aren't they adorable?

Rylan passed out about three bites into lunch. The fat dog still anxiously waiting on the floor for fall out. He likes to wear things on his head and uncle RJ's stinky Guinness hat seems to be a favorite.

The next day the hat was no where to be found but, I turned around and saw him in this. Yup that is a little swimmer, a new one thankfully, because daddy does have a tendency to leave diapers laying around.
This morning Saige came in the kitchen in this get up and informed me she is a super alphabet number hunter with the power to make numbers and alphabets dance. That is a my little pony tied around her waist with an exercise band and no it wasn't very bright in here.
One more week until school starts. Last night was parents orientation. We meet her teacher, whom was very nice and saw her classroom, everything is so little, lol. I signed up for some volunteering with her class. Next Tuesday she will get to go she her classroom and meet the teacher and some of the other kids. She still needs a Pringles can to carry home papers and lunch money. I don't want to buy one, lol, someone will HAVE to eat the chips and I can NOT find a plastic Pringles can anywhere, and I have looked. Otherwise she is ready to go, she has more new clothes than I remember but when I went to get things organized I found a bunch of stuff I had forgotten about. Although she could use a pair of shoes to go with her dresses. The only thing is there are no sandals or clogs allowed. She LIVES in her fake crocs and I assume they fall in the clog category, she wont be liking having to wear sneakers.

I still don't want her to go :(

uninterrupted sleep

After he stopped last night- he slept the ENTIRE night until 8:30 this morning!!! woohoo

I have poison ivy. AGAIN ugh I haven't even been outside, I swear all I have to do is look outside and I catch it. My side itches like mad. It hasn't spread, so far anyway. I am hoping I can get away with no steroids, but I doubt it, I am just lucky like that, it wont go away on it's own.

teething.... again

I am about sick to death of teeth and the misery they bring. I feel sorry for him, I know it must hurt but I don't know how much more screaming my head can take before it explodes or I stab a pencil through my ears. He has seven now and the molars are getting closer. I wish I could reach in and push them through already. He is currently in his crib screaming bloody murder. He has had teething tablets (which as far as he goes are about freaking useless) and tylenol. He doesn't want to be held, he doesn't want to not be held, he just wants my bed and it ain't happening.

I have made the mistake of bringing him to bed with us the past couple nights and now he thinks it's gonna happen again. I did get him when he woke up I planned to bring him back downstairs for a while but when we went by my room and he saw we were not in bed (he woke up a half hour after bed time not 3 am this time) and we were not headed that way he got PISSED and has not stopped letting me know it yet- that was two hours ago, he sure is stubborn and he sure has a temper. I keep going back but it seems to make him scream harder. It's my own fault I never should have let him in our bed but at 3 am I am just SOOO tired and I don't want to deal. I am not a co-sleeping kind of person, most of the time I don't even like sharing the bed with Robby. I don't like to be touched or have my hair pulled or my head stepped on while I am sleeping. I don't like other people, even my kids, drooling on my pillow, or talking (or shrieking in delight, which in Rylan's case is even more ear shattering than screaming) in my ear. I do NOT share well when it comes to sleep.

On a good note, my munchkin is back from camping, it was only two days but I missed her like crazy. She must have had a great time, she is sleeping right through the screaming from the next room. Usually she wakes up and screams SHUT UP along with him. I need to invest in some ear plugs. He is 13 months old and there is NO reason what so ever he should not be sleeping on his own and through the night. It's mean, but I am done, he can scream and cry but his little hiney is staying right in that crib. I totally admit I spoil him- I know I do but he is so damn loud that my sanity does not know what else to do so I give him what he wants to shut him up. I have become my biggest parenting pet peeve. he's getting bigger and we need to nip that in the bud now before it's too late. I swear he is 20 times louder than any other child I have ever heard. Our neighbors as far away as they are no doubt hate us, there is no way they can't hear him. The kicker is, he is so sweet and good when he has an audience, so everyone thinks I am a liar.

School is less than two weeks away, I wonder if that is enough time to figure out he is no longer gonna get what he wants. I hope so because she needs her sleep. Ohhhh there is silence, I almost didn't recognize it my ears are still ringing.

On another good note- my fishy is still alive and other than a gross looking bone where there was once a pretty tail, he seems perfectly fine. I'm still not speaking to/ looking at/ or touching the evil cat.

