Fun in the shade.

Today was crazy. Fun and crazy. I loaded the boys up in the car to go to the bank at 11:15 or so and ran througt the bank. Then I picked my mom up and she went with me to Big lots and then Office depot. After that, we rushed over to OTB so that Michael could use the bathroom, but he ended up not going until 20 min later because he was so enthralled by the chips and cheese that we ordered. Pappaw met us up there and we all split stuff to eat. Michael must be hitting another growth spurt because he slept in this morning till almost 8:15 or so, and he actually went to bed early the night before. He has also been taking naps every single day at MDO since I've been sending a different blanket with him. It is bigger and he pretty much wraps it around his head and falls asleep. It's funny though because at home I'm not really thinking about the time and I can almost tell attitude wise when he is tired. He gets really whiny and bratty around the time he would have a nap at school. Sometimes we are doing things, but any time I even mention taking a nap he has a meltdown. He was pretty good today though. After OTB we went to my mom's house and hung around there while I made her labels to put on the back of her books that she makes. He played in the hose in the backyard for ..... wait for it....... wait for it...... almost 3 hours!!!! Maybe more. I don't know. Now that all the stupid puppies are gone he doesn't run around screaming. It was cute today though, he came running up to the door and flung it open and said "Look! I found the biggest leaf in the whole world!" It was pretty big, and we all oooed and ahhhed. Then he did it again 5 min later when he found an even bigger leaf. After a while, we took Aiden out to get some water splashed on his feet. He enjoyed that. He is such a happy baby.
My mom and I went up to a shop that a friend of mine owns in downtown Wylie. I taught her daughter in K4 last school year. We were bringing up my moms books that she made to see if they might be something she would want to sell in her store. Boy did she. We got there right before 5, and the next thing we know, Pappaw was calling and asking where we were. It was 7:30 or so. Long story short she really liked the books, and she bought every single one we brought up with us.
After we were done with her, we came back to our house. I'll tell you something sweet though. While we were in the car, I glanced back in the mommy mirror and saw Aiden looking right over at Michael's seat, like he wanted to see his brother. He always loves staring at him and just taking in everything he does. I even heard him laughing from back there earlier today when Michael was in the car. Anytime Aiden gets upset, Michael immediately starts singing the ABC's. Sometimes if not most of the time it works to calm Aiden down, but Michael will run to the rescue of his little brother to make him happy no matter where we are. He does get a little jealous at bedtime when I have Aiden. He tells me to put him down so that I can rock him instead. He got a surprise present this morning because he has stayed in bed every night for the past 5 nights like a big boy. It is so much easier to sleep without him spinning and kicking me in the head or trying to roll on his brother. He got Bertie the bus that I had stored in the game closet.
We miss you Peter!! Love you bunches.

Me? Work?

Today was my one day a month to work at OTB. I am having a bit of trouble pumping more than one 4 ounce bottle per day, and so I only had One 4 ounce, and 2 2ounce bottles ready. I never know how long I'm going to have to be there so I don't know what to leave with my mom. I would have had another 2 ounce bottle except for the fact that I poured it all over the floor this morning. I thought I had a drop in liner in the bottle, but I didn't; so it went all over the floor. All I could do was stare at it. It's like I just dropped a gold bar down a black hole. AHHHHH! Ok over it. Any way, because I didn't know how long I was going to be there, so I authorized my mother to use a bottle of formula. I am a horrible mother!!!! Ok, I'm over that now too. I know it's not a big deal, but for me it was hard. My mom said he didn't care, he was hungry and sucked it down like any other bottle. Still feel guilty though. Ok, now I'm really over it.
This day was full of fun. This morning grandmommy came over and brought us breakfast. Yum. After she played with Aiden for a while so I could pump, she took Michael over to her house to play. There is just something about a grandmother's house. Michael always begs to go over to play at grandma's house when he's seen her recently, and the same goes for grandmommy. It'll be sad when they move to Arkansas permanently. Don't go! Ok, I know that was mean, but we'll all miss you.
After all that fun, Michael and I hung out around the house until Grandma came over to watch the boys so I could go to work. I think people think I'm loopy when I go to work there, mainly because I am still in baby mode, and so I'm really just a big goof ball. Oh well ,It makes people laugh.
Have good night.

TGIT!!!

