wonderful

Let me just start this entry off by saying that I have the coolest 4 year old on the planet!!!!   No offense to anyone else, but He is the coolest smartest, sweetes kid in the entire world.  Peter, our parenting is paying off, and may I say so myself that we are doing a fabulos job.  Today Michael got a good attitude sticker.  He never gets one of those because it requires that the entire day be good.  As that is hard for a three year old, especially one that seemed for a while to be going through a whiny, angry, tantrum phase.  Today was awesome.  By the way, happy 22nd birthday to my sister randi, and my niece marlee. 

Today started out good, shower in the morning without Aiden crying from his seat for me to pick him up.  Then Michael woke up and played nicely for a good while.  Then I talked to my mom and we all decided to get together for randi's birthday up at otb.  Wonder why anyone?  50% discount!  Not to mention that the food is good.  Now that I think about it we could have also gone to chili's so that I could have gotten a chocolate shake. mmmmm.  Oh well.  Grandmommy came over to watch the boys while us 4 sisters and mom went to eat.  Cool huh??  We were all available, which never happens.  Grandmommy said Michael was wonderful, and we had fun at OTB.  After we ate I came and picked up the boys and although Aiden had just fallen asleep, I broke the cardinal rule of never wake a sleeping baby, and loaded him in the car to go to Mardel.  I was able to get a couple of things that I wanted to get for my birthday for 40% off.  They had a sale today, plus chloe's discount.  After I bought these items, I hear an overhead page saying, "would heather pyle come to the back of the store please."  Olivia had taken Michael to the bathroom, so I sighed and headed in that direction.  olivia obviously forgot that I am not pyle anymore. Iit was kind of funny because chloe looked at me like what did they just say?  Any way, I go into the bahroom and Olivia is backing away from me and trying not to laugh.  I opened the door to the big stall and see Michael standing there absolutely butt naked.  Supposedly he had tried to go potty and the potty was too tall and so he ended up going all over the front of it and on his shorts and underware too.  Then for some reason he thought his shirt was wet too and took that off and tossed it in the pee.  No shoes no shirt no service right??  Well, his shorts weren't too bad, just a little on the bottom side part.  So I put those back on him.  His shirt was soaked in pee, so I was just going to have to walk him out without a shirt on.  Olivia had two shirts on and so she took one off and put it on him.  After a little tying and tightening, it did well for walking out of the building.  That is picture number one.  After that we came back to my house and I fed the baby.  Michael continued to play nicely.  Ia and chloe left and then I got a call from Mom and dad saying that they were coming over to see the boys before they went shopping.  So they came over and played for a while and had a bunch of fun.  After they left I asked Michael to go and play in his room quietly.  He did just that.  I tell you, it has been yes m'am all day long.  And except for the potty incident, it was awesome.  At about 5:30 or so I loaded the boys in the car to go to walmart.  I took both the stroller and a cart in.  So I tried to let Michael push one or the other for a while, and that just stressed me out because he was all over the place.  So I put him in the basket and drove the stroller with one hand and pulled the basket with the other.  I think my shoulders are a bit out of socket.  oh well, add it to the list of thing that are currently wrong with me.  It actually wasn't that bad.  Aiden fell asleep on his stroller, which is why I took it to begin with.  I actually made good time and Michael was very good.  No whining.  I got him a small bag of doritos, you know, the 30 cent kind.  he loved that, and he even opened them all by himself.  He was so proud.  I finished and then came home, unloaded and then fed Aiden.  They just went to sleep about 20 min ago, and it is 8:40.  Michael got really tired here at the end, so he went to bed willingly and fast.  I actually don't feel as exhausted as I usually do.  It is amazing how muchdealing with a kid's whining takes out of you.  Well, I have to eat and then go pump.  Have a good night. 

Love to all.