Rock N' Roll house ape

When does Dougie go back to school? hmm I seem to be asking myself that a lot lately. I have discovered that the true culprit to most of the noise around here has a name and that name is Dougie. Yes it is true the ring leader to the crashing, banging, yelling, crying, wrestling matches, and of course the messes is Dougie. Daxton and Connor are his loyal followers. Anything for Dougie, seems to be there motto. I still have however a week left of this Christmas vacation and will be looking forward to the few hours a day when Dougie isn't here and Daxton and Connor are sitting at my feet bored because they can't seem to function without their master.

This week the boys of course have been playing with their new toys that the great Santa brought them. Sure they will believe in Santa but the moment they here about Rudolph with his red nose. They're going to have a few questions about this. Which by the end of this conversation a flying reindeer with a glowing red nose is just going to be impossible. Yeah sometimes I think that I should be recording these conversations.

Dougie has been a little bit of a helper these last few days, that has resulted in Daxton wanting to be a happy helper. The result of this is a fight over who is going to bring me the diaper that I requested over an hour ago. Dougie has also helped Daxton out with some of his toys. Dougie has discovered that "Dad's work room," has cool kinds of tape. So when Daxton broke his new watch, Dougie taped the watch onto Daxton. When Daxton ripped off one of the fins on his rocket, well Dougie was there to tape not only the fin back on but to make sure that the whole rocket was covered. I think we will be okay but then again they have just discovered that Dad has different kinds of glue in there too. Crap......

Daxton has learned that besides there being toys out there that, there is also things called games. He is really liking the game hungry hungry hippo. But, has discovered that he has a card game with Nemo and that you can play two games. One is the famous "Go fish," the other one is called "Find Nemo." So you can imagine what he said to me when I came walking by him, and he had all these cards thrown all over the room. I asked him "Why are the cards all over the room." He responded with "I'm finding Nemo mom." Well apparently you don't need to read the instructions on how to play the game.

Some of you have probably wondered what has happened to our cupboard gnome. Well he has evolved and now is known to us as the "House Ape." At least that is what Doug has labeled him now. Connor seems to be all over the place. He is jumping on the couch, the beds. He is swinging his arms every where he goes. He even has a stomp down when he is trying to intimidate you. And of course every once in awhile there is some kind of chest thumping he does. But, mostly there is a lot of growling type of yelling he does. The nights are becoming the worst. Doug is even beginning to dread the time Connor arrives to smack one of us on the face until he's gotten what he wants. However this "house ape," loves music so when I turn music on he stops what he's doing and dances with the closest speaker to him. So yesterday I had my new little mp3 Walkman hooked up to the computer's speakers and was listening to my play list and Connor as usual comes over he's jumping on the couch and is climbing all over in rhythm with the music and I looked at Doug and said "He likes the Rock n'Roll." So it was very funny when five seconds later he is jumping around yelling "Rock n' roll." It reminded me of the movie "Taledaga nights", were the kid says "I wanna go fast." I think we might have our hands full with this one.

Well they still have a more toys to figure out. Hopefully it will keep them entertained for a few days more.... Until then all I can say is Rock on little house ape...........

Fun holidays!!!

Well it's been quit a fun Christmas season for us here. I hope that everyone else had just as good of a Christmas. So here's a review of the past week.

I have spent the last past week before Christmas talking to the boys about the true meaning of Christmas. By the end of the conversations it came down to the fact that Jesus is the superhero of all superhero's. Close enough for now.

Dougie has had a lot of fun this year and is anxiously waiting for next year. I helped with a little party at his school for "The Holidays". (Heaven forbid I say Merry Christmas, and offend someone.) At Dougie's class I learned that Dougie must not be ashamed of me yet, because he was busy pointing me out to all of his little friends. We also made a trip to Blanding for our family Christmas party. Let's just say that he was having to much fun that he wouldn't go to his cousin's birthday party. Christmas Eve he pulled Daxton aside not thinking that anyone was around and informed him that Santa is to fat to get down our chimney so he would have to come through the front door. And of course he was the last one of our boys to go to sleep. He spent all evening tracking santa with Doug. He even made sure that Santa got his sugar cookies. Let me just say that as soon as the radar said Santa had hit Delaware, we had him thinking that if he didn't go to bed that Santa might not come. As soon as his head hit the pillow that boy was out for the count. Christmas morning came and so did Dougie up the stairs and running into our bedroom to yell at Doug that Santa had been here. He had a very good time.

Daxton has been at it again. Friday on our trip to Blanding, he was riding with Grandma and Cassie in Grandma's car, apparentely they were headed down the freeway when all of a sudden Daxton decided to open his door. Trust Daxton to know the only time when Grandma hasn't put on the child lock. At the family party Daxton opened up a present from his aunt Cassie, and she had given him a pirate ship. He absoutlely loves this toy. The night we got back here to Grand Junction he asked me if he could sleep with his big pirate ship. And of course I couldn't say no to this blue eyed angelic three year old. A few minutes later I was watching him and he laid down patted his toy and said "night, night shippy." So there you go Cassie, it was a good present for him this year. That and his sword. There is nothing like having a big sword battle and looking over to see, that the ones who are defending you are wearing diapers. Man do I have the feeling that I'm going to get hit. Daxton got so excited Christmas morning that before we could make it to the tree he was grabbing and ripping. We had to quickly wake up at that point.

