- John wants to go in the men's restroom now without me.
- The upstairs gate came down
That's it. But two big milestones if you think about it.
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
A Week In The Life: Saturday
6:15 -Bible study
7:00 - John is up coming from my bed....hmmmm....not real sure. I vaguely remember him getting in bed, but I must have been in a deep sleep. I just know that I was falling off a king sized bed and had to literally inch out from under him to get out of bed this morning.
7:15 - He helps me make pancakes then plays with bird puzzle things. I make the rest of the pancakes and get breakfast on the table. (Wheat pancakes)
7:45 - I go get Matthew, I like for breakfast to be completely ready for him or 90 % there, otherwise I have to do it with a very heavy toddler on my hip.
8:15 - Carl up, he gets coffee and watched fishing shows with the boys. Then they decide to "run from lasers" Oh my... THE SOUND EFFECTS... I have yet expressed the total amount of sound effects that go on in my house. The one word that I would use to describe my house with two boys is loud! On their own the boys go upstairs and we are not real sure what they are playing, but they are up there a long time without us. We were able to have coffee and sit in semi silence for a bit.
9:00 - I go upstairs and play with them a bit, and then get them ready for the day.
9:30 - I take MJ to the store with me (SO much easier with only one kiddo). John and Daddy play a bit and then they go out front and stain the garage doors. Our friend comes to borrow Carl's truck.
10:30 - (Target always seems to take 1 hour, if I go for a few things or 100 things). Unload the groceries while the boys play outside with Daddy. Then John, Matthew and I do outdoor chores for a bit and John earns $3. We are starting to have him earn money around the house to buy things he wants.
11:30 - The boys help me make lunch. They spread the PB and squeeze the honey, John picked lunch because it is soccer game day. They have grapes and trail mix too.
12:00 - MJ down for nap and John and I go into the media room to do Yoga. He does some of it with me and we talk and he plays around for a while. It was actually really effective and fun.
1:00 - shower and run to Kroger for the coaches gift cards (this is the last game and I was in charge of the cards)
1:30 - John and Carl head to soccer. I wake up Matthew 15 minutes later and we head that direction next. We get there just in time to see John kick it off. Matthew is pretty good during games to just sit in my lap and eat a snack, or play with the ball behind the parents. The Cobras win 4-3 against the sharks. The season before, the Sharks beat us like 10-2, so this was a huge win for us, and the Dad's knew it. :) I post two pictures of him actually on the field here. One where he looks like he is playing and one where he is dancing, truth be told, he floats around a little more than he plays....maybe the light bulb will come on next season.
3:00 - We head to a snow cone place with the whole team for the end of season party. Fun,but cold, what in the world?!?! It is MAY! The coaches gave them their trophies.
4:15 - home and I am preparing dinner while Matthew and John play with a pretend "monster gun" (cue sound effects). And play some random games in the living room.
5:15 - Eat dinner. The boys ate left overs from Pei Wei and I made summer veggies and chicken tostadas.
5:45 - unloaded dishwasher (I feel like I run this thing 3 times a day) and clean a bit.
6:00 - Carl goes back to Home Depot to gets glaze and finishes the garage doors. The boys wrestle in the living room. They love to rough house. I love those boys. Without a doubt, one of them gets hurt though. Matthew bumped his head on something and his new thing is to say that he needs "medicine" or a "band-aid". john very gently escorted him into the bathroom and found him a spider-man band-aid all by themselves. The pcitures below are the before and after.
7:00 - bath and bed, similar to every other night. :)
7:00 - John is up coming from my bed....hmmmm....not real sure. I vaguely remember him getting in bed, but I must have been in a deep sleep. I just know that I was falling off a king sized bed and had to literally inch out from under him to get out of bed this morning.
7:15 - He helps me make pancakes then plays with bird puzzle things. I make the rest of the pancakes and get breakfast on the table. (Wheat pancakes)
7:45 - I go get Matthew, I like for breakfast to be completely ready for him or 90 % there, otherwise I have to do it with a very heavy toddler on my hip.
8:15 - Carl up, he gets coffee and watched fishing shows with the boys. Then they decide to "run from lasers" Oh my... THE SOUND EFFECTS... I have yet expressed the total amount of sound effects that go on in my house. The one word that I would use to describe my house with two boys is loud! On their own the boys go upstairs and we are not real sure what they are playing, but they are up there a long time without us. We were able to have coffee and sit in semi silence for a bit.
9:00 - I go upstairs and play with them a bit, and then get them ready for the day.
9:30 - I take MJ to the store with me (SO much easier with only one kiddo). John and Daddy play a bit and then they go out front and stain the garage doors. Our friend comes to borrow Carl's truck.
10:30 - (Target always seems to take 1 hour, if I go for a few things or 100 things). Unload the groceries while the boys play outside with Daddy. Then John, Matthew and I do outdoor chores for a bit and John earns $3. We are starting to have him earn money around the house to buy things he wants.
11:30 - The boys help me make lunch. They spread the PB and squeeze the honey, John picked lunch because it is soccer game day. They have grapes and trail mix too.
12:00 - MJ down for nap and John and I go into the media room to do Yoga. He does some of it with me and we talk and he plays around for a while. It was actually really effective and fun.
1:00 - shower and run to Kroger for the coaches gift cards (this is the last game and I was in charge of the cards)
1:30 - John and Carl head to soccer. I wake up Matthew 15 minutes later and we head that direction next. We get there just in time to see John kick it off. Matthew is pretty good during games to just sit in my lap and eat a snack, or play with the ball behind the parents. The Cobras win 4-3 against the sharks. The season before, the Sharks beat us like 10-2, so this was a huge win for us, and the Dad's knew it. :) I post two pictures of him actually on the field here. One where he looks like he is playing and one where he is dancing, truth be told, he floats around a little more than he plays....maybe the light bulb will come on next season.
