This afternoon went smoothly too. Rosemary, Jack, Liv and Leif all napped for 2 1/2 hours. I ended up waking up Liv and Leif so we could all go outside because the rest of the kids were getting restless.

Liisa (4), Jack, Leif, Liv(4) and Rosemary

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It ended up being a really nice day. I knew the forecast from a week ago that said rain was bogus.

Jack and Brooke just finished with dinner as Barb's working late. I'm waiting on Jared to bring me my dinner as I'm done cooking for the day :o)

Today's been going pretty smoothly so far. Jack, Rosemary and I were outside when Brooke and my cousins got here at 10. We played outside for a bit and then came in to get ready for lunch. Lunch went well. Naps started out kind of tricky but are going good now. Jack's in our bed, Rosemary's in Jack's bed, Liv and Leif are in the spare room and Lucia, Liisa and Brooke are having quiet time in the living room. We'll all go back outside once all the kids are up. Lizzie's not coming now but Charlotte will be here at 3:30.

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 Today's the day that I have 8 kids coming over. Lizzie and Charlotte aren't here until the afternoon but I'll have 6 kids in addition to Jack for the better part of the day. So naturally Jack decided last night was a good night to attempt an all night tantrum fest. We took turns dealing with him for like an hour and a half and then Jared fell asleep in there with him and that was the last we heard of him. Booger.

I'm making mac n cheese w/ cut up turkey dogs for lunch. I already cut up a package of turkey dogs and peeled several oranges. Thank you Warren for all the fruit!!!!!!! I even have enough chairs/booster seats/highchairs all set up around the table so they can all eat together. 

The forecast for today still doesn't include rain. Hallelujah!!!! 

We all took nice long naps yesterday afternoon so that was good. Jack and Brooke played with his dumptruck and police car in the driveway for a bit in the afternoon. Rob, Barb and Brooke were all coming/staying for dinner.

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Jack slept all night. We swapped the humidifier in his room with the super noisy air purifier from the spare room. Some nights I know he only wakes up because he hear's me go the bathroom and our house is really creaky.

Tonight Jared is bringing home one of those Little Tikes play house things and a double stroller from a woman he works with! I'm pretty excited.

I have Brooke and Lizzie all day today and Charlotte this afternoon. It's not supposed to rain so we'll be outside for sure. Barb was going to send a teeter-totter thing with Brooke. She's also getting us discount tickets for Underwater World for Sunday! :O)

The forecast for tomorrow no longer says rain. YAY!! I'll be able to have all the kids outside.

Jack's been sleeping on the chaise for an hour and a half now. He didn't even wake up when Daisy was barking when Brooke got here. 

He's big into putting things to bed lately. He takes his little Elmo blanket that my mom made for him and will cover us up, or his Elmo, or his sippy or whatever and say "g'night....seep type!". He was following Jenky around this morning trying to cover him up and saying "g'night....seep type!". 

Yesterday he slammed Jenky's tail in the porch door and Jenky yelped really loud and then took off with his tail all puffed out. I followed him and picked him up and was petting him. He lost a huge chunk of fur from his tail. I told Jack that he hurt Jenky. Then for like the next hour he was following Jenks around saying "I sorry Jenky!". It was really cute. 

We watched The Hills last night. What the hell is Lo's problem? She's being such a snot to Audrina!  Why is Stephanie such a pushover? I'd have kicked Spencer out a long time ago. I can't believe he's going to go to Vegas and crash Heidi's business meeting. What a tool.

We watched Beauty and the Geek too. I'm so glad Joe's gone. Seriously...why did he talk with his eyes closed so much??? Hey Napoleon Dynamite....open yer eyes! Such a weirdo. 

Hell's Kitchen was interesting. Matt is such a doofus. He needs to go. Rosann too. 

Lizzie and Charlotte aren't coming now. They're not feeling well so their mom is going to take them to the doc. 

