Diego may just get my son to pee! Go figure.

Robert just called me, Kade's Diego potty came in today and he's been sitting on it for the last "15 minutes." ( Robert's idea of 15 minutes is actually everyone else's 5 minutes - but whatever )
He seems to be very excited about it - however he just wants to sit and point his pee-pee down for now, but I don't care, he can pee upside down as long as it's not in a diaper / pull up at this point.
I'll report back with hopefully good news later! ( and a picture!! )

Hello.... some information please?!

So can you believe that Robert doesn't know what time he starts and his starting wage YET for Monday!???? It's freakin 5 days away! I've been having anxiety all week, I have some health issues that I can't deal with until Friday because this new doctor couldn't get me in, and now this... I can't handle much these days.

The positive: my kids are great and are so much each others best friends, it's amazing to watch and is exactly what I dreamed for when I found out I was pregnant with each subsequent child. I dread the day when they aren't this close, maybe it's possible they'll only go through little spurts of separation but will stay close most of the time?? We do so much kissing and cuddling and hugging and sharing - that doesn't have to stop when they get older does it?

This post makes me look crazy doesn't it? I feel that way today.

Unexpected Trip to California Adventure...

Cheryl called me at 3:45 ( like 4 times because I didn't answer, while I was getting a hair cut! ) on Friday and said that her 2 boys didn't want to go to Disneyland - and they had those park hopper tickets that were about to expire and asked if I wanted to take Kyla and Kade! For free? of course!!! So we threw ourselves together and actually went to California Adventure. I thought it would be horrible at first because Kade doesn't normally like all of the rides and characters but we had a fantastic perfect time. The weather was great, and we rode every age appropriate ride atleast twice with only 3-5 minute waits. I am so thankful that we go to test the waters like that. Cheryl brought her daughter Megan and the kids had a blast together. 1 of the pictures is horrible and you can barely tell what it is, but I had to put it in there so you could see them cracking up on the lady bug ride... we all were, we had no idea it was going to spin and jerk us around like that!

Dirt, popcorn and "where's Jack?"

First and most importantly - I am writing this because all 3 kids are in bed again!!!



Popcorn has always been a staple snack in our house, and now it's even better that Jack loves it. I just missed the picture of all 3 of them laying on their tummy's with this big bowl in the middle... but of course as soon as I grab the camera they have to change positions to say "cheese." The picture at the top is to remind me how cute Kade is because that is what saved him after he threw the popcorn all over the floor in the playroom!



This is a picture of the boys playing; "where's Jack?" We ask where Jack is and he covers his eyes - then throws his hands out as is to surprise us. All 3 of them went through doing that, and seem to think it's the funniest thing ever. The 2 boys are having much more bonding moments, I can only hope they are as close as Kyla and Kade are. ( Kyla still asks if she can be in Kades room - I feel so selfish for not switching them! )




We have this unlandscaped huge square trim of dirt around our basketball court in the backyard... Kyla and Kade love to dig in it and Jack just has kind of watched until today. This is what I walked out to! He had so much fun - he literally was throwing it up in the air like he would confetti or something and letting it fall on his face! Then I walked out and he was laying down in it... I bet he would love the snow, I wish we would have made it up there this year.

Did anyone else see those pigs flying last night?

my kids all fell asleep in their own beds before 9:30 last night! ( and the night before too... but not before 9:30 because Daddy was in charge while mommy was having margaritas )

Of course at 4:00 a.m. Kade comes into our bed - but I guess I can't ask for everything in 1 day.

Fun ( and exhausting ) weekend!

The birthday boy! ( who was constipated all day, then of course right before bed was a very happy Jack!! )


Kade doesn't eat cupcakes, he just picks the sprinkles off and eats those! (o:


Angie fixing Aubrey's hair after too much jumping.


My friend Amber and her husband Jim and girls!


Camryn watching the older kids having fun in the bouncer / slide!


Jeana and Abby at the party!


Ruby on the big slide


Trevor wanting to make sure he gets every bite (o:

We celebrated Jack's 2nd birthday party this weekend. We had a hot dog buffet, yummy margarita's, a bouncer that was a big hit and lots and lots of kids and friends!

We are so lucky to have so many friends to celebrate with, all of the kids seemed to have such a great time - I don't think I said more than 10 words to Kyla and Kade the whole day. We got an extra big bouncer with a climbing internal step and a slide that went down the side - I've never seen anything like it and my camera didn't capture the trail of children just waiting their turn to climb up the "steps"

The kids were jumping from the top to the middle of the slide, and doing somersaults down the slide, and going backwards, etc.. they are CRAZY! Kade was copying everything Brady was doing and was actually being daring - I'm so glad. He talked about Brady all night long!

Jack was in the bouncer all morning before the kids got there, and all night after they left... it was a little too active for him, he's not as daring as Taylor and Aubrey ( they are 1-2 months younger than him!! ) I wish I could have gotten a still picture of Jack after everyone sang happy birthday to him, the smile on his face and his clapping hands made my heart melt and the lack of sleep all worth it!

