Brief Hiatus...

Well seems as though I didn't have enough to do already, what with being a servant to the boys and all... this summer I started my own little business... I am making kids hats, adult hats, women's cowls and whatever else comes across the table!!! So summer has been busy making hats! If you want to check them out look up WinterKnots I can make whatever!!!

But onto why I really have this blog, my hooligans! They are crazy! For those that don't know Trace is now on two wheels and the twins are crazy fast on their strider bikes. And little daredevils too! Canaan was heading down the hill at the local school when the front tire started the wobble... Kyle jumped up and sprinted towards him. But we didn't make it in time. From our angle it looked like he should have been missing teeth, or have no nose... all I have to say is HELMET THANK YOU!!! If Canaan had not had on his helmet properly he would have been missing teeth, or hurt his noggin... As it turns out he was lucky, a few small bruises on his chin and a mutilated helmet! Oh and the crazy kid was off down the hill again about 2 minutes later.

Boys!!! I tell you... sometimes I wonder. They have really kept me busy this summer. Camping for a week in Shuswap would never have been possible without my amazing sister in law!!! Kaite was saint! As was her hubby my bro Dallas and my parents! It actually felt like a vacation!! Our friends joined us for the long weekend and we had so much fun! What an amazing busy, memorable summer... I am not ready for it to end... and for Trace to start 4 year pre-school....... sigh.....

STOP THIEF!!!

Trace... special little man. Seems he is also a bit sneaky! Two weeks ago he came home with a mini pterodactyl in his pocket after pre-school. When asked he told me he borrowed it. We brought it back the next class.

Today as we pulled into a friends house I noticed he had a mini my Little Pony. Awesome. Again when asked he informed me that he borrowed it from pre-school. I informed him that it is only borrowing if you ask the teachers permission to take it home. That what he had infact done is called stealing.

While at this friends house today I notice him eye up the change on her counter. Really!!! That is all I could think. But the minute I started to talk to him about how it wasn't his and how he needed to leave it there as it belonged to his friends he kinda glazed over, man style. After we left, unloaded at home and got the twins down for their nap I noticed that Trace was emptying his pockets into the piggy bank he got for his birthday a few years ago. I asked him where he got the money and if it was Jen's... yup it was. Awesome.... all I could think was that little thief.. .seems as though I will have my hands full with this one!

An Angry Day.... Granny to the Rescue!

Last Tuesday... woke up... ANGRY. Ever have one of those days, wrong side of bed, kids don't stop crying and whining, you just want to curl up and ignore everything... yet being a stay at home mom I sure can't! Tuesdays are our busy day, Trace has pre-school and the twins have a class at the same time. LOVE our social rec class! The twins love it but getting ready is hard sometimes.

So I woke up, forced myself out for my run, and ran a 30 min 5km! My best yet! Thought ok... now this day will get better. NOPE! Got kids ready, packed into car with minimal problems, dropped Trace off at pre-school without a fight. Then off to Teacher Tina's class. Canaan was dragging his feet a bit while Jaxon RAN up to the front door... thank goodness for no cars on the road in. We get in the elevator and they do the usual happy SCREAM as they watch it go down. Then we get to Tina's class... they both drop to the floor and refuse to come in. AWESOME. My temper is already pretty bad today, I am feeling my red eyes come out. You know the ones in all the old school cartoons when the evil character is really angry.. yup those ones! I grab Jaxon and half carry him in, while Canaan is holding onto my ankle so I half drag half push him on the lino into the classroom.... where the blessed Tina and another mom are there... They take one look at me, laugh a bit and help. RELIEF! The moms in this class are amazing to say the least and Tina a saint!

So home time. All kids are loaded... after they decided to run through parking lot with second set of twins in class (the four of them together are TROUBLE!). We get home and I walk in the door.. mom isn't home. crap. Poor mom when she does come home I let her know I am having and "angry" day. My amazing mom stays upstairs the rest of the day and completely helps me out. She wrangles children, changes diapers and just keeps me company which is the best part of all...

I don't know how I would have gotten through a grumpy "angry" day had the ladies of the rec class, the teacher and then my amazing mom not helped me out! THANK YOU!

What's In a Face... Right???

