I just walked Andy a couple of blocks to his friends house. This is very cool- it is a friend he had in school who happens to live in our neighborhood. I past them up in Target the other day and we talked about getting the kids together to hang out for a while. So she called me Sunday, and we set up a time to play for today. Justin was kind of bummed that he didnt get to go to a friends house too. It was so hard to explain to him that this was Andy's friend and that he will make his own friends someday and go to his house too. So anyway, I walk all 3 boys to the friends house and they are out in thier driveway waiting for us. Then they say that their mom wanted to know if Justin could stay to play too. I said that I needed to talk to the mom before I could say yes. So he runs in and tells his mom we are there, and she comes out and says it was her idea, and that it would work really well if I was ok with it, so the other little brother had a buddy too :) How cute. She is walking them back to our house at 3- 3:30, and Ryan is sleeping, so I pretty much have time to get stuff done! I never imagined this is how today would turn out. I just hope that my boys are being good there. I am nervous about them fighting with eachother or something. We will see... Atleast until then I am off to get some completely focused things done. I dont know what they are yet...but I will find out! (And I will have a bowl of peppermint bon bon ice cream without having to hide from the boys!! hahahahah)
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Happy 8th Anniversary
Today is our 8 year anniversary :) And whats even cooler, is that when I look out my front window, the clouds today match what they were on our wedding day 8 years ago!...a bright blue sky with big beautiful puffy clouds here and there. So- happy anniversary to us...I love you babe!!!! Thank you for 8 wonderful years and for everything we have in our lives now since that day- eachother, 3 beautiful and rambunctious little boys, our new home and priceless memories that I will never forget, and last but not least- the love, the trust and the respect we have for eachother that we have and always will have (even on the days where we want to bite eachothers heads off!! :)
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Some people
We have had a busy week so far! Justin is doing this Little Tigers week at the Community Center (Karate). It is Mon. thru Thurs. for this week only. So after we got done with that today, I brought them to McDonalds for lunch, and I still needed to get all the boys a haircut and then go to Cub after that. We got as far as haircuts and then naptime set in...so Cub will have to wait (again). But this is what I dont get. As me and the boys are paying for their 3 haircuts, a lady walks in with her own 3 kids. She has older kids though- atleast two of them were. Her youngest was in a car seat so I glanced in, and there was a teeney tiny little sweetie- still all wrinkley and red. So I ask her how old the baby is and she tells me 1 week. "Oh how Cute." I tell her. Then I look at this lady who was pulled together all cute in her tank top and shorts, make up done nicley, and her hair was done... but what really got me was that her belly was GONE. I mean, you couldnt even tell she had a baby...let alone 3 of them and one of them was only a week ago. I feel like right now, I look like I am about 4 months pregnant. The sad part about that is that I am NOT even pregnant, but I look it! I even weigh less now, than I did before I got preggo with Andy almost 6 years ago, and I would like to think I didnt look pregnant back then! I have this spare bloated tire that looks like gravity has given hell to, and I cant get rid of it. Ryan was born almost 15 months ago, and this beeotch popped back to her skinny little self a week later. What a whore. (yes Im kidding)
Treadmill...here comes mama. Sorry friends at McDonalds drive through (and BK, Arbys, Taco Bell, and anyothers that will miss me that I have forotten to say). OK...you're right. I dont have the will power to kick my fast food addiction.
Friday, June 13, 2008
Stop, Drop and Roll
I brought the kids to the fire station today. I have been wanting to do something like this ever since Andy misssd the fieldtrip to the fire station when he was in preschool- so this was an awesome day! It went great minus a temper tantrum from Ryan while they were showing a safety video.
Ryan absolutely loved this dog. When it came out he smiled so big and clapped for him, and then pointed at the dog with his cute little chubby finger. It was so so cute. The dog came over to Ryan and held out his paw and Ryan gave him a 5!
The kids all got to feel the suit the firefighters wear. The funniest thing was that they had a bunch of the kids volunteer to be a house, then some to be the smoke, one to be the safety spot, and then the firefighter came out all dressed up in his gear (down to the oxygen mask being turned on). All these little kids who were being the house and smoke went running back to their mommies bawling their eyes out. Then at the end, there was one little boy still standing there like, huh?? What do I do. It was flippin hilarious.
This was the one thing that our kids would actaully do that didnt seem to scare the living daylights out of them. They thought they were such little studs after this. All of the sudden my little boys had struts... it was hilarious!!
Andy and Justin would hve nothing to do with putting on the firefighter's gear, so I had Ryan do it to show them how easy it was, but his legs didnt make it down the length of the boot! Nice try though!
The end. They got a little fire fighter coloring book that they thought was the best. Now maybe we can go hit up the police staion :)
Thursday, June 12, 2008
A dream that wasn't meant to be...
Ugh...enough of the baby talk, right??? God, last night I had a dream that I had a baby, and I was just snuggling with it forever. I had it up on my shoulder and it was resting its little head on me, and it was all nuzzled into my neck. I could feel its little breath on my neck giving me the chills and its little hand scratching my shoulder while it slept. I bent down to give it a kiss and its teeney head was so soft and fuzzy and smelled sweet like a baby. It was such a short dream, but so many little details- it really felt so real. I could have cried when I woke up and my arms were empty!!! Damn- I said we made a decision about being done, but I didnt say I am totally at peace with it. To make it worse, Justin said his infamous line again today, "Mommy, can we please have another baby? I want to have a sister. Can you have a baby in your tummy, mommy, please??" I told him that even if we did, it could be another brother, but he didnt care. Then tonight I was scrapbooking with Daphne and I was working on some of Justin's baby pictures, and it was so hard to see those knowing it would never happen again! I knew it would be hard to be done, but I had no idea it would be this hard......
(Think Disney world, baseball games, and attention for the boys and everything else...no diapers in the middle of the night...)
ugh
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Sassy little peek-a-boo
Me and Lynn went to get our hair done last night. I figured since I wasnt going to get much taken off the length, I would do something more fun with the color. Whats the point of going if you cant even tell you got your hair done afterwards?? Andy asked where I was going when I left and I told him I was going to go get my hair cut. He said "NOoooo, dont cut your hair." So I told him I was only going to get a trim, but I would have fun with the color. Then I asked him what color he thought I should do, he tells me yellow. I said, "Well, isnt my hair already kind of yellow??" and he said "NO, mommy-- the REAL yellow." Justin piped up and agreed wtih Andy. I should come home with yellow hair. Well...no. Not gonna happen boys. So if I wasnt going to do much with the cut since Andy didnt want me to do that, and Jake didnt want me to do much to the color, what would I do?? Yep- ignore them. So for the first time, I only got a trim, and I went fun with the color...
What do you think???
Saturday, June 07, 2008
Pour a little salt in an open wound why dont ya??
I need to just give a fast update on some stuff for this to even make sense-
Me and Jake have decided we are done having kids, so I am going to go in and get my tubes tied at the end of July. I seriously think this was the hardest decision I have ever made so far. It killed me...it is all I would think about from the time I woke up, until the time I went to bed. It would just pop into my head when I was least expecting it and it would drive me crazy. Are we having another, arent we having another. It was crazy. I got to the point though, where I was able to tell myself it was better financially, and better for our other kids if we were done. I have 3 beautiful and healthy little boys and I am so lucky. And every time I get a little sad about being done, all I have to do is think about bringing them to Disney World someday. Or not having to say be quiet, the baby is sleeping dont play so loud. Or not having to say just wait, I cant color with you right now because I am doing________ (fill in the blank...oh and keep it clean would ya?? haha). I think I will always be a little sad about it- but think that I would be sad to end the whole prego/baby phase no matter when we stopped- and I have already mourned buying the last can of baby formula ever, and using the infant carseat for the last time ever, and buying the last jars of baby foodever- so why put myself through it again?? :) I still find myself staring at cute little baby bumps on moms, and wondering what if. I still see little newborns in Target and want to go stare at how tiny and cute they are... but I will get over that. It will be nice to have my big boys and do the fun big boy things with them and just spoil the heck out of them (without making them greedy).
