Steaming Mad!

Here is a story from last week that I had to put to ink cyber space.

We where running late.

Trying to run out the door, pick up little girl (what is that I smell?), run up stairs change diaper, run down stairs, yell ask Elijah to put shoes on, run out to start car

As I am going out I hear Elijah say to Ada Liz "shhhh wait for Mommy to go"
Z: (He is SOOOO not going to have his shoes on when I get back!)

So I run back inside (still feeling the presser of the day weighing down on me and it is not even 8:30!) I see the shoes still sitting in the same spot! Now I am steaming mad, fire coming out of my head mad. I walk around the corner my hole body tense with anger and I see........

Both kids sitting on the floor and Elijah is putting Ada's shoes on.
E: I am helping put her with her shoes! (very proud)

***Insert melted heart here****

I stopped took a deep breath and hugged both my kids. We took our time getting out to the car, had a fun ride in and where still on time.....

And just because I think everyone needs one look of a jelly girl here is a photo:

E: I think I know a little bit about what you should do when someone is sick.

Z: Oh what is that?

E: (looking at me knowingly ) Not take photos of them.

This was right after seeing this .... Man I am going to have to start hiding my blogs from him;)

Oh the joys of the car wash.

E: Ada do you want to go to the tree party?
A: Yes
E: Well you can't because you were not invited. (in a not so nice way)
Z: Elijah that is not nice!
E: But I am just telling her what the invitation says.

Mind you the invitation is only in his head.

That is all I have for now.... I just put both kids in their rooms crying (and one kicking and hitting) so I am going to go read a magazine.... oh the joy of kids.

Break From Trip Photos

So we have been having a great time. Most of the trouble that I was having with Elijah before the trip is gone (thank goodness). He is back to being his sweet self. He and Ada have been playing SUPER well together and it is fun to watch. Many days he says "I want to have some play time with Ada." (and she LOVES playing with him, even if it means that she might be bouncing off the walls:)

Ada has been growing so fast it is hard to keep up with her. She talks up a storm! Yesterday when asked her mommy was she took a hold of me and "Ada's Mommy!" When my friend asked her if I was also Elijah's mommy she said "NO!" I asked where Elijah's mommy was and she said " She went bye bye" (she's a trouble maker in the making:)

We are also in the process of getting rid of her NUK's. So far so good, but it has only been a little over a day. She was waking up in the middle of the night when they fell out and screaming at the top of her little lungs. We where getting really sick of that, so one night I just stopped going in. When she asks about them we just say NUK went bye bye (I hope this has nothing to do with Elijah's mommy going bye bye).

These photos are a couple of weeks old, but they where so fun I wanted to put them up.

Elijah

Boy he was so young!!! It is hard to remember him like this.

You are no Troy Peterson young man.

In the car on Sunday (on the way to our friends house to watch the SuperBowl)

Elijah: Mommy I just saw a bird.

Me: Was it big or small?

E: It was smallish big.

M: What color was it?

E: I do not know.

M: (OK even Troy Peterson could not have made a positive ID on that bird! Time to change the subject.) Did you have fun in Sunday School today?

E: Yes we learned about muster seeds.

M: ( Mark and I sometimes play the " what do you think he learned about today game after Sunday School. It is often a challenge to find the bible story in the stuff that sticks out in Elijah's mind.) So what did you learn about muster seeds?

E: A muster seed is like heaven!

M: How so?

E: (thinking) I do not know she did not tell us.

M: (I am sure that was not the case.... but now is not the time to argue now is the time to learn more) Do you like your teachers?

E: I love all of them!

(He has 2 teachers, but one of them is in the choir so when she is teaching there is always a different person person that is with them until she is done singing.)

M: Who was there with you today?

E: Well I do not know her name, but she has one son.

M: (this does not tell help me much) OK does she have any daughters?

E: No just one son.... you know who I mean!

M: Not really. Does she have dark hair?

E: Her hair comes down like this. (This is like an egg being broken over your head, not much help)

M: Is it dark hair or blond?

E: I think it is blond, well kinda..... I am not sure, maybe it was dark.

No help there. I guess I will have to give up my dream of having a famous birder in the family:)

This Made Me Teary

They are both getting so big!