Been a while, I have started a new venture making hats for kids, and some other stuff and it has somewhat taken up my time. Planning and figuring a few things out before I start taking orders! 

This weekend was a bit of a doozy for us. Saturday we had a birthday party at a local pool, TONS of fun! Canaan is getting quite independent with his life jacket on! Maybe a little too independent at times! We BBQ'ed with some good friends that evening and kids had a bit of a late night. Lots of fun and an amazing day! 

Sunday was brunch at other good friends house, lots of kids, crazyness all around and a few drinks for the parents. Loved it. 

As we know a weekend that is that busy cannot happen without some sort of accident on our part. And sure enough, while Trace perfected the art of SLAMMING our friends wooden playhouse door, he happened to slam it on Canaan. Who proceeded to cry and run towards us. Sure enough, big lump on the bridge of his nose, and he somehow was bleeding from his eyelid? No idea. Just happy that he didn't loose an eye. Poor kids looks like a train wreck. 

Now not to be outdone, Jaxon and Trace were playing yesterday, Trace decided that the white cloth Ikea bin was in his way and that chucking it at his brother was the best option. So he proceeded to do just that. Nailing Jaxon in the face and giving him a swollen nose, and bloody scrapes all down the middle of his face. AWESOME. 

This weekend is Trace's 4th birthday, I am just guessing that maybe he wanted to make sure he was the fairest of them all??? 

Let Me Take Your Picture...

We did some family pics this last weekend. LOTS of fun! The kids were running around like there is no tomorrow, sat still a few times. Didn't get NEAR as muddy as I thought they would, FUN... LOVED IT! I can't wait for the pics to be done and be able to look through them. A friend of mine took them as she is looking at starting her own business and I have to say she was amazing! The three boys NEVER seemed to stress her out! Regina I APPLAUD you!!!!

Well.. Trace has a camera ( a V-tech one) that he can take pics on). So as I am sitting here and checking facebook and prepping for my meeting tomorrow all I hear from Trace is...
"Ok Now sit togeder on the couch, and put your arms around each other and act like you love each other" "Ok now stay there.. don't move.. say Cheese!!!"
Then from the twins in unison "CHEEEESE... CLICK!"

For all of you that read this, or know me ... I have a friend. She and I are in the same... um situation?!? So to speak... she is also a mom of a little boy (who is only a few weeks older than Trace) and a set of boy twins (5 days older than my twins...) I am trying to get her to guest write on here for me. Lets just say she has some table crackin good stories... and is also an amazing momma!!! She keeps me sane that is for sure! I am blessed to have many good friends who listen, help and just are there for me! And of course my mom... no words to describe her, couldn't have done this last year without her!

Chicken Mouse

Last night was leftovers night in our house, or empty the fridge night. The boys chose to have chicken nuggets which they love. As I am pulling all leftovers onto the counter Kyle asks me what is for dinner...to which Canaan starts his reply "chicken mouse" .... I didn't really hear him the first time. Kyle is still asking me what is for dinner and now Canaan is screaming "CHICKEN MOUSE DADDY".

Kyle and I just look at him... What? Did he really just say that? Kyle then asks me what the boys are having... well.. it just so happens that the nuggets that we have for the boys are in the shape of mickey MOUSE ears... hence the chicken mouse.

Well I thought it as the cutest thing, so we had to phone Granny who is in Edmonton and have her ask him what is for dinner... of course being Canaan he performed and said "chicken Mouse Granny". Too cute!

Today as we were driving home from a birthday party I asked the boys what they wanted for lunch, I got on noooonles, one peanut butter jemmy, and one Chicken Mouse... hmmmm I translated as grilled cheese for all! I have to say I am loving that the boys are chatting more and that we are understanding them! And I LOVE the things that are coming out of their mouths!

First Pre-school Playdate = SUCCESS... I think...

We got invited for our first pre-school play date last week... and at a GIRLS house! Imagine my excitement at being invited (with all 3 boys mind you!) and then imagine my face changing as it all sinks in... Holy smokes... is she for real? BRAVE woman inviting us over! We are lucky that this amazing momma lives right up the street, has a little girl Trace's age and a little boy who turns two this year. (and yes he is almost potty trained... ugh soo jealous!). 