Connor has had a go with the flow kind of year this time. I honestly don't think he cares if he got anything that he might have thought he wanted. He's happy just as long as their is candy around. He spent his time at Grandma's with his cousin telling him where he wanted to go. And then having him looking for her when she wasn't there. That was the first time that I have ever seen him play nice with anyone. He does however like his brother's toys just as much as they do. Which then causes fights. He has also been stealing their candy. But other than that he's been real happy with life.

I'm just glad that things went as good as they did. But we are returning back into the same old routine, with Doug waking up and having Daxton break a glass cup and Doug getting his hand cut open. The boys are back to fighting and telling me " we don't have to be good for awhile until it gets to the next Santa time." Where I informed them that I can just as easily take them away and that, Dougie has a birthday coming up in a few months. Sometimes I do belive that threatening your children can be healthy for all. Sorry if this one isn't as good but, there have been a lot of distractions going on and if I don't post now, it could be another few days... Happy New Year to all........

I need to learn to shut my mouth sometimes....

I'm sitting watching the movie "Fred Claus" and Dougie looks at me and says "So Daxton could be Santa some day." My response "He needs to be a saint first." But, as usual I'm not going to discount it. After all I never know what to expect with these boys around. Although I am a little worried since Dougie's favorite part was, where Fred throws the apple at his brother. Might need to be a little concerned. I guess that I will just have to keep Dougie away from the apples. I don't know what it is about my kids but, they seem to like the villains.

One of the great things that I have gotten to observe this week is Connor. The little guy just seems to love people. (Don't ask me where he got that from.) I have watched him standing in line waiting to check out over the past few weeks, and he seems to attract grandmas. Waiting in line is never boring for him. He loves to show off and laugh, and even tells everyone goodbye, as we leave the store. Makes a big production just leaving the store. The other night we had a few visitors stop by and Connor being Connor in no time had another "grandma friend." Yes that is what I am naming them.. I don't quit know what he does but, I think he knows. I do have to say that however last night he did sleep until five this morning. I'm still in shock and don't know what happened. I mean I got to sleep and there was no tantrums in the middle of the night, no toys blaring, I didn't get smacked or used as a slide. Just quite blissful sleep... Merry Christmas to me.

Daxton and I have been in a little bit of a tug-o-war over his fishy blanket. For some reason I believe that it needs to be washed, Daxton on the other hand says that all it needs is to be shaken, and then it will be clean. yea I don't think so. However finding the blanket is a trick all on its own. He hides it from me and then when he does have it he screams if I take it. But, I have also learned that I need to learn to keep my mouth shut at certain times. I don't need a parrot when Daxton is around. The other evening I came around the corner into the kitchen and Connor had spilled milk all over and was trying to mop it up with his butt. So me being me and the big mouth that I just can't seem to tell to stay quiet said "Dammit Connor." A few seconds later I hear "Dammit Connor." I didn't even have to look to see who it was. So then I have the little talk with Daxton about how he shouldn't say that, that it's a bad word and we shouldn't be saying that and he says, "But you said it." So there you go. What goes around comes back to make sure that you know that your doing it all wrong. Let's just say I have to work on that.

Now if there comes a day when you haven't heard from me for a few days, (Mom, Dad, Cassie.) Then there might be reason to be worried just a little. Well if I actually did take Dougie's threats serious that's what I would tell you. But seeing how Dougie is Dougie, I'm not worried. He has threatened me this week that him and his "little friends," are going to come kidnap me and lock me up and make me watch t.v. Scary let me tell you. If they think that's punishment I might just let them do it. He is getting excited for Christmas so he's got that to look forward too. Maybe it will keep his mind off of abducting his mother. Who knows...

We did get some snow these past few days and the boys have been really happy about that. There has been snow angels made and they made sure they walked all over the place. There was even a snowball fight. Let's just say I won, I had the shovel............

Bow to the master!!!!

So I have had the lovely few days to be enlightened by my little boys. Everything that I thought I knew, (Well basically the dumb stuff in life.)has been thrown out the window. I would actually take this serious but, you know coming from a five, three, and two year old there's no reason for me to become alarmed. Especially since I am their mother and their thinking doesn't seem to surprise me anymore.

Thursday Dougie came home from school with his Thursday folder. I pulled out all the papers thinking hey there are a few things in here that actually look like something we could get Dougie involved with. I personally think that soccer or ice hockey would be fun, well I obviously don't quit know Dougie well enough. He handed me a paper that had information about Teakwando. When I read it to Doug, Dougie said "You bow to the master." Where he then demonstrated how your supposed to "bow to the master". Crazy enough he did it right, apparently one of the kids in his class has been showing him. Friday he came home and told us that his friends and him are still chasing Dracula. They have been chasing him since Halloween and still haven't caught him. I don't think their hunting him right, but that's just my opinion. Every time we talk to Dougie about this we're wrong, he doesn't believe that Dracula is a vampire. I have learned sometimes in life you have to just let things go.