So the photos for this post are from Elijah's Birthday... which was FOREVER ago.... but I forgot to show them, while the writing will be about today.... kinda a space time continuum thing.

So today started kinda bad.... at 3:45 when Ada-Liz woke up crying (this is the first day in weeks that I have not been woke up by my hand hurting and she woke up:) Here is what I hear:

AL: Nuk!
AL: NUK!
AL: I WANT MY NUK!
There was lots of crying in between all the nuk calling. She did finally fall back to sleep.

Elijah woke up at 5:15! Thank God Mark was up and feed him, but he left at 6:30 and then I had to get up. I woke up feeling icky, but not bad enough to make me stay in bed all day. (lots to do today.)

I ran us out the door at 8:15 off to school... man there was A LOT of traffic today and it took FOREVER! Of course when I need to be early.

Get him dropped off, remembered the lotion and soap for his poor hands, cookies for the freezer there (for when they have snacks someone else brings in and they do not know if they are safe for Elijah.) Forgot the cookbook that I borrowed from Vicki FOREVER ago and thought I had given back, but found on my desk when we cleaned .... can you guess that the desk needed cleaning?

Ran out of school (with Ada-Liz in my arms) to make a 9:30 doctors apt for me. (I have a small lump on my head that has been bugging me, my foot is starting to hurt again where I had a small crack in my bone about 1 1/2 years ago and my hand is starting to hurt with carpel tunnel syndrome again... oh and I was thinking it might be time to get a flu shot.)

We had 1 hour after the doctors apt until we had to pick up Elijah so Ada-Liz and I listen to the inauguration on the radio in the car. It was fun.

Then off to McDonald for a not so healthy but quick lunch. Then off to the dealer to get my side mirror fixed.

Somehow we made it through the day and it is still going well.

Now I have to go and get the kids down for naps (see how I am dreaming here napS;).

Happy New Year!

We went to our friends house to spend the night for New Years Eve. We got to play cards and the kids had a blast. I made these scarves for them.

New Years day (still at our friends house) Elijah comes down stairs to inform us that he is feeling sick. He then went on to be sick for the rest of the day and into the night. (He was up at 8:30, 10:30, and 12:30 being sick and up again at 3:30.) He is keeping food down today and seems better, but without all the energy that he is used to;)

Mark renamed our little girl "iron guts" because she just kept eating and she did not get sick.

Bad Guy Movie

Elijah got a new "bad guy movie" over the holidays. We all sat down to watch it last night and had fun. What was the "bad guy movie" you ask???

Well it does have lots of sword fights in it;)

Christmas list

Elijah climbed into bed with me today. We had a wonderful time just chatting and snuggling. Boy I am going to miss it when he is not into snuggling anymore. So I said that it was time for writing to Santa and telling him what you want for Christmas. He said that he did not know if Santa had what he wanted. (wonder what he wants?) E: I want a rain coat with a dragon on it and an orange shirt with a blue butterfly (Mom have you heard that one;).

OK I know that Santa can get a orange shirt with a blue butterfly, but where in the middle of winter with Santa get a raincoat? Where does he come up with these things????? I have NEVER heard him say anything about a raincoat.

More Elijah Stories

I just had to put this photo up after 5 million cute photos of Ada Liz just to let everyone know that she does cry. Not much, but I just loved the way she was crying and I left her and ran off to get my camera. (just so you know she did not fall down I put her down and that is what made her cry, I am not that bad a mom;)

So on to the story. Boy Elijah has just been full of good blogworthy stories these days.

(out of no where)
E: What would happen if there was a fire in our house and we where not there?
Z: Well most likely one of the neighbor's would see the fire and they would call 911.
E: Oh
(we spent about 5 mins talking about other things like what does wigglepiggle mean (he always makes up words and gives them a definition that no one but him knows))
(out of nowhere again)
E: What if they do not see it?
Z: See what Elijah?
E: The fire?
Z: (Oh) Well then the house would burn down. But it would be a good thing that we are not in the house because that means that none of us would get hurt.
(WHY DID I SAY THAT, BOY I HOPE HE DOES NOT THINK ABOUT THE CATS THAT ARE ALWAYS HOME!!!!)
(Holding breath)
E: Oh, but where would we live?
Z: (breath, breath) Well we pay for insurance so the insurance company would build us a new house.
E: OH That is nice of them. Do you know what ziggle pop is?
( Thank you God for getting me out of that one.)

