Natalie has this shirt that she ALWAYS wears. It’s nothing special just a yellow shirt with gray long sleeves. As soon as I wash this shirt and she sees that it’s clean she puts it on. I always ask her why; she just says she likes it.
This morning she saw the shirt was clean but it wasn’t in her closet, it had been damp so I hung it under the stairs to dry before it went into her closet. It was high up so she couldn’t reach it on her own.
N: Can you help me get my shirt down?
Me: Sure, which shirt?
N: you know the one I’m obsessed with.
Me: sigh--- ok.
Just now William was putting away the yogurts I bought for him and Natalie. On the packaging are the details of the contest they are running. You can win $10,000.
W: (singing) I want to win 10,000 bucks, I want to win 10,000 bucks….
Me: What would you do with $10,000?
W: I would buy a Ferris wheel
Me: Oh and where would you put this Ferris wheel?
W: On top of our house. No wait, in the back yard, then I would throw a party.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
They started at 3:36 to be exact.
Did you know that there were thunder storms last night? They started at 3:36 to be exact.
My night started with the kids going to bed. I tucked them in, hugs and kisses; I love you’s all around and left their bedroom. A few minutes later William is out of bed, needing a drink, then a hug and a kiss and I send him back to his room with an
Me: I love you now GET YOUR BUTT IN BED, and don’t come back out.
W: ok, I love you; see you in the middle of the night
Me: Oh no he did not just say that (I was talking to Ed)
W: (laughing) walks back to his room and gets in bed
Sure enough some where in the 3:00 (AM) hour William showed up in my arms. We were both awakened at 3:37 by good old Bailey jumping on us, shaking and drooling all over us.
I got up quickly thinking, the vet’s new idea isn’t working either. The Dr. told me to try dosing him a few times instead of just once hoping the pills would work the whole time it stormed. I had given him pills during the day because it was supposed to storm all day yesterday but they didn’t seem to be working now. I got his leash and put it on him and gave him a pill. We put the leash on during the storms then either chain him to the foot of our bed or if I’m in the kid’s room I wrap it around my arm so he can’t leave me. Not a rumble of thunder all day! Now at 3:37 AM it decides to storm??? Just my luck.
So I tell William to go back to his bed. He starts walking there and I bring my pillows and blanket and set up camp on their floor. For some reason last summer this was one of Baileys “safe” places during storms, he would lay down and pant and be scared but I could usually get some sleep.
Me: William go back to bed
W: Are you sleeping in here?
Me: If Bailey will calm down I’ll sleep here
W: I wish I had a bunk like Natalie, then Bailey couldn’t get up to me
Me: Me too!
W: Can you and dad get me a bunk like Natalie?
Me: Only if I can get one too.
W: IT’S GOING TO BE A LONG NIGHT!
Me: Yes it is
I’ve actually joked about William and I climbing up into the bunk with Natalie and escaping the dog. I’m just not sure it would hold all 3 of us.
Me: Natalie do you think there is room for you, me and William in your bed?
N: You and me mom, but not William, he puts his hands under his head on the pillow like this (and she shows me) and his elbow keeps hitting me in the head when he twitches after he falls asleep.
Me: Ok, I’m not sure it would hold all 3 of us anyway
I tried lying down on the floor in the kids’ room, but Bailey wasn’t having it. The lightening was worse than the thunder but he was freaking out. So I took some school papers that I hadn’t gotten to reading and set up camp in the bathroom. For some reason, I guess that room drowns out some of the noise and atmospheric pressure so, the dog will calm down in there. Plus it’s such a small space he doesn’t have to far to go. But since the pipes are not covered and the oil burner is in there I won’t just lock him in there, someone has to sit in there with him.
Once we were settled in the bathroom I called the vets office (about 4:20AM) and left them a message letting them know that her idea wasn’t working and that we need to try something new. I’m thinking a horse tranquilizer or one of those dart guns that animal control uses on wild animals when they get into neighborhoods. Since I'm pretty sure the vet wont give me any of those maybe I need another addition on the house, just a small, sound proof, atmosphere proof room. All I need is a very noisy fan, a radio, TV and either very comfortable recliner or a bed. Actually if we do it right I wont have to stay in there with the dog so just the fan and a loud radio. Someplace he can’t get hurt and can’t destroy anything.
