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One of my favorite new words this year is "man-sick". If you don't know what it means, I will use it in a sentence... I can't go out with you this weekend because everyone in my house is man-sick. Does that give you any idea? Wyatt is the only one in my house that doesn't seem to get man-sick (besides me of course)! I am not sure if this is a learned trait or genetics because clearly not all men are afflicted. The twins could get it from their Dad or even from their Grandpa (so my Mom says), so I don't know which side to blame! But seriously, what would happen if I had 3 girls? Would "man-sick" skip a generation? Wyatt and I were just wondering....because the drama is starting to get to us!!!
Why does it always seem like the weekends just fly by? John and I watched a movie tonight called "The Ultimate Gift". It was an amazing, life-changing movie. I recommend it if anyone is looking for a great movie that is really inspiring and family friendly too!
Some of my favorite moments from this week:
1. Sammy has learned to walk pushing a walker, so all three boys chase each other around the house pushing walkers (since we have three of them). Wyatt laps the twins about 3 times to their 1, but they all laugh like crazy. I need to get this on video!
2. Yesterday Sammy was the last one out of the bathtub and when I went to get him he leaned up against the shower wall, got perfectly still, and closed his eyes so that I wouldn't see him! He was hiding in the bathtub! Too funny!
3. When I put Wyatt in his crib for his nap today he said"No Jumping, that's the rules!"! Neither John or I have ever said that to him either! It didn't stop him from jumping though!
4. We have a video that I made for the kids that is a collection of pictures of them with some of their favorite songs in the background. It is about 15 minutes long and the kids watch it almost every day. One of their favorite songs on there is Laurie Berkner "I'm Gonna Get You" and it ends with "I Got You"! All of the boys yell "I got you" every time the song ends. It is really cute, but this week I noticed that Sammy says "I got you" every time a song ends, even if it is not that song. So, after Wheels of the Bus he yells "I got you" or the Itsy Bitsy Spider "I got you"! It is his version of "The End" for a song!
This may come as a big surprise to many readers, but the kids are sick AGAIN!!!!!!! Wyatt stopped his antibiotic yesterday for strep throat and today the twins came down with a horrible cough, runny nose, and fever! Yipee!!!! We will be winning the award for "Most Illness in a Single Month" for the months of February and March!!!!! Don't even think about trying to beat us out of winning April too! We are experts at picking up germs and diseases without even leaving our own house. At least this time the kids were generous enough to pass it on to John and I as well. So we will all be sick together this weekend which will be a great family bonding experience! Visitors welcome!!!
I took the boys shoe shopping today. Jonah and Sammy needed real shoes with rubber soles that they can wear outside if they ever quit crawling. Jonah walks about 40% of the time and crawls about 60% of the time and Sammy crawls 99.9% of the time and pulls himself up on furniture and cruises along .1% of the time. So I spend a total of $35 for shoes that will be used 40.1% of the time. Of course $35 also covered the 20 minutes of time that the salesperson at Stride Rite needed to measure everyone's feet (because feet measuring is really scary requiring tears and a loss of lower body function rendering it impossible to stand on a piece of metal for 5 seconds) and the 20 minutes that she probably spent after we left the store picking up shoe boxes and finding matching pairs to put back inside. (For the record...I tried to put all of the shoes and boxes back before I left, but they were coming off the shelves faster than I could put them back so we opted to cut our loses and leave!) Here is the amazing part! Jonah's shoe size is 3 1/2 W!!!!!! I seriously think that his feet were that small when he was born. Tomorrow I am going to find his hospital footprint and see how he measures up. The saleslady tried to talk me into buying a half size bigger shoe for Jonah than he really needed so that he had room to grow! As if! I guess that he might just be a little guy! Sammy measured 4 1/2 W, so Jonah can hopefully get Sammy's hand-me-down shoes and we will only have to be buying one pair of shoes every 15 months...because that's how long it will be before they forget what we look like and we can go back!
I headed out with all of the kids, the triple wagon, and the dog today in pouring rain to take everyone for a walk at a park that was 15 minutes away. It was a risky move to say the least, but you would have had to walk a mile in my shoes today to understand why this risk was worth taking. Wyatt did not nap AT ALL today and Jonah slept for a total of about 40 minutes all day. Even with naps these two boys are about as intense as they come, but factor in tired and we are talking sheer insanity. Put them in a room with a terror suspect who is withholding information and Wyatt and Jonah could get them talking within 5 minutes or less. Is there a word for whining x eleventy billion? It was that bad! The rain on the windshield was load enough that I could pretend that I couldn't hear Wyatt yelling..."Turn on Wheels...Turn on Wheels.....Wyatt's water......Wyatt's water.....Turn on Wheels......Turn on Wheels...Turn on Wheels.....Wyatt's water......Wyatt's water.....Turn on Wheels......No Jonahhhhhh.........No Jonahhhhhhhh........Turn on Wheels...Turn on Wheels.....Wyatt's water......Wyatt's water.....Turn on Wheels......" But the rain stopped as soon as I got to the park and we all went on a LONG walk. The boys seemed to forget their plan to whine incessantly until I lost my marbles and we enjoyed the walk in spite of the 40+ mile per hour gusts! We got home just as John was pulling in the garage from work! We made it through another no-nap day! Mission accomplished!
Samuel and Jonah share a bedroom. Their cribs are on the same wall end to end and Sammy's crib is the closest to the window. This has never been a problem until a few months ago when John opened the shade on the window next to Sammy's bed while Sammy was watching. Since then Sammy screws with the shade EVERY.SINGLE.TIME that he is in his crib. Last week he ripped half of the shade off at the bottom. Yesterday I put all of the kids to bed for the night and thought that I could hear someone crying. When I listened harder, I realized that the kids across the street were outside playing basketball talking and laughing. I went outside with my camera and managed to shoot these pictures!