My poor fishy and my nasty, nasty cat

I have a fancy tailed goldfish (no idea what they are called) but his tail fell off! He is old, and other than the cleaning fish he is the only one. I have no idea what happened to him, he was fine when I fed him yesterday. I looked over this morning and noticed his tail looked ratty, then I watched it fall off in pieces and now he is swimming around with what looks like just a bone hanging off the back of him. :( It's gross. I wonder if the cat got him.... it drinks out of the fish tank. It always has, we give it fresh water yet the stupid thing prefers nasty fish water but she has never seemed to bother him.

Warning- not for weak stomachs-
I have had it with the cat. I am so beyond disgusted with it I can't even look at it. The other day I saw it in the yard with a chipmunk. A while later it walked in kitchen and proceeded to throw up, what I can only guess was the chipmunk, in large chunks of still bleeding flesh less than a foot from my feet. I puked. Right there on the floor and had to clean up both messes while keeping the baby away. The smell was something I just can not describe, that hit me before I even realized what it was. I don't think I will ever get over it. I am not a cat person, I think they are evil. I didn't like the cat to begin with. Now I HATE it, I don't want it near me, I don't want to see it. I realize that is what the evil creatures do, but are the suppose to give it back on my floor? I can't help but think what if I wasn't in the room and instead walked in to find Rylan playing in it? I think I would rather have mice at this point- live, furry, not smelly ones.

Darien Lake 08

Yesterday we went to Darien Lake with the whole family- it was fun! No one was overjoyed at being woke up at 6:30, least of all Rylan but he was good. My MIL took our kids for a large chunk of time and Robby and I got to go on all the roller coasters except the Superman :( it's the best but it was broke. Actually we watched them evacuate a round of people from going up a huge incline, they had to walk down the stairs. Glad I wasn't on it. It wasn't terribly high- but high enough I would have died if they told ME I had to get out and climb down. Saige was again a bit disappointed she wasn't tall enough for the roller coasters but she had a blast riding kid rides and bigger ones with one of us. She is hidden behind Rob in this one

Dominick, Kayden, and Saige
Saige and daddy in the monster trucks, lol.
Rylan and Rob on the yellow submarine, he got to do a few rides.
He really liked them
Robin, Dominick, Rose, Kayden, Rob and Saige is hidden again.


Saige and Kayden on the kiddie coaster
In the tidal wave pool
Fishing with daddy and Mimi. She won three new stuffed animals, a turtle, a frog, and a pony. So far she has been carrying them around with the other 4 she carries around the house.
All in all it was a great day. Robby and I are both badly sunburned. We were wearing the same sunblock, and as often, as the kids but they didn't burn. Then again they didn't wait in line forever in the direct sun waiting to go on rides either : )

Rylan has been scary good all weekend, he woke up when we stopped for gas last night 5 minutes from home and he screamed the whole way home which woke Saige up, she was exhausted and cried along with him until we got home. You can not truly appreciate how painful that is until you have been locked in car with Rylan shrieking. It hurts your ears, it's an awful pitch and it just hurts. I'm just glad he saved it, I would have lost my mind if he did it the whole 2 hours back.

8-16-08

Rob's company picnic was today at the state park. It rained on and off all afternoon, but Rob and RJ loaded up on clams and Saige had a blast. They rented a huge pirate ship bounce house, with a big slide that was even faster wet. They also had a magician, another big hit with Saige, she got a funny balloon hat. Rob won a free pizza, that will come in handy :) Rylan slept in his stroller, despite the noise, for most of it. Afterwards we walked over to the beach and let the kids play for a while. Rylan LOVED the beach. They were both wet when they got to the sand so you can imagine what they looked like afterwards. I stripped Saige down and made her ride home (all 4 minutes) in her underwear- those shorts were not going in my car. I shook the clothes out, wiped the kids down and I will still be cleaning sand out of the car six months from now. I knew there was a reason I didn't like the beach, lol. Everyone is in bed, tomorrow is Darien Lake, we have to get way earlier than any of us are use to doing.

school already?

Saige's pre-K packet came today. We finally know her schedule, teacher and have her supply list.
I have very impatiently waiting for this info, then I opened it and cried. My baby is going to school! In a couple weeks! I want to call it off, lol, and keep her for just one more year. I know it's only a couple of hours, and she is really excited about it. She starts Sept 4th. So at least the first week is only two days. I should survive. Next year, when she is gone all day will be the really hard part. I figure after the first few days Rob can get her off to school while I sleep in :) before I know it she'll be home again.