We hung out for about an hour till it sounded like the storm died down. Then I took him in the kids room wrapped the leash around my arm and tried to get some sleep. He lay down with me for about 5 minutes then there were rumbles of thunder again and he was up and pacing.
At that point it was close to 5 so I just got up and made breakfast. I had a double batch of pancakes all cooked by 5:45 AM. Now I’m hearing on the news that we are supposed to have storms all day. I’ll stay awake till I get the kids off to school then I just may sneak up in Natalie’s bed and hide from the trouble maker.
After all the excitement through out the night, William came out at 6:17 and said good Morning to me! I told him he needed to go back to bed. I tucked him back in, hoping we wouldn’t wake Natalie and William told me
W: You know mom, Bailey can still lick us up in Natalie’s bed. He stretches up there and he can get his tongue to us.
M: Good to know, I’ll go down the other end. Now go back to sleep.
Ed just left for work, I’m going to go lay down and I give it about 2 minutes till one of the kids is out waking me up:-)
Ha, Ha, Ha, I didn’t even get through the spell check and William is out of bed---again!
Now Natalie is up
N: I was up in the middle of the night last night
Me: You were?
N: Yes, that’s why I slept in this morning
Me: 6:45 isn’t sleeping in!
And guess who is passed out, snoring on the floor?
My night started with the kids going to bed. I tucked them in, hugs and kisses; I love you’s all around and left their bedroom. A few minutes later William is out of bed, needing a drink, then a hug and a kiss and I send him back to his room with an
Me: I love you now GET YOUR BUTT IN BED, and don’t come back out.
W: ok, I love you; see you in the middle of the night
Me: Oh no he did not just say that (I was talking to Ed)
W: (laughing) walks back to his room and gets in bed
Sure enough some where in the 3:00 (AM) hour William showed up in my arms. We were both awakened at 3:37 by good old Bailey jumping on us, shaking and drooling all over us.
I got up quickly thinking, the vet’s new idea isn’t working either. The Dr. told me to try dosing him a few times instead of just once hoping the pills would work the whole time it stormed. I had given him pills during the day because it was supposed to storm all day yesterday but they didn’t seem to be working now. I got his leash and put it on him and gave him a pill. We put the leash on during the storms then either chain him to the foot of our bed or if I’m in the kid’s room I wrap it around my arm so he can’t leave me. Not a rumble of thunder all day! Now at 3:37 AM it decides to storm??? Just my luck.
So I tell William to go back to his bed. He starts walking there and I bring my pillows and blanket and set up camp on their floor. For some reason last summer this was one of Baileys “safe” places during storms, he would lay down and pant and be scared but I could usually get some sleep.
Me: William go back to bed
W: Are you sleeping in here?
Me: If Bailey will calm down I’ll sleep here
W: I wish I had a bunk like Natalie, then Bailey couldn’t get up to me
Me: Me too!
W: Can you and dad get me a bunk like Natalie?
Me: Only if I can get one too.
W: IT’S GOING TO BE A LONG NIGHT!
Me: Yes it is
I’ve actually joked about William and I climbing up into the bunk with Natalie and escaping the dog. I’m just not sure it would hold all 3 of us.
Me: Natalie do you think there is room for you, me and William in your bed?
N: You and me mom, but not William, he puts his hands under his head on the pillow like this (and she shows me) and his elbow keeps hitting me in the head when he twitches after he falls asleep.
Me: Ok, I’m not sure it would hold all 3 of us anyway
I tried lying down on the floor in the kids’ room, but Bailey wasn’t having it. The lightening was worse than the thunder but he was freaking out. So I took some school papers that I hadn’t gotten to reading and set up camp in the bathroom. For some reason, I guess that room drowns out some of the noise and atmospheric pressure so, the dog will calm down in there. Plus it’s such a small space he doesn’t have to far to go. But since the pipes are not covered and the oil burner is in there I won’t just lock him in there, someone has to sit in there with him.
