Jack peed!!!

Well just as soon as I say that I could care less right now about potty training Jack, my little man comes up to me last night after his bath and says: "Pee in the toilet mom." ( he has NEVER peed in the toilet up until now. The timing was off all 1000000 times we tried )

I said ok, let's try - and wouldn't you know it... he stood there like a big boy and peed like he had been doing it for years!

Well alrighty then.

He peed 3 more times that night, and this morning when I woke him up to take him to the car I asked if he wanted to go pee in the toilet, and out of his dead sleep - he said "yep" and jumped up and peed again!

I'm sure this is a total fluke thing, because I can't be that lucky, but it sure feels good today!

Have I said lately that I can't believe my baby is going to be 3 in 4 days?

M.I.A.

I'm finding myself getting to that stage that I always talk to my blogging friends about - where if you wait too long to blog you feel slightly overwhelmed in starting back up again.... so I'm taking 10 minutes to force myself to post something (o: disclaimer: It will probably be ALL over the place, but that's where I'm at right now!!!


My office moved locations - just a mile up the street but when you are in charge of the move and your upper management is in N. California and hard to get ahold of - it doesn't make for the smoothest of processes. I worked late nights, a Saturday and we are still working the kinks out. Boy it sure makes the day go by faster though, that's for sure!


I had some REALLY bad days with the kids too. I wish I already forgot them, but there were some really trying moments that I remember and a bad situation that really was hard to swallow. My Kade can cause quite a stir sometimes, and I have never felt so many stares and judgements in my life as I did this past Sunday at a birthday party. I saw eyes being rolled, comments being said and even a direct comment to me in the form of: " well, you always know it's a party when your kids are here Shannon." It wasn't meant in a good way. I cried for hours that night. It's very hard when I know how he can affect everyone he is around, and I just want to hug him and make it better. I want to say - LISTEN... you are NOT me, nor do you know what we go through and what works for us.

(sidebar.... I was doing SO good on my no sugar / chips / junk / sweets thing ) I made it 2.5 weeks until my horrible sunday. I totally binged. I had in 1 day and felt so sick afterwards: 4 french toast sticks, a supreme breakfast croissant, a steak & egg breakfast burrito, a fruit cup, 2 kinds of chips and dip, pasta salad, a pc of pizza, fruit, green salad, 3 brownie bites, and at 9:00 at night: a grilled ham and cheese sandwich, chili cheese fritos, and a caramel/chocolate ghriardelli square )

(sidebarII.... this was the same day that I woke up to find that my fridge was left open all night long and an entire week's worth of brand new, unopened food was warm and ruined )

After the move and the difficult weekend and my body slowing down just enough, it's decided to get sick. I had 2 really bad days, but I'm feeling better. I spent the night on mom & dad's couch and didn't move from 6:30 - 5:30 and it seemed to do the trick (o:

I have Kyla registered for kindergarten - wow what an amazing feeling! I have butterflies just thinking about it. Just cross your fingers for me that she and Aiden get into Foster as their school of choice!!! I'll find out at the beginning of June.

I took her out of pre-school as well. The teacher said she was quiet disconnected, and she kept telling me that she "already knows all of it" mom - she "just likes the singing." Well - I'm not about to pay $200 a month for her to sing in a circle (sorry!)


My Jackie turns 3 in 5 days!! We are getting Knotts Berry Farm passes for the family and taking the day off. I can't wait, and I can't believe he's going to be 3! I should focus on potty training, but let me tell you, I'm just tired - I could care less at this point. I think I'll let Kade do the potty training because Jack thinks Kade walks on water and can get him to do anything ( not always a good thing )

I also discovered that Kyla's big birthday party is on Memorial Weekend! Bummer. I know we are going to lose a few people because of that )o:

We are having a pancake breakfast / jumper for the boys birthday celebration on the 6th of June - so my month of celebrating is about to begin!


I can't find my camera to show the cutest pictures I took of the kids at my friend Anissa's son's baseball game.... they had popsicles and Jack had it completely melted all over his entire face, arms and shirt - but he sure enjoyed it! I'll find it and post soon, so cute!!

We are gearing up for September where Kyla will start cheering for pop warner, playing soccer for ayso, and going to school. How am I going to afford 3 kids year after year after year. OMG.

Here are some pictures from a spontaneous playdate at Cheryl's house last week.... that's all I have for now (o:

sorry for the diaper shot!!!

Congratulations Mr. & Mrs. Feolo!!!

Jeana & Anthony's wedding was beautiful! I had never been to that chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes before, but I can certainly see why they picked it!!!

The girls looks gorgeous, the kids looked adorable, and did SO good during the ceremony!

I had WAY too much to drink, but had a great time!!

Here are just tons of pictures (o:

The proud groom!

I LOVE this picture!!!

The "candy bar" ( I didn't even have 1 piece of candy - boo! )

My driving buddies - Thanks guys!!! XOXO

Happy Birthday Jeana!

I hope you have a wonderful day tomorrow - filled with TONS of hugs and kisses and treats from everyone you love!!