I've been DREADING and getting a bit anxious about school supplies. I have seen outrageous lists and was scared I would only have a week to buy twelve pages of crazy things. She needs a backpack (done) a potholder and a Pringles can. Very easy, simple, and cheap :) I've had new clothes set aside for a while and picked up a few extras (did I mention 8 shirts for 80 cents? I LOVE JC Penney!) so other than needing a haircut, I guess we are ready. I broke down and trimmed her bangs tonight, poor thing couldn't see, I was sure to leave them plenty long enough to be done right.

the zoo

Yesterday I took the kids to the zoo. Robby didn't want to go (says it's boring seeing the same animals) so it was just me and five of them. I survived, lol. Dominick and Saige were fascinated with this elephant, it was the last animal and I couldn't pull them away until it started sprinkling.


Saige LOVES penguins, they are her favorite to see and the whole reason we went


All four of them had WAY too much fun milking a wooden cow. I again had to pull them away for other kids to have a turn.


Rylan who has pooped through another tooth, was an angel all day. He didn't make a peep at the zoo. He was busy watching people and the animals when the bigger ones wouldn't give him 30 seconds to glance. He was extremely good waiting for the other two to stop staring at the elephant. He just sat there and hung out with Kayden and Derik, he likes watching the big kids.

The googly eye

This is Saige's picture of her brother and her dad. When she showed me, I guessed her as the top one because Rylan doesn't have that much hair. She said "no mommy what he will look like he gets hair and he has no mouth so he will be quiet"
whew I was worried he would be be funny looking for ever.

She volunteered the bottom as daddy. I told her it was wonderful, and asked why his eye was swollen. She giggled and said moooom that is daddy's googly eye, you know the one on his face because he is googly.

I figured this conversation was interesting so I asked why they didn't have any ears ( none of her drawings ever do) Apparently there IS a reason......
"because they don't listen to you anyway- but I do"

jokes

Saige is obsessed with jokes, she constantly wants to tell me jokes, and makes them up as she goes along. It usually starts with why did the chicken cross the road then it wanders. Today I wrote it down as she told them.

"what's the difference intween a cereal box and a laundry box?" (both of which I has sitting in the recycle pile)

I don't know

"Guess"

the colors?

"nope"

what?

"atabler .......do ya get it?"

um no, what exactly is a tabler?

"mooooom, it's a cup" I swear I didn't know this "ready for the next joke?"

do I have a choice?

"no, what is better than papers and a magazine, and windows, and a word whammer, and baby brothers bottles?"

I don't know

"GUESS"

um a puppy?

"no, guess"

Ceiling?

"NO"

can I have a hint?

"you put food in it"

a refrigerator?

"no, I mean you put food ON it"

Oh, okay, a plate?

"no"

a table?

"no"

um a stove?

"no"

a picnic table?

"no"

okay I give up you got me, what is it?

"a refrigerator"

How could I have not known?

allergies and boo boos

Rylan was tottering across the room earlier, tripped on Saige's shoe, fell and bumped his eye. Poor little guy, it's all red and he has marks on his nose that will probably bruise. That ruined his day, he spent the better part of his evening crying in my lap, rubbing his eye and saying whoa, booo booo in the most pathetic little voice, I felt so bad for him :( Of course he played it out the best he could and proceeded to whine and have a fit every time he didn't get what he wanted. As you can imagine, that was quite a lot. My SIL came over and said he looks like his daddy when he's pouting. He is passed out in my lap in the computer chair in the most uncomfortable position while I finished a survey and type this with his butt to rest my elbow on, lol.

I told Saige to clean her room and she took that to mean go disturb and throw around the only things still in place- a gigantic pile of stuffed animal and she was jumping on them. Her eyes swelled up and her nose was practically dripping, she looked awful. I gave her benydral and vacuumed the animals and she was fine. I have been slacking on the dusting, it's just so damn hot up there during the day and I am just too damn lazy to do it at night. Sounds like a good excuse to get rid of some of them, she has way too many for me to keep up with.

The Most

We took the kids to the Most this weekend. Both the little kids and the big kids had a great time. There was a play structure 2 stories tall, puts teh one at Chuck E Cheese to shame, it was bigger than my house. It wasn't there the last time we went but Robby took Rylan in it and down the two story slide- he had a blast. The rest of the museum he was stuck in his stroller so I think it made the play thing that much better.

DOH!!

Rylan now says NO, it sounds more like doh but it is cute. He nows yells it at us before we can yell it at him. He will run over to the TV turn it off and spin around point at us, scrunch his face up and yell DOH! Then he laughs and repeats the process over and over. He also added stop (tob) to his rapidly expanding vocabulary. Saige seems to understand a lot more of it than I do.