Once we were settled in the bathroom I called the vets office (about 4:20AM) and left them a message letting them know that her idea wasn’t working and that we need to try something new. I’m thinking a horse tranquilizer or one of those dart guns that animal control uses on wild animals when they get into neighborhoods. Since I'm pretty sure the vet wont give me any of those maybe I need another addition on the house, just a small, sound proof, atmosphere proof room. All I need is a very noisy fan, a radio, TV and either very comfortable recliner or a bed. Actually if we do it right I wont have to stay in there with the dog so just the fan and a loud radio. Someplace he can’t get hurt and can’t destroy anything.
We hung out for about an hour till it sounded like the storm died down. Then I took him in the kids room wrapped the leash around my arm and tried to get some sleep. He lay down with me for about 5 minutes then there were rumbles of thunder again and he was up and pacing.
At that point it was close to 5 so I just got up and made breakfast. I had a double batch of pancakes all cooked by 5:45 AM. Now I’m hearing on the news that we are supposed to have storms all day. I’ll stay awake till I get the kids off to school then I just may sneak up in Natalie’s bed and hide from the trouble maker.
After all the excitement through out the night, William came out at 6:17 and said good Morning to me! I told him he needed to go back to bed. I tucked him back in, hoping we wouldn’t wake Natalie and William told me
W: You know mom, Bailey can still lick us up in Natalie’s bed. He stretches up there and he can get his tongue to us.
M: Good to know, I’ll go down the other end. Now go back to sleep.
Ed just left for work, I’m going to go lay down and I give it about 2 minutes till one of the kids is out waking me up:-)
Ha, Ha, Ha, I didn’t even get through the spell check and William is out of bed---again!
Now Natalie is up
N: I was up in the middle of the night last night
Me: You were?
N: Yes, that’s why I slept in this morning
Me: 6:45 isn’t sleeping in!
And guess who is passed out, snoring on the floor?
Thursday, May 28, 2009
The kid is on to me
The kids went to bed on their own tonight, but never went to sleep. They were waiting for me to come give them their hugs and kisses.
I finally went into their room and said good night. On the way out William asked me to get him socks (I haven't folded them and put them in his drawer so he doesn't know where any are).
W: "Mom, Mom, get me socks, I can't sleep with out them"
M: "Hold on Billy, I'm looking for them"
W: "On the computer?"
He's on to me; I can't pull one over on him any more:-)
Guess I better get off the computer and go find the kid socks.
I finally went into their room and said good night. On the way out William asked me to get him socks (I haven't folded them and put them in his drawer so he doesn't know where any are).
W: "Mom, Mom, get me socks, I can't sleep with out them"
M: "Hold on Billy, I'm looking for them"
W: "On the computer?"
He's on to me; I can't pull one over on him any more:-)
Guess I better get off the computer and go find the kid socks.
peanut butter cracker
William when you drop your graham cracker with peanut butter on the floor, peanut butter side down, you may NOT pick it up and put it back on your plate to eat it! No 5 second rule for that one!
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Part two
Then in the afternoon after William got home he asked if he could watch some TV. He likes watching in the living room because we have more channels than in my bedroom. So I let him watch on the “big” TV. We also have “On Demand” on the big TV. William recently figured out how to work this feature of the cable.
“On Demand” for those of you who don’t have it is a storage of movies & shows on the, cable box, that you can watch any time with just a press of the remote control. They change them each month to keep it fresh. William has only ventured into the Disney XD channel. He knows to press 1 on the remote then find the kids block, then under kids he can find PBS kids, Nickelodeon, Noggin, Disney XD and some other channels that have shows he likes.
On Demand also has a feature where you can rent movies. They have new movies for $4.99 and older movies for $2.99. So the baby is being picked up and I walked them out to the car and come back to hear William say I think I’m watching “hotel for dogs”. Now this is a new title so I got very worried when he said that. I told him not to press anything else I would be there in a minute.
So I go over and stop the movie he is watching, it was an older title so I thought maybe it was a free movie. NOT the case! I look and it’s a $2.99 movie. I think to myself, that’s not to bad, we can watch it tonight and I’ll teach him what movies he’s not allowed to watch because you have to “buy” them for the day. Then the light bulb goes on and I’m thinking back to about 30 minutes before this when he was watching “Horton hears a who”. At the time he said he was watching it I thought this was an old movie and may be a free one on HBO. NOT the case.