I cannot believe it!! It is 8:45 and I am sitting at the computer and writing this while I eat. Both of the boys are asleep before 9!!! cool cool cool. Today is Thursday,and so it is my Friday. Love it!I'll tell you what, I think I am still a bit anemic because I still feel so much better when I take my prenatal vitamins each day. I hadn't been taking them because I hid them from Michael and So I forgot about them for almost two months. I feel like I have a bunch more energy even at the end of the day when I take them. Go vitamins.
I absolutely love when Michael's teachers Kathy and Melissa stick their heads over into the class that I teach next door and tell me funny things Michael has done or said. They are things I'm sure they would forget about if I weren't next door. Melissa told Michael he was so smart and he just looked up at her and said, "No, I'm precocious, that means I'm VERY smart. I have probably mentioned something like that before, but I think it is just so darn cute I had to say it again. I hope I spelled that right.
Aiden is so so sweet. I take a bottle with me to MDO, but I go in and nurse him at 12. I went in today and held him and rocked him for a min, but hadn't actually looked at him yet, so I don't think he knew it was me yet. Then I sat down and sat him on the boppy on my legs and looked at him and said hi. He looked at me and just lit up and laughed, as if to say, hey I thought it was about time, there you are. And he never really eats when I go in there to feed him. I mean he does eat, but he just like to lay there and play. He'll eat straight for maybe 5 min or so, then he'll pull off and look up at me and start talking and smiling. I love it, all of it. But it is just a play time with mommy, along with a snack I guess. i have to say that the new seat I bought him the other day is a ear saver. Aiden hated his other one. He loves to sit up and watch Michael talk to me or eat, or play... whatever he does in his seat. I thank God every time I get in the car to go and he doesn't cry. I used to put Michael in his seat and pack everything up, start the car and then go in and get Aiden. As soon as I put him in the seat, he would start crying, and so I would throw him in there and run to the other side of the car and jump in and practically peel out. No More! Thank you Big Lots.
Michael and Tabor were pretending they were basketballs with each other today and were pushing each other down saying that they were pushing each other into the basketball goal. Michael ended up biting his tongue. No biggie. Boys will be 13 boys in that class.
Well I need to go and pump, I go in for my once a month shift at OTB tomorrow. Bummer. Maybe I'll eat something while I'm there. yum.
Night

Two crazy days

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHLOE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE BIG 17!!!
with that out of the way, here is a picture of what Michael's stomach looked like after he took his medicine like Daddy. There is also Aiden t MDO, and the boys chillin'.


Yesterday was a pretty normal day. Olivia picked Michael up early from MDO to take him swimming. He then went to Grandma's house to hang out for a while. I took Aiden over to Grandmommy's house for a visit because I was out on that side of town and thought she'd like to visit. After that I came home and put Aiden to sleep. Olivia brought Michael home and while I was getting him dressed for bed he started talking about something and touching his throat. He said that his "badam apple was there". I had no idea what he was saying, and it finally dawned on me that he meant that his adam's apple was moving when he was talking. Cute.
Today I woke up at 6:30 and took a shower, got ready, nursed Aiden and made Michael some cinnamon rolls. I had to pump as well. I was not in my head this morning because although I woke up at 6:30, i was still 20min late for MDO. I looked for Michael's backpack for 5 min before realizing that Olivia probably had it. About that time she calls me and tells me that she just dropped it off in Michael's classroom. So I threw his lunch in a paper bag, but forgot about mine. Oh well. After MDO, in which we had a little girl who pooped four times in 5 hours, let me tell you I was very thankful that I have mine potty trained. And that he wipes himself. i dropped Michael off at rainbows and went home to try and get something done around the house but he was fussy fussy. I don't know if he just wanted to play or if he just actually fought sleep that long, I couldn't tell today. but Michael came home talking about "rope tricks" cause he's a cowboy. I don't know exactly where that came from cause I didn't talk to Olivia. Who knows... he makes stuff up sometimes. I was at Once upon a child today, or what Michael calls the toy store, and looking though clothes when Michael came running up to me with one shoe and said that he wanted it because it was a grandpa shoe, like Pappaw. It was like one of those loafer shoes, but it looked a little more modern I guess. I told him to go find the other shoe so I could see how much it was. He went running off, but then came back a couple min later saying that he couldn't find it. He said that he really wanted to buy that shoe, and I asked him if he only had one foot. He said no, that he had two feet. I told him that we couldn't buy just one shoe then because he had two feet. He kind of thought that was funny until I told him to go put it back where he found it and then I would come and look at it later. He looked up at me very sincere and said that he didn't want to put it back because he didn't want someone else to take it away. Let me tell you that there were a couple different pairs of Michael approved grandpa shoes, and none of them were under 5 dollars. I told him no to one pair of shoes, and he made a big to do about wanting grandpa shoes. I looked at the cheapest of the pairs of grandpa shoes and looked at him.... he looked at me and just kind of did that you know I'm cute and you love me smile. I have got to say that he was excited to take those up to the front to buy them. He told all of the girls up there that those were his grandpa shoes, and that he wanted to buy them. We went straight up to the church for Rainbows after the toy store. He sat in the front seat with me while we waited for Charlie to come out and get him. He begged and begged to wear them to Rainbows. I told him that he should wear them tomorrow because I didn't have a pair of socks with us. He looked in the shoe and looked back at me and said that there were the yellow sponge looking things in the shoes and that he didn't need socks because those made the shoe comfortable. I just kind of laughed and told him that being comfortable was not my point. Then off he went to rainbows and I came home.
They are both asleep right now, so I think I might go to bed.

