GO COWBOYS!!!

Football has been great this year!!!! ( besides the lack of napping children due to screams on Sundays ) Just hoping that Romo lives up to his reputation of being a young Brett Favre and his youth outshines Favre's age... I mean experience!

I'm going to VEGAS

Maria and I are going to Las Vegas on December 6-8th, and I CAN NOT wait!!

It was totally spontaneous and some of her family will be there, but I need it and can't believe I'm actually getting away. The funny thing of course, I will miss my kids SO much after the first night away - I'm kind of looking forward to that missing feeling though, so I figure it's a win/win situation...lol

STOP THE SCREAMING

Can't they just STOP screaming, yelling, crying and whining all at the same time?!?!?!?! Seriously.
Ok, that's it for now.

Great Weekend!

We had a wonderful weekend! ( way too short though! )

Jack finally took his first trip around the block on a push tricycle and is learning how to climb up the slide and slide down by himself.. he laughs and laughs on the swing with his brother and sister and has a new found love of dancing and tapping his feet really loudly. I just want him to talk! He probably feels like he couldn't get an word in edge-wise so he's just enjoying his thoughts and quiet time. We expect him to just blurt out sentances any day now.

Kyla has taken up computer games... she knows how to open & close windows, drag and drop with the mouse, navigate between the keyboard and the mouse and go between activities and games and follow instructions... all SELF taught. We showed her the mouse and how to click it... that's it. She scares us sometimes. ( I do use this new found love for disciplinary action as well - finally something that might work on her whiny argumentative additute ) She also performs for us now, she sings 'Everything' by Buck Cherry and a beautiful Transyberian Orchestra Christmas song, as well as Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer - love it! And I took her to see her first movie at the big movie theater - we saw Bee Movie, and she LOVED it! She sat there like such a big girl the whole time in awe!

Kade really wants to be potty trained, but he just can't seem to get it to happen when he is actually doing his pelvic thrust towards the toilet. He'll stand there for 5 minutes, but no pee is actually hitting the water. Oh well, it's got to happen sometime right?? He likes to sing with his sister and hates to be away from her. His new saying is: "good morning sunshine" and he gives the best most wonderful kisses in the world. He knows we love them though, so he's very stingy with them and sometimes only passes them out when he wants something - like his favorite thing in the whole world: GUM. He thinks he's handy manny from the Disney Channel and will "fix" anything you ask him to. Robert gave him a piece of wood and put holes in it so he could screw in real screws with a real screw driver and gave him a big tape measure. You would have thought he was building a house... he was very serious about taking the right measurements and everything was "fifty-twenty inches" LOL

Hope everyone got lots to eat and enjoyed the time with their families. (o:

My split personality

By the "Bonfire"

He loves his brother!

His new found talent of cutting with scissors

So that last post left me feeling yucky.... this is what I do. I get it off my chest, then realize I'm being too negative and I need to focus on good things and switch my personality to being happy and want to then talk about the happy stuff. See how much money I save from not going to therapy... I just hurt the brains of my husband and friends by asking them to keep up with my thought processes.

I just tried to find a picture to go with my last negative post, and while looking through them all I smiled over and over about the wonderful moments I've captured of the very subjects that I complain about. If I was sleeping more, I would miss the newest things:

We thought Jack may have some autistic tendancies ( I am not one to jump on the band-wagon of something is wrong w/ my kid but some of it was pretty obvious for awhile - and he was very behind on many things) BUT... he is really progressing finally and now can successfully go up and down my parents back steps by himself, he interacts and plays and laughs with his brother and sister, he always responds when called now, he drinks only from a cup, he points to our noses and is starting to follow directions. He gives kisses and can master any toy put in front of him. He still doesn't talk, at all but he will. We've decided he's just absorbing everything and any day now, he's just going to recite a novel. LOL

Kyla has a new favorite song. It's called "Everything" by Buck Cherry. She totally rocks it. She sings everyword in the tune of the song and ideally dances around while singing like she's in a mosh pit or something. Kade is even starting to sing the chorus with her. She can write a full page of words if I spell the unknown words out for her and she is an expert "cutter"

Kade has learned to use scissors as well, he is so proud! As am I. He now jumps with 2 feet every where he possibly can. He jumps from high places to low places, he jumps over everything on the floor and trys to stack things up to jump over them. His brain thinks faster than he can talk and so sometimes his words come out too fast and are hard to understand, but as his mommy I can usually interpret very well. Although he does beat up his sister atleast once a day, he LOVES her and his brother very much. When Kyla isn't there, he must call her on the phone- one time they talked for 15 minutes! It was the most wonderful heart warming thing in the world. He likes to clean and have things in their place. I LOVE that.