Everyone was SO generous with their gifts, Kyla and Kade even got b-day presents... I started out hiding them to make sure that they understood the concept of it being Jack's b-day, but of course that didn't last. We had a long night Sat. night and all day Sunday playing with the goodies!

MAY 5TH MAY 5TH MAY 5TH

Guess what May 5th is????????????????????

Robert officially starts back to work at Edison!!!! Yeay!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I haven't stopped smiling since I got the phone call - my on hold life can officially get off of hold and progress again (o:

Jack

I have to just say that Jack actually brings such a wonderful light hearted, the world is good, just be happy, "lighten up", love filled aura to my house it's amazing. He goes through his 2 yr old fits and moments, but his smile is from ear to ear and so genuine that I never want him to go so sleep - I want him to just keep laughing and kissing me and hugging me and smiling that beautiful wonderful innocent smile.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEANA!

I'm glad you felt better before your birthday came around!


Friday night I had a "movie night" at my house for some moms in my mom's group - about 9 of us were there and we watched Juno. Great movie! Robert moved the front couches into the back room and made us popcorn in our new popcorn maker before he took Kyla and Kade to my moms house for the length of the movie. We drank wine, ate junk food and actually revelled in the fact that we all got to watch an entire movie from start to finish in silence.... what an amazing concept!

The weather was so hot this weekend, it was a HORRIBLE time to have a garage sale, but the only one we really do anymore is the sponsered neighborhood block sale. We brought our stuff over to my moms house and although we thought it was a horribly slow day - we actually made quite a bit of money... so it's always nice when it's worth it. I hate them, I don't know why I participate - it must be part of the DNA I got from my mom, but it's paying for the b-day party so that's good.

Becky and Randy came over to bbq on Saturday night for our weekly dinner - the kids love their Auntie Becky who very graciously replaced their stolen soccer balls, which they slept with Friday night! I was so happy to see that Jack can run and kick the soccer ball across the yard too (o:

The kids spent lots of time between the pools and the a/c - and were unbelievably self entertaining, it was good timing for that for me, I can not snap out of being tired! Jack was so funny this weekend - he wanted the kids knee pads on his legs and got so upset when we took them off, I wish I would have gotten a picture. Kade spent 2 hours by himself outside doing a water project... I just stared at him out the window and was so impressed with the care and concern he was putting into filling up certain bowls, water guns, and carefully watering and cleaning various items throughout the back yard. SO CUTE. Don't you just marvel daily at the wonders of children?

Can I not get away from theives?

Seriously - it makes me so unbelievably mad that someone can steal from another person - ESPECIALLY when it's clearly for a child.

Becky works at Vizari and got my kids decorated soccer balls - someone stole them from off of our porch. Right next to a car seat that has been there for 3 weeks.
Robert was even home - his truck was in the driveway. He just didn't hear her knocking - but the theives didn't know he wasn't sitting right in the living room.

I'm just so irritated. I guess Mark Tafoya who lives 2 streets over just had his house actually broken into a week or so ago! Ang, I bet that doesn't happen in Mission Viejo! Robert said if we could afford to live anywhere and it had to be in California it would be Mission Viejo.

Anyway - I'm rambling. I'm tired and now I'm pissed.

some weeks are harder than others...

some of this might be repetitive...

Monday night: Kade is laying on Robert and he stretches his arms up and literally pokes Robert in the eye with his fingernail. It happened so quickly - we thought it was just a scratch and it was irritated but upon closer look, we could see an actual gouge out of his iris. GROSS. We patched him up and made him look like a pirate so the kids didn't freak out.
Tuesday: His eye is SO much worse, he can't look at any light and it's all swollen and red, etc... We get him an eye doctor appointment and the doctor said that he was 2mm away from having vision damage. He gave him antibiotic drops -
Through out Tuesday as well my mom tells me that she can't break Jack's fever and I should probably take him to the doctors. It finally breaks but I make him a doctors appt for Wednesday morning to see if his ear infection came back -
Tuesday 2:00 a.m. - I wake up to Kyla screaming and running around the house because she has to pee so bad and she's sleeping so she's disoriented. I take her to my bathroom and she SCREAMS and crys the whole time she is peeing saying that it's burning. I thought perhaps it was just her tummy hurting from holding it too long.
Wednesday: Jack's appt was at 9:00 a.m. and Robert was supposed to be able to take him, but he can't drive because it's too bright and it's killing his eye. I reschedule his appt for 4:30 and take him myself. No ear infection - must just be settling of a bad cold / infection but if it doesn't clear up he'll need antibiotics by Saturday.
I decide I need a break and tell Robert he's watching the boys and I invite myself and Kyla out to dinner with my parents to Domenico's on 2nd street... all is going well UNTIL Kyla says she has to go to the bathroom - we get in there she must have remembered that it hurt to pee and starts totally freaking out and kicking and refusing to go - begging me not to make her go. We leave the restaurant and my parents take me and Kyla to urgent care. My mom stays with us because Kyla begged her to ( did I mention the 15 minutes of sreaming: I DON'T WANT TO GO TO THE DOCTORS!, DON'T MAKE ME GO that absolutely broke my heart ) They get us in in 30 minutes and of course she has to pee in cup. We actually had to restrain her and it took 15 minutes to get her to go. It was unbelievably sad.
She has a really bad bladder / UTI ( they said it's the same, I didn't know that ) They gave her antibiotics but said she wont feel better for a couple of days.
She insisted that she stay at my moms house last night - which I was so glad because my mom said that she had 4 accidents through out the night and screamed with each one... she would have woke up the boys if she was home.
I wont even mention how work has been - but lets just say it's been about equal to how it's been at home

My husband is a Pirate!