What a day!!

This one is for you Peter. Today I lifted up Michael's shirt when I was taking off his clothes to put his pajamas on, and I saw a whole bunch of marker marks on his stomache. I asked him why he did that and couldn't really understand what he was telling me. He said something about medicine. Olivia told me later that he told her he was taking his medicine like daddy. I cracked up.
Today has been a day. From about midday, all h e double hockey sticks broke loose. Aiden has a monster diaper rash, ans I never need to hear a screaming child again. I have had my fill. He would have dirty toots that hurt his bottom so bad, and he screamed for about 4 hours today. He is asleep now, but I am not looking forward to tonight. He usually has a least one big pee pee during the night, so we'll see what goes down.
Michael was screaming from lunchtime until right before IA got here because I told him he had to eat one bite of whatever it was I gave him or he couldn't have anything sweet today... no Popsicles, no cookies, nothing. I think it was really just a power play. But boy did he throw a fit!! He was in his room for most of the afternoon off and on. Oh well, his choice. He did eventually eat what I gave him, and he said he liked it. What is up with that?? Mother's day out is tomorrow, so I wonder how Aiden will do. I might be coming home. Who knows?
Love to all.

Sunday blur

Sundays are so busy ever since they switched evening "service time" if you will, to 5 instead of 6:30. Don't get me wrong, I love that everything is over and done with and I can get home and feed Michael and maybe even get him to sleep before nine. I just have to decide what I am going to do with the time in between. I thought about going to the store, but that wasn't flying, so I went over to my parent's house and thought about eating lunch. Never actually got to because Olivia never called like she said she would for us to go out. Thanks IA. She doesn't even read this. So on the way to church I grabbed a 99cent burger from Wendy's and wrestled with myself in the drive through. Should I go ahead and spend another dollar on some fries? and what about a drink? Why not just get a whole meal? But I decided all I really wanted to spend was a dollar, not a dollar on three different things. The burger was good. After the adopt a block, I was able to run to the store and forget two things I needed. Yeah, I forget to make a list, then I remember to make a list and forget what I was going to put on it. I'm a mess. So is the house. I just got Aiden down, and Michael is asleep, so I decided to sit down and write this and forgo the cleaning.

