The shoes, the fish and the car

Well we have had a couple of interesting days here. I ran to the store late the other night, (keep in mind that generally my brain shuts down about 9:00 pm and does not boot up until 10 the next morning). Anyways I grabbed my purse and shoes and ran out the door, (since sometimes TK wakes up at 9:30 I was trying to get back asap), moved the work truck, got into my car and drove to the store. On the way into the store I realized that my shoes felt kinda different so I looked down and sure enough I had on one of my brown sandals and one of Mark's black sandals. Bad enough they didn't even match, but they weren't even both mine!!

Mark called me yesterday and asked me what I thought about getting some fish... his work buddy is moving away and wanted to get rid of his, rather than move them. Well finally I said ok we could try it. So later that evening we went over to his house to pick up these fish ~ which came with more fish stuff than you can imagine! Well we got everything out there and then Mark and his buddy decided to move the tank (they had taken a couple of gallons out already... thankfully!!) Oh, and this is only a 10 gallon tank. So they get it up the stairs and out the door and set it in the back of our NEW car to scoot it into the trunk and suddenly the waterfall starts!! Next thing you know there are fish just flopping on the driveway... which freaked AJ out and just kept saying, "put it back together... put the fish back in their house." So there was fishy tank water all over the car not to mention glass... no one is quite sure what happened, even though everyone was watching. I told Mark, "Well this is why we don't own our cars we just lease them." Hopefully the rain will stop soon so I can get out there and try to get rid of some of that fish smell!! Well this guy's house was totally packed up, by movers, so he couldn't get to anything. He did have a broom in the garage we used to sweep up the stones and glass. So he got the gallons of water they had taken out earier and one of the fish fit in no problem, well the other big fish wasn't such a good fit! After finding some sort of cutting device and cutting the bottle opening he finally fit in. (He is currently missing a few scales on his back!!) Thankfully our neighbors had a tank that they weren't using that we got to put them in and I'm proud to say they are doing quite well I believe!

We asked AJ what he wanted to call them last night... I wasn't sure what kind of answer to except. He said, "Well that one is kind of funny and that one is kind of sticky." Mark asked him later on and he changed which one was Funny and which one was Sticky, but the names were the same. Well we thought by morning it would change, but he still calls them Funny and Sticky. I have no idea where these names came from.

PS ~ As an update on the imaginary friends, Bob has not reappeared, but the Baby Alien still shows up and the last three days "MMMM" has been around. MMMM actually just ate lunch and read books with us before nap time.

couple more stories

I realize most of my stories tend to be about AJ, but right now he is the one with the crazy imagination and talking. So I'm sure once TK gets there I'll have just as many about her. Here are a couple I forgot to put in the blog last night (too tired I guess). A good friend of mine stopped be a few days ago and mentioned to AJ that a new baby eagle would be coming to the zoo in town. Well the rest of the night he was asking when we were going to see it and if he could play with it. When was it going to be here and why did it have to hatch? The night she stopped by was Friday, which is the night he goes to Fun Run, needless to say he wasn't very impressed with Fun Run that night. I think he thought we were taking him to see the baby eagle and instead he got to run around the track (actually I carried him because we were so late and he didn't want to walk.) I think the ice cream afterwards though at least made it a little worth while! That was Friday today is Tuesday and still I have already been asked twice today if the baby eagle is here and can he take the bunny to see the baby eagle.

My other story was a couple of days ago I was putting some stuff away in the kids' closet, which is where I store things that they outgrow. Well AJ found a pair of Scooby Doo slippers in there and thought they were the greatest. Mind you he had no interest in wearing them this last winter when they fit him. Anyways he wore them all day and then wanted to wear them to bed, so I thought sure, his feet will eventually start baking and then he'll take them off. Well 4:00AM I hear, "MOM... I need a vitamin." I thought I was dreaming. Well I heard it a couple more times and I go to see what AJ is yelling about and realize he isn't in his room, but coming back from the kitchen. So there he is standing there asking for a vitamin with these huge Scooby slippers on... I just thought it looked so funny. So I got him a vitamin and we went back to bed!!

The only note I have about TK is we lovingly refer to her as Gene Simmons these days, because she constantly sticks her tongue out and it just about reaches her chin!!!