4:15 - home and I am preparing dinner while Matthew and John play with a pretend "monster gun" (cue sound effects). And play some random games in the living room.
5:15 - Eat dinner. The boys ate left overs from Pei Wei and I made summer veggies and chicken tostadas.
5:45 - unloaded dishwasher (I feel like I run this thing 3 times a day) and clean a bit.
6:00 - Carl goes back to Home Depot to gets glaze and finishes the garage doors. The boys wrestle in the living room. They love to rough house. I love those boys. Without a doubt, one of them gets hurt though. Matthew bumped his head on something and his new thing is to say that he needs "medicine" or a "band-aid". john very gently escorted him into the bathroom and found him a spider-man band-aid all by themselves. The pcitures below are the before and after.
7:00 - bath and bed, similar to every other night. :)
Monday, May 6, 2013
A Week In The Life: Friday
6:00am - Carl up
6:15 - I am up, coffee and bible study
6:30 - John up way too early. He knows that if I am still doing bible study that he needs to do his own thing. He chose ipad this morning.
7:00 - get dinosaur oatmeal ready.
7:15 - get MJ, eat breakfast while John teaches him how to play "rock, paper, scissors".
7:45 - Boys go upstairs and build a camp out while I blog
8:15 - I go upstairs and we play camp out for quite sometime. Roasting crafted marshmallows and everything. John has such an amazing imagination. John even teaches Matthew how to put the fire out when we you are done using it. (notice the colored Popsicle sticks are gone) :-)
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Oh, and the pink line on the floor is duct tape. We used it as a balance beam in one of our obstacle courses we set up last week that also included a huge green duct tape hopscotch course. Love having a hidden upstairs playroom!
9:00 - Convince the boys to go downstairs with me to empty the toy box with me to see what old toys we can find. This is really trickery for me to organize the living room toys a bit. Literally for an hour and a half we pull everything out and they play with it all while I put things in piles and a secret throw away pile. They played with balls, remote control cars, dino and pig poppers, transformers, airplanes, etc.
10:30 - bug bites (graham crackers shaped like insects) and then some more coloring while I unload the dishwasher and blog.
Typically at this time we would be at swim school, but since John supposedly has pink eye, we stay home and are on lock down. I will have to do a separate blog about swim school, because it is fun.
11:15 - John requests Chick-Filet so he can collect the other cow comic books. I swing by to get cash to pay the lawn guy on the way home.
11:45 - lunch, blog, and a really messy child. Matthew won't eat the nuggets from chick filet, but he LOVES the Chick filet sauce....case in point.....
12:30 - nap, Carl comes home and goes running, I clean up and John plays in the living room.
12:50 - John and I go upstairs to finish our game of qwuirkle, we order his VBS characters he wants, make zoo cages out of legos, play with animals and get new songs on itunes. .
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3:00 - wake up MJ. Go downstairs and the two of them start acting like every animal that John can think of, jumping, growling, crawling, slithers, running, biting, etc. They play with books and blankets and the leapster for a bit.
3:45 - snack (everything bagel with cream cheese and a smoothie) while I make a grocery list.
4:00 - Daddy is home again from work, we read books and do yoga and roughhouse and I start prepping dinner. John colors, I cook, Carl works and Matthew is exploring the pantry. These separate activities happen often
4:30 - new Doc McStuffins keeps their attention for a bit, while I clean and Carl works.
5:05 - Dinner (scrambled eggs, fruit, crackers, etc. for the boys and spinach and feta pie for Carl and I)
5:30 - bath
6:00 - I go running. Not sure what happened when I was gone, but there was a huge mess of cards and puzzles in the floor when I came back.
7:00 - I am back, we play a bit longer.
7:30 - bed for MJ. I keep forgetting to add that we do brush his teeth, but the boy will not spit! Still can;t do it. Guess we will be fluoride free for awhile.
7:45 - John's bed time - In his prayer tonight he thanks God for healing is body so quickly. :)
8:00 - I start to organize and purge my closet. I know it is a big project, so I am going to try and tackle it a bit at a time. do some laundry, have some tea and watch some TV.
6:15 - I am up, coffee and bible study
6:30 - John up way too early. He knows that if I am still doing bible study that he needs to do his own thing. He chose ipad this morning.
7:00 - get dinosaur oatmeal ready.
7:15 - get MJ, eat breakfast while John teaches him how to play "rock, paper, scissors".
7:45 - Boys go upstairs and build a camp out while I blog
8:15 - I go upstairs and we play camp out for quite sometime. Roasting crafted marshmallows and everything. John has such an amazing imagination. John even teaches Matthew how to put the fire out when we you are done using it. (notice the colored Popsicle sticks are gone) :-)
Oh, and the pink line on the floor is duct tape. We used it as a balance beam in one of our obstacle courses we set up last week that also included a huge green duct tape hopscotch course. Love having a hidden upstairs playroom!
9:00 - Convince the boys to go downstairs with me to empty the toy box with me to see what old toys we can find. This is really trickery for me to organize the living room toys a bit. Literally for an hour and a half we pull everything out and they play with it all while I put things in piles and a secret throw away pile. They played with balls, remote control cars, dino and pig poppers, transformers, airplanes, etc.
10:30 - bug bites (graham crackers shaped like insects) and then some more coloring while I unload the dishwasher and blog.
Typically at this time we would be at swim school, but since John supposedly has pink eye, we stay home and are on lock down. I will have to do a separate blog about swim school, because it is fun.
11:15 - John requests Chick-Filet so he can collect the other cow comic books. I swing by to get cash to pay the lawn guy on the way home.
11:45 - lunch, blog, and a really messy child. Matthew won't eat the nuggets from chick filet, but he LOVES the Chick filet sauce....case in point.....
12:30 - nap, Carl comes home and goes running, I clean up and John plays in the living room.
12:50 - John and I go upstairs to finish our game of qwuirkle, we order his VBS characters he wants, make zoo cages out of legos, play with animals and get new songs on itunes. .