I got Aiden a new seat, one of those convertible ones. I had had enough of the screaming. I have had it for a day and a half, but just couldn't find the energy or time to put it in, so it has been my side seat driver for the past day or two. I know people think that there is a child in it, and they look at me like I should be hanged. You should have seen the looks I got with the baby seat in front once I installed the convertible one. Or that might have been because I honked at her slow butt. We had a green arrow!!
How do you teach a child that has been brought up to think independently to obey, the first time. And by that I mean without screaming and spanking and crying and throwing fits. I mean me of course. Michael on the other hand is just a box full of attitude. I feel like I am fighting him all of the time. It is exhausting. I guess I just have to trudging on. I know that fighting for that good attitude now will pay off later. It's not easy being green. Or a mom. I feel bad for those kids who run wild because their parents don't control them. They'll never have a play date with my child. I don't need him learning anything bad from anyone other than my family. He heard the word "shut up" today, and used it. I have been very careful not say that, and that was a hard habit to break. Chunkle Arley got onto him for it. (spoonerisms anyone?)
Aiden is doing good. He is trying to lift his head up for more than maybe a min at a time. He was so funny tonight. I was laying in bed with both Michael and Aiden, and Michael started to sneeze, and if anyone knows how many times I sneeze, Michael is my protege. Aiden just started laughing at him, so Michael kept doing it. We had a good two min of laughing. Fun fun fun. 20 more years of fun.
Have a good night. Here are some pictures. Baby in a hammock, and the good ol electronic babysitter. At least until Aiden can't hold his head up any longer.

Alarming

Well today is officially a Sat. morning. I am at the computer and in the background I hear Tom and Jerry on the TV, and we are both eating cinnamon rolls for breakfast. We didn't sleep in too late because Aiden woke up at 7:30 or so, but that's the way it goes.
I went into the garage to get the cinnamon rolls this morning and forgot to disarm the security system. Yes, I said security system. We got one installed yesterday. Literally at 8 the guy shows up, and the hour installation took two hours and eventually two guys to finish. So Michael had a late bedtime. I won't go into specifics, but I feel better about going to sleep alone at night now. In all honesty, I feel better about going to sleep at night whether I am alone or not. I have always worried about that, and every night I go to sleep thinking about what I would do, and who I would get, and where I would run if someone broke in. I still have all that in the back of my head, but maybe the alarm would scare them away now.
Hope ya'll have a good day.

Bye bye aye aye aye

Yesterday was a good day. Except for Peter leaving. 3 weeks is a long time. But it will all be ok, I just get bored. I love having someone to give the kids to when I need a nap, or at least the thought of a nap. And he can't fully give them back cause they are his too. ha ha.
Yesterday is my friday. Thursday is the last day of the week for MDO so I get a long weekend which helps me recoup for the mdo week next week. It is so emotionally exhausting to love other people's children all day and then go home and love mine. I am sometimes so tired that I get snappy with Michael. It makes me feel so bad when I make him cry. All he wants is me, my attention, my snuggles, my love, and I get irritated with it? I think I get more irritated with Aiden not letting me do that for Michael. Michael is so used to hearing "I'm feeding your brother, I'm rocking your brother, I'm changing your brother." Poor thing must be sick of his brother. The thing is... He is not. He loves loves loves his brother. He wants to hold him he wants to rock him, he wants to bathe him. He plays and talks to him, and pokes him and rubs him. He does get irritated sometimes, but I haven't walked in on him being mean....yet. I do think he took his patsy out once, but that is just a 3 year old. In fact it is funny and wonderful that they interact the way they do. Aiden absolutely loves his brother.
Yesterday we came home and chilled for the rest of the night. Michael played out in the front yard with the sprinkler and would come over to where Aiden and I were sitting and rub cold water all over his Aiden's legs. Aiden laughed and smiled at him. We went in and took a shower and played inside after dinner and then all of a sudden it was 8:30. Bedtime!! I stayed up long enough to get tired enough to go to sleep without thinking about the fact that I was in the house by myself. I always get nervous in the house by myself.
This morning I told my self I was going to sleep in. I'll tell you what, I kick myself every time I don't fully wake myself up to feed Aiden. I make more work for myself because he pukes on me because I didn't burp him enough, or he fusses at me because I didn't feed him enough. I try and feed him while I sleep, but that is what I need to not do. He always goes so soundly back to sleep if I get up in the rocking chair and feed and burp him. It's not like he wakes up at 2, this is at 6:30 or so, but I just get so tired. So this morning I was lazy, and so I've been up since 6:30.
Aiden's cough sounds like it has gotten better with the hulk antibiotics the doctor prescribed.
Pappy and Grandmother came over this morning and helped me trim the tree in the front yard. Some of the branches were hanging so low that you would have to walk around them to cut through the yard. Michael and Pappy worked in the front yard while Grandmother and I sat inside the house with the baby. They sure did work hard! Both of them got cuts, and both of them were wet with sweat. Michael was really more soaked with water from the hose. Boys!

