to share or not to share?

Looking for more advice...

Ok, so when your kids are real young you teach them to share... share share share.... everything needs to be shared....

Does there ever reach a point where your children don't need to or have to share and it isnt rude? Haley has some "special" toys that she loves and doesnt want to share with Hunter.... (i dont think they are anything that great and i don't understand her attachment to them... but i play with rolled up paper and I dont share that so who am i to judge what is special) I dont understand why she shouldnt share her "special" toy if she isnt playing with it.... but then I got to thinking about it, I dont share EVERYTHING of mine even if I am not using it.... ie.... mascaria, toothbrush, my wedding ring, earings, underwear, my scrapbooking pens.... am I making sense? It is late :) (930 is late to me now... sad huh?)

Any thoughts? anyone?

Cool LOST link

YouTube - smolesiuk's Channel

The other day Jim and I randomly found this guys YouTude video on secrets of LOST and his ideas and it was REALLY interesting.... I was telling a few folks about it today at the park so I thought that instead of sending this link out via email I would post it on my blog. He does a recap and deep thought into each episode....

Interesting.... at least

Jim got bit

a few days ago Jim complained about a bug bit he got that really itched. It didnt look like a mysquetoe (sp?) bite and he didnt know where or when he got the bite. It started to hurt him more and the bite area started to bruise a little.... by this weekend that is what it looked like. He went to the urgent care on saturday morning.... confirmed it was a spider bite. He got a shot of antibodics and some meds to take at home to clear up the infection. The PA at the urgent care told him that if the purple moves up his leg past the line she drew. we were to go to the ER. So far so good....

Gross huh!

Update on my "I need advice" post

I got some really good ideas from that post... I liked what Jen said about them being bored.... I must say that THAT scares me about summer approaching! I think Jen is right, that they are bored... but I also think some of it is Jonah getting attention (when I feed him). I was observing my kids since my post and a lot of my annoyances come when I have to feed Jonah. Hunter tries to climb up on my lap.... Haley happens to need me to do something.... So I think I am going to try having them rotate (like Jen said) through activities at home and one of those activities will be one on one time with me :).

I did try Erin's idea on letting them just work it out themselves :). It TOTALLY worked.... Haley came to me with a LAME complaint against Hunter, something like he wont let her look at her own polly pockets. I told her that if they couldnt work it out all the polly pockets were going to be put away.... AMAZINGLY they worked it out.

Boogar story continues...

So I told you what Hunter said about eating boogars... well, it must have set in (my conversation with him about it) because this is what I over heard yesterday morning.

He was pretend playing with his trains, in his room...
This was the conversation his two trains were having....

"Toby, you can NOT eat your boogars.... why?.... I know they are yummy but you just can't.... why? .... because I said so."

I am a lego nerd

Last Friday night we had no plans so what did I do? Yes, I made a lego tower using almost all our legos... I am a nerd!!! The kids LOVED IT!

Haley's Mothers Day Tea

Haley's kinder class put together a Mother's day tea. They did a show and had food and drinks... so so so special! It was the best part of my mothers day!

But I am hungry

Reading my friend Rachel's blog this morning made me think of a funny story of Hunter.

The other day, Hunter was picking his nose...
"Hunter, don't pick your nose."
"Why?"
"Because it is gross."
"But I'm hungry." so matter of fact!

I need advice :)

I love being a stay at home mom, and I love my kids... but the last few days have been KILLER!!!! I need some major advice because right now I am ready to go work full time, 60 hour days because that has to be easier to take then what is going on...

I am sure I am going to sound DUMB or a bad mom.... but seriously, I am in need of some help. Haley and Hunter are awesome and I enjoy them a LOT... HEAPS... but NOT TOGETHER!!!! Haley by herself is so much fun, Hunter is a blast... but when the two of them get together we have a Whine Fest! Not only that they FIGHT over the most STUPIDEST things ever.... example... Haley said something was the color Silver.... Hunter said it was Grey.... WHO CARES... it is the same STUPID color!!!!!! Every time they whine or fight, I send them to their rooms until they can come out and talk normal... When they fight I like to listen to both sides of the story (if it is a legitimate fight... not over a color) ....

Maybe the kids sense my frustration and that is why they are acting out... WHO KNOWS!!!

I hate feeling like a bad parent... please any advice will be great...

Hunters letters to his Teacher

For teacher appreciation week, I had the kids do something nice for their teacher everyday! Here are two of Hunters letters. One he did all on his own... a picture of him with his teacher... the other was a thank you letter he was to tell me and I was to write down.... I seriously wanted to laugh... this kid is funny (I mean, handsome). I didnt take a picture of the second page, all he says is that the carpet is our center.

A few kid stories

Haley and Gracie....

Gracie spent the night the other night and in the morning this was the conversation I over heard...
"my mom is thirty!" Haley says PROUDLY. :)
"well, my mom is older than your mom and my mom will ALWAYS be older than your mom" she states proudly... I had to side with Gracie on that one... sorry Deanne :)

ANOTHER Haley and Gracie....

This was a conversation I had with Haley yesterday. Background info... her kindergarten class is throwing a mothers day tea for us moms tomorrow and the girls have been picking out there outfit and talking about what they are going to wear all week.
"You know mama, Deanne is going to wear her wedding dress to the mothers day tea."
"She is huh?" thinking to myself, yeah, right.
"That is what Gracie said."
"Oh ok."
"So, mama, can you wear your wedding dress?"
"Oh, ahhhhh, I don't think I can fit into it."
"Why?"
"Because i have gotten bigger."
"So, mama, you can pin it."
crap, I think to myself, how do I get out of this.... "You know, I am not sure where my wedding dress is, Haley."
"So, can you borrow Nana's wedding dress?" She says so innocently and sweet.
"Oh Haley, I don't think Nana knows where her dress is either. Sorry hun."

