Wine's Park

I knew the weather was supposed to be nice today, so we headed over to Wine's Park to play and have a picnic. And the weather man was right. The weather was fantastic, minus a breeze, but we pretty much always have that. We invited Triana and her boys along for the ride.

This is the first time that K has been on a 'big' swing. He did a fantastic job holding on, and was even holding on well enough for me to push him a bit.

Gavin taking care of his little brother

Kaiden and Anders were playing some little game together where they were swinging and kicking their legs at the same time. I didn't understand the appeal, but they both thought it was hilarious.

Luca

All of these entries are family oriented.  This man is considered family.  He's been one of my dearest friends since 1998, has been a great friend to Zander since 2005, and was there at the hospital for each of my children's births.  He's family.  And just all around awesome.

Z and E Memories -1

Because some of these things need to be written down before we forget...

Zander and I had been dating for a few months, things were going great. We were both in school and both working, and spending as much time together as possible. One afternoon I had some free time and was happily spending it on my own at my house doing I don't remember what. I got a call from work that they needed me to come in immediately. The regional manager was there and she was really upset about how much processing we had to do in our back room, and they needed me to come take care of it. Now. I was really irritated, but I got dressed and headed to work. 15 minutes after they call I walk into work, mad, but ready to clear out the back room as quickly as possible. Turns out the regional manager had already left and my manager said that I could go home. They just needed the regional to think that they were going to take care of it. They didn't think I'd be there that fast. By this point I'm full on mad.

I start driving home, and on my way call Zander to tell him how stupid the last 30 minutes of my life was. I really needed to just vent, and be slightly irrationally angry, but he was being weird on the phone and wasn't really talking or acting like he was listening. Like he was distracted, which just made me more mad. So I got off the phone with him, cranked up my music, and finished driving home. I storm in the front door and stop dead in my track. There are red rose petals strewn all over the floor up the stairs to my bedroom. In shock and wonder I slowly go up the stairs, following the rose petal trail to my bedroom, and find two dozen beautiful red roses sitting on my desk with a card from Zander telling me how much he loved me. It was amazing. I called him immediately to figure out how he had managed this, since I hadn't told him I had to run to work. He was already outside my house waiting for my call. Turns out he had orchestrated the whole thing. He bribed my co-workers with chocolate bars to get them to call me and make me come in, so that he could have a few minutes to set everything up.

Snowy Owl

Noah officially has his first imaginary friend. He's been around for about a week now. His name is Snowy Owl. He's a Snowy Owl. And he eats chocolate ice cream for dinner, and gets his hair cut at Wal-Mart.  He flies around our house fairly often, and almost always follows us when we're driving somewhere in the car.  

At one point I hadn't heard about snowy owl for a while so I asked Noah where he was.  I was told "He died.  He ran into that fence and got blood in his mouth, so I put him in this tree.  This is where I keep all my dead animals.  He'll be alive again tomorrow".

Sometimes Snowy Owl has other friends that fly around with us, and sometimes he brings a giant with him as well.

January and February Boy-isms

Thank you facebook for helping me document these hilarious little moments.

2-24
E - Noah, get your finger out of your nose please
N - *hides behind couch to pick his nose in private*

2-22
K - Got a phone. NANA!!! PAPA!!! Yoooooohooooo

2-18
Found K drinking water from the toilet

2-14
E - Noah you can't lick the knife and then put it in the jam. That's like spitting in the jam.
N - Yup! *sticks knife in jam*

2-12
K - *Tries to put a blueberry in Noah's mouth*
N - Kaiden you don't try to feed me. EVER
E - Noah he's just trying to share his blueberries with you
N - But mom, babies can't feed Noah's.

2-9
Tonight we discovered that K really likes pakoras, and naan, and chicken coconut kurma. He was rather upset that I wouldn't let him have any lassi

2-8
In the bathroom at Hobby Lobby Noah lets out a huge fart
N - Mommy did you hear my fart?
E - That was you?
N - YUP!
Lady in the other stall - Good job buddy!!!

2-4
Evidently K REALLY likes Japanese cuisine. He had about 8 gyoza, a whole bowl of edamame, and most of Z's bowl of miso soup.