Jack's up now....and crabby :/

Jared woke me up this morning to tell me Jack had woken up and come down stairs and woke him up. O_o WTF???? How'd he get out of his room??????? He woke up one time last night and I went in and put him back in his bed and he was back to sleep shortly after that. I guess it's possible I didn't close his door all the way but I just don't know if that's the case. His door would have clicked loudly into place had it been slightly out of place when I was shutting it. It's happened many times and I've cursed myself for not shutting it more quietly and risking waking the boy. I can't imagine he can work a doorknob already though. I know he can get the screen door open but his bedroom door????? Holy crap. If that's the case.......that's a new development I'm not sure I like.

Putting him to bed last night SUCKED!!!! He was hating it! He didn't seem like he was hating being in his big boy bed so I'm not totally sure what his problem was but he laid in his bed and cried himself to sleep. I was sitting right next to him. I offered him my thumb a few times but he pushed it away. I sat there so long my leg went numb and my back was starting to hurt so I ended up laying down on the floor. That's when he sat up and tried to get out of his bed. Which confirms that if I were to have left the room....he surely would have got out of bed and been crying even harder. I laid him back down and he stayed laying down but kept crying. Half hour of crying. Good times. I think maybe he had a stomach ache since he hadn't pooped all day. Who knows. I even was trying to keep him up a bit later in hopes that he would poop....doing bicycles with his legs like when he was a baby. Eventually, I had to put him to bed. He definitely had a ton of poop this morning though :/ I hope he didn't spend too much time with it in his diaper.

We went to The Eagle's Nest yesterday with Barb and Brooke. If I had laser beams for eyes....I totally would have incinerated a little boy yesterday. There was a big kid area and a 3 and under area. We spent our time in the 3 and under area of course. There was lots of cool stuff and Jack was having fun. He was kind of playing with this little boy and sort of following him around. I would guess he was maybe 4. Then all of a sudden the kid ran across the room.....then ran back and shoved Jack on his way by. I was like ok.....I'll be keeping an eye on that kid from now on. Then a bit later I see the kid throwing books way up in the air. Mind you, there's babies crawling around this area too. Where's this kid's mom? Nowhere to be found. One of the books lands in this little area that you have to climb through a hole to get in. It was like a big square panel with a circle cut out and kids would climb through the circle hole. Jack's peering in to see where the book landed.....and the bottom of the circle is probably at his hips.....that kid comes up behind him and starts trying to push him through the hole!!! By the time I get over there....he's successfully pushed Jack through this hole and Jack is bawling. I grabbed the kid by the arm and said "HEY! You DO NOT push!! That is NOT ok!!!!" He looked a bit startled and ran off. Little prick. His mom was nowhere to be found and didn't see it. Nice. So it took me a bit to calm Jack down but then he was off having fun again.

He discovered this other sort of big tunnel that I kinda think shouldn't have been in the 3 and under area. If he were to have gone all the way in and then decided he hated it.....It woulda been a pretty lame time for me to crawl in after him. Fortunately he didn't get too far in before he decided he hated it. But at this point....6 big kids (we're talking like over 7 years old) push past me and pile into the tunnel barreling past Jack. This really helps the situation. Then they decided they don't like the tunnel either (hard to believe.....it's in the 3 and under section ya tools) and barrel back out. Finally I'm able to get him out. More calming down. He's pretty clingy at this point and losing interest in playing at this place anymore and occasionally asking to go "bu-byes".

Then he's sitting in this fire truck sort of box thing that you can sit in and read books. It's near the window and all along the windows are a carpeted shelf. The truck had 2 seats in it and Jack kept climbing up on the seat to sit on the edge of the truck with his feet on the seat. I was about to make him sit down on the seat and he fell :/ Wedged himself in half .....sandwich syle....in between the truck and the carpeted shelf thing ...... getting carpet burn on the back of his neck. Good grief. So then we decided to pack it up and go out to the snack area where there's tables and have some carrots and crackers. Poor kid. Not exactly the day we had planned.

I was a bit annoyed with how many big kids kept coming into the 3 and under area. Jack was in the ball pit for a bit and was kind of ok with it. I was about to take a pic and realized my battery was dead. I went over to my purse and swapped it with a charged battery and by the time I get back a couple of big kids had piled into the ball pit and Jack was not happy. He had no interest in going back in there after that. Even when it was just Brooke in there. I did get one pic of him in this Little Tikes tree house thing that was pretty cool:

That's the only picture I got! Hard to believe, I know.

