Craziness

Our house has been so busy this month that I have hardly had time to tell you all about children's naughty behavior : ) Actually some of that has is due to that fact that they are actually being pretty good, their naughtiness actually just borders normal. Hmm thinking back something weird is going on here! Anyway as most of you know we are adding a new addition to our family on Monday--hopefully sooner, but doubtful. After a week of false labor I asked-no wait begged my doctor to induce me. She was really nice about it, so I bet she has been pregnant before or else she just had enough of whinny pregnant women that day. But the end result is that I wont be pregnant forever and I don't have to suffer to much longer(sorry for the whining!)

A couple of weeks ago I had to attend a meeting for kindergarten for Ethan. Seriously I don't think he's big enough for kindergarten, but I am assured by everyone that he is. Then I had to decide if I was sending him on the bus or not. Who can make that decision????? He seems way to little to ride the bus. What if he says the wrong thing and gets made fun of or beat up by the older bully children. But then I found out that some of Ethan's friends from preschool are riding the same bus, so that relieved some fears. What a scary time! Meanwhile I told Ethan that we were having his baby sister Monday and he told me that he wasn't going to be here, he was going to Hawaii. Then yesterday he handed me a letter that said "I love you, Dear Mommy, I am leaving to Hawaii" or at least that is what he told me it said--in that order as well. And I thought he was going to take the baby pretty well.

Matt told me that on Monday he was going to be in Dinosaurland. But he does assure me that he is going to change his baby sister's diaper and feed her bottles and climb in her crib and sing her lullabies. My guess it that he will spend a day with her and realize that she is boring and ignore her until she gets in his way.

So when the 5th member of our family joins us I will post details. Have a great weekend!

Horns

I was giving Matt a bath last night and washing his hair when all of a sudden he went a little crazy and started grabbing his hair and pulling. He says "Look mama, I'm making horns." I knew it! He is a devil in disguise : ) So when it was Ethan's turn for a bath Ethan looked and me and said "Can you make horns for me too, mommy?" Sorry Ethan, even if I tried your horns would never fit your personality--except when he decides to act like a teenage girl and stomp away and slam his door, still more like claws rather then horns. It really amazes me how different the two of them are and the older they get the more those differences really stand out. Lately it seems that they have needed more time apart, which is difficult since they share a room. Ethan definitely needs many breaks away from Matt and even Matt from him. Usually since Matt has been clinging to my side he will come downstairs and Ethan will stay up. Eventually (after like an hour) they can stand each other again. Oh boy are the teenage years going to be interesting!

How even a hole in my child’s face doesn’t even slow him

Today at around 3 pm Matt decided that he wanted to wear PJS. After Jason and I told him no, to leave the clothes that he had on, on, he went racing around the corner through the kitchen and fell on the stairs. All I heard was Jason saying something along the line of oh crap. So after waiting for a couple of seconds through a contraction and listening to Matt's crying, I figured I better go check on my child, who I thought had bitten his tongue. After a slight calming of the crying and a slow down of the bright red blood (which I knew didn't come from his tongue) I lifted the cloth off his face to see this hole. I can't even begin to tell you how disturbing it is to see a hole in your child's face.

So off to the hospital we went, by the way Matt stopped crying after about 5 minutes and was beginning to demand things on the van ride to the hospital. My dad met us there to get Ethan and take him to their house and I took Matt into the full waiting room at Mercy while Jason parked the van. The children's center there is awesome by the way, we got right in and didn't have to sit in the waiting room at all, they had a tv in his room and a child life specialist came in to see what movie Matt would like. Meanwhile my supposedly injured child was sticking his tongue through the wound in the corner of his mouth. When asked about it he said that he poked a hole in his mouth and could he pleaseeeeeeeee poke a hole in his belly, cause it wouldn't hurt. He also said that he broke his skin, etc. etc. And then when asked why he says "Because I wanted Pajamas" in a very matter of fact tone. As if duh I wanted Pajamas was a good reason to go tearing through the kitchen. The put this cotton ball with numbing cream on it and the nurse had to keep coming back and fix it because, surprise, he kept sticking his tongue through the hole and climbing on the chairs and just being himself. Then they gave him the muscle relaxer, yeah, of course it doesn't calm my child down, it just like a Matt doped up, with whatever self-control he had left now gone and his head was rolling. All of this was both funny and sad at the same time, cause he kept laughing at everything. He was playing with this plastic spinny toy and he puts it up to his face and says "Mama I love this stuffed animal." Of course he was awesome during stitches. I couldn't believe he stayed so still. I was proud.

Of course the meds wore off after a very short while and in the van on the way home he kept pulling his stitches (ouch) and biting his seatbelt with the side that was stitched and when I told him to stop he pointed at me and told my to turn around. Then at Nana's house he was told he couldn't run (doctors orders) so he jumped, which only kept him happy for so long before he started running. I gave up. Besides strapping him down it was obvious that he wasn't going to stop. Ahh but alas he fell asleep on the ride home and I was able to get these pictures of his two stitches. Poor guy and he has an ear infection, which he has not even complained about : ( I am sure that he may just not feel pain though, cause his threshold for pain is way greater then humanly possible, perhaps there is some alien DNA in there?

Updates and Reflections

I don't really have anything in particular to write about, but I thought I would update you all.

The boys were crazed monsters up until Christmas and since then they have actually been pretty good (knock on wood). I think the stress of the Holidays got to us all. The boys got so many presents that I didn't know what to do with them all (as seen in the picture!) I literally replaced all the toys in their room. They are having fun with their big boy stuff though. At the end of the month I have to register Matt for preschool again for the 4 year olds and Ethan will have to be registered for kindergarten : ( I am a little sad that he is so big, its seems like just yesterday that he was my only baby. He is so excited to go and there are days when I think I might be more excited then him, but then I actually think about how big he has gotten and it make me sad.

Jason started new hours on Monday, so he's working M-F 8-4:30 with Sat. and Sun. off! Yeah finally no Saturdays, at least for the next 6 months. I am getting closer to my due date, thank God. I am ready to be done and meet our beautiful baby girl. Jason and I like to speculate on who she's going to look like since we both have a child that looks like us! Its such a toss up, but like I told him I bet she comes out with red hair so I can go out in public and have three totally different looking children and people can ask me if I babysit or just glare at me, depending on where I am at.

Its that time when the holiday rush is done to sit down and reflect on the past year. For me this has been a really mixed year. There have been some really great things that have had happened and some really bad. I count my blessings because I have a wonderful husband, two healthy, (for the most part) happy children and wonderful friends who have been so supportive and helpful throughout my whole pregnancy. Its great to know that you are loved by so many people and that you have so many people that you hold dear. To all of you, you know who you are, you guys are awesome and I am so thankful to have all of you in my life. Especially you Jason : ) You are the most important person to me and I love you so much. I can't wait to celebrate our five year anniversary tomorrow!