Thursday, January 29, 2009

Dare Devil

Well, for the first time in a while, I was able to sleep ALL night without a little someone with curly hair who will remain anonymous coming into my room/bed! I was actually surprised and a little worried this morning though. She didn't get up and come into my room. What was wrong? Was she feeling ok? Did she get up sometime in the middle of the night and fall asleep somewhere else? So like the paranoid and crazy Mom that I am, I went to make sure she was breathing! *Sigh of relief.....she was still breathing.


I asked Jason to give her a "firm" talking to last night before she went to bed telling her that she needed to stay in her own bed and that she didn't need to be roaming around in the middle of the night! I guess it worked!


Night before last, the little curly haired anonymous person DID wake up in the middle of the night, but that night, I DIDN'T hear her or even knew that she was up! So when my alarm went off, she was on the mat next to our bed with all kinds of toys, babies and books. But there were also toys, babies and books surrounding my head too. She, I guess, had put her "things" around my head/pillow so when I woke up I couldn't even turn my head without laying on a toy! Another reason I knew that this little curly haired girl was up in the middle of the night is because the chair from the dining room table was in the middle of the kitchen. No telling what she wanted that was obviously too high for her to reach!


Yesterday however, I did catch her with gum that had been strategically placed on TOP of the refrigerator to keep little hands out of it. I asked her how she had gotten the gum from the top of the fridge and she explained to me that when the chair is pulled up to the counter, she is able to stand on the counter to get to the top of the fridge! Imagine my surprise to know that my 3 year old is able to get to "high" stuff by climbing! I told her not to do that anymore because she could fall.....doing the good Mom thing now.....and she just looked at me like, whatever. I moved the gum to even higher grounds so we'll see if she puts a bench on top of the counter to get on top of the fridge!


Quickie: Yesterday while we were on our way home, Requay just out of the blue says, "Mommy, I love you lot lot forever!" My heart just sank........ I moved the gum to the counter......


Well, so long for now, I have a dentist appointment and I'm GFD! (That's gone for the day in probation) So until tomorrow, happy reading!

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

One Crazy Morning

Whew....we had one crazy morning this morning....and all before 8am!

OK, last night, the weather was supposedly going to get worse throughout the night and we had been told to check the TV for school and/or work closings. (We had our fingers and toes crossed!) Jason and I stayed up late (well at least until after the news) to watch for ISD closing or opening late. There were a lot of schools opening late this morning because of icy roads and such but I never saw them mention Jonah's school or the ISD for that matter. So Jason and I woke up at 5 am to again check the weather conditions and/or school closings, but still nothing, nada, zilch.

So up we go, getting ready for school and work, but today at Requay's school, is picture day so I had to "fix" baby girl up so she'd look her usual cute self but more especially today! I got her dressed in her "birthday outfit"......no not the naked one, but the one that I spent way too much money on for her to wear to her birthday party! (It cost a whole $11 at the resale shop......agh!) Anyway, I fixed her hair all pretty, put a bow in her hair (she usually does not wear bows to school because they don't take care of them as well as I do--you know daycare!) I had her cute little shoes on her and off we went! I'm pretty sure she was going to be the cutest little girl at daycare today!!

Well to my surprise, when we got to daycare, it wasn't open!!!!! *AHHHHHH* I called the director about 10 minutes till 7am and probably woke her up and asked her if the ISD was opening late, and she said no, that school was running normal for our ISD. BUT DAYCARE WAS NOT OPEN!! She said that she would call the teacher that was supposed to open and find out what was going on and call me back.

In the meantime, Requay started whining that she had to go potty so off we went back to the house so that Requay could go potty. When we got to the house, the director called back and informed me that the teacher was under the impression that our ISD was opening late and that was the reason for her delay but that she was on her way to daycare so I could drop off Requay. [feeling: a bit upset, frustrated, angry and bitter at stupid people] Requay went potty and by this time, it was time for Jonah to go be at school. So Requay and I went to drop off Jonah at his school and I proceeded back to daycare thinking that 30 minutes would be enough time for somebody to show up!

