Catching up ...again

I took some pics the other day, this was the best I got, at least they were both looking at me.

We've been having alot of fun this year, Squirt is so excited for Christmas, he walks around saying "I can not wait... I can not wait" and I'm probably the only one who understands it, but it's cute. He saw a train in a catalog, it's a Diego- Animal rescuer train and it's all he talks about. and he says things like "When Santa brings me my Choo Choo..." the problem is that Santa is NOT bringing him his Choo Choo. I hope he forgets about it when he opens his other presents. Squirt walked up to me the other day and said "Is Daddy Santa?" I said yup and he said okay and walked away. I don't know where that one came from but it was funny. Little Man does his usual... he fills all the pillowcases in the house and all the stockings with toys and plays Santa over and over again. Phrases that can often be heard are: Little Man where is the remote? Little Man where is my watch? belt, keys... if it's missing there's a good chance it's wrapped somewhere. He's already been told once this year (at school) that there is no Santa, but he blew it off and made a face like the kid was a complete moron. So we dodged that bullet for one more year.

I'll start getting caught up more frequently now, because I have my internet back. I canceled it about 6 weeks ago to save money, my theory here was that I'll just do all my banking, blogging, etc. at work, because I always have time. The problem was that I'd get busy and forget to do things like pay my credit card bill and renew some movies from the library. So in my efforts to save $29.99 a month, I spent about $45 in late fee's. So I gave up and got my internet back. I feel like my long lost friend is back!!

I added a few things below, sorry I've been a little video happy.

Dear Santa...

... our list just grew significantly longer!

When a 5 year old pee's his pants...

On Saturday's I have to bring my kids to work. We have to be here at 7am, So i just pick my kids up out of bed and bring them. If I have enough fore-thought I might bring clothes to change them into, but as I am usually just dragging myself out of bed, that's not very often. We're the only people there on Saturday's so it's just not a big deal. Well today I didn't bring clothes. About an hour into the morning Little Man announces "Mom, I peed my pants" WHAT THE HECK?!?!? Squirt has managed to be accident free for 3 whole days, but HE peed his pants?? Well, I told him he could try and squeeze into some of Squirt's underware (which are the tiniest things you've ever seen) or he could wrap him self in a blanket while his clothes dry. Both of those options were STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!! He chose to just walk around butt naked (he still had his shirt on, but that was not giving the necessary coverage). I mean, Squirt never has clothes on but at least he's still in his diaper/underware. This is just more than anybody needs to see and his pants still aren't dry... He actually told ME that I need to be more prepared next time.

Here's a little video of Squirt talking, sorry, he doesn't have clothes on, but then again he never does.



Now that he's talking we're kindof missing the days of silence. Last night he came out of the bedroom at about 9pm and this was our conversation:
Squirt: Bubby asleep. (that's what he calls Little Man)
Me: okay, go back to bed
Squirt: Mommy, I got talk to you
Me: about what?
Squirt: I hungry

He then stayed out and watched TV with me (he had a really late nap) and every time I laughed he's say "Mommy that funny?" and then he'd start laughing. He's such a sweet little boy!

My most forgiving husband...

I always cut my boys hair because frankly I'm not paying almost $20 for someone to shave my boys head. So a couple months ago Hubbie decided he too was feeling to cheap and let me try it... and I did a great job. Yesterday he asked me to cut his hair, so I got out the clippers and went to town. I was using a '2' on the sides, well because of the layout of our bathroom, I couldn't fit around Hubbie sitting in a chair, so I figured I'd do one side and then the other. So I started with the '2' on one side, then took it off and trimmed the edges with just the bare trimmers. Well I then climbed over him to do the other side (you see where this is going don't you?!?!). Well at that exact moment I heard a crash and a yell from the living room, so I went running to rescue Squirt (nothing too catastrophic happened) and came back picked up the clippers and started shaving. Wait, did you miss the part where I said I took the '2' off?? Yeah, well I didn't put it back on, and started cutting again!!!!!! One good swipe of his hair made me gasp, and then hit the ground, I was laughing (to keep from crying) while Hubbie was turning red in the chair. Once he took a breathe and I regained my composure, he told me I better fix this NOW! So I had to shave all the side (totally buzz cut). I think I made it look good but it is soooo short, like military short. While trying to rescue the situation he says to me "I know it was an accident. I'm not mad." Can you believe that? He wasn't even mad. I mean, if he did that to me I'd have killed him and then told him to pack his bags. To top it all off, we were having dinner with his family that night and everyone that walked in the door was like "Wow, your hair is really short" and then he had to tell them the story. It was pretty awful.

