Thursday, March 27, 2008

Parenthood

Yesterday I was cleaning the kitchen (sorry no pictures for you Amy) and I ran across the most delicious bottle of wine. No, I didn't drink it on the spot, just remembering how wonderful that winery was etc. So, I decided we needed a nice dinner so we could enjoy the bottle of wine. During the day I made homemade bread (in a bread machine of course), potatoes and veggies. I cleared a spot in the snow so Ryan could grill steaks.I didn't realize he was sleeping at the grill at the time.
We were just putting our lovely dinner on the table and Liam starts screaming because he has a stomach ache. We told him he could start eating without us, maybe he was just hungry. That didn't help so we sent him to the bathroom to try there. After we dig into our meal I hear a cry of MOMMY from the bathroom. He confirms that he does in fact need to go potty, but it won't come out of his "poop hole". You think you are taken aback by this language while working at your computer, try being there enjoying a nice meal downstairs of this action. I handed him a book and told him to come down when he feels better.

Then we had part two by Lance. He doesn't really like steak, he has trouble chewing it. This is due to the fact that Lance shovels in all foods and does not chew anything and you have to chew steak. Liam is still in the bathroom and Lance begins to get upset because he can't chew the meat and needs to get rid of it. We direct him to the garbage can. Instead of discreetly spitting it out, he lobs if from two feet away with a strange sound. Ryan snaps at him and tells him to be more presentable. Lance starts crying uncontrollably. I decided to leave the table until everyone calms down so we can enjoy the meal. Liam comes back from the bathroom with a full report. Lance runs to his room. Ryan goes to Lance's room and tells him to calm down and come back to dinner. We are all at the table again, trying to enjoy our cold meal.

I kept waiting for the wine to kick in, but Ryan said that I was doing that wrong. He said the right approach would have been to just drink the whole bottle by myself from the bottle and then dinner would have been agreeable.

The funny thing is that the boys are usually really good at dinner time. We had our years of unpleasantry, but now they are both old enough that we have a good conversation and enjoy dinners together. Next time I decide to have wine with dinner, I will wait until the other whines are in bed.


Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Wordless Wednesday-Spring Break Activities


Built a Fort
Watched a Movie about the Amazon here




Went to a Birthday party here

Played Survior card game (and watched last week's episode)

Sorted Star Wars cards to play a game when Daddy comes home

With all of this fun going on, mom got to clean for spring break! (let me tell you the fun, sorry no pictures available)





Monday, March 24, 2008

More Easter gifts

Grandma Becky sent a card the other day and a gift of STICKERS! How fun. Liam removed all of the stickers from the page and made a design in my favorite place, on his clothing! There is a design here...There is a large egg with a flower inside. Two green eggs fighting with grass with the red egg as the divider line. And two yellow eggs playing tag.
At the end of the night the stickers were then removed from the shirt and put on the stool he uses to get in bed in a new design. This was done at the suggestion of mommy because she has seen TOO many stickers in the wash. However, today I have found a sticker on the bottom of my sock and I see that 4 of the stickers have made it back on a new shirt that is being worn today. Thank you Grandma! It has been hours of fun for everyone!

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Something to Ponder

Tonight Liam was all tucked in and falling asleep when he heard us upstairs putting Lance to sleep. He called Ryan into his room and asked this question:

Liam: What if Daisy eats the Easter Bunny?
Ryan: Don't worry the Easter Bunny is too smart and fast for Daisy.

HAPPY EASTER!

Friday, March 21, 2008

Snow Day

Today we got up to got ready to go to school. We drove through the 4 inches of snow on the ground for 20+ minutes and then we got to the school. We drove up to park and saw a sign that said "No School, snow day". We were already there and I was supposed to sub, so I wasn't the happiest camper. Plus it was the last day of the quarter and parties were planned, Lance worked really hard to earn the privillege to go to a special party today. Lance was upset and we had a horrific drive home in front of us, so I decided that I would call one of his friend's mom. They live close to the school so we went over and picked up his friend to spend the night. His friend has a little brother, so he came over also to play with Liam. This is what I decided to do with 4 boys stuck in a snow storm...I made them help me shovel the driveway. Sorry it was snowing so much you can't see their faces, but they are smiling. (Liam, Elliot, Oliver and Lance) They did a really good job and we were done in a half hour. It is really warm out so they stayed out and played in the backyard. The boys are staying until tomorrow morning, so it's off to find other things for them to do. (Not really, they are currently playing video games and they will do that all day if I let them and I just might).

Fun Gifts!


Yesterday the Easter Bunny came (okay it was really the mail lady). She gave me this. It was such a fun surprise. I left it unopened until the boys came home and let them open it. The boys quickly picked out what they were going to eat first. (They chose the bunny cookies). Thank you Grandpa and Karma!!

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Sick Day

Yesterday morning Liam woke us up at 3:30 am with a coughing fit. I don't do well at that time of morning, but then I couldn't go back to sleep because I debated keeping him home from school for the next couple of hours. I finally decided it was bad enough that I shouldn't send him to school to spread his germs, but I had to find a sub. (The bad news in our program is that we need to call and find our own subs). At 6am I began calling people and gave up at 7am so I could get Lance ready for school. After we dropped Lance off at school I got a call from our school secretary that she had found a sub for me. This is good, but it is its own story for another blog.
So, I got Liam all set up in front of the t.v. and started cleaning the house because I had the day off. Liam was bored. He watched t.v. for a half hour total. Then he wanted to play a game, so we played a game. After the game I suggested nap time. Nap time consisted of us lying in my bed, me trying to sleep while he read me books. He agreed to only 30 minutes of this and he watched the clock. The books were a little about his level because they were story books, so every page had a word he did not know and could not sound out. Needless to say I didn't get to rest. I suggested t.v. again. He wanted XBox. Number one rule in our house is no video games on sick days (make note to change that rule). Then he told me that I could still take him to school and he would just get a tardy. (maybe should have taken him up on his offer) He finally watched a little t.v. again. Then he was bored and wanted to play outside. I told him to play in his room. He said he couldn't because Lance wasn't there and he makes up the games. Finally after lunch I had to find some compromise because I was almost going crazy from the boredom he was experiencing. It was a nice day (about 45 degrees) so I told him to go sit in the sun and read a book. Every 5 minutes he was asking if he could move the chair somewhere else on the deck or go sit on the swings or in the fort or.... Finally I said the sun is better in the front of the house you can move there. Then it was can I go on the driveway, can I go on the grass, can I have chalk?
I guess he wasn't really all that sick. He went to school today and my day is much quieter.
Really we did have fun, but he was just so bored not being with friends at school or with Lance. I thought it was so cute when he was outside, he had his shades, his books and his iced tea and he was just reading and relaxing.


Note: Somehow I did get my dishes done and 2 loads of laundry (in a 7 hour day)