[Keep in mind.....I carpool with a co-worker and he was patiently waiting for me too!]

When we got back to the daycare, there was another lady parked and waiting and I had informed her, thinking that she was a parent, of the situation, but she told me that she was the photographer and there to take pictures of the children. There were also another couple of vehicles with parents and kids patiently waiting.

Finally, the assistant director showed up, and thinking that whew, I can drop off Requay now, started getting Requay out of the truck. Unfortunately she did not have a key to the daycare!! The assistant director did say that she would wait with the kids in her warm vehicle. Normally, and in the past (yes, this has happened before), I'd sit and wait with my kids, but I've known the assistant director for the past 2 years or so, so I felt comfortable leaving Requay in her car. I called my carpool buddy and told him I was on my way and we finally left for work!

Whew......

The roads were a bit icy but there was sand on the overpasses and it wasn't a bad drive. Other drivers though believed that we should all drive about 20 mph which made our 15-20 minute ride to work a bit longer! We only hit one patch of ice and it was when we were about a mile away from work....go figure! Apparently though, we weren't the only two running late this morning.....probably half our building was late!

Well, now that I've pretty much used this blog to "vent" my frustrations.....I'll try doing some work and maybe blog some good/fun stuff later.....until next time, happy reading!

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Always Use Your Manners!

I totally forgot to blog about this cute and funny little story about Baby Girl this past weekend......

So I mentioned that we went to the mother-in-laws to avoid cleaning house, well, while we were there, we HAD to go say hi to Pretty Girl, Jonah's horse. It was pretty cold outside so we bundled everyone up and went outside to pet Pretty Girl.

[Total side note: Pretty Girl is so pretty! She is getting her winter coat and is such a nice horse! I'm so lucky to have such a gentle horse around the kids!]

So anyway, while we were outside petting Pretty Girl and feeding her apples from the kids hands....see how gentle she is....Lucy, the dog that lives with the goats started heading our way and Requay started whining that she wanted me to hold her because she was scared of Lucy. (And we all know Lucy won't hurt a fly!) But, in her Baby Girl, whiny, drama queen way, she wanted to be carried and I didn't want to pick her up. So I told Requay that if Lucy came up to her, just to stretch her leg straight out and tell Lucy, no-no! So when Lucy got closer and Requay saw her, I told her, "what do you say?"

Thinking that she would stretch out her leg and tell Lucy no-no.....she instead says, "Thank you!" :o)

Good manners are always good to have!

Monday, January 26, 2009

Ooooyyyyyyyy!

Well, I hope you all had a good weekend! We didn't really do much.....on Saturday, we attempted to stay as far away from the house as possible because it looked like a tornado had swept across our house only! So we left for breakfast, went to run some errands, picked up Jason's deer at the processors, took some meat out to his Mom's, and then finally around 3:30 in the afternoon, figured we should go home to start a whirlwind cleaning spree of our house! So we cleaned.....and cleaned.....and cleaned! Whew.....

On Sunday, we of course went to Sunday school and then continued to finish the last of the house cleaning that needed to be done....pretty uneventful weekend. It was GREAT!!

So let's see, you probably don't really want to hear about cleaning the house because you "tune in" to check on the kiddos......so Requay has gotten into this thing that if she doesn't get her way, is told "no" or doesn't like something that you have to say, she'll say (and I have no idea where she got this from) but she'll say "ooyyyyyy" all long and drug out. She has the facial expressions to go with it too and it's all pretty funny to hear and watch, but I try not to let her see or hear me! Cause then it's there again, "ooyyyyyyy"........

Jonah and Requay spent the majority of Sunday "cleaning their room." You know I'm not sure if they are "cleaning impaired" like their father or if they really thought their room looked better than before! But by the time they "finished" I'm pretty sure there were MORE toys strung out all over the floor of their room! And as usual, the cleaning could not be done without the every now and then yelling and telling that brothers and sisters do when "Requay isn't helping [me] clean the room!" (As per Jonah) They might not have cleaned much, but they stayed in their room for most of the day playing, which is nice when you're trying to get the rest of the house cleaned or doing laundry!