Here are some cute cute cute pics!!

water day, rainbows after... get it?

As of yesterday, Peter was going on an out of market trip to the georgia-florida area, but it wasn't a for sure thing, so plans have changed. He was going to leave on that trip near the end of next week. Today he got a call and is now leaving tomorrow to go to Tulsa OK. He had already packed and unpacked. The good thing about these trips is the amount of money we are able to put towards our bills. The not so good thing especially now is that Aiden will change so much from when he leaves to when he comes back, almost a month later. As of right now the trip is 3 weeks long. please pray that he is safe driving up and while he is working.
Today was a whirl wind of craziness. It was water day today at mdo, and that went by so fast. But during nap time I called my mom, who was keeping Aiden and I could hear nothing but baby screaming in the background. poor mom. He drank a full 12 ounces while with her today. Ahhhh, I have NO bottles left. Usually at mdo he just drinks a 4 ounce bottle at 10 or so and then I nurse him at 12. I would guess that to be about 8 ounces. But nooooo. Today he had 12. I can only imagine that he didn't feel good, and missed his mommy, and so likes throwing fits for grandma every other week. Don't worry mom, I gave him a talkin to for you. I took Aiden to the doctor today because he just hasn't seemed to get better, and he's been on a full 10 days of antibiotics. Well the doctor said that the antibiotic that we were on didn't do anything, so we still have an ear infection. yippee. So now we are on a new antibiotic, which is Azithromycin. I hope this one works, and fast.I really hope and pray that he doesn't take after me in the ear infection department. It was bad.
After the doctors office, I went to Walmart, to get groceries. Then to Target to pick up the medicine. Then home to nurse Aiden and feed Michael, then off to rainbows. I played with the class as long as possible and the went to talk to a friend in the next room. Then it was a nice car ride home with Aiden screaming the whole way. Shower for stinky Michael, and then off to bed.
Wow, am I exhausted! Peter got home and is packing up. Gotta go.

I'm 3 months and 1 day old!!

I was planning yesterday to write a post saying I'm 3 months old today, but couldn't find the time to, so here we are today.
Aiden is 3 months and 1 day old today. Wow how time flies!! He is a big boy and can lift his head for short periods of time on his tummy, but can keep his head pretty straight when we carry him. He likes to try and stand up, and his legs are very strong. He only really gets upset when he is hungry, but will let us know when he wants to be talked to. He absolutely loves his brother to death and laughs more at him than at anyone else. As I have said before, Michael spends time laying under his play gym with him and playing with him and talking to him, in addition to poking and prodding and pinching him. But it is all in love. I absolutely love watching them interact. It is the most precious thing in the world.

Yesterday Michael and Aiden and I all sat at home and didn't do anything except for a walk around the block and playing in the sprinkler. But that was fun and Lord knows I need to walk off some extra pounds. Anyhoo, Today was a mother's day out day and so we just got back from that, and I brought a pizza home. I was more excited about the pizza than the kids were. Tomorrow is a water day. Go sunscreen! Then I get another pizza day with my class on thursday!! woohoo. loooovve Iiiiiit!! :to quote from dragontales.
Aiden is still not feeling good so I'm going to take him to the doctor tomorrow to have him checked out again. I don't think he has an ear infection now, but he has a horrible wet cough and is just miserable with it sometimes. This morning he woke up about 4 and was tossing and turning from then on. I only got 10 min at a time to sleep. All is good though.
love ya'll


here are some 3 month pictures

Sunday again

Sundays oh sundays. After the past couple of days getting up at well lets just say really early, I slept in for as long as I could. Of course with children that sometimes means only till 7... thanks Michael. We ate cinnamon rolls for maybe the 4th time this week. Chloe cooked them when she watched him on Sat. I cooked them on thurs. and Peter cooked them on both tues and today. Sweeeet breakfast!!! We went to church and then out to eat with my parents to OTB! Then they took Michael with them to "rockin wall" and while running around he fell asleep in the car. They took him home with them and while they were out running around both Peter and I were able to take a much needed nap. I wish kids realized how great naps actually are. I didn't get as good of a nap as Peter because I had the baby, but he cooperated enough so that I felt a little refreshed. We went ahead and woke ourselves up and went to home groups and then we went to my mom's house to pick up Michael. Have I mentioned that Aiden screams in the car, almost the whole time we are driving? So form our house to home groups and then from home groups to grandmas, lovely screaming. But don't forget the trip home! My head hurts. Even those car seat toys don't help. I'll eventually have to figure out something. I will say this... it sometimes saves me money on gas because I don't feel like driving around listening to it. So I stay home. Overall it was a good day but for the screaming. Hope you have a good night.
July is going by fast, where did summer go?

did I say i was getting an i phone?

