The last few days have been rather eventful. So this morning I decided I wanted to clean house. When we got home from jazzercise I put Greyson down for a nap, showered, and then began the cleaning spree. I swept and mopped the floors, cleaned up the living room and vacuumed, cleaned the dining room, the kitchen and then the toy room. Before I was able to complete all of this, Coleson fell asleep on the couch so it made things that much easier. Then, as usual, the mess began. First Devan crumbled the bread from his sandwich all over the living room floor. So first I cleaned that up. Then I decided to restock the fridge with water. While I was trying to get water out of the pantry, Greyson snuck in and poured out a whole bag of bird seed and dragged it across the entry way. So I decided to dust buster the mess instead of sweep. For some reason the buster wouldn't suck anything up. So I took it apart over the trashcan, and somehow the filter part slipped out of my hand and I had a few messes worth of dirt and dust all over my kitchen floor. So I swept that up. Then I resorted to sweeping the bird seed. While I was sweeping the bird seed Greyson and Devan managed to sneak some treats out of the pantry and I had smashed Quaker Mini Delights (mini rice cakes)all over the hallway. It was mostly Greyson doing the smashing but it is no question where he learned that from. Cleaned that up, with Devan's help of course. Then while I was putting bottles of water in the fridge (finally) Greyson found another bag of rice cakes and poured them out. Cleaned those up. Took a deep breath. Then I notice Devan waving a sleeve of Ritz crackers in front of Coelson's face, "Haha, I have the whole bag of crackers." So that started a chase and guess where the crackers ended up? All over the floor in the dining room, in thousands and thousands of pieces. My cute children then proceed to clean them up with the broom and dustpan. But since there is carpet in the dining room (lame, I know) we had to bust out the vacuum, again. But they were so sweet to try and help. Anyway, that's my afternoon in a nutshell!
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
What's grosser than gross?
Today we were all sitting round the table having lunch together. Greyson finished first so we let him down to go and play. He was being oftly quiet. I figured he was in the toy room. When he doesn't have his older brothers in his face he is very good at finding something to play with and entertaining himself. Or he will wander from one room to the next and check everything out. So anyway, we are sitting and eating our lunch and Greyson walks up to the table with a sopping wet piece of toilet paper. What?? Where did you get that?? Turns out he had been in the upstairs bathroom (door left opened by another certain little boy) and he had been dipping toilet paper in and out of the toilet and sucking the water out. Disgusting! I soon realized the front of him was all wet as well as the floor leading into the hallway. What a way to ruin to an appetite!
Other than toilet dipping we haven't had much drama today. Its been pretty nice! But then again it's not even two o'clock. I love when the TV is turned off and my children play play play. Today is one of those days. Devan is lining all the shoes he can find in a row on the couch. Why? I have not a clue. Coleson is going back and forth from playing in the toy room to using the bathroom- I have never met a child with such a small bladder! And Greyson is downstairs "watching" out the window. It really is cute. Now if I could just figure out how to make this quiet moment last ALL day long... well I think I might get a little bored.
On Saturday night I figured I'd do my weekly cleaning of the toy room. It was immaculate. Sunday morning the boys took out one thing at a time, put it back, etc. It was great. This is what it looked like:
Then when I came upstairs from taking a shower this is what it looked like:
If you have little boys then you know they LOVE to dump things!
So that evening, rather than stressing about a messy house and after the weather cooled off a little bit, we made a cake. We picked this one out just for Trish!
Monday, April 14, 2008
Smokin' Hot
The only thing hotter than my new hair do lately has been the weather!! The nice thing about living in Southern Cali is that winter stops by for only a few short months and then even then it isn't that bad. We think we are freezing but come on now, I think we can handle days in the low 50's if other people are in the negatives! On Saturday we hit a whopping 93 degrees! Yes, unusual for April but then again, not so unusual. Yesterday was only 88 but still felt VERY warm and today it has finally cooled off and feels like a spring day. The temperatures will go back and forth like this until late July when we hit really high temps through sometime in October. At least that's how it's been since we moved here. As I have sat here and typed for a mere minute, Coleson has poured a cup of milk, poured it back into the milk carton, I think that is what I heard, and now is unraveling paper towels. Better go save my kitchen!
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Holy Hannah!