Oh, and the good thing about it getting dark at 5:00 is that my kids love "bonfires" as they call them. Any kind of fire outside is called a bonfire. They love getting bundled up and sitting on big huge chairs around the fire (o:

OK, I feel much better now.

Am I allowed to complain?

Do I get to complain about how hard things are sometimes, or am I supposed to just keep my mouth shut because that's a mom's job, and because my kids are 1,2, & 3 and my husband is well... a man. OR.... can I sometimes complain that:

There is some sort of hidden pixie dust in Kyla & Kade's room that they are hiding from me that they breathe in at exactly 8:00 p.m. every single night. This pixie dust isn't mom-friendly and relaxing pixie dust. This pixie dust is some form of baby red bull that turns my children into hyper-active, lets see who can make the most noise and bounce off of the most walls type of kids. Now let me just clarify that I do not give my kids juice, not even watered down juice past 7:00 p.m. Their snacks consist of non-sugar type of food and water is their beverage. Robert however see's fit to completely "forget" what time it is and let them split something like a bag of fruit snacks or something ( sometimes ) with the claim that: "there can't possibly be that much sugar in a few fruit snacks" My response being: "it is PURE sugar, how else would it stay together!" The lights turn off through out the house, we read books and do some puzzels. We brush our teeth and get jammies on, we watch Dora or Diego under covers and on cozy pillows - do you think that those calming activities will counter act the pixie dust - NO! Of course not.

And what's with teething? Seriously, why can't kids just have their teeth and be able to eat steak with the rest of us when they are about 6 months old. I'll even stretch it to 12 months old. I can handle 1 yr, but after that - the teething should be done. My poor happy Jack is NOT happy about the pain he is in. My 3 kids also have this wonderful stomach issue with Motrin ( which by the way is the only thing that seems to really help their teeth pain ) they get constipated. So... I can alleviate the pain from their teeth to give them a tummy ache or deal with the mouth pain. Normally I help their mouth and then O.D. them on pears and other types of poop-enducing food. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Anyone else HATE the fact that it gets dark at 5:00 p.m? Outside play time in the evening is something that is VERY good for my pshyce. Now it's gone.... I only have to wait until when, March for it to come back?? Can't we get rid of the time change thing?

Robert's workman's comp doctor is my next complaint. He is an idiot. We thought we liked him at the time of the surgery and how he let him stay out of work for extra time for safety measures, etc.. etc.. - however he has been trying to get back into a re-training program for 2 months now and this idiot doctor keeps writing words like "probably" and "might" on his reports instead of "permanent" and otherwise applicable words that confirm Robert CAN NOT speed walk for 8 miles a day anymore. We have specifically told him this several times, and so Robert finally wrote out what he should say and handed it to him, so he could actually write the correct wording on the report. My god, disability and the process of having your husband home for a full YEAR is NOT fun. I'm done with it.

I'm just tired. I'm tired of being tired and not having any motivation or energy, I used to be very very motivated and energetic... I'm tired of things being difficult and I'm tired of wishing things weren't hard. I think I need to figure out a way to not be so tired of being tired and stop complaining???? Maybe next year. hehehe

Do I have a 3 yr old or a 10 year old... ?

I think I missed the last 7 years. Seriously. You wouldn't believe what a drama queen my daughter is. You know she doesn't get it from her mom... heehee. When something bothers Kyla it is so dramatic she could win an Oscar. She makes you believe that she is literally in pain from her heart breaking. The subjects of her heartache vary, but the most consistent would be not being with her daddy. She acts like she's never going to see him again when he goes to the store, or she gets dropped off at meme's house. ( last month she couldn't be away from meme, and acted like we were the plague ) If Robert drops her off and she looks at him like he just left her at an orphanage and she's never going to see him again. She cries and screams until her eyes are so swollen she can't barely see. Yes - she does this. SO of course, he usually gives in and takes her back if there is even a 1% chance she can go with him to do what he needs to do for the day. The other day he went to the store for 5 minutes without her and she went and laid on her bedroom floor, face down, and said that she "just needed to be alone." Then she asked why her daddy would leave her and why doesn't he love her anymore. Yeah - fun stuff. She also does this sometimes when she can't find her dress up shoes to match her 12th outfit of the day because if she doesn't find the right shoes they wont let her "into the ball" and she's already "running late." I could go on and on, but you probably get the point. I matter sometimes, and get an obligatory hug once in awhile. (o: