Shut the Door

       What a day. Not a great day. Justin's still coughing, now Ryan is barking and Andy has a little cough. Nothing bad, but I just hate it when they don't feel good. I wasn't in the greatest mood all day and made an absent minded mistake when I went to our girls night tonight. I just got out of the car, turned off the lights, locked it  and walked down the street to Turtle's to eat. I didn't have a clue that anything was up until Jake called me asking why the police called him to ask if he knew that the car was parked in front of Domino's for the past hour with the engine running and no one in it. I don't know what he said to them, but I know I feel like a fool. And now I am telling all of you about it??Why am I doing that?? I have no idea. I am glad that the car WON"T actaully lock if the keys are in the ignition or I would have been really upset. Can I blame it on the fact that the two girls I was with are pregnant and I suffered from sympathy pregnant brain for them?? (didn't think that would be a good enough excuse) Thankfully- it was no big deal, but it could have been! All because I had a bad day. I have never done anything like that before. I needed this night out for sure!
        Even through my bad mood today, the kids still had me laughing. Ryan was wobbling down the stairs to the basement, and since the steps aren't carpeted I like to watch him until he gets to the bottom so I know he got down them ok. (Like I wouldn't hear it if he got got down any way other than safely, right?). But he turned around half way down the steps and looked at me and said "Shut the Door". I just stared for a second trying to figure out if he could have possibly just told me to shut the door, so I said "What?" And he repeated it! It was one of those times where I couldn't hold back my smile and I giggled at him. Just to double check I asked him if he just told me to shut the door and he looks up at me and looks into my eyes and says "mmmmmhmmmm". Ok...so I shut the door :).
        Earlier I made Justin some dotted letters to trace on some handwriting paper. Then I bribed him with chocolate to trace the letters and told him if he practiced enough, soon he wouldn't even need the dots to trace- he would just KNOW how to write the letters. To this very second, I am trying to figure out if his response was a good one, or if he was yelling at me like the tone in his voice suggested... "Mommy, YOU ALWAYS HAVE THE BEST THINGS FOR ME TO DO. THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS FOR ME." He sounded pissed as heck at me but he was saying the sweetest thing...I am so confused. All I could say was...ummm thank you?  Then he hugs me and says "Mommy, you are the bestest for me!" I wonder what I did to get that treatment!
      Andy was home today for the first official day of spring break. It was so nice to have my 3 boys with me today... (In between the arguments and sassing back...but that is ok) I woke up this morning to him laying in bed next to me watching cartoons nuzzling his head into my cheek. How sweet is that??? I LOVE that. He said he did that to make me happy :) So stinking cute.
      Hmmm....didn't I say I was having a bad day?? After writing this, I am not so sure my day was really that bad. I was in a grumpy mood- but how could I be grumpy when my day is full of this???

Super Why

We are sitting here watching Super Why and I realized I haven't updated this for a while. (Other than the picture of the lilac last night...and I already want to change it.) I am so motivated today. I bought new cleaning supplies at Target last night and I want to use them and make my house smell clean and fresh. I want to bring the kids outside to play, and to go to the zoo...memberships are great!  I already know that most of that won't happen though. I don't want to bring Justin and Ryan outside (until I can RUN after Ryan who thinks it's funny to run down the street and to look back and laugh at me while I am holding my gut in place so it doesn't jiggle when I run, as I TRY to run and catch up to him...he is REALLY fast by the way-REALLY fast. ). I swear the kid knows I am not running at my full potential right now! What a stinker.

We also won't be going to the zoo since Justin has pneumonia....again. I brought him back in yesterday because I wanted to find out why he still had a bad cough. I don't understand this at all though. He is the type of kid who gets a cold in December at the same time his brothers get the same cold, and Justin will have his cough until may or June while everyone else got rid of their cold a week after getting it, and most of the time he is the only one to even get a cough in the first place. So yesterday he got antibiotics again, hopefully they help him this time. But what I really wanted to know when we went in there was WHY this happens to him. Yes, thank you for the medicine but I want to know why every year he has a nasty chest cough for month after month. I asked The Doctor that exact question and he dodged around it. I know Justin doesn't get pneumonia every year, since I have brought him to the doctor time after time for this cough of his. Other reasons for his cough in the past have been a sinus infection, allergies (which he doesn't really have), could be asthma but he isn't wheezing right now, and now pneumonia- twice within 5 weeks??? I think that they really don't have any idea, and I am getting irritated that they won't answer my question. It's like the doctors can only focus on what is right in front of them and won't think in the big picture. Argh.

So, I think we will just have a relaxing day around the house. Justin will watch TV most of the day and that will be OK for today. He can let his medicine kick in and when he feels better, we will go play and do all of the fun things that we talked about. Ryan will walk around and play and jabber in my ear and make me laugh at his cute little voice saying words. I will use my new cleaning supplies and it will be a pretty simple day after all.

On a different note... I have been saying how much I want to get out with the boys and show them different things. I am talking about things like going to baseball/football games, but also to plays, museums and musical events too!  So yesterday, on PBS, they showed a commercial for a Magic Tree House musical that is coming to town. Justin heard the commercial and told me about it (cute- he is looking out for his big brother who LOVES the Magic Tree House books) and squealed because he recognized the name. I really want to bring Andy and Justin to this! Ryan is still too energetic to sit through something like this but the older two would LOVE it! I think that would be the best birthday present ever...a nice day out watching the boys have fun (hint hint hint hint!!!!), while Ryan had some special '"Ryan only" time with whoever was watching him that day! It would be their first little musical and I think they'd have fun. I hope they would anyway...I mean that's the whole point, right??

So, I think I am done rambling. I will be posting some pictures soon! We went to Under Water World (or did they change it to Under Water Adventures???) So I will be putting pictures from that up here...the downer is that the battery to our camera died before we even got out of the tunnel so I didn't get the bazillion pictures that I normally would have. But we will go back and I will be prepared with a fully charged battery next time!  I also have lots of little videos that I need to get on here, but I think they are all too big- so maybe not? I will have to see what I can do.
Alright, there is a little boy sitting next to me with a diaper that is just screaming to be changed- even though it doesn't bother Ryan too much :) Peeeeeeeewwwwwweeyyy. How can someone so cute have a butt that smells sooooo bad??

WTF??

Ok- am I the only one who came to this site yesterday to read what my sweet and lovely neighbors have written, and was then surprised with a page of porn??? I would see Vox for a minute, but then all of the sudden, a page of porn popped up. All I can say is that I am so glad that the kids were downstairs and not looking over my shoulder at the computer like they are half of the time! It was an interesting start to my day I guess??