I decided I needed to go into the saved portion of the “On Demand” feature. This is where all the movies and shows you have watched sit for 24 hours in case you had to stop in the middle or wanted to watch a second time you can just find it there real fast. Oh was I surprised when I went to the saved programs. Here is what I saw
Homeward Bound II $2.99
Ella Enchanted $2.99
E.T. $2.99
Dr. Seuss’ Horton $4.99
Bolt $4.99
BeverlyHills Chihuahua $4.99
Then there were about 10 other show titles that were free. William was trying to find a show to watch and he just clicked on the movie (not knowing you had pay for them) watched the start of the movie for about 2 minutes then turned it off and moved on to another movie to watch.
I started doing math in my head and totaled it up to $24.00! $24.00 for movies we had already watched, for movies that I have on video tape, movies that are on “regular” channels for FREE!
I sent him into my room where he couldn’t run my cable bill through the roof any more and I got on the phone with the cable company.
Now I always have a problem when I call the cable company, it just never goes well and it’s always a fight. So I geared up for the fight but I was going to try to be “oh so kind” first. The man on the other end was wonderful!!!!!! I explained what happened and he asked what the titles were. I told him the first two and he stared laughing. He said he could see all the titles and they were all “rented” 2 minutes apart, which basically meant he believed me that the kid did it. You rent a movie and have it for 24 hours, so had it been 2 hours later he would have thought I had watched the movies, so it was a good thing I caught him when I did.
I gave both kids a nice little lesson on “On Demand”. They now know how to check to see if something is free or if you have to pay for it. Hopefully I will not have any more problems until William is a teenage boy and figures out all the Pay per view channels:-0 Maybe I’ll go lock those right now!
“On Demand” for those of you who don’t have it is a storage of movies & shows on the, cable box, that you can watch any time with just a press of the remote control. They change them each month to keep it fresh. William has only ventured into the Disney XD channel. He knows to press 1 on the remote then find the kids block, then under kids he can find PBS kids, Nickelodeon, Noggin, Disney XD and some other channels that have shows he likes.
On Demand also has a feature where you can rent movies. They have new movies for $4.99 and older movies for $2.99. So the baby is being picked up and I walked them out to the car and come back to hear William say I think I’m watching “hotel for dogs”. Now this is a new title so I got very worried when he said that. I told him not to press anything else I would be there in a minute.
So I go over and stop the movie he is watching, it was an older title so I thought maybe it was a free movie. NOT the case! I look and it’s a $2.99 movie. I think to myself, that’s not to bad, we can watch it tonight and I’ll teach him what movies he’s not allowed to watch because you have to “buy” them for the day. Then the light bulb goes on and I’m thinking back to about 30 minutes before this when he was watching “Horton hears a who”. At the time he said he was watching it I thought this was an old movie and may be a free one on HBO. NOT the case.
I decided I needed to go into the saved portion of the “On Demand” feature. This is where all the movies and shows you have watched sit for 24 hours in case you had to stop in the middle or wanted to watch a second time you can just find it there real fast. Oh was I surprised when I went to the saved programs. Here is what I saw
Homeward Bound II $2.99
Ella Enchanted $2.99
E.T. $2.99
Dr. Seuss’ Horton $4.99
Bolt $4.99
BeverlyHills Chihuahua $4.99
Then there were about 10 other show titles that were free. William was trying to find a show to watch and he just clicked on the movie (not knowing you had pay for them) watched the start of the movie for about 2 minutes then turned it off and moved on to another movie to watch.
I started doing math in my head and totaled it up to $24.00! $24.00 for movies we had already watched, for movies that I have on video tape, movies that are on “regular” channels for FREE!
I sent him into my room where he couldn’t run my cable bill through the roof any more and I got on the phone with the cable company.
Now I always have a problem when I call the cable company, it just never goes well and it’s always a fight. So I geared up for the fight but I was going to try to be “oh so kind” first. The man on the other end was wonderful!!!!!! I explained what happened and he asked what the titles were. I told him the first two and he stared laughing. He said he could see all the titles and they were all “rented” 2 minutes apart, which basically meant he believed me that the kid did it. You rent a movie and have it for 24 hours, so had it been 2 hours later he would have thought I had watched the movies, so it was a good thing I caught him when I did.
I gave both kids a nice little lesson on “On Demand”. They now know how to check to see if something is free or if you have to pay for it. Hopefully I will not have any more problems until William is a teenage boy and figures out all the Pay per view channels:-0 Maybe I’ll go lock those right now!
