Meltdown

Today was interesting.  It started out as a lazy day at home with me cleaning here and there, and then nursing and then playing, and then feeding both of the boys again.  Although I was very tired this morning, and a bit cranky too, we had ourselves some fun.  In the afternoon, Michael started getting a bit... how should I say...  disobedient.  He wasn't really outright defiant, but he was being sneaky, and wouldn't come to me the first time I called among other things.   Well we went up to Firewheel at 5 or so to try and give a lady up there a present for her daughter, and she ended up not being there.  Michael was in countdown mode to meltdown time.  He was running ahead, and not obeying, and just being a rowdy 4 year old.  I had to grab him a couple of times to make him stop what he was doing.  After me telling him that we were not going to play on the train or play in the store because of his attitude, we left, and he started his meltdown.  Ohhh, the tears were coming!! And oh the yelling.  I had this one guy look at me as if maybe I was kidnapping him because he was screaming so.   I just drove home silent with him going in the back of the car, although it wasn't as bad as when we were at the mall.  When we got home I told him that if he didn't obey the first time I told him to do something I was going to take away one of his toys, and he would not get it back for a while.  He told me"   I will cry forever if you take away all my toys!!!"  When we got home he disobeyed pretty quickly, and so I told him one of his toys was gone.  He was in full blown meltdown mode after that.  He finally ran to his room and I told him to hand me his pirate ship, which he just got for Christmas, and he yelled no at me and threw it on his bed.  Aiden was in my arms and very fussy, so I couldn't do much at that time.  He dove onto his bed and grabbed it and started throwing it around.  I told him it would go into the trash if he broke it.  He then took it looked at me with a mad face and stuck his finger in his nose and rubbed snot all over the ship.  I walked away.  I almost burst out laughing.  I had to go into the living room so he wouldn't see.  I heard him yell from his room.  "You have to go poop outside!!"  after that he ran up to the front door and rubbed a booger on that.

I have to say, the whole time he is melting down, it is all I can do to keep from laughing.  Some of the stuff he says it just so inappropriate and funny at the same time.  I finally had to snuggle him to calm him down.  That boy can throw a fit.  We read books and at that point Daddy got home, and Michael fell asleep not long after that.

Pics not from today, just some fun ones.

One note:  now that Michael's hair is getting long,  he looks like a little homeless boy running around with his beanie hat on, and that first picture, is it not just so cute!!

Another round please...

Today is... was the last day of MDO until January 6th!!!  Not to say that I am excited or anything, but ...yay!!   I LOVE LOVE LOVE Christmas and New Years!! Such good FOOD. 

I love shopping, and giving, and the fact that it is all about Jesus!!  Not in that particular order.  On Tues right after MDO I was taking the boys out to the car, and stopped to talk to a mom that was parked out there.  All of a sudden Michael comes running  up to me yelling and screaming and holding his head.  I loaded them into the car and was trying to figure out what was wrong when he statred really screaming.  He was crying and holding his head, and saying mama mama mama over and over again.  It was the kind of crying where you just want to hold him and rock him.  But because it was so unlike him to cry like that I got worried.  On top of all of that I wasn't allowed to go home because Peter was doing Christmas things.  My right front tire was almost flat, and the only saving grace was that Aiden fell alseep to Michael's crying.  So....  I had Peter meet me at racetrac with some ibprofin, and I gave that to Michael while he pumped up my tire and then we headed over to the doctors office.  I had called my mom who had called my dad, who met us up there to watch Aiden.  Well, they got us back there really fast and  saw us pretty quick, but getting Michael to cooperate is a whole other story.  Lets just say that when it was time to look in his ears, there were 2-3 people helping to hold him down.  So sad.  He had a very red bulging ear drum, which is why it hurt so bad.  While we were there, Peter went out to the car to get Aiden so that we could check his ears too.  Michael has one, but Aiden has one in both ears!!  So, I have two boys on Antibiotics again!  Aiden hasn't ever been able to have anything less than omnicef for his ears, and that is rough on his tummy and bottom.  So very fun.  Oh well, everyone is happy and painfree now.  Wed was a blur, and all I remember is that I went to the store by myself which is awesome!  Today went by fast, and now it is already 5 and I still have stuff to do.  Have a good day.

sick people... not really, well, kind of

Had a good day today.  After school, we went to visit Grandma.  While Michael was playing outside we were inside trying to get Aiden to smaile for some pics.  When we headed back outside, Michael had made a good size mud puddle and was soaked from head to toes, including his shoes.  everywhere!!!     We took some pics of that and then stipped him down outside and had a warm shower waiting for him when he went in.  He and I thought it was hilarious!!  After that we messed around until it was time to go home.  When we got home we just relaxed and played until dinnertime when Michael had a meltdown.  We finally got over that and he ate almost an entire personal totinos pizza!!!!  Peter ate the other piece.  Seriously! All of it was gone.   Aiden seems to be getting over that nasty cough that he had.  It was worrying me, as he would wake up in the mddle of the night coughing and trying to breathe.  I held off taking him to doctor, even though I did call to make sure they wouldn't really do anything about it.  Peter seems like he has been sick for weeks now, and I keep getting sinus pressure that leads to migrains.  Michael is runny runny runny, yuck.  He also has a cough and I think he doesn't feel all that tip top because he is having meltdowns faster.  Aiden is SOOO close to crawling!! Today he was on his belly and pushed up to where it looked like he was about to do a pushup.  You know,  arms straigh,t and up on his tip toes.  He hasn't figured how to get his knees under him yet.  Only a good nights sleep and a few more practices away.  AHHHH!! Time to really baby proof.What to do What to do!  