3:00 - wake up MJ. Go downstairs and the two of them start acting like every animal that John can think of, jumping, growling, crawling, slithers, running, biting, etc. They play with books and blankets and the leapster for a bit.
3:45 - snack (everything bagel with cream cheese and a smoothie) while I make a grocery list.
4:00 - Daddy is home again from work, we read books and do yoga and roughhouse and I start prepping dinner. John colors, I cook, Carl works and Matthew is exploring the pantry. These separate activities happen often
4:30 - new Doc McStuffins keeps their attention for a bit, while I clean and Carl works.
5:05 - Dinner (scrambled eggs, fruit, crackers, etc. for the boys and spinach and feta pie for Carl and I)
5:30 - bath
6:00 - I go running. Not sure what happened when I was gone, but there was a huge mess of cards and puzzles in the floor when I came back.
7:00 - I am back, we play a bit longer.
7:30 - bed for MJ. I keep forgetting to add that we do brush his teeth, but the boy will not spit! Still can;t do it. Guess we will be fluoride free for awhile.
7:45 - John's bed time - In his prayer tonight he thanks God for healing is body so quickly. :)
8:00 - I start to organize and purge my closet. I know it is a big project, so I am going to try and tackle it a bit at a time. do some laundry, have some tea and watch some TV.
Sunday, May 5, 2013
A Week In The Life: Thursday
6:00am - biblestudy
6:45 - get dressed
7:05 - John up, we chat, he plays on the ipad for a few minutes, I make french toast sticks (and prunes)
7:20 - get Matthew up, eat breakfast, more ipad (not for long, it is sounding like this is all they do), pack up for school and pick up the cleaners one last time.
8:40 - leave for school for John and gym for Matthew and I. Cleaners are here!!! WAHOO!!! Love this day!
9:15 - at the gym. I drop MJ off in the childcare center and we had arranged that two of his friends from school be there at the same time. He was happy to see Cage and Zachery.
10:45 - 12:30 - Matthew goes to Nana's for a little special one-on-one time and I....well...selfishly... go get a pedicure. :)
12:30 - hang out a Nana's for a few minutes, drop off dry cleaning, head up the school. I have decided at this point to let Matthew skip nap because it would be so short. There is an auction going on at school and it ends at 1:45. I feel the need to hover over my bid. Luckily, it was John's turn to play outside, so we watched him and all of his friends play on the playground, but he could not see us. I really enjoyed being a fly on the wall for the moment. :)
1:30 - others start to come hover as well. One lady is secretly bidding against me, but I see it. I squeeze in right behind her....she does it again.... I do it again... then BAM! I WIN! I bought us front row tickets to preschool graduation! (All proceeds going to turf on the big kids playground replacing the mulch. I have three more years vested there, I want Matthew to have that turf.... so I made it okay in my mind to spend what I did)
2:00 - too cold for the boys to run around again outside, so we head to Starbucks for a birthday cake pop and coffee for me.
2:25 - home and a little TV, but the boys are not interested (they really self regulate themselves with the TV). so we go upstairs and played Qwirkle! WAHOO! I try to get Carl to play this with me at night. I love this game. (we don't finish the game until Friday, so I will post a picture then). We all color and the boys crash into the bean bags several hundred times. I am not sure when this video was taken this week, but I am adding it here. Matthew counting....
3:15 - head to the dr. :( John has been complaining about his throat and cheek and now his eye has goop. sure enough. He has pick eye. AHHHHHH!!!! After the doctor (that was 30 minutes behind schedule), we go to the pharmacy, then to get Pei Wei for dinner, then back to the pharmacy for the prescriptions, then to the drive up Kroger gas station so I do not have to get the kids out of the car (did I mention it is like 40 degrees and raining) for Gatorade.
5:15 - Carl is home when we get here. We sit to eat. John hardly eats anything his throat hurts too bad. He is so sad. It is breaking my heart.
6:30 - I take MJ for a bath by himself while Carl lets John have some ice cream.
6:45 - John and I take a shower. In an attempt to not spread the pink eye, I did not want them to bathe together. We all sit around the living room and have our usual routine, but a little more calm today.
7:30 - Matthew up to bed.
7:45 - John to bed. Tonight he thanks God for the Doctors that heal our bodies! :)
6:45 - get dressed
7:05 - John up, we chat, he plays on the ipad for a few minutes, I make french toast sticks (and prunes)
7:20 - get Matthew up, eat breakfast, more ipad (not for long, it is sounding like this is all they do), pack up for school and pick up the cleaners one last time.
8:40 - leave for school for John and gym for Matthew and I. Cleaners are here!!! WAHOO!!! Love this day!
9:15 - at the gym. I drop MJ off in the childcare center and we had arranged that two of his friends from school be there at the same time. He was happy to see Cage and Zachery.
12:30 - hang out a Nana's for a few minutes, drop off dry cleaning, head up the school. I have decided at this point to let Matthew skip nap because it would be so short. There is an auction going on at school and it ends at 1:45. I feel the need to hover over my bid. Luckily, it was John's turn to play outside, so we watched him and all of his friends play on the playground, but he could not see us. I really enjoyed being a fly on the wall for the moment. :)
1:30 - others start to come hover as well. One lady is secretly bidding against me, but I see it. I squeeze in right behind her....she does it again.... I do it again... then BAM! I WIN! I bought us front row tickets to preschool graduation! (All proceeds going to turf on the big kids playground replacing the mulch. I have three more years vested there, I want Matthew to have that turf.... so I made it okay in my mind to spend what I did)
2:00 - too cold for the boys to run around again outside, so we head to Starbucks for a birthday cake pop and coffee for me.
2:25 - home and a little TV, but the boys are not interested (they really self regulate themselves with the TV). so we go upstairs and played Qwirkle! WAHOO! I try to get Carl to play this with me at night. I love this game. (we don't finish the game until Friday, so I will post a picture then). We all color and the boys crash into the bean bags several hundred times. I am not sure when this video was taken this week, but I am adding it here. Matthew counting....