Part one
I know I’ve been a bad blogger lately. Not sure what’s going to happen next year when William is in school full day. I’m not going to have anything funny to write about.
Today I watched my friend’s 8 month old son. We walked to school, I had my two kids, the forth grader down the street, then we picked up Natalie’s friend and her brother. When we got to the friends house William ran up and told them we had the baby with us. There younger sister (4 years old) came out to see him.
The 4 year old comes walking over to join the 3 kids already surrounding the stroller.
4 yr old: Oh the baby
William: come on over; he won’t bite.
4 yr old: Oh ok, hi baby
The baby was like the monkey in the zoo. He was in his stroller and there were 4 kids surrounding him all talking to him, cooing, gurgling and making funny faces at him. (I would love to know what he was thinking at that moment). I got the kids to school and had a nice morning with the baby.
Today I watched my friend’s 8 month old son. We walked to school, I had my two kids, the forth grader down the street, then we picked up Natalie’s friend and her brother. When we got to the friends house William ran up and told them we had the baby with us. There younger sister (4 years old) came out to see him.
The 4 year old comes walking over to join the 3 kids already surrounding the stroller.
4 yr old: Oh the baby
William: come on over; he won’t bite.
4 yr old: Oh ok, hi baby
The baby was like the monkey in the zoo. He was in his stroller and there were 4 kids surrounding him all talking to him, cooing, gurgling and making funny faces at him. (I would love to know what he was thinking at that moment). I got the kids to school and had a nice morning with the baby.
Friday, May 1, 2009
?????
Wow, I have some serious A-D-D going on with the house work today. I was emptying the dishwasher, not sure why I stopped. Then I was in the laundry room taking cloths out of the dryer so I could put the stuff in the washer into the dryer. I walked to the bedroom to hang the stuff up and on the walk back looked over and saw the dishwasher open and went to finish putting that stuff away. I stopped myself and went back to the laundry to get the wet stuff into the dryer.
Now I’m here instead of the kitchen putting stuff away.
Here are a few funny little sayings from my kids and my friends kids. This is just to hold you over because I’ve been a bad blogger lately. Hopefully I’ll get back to blogging soon. The kids will be out of school in 25 days (according to Natalie) then I should have some free time to be at the computer instead of running back and forth to the school being a book fairy in training.
I just thought of this one because I found my blue tooth, “ear bud” and I have it attached to my ear right now.
As I said it’s called a blue tooth and a few years back when I got it and William was little he was asking about it one day.
W: Mom, where is your tooth fairy?
M: What tooth fairy?
W: You know your tooth fairy that you put in your ear and talk to.
M: You mean my blue tooth?
W: Yea, your blue tooth fairy.
It was very cute
My friends little girl said this one. Her older daughter had a tick on her arm and her younger daughter wanted to see it. So she came running over asking
MOM, where is the lunatic? I want to see the lunatic that is on sister. Mom, can I see it, can I see the lunatic?
I love that story! We were just talking about ticks the other day because William had one over the weekend. So my friend told me that story again, it always gives me a good laugh.
Now I’m here instead of the kitchen putting stuff away.
Here are a few funny little sayings from my kids and my friends kids. This is just to hold you over because I’ve been a bad blogger lately. Hopefully I’ll get back to blogging soon. The kids will be out of school in 25 days (according to Natalie) then I should have some free time to be at the computer instead of running back and forth to the school being a book fairy in training.
I just thought of this one because I found my blue tooth, “ear bud” and I have it attached to my ear right now.
As I said it’s called a blue tooth and a few years back when I got it and William was little he was asking about it one day.
W: Mom, where is your tooth fairy?
M: What tooth fairy?
W: You know your tooth fairy that you put in your ear and talk to.
M: You mean my blue tooth?
W: Yea, your blue tooth fairy.
It was very cute
My friends little girl said this one. Her older daughter had a tick on her arm and her younger daughter wanted to see it. So she came running over asking
MOM, where is the lunatic? I want to see the lunatic that is on sister. Mom, can I see it, can I see the lunatic?
I love that story! We were just talking about ticks the other day because William had one over the weekend. So my friend told me that story again, it always gives me a good laugh.
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