So today, we spent the day outside playing with neighbors and hanging out while Jake and his dad put our play set together. When we got back to our yard at the end of the day, Justin told me he had fun playing with the little girl. She was very nice mommy, he told me. Then he tells me, "I wish we had a girl." My heart sank man. didnt even know what to say, because I will never be able to give him that. He said he wants a baby sister. So here I am thinking I made a decision that would give the boys a better life with more attention and things that go along with not having one more kid, and here all Justin seems to want is another baby...a girl. The thing is, this is not the first time he has said this kind of thing to me. I know he is not the one who would need to raise it and pay for it and ge tup with it at 12, 1, 2, 4, 6 and change its diaper when you are half a sleep... but it was just like I hit a brick wall when he said that. The decision was already hard enough, now I have to think about Justin saying he wants to have another baby in the house to play with and that I cant give that to him. I thought I had it all figured out. Things wont change, and I will still get my tubes tied...but now I will have the little look of disappointment at let down in my 3 year olds eyes to deal with too.
Damn
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Sweet little diva wants to know about Jesus :)
My niece Haylee turns 7 in a couple of days, so we had her birthday party at Grandmas this weekend. This is another "holy crap! when did she get so old" feeling for me! My kids are getting big, and now Haylee baby is going into 2nd grade!!
When she was opening presents, my uncle went to open the door to go outside, but we were standing in the way of the door watching her open presents. He said excuse me, and as he did that, he put his hands together and then pulled them apart, and it me laugh because it looked like he was motioning like he was parting water like Jesus. He didnt mean to do that, but it just looked funny to me. So I said, "Oh it looks like he's parting water again like Jesus." So when I said that I glanced over at Andy, who satred at me with a really funny look on his face like he was waiting to hear more. So I told Lynn to look at him becasue he perked up at that word, and was waiting for more. Then Haylee goes, "So, Andy, tell me about Jesus." I laughed my ass off. It is just way funnier if you know my family, because they are anything but religious. I think the last time they were in a church was at our wedding- or maybe when we got the kids baptised.
So when Halyee was opening her presents, she reminded me of a little girl who belongs on Disney channel. She has the brightest twinkle in her eyes and she LOVED the spotlight of opening her presents. She stood up on her chair and she was singing, and dancing and entertaining everyone with her Hanna Montanna moves and silly faces. So here she is...Little Miss Haylee...
I love you honey- Happy almost birthday :)
Our Graduate
Wow! Today is Andy's LAST day of Kindergarten. This is so hard to believe. I remember sticking him on the bus for the very first time in September like it was yesterday. I cant believe everything he has learned this year and how much he has grown. He is reading ME the bedtime stories now, and can figure out most of the words by himself. He told Justin the other day that something might be "too difficult for him." Not too hard...too difficult. It is so funny to hear such adult words out of the mouth of a 5 year old! SO as of today, I offocially have a 1st grader, AND someone brand new to the whole school thing too! Justin wil lbe doing 2 days of preschool at the same school Andy goes to! :) He is so excited. My babies are getting waaaay to big!
Here are some pictures of Andy's graduation. I am really bummed because right as I took the picture of him getting his diploma, my camera turned off. That was the worst timing ever.
Here he is marching down the isle
He's in there somewhere!!!
This was the present and card I made for the teacher. Another mom got moeny from the parents and we gave the teacher "a day of shopping". We put the gift card to the mall and Pot Belly in the bucket and the card was from the whole class. It is so sad to see this year end!!!