3:15 - head to the dr. :( John has been complaining about his throat and cheek and now his eye has goop. sure enough. He has pick eye. AHHHHHH!!!! After the doctor (that was 30 minutes behind schedule), we go to the pharmacy, then to get Pei Wei for dinner, then back to the pharmacy for the prescriptions, then to the drive up Kroger gas station so I do not have to get the kids out of the car (did I mention it is like 40 degrees and raining) for Gatorade.
5:15 - Carl is home when we get here. We sit to eat. John hardly eats anything his throat hurts too bad. He is so sad. It is breaking my heart.
6:30 - I take MJ for a bath by himself while Carl lets John have some ice cream.
6:45 - John and I take a shower. In an attempt to not spread the pink eye, I did not want them to bathe together. We all sit around the living room and have our usual routine, but a little more calm today.
7:30 - Matthew up to bed.
7:45 - John to bed. Tonight he thanks God for the Doctors that heal our bodies! :)
Saturday, May 4, 2013
A Week in the Life: Wednesday
2:00am - John came down because he wet the bed. Clean him up, put a diaper on and back in bed.
4:00am - John comes down again, I think his reason this time was because he was itchy. He has a lot of excuses that make no sense at all. Sometimes I just put him in bed with us, sometimes I take him back upstairs. I realize this is not consistent and we are just perpetuating the habit. He comes down at least once a week.
6:15 - Carl and I sneak out of bed. He gets ready and I do my bible study.
7:00 - Make the boys lunch (Turkey and cheese with no crusts, fruit, crackers and smoothie for John. Graham crackers and raisin for snacks).
7:25 - John up. Make breakfast, toast with cream cheese and jelly and mangoes. we talk about tornados versus hurricanes. odd. We flip through the fun run pics from the day before.
7:35 - Matthew up. Some of his first words in the morning are "snot mommy", "bubba?" "Daddy work" or "eat".
7:45 - the boys eat breakfast and watch Charlie and Lola and then Jo Jo's circus comes on. I am unloading dishes and end up having to turn off the TV because the boys are not eating. They finish eating, get dressed, chase each other and then ask for tattoos.
8:30 - start loading up, then head to school. John goes through carpool, and then I park and walk Matthew in his class. He leaps into Ms. Beth's arms.
9:00 - I try to go run a quick errand at the UPS store that ended up being a big bust. BLAH! So I rush back for Matthew's fun run.
9:30 - Back at school at the little kids playground with cameras ready. He has to wear the same size shirt as John wore, so I had to tie it up like a girl, so I put him in camo shorts to balance it out. :) He did do good. Just ran and ran, long after all the others were just playing on the playground (see bottom picture). He just kissed be goodbye like such a big boy.
10:00 - get home and blog about Sunday and Monday. only 3 days late. :)
10:40 - head to gym for a 11:15 Hot Vinyasa Flow yoga class that fills up real quick. I laid mats down for me and Marie (Cage's mom) so she can drop her infant off. I jump on the treadmill for a quick 10 minute warm up before class.
11:15 - 12:15 - Torture that I love. you sweat so much it literally feels like you are in the shower. I am addicted and wish I could go more than once a week.
12:30 - come home and finish up the twp blogs with pictures and videos.
2:00 - get kids from school. They love to run around outside in the empty space with Garrett and Logan and Logan's little brother Levi, this time Cage joined in too. You would think they had not just spent ALL day together. Matthew did not nap again. He has only napped 1 time at school, but they say he is quiet and will just talk with them while they eat lunch. They have to put his crib away from everyone else in the corner. :( They say he is happy and just talks to them, ask for bites of their lunch, asks for books or balls, etc. Stinker!
2:30 - A sucker when we get home (not sure why I agreed). They chased a little bouncy ball around for like 15 minutes straight then John asks Matthew if he can play by himself. So I take Matthew upstairs to change his diaper and burn a little time while John plays with his animals again downstairs. Matthew and I look through the fun run pics that I took of him. Then they have an everything bagel with cream cheese for a snack and I unload the their backpacks.
3:00 - Upstairs to play. John and I play 20 questions (his new favorite thing), the boys build a tower with the big blocks, they play with the piano thing that hooks to the TV. It is meant for toddlers, but I think John likes it more. The boys color a bit.
4:00 - Carl scares us, we did not hear him come inside. He takes the boys downstairs to show them the new swimsuits he bought them (I was not planning on buying new ones, as I have already bought a couple, and they do not need 14. love him! :)) Matthew and I play a bit longer.
4:45 - Carl works out, I cook dinner for the boys . The boys play in the living room with animals and blankets and Lego's and then on my bed.
5:15 - dinner. for the boys stuffing balls (diced chicken and stove top stuffing rolled into bite size balls), corn, oranges and crackers. I have a shakeology and Carl has leftovers from last night.
5:45 - head to soccer practice down the street at the park. LOVE THAT. All of the the boys except two he will go to kindergarten with, so that is awesome. John starts to complain about his ear hurting at practice. About 3/4 the way through practice and by the time we get home, he is in tears.
7:00 - home, ear drops and Advil for John. quick baths.
7:30 - bed for Matthew
8:00 - bed for John.
8:15 - I pick up the house because the cleaners are coming Thursday instead of Friday this week. I send pictures out to all of the Busy Bee parents of the fun run that day while we watch Survivor and Criminal Minds.
10:00 - off the bed.
4:00am - John comes down again, I think his reason this time was because he was itchy. He has a lot of excuses that make no sense at all. Sometimes I just put him in bed with us, sometimes I take him back upstairs. I realize this is not consistent and we are just perpetuating the habit. He comes down at least once a week.
6:15 - Carl and I sneak out of bed. He gets ready and I do my bible study.