I have Rosemary today and then Lizzie and Charlotte this afternoon. Looks like we're gonna be stuck inside today. I might let Jack and Rosemary watch Jack's Curious George movie.

I vacuumed the living room and swept and mopped last night after dinner so all I have to do today is laundry.....and maybe wipe down the bathroom. We'll see how I feel. I feel kind of sore. I did some cutting for my mom yesterday morning for about 2 hours. My knee has been kind of hurting ever since. It better snap out of it before the 7.5K tomorrow!

We watched Survivor last night. Holy blindsides!! We also watched Grey's Anatomy. Why is George living with Meredith's sister????
We also watched The Real Housewives of NYC reunion. I hate Ramona. Ugh. She acts like a child. And she's dilusional. And Alex and Simon.......good grief.....they're dilusional too. Yea right they were misrepresented! They're totally all about social climbing! Weirdos. Why was he even on there???? He's not a housewife!

Edit:  We do have some of those safety door knob cover child-proof things. I just wasn't thinking we'd need to pull them out yet :P

I was pretty damn productive yesterday morning.

*went through and re-organized Jack's toys. Went through all the toys I got from my uncle the other day. Added some new-to-us toys and took out some "baby" toys. Thank you tat2whttrsh !! Jack LOVES his animal choo choo :o)
*vacuumed the upstairs and stairs
*moved the changing table and glider into our bedroom from Jack's room
*empited the dresser in our room and moved everything into the hallway cupboards so we could move the dresser to the basement
*dusted the living room
*swept and mopped the kitchen floor
*cleaned the bathroom
*set up a toddler mattress on the floor in Jack's room and folded up the 10 comforters he had been sleeping on
*organized the spare room again....made room for Jack's summer clothes to be down on the main floor
*bathed Jack and showered myself

Then in the afternoon I had Lizzie and Charlotte. We played outside for like 3 hours. It was really nice out. We played in the backyard for a while and then moved to the driveway to play with chalk. Jack was covered in chalk. It was pretty cute. Lizzie and Daisy had lots of fun chasing bubbles. Jack wasn't all that interested. Rob was planning on coming over after work to help Jared move the dryer in that we got the night before. Barb and Brooke came over at about 4:30 since we all decided to have dinner together. They brought Jack a new Curious George coloring book and little stuffed Curious George. Then the kids sat and colored outside at Jack's little picnic table for a bit.

Jared and Rob had a heckuva time getting the dryer through the doorway to the basement. They managed to make it work though after some unscrewing and some sawing! Now I get to do buttloads of laundry today! This morning it occured to us that there's still a load in the old dryer that's now out in the garage. Oops :/

Jack successfully napped on his "big boy" bed yesterday afternoon but bedtime was a whole different story. I kind of saw that coming though. I laid on the floor next to him and read him books and he held my thumb and fell asleep. But then he woke up like 3 times and I'm assuming it's because he scooched off of the mattress. So, I was getting sick of going in there and ended up just setting some of the bedding back up and sleeping on the floor next to his mattress until about 6am. Then I went to the bathroom and went back to bed in my bed until about 7. I went in to wake him and he was on the bedding I had used and not on his mattress :/ Plus, throughout the night....while I was in there....he scooched forward and towards me a few times. He's such a damn scoocher! He needs a headboard to run into. I'm going to try to get him to nap in the Dora toddler bed this afternoon that's already set up in his room. He has made it clear that he does not wish to sleep in that bed but it's been a while since we've tried. If this is unsuccessful....we'll swap the toddler mattress and the Dora bed.....they're on either sides of the room. He's used to scooching forward and to the south.....the Dora bed is in a little nook that has walls on each of the sides that he's used to scooching towards ....so maybe they would help him to stay on the mattress. We'll see.

Jack has been asking to snuggle lately. It's the cutest thing in the world! He says "nuggles?".

