HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANTHONY AND PARKER

I don't think I have ever seen a smile so big as Anthony had when he saw his present. In that huge box is a 75lb sub-woofer. Anthony has wanted a nice sub-woofer forever so he saved up all his Christmas and birthday money (and will have to use future Christmas and birthday money for the next 5 years to repay the dept) to buy this baby.
Parker got trains, books and a zoo pass. After he was done opening his present he went and got the wrapping paper gave it to me and told me more choo choo(trains). Apparently 4 trains wasn't enough.
After the boys were done opening their presents they got to work at hooking the surround sound system up to that lovely sub-woofer. Once the sub-woofer was hooked-up Anthony spent the rest of the day watching action movies, the sound is so good you almost feel like you are there. Have you ever been stopped at a stop light and had a car next to you bumping so loud that you could feel it in your heart? When Anthony turns the sub-woofer up I swear my heart skips a beat, I hope no one with a pacemaker walks past our house when we are watching a movie, their heart will stop for sure.
Anthony and Parker each got to choose 2 friends to come over for dinner. Parker choose Ciella and Weston, and lucky for me Anthony choose Garret and Andrew(Weston's dad and Ciella's dad). They are great friends and made the birthday party fun.
28 candles sure does create a lot of heat.

I married a good man

This morning the kids were up, so it was time for me to get out of bed. As I walked into kitchen Anthony told me I could go back to bed if I wanted. He didn't have to say that twice, I handed him Kenzie and headed back to bed. I got to sleep until 10:00 a.m. it was great. Thanks Antonio'

Shaving

The other day Parker decided he was no longer a little boy, he was a man. While Anthony was showering Parker went in the bathroom, noticing he was unsupervised Parker decided to take advantage of the situation. When Anthony was done showering he opened the shower curtain and found Parker "shaving" a.k.a. cutting his face with a razor. Anthony decided to show Parker how to shave the right way. He put shaving cream on his face, then washed it off. Not thinking this through, Anthony then gave Parker some aftershave to put on his face. Parker took the aftershave and put it right on his cut. Poor kid started screaming, Anthony didn't do it as a punishment for shaving, but Parker hasn't touched the razor since.
You can't see it to well, but Parker cut up his chin pretty good and cut under his nose.

My hero

3 Weeks ago I survived a bird attack. The bird never actually touched me it just flew at me while I was doing the laundry and scared me to death. The bird was never seen or heard by anyone else, just me and I was starting to wonder if I was crazy. How come I was the only one who ever heard it?

Thursday that bird got caught in our heating vent. I had to listen the bird scratch and chirp all day but finally my husband came home from school to save me. The chase:

Here is Anthony trying to catch it in a sheet. The bird is on top of my fridge, it is the black thing just to the left of Anthony's head.
My hero, after chasing it around the house for a couple minutes Anthony caught it in his hands.
My favorite part of the whole thing was Parkers reaction. I took the kids and ran like a chicken into Parkers room and shut the door. Parker asked me to get him a blanket, I gave him a blanket then he went back out in the house to help dad(he saw dad running around with the sheet, so he grabbed a blanket and tried to help).

What is that horrible smell?

This is a question you would probably be asking yourself if you came to my house today. The smell is horrible it is 19 eggs mixed with urine, a horrible mixture that I would recommend never combining. Here is how it happened:

Yesterday I hosted playgroup at my house. During playgroup 3 children disappeared, my innocent little Parker and his friends Weston and Lily. I wasn't worried because there isn't anything in my kitchen they could get to. Unfortunately someone knows how to open the fridge. I am not sure who opened the fridge, all I know is the fridge was opened and my kitchen was egged by 3 not so innocent children.


I mopped 3 times yesterday, but when I woke up today my kitchen smelt like eggs. I just put it in the back of my mind and moved on with the day, I will clean it later. I had decided today was the big day, the day when Parker goes from being a baby to being big boy and gets rid of the diaper. Here is how it worked.

At 10:00 am we start the process. We have a celebration both Parker and his peeing doll Scott get rid of their diapers and put on underwear. We then give Scott a drink, take him to the bathroom and he pees in the toilet, well done Scott.

Try #1 We go back to the kitchen give Parker a drink, on his second sip he pees his underwear. That is fine, I clean him up, get a new pair of underwear and go back to drinking.

Try #2 I should have thought this process through a little bit better (and went to the bathroom before we started), but I needed to go to the bathroom. I went and came back to find that Parker had peed and pooped in his underwear. Definitely not his fault, so I clean him up and we start again.

Try #3 I wanted Parker to see Scott potty in the toilet again so he understands the pee is supposed to go in the toilet, not down his leg. Parker starts giving Scott his drink, in the middle of the process he looks up and me and pees his underwear again.

Try #4 I am trying to stay positive, we do some practice runs. I take Parker to different parts of the house and tell him "ooh no, you have to go potty what do you do?" We run to the bathroom take off his underwear sit on the toilet and practice what he should do when he feels his urges. We practiced about 5 times, then went back to the kitchen for more to drink. While he is drinking his drink he pees again.

Try #5 Parker is all cleaned and drinking again. I start changing McKenzie's diaper while I am doing this Parker hit her as hard as he could 3 times on her face before I could stop him. Furious,(Parker is always so nice and has never done this before) I put him in time out. While I try to calm down McKenzie I hear "mom poo-poo, mom pee-pee." Sure enough he had peed all over in his bed.

We stopped the potty training process at 11:30 after he peed his bed. I am not ready. So now I am mopping again trying to make sure the urine smell is gone. Hopefully within the next few days I can get rid of the horrible egg urine smell. As I think about my day I think how smart Annamarie(my sister-in-law) is. Before trying to toilet train Parker I asked her if she had any toilet training advice and she told me "don't do it." You are a wise woman Annamarie.

Reading

Parker used to hate reading books, but he finally has started to enjoy reading. Apparently today I was reading the book wrong because in the middle of the story Parker took his book over to McKenzie, sat down and started reading to her. As if he was showing me how to do it because I was doing it wrong.




Well, I showed him. I took my book and gave it to Anthony to read to me, showing Parker how to sit and listen appreciatively.

What can you do?

One of our daily rituals is to do Kenzie's hair. Today while doing it I brought 3 bows because I didn't know which one would look best. Parker noticed the extra bows and insisted on wearing one. Don't worry I eventually got him to take it off willingly, but it was hard. I don't want to tell him that only girls wear bows, I am scared he will start saying he wants to be a girl(this happened to one of my friends sons). It was too cute I had to take a picture.