Here we go again...

We're potty training again today for a couple of reasons. One, this morning I said "Let's go get another BABY diaper" and Squirt said "Hey, I no baby!" So when I gave him the option of underwear or diaper he chose the underwear (after a serious internal struggle, he stood there staring for almost a whole minute, trying to decide) were on our second pair but that's okay.

Now, reason #2. Are you ready for this? I'm warning you, it's gross...
I was at work the other day (he comes with me) and he was off playing, when all of the sudden he brings me a diaper, covered in poop but with out any actual poop in it. So I scream and demand him to show me where the poop was, I shouldn't have asked, because he took me to the "play room" and showed me his art work, he had painted the door and carpet by the door with poop. I thought this was the worst it could get, but boy was I wrong. This happened the next day at work too. Then one day at home I'm cooking dinner and realize Squirt is being really quiet, I go into the living room, all of 6 feet from where I was cooking, and realize he is PAINTING MY SECTIONAL WITH POOP. Okay, this was worse... so I cleaned it up. Then it happened at work the next day and then at home again. This time I found him in the corner in his room, shoved between a book shelf and a toy box. He had smeared poop over probably 20 toys, the wall, the carpet, the bookshelf... I had to scrub the toys, the ones that were electronic don't work anymore. This time Daddy helped clean him up, apparently I'm not firm enough, because it might have gotten thru his thick little head. It happened one more time. He came to me and said "I pooped" so I went to check his diaper and realized he didn't have one on, but he had pants on. So I told him to show me where his diaper was, he then took me to the bathroom and pointed to the garbage, he had actually taken it off and thrown it away. So then I went in his room and realized there was a little bit of poop on his closet door, it kindof seemed like he started to make a mess and then realized that he wasn't supposed to so he threw it away and came and got me. That was 5 days ago. He hasn't done it since. Now don't you just want to come visit me knowing that??

I'm updating today

'cause that's what I do when I'm stuck at work on a Saturday. Just don't tell my boss:)
So scroll down and see what we've been up to lately!

Halloween

My Little Bumble Bee (the transformer) and Superman. They had so much fun trick or treating, except Squirt got scared to death at the first house so I ended up having to carry him the whole time. He says "Up and Away" too but wouldn't say it until we got home, where only I could hear him!


This is the grumpy side of superman. This was shortly after he tried to "FLY" off the stage (at our ward trunk or treat) and crash landed.






Little Man really embraced the fact that Halloween was only about Candy!

Pumpkin Fun

We elected to paint our pumpkins this year, mainly because Little Man said he wanted to use the "big knife" to carve his and I just didn't think that was the best idea.

Here is Squirt painting, he got to use watercolors and still managed to make the biggest mess. He still had fun though, although the watercolors didn't really work all that well.


Here is Little Man, he had a blast as well. Never under- estimate the mess your children will make with paint. He managed to get purple paint all over his jeans, fortunatly I saw him do it, so I was able to strip him down to his underware and throw them in the wash- the paint actually came out!



Hubbie joined in on the fun, although I believe he was saying "DON'T take my picture" here.



Don't forget about me! Mine has a nose ring and purple hair, I was feeling rebellious today!



Our Pumpkin family:

New Babies

Babies are so fun (especially when they belong to other people!!) and we've got to add 2 new one's to our family this month (well actually October, I'm just a little behind in blogging it)

My brother wife had a baby girl and she is just so beautiful and I can't wait to see her at Christmas time, I don't have any pictures of her but you can see her here. Her name is Olivia, or Baby Walla as Squirt calls her.

Then there is Baby Logan. This is Hubbie's sister's baby. He was born about 10 days after Olivia. He's super cute and so tiny. His 3 big sisters were so excited to welcome him to the world.

Little Man was so completely in love with him, and sat there rubbing his head the whole time we visited him at the hospital.