The Womanizer

Alright I have got my confirmation, Matt is going to be a ladies man! I know everyone tell me that, but today it really hit with baseball bat force. We were walking out of Ethan's school and a teacher was taking a little boy out to his car and Matt holds the door open for her and says "Hey Baby" I stopped for a second and was like wait a minute did he just say that???????? Oh dear. If he is this friendly with women at 2 then imagine 13. I'm in trouble. Then we were at the mall and Matt fell and hit his head on the corner of the boat at the play place and this lady gasps and Matt gets up runs and punches Ethan in the leg. Then he gets up on the bench and says "I'm so bad" So this just proves that I'm in for it. Hes going to drive me crazy!

We had a playgroup at the mall play place today, well more like just Carmin and I. The boys had loads of fun and after we were in the food court and the boys decided that they wanted pizza. Now as most of you know if you don't ask children like 50 times if that is what they really want you end up with a plate full of food that they don't really want. They stuck to it, so pizza it was. I was pretty excited cause I thought I get to get away with buying one children's meal cause the slices of pizza are gigantic. However since I only got one pizza and spilt it in half of course they gobbled it up and wanted more. If I would have bought two meals I would have had to beg them to try and eat. Instead of buying another slice of pizza I bribed them with cookies. I guess I will have to make up for it tomorrow.

When Hell breaks lose!

Ok so I just had to share this, because all along I have been trying to convince people that Matt is "different" Someone had posted a bulletin on myspace about this site where you enter your Name and it puts it in a movie quote, so like the nerd that I am I did it and afterwards I decided to enter Matts name and heres the quote "When there's no more room in hell, the Matt will walk the earth." Hmmm I'll let you decide.

Reward Systems

After giving advice to a friend of mine about her daughter acting out I decided it was time to take my own advice and create reward charts. I was thinking about it and I feel like what I am trying to do isn't working. My children are way too spoiled and I am tired of not following through. So starting Monday they are going to get stars for picking up their toys, eating dinner, good behavior and setting the table. I still have to work out the kinks, but I hope that this new reward system will work. I will give them a star for everything they complete on their responsibilities list and they will have to have so many sticker by the end of the week for the reward. I think that I will get pictures of rewards so that they will be able to remember what the reward is, or maybe I will have a variety of picture with Velcro on the back and let them pick the reward for the week. Quite obviously this plan needs some work, but I just decided this tonight.

Ethan brought home my first handmade mothers day card and present! Its too cute. It almost made me cry. Plus my child thinks I weigh 5 pounds, bless his heart! He really is getting way big! Some days its so hard to have children, but these are the days that are worth it. And those are what keeping you going through fighting, bruises and black eyes. The funny thing is that you don't need many of those days and they don't really happen that often, but when they do they are worth everything that you have been through. Sometimes we get caught up on all the negatives that we forget what all the good. Its that one smile and the I Love yous that you can never find any comparison for. So I am going to try and sit back and enjoy the ride, because someday soon, my boys will be sullen teenagers that really don't want to show Mommy the bug in the garden that he cant poke.

Well I was going to try to scan what Ethan gave me, but right now its having some issues so here it is and I will try and make it work in the morning (in like 6 hrs)

My Mommy

My mommy's name is Tasha. She is 2 years old. She weighs 5 pounds.
Her favorite food is Steak. Her Favorite color is blue. Her favorite song
is Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Her Favorite thing to do is Play. I love
my mommy because I hug her.

LOL. I think Ethan's favorite color is blue. Other then total accuracy, especially the 5 LBS!!!!! Seriously.

One Rainy Day

Okay thanks alot Mother Nature, apparently my pleas for the rain to stop are going to go unanswered. Today was a remarkably ordinary day. We went for brunch with my family. Ethan and Matt were so happy to get out of the house that they were actually pretty good. Then we came home and the rain lulled us to sleep--ok not really. The kids fought a nap as usual, but eventually gave in to their exhaustion. Then we woke up and ate dinner. See nothing remarkable.

I did finally decide to put our extra t.v. in boys bedroom. Jason put it in there tonight. Ok seriously if you have something bad to say about this then keep it to yourself. I really don't care. There is only so many years of Blues Clues, Diego and Little Einsteins one can take and I have reached my breaking point. I want the boys upstairs in their room and possibly playing while they watch t.v. and I really want two minutes of peace. I really don't care if that makes me a bad mom or even selfish, I can no longer watch kids television. I have been singing Diego and Sponge Bob songs for the last week and guess what they are invading my mind! Seriously instead of sleeping those songs go back and forth in my head! Anyone that knows me will no that I don't really ever have trouble sleeping, but now instead of sleeping I am singing "Its the bessssssst daaaay everrrrrrrrrr!" over and over in my head. No more!

I cant wait till the rain stops cause I'm so bored I am baking!!!!

Boredom sets in

I really thought that April showers bring May Flowers, which means that it is not supposed to rain or be gloomy for longer then a day after April. Didn't mother nature get the news letter? Its gloomy and humid not a good recipe for a Saturday. Ethan and Matt are going for a world record of who can drive mommy to insanity faster! They are both winning. Between fighting over toys and running into each other I am ready to have a talking to with mother nature. After all she is a MOTHER, does she not realize that kids can only stay cooped up in a house for so long before they start driving their mother mad?????

Today I have realized that I did a very bad thing when I started buying two of everything instead of teaching my children to share. Because after Ethan's birthday yesterday there are three toys that there are only one of and only one that the boys want. My grandparents bought Matt a rocket ship to keep him from being upset while Ethan was opening presents. Well now both boys only want that toy! Go figure. So taking advice from my wiser friend I decided to timer the toys. Who knew that my morning would be spent setting the timer and then fielding the screaming of the other child who didn't get the toy this time. So I took away the timer and sent the boys upstairs. About two minutes later there is screaming from both boys. I wait downstairs praying to the Gods that it was a fight over a toy and one of them will move on. Well not quite. It was a collision over a toy. Now Ethan has a sorta bluish swollen eye and surprise Matt, the child with the hard head has....... you guessed it not a mark. After convincing Ethan that he does not need a band -aid I attempt to send them back upstairs. The whole time the are working their way up the stairs Ethan is trying to convince Matt to put his spaceship into the bag and they can "both" carry it. Matt's not buying it. So now I have both children downstairs, but alas no fighting, at least for the last 15 minutes.

Please Mother Nature if you are reading this, pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee let the sun shine again so I can take my kids outside.