Last night, Requay was just about to fall asleep while eating dinner (no nap for her on Sunday--too much to do with all the "cleaning.") Her little head kept doing the head nod thing and finally, she just laid her little head down on her tray of her highchair. So I cleaned her up, put her nightgown on her and put her into bed around 7pm! I foolishly believed that she might sleep until this morning, but of course she didn't and instead woke up around 9ish. Well Jason and I were ready for bed at 9, so I laid out the trusty nap mat that has remained beside my bed since Jonah used to sleep on our floor. I brought her pillow and blanket and she laid down and fell back asleep. But then in the middle of the night, we woke up to her crying and wondering what was going on.....well I checked and she had gotten her cute little head stuck under the bed and couldn't get it out....poor baby! So I pulled her out, covered her up and put her back to sleep.

Well, not much more to report, so until later, happy reading!

Friday, January 23, 2009

Not much

Well, not much going on from last night, Jonah fell asleep watching TV in the recliner....typical male! I couldn't find the remote until I went to take him to his bed, which is quite challenging these days because he weighs so much! But I managed to get him to his room and then woke him up a bit so he could climb the stairs into his bed. He was pretty much out by about 7:30 last night....my poor baby was tired! He barely even ate any dinner last night, just a few snacks before crashing! Don't call CPS or anything though because I fed him breakfast this morning! Gosh.....

Requay and I, on the other hand, we took a hot shower, "did" our hair, ate dinner and got ready for bed. She is such a little girly girl and so good at it! And usually on Fridays, I tell the kids that we can go get donuts for breakfast before school, so they look forward to Fridays....who doesn't!

I got a "care package" from my parents yesterday in the mail, which is always nice getting packages. I was SO excited to open it and see what all was inside it, but when I started going through it, I found two of the holiday pictures of the kids that I had sent with my parents, back in the care package! So, I don't know if they are "cutting us out" or just got tired of looking at my cute babies or what??!! Very strange! Anyway, I got alot of little "goodies" like scrapbook magazines and cards and stuff like that.....yeah! Thanks Dad!

So we don't have much going on this weekend, we need to clean out our empty duplex so that new tenants can move in and Jason needs to go pick up yet another deer from the processors, but other than that, not much else. I should probably clean house and stuff but really don't have much motivation to do that! (Maybe I'll "hide out" in my scrapbook corner--nobody will ever find me there!)

So until next week, adios, good-bye, chow, and au revoir. Hope you all have a good weekend!

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Boys vs. Girls

Well, here we are again...are we on a roll or what??!! So let's see, first of all, this morning I was washing Baby Girl's hands in the sink and she looked into the mirror and said to herself maybe, me, "I'm cute!" And of course I totally agreed!!


Baby Girl is so funny and cute, she has babies that will cry and she'll run over to them ALL concerned and pick them up and rock them or hug them and tell them it'll be ok. Even, and this may sound bad, but if I want Baby Girl out of something or to move, I'll tell her that I hear her baby crying and she gets SO concerned and worried that she rushes off to seek and comfort her baby! She got a baby stroller for her birthday that she carries her babies in, really it's good because I mean carrying babies all day everywhere gets to be tiring, so she's smart to use her stroller!

And I bought some Kleenex boxes and some happened to be in a blue box and some happened to be in pink Hannah Montana box and I figured Jason would rather have the blue box on his side of the bed, so Baby Girl believes that the blue box is for boys and the pink "manna panbanna" are for girls! (That's how she says Hannah Montana.) I'm not sure what's wrong with using the Kleenex from the blue box, but don't let her catch you getting her one from that box! :o)

And not to leave my baby boy out, Jonah, who is not much a baby anymore, is just getting taller and taller and learning so much that sometimes if he doesn't know what something says, he'll call out, "Mom, what does s-n-a-c-k-p-a-c-k spell?" You really gotta be on your toes to be able to pick up that he's spelling out a word from the box of something in the pantry or else he ends up repeating it again which just makes him upset! Spelling things in our house is not so easy these days! And now I realize why my parents used to speak Spanish when talking about things that they didn't want us to know about! (Well, my brother and sister didn't know anyway, but I did!) So Jason and I are thinking of taking up speaking in Hebrew or sign language or something so the kids won't know what we're talking about! God help us!! :o)

Well, enough for today, until tomorrow, happy reading!

