Away To Me

That no work

Jake took a monster header off the couch onto the coffee table today. Ten minutes later he'd tossed the ice I gave him and was fine. He limps into the kitchen and says, "I going to fly mommy". I said, "Well let me know if you sprout some wings". Dumb, dumb mommy thing to say.

Five minutes later I hear a crash, bang - splat followed by, "that no work".

Twas the Night Before Christmas

Jake's literary choices for this evening ... Twas The Night before Christmas and Walter the Farting Dog.

 

The stockings are hung. The cookies & brownie are set out for Santa. The milk is poured for him and in the fridge. The Reindeer food is out on the front porch. The babies are sleeping and Jake is fighting off sleep, excited that Santa will be here tonight!

 

Merry Christmas from our family to you and yours. May all your Christmas wishes come true.

Seriously - Bah Humbug doesn't mean I'm depressed

Geeze people, relax. I'm not depressed. I'm tired, I was sick and I've got a lot on my plate, but I'm fine. No wonder I've not been blogging very much. LOL!

For the record. I got 90% of the presents wrapped tonight. We do have  a tree and it is beautifully decorated. Although we are keeping it on the front porch so the babies don't destroy it. I also have multi-colored lights and garland on the mantle and Christmas decor in the kitchen and bathroom. Oh and a wreath on the front door. So there!

Christmas cards got finished today. The photos on them suck, but hey, I got 3 kids and one out of 3 dogs in the picture and they don't have any stains on their shirts and nobody is crying. I call that success.

I made stock today for the Gumbo we are going to have on Christmas day. It should be yummy and I suspect this may turn out to be a new tradition for us. The house smells so good today just from making the stock. Jake walked inside and said, "smells good mom. You did a good job. Good job mom, I'm proud of you". Then he waves to me and heads back outside. I about wet my pants I laughed so hard. I tell you this kid is either making me cry from laughing or cry from biting my tongue and pulling my hair out!

Here's a pic of Jake the first time he met Santa. We went to the zoo on Saturday night and he was there. It was the first time Jake ever met Santa. Such a fine time!

And of course the babies had to meet him. Nathan ... not a fan yet. Wesley was just trying to figure out why Nathan was upset.

My kid swims and my dog dunks!

Jake is officially a swimmer. It makes me relax just a tad. If he should ever fall in a pool, I know he's safe to make it to the side. But gosh I hope he never has access to the pool without us! 

Children's Museum

We took Jake to the Children's Museum. It was a blast! In fact, it was so much fun we bought an annual membership. The sucky thing is I can't take the stroller into the main gallery part of the museum. But, I'm strong, I can leave the stroller near the entrance and I can set the carriers down at each station and play with Jake. I'm going to make it work.

My cousin, my aunt and my cousin's son are coming to visit me on Wednesday. I can't wait! Her son is 5 years old and he and Jake should have a blast at the Children's Museum. And bonus, with our 3 annual passes that we bought yesterday, (one for me, one for daddy and one for Jake) we got 3 free passes. So my family can go for free! 

Jake was such a good boy there yesterday. He enjoyed each area of play. They have a young chef's program that I'm going to take him to starting at the end of the month. If I can find a sitter, I'm going to leave the twins with a sitter while I take Jake, just mommy and Jake time. He needs that, even though he is so amazing with his big brothers. 

Here are a few pics. The last one is of Nathan wearing his One Fish, Two Fish shirt that Susan sent the boys. We packed up most of our books, but at the Museum yesterday we happened across the book. Such a coincidence that I had to take a pic. Wesley was wearing Horton Hears a Who shirt, but I couldn't get a good pic of him. 

Girlfriends and Poop

Oh my this is lol funny!

I must be doing something right

Today Jake lost one of his matchbox cars under the hutch. I gave him a long handled spatula in the hopes that he could slide it out from under. Well, he didn't get his car out but he got a huge amount of dust bunnies. Actually it is dog hair attached to dusty bunnies. What does my brilliant, helpful boy do? He asked me for the "brush". Confused I watch him head to the cabinet that holds my dust pan and hand broom. He then cleaned up all of my dust bunnies. What  a kid! 

Sea World

First I give you the video: Then some pics! We had a great time. It's hard with infant twins to do a lot of things because they are limiting stroller access and Nathan hates slings. But we made it work and really it was all about Jake and his experience. He loved it!

Rowdy Saturday Night Rumble in Jake's room!

Please take notice of Gracie spitting out Moose's hair that she had in her mouth from snapping Moose!

I did a good mommy thing!

Jake gave me a homemade bracelet for Mother's Day. The crayon rubs off and colors my arm, makes it look bruised but I love it and I love that he loves that I wear it. All the kids in his school made them for their moms.

When I picked him up from school on Monday I wore the bracelet. One of his classmates said, "Jake, your mom is wearing her bracelet". Then all the other kids noticed and I heard little remarks: "that's cool"; "my mommy put hers on the 'frigerator' " "you did a good job Jake" (said by one of the older girls that always seems to help him). He was so proud that I wore the bracelet. 

It made me feel like a good mommy that I picked him up from school wearing that bracelet, crayon smudges on my arms and all. I didn't think it would be that big of a deal, but the pride on my boy's face was the most amazing present of all. 

 Today when I picked him up from school. One of the kids said, "Hey you aren't wearing bracelet".  I said, "It's in the car, I"m going to wear it when we go to the market". ( very much an untruth). But hey, maybe I will wear it when I go to the market!