Loving today even though I woke up at 5:15 and got ready to go stand in line with Aiden. We got up to the AT&T store at 5:30 or so and sat, walked, and hung out till 10 when the store opened. At one point I took Aiden and got in the car to feed him. I was out of the store by 10:30. Crazy huh. Here is the kicker. If I hadn't have had Aiden with me, I wouldn't have been able to get the two I phones that I needed. They were giving out only one per person. They even said that the child has to be 6 months or older to qualify. Does that make sense? Well I told them that for today he was 6 months old. And that was that. The rest of the day was an i phone blur. Everybody got to play with it because I share my toys thank you very much.
Michael played in the sprinkler in his underwear at my mom's house and then jumped on a wet trampoline thanks to Pappaw. He had fun though. We only realized that those were the only pair of underwear that they had at their house when we tried to get him dressed. Oops. So we threw them in the dryer and then got dressed to go to Fridays. We got home and it took about an hour and a half to get Michael any where near wanting to sleep. So now I write. And now I go to bed.

Peter just got home and is in I phone heaven. woohoo!

Here are some pics from my I phone.

up all day

These are just a few recent pictures and a couple of them are from today. So eat them up everybody.















Today started out crazy, as I got up at 6:30 to feed Adien and then decided to stay awake to go get in line at the AT&T store to get the new Iphone. That whole venture was unsuccessful. I will end up trying again tomorrow morning earlier I might add, instead of sleeping in. The price of being cool I guess. hehehe After I got home Michael and I just laid around the house watching shows and playing in the sandbox, nd watching more TV, and stuff like that. Then we went over to eat a pancake dinner at my mom's house. He played outside for a while and got attacked by puppies in the backyard. Let me tell you how much he doesn't like those puppies. We are in the kitchen and living room and we can hear him screaming at the top of his lungs "No! Stop!" AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! That last one is probably the funniest to hear. Like a good mom I let him run back in the house instead of going back out to help him. Don't get me wrong, if the screams sound dire, I'll go rescue him, but mostly he's mad and it is funny to listen to. Well both Michael and Aiden were in a mood today, let me tell you. I have one that just whines like a baby, and one that whines because he is a baby. They are both equally annoying. I still love it!! Michael will never admit he doesn't feel good, but I can tell by the amount of whining he does, and how bad it is, how tired and sick he is. Aiden just has this nasty congested cough, and I think he might be teething a bit. His gums feel soft, and there is the drooling, and bubbling at the mouth. And did I mention the whining??

I have to mention something that both my mom and me in stitches tonight. I sat down to feed the baby, and Aiden has one of those little stuffed teddy bears. Well Michael started off just rocking the bear, saying it was his baby. Very sweet, yes. He then proceeded to sit down on the couch and pull up his shirt and nurse the baby. He said, I'm feeding the baby. He watched me the whole time, and when I took Aiden off to burp him, he would do the same. Then I switched ides and he did the same. After a couple times of nursing and burping, he put baby down and pulled up his shirt and put his hand on his chest and said he was pumping. He thought all of this was very funny. He said " Look Grandma, I am pumping my nipple." Then he told Chloe, "I got to pump the other side now." After letting him do that for a while I grabbed him and whispered to him that only mommies nurse the babies, and that daddies and boys use the bottles. My mom got out an old bottle and gave it to him to feed the baby with and so he ran around showing everybody in the house that he was feeding the baby with a bottle. He even fed the baby on the way home and has it in bed with him right now.

I might remember more later, or not. I have to get to sleep because I am getting up extra early to go get in line for another shot at the iphone.
night everyone.

