it, I think I finally DID catch it, and it’s turning out mucho better!! I really miss my man though. This has been the longest that we’ve been seperated since we were married, and it’s not fun! I know the boys miss him too though they aren’t able to communicate that really. They’ve both enjoyed talking to him on the phone, but their behaviore is certainly hurting for some Daddy influence! One more day!!!

Hope you all are having groovy days and they haven’t taken off and left you in the dust! You have to be careful with those things ya know. They can be tricky! Ta ta for now, Friends!