a typical morning...

Most mornings include lots of chasing of Max, making of breakfast, and getting everyone dressed and out the door. Of course this morning, the boys had me laughing at the things they do.

It started in the bathroom where Max typically spends most of his morning driving me nuts while I try to spend 15 minutes putting on makeup and doing my hair. This morning he started taking everything off the shelf below the sink and throwing it on the floor. So I made him pick it up himself. This included a box of panty liners, which he decided to examine by taking one out. I took it away and put it back and went back to doing my hair. Next thing I know Max is walking out of the bathroom bent over holding his knee and he then says, "I have band-aid." To which I find he is holding a panty liner across his knee. Not quite the intended use, but I guess it could work!

Then later, the boys are playing with their poke balls. hard plastic balls that open up in half. Well, Sammy walks into the kitchen with one held across his chest and says, "Look Mommy, I have boobies." To which Max picked up and walked around the house saying, "Sammy have boobies".

These boys are into boobies way too early in life. A week or so ago, Tim was trying to look down my bathing suit and said something about having boobies. To which he then started singing (over and over again I might add), "Mommy has boobies in the shower!" Of course the tune was so catchy that Sammy started in too and every once in a while for the rest of the day, they would just start in with their song. Luckily, every time they did, we were at home!!

Ok, I have more pictures to post, but they are on the other computer, so I'll do it soon!

Happy Birthday, Honey!!

So I have to start by saying birthday to the cause of the "My three sons" blog ;)

Happy birthday to a wonderful man who works hard to take care of us, to make our house better with his many projects, and who is a great father and hubby! I love you, babe!

I give him a ton of credit as we took him to Texas Roadhouse and when they brought him dessert they rolled out the sawhorse with a saddle and made him ride it while the whole resturant yelled, "Yee Haw!!" The oldest 2 thought it was great, but the baby cried :( Poor thing. Everytime I said Yee Haw after that he looked around for the waitresses :) He did blow a kiss to our waitress though, so he couldn't have been that tramatized :)

Other than that we had a busy weekend, but we did all survive :) I even scoured our playroom and tried to get rid of a ton of stuff. SO it actually looks good now. Just trying to get ready for the party this weekend!

How do Stay at home mom's do it?

It is only saturday morning and I am dying to go back to work already. Work is chaotic, but I don't have to chase anyone around, break up fights, or clean up a messy kitchen table there. I truly, truly do not know how my mother did it. I have such a huge respect for Stay at home moms now because I could just NEVER do it! I love my kids to death, but it is so hard!

I guess things may be a little different today in that, I am more hesitant to just send the kids outside and let them run free, especially on their bikes. Back when we were kids, my mom pretty much told us to go outside and play and that's what we did. We had friends next door and across the street and so we always had someone to play with. BUt with increased awareness around kids being taken today, maybe I'm over protective, but I just couldn't send the kids outside in the front yard by themselves until this summer. Not Max, unfortunately, I can't send him out on his own yet. But I can't wait!

Luckily for us we are headed to a birthday party for my niece in about 5 minutes and then we have a sitter tonight so that we can go for dinner at my boss's house. It should be fun and will be even better for socializing without the kids!

Off we go...

Dinner out...

Someone please tell me why we ever dare to take the kids out to dinner? We had a ton of errands to run tonight, so of course that meant dinner out with the kids. We actually did pretty good, Rich and Timmy hit the bike store for Timmy's new bike (his reward for learning how to ride without training wheels.) Then we hit BJ's and Pizzeria Uno's.

Taking tired children to dinner at a restaurant is just not a brilliant idea. For once they actually ate their dinners, but of course they fought and they threw fits, Max had to go to the bathroom at least 3 times. And mommy really needed a couple of drinks!!

6-7:30 am or pm... doesn't matter which

Ok, this is the 1 and a half each day that my life is most hectic!! This is when I am trying to get the kids dressed, fed, and out of the house (in addition to myself) OR getting them home, making them dinner, letting them play, and bathed (sometimes), and finally to bed!!

Max is driving me bananas. If he gets up before I shower, he comes in and out of the bathroom and eventually makes his way out to the playroom to antagonize his brothers!!

Then at night, he is just a crazy man. He doesn't like to eat his dinner and then does not stay in bed at all. Once he is asleep, he's not bad, but he know that he can manipulate us. All he has to do is come out of his room and say, "Have a need go potty." And since we are working on the potty training, we'll bring him and and let him sit. Sometimes he goes, more often, he doesn't. GRR!!

Anyway, time to put the other 2 to bed and head to my soccer game!!

couple of days...

Nothing really exciting has been happening lately, so I haven't been posting :) Yesterday was just a plain old busy day. Today was busy, but then I went running when I got home. Sammy even came and ran about 1.2 with me. Granted it was 2 .6 loops with a short break in between, but he was doing it faster than I was. What's up with that?

I do have one cute story which kind of reminds me of a story my dad used to tell me about me and learning the alphabet. In any case, one of Max's favorite books right now is a called, "How do Dinosaurs Say goodnight?" by Jane Yolen. We've read it so many times that I can read the beginning of the sentence and he can finish it. For example, one of the pages is, "Does a dinosaur stomp his feet on the floor and shout, 'I want to hear one book more." So I will say the first part, and Max will answer, "I want one book more". Well, the following is a page in the book and more often than not, I will begin by saying, "Does a dinosaur..." and wait for Max to answer "ROAR!!". But no, not Max, he answers, "scare the daddy". Because in the picture the daddy is covering his ears :) It is awfully cute.



Actually, I love this series of books, so if anyone is looking for gifts for Max, he has say goodnight and clean his room, but there are others that would be good for him, someday!

Summer days

We had a fairly fun day today. The morning was tough because Max is just at such a tough age and he is pretty much attached to me. Rich was really good though because he came home from his run, got cleaned up, and took the boys on some errands for an hour or so to give me a break. So that was really nice.

Then we played outside for a while, where Timmy has turned into a crazy man on his bike. I'm so glad that he is loving it!!

Finally we headed out to Rich's Gram's 80th birthday party. It was really a lot of fun, but it really is hard to talk to everyone that you want to when you are chasing the kids around. I meant to talk to my sister in law and see how she and my niece were after a car accident the other day, but Evie was her usual non-stop self, so I guess they're ok!

The boys swam and Timmy had a blast playing with a bunch of his older cousins. Damn there are a lot of boys in that family. But in any case, we did have a lot of fun and it was a gorgeous day. Now we have three more birthday parties to go to in the next couple of weeks, including Sammy's :)

I do have a cute video to share soon of the boys dancing!