Follow up

I do tend to ramble a bit and go off on tangents sometimes so I ask forgivness if it is hard to follow my train of thought. Yesterday Peter did wonderful. I thought it was so cute that when I got home later with the baby, it seemed to me that they had a little closer connection. He came up and just started talking to him kind of like I do when I haven't had him for a while. I think that once someone is able to stand in your shoes, even if it is an easy thing, and a baby is not; that they have an understanding that they otherwise would not. He had to go later that day and exchange ALL of the rest of the size one diapers that I had piling up in the baby's closet. Aiden is wearing a size 3! He is 16 pounds and very hard on my back. But I don't mind. he brought back 2 giant boxes of 3s and 1 box of 4s.

Today we went to hang out at my mom's house around 6 or so. I went to see a friend I haven't seen in a while because we both had babies. When i got back to my mom's house my Dad had Michael....... how do I explain this?............You know how you can switch around the first letters of words and make them sound funny? well my dad had said Cuncle Arley= Uncle Charlie, and Michael thought that was the funniest thing he had ever heard, so he started doing it with everything . He tried to say come on Grandma, and said come on crandma. It's a start. Now he is doing it almost every time he says something so I can't understand anything he says.
He also has, for the first time, expressed a favorite anything. My mom is making those 97cent composition books with decorative fronts on them, and He grabbed one of the small notepad ones and said this is my favorite best book ever. Something like that. It was green, I think he liked the color, and that it was small.
pray for Aiden, he has a sore bottom and still isn't back to feeling great yet. Pray for me, as I will be in line tomorrow morning for the new I phone. Peter really wants one and he has to work, so I get to fight the crowds. Maybe they will feel sorry for me with a baby there. That would be nice.
Goodnight all

Lots and Lots

Ok so I didn't feel well last night and started the blog for yesterday but obviously didn't finish. Yesterday was good until the evening. Wed usually my mom watches Aiden until school starts this fall. Well perter works every other wed, so he was home until like 12. I had a nervous morning yesterday as I left Aiden with Peter for a while until my mom came to relieve him. I have to admit even though I knew he was fully and completely capable of taking care of him, I was a nervous wreck. I guess all moms out there are when leaving the kid with the husband for the first time right??? Anyone?? Just me?? Well either way I did the call to my mom later to check on him, mainly because my milk had just let down so I was thinking of him. TMI? hehe. Mother's day out really teaches the teachers how not to raise one's kids. I mean that I see, no matter how much I want to coddle and hold my little one, and just let him be a momma's boy, I can't do it all the time. I don't really have all the time to dedicate to that anyway since I have a crazy almost 4 year old running around. But my point is that I have several two year olds that are just the biggest babies. I feel sad for them, but I also feel a responsibility to help them grow up a little bit. Which I think I've already done a little bit of. When I started 2 weeks ago, they told me to beware a couple of kids. Well, I am proud to say that there is almost no crying at drop off, and I stand for minimal to no crying during class. Distraction is the key! Oh well. I'm having an alright time. It does take a lot of emotional investment into these kids in order to care for them like they ned to be cared for. Not just babysitting them and sending them home, but actually caring for them. The two year olds are hard to love. They drive most of the teachers bonkers! Me too when I was pregnant. I have had to learn to help them in their own ways. I would be upset if Michael was just being babysat. He is not, even though there are like 12 boys in his class again. I am right next door to them so I stick my head in every now and then. Most of the time the boys are takling each other. WOW. God bless Kathy and Melissa. But I know he is being taught, and he is being loved. We were carting around Target the other day and he just sang and sang, word for word, " I love Jesus, I love Jesus, Jesus is in my heart. I love everything, I love Jesus I love Jesus, Jesus is in my heart." I made my eyes well up. It really touched my heart and I wanted to laugh out loud. But that would have embarrassed him so I just listened with a heart full of pride. A couple of people looked at him inquisitively, but I just smiled.
Peter and I are planning on getting I phones tomorrow. Can I be any crazier? I don't know who's watching the boys yet, any takers? I do say planning because I don't have any idea if I will be able to get one, let alone two. Mom can you watch the boys? I have a bottle. Or two.
Today was good because it is Thursday. That's Friday for all you normal work people. Your Friday is my Thursday. I don't have to wake up early tomorrow.
Michael just finished a pudding cup and it is all over his chin, like he tried to stick his tongue all the way to the bottom. I don't know why I mention it other than it is just funny.
Oh, a couple of funny words. Tissue=Tennis Shoes Breakfast= breakflest Just for my memory.
Michael will frequently lay under Aiden's play gym thing and just talk to him and play with him. He told me earlier today that "Aiden is just talking, not crying" when I asked him to put brother's patsy in. Cute huh?