7:25 - John up. Make breakfast, toast with cream cheese and jelly and mangoes. we talk about tornados versus hurricanes. odd. We flip through the fun run pics from the day before.
7:35 - Matthew up. Some of his first words in the morning are "snot mommy", "bubba?" "Daddy work" or "eat".
7:45 - the boys eat breakfast and watch Charlie and Lola and then Jo Jo's circus comes on. I am unloading dishes and end up having to turn off the TV because the boys are not eating. They finish eating, get dressed, chase each other and then ask for tattoos.8:30 - start loading up, then head to school. John goes through carpool, and then I park and walk Matthew in his class. He leaps into Ms. Beth's arms.
9:00 - I try to go run a quick errand at the UPS store that ended up being a big bust. BLAH! So I rush back for Matthew's fun run.
9:30 - Back at school at the little kids playground with cameras ready. He has to wear the same size shirt as John wore, so I had to tie it up like a girl, so I put him in camo shorts to balance it out. :) He did do good. Just ran and ran, long after all the others were just playing on the playground (see bottom picture). He just kissed be goodbye like such a big boy.
10:00 - get home and blog about Sunday and Monday. only 3 days late. :)
10:40 - head to gym for a 11:15 Hot Vinyasa Flow yoga class that fills up real quick. I laid mats down for me and Marie (Cage's mom) so she can drop her infant off. I jump on the treadmill for a quick 10 minute warm up before class.
11:15 - 12:15 - Torture that I love. you sweat so much it literally feels like you are in the shower. I am addicted and wish I could go more than once a week.
12:30 - come home and finish up the twp blogs with pictures and videos.
2:00 - get kids from school. They love to run around outside in the empty space with Garrett and Logan and Logan's little brother Levi, this time Cage joined in too. You would think they had not just spent ALL day together. Matthew did not nap again. He has only napped 1 time at school, but they say he is quiet and will just talk with them while they eat lunch. They have to put his crib away from everyone else in the corner. :( They say he is happy and just talks to them, ask for bites of their lunch, asks for books or balls, etc. Stinker!
2:30 - A sucker when we get home (not sure why I agreed). They chased a little bouncy ball around for like 15 minutes straight then John asks Matthew if he can play by himself. So I take Matthew upstairs to change his diaper and burn a little time while John plays with his animals again downstairs. Matthew and I look through the fun run pics that I took of him. Then they have an everything bagel with cream cheese for a snack and I unload the their backpacks.3:00 - Upstairs to play. John and I play 20 questions (his new favorite thing), the boys build a tower with the big blocks, they play with the piano thing that hooks to the TV. It is meant for toddlers, but I think John likes it more. The boys color a bit.4:00 - Carl scares us, we did not hear him come inside. He takes the boys downstairs to show them the new swimsuits he bought them (I was not planning on buying new ones, as I have already bought a couple, and they do not need 14. love him! :)) Matthew and I play a bit longer.
4:45 - Carl works out, I cook dinner for the boys . The boys play in the living room with animals and blankets and Lego's and then on my bed.
5:15 - dinner. for the boys stuffing balls (diced chicken and stove top stuffing rolled into bite size balls), corn, oranges and crackers. I have a shakeology and Carl has leftovers from last night.
5:45 - head to soccer practice down the street at the park. LOVE THAT. All of the the boys except two he will go to kindergarten with, so that is awesome. John starts to complain about his ear hurting at practice. About 3/4 the way through practice and by the time we get home, he is in tears.
7:00 - home, ear drops and Advil for John. quick baths.
7:30 - bed for Matthew
8:00 - bed for John.
8:15 - I pick up the house because the cleaners are coming Thursday instead of Friday this week. I send pictures out to all of the Busy Bee parents of the fun run that day while we watch Survivor and Criminal Minds.
10:00 - off the bed.
Friday, May 3, 2013
A Week In The Life: Tuesday
6:45 - John comes down and wakes me and Carl up, apparently we slept through our alarms. We get up and I start prepping breakfast and we talk about the day and plays with toys.
7:15 - I go get MJ (I really have no idea what time he gets up or when he would get up, I normally just go get him when it is convenient for us, he never makes a peep. 2nd kid I guess). They eat breakfast (yogurt with cinnamon and sprinkles and a pear). I sit at the table with them and have coffee and say our prayer.
7:40 - John is drawing in his "forever book" (a binded book that I he only draws in every once in a while and I always put the date of the drawing and plan on keeping it forever) and Matthew is on the ipad. (After recording how much Matthew plays on the ipad this week, we decided we probably need to regulate his screen time). I make lunch for John (PB and honey, cantaloupe, goldfish and smoothie). We get dressed and play a quick game of greedy gator, pack up and then john teaches MJ how to sort the animals by color.
8:30 - Kathleen comes and John and I head out to school. Matthew loves Kathleen and he kisses us goodbye with a smile. I am not entirely sure what they did, but I know they went to the park, squirted bubbles with a squirt gun, sidewalk chalk and that he had macaroni and cheese and a hot dog for lunch.
9:15 - I go to the gym for a cardio workout.
10:30 - I went to Family Christian Bookstore to pick out my next bible study, as I finished my other one on Sunday. I also picked up 2 great books for the kids.
11:30 - I went to a friends house that had two babies sleeping but her school called and one of her kids had a fever so she had to go pick him up. I read a little bit while she was gone.
12:00 - I park in front of John's school because he is getting ready to do his Fun Run to earn money for the big playground to have turf. I do my bible study and then Carl pulls up next to me to surprise John too.
12:30 - Fun Run! The kids seemed to have a lot of fun.
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1:00 - Home and let Kathleen go. Carl works out. MJ is napping. I run to the store, then prep dinner and do laundry.
2:45 - MJ wakes up. Nana picked up John from school today, so MJ and I go over there to play and pick him up. We all have snacks and chat and play for a bit. always a favorite thing and always hard to leave the fun!