This weekend is full of stuff to do.  Tommorow we have a teacher luncheon to go to and Michael will stay with babysitters at the church while I take Aiden with me.  He'll be good though.  He always is.  Later that night I will be going out with a few of the teachers to play some BINGO!!  Yes, good ol' bingo.  It is so much fun!!  We sit there and talk and laugh the whole time and get dirty looks from the hard core bingo plyers who have their good luck charms spread around them.  Last time we went my firend Kim won 750 dollars.  We don't do it for the money though, even though we say a prayer over our cards before we start. LOL!! I just laugh thinking about it.

catch up

TSK TSK TSK... Yes I know it has been over a month.  I really didn't know everybody read this that often.  I'll try and do better.  

First things first!

Halloween pics!!

Both boys were frogs

.  First we went out to Firewheel to trick or treat at all of the

 different stores.  We had so much fun, and everyone kept saying how cute Aiden looked.

  One lady stopped us and asked if she could take a picture of him.  After that we went straight to church for the fall festival tat is held every year.  That was crazy!  We were some of

 the first

 people there, and so we got all of the candy stuff over early and then Michael headed for the blow up obstacle course

s.  He ran on that almost the entire night.  His costume had to come off because he was getting so hot and sweaty.  That was a fun fun day.  The best part was at the end Daddy got off early enough to come and join us up there.  One of my best friends also was able to come and be there.  Her name is Lacey, and her boyfriend JD and daughter Alexis was there also.  Alexis is only 3, maybe 4 months older than Aiden, but she runs around like a mad woman!!  She loves to explore. 

The month of November was fun and busy.

  Thanksgiving break was

 awesome, and the food was delicious like always!

Right before Thanksgiving the boys and I went to reptile fest at the science place.  Michael had fun touching all the snakes, we got some special pictures of frogs for Grandma, and Aiden had his first fight with a bleach blond kid lol.  Other than the snakes there were the old favorites including the whirly coin thing, the

 bubbles, and the water pit place.  But there were so many new things

 there and Michael had a blast.  

Right after Thanksgiving it was time for black Friday.  I was planning on getting up and sitting outside of target at 4am but kids make you tired.... and I was too

 exhausted to go out there and sit in the cold with the

 baby..... so I slept in.  I actually got up and went to target at  7 when I DIDN'T have to wait in line but I didn't know if my stuff would be there but

 amazingly it was.  Somehow I ended up buying more stuff for me than for the rest of the family.  I did end up buying

 Aiden a "Santa" present.  That will be his only present for the year since he doesn't know what Christmas is all about..... no not gifts.... JESUS!!!  But he still doesn't understand that he gets gifts too.  So one gift will be enough because I spent too much $$$ on Michael's gift which will be discussed in a later paragraph.  Later that day I drug my Mom out to Town East Mall which was... ... crazy

 unbelievable.  Somehow I managed to get a spot somewhat near the door of Sears and even though my Mom warned me

 that I might get towed away I assured her that we were in a spot where we wouldn't get towed

 away.  So we went in Sears, got pushed around, only to figure out that they didn't have what we want and that the sale didn't last all day anyway.  Before we left we were able to see Santa an

d get some good pictures of the boys, there was absolutely no line too see him, which was surprising considering how full the mall was.  THAT was all in November.  

The Sunday after Thanksgiving we hammered out our Christmas decorations.  We put up our tree, Christmas train, and

 Peter made me very happy by stringing the lights outside, it is GORGEOUS!!  AND SO MUCH FUN!!!  Then I got to start wrapping presents.  Did I say I love Christmas?  

So here we are now, and the only reason any of this is typed up is because I am telling Peter what to type because "I" am not very good at it and he is very fast, so thank you Peter my wonderfully

 handsome husband... who is rather drugged up

 on Nyquil and Tylenol PM.

This month is shaping up

 to be interesting as well.  Aiden wants to crawl so bad!!  I think he actually would rather walk around than crawl.  But I

 think no matter what he just wants to be able to follow big brother around.   Today was cute.

  I was singing to him and

 he started clapping.  I don't think he necessarily

did it on purpose, but it

 was cute either way.  He is still having texture

 issue

s when eating, and I

 know he wants to eat what we eat.  He can't

 handle anything that h

as

 a gooey texture.  He loves things that crunch and are harder, but he gags on anything that is mushy.  He hates baby food and actually likes the taste of the grownup food, but he still gags on that

 too.  Nursing is getting to the point where I am ready, but not ready.  Anyone understand that?

Michael is Michael.  He has all of a sudden grown his own little attitude in the last month or so.  Not just regular Michael attitude, but Michael times four attitude, with all of the faces and extra mad noises free of charge.  He is a curious, lively little boy that drives me up the walls.  That being said, I laugh at him more than anything.  He is a funny little crazy thing with enough energy to power a whole city.

For the month of October and November I was feeling very drained.  This month is a little better, and I do think it has something to do with all the money I've been spending and the fact that I get to give people gifts!!!!  I love this time of year, and I love buying things for other people and giving them presents.  I have even given my parents their gifts early!!  It drives Peter absolutely crazy that I have already given them their gifts but I love it!! I see them use them or wear them and just smile.

I am excited to give Michael his SANTA present this year.  He has been asking for a long time for one of those really expensive power wheels cars.  I found one on craigslist for a quarter of the price.  I just know that he will love it!!  So going to have to record the reaction!!!!  

Did I mention that I love love love Christmas??

More cute pics!!