I had made up my mind to walk there as it is literally less than a block away, so even though it is pouring rain this morning we pack up and head out. Twins in the stroller with the rain cover on, Trace in his rain boots trailing behind with his own little umbrella. SUCCESS we make it all the way there!!! 

Trace as usual plays shy so I find him a little space to "hide" until he wants to come out and play which of course is less than 2 minutes later. Twins off with jackets and boots and are playing before I am even in the door. Awesome! And so begins the loudness, screaming, running around with baby strollers, playing with all sorts of wonderful toys. Meanwhile this wonderful momma and I are trying to finish just one conversation. Just one.... haha good luck! 

Snack time comes and goes without much of a hitch... unless you consider my boys cleaning every plate they loved mangos, apple pears and crackers. This of course is followed by more of the above playing as I wonder what time I should go home... 1130 comes and we are heading for the door. Boots on, jackets on pure chaos... AWESOME.. we are all out the door. I am saying goodbye and thank you before I pack twins back into stroller.. then I hear the crash. Jaxon has decided to fall down three stone stairs and take the stroller on top of him. And lucky me he takes one for the team and cushions the fall of the stroller... GREAT.. almost made it home no injuries! He has a wee bit of blood, so we clean him up, he is no longer crying so we pack him up and I start the walk home. 

This is what I hear from the stroller 

Canaan: "Oh no Jaxon owie?" 

Jaxon: "Yea Canaan owie"

Canaan: "Oh no... ok?"

Jaxon:  "Yes ok" 

Cutest thing EVER.. so after all is said and done. I still think first pre-school playdate.. a BRAVE success!!! Now hopefully she invites us back! Or wants to come our way!!

The Case of the Missing Cheese...

So last night I had a Lia Sophia Jewellery party (awesome stuff by the way) and after everyone had left and mom and I started the clean up I walked over to coffee table to get the cheese plate... and the Chunk of Jalapeno Havarti was missing...

All I could think was, well... Trace is asleep, Jaxon and Canaan can't get out of their rooms and they are asleep, Kyle is gone, Dad is downstairs, and mom is doing dishes. Now unless someone went and pocketed the cheese on the way out as a parting gift I couldn't think of who else would take it. And yes I checked the fridge to see if it was in there already put away.

Then I look and see beside the cheese plate, laying on the floor pretending to be asleep is... yup Whiskey!!! My 90 lb Black Lab Shepard Cross. So I call his name, he refuses to open his eyes, yet from body language he is looking a little tense. I walk over to him and sit down and just stare at him. "Whiskey" I say with a very stern voice as I pick up the cheese tray... "What did you do???" To which he begins the looking game. And I know in his head he is thinking... "If I refuse to look at her I cannot get in trouble... well maybe a quick.. SHOOT she is still looking at me... hmmm maybe if I give her these eyes ... CRAP they aren't working either. Maybe I can get up and walk downstairs and she won't notice." Yes my Dog ate the cheese... the LARGE chunk of Jalapeno Havarti.

You Are Trying My Patience!

It seems lately that my kidlets are trying my patience just a weeee bit more than normal. Trace has begun with the attitude, "No Mommy I don't want to", "GO AWAY", and then the hitting, which I thought we had under control. Today as I was trying to purchase a compost bucket at the rec centre (our neighborhood now has compost pickup yipeee!!!) he decided instead of paying that he was going to run over to the pop machine and get a "bottle" instead... when I took away the tooney he hit me... like a dozen times. I stood there in shock. It has been a while since he hit me... then of course I look at him and say we will have a talk at home... to which he responds at the TOP of his voice " MOMMY DON'T SPANK ME" ...

Really... can I catch a small break please?

Thank Goodness there were very few people around.. I smiled at him, told him that he needed to drop the attitude and listen and packed him it the van and continued home.

Now onto the twins... Canaan has taken to flailing his body around the floor and then standing up and dramatically throwing himself on the ground again, kicking his feet and screaming... (had a friend over today who can vouch for it). He screams, hits wall and what do I do... walk away.. why... because I don't think he should get attention for it. Is it working you ask... guess we will find out in a week. Although yesterday I had, had enough.. so I went into his room... put him across my lap.. annnnd... tickled his back.. yup lifted his shirt, and gently drew circles on his back. He screamed a bit, wiggled.. then gave up and curled up into a ball on my lap. Afterwards he looked at me.. gave me a kiss and walked out of the room happy... hmmm now that I think of it maybe I was onto something there.