Last Sunday was Easter. Unfortunately we were not really in the "hoppiest" of moods! Wyatt was sick and I never even got him out of his jammies all day. We didn't give him his Easter basket either because he wouldn't have cared. I had even bought matching shirts for the boys and had a great picture in mind to take, but Wyatt was way too sick to pose for that. So, yesterday John and I dressed the kids in their Easter best and posed them for their Easter picture. I think that it was worth the wait!
Wyatt: (Holding up a plastic blue Easter egg) "This blue"
Me: "Yes, it's blue good job"
Wyatt: (holding a yellow egg) "This lellow"
Me: "That's right...yellow!"
Wyatt (holding up a pink egg) "This red"
Me: thinking red was close enough "Yes that's red"
Wyatt: "No it's PINK!"
Apparently I loose the egg color contest to a two year old! Who knew?
I am posting a picture that my friend Carrie sent today of our kids at Krispy Creme on Valentine's Day. We went to celebrate with heart shaped donuts and ended up accidentally dressing our kids in matching outfits.
If you want to get special treatment at your doctor's office, here's a little tip for you....bring 3 kids under the age of 2 and 1/2 that are all ready for a nap with you. I have a feeling that my doctor will be regretting the decision to let us wait for 20 minutes before calling me back after checking out the cheerios explosion that erupted over half of the waiting room. Although I scrambled to clean up the mess (mostly for effect) I was kind of secretly happy that the tornadoes were in full force...years of waiting at the doctor's office and wanting to teach them a lesson cured in 20 minutes! It was beautiful...the looks on the nurses faces...total shock! The fellow patients pretended to be surprised, but I knew that they were cheering on the inside! That's right boys...teach them to make us all wait!! Bring it on! After we got called back, my doctor gave me an ENTIRE sample prescription of my antibiotic so that I didn't have to go to the pharmacy! It was amazing! Maybe she is married to the pharmacist and was worried about the mess that would surely ensure if we had to wait for the prescription to be filled....I like to think that she felt sorry for a sick Mom with three rambunctious little boys. Either way, I am on the path to recovery! Yipee!!!! Does Sammy need a haircut in this picture or what?
I think that I have strep throat now! I am going to make an appointment first thing in the morning and see if I can get in to see my doctor before I am totally useless. I will update tomorrow! Something is wrong with blogger and I can't post a picture right now, so I will try tomorrow!
I am running out of ways to entertain the kids! We didn't go anywhere today.... and we have no plans to venture out tomorrow either, so the boredom levels are very high. I spent about 10 minutes teaching Wyatt to do a somersault without any help from me and he can do it perfectly. Sammy rolled around on the floor and then would sit up and clap for himself because he thought that he was doing the same thing, it was too funny! I also taught the boys to hold hands with me and do "ring around the rosies". Everybody loves to fall down really dramatically and they each try and outdo their brothers! But seriously tomorrow we can only do so many somersaults and rosies! I am starting to panic!!!!!!
Apparently a fever and a limp in a 2 year old means that you have strep throat! I was more than a little surprised when the pediatrician suggested performing a strep test, let alone when she said that it was positive! I am hoping that Wyatt will start to feel better tonight because dealing with the three kids today was painful! Wyatt was ultra clingy and I literally couldn't put him down to walk until 4 pm, Jonah was whiny and clingy too because he misses Grandpa, and I was tired because I was up all night worrying that Wyatt had some weird tropical disease. I am ready to get a good night sleep!
Wyatt woke up with a fever and a limp this morning. We didn't go to church, get into our Easter clothes, or even check out the Easter baskets for the boys. We spent all day keeping Wyatt's fever at bay and organizing the house back to normal. I have spent some time on the internet trying to figure out what weird illness causes a fever and leg pain, but nothing that I read about seems like an exact fit. If he isn't better in the morning then I will haul all three kids to the doctor and see what they say. If anyone has any ideas I am all ears?!?! My card reader is on the fritz again too!
We took the kids to an Easter egg hunt. There were also tattoos, donut decorating, firetruck tours, puppet shows, and balloon sculptures.
We had a jam packed day and everyone is tired. I can't get the card reader to read the memory card on my camera, so I will have to try and post a picture tomorrow.
Sammy finally learned to pull himself up to standing and cruise furniture this week. He is so proud of himself when he is standing and is always smiling. He isn't as far behind Jonah as I thought in terms of walking. Sammy is a little more cautious and seems to let Jonah work the kinks out in a new task before tackling it himself, but catches on much quicker!
We were a little off our game today and I may get kicked out of playgroup if we have any more days like this....
1. Wyatt fell into a big pile of dog poop on the way into playgroup so we had to strip him down to socks and a diaper outside, borrow some clothes, and wash and dry Wyatt's clothes before we left because I forgot a spare outfit (note to self...the poopy shoes are still in the truck!)
2. I let it slip about the Easter bunny to twin 4 year old girls at playgroup...in front of their mom! (In my defense the bunny in the picture on the refrigerator DID look really creepy...)
3. We gave my friend a lawn job on the way out when I miscalculated the driveway and backed into the yard...after it has been raining for about 90 days. Seriously, the ruts that I left are deep enough to bury a casket or two!! I didn't even have the guts to go in and tell her that I did it...I suspect that she has a pretty good idea!
So, does anyone want to invite us over? I promise that you will have an exciting time with our family around!
Wyatt pulled up a chair to watch Daddy leave to go grocery shopping!