We had planned to go to Como Zoo tomorrow with Barb and Brooke in the afternoon but it's supposed to rain :(

There's still time to donate for the 7.5K walk Daisy and I are doing on Saturday! :o)

 Jack just saw the pic of himself on our desktop and said "oh, cute boy!". 
He's saying "thank you" ALL THE TIME now. Even when he takes something. 
I was in the bathroom this morning and he said "what doin Kiki?" 
Yesterday Rosie strolled into the room and he said "Oh hi Rosie, how's it goin?" He's back to saying "oh hi, how's it goin?" all the time again.
He now even says "bless you" when he sneezes.

We just finished having mango/banana Julius'. The kids (Brooke and Jack) LOVE when I run the blender. They stand in the kitchen and dance and squeal and say "do it again!" or as Jack says "dugan!". 

I'm tired a lot lately. I put Jack to bed last night and then went to bed myself and it was only like 9 o'clock. He woke up at 12:30 and went back to sleep quickly but woke up again at 2:30 and it took an hour for him to fall back to sleep. A couple of times I thought he was out and took my thumb away and he instantly sat up and cried. Oy. 

I've been slacking on my extra chores list. I've been getting all my other cleaning and chores done but nothing extra which is kind of frustrating. I don't know if it's pregnancy or just that fact that I'm doing daycare now but I feel like the house needs to be cleaned every other day. Especially the floor. That's mostly because of Daisy and her damn dirty feet though. We wipe her feet when she comes in from being outside but she still manages to get the floor dirty. Like when she drinks water out of her dish and then drips droplets all over the floor from her yap and then steps in them and the dried dirt on her feet turns to mud. I have to sit down now to wipe her feet. Crouching just aint for me these days. 

I did make a double batch of chocolate chip/butterscotch chip cookies yesterday thanks to my mom bringing me some flour :o) 

Jared gets to stop at Target tonight to pick up the wipes I left there this weekend :/ Doncha love paying for stuff and then leaving without it? He also gets to go to Cub because I didn't do a full trip this weekend. I spaced out a few things and also Jack was READY to come home and nap so I kind of cut the trip short. 

I want to nap today when Jack and Brooke are napping but I doubt that will happen. Brooke only naps for about an hour and it takes me a while to get in the zone to nap. I have Lizzie and Charlotte now for the rest of the week in the afternoons.  

We were going to get Jared's sister's wiener dogs this weekend but now we're not :( They decided to make other arrangements for them. It's probably for the best. They probably would have been tormented by the kids on Friday and with my luck it would be a rainy day and then I'd have 12 muddy paws to wipe over and over! That and I don't know what the barking situation would be like during naps. Still would have been fun to have them though. Maybe next time. 

I was just thinking yesterday how Jack hasn't been sick since I quit the Y. Then today he woke up with a runny  nose. For the love of mike. 

He keeps climbing into the chair and then scooching off of it facing forward (normally he would get out of a chair facing backwards) and landing on his feet and saying "that's funny!" but just now he did it and fell and landed on his head and said "whoa!". 

He was walking around this morning saying "love you, love you, love you!".

 

Happy 3rd Anniversary to Jared and I!!! 2 kids in 3 years.....yea, we're on the fast track :o)
The kids had fun playing out in the driveway yesterday with chalk. Lizzie brought over her stuffed kitty that's been named Kiki :P
Jack and Rosemary have been napping for about an hour. Brooke should be here at 1:30. We might play outside again today with chalk. I can't wait for the backyard to dry up! They're going to have fun with Jack's little sandbox, picnic table, slide/fort, slide/swing, tool bench, lawn mower and grill! Not to mention his pools when it gets really warm.
Jack's been having fun with Rosemary today. He keeps calling her Lizzie though :P

First time with chalk!

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Jack has started saying yes instead of yea. It's funny.

Tomorrow is our 3 year anniversary! Jared's picking up Olive Garden and we're going to watch American Gangster. We party like rock stars! We also got The Assassination of Jesse James from Netflix so we'll prolly watch that this weekend some time. I read yesterday that Jay-Z and Beyonce are possibly getting married tomorrow. Great. Now we gotta share our anniversary with them :P

Our photos are still all jacked up :( I noticed last night that we have some old photos now that I know for a fact I deleted. WTF?? I did a system restore but I only went back a week and I know the pics weren't messed up like this 2 days ago so where'd all these old pics come from? Jared better figure it out this weekend :P

Jack has taken a liking to sitting in the chasie like a total goofball :

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I have Brooke today at 1:30, Lizzie at 2:15, and Charlotte at 2:30. It's nice out. Maybe we'll play outside with chalk.