Monday night Kade was laying on Robert, nearly asleep and stretched his arms out above his head... instantly Robert jumps off of the couch and says that Kade poked him in the eye. It was red and watery and I figured it had to just be a scratch that would annoy him for a few days. After closer inspection, Kade had actually taken a little gouge out of Roberts iris. Literally - there was a like a little flap of it detatched from his eye. Gross huh.
We put a make shift eye patch on his eye and tied it with a scarf. He refused to let me take a picture for the blog, but the kids asked him why he was pretending to be a pirate! lol
He wouldn't go to the emergency room because he thought an eye doctor would be more qualified - stubborn.
I got him an appointment yesterday and turns out the eye is the fastest healing thing on your body and he should be ok in a couple of days. The doctor did say though that he was 2mm away from having vision damage. He got some antibiotic drops to put in every 2 hours and has to go back today to see what kind of damage was caused. Yuck!
Jack has had a fever the last couple of days, so I think his ear infection is back and he has an appt this morning to see and Robert was supposed to take him because I can't miss work today but now he doesn't know if he can drive - so what to do?!?!?! All other options are already occupied. You know though, if he goes he wont have an ear infection, and if he doesn't go, he'll continue to be in pain - typical.

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!

FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY! ROBERT WILL BE BACK TO GETTING UP EVERY SINGLE MORNING AND GOING TO WORK! He just passed a test, and scored high enough that they will let him pick his facility. He just has to go through a quick technical 15 minute interview, but should be starting by early May.
This isn't the job that he is actually pursuing for long term but it's getting him back in with a little bit of extra money even.
This has been a very long 16 months.
We've gone through stuff like this before with his previous jobs or lack there of, but once he got into Edison, I thought that was all behind me... all it takes is a damn knee surgery and my love of stability is thrown out the window again. Granted, we couldn't have had all of the side jobs, moving would have been 1000x worse, and he wouldn't have gotten to spend so much time with the kids - but I'm over it and ready to have him appreciate the working world again (o;

Overanalyzing is going to be the death of me someday!

So you would think that I was planning a wedding or something with how rediculous I have been on trying to decide what to do for the 3 kids and celebrating their birthday's this year.

Back and forth back and forth, and my mom is even worse! She would call me every day with a different suggestion and thought on what to do and it was driving me nuts.

We agreed we weren't up for 2 big parties 2 months in a row that was step one. Now, what to do besides that is what killed me. Kyla has been wanting a princess party, but the other night I asked her if she felt like just doing something special for her birthday with mom and dad and she said, and I quote: " Sure, that sounds good - lets just go out for dinner." SHE IS SO MY DAUGHTER, I LOVE IT. I giggled and asked if she's sure she didn't want to do something more exciting. She thought again and said: "Well, I really liked Disneyland and that's bigger. I want to take Kade this time though."
I told Robert that and a few days later he basically insisted that he and I just take K & K to Disneyland. This literally felt like he ripped my heart out because Jack wouldn't be with us. He tried to reassure me that he wouldn't know the difference right now, but I didn't care. I said he will know when he's 10 and wants to look at old pictures and asks what we did for his 2nd birthday ( being I have a million pictures from both Kyla and Kade's 2nd birthdays )
Sooo... finally deciding on having Jack's b-day be celebrated when we have our bbq has given my over analyzing, over protective, over stressed brain a breather and I'm so glad!
On to Kade: I haven't been pushing the potty training, but Jeana has inspired me. Kade's answer to every time I ask him to pee is: I already went in the toilet once, and I'll go when I'm bigger. So what I'm going to do now I think is measure him and act like he's bigger every day and be specific that I need him to go pee in EVERY toilet, not just our old one and see if that helps. He's almost at the point of being in trouble for not going but I really really really wanted to avoid that - it feels like it would cause him to rebel because that's just what he does.

The most beautiful pictures I've ever seen...

These are my baby's 1st two experiences with crayons. He usually just throws my hand out of the way.
I'm so proud of him!!!! he's really catching up nicely... so many little things I notice during the day that he didn't used to do even 1-2 weeks ago. Just now I glanced back and saw him climb up onto the couch so he could sit by his daddy. Normally he would just be happy wandering. He also has to sit by his brother and sister at the little table now, and hates his highchair. He also finally held a spoon and fed himself some applesauce the other day ( this also used to get thrown across the room when I tried to give it to him )
I'm just so happy to see his progressions and had to share!!!