Jaxon... current family favourite, he is sweet as pie, first one to help with clean up, loves hugs and holding my hand. Goes straight to his carseat in the car. Lately he has become my soft sweet little man (he is DONE teething!!!), he might whine quite a bit but I will take it over the flailing of body parts and screaming and hitting...

Ok so here is what scares me the most... summer is coming.. that means open windows.. and for those of you who know me... I already have a loud voice, my neighbors will be hearing me... sometimes I yell just to get above the other noise... sigh....

Pure Chaos!!!!

Well today was a crazy day... not that other days aren't, today was just more so than most. It started off with a blissful 7km run, followed by children sleeping in. NEVER a good sign! Kids were up and dressed (not without some tears), bags and snacks packed, shoes on and loaded in the car... and we were off! I was able to drop Trace of at pre-school without incident and was sooo excited to take the twins to their first ever Social Recreation class!!! We talked about school, and bringing in their own snacks in their little bags they picked themselves. And how we had to listen to teacher Tina and be respectful of others. That we would know a few of the kids there, including another set of twin boys that we see regularly.

Well... we get out of the car, walk into the building, take the elevator down (I am not helping two kids down the stairs while carrying 3 bags AND my hot coffee), and walk into Tina's very quiet classroom. Wouldn't you know it, she has DINOSAUR toys in her room, and  sand table, and books on dinos and sooo must stuff to play with. The catch, SHARING the toys! Once more kids arrived (including second set of twins) we went outside to play. It was great! They can make all the noise they want and it doesn't hurt your ears (as much), they can run, slide, play in a play house and LOTS of other stuff! BLISSS!! I am thinking, man this is going AWESOME, all these boys are GREAT! Then I look over and see Canaan in a full out kicking match with the tallest boy in the class (he is bigger than Trace and only 2!!!!), Jaxon is in a corner which leads me to believe Canaan is sticking up for his brother for some reason or another. After the fight is broken up we head off to play with other toys. All is well... until it is time to bring kids inside to clean up for snack time. We go through washing of hands, and sitting down Canaan is all for it, Jaxon has a fit and has to sit down on his own terms. The other set of twins is also off and running, all I can think of is AWESOME! This makes me feel normal, (which is why I love hanging out with other twins, nobody really gets a mother of twins except another mother of twins). Once the story has been read and snack time finished it is time for songs.....

PLEASE cue CRAZYNESS x 4 if not more! Canaan is screaming that he doesn't want to put his book upon the shelf and neither does Jaxon, they want to keep their books, they don't understand this whole sitting in a circle, jumping and waving your arms around to music things, and decide that they must scream and cry instead. The other twins do not agree with sitting still either, they are running around screaming with mine. Please remember songs still going on, Teacher Tina being an awesome and amazing sport as are other mothers as their kids melt down as well... one little girl is off to time out, three other boys are picking up assortment of toys that got thrown around, other twin mom, along with myself and 2 other moms dont' know what to do anymore so we decide to almost pee ourselves laughing. While a new mom to the group gets up and walks out with her kid... huh... wonder why? Today was a good day... crazy, funny, a learning experience but a good day! Here is hoping next Tuesday goes a bit uhhhh smoother??? Hahahaha!!!!!!

But I Want Daddy to See My Bloooooood....

Love birthday parties... sooo many of our friends have young kidlets like us and we get invited to quite a few birthday parties each month. Well, Saturday we had one. LOTS of fun! Trace got to meet and hold a bunny for the first time, he played with his friends in the big kid play room downstairs and did sooo well!

