First Trip to the Zoo this year.

So on Friday I took the kids to the Zoo, I have felt like a deadbeat mom because my last couple of days off I have stayed home and cleaned so no matter what-we were going to the Zoo! It was a balming 20 degrees out, but that didn't stop us. There were almost no animals outside so we had to go inside. We did have two memorable animal experiences. We were in the lion house and two lions were fighting/playing and they would run up to each other and jump at each other, etc. It was AWSOME(like Grant says).


Grant was helping Lucie pull the "ARE YOU AS STRONG AS A BABY GORILLA" thing.


Lucie went up to an exhibit and she couldn't see anything inside so she put one hand on the glass and her head on the glass and then she turned and looked at me with the back of her head on the glass. Just then a baby monkey came up to the glass where she was and put his hand right on top of hers and pressed his head to the glass right on hers. I was so excited I told Lucie to turn around and it scared her so she ran away. When I finally got her to go back the monkey was just peering over the edge. I am NOT an animal person but this was sooo sweet!!




SOOO EXCITED
Do you remember being a kid and getting something you had wanted for a long time, as soon as you got it you wore it/used it/etc. even if it didn't make any sense to at the time. Well on Saturday we went to the outdoor outlet mall about 45 minutes away. Grant had been asking for sunglasses for quite awhile since he lost his last ones. We went to Childrens Place and they had killer sales-including there sunglasses!! So I bought him a pair and he was in heaven. He had to wear them the rest of the time, so there we were outside, with a windchill of close to ZERO, it was snowing and we had HORRIBLE blowing snow-and this was my son, you can see the JOY on his face!!!

I have had ENOUGH!

I am sick of cleaning up messes I don't make, so I take it upon myself to give the kids a five minute headstart to clean their toys. Then in five minutes I went upstairs with rubbermaid bins and I started "CLEANING" my way. This is what Lucie said-it was hilarious!!

ME AM SO NOT HAPPY RIGHT NOW
ME AM POUTING MOM
MOM MOM ME AM POUTING
ME AM NEVER GOING TO THE WATERPARK
ME AM NOT THINKING ABOUT IT
ME DON'T WANT TO THINK ABOUT IT
ME NOT HAPPY BOUT IT
ME IS NOT GOING TO GROW UP AND NOT GOING TO BE A MOM
ME SERIOUS

Grant then goes, wow she is a GRUMPIS-HUMPIS(he is into the rhyming thing)

I can't wait until she is a teenager!!

Funny Conversation!

This story was soo funny so I hope it is funny to just read it. This is a conversation between Grant and Lucie on our way to Piggly Wiggly.

Lucie keeps singing "you get the best of both worlds" song from Hannah Montana

Grant: Lucie stop singing

Lucie: You get the best of both worlds....

Grant: Lucie stop

Lucie: You get the ..........

Grant: Lucie you can only sing "You get the best of both worlds" if you sing ABC first.

Lucie: AB

Grant: NO BACKWARDS


It was soo funny, I wonder where kids get things like that.

My poor baby!

Josh picked Grant up on his way home from work and I went to watch Lucie dance, then came home. As soon as I got home I commented on how pale Grant looked and his eyes were dark, he wasn't lathargic but he wasn't himself. He sat at the table for about 2 minutes looked at his food and said he was done, he ate about 2 bites of an apple-he loves fruit. I continued to make comments about how awful he looked-I blow alot of things out of proportion so Josh kept saying he was fine. At 7:45(three hours after I got home)he started to throw up. Poor guy, he was up all night throwing up. He is such a trooper, I hope he feels better SOON!

Messing with it AGAIN!

I am trying to change my blog again, so if things look funny or come down they will be up agian in a few days!

Every action has a consequence!!

As every mom has probably done I left my children unattended while I cleaned and tried to regain sanity. They were upstairs playing TOGETHER and not fighting, I check on them after half an hour(just cracking the door open a little), Grants room was somewhat messy, but at first glance not bad and they were playing a VERY intense game of I spy. So I let it go! By this point I have already made MULTIPLE mistakes! Oh what's one more-so I go downstairs for another half hour. So it has been one hour of happy bliss in a quiet house with children who are getting along sooo well(I also lost my phone so I don't hear that ring either-very quiet house.)
So we now have to answer

WHY are they getting along so well????!!!!????
Let me tell you!
After one hour I actually walk into the room to check on them

I find
-every book in their room on their floor
-every toy bucket dumped out
-3 broken toys
-2 empty sippie cups(that is alarming-WHERE is the water)
-Grants 400 ish piece diego game on the floor
-everything from on top of his bed bookcase on the floor
And then I see IT!!!
-2 bowls
-1 EMPTY BOTTLE OF DORA LOTION(OH NO!!!!)

They had taken the dora lotion and put it into two bowls, with the water, mixed it with some spoons AND GIVEN SOME OF LUCIES BABIES A BATH(IN GRANTS ROOM).
Water and lotion are all over the place.

So due to my action of ignoring my angelic children for one hour I spent 45 minutes sitting in Grants room watching them clean-making sure to put everything away.
I am exhausted-I need a long backrub and a longer nap!!!

Therefore tonight I am treating myself to...

A fun filled family fun night at the ymca with a lot of people, even more kids, NOISE, NOISE, NOISE! Just what I need right now...I don't mind passing up a backrub and a nap for 2 hours of watching my kids laugh and play.

In my life a backrub will never come and I will probably get a nap right before my backrub!!

Happy Birthday to my precious little boy!

Grant turned five today and I am so happily sad it is unbelievable. My baby is officially a BIG boy. I was looking through our photo album to find pictures of him through the years and I almost started to cry because he is so sweet and he has filled our lives with so much joy over just five years! He is always so happy and fun to be around, he plays with everyone and loves to have fun and explore new things. It didn't really hit me until I wrote the word FIVE-WOW, that is such a huge number when you are talking about your little baby. I am going through major baby withdrawals. I think it is going to be soo much worse in 4 months when Lucie is 4, I will have a 4 and 5 year old, but what about my baby??? I know Grant can't read this but I want to thank him for being the best little boy EVER!!! I love you!