Yesterday I gave in and decided I had had it with my hair. When Greyson was about 6 months old it all the sudden started falling out like crazy. The things we suffer through for having children. Anyway, I got so sick of all the fly aways and my hair being at so many different lengths when I pulled it back. So I chopped it off. Nine inches baby! I love it! Devan doesn't like it because he loves to run his fingers through my hair when he lies down at night and now its just "too short." He woke up this morning and asked me if it had grown back yet. Sorry bud, not yet. I also threw in a pic of my new table since Bonnie asked for one and I never sent it. I just need to find a hutch now that matches.
A New Day
So I've been asked to update my blog. It truly has been a busy week. I am glad that tomorrow is Friday and maybe our running around will slow down and we'll enjoy the weekend. Our week started out on Monday. I think I posted something on that day. Monday was kind of crazy as we realized Greyson is cutting some of his bigger teeth. There is no sign of them yet but his gums are really swollen, he has the runny nose, awaking every 15 minutes from 8:30 until 11pm every night, and today I caught him gnawing on the stairs while he was climbing up. The stairs? Poor little guy! Tuesday was Devan's friend's birthday so we spent the day at Sea world. Its only about a 25 minute drive (mind you that is without traffic) and so we got season passes again this year. Plus its a park I can take the three of them to by myself for the day and still survive. So you will probably see lot of posts and pictures of Sea World in the future;Prepare yourselves. When we entered the park people were herding in one direction and we soon realized it was almost time for the Shamu Believe show. So we followed and that was our opener for the day. We haven't been since just before Christmas so the boys were excited and the Shamu show was the perfect thing to start with! For ths first time Devan went on the boat ride. I can't remember the name of it but nine people sit in a round raft and float down the river. Of course there are the spectators who "bomb" you with water as you float by and what I thought was mean- at the end there is a waterfall you go under and you have no choice but to get soaked. You don't see this part of the ride as a spectator. Devan didn't like that too much or he may have gone again. We also saw the sea lions (boring for mom since Monterey was always covered with them), the flamingoes, and much more. Between my friend and I we had five boys to keep up with. So I actually only got the camer pulled out once.
Reflecting on the last two days, just a lot of fussy Greyson and running around here and there and trying to get caught up on laundry. It's never ending. I have realized lately how lazy I have become; there are more paper plates in my garbage can than dishes in my dishwasher.
Today was a fun day but we did have a sad moment. Our friends found out about two weeks ago that they are moving back to Utah and they are moving tomorrow!!! Wow, but I guess that is life in the military! We have enjoyed so much knowing them and have had many many fun play dates! Greyson and their youngest boy were born just two days apart. So we enjoyed those last few fun months of pregnancy together too. We will miss them dearly! 
We could not get Coleson away from this part of the park. We must have spent over a half hour here. 
Thank goodness mom brought an extra change of clothes!
Devan was so cute, he helped Greyson touch the water.
Greyson enjoyed digging in the dirt more than fishing for starfish
Monday, April 7, 2008
How do you pass?
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Tag... I'm IT
A - Attached or single: Attached
B - Best friend(s): I have so many!
C - Cake or pie: Grammies pumpkin pie, most definitely!!!
D - Day of choice: The days that are sunny
E - Essential item: Toothbrush and chapstick. I must be a Wallace
F - Favorite color: yellow
G - Gummy bears or worms: Niether
H - Hometown: Prunedale, CA
I - Indulgence(s): Resees Peanutbutter Cups (more like a weakness)
J - January or July: July, love the summer!
K - Kids: 3 busy boys
L - Life is incomplete without: Me
M - Marriage date: March 2
N - Number of siblings: 6, five brothers 1 sister
O - Oranges or apples: Oranges but must be seedless
P - Phobias or fears: Large bodies of water and repltiles
Q - Quotes: "Devan!!! Coleson!!!!" I hear myself say this repeatedly
R - Reason to smile: There are so many reasons!
S - Season of choice: Summer and Fall
T - Tag three friends: I tag Erica, Lindsday, Aunt Carolyn
U - Unknown fact about me: I have not yet been able to find the "perfect bra" and I can't spell
V - Very favorite store: GAP, online of course. HAve to agree with Trish- I really despise shopping. I think I keep some online stores in business
W - Worst habit: I can spit pretty good
X - X-ray or ultrasound: Definitely ultrasound. I love to see those little babies!
Y - Your favorite food: Homemade
Z - Zodiac sign: Taurus