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Proud Parent!

Jonah brings home little "newsletters" that his teacher writes every week just saying what the kids are learning, projects the kids are working on and just good stuff about the kids. Well yesterday I got the newsletter for last week and last week was testing for my little guy (all though he's not that little any more!) Anyway, the newsletter said things like all the kids had passed certain parts of the testing, others had problems with deletion of the final sound and so I started asking Jonah stuff like deleting the first letter or the last and having him tell me the remainder of the word or letter recognition or comprehension. Mr. Wayne said that he read a 166 word story to the kids and they had to get all 5 identifying questions right and Jonah said he got all of his right! So I started "drilling" him to see if he was really telling me the truth....so I'd come up with random silly little stories and then ask him questions about what color the girl's dress was or what she was eating or whatever.....he must have been listening better than me because I told him the story and ask a question and when he answered, I couldn't remember the answer, but he knew! (I didn't tell him that I didn't remember.) So anyway, it made me feel like he was actually getting something from this whole Kindergarten thing! It's just amazing at how much he has learned in only half a year of school!

And as for Baby Girl, well she's learning things too....like how to talk back, or when to say, "omm-momm-mmommm" when someone says a bad word! *Little tattle tail! :o) Last night was not that eventful....we came home, ate dinner, took baths, read a book and went to bed! We were all tired!

When Jonah got home, he went to play his wii....and no I'm trying to be dirty, we got a Nintendo wii for Christmas...gosh....anyway, on the wii you can design your own person and Jonah designed Baby Katy! He said that he wanted to play a game with her so he put her on the game! I didn't get to see her before he turned it off because I was busy cooking dinner and trying to keep the kids out of the snack foods!

Jason and I watched a little bit of the Inauguration happenings, but we had missed it originally, so whatever was on the tube, was what we watched....I hear things went fairly well. I mean really, there will be stuff messed up in every big ceremonious event.

Well, not much to report from yesterday....happy reading!

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Seriously??!!

New Year, New Resolution to keep up with the blog? If there's even anyone out there still "checking in" on us. If not, that's fine because it's mainly so I'll remember what the kids did while they were little and so I won't forget the little things that go by so fast!

So yesterday, we had a play date with my bestest friend and her kids! Our kids play SO well together!! We went to the "bouncy" place to play, well I guess let me back up a little, we went to the bouncy place after leaving the emergency room. Yes, the emergency room.....who for? Requay. She was standing on the recliner in our living room, after I told her to get down and fell head first onto the floor! And of course, she passed out and went unconscious, but for some reason, I was calm about it all....I shook her awake and asked her if she was ok. It took a little bit but she started drooling and then wet her pants and that's when I panicked! All of this happened about 2 minutes before Meg arrived, so we quickly got all the kids back into the trucks and drove to the ER. Requay seemed to be fine once we got there and we didn't have to wait long at all. They took another Cat scan of her little head (and she got some really pretty Disney Princess stickers) and they told us that everything looked fine and that we could go home, but just to watch her to make sure she was acting normal. Whew......she's fine and played hard like she'd never gone to the ER that day!

Jonah came home last week asking if we knew "King Luther" and of course we did not. I asked if he meant King Arthur, thinking that maybe they had been learning about knights at school or something, but he said no not Arthur. And then he said, "King Luther Jr." and we figured out that he was talking about Martin Luther King Jr! They had I'm sure talked about it at school and I guess Jonah just figured that "Mr. Luther" was a king! :o)

So anyway, long story short, we had a pretty good "King Luther Jr." day! Hope yall's was just as good!!