While playing downstairs we hear a scream and Trace comes up the stairs, blood dripping down his little cheek, his buddy scratched him... and although he was probably asking for it I did feel a little bad for him. Once he saw the blood and that it did leave a mark he got quiet... "mommy.... I want to show daddy my blood". To which I replied "Daddy won't be home when we go there...  you can show him the scratch when you wake up tomorrow". So I left the blood on it (scratch is QUITE small under blood) until we got home.. where I cleaned it... well he FREAKED... " MOMMY I WANTED TO SHOW DADDY MY BLOOOOOOD" please add tears and a devastated child to this. After much discussion and chatting about options he decided he wanted me to rub a towel on his face to make it bleed again so it would drip down his face and he could show his daddy in the morning... REALLY???? Sigh.... guess boys treasure their scars early on.

A Fat Lip

Well Trace got his first official fat lip... had a TON of black eyes between all the boys but nothing like this. We went to my husbands Nana's funeral on Saturday. I knew I would be watching the kids and not able to really participate as Kyle was saying a little something. So we took the kids and their cousin Lexi into the foyer. Of course... MUST play Tag while they were there... Trace tripped over NOTHING and landed face first... well really mouth first.

He tried to blame Jaxon, then Canaan but really I saw it... it was nothing.. Well the dam burst and blood poured fourth like water... He refused ice, so I had to sneak it on a wet cloth... and had to take him outside. I swear it wasn't going to stop... he is yelling at the top of his lungs.. "I WANT TO SHOW DADDY MY BLOOD". Great.. well that is when I heard Kyle sharing his memories of this amazing woman he called Nana. Got Trace a little quiet so we could hear daddy through the speaker.

I walked him into his daddy shortly after... Kyle looked slightly shocked at the amount of blood on Trace's shirt... the rest of the day went off without hitch or more blood but holy crazy! Nana would have loved it, boys will be boys! Let them be kids while they can... she loved having them over to her house, and loved letting them run wild while she watched and laughed at them. Nana was one of the most amazing women I have had the pleasure of knowing... she is sooo terribly missed.... Trace says he misses her jelly beans and licorice... and he even remembered the way to her house. "This is the way to Anna's house" He said as we drove up North Road the other day. We love you Nana!

A Drampa Story... (Grampa)

Well.. thought I would include a little story written by my dad. This all happened last night... and although he was alone out side with the kids most of the time, I did pop out a few times as did Uncle Dax, and Daddy...

"I must say that yesterday was again a miserable day for weather. It did stop raining in the afternoon so with all the company that Tara had invited I decided to use the real barbeque to do the flank steak. 
The kids insisted on staying on the deck with me while I worked on the BBQ with Jaxon clinging to me from the minute I came home. Once all three of them were on the deck and the BBQ was 1.0 million degrees they all ran around and had a great time, just me and the kids. I put the grill cleaner on the BBQ hoping to melt off the grease that was imbedded in the scraper. I thought it was all metal. Apparently not, so it caught on fire and I had to walk around with the kids running around trying to put it out using the glass encasement for the outdoor light as a water bucket. At the same time the bag of charcoal that was under the BBQ also caught fire. It was a great time and the house is still standing."


My dad finished off the night with a perfectly grilled flank steak and we all sat down to a yummy dinner! Jaxon did not let my Dad out of his site the entire evening... It is pretty precious to see! 

Vampire??

Well yesterday was an umm interesting day to say the least. It started well with my run in the morning.. followed by the boys sleeping past 6am which is always nice. I had a lot to do... the neighbor girls came over before school and although I forgot they were coming it was a big help. They distracted the boys while I made 2 dozen Enchiladas for my dad's birthday.

Once that was done I packed them off to school and packed my kids in the car with the promise of a smoooothie. Oh ya! Distraction in the car is sometimes key when you have errands to finish. Off to Booster Juice we went got one big smooth and put it in three separate Booster juice mini cups. Awesome..straws in the car.. great. After making kids promise to keep straws in cups off we went. I was to pick up some stuff from consignment and drop off some of my stuff for her to sell. Boys did sooo well with cups, or so I thought. Canaan who now sits in the back of the van seemed to be doing something to the side of his cup.. no idea. We get to our destination, they all yell ALL DONE MOMMY.. I therefore take empty cups before I run my stuff into the house. I then run back to car and we head home. Mission accomplished! I was so terribly proud of my boys. Very limited smoothie on their clothes and all seemed well. Or so I thought...