Hunter story...

Remember when he said that he was the funniest.... (if you don't look back a few blog entries ago) This is a conversation Hunt and I had at family camp.
"Mom, I don't want to be funny anymore." He says so quietly looking at the bug on the ground.
"You don't? Why?"
"I don't want to be funny anymore. I want to be handsome."

Now if you tell him he is funny, he will correct you and tell you that he is not funny, that he is handsome.

Snails for sharing?

Every morning we have a family of snails that welcome us on our porch :). The kids think they are our pets. There usually is five of them and because there are five of us, Hunt has named a snail after each of us. Hunter has sharing EVERY Tuesday and Wednesday at pre-school. He wanted to bring our "pet" snails to school for sharing on Tuesday but I told him we had to ask his teacher first. When we asked her, she said yes....
Wednesday came and we packed up our "pets" and walked to school. As we were walking, we had a few snails trying to escape.... that Hunter didnt want to carry the snails anymore so he asked our neighbor friend who walks with us every day if she would carry them.
Us walking to school! I love walking with the kids to school... it is one of my favorite things to do with them during my day! It is a beautiful walk and there are so many things to see (for a 3 and 5 year old).

When we got to school, Haley's teacher made such a big deal over the snails that Haley ended up bringing snails to share on Thursday... Nice...

my new due

Here is a better picture of my hair cut :) Thanks again Tara... you ROCK!!!

I am sad!

Ok...

So when I found out Haley was a curly haired girl, I thought to myself, "Crap, I don't have the slightest idea how to do that kinda hair..." but then I learned and it was the easiest hair style to do! She came to be known by her beautiful curls...

It looks like her curls are going away, and I am sad now! Her hair was in a really big need for a trim. It was starting to be flat on the top and I thought that was because it was long, that if it got cut short the curls would come back.... right? So I took her to my friend Tara. Tara did a great job layering it and it looks really good, but her hair just isnt as curly on top as the bottom.... :( now if I want curl on the top of her head I have to curl it myself.... CRAP.... NOW I am sad that I have to do it... if I want her hair curly... :( I guess cutting it shorter doesnt bring back the curl... what was I thinking????

You know... I had curly hair when I was little and those curls went away... I guess I thought that once you hit a curtain age (say 5) what you have sticks...

Anyways...

Sad times...

Tara, her hair looks great and I do love it... :) thanks

Everyone loves a close up... right?

A day in San Diego.... and what a day it was!

Our adventure begins...

Jimmy had Monday off, so when everyone was leaving family camp, we decided that we would hang out for the day. My family and the Corbett's decided to get a pass that allows you to ride the bus and train all day :) for five bucks and kids were free.
SO we walk from the camp ground to a golf course just down the road to where the bus picks you up... turns out we JUST missed the bus and had to wait 45 minutes or more for the next bus ... ok, fine... the kids were having fun with the dirt and each other...

Below is us waiting for the bus.

Us on the public bus :)

The bus took us to the train station (which was awesome for Hunt). We pull up as the train pulls away... AWESOME... but the wait wasnt as long as the bus....

We took the train to Old Town San Diego where we had lunch at the best Mexican Food Place ever... YUMMY... Below is Jake and Hunt... Friends :)
Here we waited a bit for our table. While we waited we watched pretty dancers dance :)... Haley and the boys really enjoyed that!
It was a really hot day... Jonah slept while we ate (perfect!)... when he woke up, he was over heated or something and VOMITTED all over me! Yes in the restaurant! Great... so now I have a sick son and I am DRENCHED in vomit. Nice... my family took Joe and cleaned him up and cooled him off while I went to look for something, like a Mexican wrap or something to buy to rid myself of the vomit shorts.... NOTHING... so I end up "washing" my shorts in the restroom! FUN

Now remember this is a HOT day so yes, my shorts dried quickly, but the smell lingered :)
We pop back on the train and take it to Sea Port Village. Here we got the most expense thing of ice cream ever :) and hung out in the shade. Jonah was fussy on the train ride there that I got to nurse on the train with a homeless man STARING at me the entire time... nice :) at this point in the trip, I didnt care if he caught a peek at anything.... it would have had to be the shortest peek ever and I am never going to see that man again so good for him, I guess.
Threw out this very long train ride adventure I have to give props to ALL of the kids... Jake, Hunt and Haley (even the babies Luke and Jonah - well, maybe not joe) did FANTASTIC! They had better attitudes then us adults on this trip! They were AWESOME!

Above is Joe in his new t-shirt nana bought him after he vomitted....

My shorts dont look smelly in this picture but trust me... they definitely are!!!

So We are eating our ice cream when Jenn realizes she ran out of formula and her son, Luke needed to eat a half hour AGO... so we quickly eat our ice cream we had to take a loan out to buy and then jetted out to the train station.... to find we missed the train AGAIN.... our luck... so when the next train comes, it was SO FULL we couldn't get ONE person on let alone our whole group.... so we WALKED a few blocks to catch a different train line. My mom, who just had foot surgery, busts her toe on the walk....
Also, did I mention we only had a stroller for ONE CHILD so Hunt and Hay are WALKING TOO!!! They did great... they did get carried some of the time.... but overall, they rocked!

WE finally get on the train. We get to where we catch the bus that takes us back to where we started and guess what? WE JUST MISSED IT :) I see a theme....
We had to wait almost an hour for THIS BUS to come....

Overall, it was fun... really it was, but it was definitely an adventure we will remember.... It would not have been fun if the kids were not having fun, but they had a blast and said that this was their favorite part of family camp.