4:45 - Home. boys play with Daddy and the marshmallow shooter that were in the surprise bag from Nana's and I get dinner on the plates.
5:20 - dinner. The boys had Rotisserie chicken, carrots and potatoes, and strawberries. Carl and I had the chicken and a orzo pasta salad with avocado, corn, tomatoes and black beans. It was good (it is on my pinterest)
5:45 - I go on a quick walk while the boys wrestle and play.
6:15 - the boys play, but I am not really sure what they did, because I fell asleep on the chair again. weird.
7:00 - Bath time, then they played follow the leader. Carl and I take turns showering.
7:30 - MJ picks the order of hugs and kisses and then we go up to read the new "The Toddler's Bible" I got him.
7:45 - teeth, potty, clean living room, to bed in time for book for John "Where is God?". John decided he wanted to try underwear again tonight, of course we said yes....
8:00 - movie night! Silver Linings Playbook. Not nearly as good as the book!
7:15 - I go get MJ (I really have no idea what time he gets up or when he would get up, I normally just go get him when it is convenient for us, he never makes a peep. 2nd kid I guess). They eat breakfast (yogurt with cinnamon and sprinkles and a pear). I sit at the table with them and have coffee and say our prayer.
7:40 - John is drawing in his "forever book" (a binded book that I he only draws in every once in a while and I always put the date of the drawing and plan on keeping it forever) and Matthew is on the ipad. (After recording how much Matthew plays on the ipad this week, we decided we probably need to regulate his screen time). I make lunch for John (PB and honey, cantaloupe, goldfish and smoothie). We get dressed and play a quick game of greedy gator, pack up and then john teaches MJ how to sort the animals by color. 8:30 - Kathleen comes and John and I head out to school. Matthew loves Kathleen and he kisses us goodbye with a smile. I am not entirely sure what they did, but I know they went to the park, squirted bubbles with a squirt gun, sidewalk chalk and that he had macaroni and cheese and a hot dog for lunch.
9:15 - I go to the gym for a cardio workout.
10:30 - I went to Family Christian Bookstore to pick out my next bible study, as I finished my other one on Sunday. I also picked up 2 great books for the kids.
11:30 - I went to a friends house that had two babies sleeping but her school called and one of her kids had a fever so she had to go pick him up. I read a little bit while she was gone.
12:00 - I park in front of John's school because he is getting ready to do his Fun Run to earn money for the big playground to have turf. I do my bible study and then Carl pulls up next to me to surprise John too.
12:30 - Fun Run! The kids seemed to have a lot of fun.
Best Buddies (I can't get the picture any bigger for some reason)
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2:45 - MJ wakes up. Nana picked up John from school today, so MJ and I go over there to play and pick him up. We all have snacks and chat and play for a bit. always a favorite thing and always hard to leave the fun!
4:45 - Home. boys play with Daddy and the marshmallow shooter that were in the surprise bag from Nana's and I get dinner on the plates.
5:20 - dinner. The boys had Rotisserie chicken, carrots and potatoes, and strawberries. Carl and I had the chicken and a orzo pasta salad with avocado, corn, tomatoes and black beans. It was good (it is on my pinterest)
5:45 - I go on a quick walk while the boys wrestle and play.
6:15 - the boys play, but I am not really sure what they did, because I fell asleep on the chair again. weird.
7:00 - Bath time, then they played follow the leader. Carl and I take turns showering.
7:30 - MJ picks the order of hugs and kisses and then we go up to read the new "The Toddler's Bible" I got him.
7:45 - teeth, potty, clean living room, to bed in time for book for John "Where is God?". John decided he wanted to try underwear again tonight, of course we said yes....
8:00 - movie night! Silver Linings Playbook. Not nearly as good as the book!
Thursday, May 2, 2013
A Week In The Life: Monday
6:30 - Carl and I up
6:30 - I hear MJ, but hope he falls back asleep. I do bible study
7:00 - I start breakfast of dinosaur oatmeal.
7:15 - John is up and then I go up and get Matthew. The eat breakfast and play at the table (they can sometimes take up to 45 minutes to eat if I did not push them along). Then they play a bit in the living room with balloons and coloring. We start to get ready for the day.
8:20 - have a quick snack and then leave for the gym. Garrett and Elyse are also at the gym so they all have a fantastic time. Sometimes John will take Matthew into the toddler room so that "kids won't bother him" or "he won't get hurt", but most of the time, John wants Matthew with him. John also asks if they can dress the same on gym days so that the teachers know they "belong together". He is such a protective brother. With Elyse being there, she was all about taking care of Matthew. I wanted to take pictures of all the gym child care center because it is huge and the kids love it, but I was afraid they would make me stop taking pictures of other peoples kids. So this is how we found them after our "barbell strength" class.....love 'em all!
We stopped at the gym cafe to have a snack and talk about a plan for the rest of the day.
10:45 - We get home and Garrett and Elyse come over to play for a bit. The boys look at the fish charts, Elyse organizes all of the animals, they colored a bit, talked and played with balloons.
11:45 - John left with the Waters to go paint pottery.
Matthew and I played outside on the scooter for a bit and then came inside for lunch. PBJ and fruit.
12:15 - Nap. I cleaned up the house a bit then got in the shower and did my hair for our work dinner later that night.
1:45 - John gets home and has some cold pizza, strawberries and carrots for lunch. We sit and talk for a bit about the gym and the day.
2:15 - John has an incredible imagination and he plays with all of his animals with sound effects and voices and story lines. I fold laundry and watch.
2:30 - MJ up. We stay downstairs and John and I "exercise". I show him some yoga positions (which apparently he does at school and already knew some of them) and then he makes up some of his own. ("the double winged butterfly", "the rocking horse" and "the apple shrink"). All the while, Matthew is doing them with us or jumping jacks or acting like a robot "beep beep" or screaming the word "applesauce" (he does that a lot, for absolutely no reason)
2:50 - the boys go upstairs to play by themselves. They decide to make me "stations" of things I like to do. The only two stations we had time for were the exercise station (they had carried the 5lb weights and the push up bars into Johns room) and the coloring station. They also had a reading station set up.