Make room

Well I guess we will be having many "guests" in the house as AJ creates more friends. Today "bob" wasn't around, but at breakfast he asked me if I would like to say good morning to the "baby alien". (My kid really isn't posessed, he recently watched Chicken Little, so that's where the baby alien came from ~ I assume.) Then he told me he had to let baby alien in the window and he shared his breakfast and then they went to play. Baby alien actually made several appearances today so my guess he must be more fun to be around than bob. AJ has also decided TK's stuffed rabbit is his. It is currently in bed with him, after we all read stories that the rabbit wanted to read. I think this is all clearly a sign that I need to go back to work and get that kid back in daycare so he can have some real friends. Actually I just really want to go back to work, not full time but part time would be divine. So we will see...... well I'm off to see if I can get at least a couple of hours of sleep before TK wakes up ~ she has been crying for about 3 days now (normally she never ever cries) so that would be great if that would end now(-:

The new addition

Well today AJ told me he had a friend named "Bob". Mark thought he had said something about him the other day, but we weren't sure since we had never heard of him before. I had not previously done any research on imaginary friends so I immeditely looked it up on line and seems like its ok and rather normal. Well apparently he likes this new idea, because as we were running errands he asked if Boots the Monkey (this character is from Dora) could ride with us. So we'll see how long this lasts! On a different note... my cooking skills are still needing help (alot of help!) I messed up box brownies tonight! After I got done making them up and I was cleaning up I found the chocolate sauce pack that I was supposed to mix in. Oh well I don't think that will stop us from eating them.

the kids

Here's a story I forgot about yesterday. My mil gave me a set of pjs for christmas, that included one of those things you put over your eyes to give you peaceful sleep. Needless to say I don't get to use it much, but AJ thinks it's great. He normally puts it on his eyes and says, "I'm going to sleep now." Well yesterday he pulled it over his head down by his shoulders and said, "Look mom, I got my boobs on." I thought that's nice, real nice.

On a different note, TK slept all night in her crib... this is the first time in her life this has happened so quite a milestone as far as I'm concerned. Plus she only woke up 2 times. Normally she is somewhere under 4 times.... I realize she will be 10 months soon, but this is what she does. Long ago I decided I must be a bad parent when it comes to sleep because AJ didn't sleep through the night until he was 18 months old and he didn't sleep in his own bed until he was 14 months old and even then he didn't stay there all night. Oh well soon enough I should be able to sleep again... and I suspect a completely different person will emerge once I can do that!!

Time to make milkshakes and then I'm outta here for mno!!!

The quiet moments

For now all 3 kids are sleeping. (Lucy is here today.) Normally I'm sleeping during this time, but since I went to bed at 8:30 last night and TK only got up 3 times I'm not that tired right now and there no sense in cleaning since in about 30 or so minutes at least one of these kids will be up again dumping all the toys out. So I thought perfect time to update everything (and report our missing blockbuster movie.) I love this time of day when the house is so quiet and peacefully... I'm just praying the dryer doesn't go off and prematurely end nap time... I don't know why I turn that thing on before they lay down. JM officially starts his new position today! Well naptime just ended, so will this post before I get "help" typing it!

make-up artist

So AJ is doing a wonderful job listening lately (I say this sarcastically), I understand this is just a developmental phase, so I'm trying to take it all in stride. So as I was getting out of the shower this morning I see AJ disappear around the door with my makeup bag and of course he had no intention of bringing it back. So I go as fast as I can out the door to catch him, but he is fast! By time I got to him both he and TK had big black smudges on their eyes and TK had a huge gob of foundation on her face. Lovely!! So after I repirmanded him he looked at me and said, "mom, you be happy." I guess it's his way of saying lighten up lady! Looking back on the situation I should have taken some pics before I cleaned them up. Oh well, I have a feeling it will happen again.

oh my ~ July 11, 2007

This is my first blog.... I know a little behind the times, but eventually I get it (right?!?!). Today was a Lucy day so we just hung around the house and tried not to crazy!! It's fun though to watch all the kids playing together... I say that like 3 is a lot of kids, but to me sometimes it is! Well this is short one for the first one, but I hope to do this on a regular basis.