Desperate Times

     Looking into the fridge at the empty soda shelf, she slowly draws her eyes to that last bottle of CranApple, stored away from signs of smelly pees of past.
The battle begins, between the gallon of water that has been her constant heavy lifting of the day, and the concentrated juice.  Her desire for taste of anything flavored finally wins, as she defeatedly grabs the bottled CranApple.  She twists off the lid and plugs her nose and sips the tart juice.
     Desperate times call for desperate measures. It also calls for some better tasting juice *makes mommy "you better get that done" eyes at the Ocean Spray company.




Ps. Googling for a cool sounding name for UTIs (what? UTI wasn't dramatic enough) I came up with only
"the newlywed disease".  Among other options of search results was unique child names- Uti.  Why people WHY?  
And now I shall go sip my CranApple and revel in the quietness that only comes at 11:33 pm... if I'm lucky.

Food in the house with two toddlers

Oh these Kids! lol... 
    Will has finally gotten to the point that he's eating a lot more, especially when he likes it. Zayden eats pretty good, but he likes to take his time. 
     So if theyre not eating in their high chairs, Will has started that when he finished his food, he goes to see if Zayden has food left, which he always does, and Will tries to take it for himself. Zayden has decided that he doesn't like this, but Zayden works by priority, so priority at first is eating, but when Will starts coming, it becomes "keep food afraid from Will!"
     Today, watching them play this out while theyre both eating a bread and butter "sandwich" on their beds. Will starts crawling over. Zayden throws his drink down and starts stuffing his sandwich into the corner of the bed to protect it. I pulled out such a gooey mess. lol. Still trying to work on Will realizing all he has to do is ask mommy for more. oy.

Gonna have to get creative

Well needless to say, as the subject is, but I'm going to have to start getting creative, in many aspects.
Number one, Its summer break, and even though Will is only 3, me and him both were getting used to him going to school.  Now he needs new entertainment, and I need new ideas for getting the stuff that I need done, done.  And having a one and 1/2 year old in the mix, complicates it even more.  I just don't know how others do this?  My house is getting messy. lol.

Number two, discipline.  Now this is an odd one.  We've never had this problem before, the boys even though they push it as much as they can, they know when its done and they will stop and behave themselves when it comes down to it.  This problem stems from their room, which they share right now.  There is blinds, a set of black curtains and a set of sheer blue curtains.  The boys won't leave them alone!  I've already come down to the fact that when we move out of the apartments that we're going to have to buy a replacement set of blinds, because they're so bent up from the boys messing with them.  But the issue here is how to get them to stop!  I've tried just about everything I could think of, and did each one- I did a few times!  Spankings, talkings, time-out, i tried it all.  This one is gonna take a little more thought.

Number three, CLEANING! yuck.  I despise cleaning.   But trying to clean while I have these hyperactive boys is getting to be impossible. I'm not even going to elaborate on this one. lol.

Number four, meals.   This is a lot harder than you think.  Oddly, even though I was the oldest child of 5 for awhile, I just cant seem to get the cooking down.  Its just not easy for me to cook meals, without feeling as if it's repetitious, and months that I am all about over it, I just cant get to the store for the shopping list- to get it done.  Might have to go the way many mommy bloggers do, and make a meal plan section up in here.

Well, this blog seems to be going all over the place. So I think I'll take a break, publish it, and just come back and edit it after dinner and babies' bed time.  Till then,  TaTaForNow. (TTFN)  Tootles.

Confidence to walk is an increase in all confidence areas!

ZayZay is now walking around quite a bit.   The only step he needed, was to find his confidence, and he finally did.  And this same confidence that he found to help him walk though, extends over many areas.  To make it simply put, he's become part monkey.  There is countless times now, that I have walked into the room he is in, to find him on top of something, be it their desk, or this train table.  

When he wants to be on my lap on the couch, instead of just going around anything in the way, he goes over.  The worse part of this, is he wants to use the tote that my laptop sits on (that is my temporary desk)to climb up and across.  I'm guessing it's because the couch isnt as firm or sturdy to climb up the side of as the tote is, so at least he's smart about what he's climbing on? lol.  But I do fear for my laptop's life now.  Another thing I fear for, is the increase in gray hairs this child is going to give me! 

So this month's lesson, walking brings out the monkey in my children!

When it's pointless to clean...

Well, we've had our own place for almost two months now. It's definetly a nice thing to have. I have been doing pretty well keeping it clean for the most part. The kitchen is usually my downfall and the most messy room. It's the room the kiddos usually don't go in, so the floor isn't bad, it's the icky dishes I have a problem with (it'd probably help if I would gt dishwasher soap).
One room that I seem to be constantly cleaning is the boy's room! Because of Wills low weight, one thing I do is during the day I have a bowl of dry (Dora) cereal where he can get to it, so he can have something to munch on at all times. The only downfall is 1/8th of the cereal ends up around the room and in his bed. So about once a week I have to bring the broom and dustpan to their room and sweep. Then I have to put all the toys back in their correct toy bins and try and put clothes in the dresser. Well, I have come to a conclusion- if Will is in the room, there's no point in even trying. Convincing him to help only lasts so long, every toy that you touch he suddenly remembers how great it is and how bad he needs to play with it, and clothes... Well let's just say a 3 yr old thinks he can fold and put each thing where it should be- but that's far from the truth.
Today I did try and clean, despite both boys in the room, I did pretty well if I say so myself, even rearranged nicely, but my sanity... That was the cost.

BEFORE

AFTER

Boys really do stink- A dirty dark part of kids.

Well this morning Daddy had to work at 10, meaning he left about 9:15.
Fact- both boys were awake.
Fact- it was extremely cold outside and inside.
Fact-no socks on kids equals cold toes/feet.
Fact- everyone in this little family of 4 suffers from allergies.
Fact- we all got in my bed this morning after daddy left.

SnuggleTime!

Well needless to say, I had children boogers on my pillows and also on my blanket and sheets, by the time we left the bed.
 And the smell actually took be back, when we used to be close to a family at the church quite a long time ago while I was still in middle school. They had 3 boys, and I remember always thinking how bad their rooms stunk, and sometimes them too. Now I know... Boys really do smell/stink, especially their boogers!  Not very pleasant at all.  But the snuggling and playing in the bed, mighta just been worth it :)  Gotta love mommy love ❤

And today I Learned...

... Apparently the longer a child plays with a "child proof" bottle, the less child proof if it becomes.



Zayden was using a small bottle of allergy pills as a rattle while me & him walked to get the mail. Needless to say, when I got to the door of the house, I had a bunch of little pink pills to pick up. Either I have an extremely smart talented little baby, or childproof isn't too accurate of a term.
So as a word of precaution, lol, don't take childproof too seriously.