3:45 - run to the store for some things for dinner and lunches for the week.
4:20 - play while I get ready. They played with balls and balloons and then they came into the bathroom with me. John pooped (takes a REALLY long time) and Matthew stood on top of his potty seat and pretended to fish with his fishing pole.
5:00 - Kathleen gets here to watch the boys and Carl and I head out to a work dinner at Abacus. The boys do great. They hug and kiss us and tell us goodbye without any fuss at all! Dinner was amazing and I ruined every last ounce of working out that I had done for probably a week! I think I had like 6 courses.
10:45 - home. in bed. tired.
6:30 - I hear MJ, but hope he falls back asleep. I do bible study
7:00 - I start breakfast of dinosaur oatmeal.
7:15 - John is up and then I go up and get Matthew. The eat breakfast and play at the table (they can sometimes take up to 45 minutes to eat if I did not push them along). Then they play a bit in the living room with balloons and coloring. We start to get ready for the day.
8:20 - have a quick snack and then leave for the gym. Garrett and Elyse are also at the gym so they all have a fantastic time. Sometimes John will take Matthew into the toddler room so that "kids won't bother him" or "he won't get hurt", but most of the time, John wants Matthew with him. John also asks if they can dress the same on gym days so that the teachers know they "belong together". He is such a protective brother. With Elyse being there, she was all about taking care of Matthew. I wanted to take pictures of all the gym child care center because it is huge and the kids love it, but I was afraid they would make me stop taking pictures of other peoples kids. So this is how we found them after our "barbell strength" class.....love 'em all!
We stopped at the gym cafe to have a snack and talk about a plan for the rest of the day.
10:45 - We get home and Garrett and Elyse come over to play for a bit. The boys look at the fish charts, Elyse organizes all of the animals, they colored a bit, talked and played with balloons.
11:45 - John left with the Waters to go paint pottery.
12:15 - Nap. I cleaned up the house a bit then got in the shower and did my hair for our work dinner later that night.
1:45 - John gets home and has some cold pizza, strawberries and carrots for lunch. We sit and talk for a bit about the gym and the day.
2:15 - John has an incredible imagination and he plays with all of his animals with sound effects and voices and story lines. I fold laundry and watch.
2:30 - MJ up. We stay downstairs and John and I "exercise". I show him some yoga positions (which apparently he does at school and already knew some of them) and then he makes up some of his own. ("the double winged butterfly", "the rocking horse" and "the apple shrink"). All the while, Matthew is doing them with us or jumping jacks or acting like a robot "beep beep" or screaming the word "applesauce" (he does that a lot, for absolutely no reason)
2:50 - the boys go upstairs to play by themselves. They decide to make me "stations" of things I like to do. The only two stations we had time for were the exercise station (they had carried the 5lb weights and the push up bars into Johns room) and the coloring station. They also had a reading station set up.
3:45 - run to the store for some things for dinner and lunches for the week.
4:20 - play while I get ready. They played with balls and balloons and then they came into the bathroom with me. John pooped (takes a REALLY long time) and Matthew stood on top of his potty seat and pretended to fish with his fishing pole.
5:00 - Kathleen gets here to watch the boys and Carl and I head out to a work dinner at Abacus. The boys do great. They hug and kiss us and tell us goodbye without any fuss at all! Dinner was amazing and I ruined every last ounce of working out that I had done for probably a week! I think I had like 6 courses.
10:45 - home. in bed. tired.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
A Week In The Life: Sunday
I decided to squeeze in another chapter of "A Week In The Life" series because this is the last week that things will look like this. This week is a pretty typical week from after Christmas break until now.
Sunday:
5:30 - I am up and do bible study and clean up a bit
6:45 - we had our first sleepover less Brendan last night. Garrett stayed the night and they had a great time. (the played games, puzzles, did a treasure hunt, colored, ate dinner, played on the ipads, dart guns, bath time, glow in the dark bowling, etc) They spent the night in the sleeping bags in the playroom. I heard them about 6:45 as they were whispering down the stairs. They colored at the table while I made breakfast.
7:15 - I went to get MJ and we had breakfast (an everything bagel w/ cream cheese and an orange for Garrett, toast with cream cheese and jelly and fruit for my boys).
7:30 - Carl up.
7:45 - more coloring, playing on the ipad, getting ready for church.
8:45 - leave for church(we go to Prestontrail Community Church, it is pretty contemporary, but they teach the bible and we enjoy our time there). John and Garrett are in the orange room and Matthew is in the purple squares. They all really enjoy church and it makes my heart happy. Out of no where, John recites the bible verse he learned that day. Video attached. brought tears to my eyes.
10:30 - Home from church, only after getting a doughnut from the back parking lot of the church because we choose to park far away so that guests can park close, the boys encourage this so that they can get a "thank you doughnut". We just have some down time in the living room and play random things, ipad, wrestle, and somehow I doze off in the chair for about 20 minutes.
11:30 - lunch is spaghettio's, pears and crackers. I do some random chores and eat some grape nuts and Carl has a protein bar.
12:20 - nap for MJ. He doesn't like going, but as long as you promise him a book, he will go willingly. John and I play "guess who", "greedy gator", "go fish" and then he starts a craft at the table. Carl replaces light bulbs in the house and I clean the kitchen.
1:30 - John leaves for a birthday party with Garrett at Cosmic jump (trampoline place). Carl goes to home depot and I do preparations dinner (I like to do it throughout the day so that I do not have to spend an entire hour in the evening when everyone is cranky trying to get it ont he table), unload dishwasher and laundry.
2:45 - I wake MJ up and head to the birthday party to relieve Ashlea. The kids are having a great time and Matthew is being so well behaved and just fine standing with me or me holding him while the other kids are running like crazy. Carl finishes up around the house and then works out.