2-3
N - Mommy you will go to Wal-mart and get more mac n cheese and I'll stay here and watch lots of shows and put Kaiden back to bed.
E - I can't leave you here all alone, that's not safe.
N - The police man's will come and get me?
E - Yup, and they won't let you live with me anymore. They'll think I'm a bad mommy
N - Oh, but I'll tell them you're a good mommy.

1-31
Noah wanted a veggie tray for lunch today, I was more than happy to oblige him with that request.

1-28
Based on the warm spot behind his door, and the carpet imprint on his face, I'm guessing K slept on the floor last night.

1-25
The boys are upset with me for putting the cashews away

1-23
N - Mommy, let's go clean the toilets!
E - uh....ok.

1-22
K just tried to drive his car down the stairs. When he crashed into the landing I think he decided it was a bad idea.

1-16
Took the boys to a real swimming pool for the first time today. Noah LOVED it. K screamed the whole time.

1-12
K just tried to flush about 1/2 a roll of toilet paper, and overflowed the toilet. When I finished cleaning that up, I found him holding a can of red bull and just about had a heart attack at the thought of him drinking that much caffeine.

1-11
Got out of the shower and found both boys playing in the pack n play with about 8 pillows. I have NO idea how they managed to get K in there, but they sure did!

1-10
Got K's nice, clean, bodily fluid free doggy out of the dryer and handed it to him. He promptly barfed all over it. Doggy is in the washer for the second time today.

1-4
Cleaning random child goo off the walls
E - Noah do you know what's on the wall?
N - um.....it's baby ducks.

1-2
Noah comes in holding a breast pump that he found in the closet
N - Mommy how do I make this honk?

Jeans and Self-Esteem

I finally bit the bullet last week and went and bought some new jeans. All of my other jeans didn't fit. I mean REALLY didn't fit. They were old, purchased 20 pounds ago, plus really stretched out, and were just bad. But I didn't want to suck up and deal with the serious blow to the self esteem that is required to buy jeans. Girls, you know exactly what I'm talking about. After 3 stores, roughly 18 pairs of jeans, and over an hour, I finally came home with 3 pairs of jeans that I now LOVE. But really the point of this whole post is to promote a blog article that I just read. Seriously, this blog post needs to be read by EVERY WOMAN. And if you think you're too old for it to apply to you, she has a version for 'older' women as well. Enjoy.

MOM JEANS AND THE DREADED LONG BUTT

Funny Stuff Lately - via Facebook Statuses

12-13
N - Daddy, let's pull your finger and see what happens!!!

12-9
While driving home
N - Mommy my nose hurts
E - Why does your nose hurt?
N - Because there's a straw in it!
E - If you take the straw out your nose won't hurt anymore
...Moments later...
N - My nose still hurts
E - Did you take the straw out of it?
N - Yeah, but my finger is in it!

12-8
Jingle bells inside of a balloon make for a happy K.

12-6
Just found K standing on the tv stand, swiveling the tv back and forth

12-4
E - Do you want some medecine to make your cough go away?
N - No, I'll keep it

12-2
Snuggling in bed with Noah before he went to sleep...
N - Mommy, are you happy?
E - Yes, I'm very happy
N - *Hugs my arm to him* Let's be friends
E - We'll be friends forever ok?
N - Forever ever ever ever?
E - Yup.

12-1
N - I have a map to Nana Jean's house!
E - How do we get there?
N - Take the freeway, then park, then ring the doorbell and go in and say HI!

11-22
K is upset with me since I wouldn't let him play on the computer. So he's standing at his open window, looking out forlornly and crying 'want daddy'. Yes, I laughed at him for it.

11-18
K takes his sock off, tries to put it back on, gets frustrated, hands me the sock, I put it back on. Repeat for 30 minutes.

11-15
N - Sometimes when Walmart doesn't have Buzz Lightyear, they don't have him. And sometimes when they do, they do!

11-8
The boys were in the bath tub, Z and I were laying on our bed talking...
N - Mommy, Daddy! Kaiden got out of the bath tub!
Moments later we see K's naked, wet little bod come trotting into the bedroom. He took one look at us, laughed, and ran the other way.