Snow Day

We had a bunch of snow today so we all stayed home. We made ornament cookies, regular cookies, watched a Christmas movie and so on. For afternoon snack we had the cookies that we made. I gave each kid one cookie (I had no idea if they would be any good), and then they each got one more (they were very good).

E: Can I have 3 cookies?
Z: No I think 2 cookies is enough.
E: Well then can I have one more?
Z: (does he think I can not count....?) Ahh No I think 2 cookies is enough. You know I can count right?
E: (giggle) Yes

A boy can try right?

Goggie Update

Awhile back I told you that Goggie and all the other imaginary friends in this house died. Elijah was sad about it, but every time I said something like maybe I can bring them back (they are imaginary right I must have at least that power) he would inform me that I did not have that power. Well for Thanksgiving we had friends over and the little girl, Kaitlyn, used some magic and brought them back. She was VERY pleased with herself for being so helpful and I was happy to have them back (why you ask when I spent lots of my time putting them in time outs or asking them to behave, because they are just are part of Elijah's childhood and I am not ready for him to grow up to fast). So all day on Thanksgiving we where thankful that we had them back.

Days go by and I say something about Goggie

E: Mom you know that Goggie is dead.
Z: I thought Kaitlyn used magic to help him come back?
E: No silly Kaitlyn does not have magical powers I just let her think she did to make her feel good.

So we not only do not have imaginary friends but we have little boy who know that he should make girls feel good, by telling them what they want to hear..... Boy I guess I was just dreaming when I hoped he would not grow up to fast;)

Is this Normal?

Elijah and Ada Liz are playing with playdoug and I go in to see how they are doing and Elijah shows me this:

-------------------This is the blood ------------ This is the water----------------------- This is the poison ivy

And the brown is where the cannons come out. Who knew play dough could be so .... graphic;)

Bags and Kids and Things That Fly

As I promised here is a bag I made for the show. I really was going to sell it, but I fell in love with it and so today I filled it up and am braking it in (that way I can't sell it;)

And here are a couple of photo of the kids today:

Elijah made this cool thing (it had some story about lasers, shooting bad guys and I do not know what else, but it is cute! (maybe I should not be calling something that shots bad guys cute...))

This one is cute! OK no things that fly, but it sounded like a good title.

Today

So some of you may know this about me, but I am not a big fan of the cold. My perfect day is a warm (high 80's and low 90's) with a nice gentle breeze, flowers blooming. I know that some of you would say that I should not live in the mid-west, but that is where we ended up so we have to live with it (alright I have to live with it;). So there was a bit of sadness when I looked out the window to find this:

Elijah is already dressed in the photo because he has already been out in the snow and only came back in because Mark had to go to work. I convinced him that we should have breakfast before he went back out.

E: can I go back out in the snow.

Z: Yes you can, just wait until I am out of the shower and dressed.

E: Can even Ada come out too?

Z: (That means I have to go out too.....) Yes (the things that I do not do for my kids!)

So breakfast and out we all went.

I am happy to say that we had fun, for about 10 min's (about my limit) and Ada Liz was ready to come in, (that's my girl!!!)

Fairy God Daddy

Elijah come to me today and informed me that he was my Fairy God Daddy (he was wearing wings). It made me think "why do we have Fairy God Mothers and no Daddies?" What do you think?

What are you thankful for?

At Elijah's school they always have a note on the door at pick up time to tell us that they did that day. Today when I went there was 2 lists, the first one was of what they did today and the second one was what the kids where thankful for.

I scanned down the list of transformers and what not to find out what Elijah was thankful for, this is what it said:

Elijah is thankful for Thanksgiving and his little sister.

AHHHHHH OK on closer look he was not the only one that was thankful for a sibling, but it did melt my heart. He also got a "ribbon" for giving the best hugs.

Here is a photo of ONE of the things that I am most thankful for:


Elijah not the ocean;)

How long will this last?

I have been thinking of when the kids start getting older. I have been making a little list of things that are not likely to last much longer here are two that came to me yesterday.

Being able to go bra shopping and Elijah always picking me to be on his team (this one I am really going to miss).