I know which child is going to drive me insane, and all I have to say is Daxton. I have learned things that I just did not think where possible. Like the moment I asked Daxton if he needed to pee. (I know there are a lot of scenarios running through your head right now, but your not even close.) He walked by me making noise and said "I'm an airplane, and airplanes don't pee." I was speechless until Doug called a few minutes later. When I had told Doug well he couldn't stop laughing long enough for me to ask what he wanted. I have also had the experience of why you don't let a three year old help you make toffee. Let's just put it this way a spoon got melted and I got burned. Never again.

Connor is coming in second for driving me slowly to that place where your mind snaps and you can be living in your own world, where evil clowns don't exsist and only sleep is the most activity you see all week. He has this thing where he goes pick fights or steals the toys from his brothers. Then he comes up crying (it's fake)and points at whoever is near by and says, "he did it." Oh goody we have yet hit another stage. We are still having to battle him with eating something else besides cheese and cheese and more cheese, and then his tenth thing of milk.

All I can say is I'm no where near being one step ahead of them. However I am learning. What that is I still don't understand.

A year ago I was sitting at Primary Children's Hospital trying to get Connor to eat something, so that we could take him home. We tried Popsicles, soup, pudding, and even Gatorade. He wouldn't take anything. It might have been the fact that he was still angry about having to have his tongue tied down. Even after they came in and undid the stitches to let his tongue lose, he still wouldn't eat. Who knew that all it would take was a walk down to the vending machine with his dad to get Twinkies. I still have to laugh at that moment when Doug opened up the Twinkies that he thought he was going to eat only to have Connor reach for them. Well lets just say that after the nurses saw him eating that, we were released to take him home. I have to give Doug credit for that one.
Yes you can never guess by looking at Connor that he had almost starved to death on us, and had problems eating. (I can't ever thank the people enough who came in and helped me get him taken care of, those first months of his life.) Or the fact that he might not be able to hear. which he did pass finally. So it's been kind of hard for myself to believe that, that had all happened just over a year ago. Especially now when I look at my little terror. But he's been well worth it even when he is up all night.
I am just going to say THANK YOU!! to everyone who helped with Connor.
Any way we have had a good week. Dougie has been enjoying school this week. I've been trying to get him to walk across the playground by himself but, he still makes me walk over with him. He tried to tell me that the bigger kids run in to him, which I honestly couldn't believe since he's never walked over by himself before. However yesterday Doug took him to school and when he got him over to his class the little girls in Dougie's class started to run over. I guess at that point he didn't need his dad there anymore
Daxton has been off in his own world. The one thing I have noticed about him is that everything he does down to every movement has a sound effect. You never really can guess what he's gong to do next.
And little Connor has been quit interesting today where we learned that Connor is no shy kid. We were standing in line to check out and he decided to start showing off for the lady behind us. Let me just say it was quit a good show.
So we haven't had any big thing this week just a nice quiet week, well as quiet as it can get between all the yelling and fighting that they do, I've just come to accept that this is what boys do. At least I'm hoping that's normal for boys.

I'm tired now.. can I go to sleep yet?

I bet that you have already guessed from the title that this week has been busy. Yes, yes it has. I can thank Connor for most of the middle of the night escapades. For some reason he gets up and thinks that he needs to have me follow his every move. If you have ever wondered what night of the living dead looks like. You should see me at six in the morning, that's what time Connor decides to go back to bed. At twelve at night when he comes to wake me up he really doesn't seem to be all that cute to me anymore. It's gotten so bad that Doug actually forced me to take a nap this afternoon. I guess you can say that I haven't been firing on all pistons lately. Doug has even told Connor that he better start sleeping at night, only to have Connor respond with ever famous "why." Oh Good we get to go through the "why" to everything stage.
It has not only been Connor causing problems this week. I still haven't said anything about Daxton or Dougie now have I? I am starting to think that they truly want me to lose it. Although I do have to admit that maybe a long rest in a padded room really might not be the worst thing to happen after all. Anyhow moving back to the point, I have had three boys running a rampage this week. They have been in so much trouble with me this week. I finally took their toys away from them. Yes I finally did it. I kept picking up their toys and they kept dumping them out. For some reason I just didn't think that, that was very fair. So I took drastic measures and they didn't seem to care. I finally took the games systems and movies, yeah that woke them up.
I do have to admit that there have been some entertaining moments this week. For one the boys discovered pop rocks this week. So I spent an evening with the boys making the popping noises and thinking that it was the funniest thing. I have also had the pleasure of Connor showing me that he can river dance. And then later to only have him show it to me again at two in the morning. I think I have to say that I have already received one of the best gifts this year, and that was from Daxton. He got so excited about us setting up the Christmas tree, he went down stairs and put some of his building blocks together and brought me up a present that he said he'd made just for me. I just don't see how anyone can top that one. He even stuck it under the tree for me. Dougie this week has decided that he likes Daxton and that they actually could be friends. Hmmm I wonder how long this is going to last? My bet tomorrow night they'll be beating on each other.