Get to the house and throw cups away.. pick up Canaan's cup and it proceeds to dump the remaining bit ALL over me... I look and there is a thumb sized hole in the side of the cup.. turns out when smoothy gets stuck in straw... must bite hole in side of cup and SUCK OUT the remains of the smoothie through the side of the cup... hence Vampire... guess that is what I get for reading the Twilight Series while pregnant with them...

Rest of the day was also crazy... locked myself in my room for a self proclaimed TIME OUT.. then loaded kids into car once again for a trip to Abbotsford to hang with The Oma and some cousins and celebrate my Daddy's birthday!

POOOOOP.... literally.

Well, had my first poop incident yesterday. Was getting ready to have some people over in the evening. While the twins napped I prepped all the snacks. I had finally sat down after a full morning of work and go figure. Twins wake up. They had maybe been asleep for just over an hour. NOT long enough in my books. So I went in changed diapers and put them back to bed.. totally ignored them while I watch a bit of American Idol. I needed just a moment to myself.

Well show over and I go into their room... and it STINKS... like really stinks. And they are NO where to be seen. I can hear them though, they are hiding in their closet. Before I open the closet I look around to make sure all is ok. All bedding is pulled off the bed, Thomas tracks all over the floor, dirty laundry tipped over. Yup looks normal... then I look again. What is that??? Is it.. no it can't be... why would it be.. but yup those are brown foot prints ALL over the floor... then I look again. Yup BIG lump of poop on the floor ... smashed into the carpet.. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.

At that point I wanted to tuck tail and run. Not deal with it.. pretend it didn't happen. But of course.. there are no other adults here so I am by process of elimination the one who gets to clean it up. ARGHHHH! So I go and get the stain remover (Natures Miracle in pet stores is AMAZING), I grab and old toothbrush, lots of towels and to work I go. I will NOT go into details about clean up. But it is done.. and I hope to never have to do it again...

Have I learned my lesson, yes I believe I have. DO NOT ignore your children in their room no matter how much you need just a moment to yourself...

No More High Chairs.... sigh.

Well, that's it. Twins now prefer to sit in regular seats... it is the end of an ear. They have been in booster seats with Trays for the last year as I was done with big bulky high chairs. But they REFUSE to sit in them now. Well lets be honest, they refuse to sit in anything. As I was leaving the house last night to go to a Tupperware party I could hear Kyle yelling "JAXON sit in your seat RIGHT NOW" At least I am not the only one frustrated with it. But HOW does one get a stubborn 2 year to sit still in a seat... let alone 2 stubborn 2 year olds?

Gone are the days of family dinner, now it is hurry one of us needs to eat quick so we can chase the twins around and make them sit down. Now instead of one sticky chair from their hands all over it while they are eating we will have 8 sticky chairs... as they like to try every one out.. sometimes all in one meal.

Gone are the days of keeping them in their seats until we are done, they just excuse themselves... I remember when Trace started this (at 19 months so a lot earlier) and man I was very free spirited... aw just let him go. He will come back and eat when he is hungry... I just can't do that times 2... I dread every meal. I dread summer when my neighbors will really hear me yell...

Rainboots

Did you know... that if you have twins.. and decide to buy 2 different Rain boots instead of matching ones that full blown fights will follow??? I learned this today. Dressing the boys for an outing today I let them "pick" what shoes to wear. They both wanted their rain boots. We have a red pair that looks like dragons and a Thomas pair that I picked up this last weekend at the swap. Both are GREAT boots, both very cute... I watched as Canaan put on one of the dragons and one of the Thomas.. and Jaxon did the same thing. Well... fight picked by me, that was not going to happen. First off they each needed to pick ONE pair of boots either the dragons or the Thomas ones. So wrestling with the boys in the entrance way to the house I got them in their own boots. Canaan was in the Thomas ones and Jaxon in the dragon. Trace had decided he didn't want socks and put on his shoes as well.

I ran upstairs quickly to get my coffee, make it downstairs and go figure, Canaan is wearing one of each and so is Jaxon.... fight picked by me again. (Bad mornings mean more fights picked) So I switched their shoes back to match... watched them roll on the ground scream bloody murder and drip snot everywhere. Kick off boots try to take off jackets... all I could think was... hmmmm wonder how fast I can RUN AWAY from this. My neighbors car is still there... maybe she will watch them for me while I take off and have a glass of wine at 930am.