4:30 - I load all 4 kids up (John, Matthew, Garrett and Elyse) in the car and drop the Waters at their house.
5:00 - I start actually cooking dinner, and John and Carl organize all their fishing stuff (John's idea, but Carl was all about it) while Matthew does his own things, plays with balls, and the go fish cards, walks around and gets into things, etc.)
5:45 - eat BBQ pizza. I really enjoyed it. the kids ate the chicken off of it and then their fruit and other stuff on their plate. We have gotten in the fantastic habit of praying before every meal and the boys are the ones that remind us. Even Matthew called Carl out because his hands weren't folded one day. it was awesome!
6:15 - the boys are coloring at the table while I clean up dinner and Carl watches TV and checks in on work a bit.
6:30 - bath. They love bath. they would stay in there until the water was cold if I would let them. I use this time to either put up laundry upstairs or other upstairs chores, or I sit in there with them and play and talk.
7:00 - the boys run crazy playing "I am going to get you", and screaming and laughing and entertaining themselves. Have to calm it down, so we pull out the ipads. I fold some laundry.
7:30 - I tell Matthew it is time for bed. The game is that he gets to choose who gets hugs and kisses first. He makes his rounds and then asks immediately for a book. We go upstairs and read two books and then he asks for a song once the lights are out. Right now it is usually the "Itsy Bitsy Spider" or "Baa Baa Black Sheep". I normally throw in "Jesus Loves Me" and "You Are My Sunshine"
7:45 - Teeth, potty and bed for John. He throws a little fit EVERY SINGLE night about bed. Not huge, but just enough to rub you the wrong way. Carl takes him up and has some time, then I come in and get on our knees and say prayers. We have started both saying prayers instead of just me. His prayers are always so sweet, pretty repetitive, but overall, he is learning it is important to pray.
8:00 - relax time :)
Sunday:
5:30 - I am up and do bible study and clean up a bit
6:45 - we had our first sleepover less Brendan last night. Garrett stayed the night and they had a great time. (the played games, puzzles, did a treasure hunt, colored, ate dinner, played on the ipads, dart guns, bath time, glow in the dark bowling, etc) They spent the night in the sleeping bags in the playroom. I heard them about 6:45 as they were whispering down the stairs. They colored at the table while I made breakfast.
7:15 - I went to get MJ and we had breakfast (an everything bagel w/ cream cheese and an orange for Garrett, toast with cream cheese and jelly and fruit for my boys).
7:30 - Carl up.
7:45 - more coloring, playing on the ipad, getting ready for church.
8:45 - leave for church(we go to Prestontrail Community Church, it is pretty contemporary, but they teach the bible and we enjoy our time there). John and Garrett are in the orange room and Matthew is in the purple squares. They all really enjoy church and it makes my heart happy. Out of no where, John recites the bible verse he learned that day. Video attached. brought tears to my eyes. 10:30 - Home from church, only after getting a doughnut from the back parking lot of the church because we choose to park far away so that guests can park close, the boys encourage this so that they can get a "thank you doughnut". We just have some down time in the living room and play random things, ipad, wrestle, and somehow I doze off in the chair for about 20 minutes.
11:30 - lunch is spaghettio's, pears and crackers. I do some random chores and eat some grape nuts and Carl has a protein bar.
12:20 - nap for MJ. He doesn't like going, but as long as you promise him a book, he will go willingly. John and I play "guess who", "greedy gator", "go fish" and then he starts a craft at the table. Carl replaces light bulbs in the house and I clean the kitchen.
1:30 - John leaves for a birthday party with Garrett at Cosmic jump (trampoline place). Carl goes to home depot and I do preparations dinner (I like to do it throughout the day so that I do not have to spend an entire hour in the evening when everyone is cranky trying to get it ont he table), unload dishwasher and laundry.
2:45 - I wake MJ up and head to the birthday party to relieve Ashlea. The kids are having a great time and Matthew is being so well behaved and just fine standing with me or me holding him while the other kids are running like crazy. Carl finishes up around the house and then works out.4:30 - I load all 4 kids up (John, Matthew, Garrett and Elyse) in the car and drop the Waters at their house.
5:00 - I start actually cooking dinner, and John and Carl organize all their fishing stuff (John's idea, but Carl was all about it) while Matthew does his own things, plays with balls, and the go fish cards, walks around and gets into things, etc.)
5:45 - eat BBQ pizza. I really enjoyed it. the kids ate the chicken off of it and then their fruit and other stuff on their plate. We have gotten in the fantastic habit of praying before every meal and the boys are the ones that remind us. Even Matthew called Carl out because his hands weren't folded one day. it was awesome!
6:15 - the boys are coloring at the table while I clean up dinner and Carl watches TV and checks in on work a bit.
6:30 - bath. They love bath. they would stay in there until the water was cold if I would let them. I use this time to either put up laundry upstairs or other upstairs chores, or I sit in there with them and play and talk.
7:00 - the boys run crazy playing "I am going to get you", and screaming and laughing and entertaining themselves. Have to calm it down, so we pull out the ipads. I fold some laundry.
7:30 - I tell Matthew it is time for bed. The game is that he gets to choose who gets hugs and kisses first. He makes his rounds and then asks immediately for a book. We go upstairs and read two books and then he asks for a song once the lights are out. Right now it is usually the "Itsy Bitsy Spider" or "Baa Baa Black Sheep". I normally throw in "Jesus Loves Me" and "You Are My Sunshine"
7:45 - Teeth, potty and bed for John. He throws a little fit EVERY SINGLE night about bed. Not huge, but just enough to rub you the wrong way. Carl takes him up and has some time, then I come in and get on our knees and say prayers. We have started both saying prayers instead of just me. His prayers are always so sweet, pretty repetitive, but overall, he is learning it is important to pray.
8:00 - relax time :)
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