I can't wait to see you as the most beautiful bride next weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love you and miss you tons!
We'll do happy hour as a delayed birthday as soon as you have some spare time - I'll even watch baseball with you if it happens to be on!

XOXOXOXO

Our spontaneous trip to San Francisco!

Well the weather turned out to be slightly over-cast and slightly sunny with a temp of about 50 - so not too bad! But the rest of the trip was just ridiculous. We got to the airport at 1:15 to find out our 2:20 flight was delayed until 3:30.
#1 reason that I was upset = I was JUST on jetblue.com looking to see if my mom would have a problem with her curling irons and I didn't freakin check the flight. We try to talk Kyla into going to get some lunch and coming back, but she didn't believe us that we would come back - so she talked us into going into the terminal. 5 minutes into sitting at the terminal, they announce that our flight is further delayed until 4:45! I called Robert to get him to see what kind of voucher we could get because it was a weather delay - and while he was doing that they re-announced that our flight was back to departing at 3:30 again.

#2 reason I was upset = Kyla was not understanding what was going on and begging us to please fly on the plane while I was thinking how much I just wanted to go home and throw away the $260 spent so far.

Kyla seeing one of the planes pull up to the terminal...

Excited still ........... this was before the hour we were sitting there! (o:

I know everyone has seen a plane, but Kyla took this!

We finally board the plane and then find out when we are all settled that we will AGAIN not be taking off until 4:15 and not arriving until 5:30.

#3 reason I am upset - WE FLY BACK AT 7:00 A.M. the next day. I can't get passed how this just is starting to feel like a HORRIBLE idea, and what else could go wrong.

Anxiously awaiting the take off and watching Spongebob on direct tv.

This is after the adrenaline wore off - she finally crashed out.

GOOD NEWS! We find out there is NO rain and it's actually sunny - so I start to perk up a little bit. Well that didn't last long (o: ( Kyla I might add was AWESOME the whole time - extremely patient, but you could tell it was totally taking away from the excitement... just way too much waiting for her ) We decided to take a cab because I assumed it would be the quickest way to get straight to the hotel as we were already running late.

#4 reason I get upset: He was an IDIOT that didn't speak English ( not surprised but annoyed because he had a GROSS cold ) and seemed to take 10000000 extra left and right turns and was making Kyla and my mom sick. The fare just kept adding up $25, $30, $35, $40, $45, $47.75 and an hour later, we get to the hotel at 6:30 p.m.!

Her first taxi ride ( also at the beginning of the ride )

We left the hotel and took a mile and ½ walk down to Fisherman's Wharf & Ghirardelli Square....

Alcatraz in the background....

Ghirardelli Square was pretty much closed except for the chocolate and ice-cream shop....

#5 reason I'm upset ( I Just realized that I grabbed chocolate covered espresso beans instead of raisins - GROSS! )

Pictures from Ghirardelli Square

This is where we settled for our dinner.... we barely made it because Kyla had declared that she was sooooo tired of walking just about the time we arrived there.

Which I thought was a different restaurant, but didn't realize it until we were already in and tempted by the yummy smell.

Reason # 6 I'm upset - our waiter was rude and over charged us for my mom's dinner then proceeded to give us an attitude about it. It was a white linen table cloth type of restaurant with $35 dinner prices - I went in thinking it was this great place that Robert and I had eaten at that has the best clam chower in the world!! The food was still quite good and we sat at a corner table over looking the wharf and my mom could see the Golden Gate Bridge.

My mom said the view was her favorite part of the trip, so that was good!!

For some reason my mom wanted a picture of this electric wire ran bus... She was bummed she didn't get to ride the trolley cars.

We took a cab back to the hotel about 9:30 and as Kyla walked in she said: "Boy it's good to get out of these shoes and of my feet!!: LMAO!!!

Here is us clean faced with pj's on getting ready to play war with her new SF playing cards.... lights out at 10:45

( she then cried for her daddy and I had to call him and wake him up to get her to fall asleep )

**** Seriously - how cute is she!?!? ****

3:58 a.m. - my mom wakes me up saying: OMG Shannon, the shuttle is going to be here in 2 minutes!

#7 reason I am upset; our shuttle comes at 5:00 - she was an hour off! (o;

We get down in time for the shuttle which comes at 5:20!

#8 reason I am upset ( see above!! ) lol

The shuttle driver then drives 15 miles an hour to another hotel to pick up people and leave us sitting in the van from 5:25 until 5:45! We pick up yet another person and then get to the airport by 6:00 a.m. if you can believe it. I asked him when he was driving so slow if something was wrong with the van! he didn't find it ammusing. Our plane left and got back on time, but not without the very very very close to throwing up Kyla almost not making it without tears.

#9 reason I am upset: I lost one of my wedding bands. )o:

All is well though, and I am glad to be home! My baby girl enjoyed herself thoroughly and Robert declared that he "forgot how much work it is" keeping the peace at the house all th time. YA THINK!?! <----- totally made the whole trip worth it!