So I gave up. Watched them take off boots switch one for the other and happily put back on one of each. My three now happy boys loaded into the car no problem and off to run errands we went. Was the battle worth it... well in the end maybe not. I have a feeling that they will NEVER wear matching boots but always switch so they can have one of each. Remedy for next set up boots... buy two of the same pairs? Or at least they are the same make so they fit the same... Were they cute with their miss matched boots... I hang my head low and say yes... yes they were... and I should be happy that they are at least sharing right? Not just fighting over the Thomas boots????

Cough cough.. oops... dorry Mommy...

So the fake burping has started in our house. I guess I could blame myself. I know the rest of my family will... I am not a farter AT ALL... that I swear by.. but when it comes to belching I have to say I am better than most males. Am I proud of it.. well maybe a little.

Canaan has started fake burping lately (which sounds more like a cough) and then apologizing afterwards. Is it strange that I find it the funniest thing in the world? And that once I laugh the other 2 start in on it as well? Every time.. makes me giggle.. the kid is taking after mom... I would WAY rather have that then the farts!!!

So if any of you people reading are my close friends... and you decide to bravely have the family over for dinner, and one of the three fake burps at the table... be thankful he at least excuses himself afterwards!

In the car is a whole other story! The car is FULL of sneezing noises! I get three boys in the back yelling AHHHHHHH CHOOOOOOOOO oops... dorry mommy. Followed sometimes by a raspberry type noise and an ahhhh at the end. I swear... I love my boys and the silly things they do. Even if other people don't always get it. And even if they are pulling up beside me in traffic and looking at me like I am some strange person laughing by myself in the car!

Kid Swap.......

Unloading.. MAN it feels good! brought like 6 bags and 6 boxes.. plus other stuff to the swap today. My van was PACKED to the top, you couldn't see out the back window. I had all the carseats out and my seats folded into the floor... on the way home there was FLOOR SPACE! Oh ya! Got rid of my jogging stroller (although it makes me sad it wen to an awesome lady with 3 week old twin girls..), LOTS of clothes, toys, some bedding. Donated lots of stuff. Just felt good... the end of an era. No more little babies. First Kyle gets.. umm snipped and now getting rid of more stuff.

As each person takes on of your treasures it is a sad yet super happy moment. You get the awful mom that totally low balls all your Mexx and Baby Gap stuff... which ya so you might have overpriced.. but if she had been somewhat reasonable she might have offered you something that didn't make you spit your coffee out of your nose.

I found a few treasures too.. Thomas rain boots, a Gap windbreaker with liner, some cute hoodies and pjs for the kids! Man I love swap meets! Plus I was away from the kids for the day and my wonderful mom came out and helped! Score times 2!!!!!!

Tomorrow... bday party number 2 this year.... kid birthday season seems to be starting EARLIER every year!!! AHHHH... it will be 3 a month until Nov.. then we get a month break! I think I will start buying a gift every few days so when June comes and we have 10 bdays in 2 weeks I am prepared!!!! AHHHHH!!!!!

But I Want to Sleep in His Bed!!!!

Lately the twins have had some trouble going to sleep in their own beds... it is driving me crazy!!

I can go in every 5 minutes and all bedding is off the bed and they are both in one bed. Usually Canaan's. Last night we went in and checked on the boys before we went to bed. And for the second time (the first being when they were sick) we found Jaxon at the end of Canaan's bed all cuddled under the blankets. It had to be the sweetest end to the day.

We are also working at putting Trace to bed to bed with no light, ya he currently falls asleep with his main light on in his room We have had the big conserving energy talk, and he still wakes up through the night and turns it back on. Yes at least he puts himself back to sleep but that darn light is on.

Well the last few nights I have resorted to duct taping the light off, and still in desperation he will sometimes pry it off. Ideas anyone?

Ahh kids! Somedays i am still in wonder that I have a voice, I have to raise it above the noise of three boys!!! Thank goodness now we are officially done havi kids!  I love what I have, am thankful daily for the crazyness thrown at me and am in awe of my husband, and parents who endure it all with me!!