Jack is annoying the crap out of Daisy. Poor dog. I sent her upstairs for a bit to get away from him but now she's back down here and he's throwing all his balls at her.

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Jack played in the snow a little while I shoveled part of the driveway. I was too wore out to do the whole thing. I can't belive how much we got :/
Now we're all having banana mango julius'. They're pretty damn good! 

Jack says "bless you" now whenever someone sneezes. He also attempted to say Rosemary today for the first time. It came out Romay. He has been calling Charlotte "Lizzie" ever since they started coming over here but yesterday he was attempting to say Charlotte. It came out something like "Chawa". It's pretty cute. 

I finished the Taken series last night. It was pretty good but I'm looking foward to getting more movies from Netflix now. We're hoping to get American Ganster or 3:10 to Yuma for Friday. There's a wait on both so we may not get them this week unless we go to Blockbuster and rent them. We'll see.

I have Brooke, Lizzie and Charlotte today. Yesterday Lizzie and Charlotte had fun playing with the barbies. We played a few games of crazy 8's too. I got a 2-pack of card games at the dollar store and 1 of them was supposed to be a match game but I got 2 crazy 8's. I guess they could be used as a match game but still.....I was kinda bummed since Jack can't really participate in crazy 8's. I also got some flash cards for him that we played with a bit yesterday. There's 3 sets. 1 for colors, 1 for shapes, and 1 for numbers. He already knows his colors and shapes but it's good to practice and hopefully these will help him learn his numbers. We'll see. No big rush on that. Another thing I got at the dollar store is this pre-k Barney book. I hate Barney but Jack and that book are inseperable :/ He wanted it first thing this morning and was tearin the house up looking for it. 

Jack's favorite thing to do is mess with Daisy. Especially when all she wants to do is nap. So she just keeps getting up and moving to a new spot to lay down and then he follows her.

 Friday we had a nice walk up to Cup N Cone. Jack enjoyed riding in the wagon with Lizzie. My mom came with us too. Charlotte ended up wanting to pull the wagon most of the way so that was fine by me :P 

Yesterday we ran a few errands. Went to Home Depot to get a new mailbox since my brother ran into ours this winter. It stood up throughout the winter but now that the snow is gone....well, I came home to it laying in the dirt the other day :/ Jared managed to jam it back in the dirt but it's pretty short and looks ridiculous. Then we finally got our butts to Petco to have our water tested so we can get some more fish and have them not just die off on us. Our water had something wrong and they gave us something to put in it to fix it. We're sposta bring some water in to get tested again in a week and then hopefully we can get more fish. After that we went to Walmart because that's the only place I've found socks that I like that fit my amazon feet. Then we had lunch at Red Robin and then went to Target for like and hour and a half long shopping extravaganza! We lolligagged (sp?) for quite a while but it was a Target we don't usually go to so we didn't know where everything was anyway. 

This morning we went to Cub and then this afternoon Jack and I went to Joann's to get some fun craft projects for the kids. I ended up getting a fun bead project. Then Jack and I went to the dollar store and I got some puzzles. I also got mine and Amy's old barbie's and clothes from my mom's and some embroidery thread for making bracelets. Jack's toys are fun for him and Brooke but I think Lizzie and Charlotte needed some more age appropriate toys. We got markers and colored pencils and some water color paints at Target so I think we're pretty well set now.  

We've been having malts pretty much daily. Today Cub had buy one get one cartons of strawberries. When we got home I figured I should make something with them because whenever Cub has buy one get ones....they're going to go bad in a day or 2. I got the idea to make strawberry julius' and they were GOOD!!!

Tomorrow I have Lizzie at 12:15 and Charlotte at 3:30. No Brooke until Tuesday.