Having fun

So yesterday I took Aiden to the Doctor because of how fussy and feverish he was the past couple of days. Yesterday in particular he was fussy when I would lay him on his right side to nurse. I had taken Michael to the doctor on Sat and ended up with antibiotics for an ear infection, and yesterday I left with antibiotics for another ear infection. The fact that Aiden has an ear infection is a bit irritating to me. Michael didn't have his first one until he was maybe 2 or so. I don't remember exactly, but I know that for the first year he never got sick enough to take to the doctor. I just feel bad for Aiden because he feels miserable. So once in the morning and once at night I round up the boys and give them their medicine. Michael likes it because it is bubble gum. If I am able to even get half of the medicine down Aiden I'm lucky. He ends up kind of unintentionally spitting it back out. I've taken to putting a hand towel under his neck before attempting it.
Today we had Mother's Day Out and I took both boys. I figured that if they really needed me I would be there. They both did good, but Michael was a bit more whiny than usual, the way he is when he is sick. I have the two year old room, and so I'm always saying to the kids, cover your mouth, don't cough on people, get a tissue. Stuff like that. At that age they just need constant reminders and help from their teachers. I will be excited when I get my four year olds back in the fall. I don't have to change their diapers. Aiden has been good at mdo, and I actually get to go in and nurse him at least once. It is strange though, today I noticed that when I was feeding him parts of his face got really tomato red, and then a minute later disappeared. Stephanie, his teacher, said that he did that earlier too. I have no idea if it is just him overexerting himself when trying to latch on, or if it is maybe some kind of allergic reaction to something. I'll have to keep an eye out though.
We took Michael to McDonalds today as a family after I got back from getting my car out of the shop at Prestige Ford. Today Aiden was perfect in the car and didn't cry at all on the way from my house to prestige. It was awesome!! Usually when he is awake in the car he screams the whole time, and yes, he was awake. He slept on the way back. Anyway, we had a bunch of fun at mickey d's and let Michael run around with a couple of kids he made friends with for about an hour.
A couple of updates on Aiden, mainly for my memory: He weighs 15 pounds, 11 ounces, down from 16. I think it is because his feeding schedule is starting to set itself up, and he is a bit sick. He can lift his head up pretty far, but maintaining that position is bit harder. I really do need to put him on his tummy more. He loves going outside and looking around. He can hold his head up pretty well when being carried around for a while. He definitely recognizes his immediate family, but smiles for other people too. He cracked me up on Saturday because he was sitting up in the stroller and laughing at me over and over. What can I say? I'm a funny-looking person.

Monday 7th

Mondays are usually one of Peter's days off, but he went into work today. That overtime is awesome! He works really hard and I am proud of him. I am left home with two boys that are under the weather, even though any time you ask Michael he will say he's not. Aiden has no qualms about letting anyone know he doesn't feel good. He is a pretty laid back baby, even for being as stuffy as he is, but he is a little quicker to cry when he wants something now. It is only 10 right now, but Michael is pushing around his new car that Daddy got for him yesterday. Olivia usually comes to get him on Mondays to swim and play with the Wade girls and Ms. Cassie, but I'm not on board with the swimming today. She said she would probably stop by later today and play with him. We might even go by grandmas house later. Just depends. Aiden's calling. bye.

Sunday July 6th

Today was a home church day because both of the boys are sick. I feel kinda crappy too. Michael's really sick day was yesterday though, and he is back to his old rambunctious self. It is hard keeping him still enough to get better. Aiden is the one that feels bad today, and if any of you have ever had an infant that can't breathe when eating, you know how sad it can be. Well, Peter let me sleep in with Aiden and took the sick but crazy Michael around to do a couple things. It was so nice to sleep in. About mid afternoon, Aiden slept for a long time and I was able to put him down, propped up of course. We got a couple things done around the house, but not much. Shhhh, don't tell Michael, but I put him to bed early. An hour and a half early. He was sick, and grumpy, and a bit tired anyway. Then I was able to sit and nurse Aiden and not worry about how late Michael was staying up. I feel very lucky today. Happy, but tired.