Thursday

Oh happy day! Spent the entire morning outside and it was wonderful! The kids loved it, I loved it, and Kobe in the bjorn loved it!!!

Everyone ate well for breakfast (poptarts, banana, milk)

Lunch was pb and white stuff, yogurts, apples, juice (Lilly would only eat yogurt so I also gave her some cheese, and she drank her juice (I just gave her our juice with veggies in it to save yours)

We got out the swings and the yard toys today and had a blast, the morning flew by and best yet my house isn't a mess (just the yard) Lilly got a work out walking up my hilly yard, she was huffing. Tristan was a baseball player of course and Landon and Lilly got plenty of swing time. Lilly was screaming like crazy with excitement you would have thought she hasn't been on a swing ever! Oh and she's been A-OK today!

Wow I'm pooped! haha, it was a great morning. The kids played well. Jocelyn seemed fine but did mention her belly hurt at one point. I gave her a bucket because you never know with kids, she cracked me up because she looked like she was purposely trying to barf but then gave up. She then gave me the bucket and said her tongue hurt and moved on to another part of the body :-)

Took the kids to school, dropped the other little ones off with my sis and did a grocery shopping like it was my job trip! 4 stores in 1 hour baby and I am so ready for St. Patty's party, dinner at the Keen's and Kyle's bday party!

Picked up the kids and they were crazy! It was leprechaun day. the kids went on a hunt for his pot of gold and brought home some gold coins some were chocolate (their treat for after lunch) J and B told me all the funny things he did, messed up their room, silly stringed things, etc. They are also signed up for WW for next Wednesday! We are finished lunch (J ate well for both meals) and the big kids are hoping to play outside this afternoon while the little ones nap.

Kyle reminder: be home by 2 for Kobe's ultrasound, love ya!

friday

wow what a busy morning! Everyone ate very well today (Jocelyn ate almost everything) The kids played great! We did the doctor's office (Kyle stayed in the car for 30 minutes with the kids while they watched a movie (no complaints) Came home and The Corl's joined us. Wowza was it a noisy house! Everyone had a fun time, the kids ran around like crazy people. It was cute watching Jocelyn talk to herself (does she have an imaginary friend??) Brandon and Bryce got all sweaty running around. Faith and Landon hung out a good bit, and Jocelyn played hide from the boys a lot. To wind everyone down we did painting easter poster crafts and watched toy story 3. My boys were in bed by 1:30 for naps (they weren't happy but boy were they tired) Jocelyn is having some quiet time and enjoying the peaces (she told me it was too loud here today! )

Thursday

Breakfast: Lilly ate with the big kids! Everyone had whole grain poptarts (oh I found out they make strawberry ones at the Weis on N. George so I'll be visiting there soon let me know if you want any), z. bread, banana, milk (all ate well)

Lunch: Lilly had left over mac n cheese (home made), the boys had their usual (with gogurts, which Tristan loves) everyone had veggie/fruit juice and choc yogurt raisins. All ate well

It was a good morning. I outsmarted the 2 and 3 year old and finally figured out that I can put Kobe's bouncy seat and infant seat on the kitchen table so he won't be bothered (it only took me 5 weeks) It's worked great and the baby has finally taken full naps because he isn't getting woken by crazy toddlers! So because he could finally nap well I got to spend some good quality play time with the kids (everyone wins) We played choo choo's, pizza shop (we made the pizza and of course ate it!) we colored, listened to music and sang along, we even got Wendy weather girl out and did the weather! All was good until 10:30 when Kobe woke to eat and then Landon went nutso again!

Then following him Tristan went bonkers (I'm talking just randomly throwing toys around and being destructive) this was so out of the blue. They both got time outs but they so didn't "get it" poor Lilly, at one point the boys ganged up on her and had her cornered and were tormenting her by trying to cover her in blankets and pillows. This of course all was happening while I was nursing. After I was finished feeding Kobe and scolding the 3 year old boys, I fed the little kiddos lunch and after that it was peaceful once again.

We picked up Bryce and came home, the little ones played while Bryce ate then all off to bed (and I hope they nap!)

Tristan said today when I asked who threw crayons all over the place?? He said Lilly. Then because Lilly was sleeping for nap already I went to clean them up and he said, "but Ashwy that isn't your job, it's me and Landon's job because we made the mess" Ooopps he told on himself!!!

Lilly was a very good little girl today!

Tuesday

Breakfast: banana bread, bananas, milk (all ate great, thanks aunt seish!)

Lunch: Lilly had spagettios and a bowl of yogurt with strawberries cut up, The boys had pb and white stuff, go-gurts, strawberries, veggie/fruit juice and chocolate yogurt raisens for all!

The kids LOVED the chocolate yogurt raisins (kept calling them m and m's (and Tristan yelled at me when I told him they are raisins) he said "no Ashwy they are not! I almost had a heart attach when Landon actually ate them too!

Oh it was a crazy morning! I know I'm dramatic but seriously Landon cried for 2 hours straight. From 9-11!! For some weird reason everything I wanted to try to do with the boys (tristan and Landon) they didn't want to do. We tried painting rainbows (I was going to teach them about March and St. Patty's day and rainbows and leprochans) well Lilly was the only one who wanted to paint!! She painted for an hour, the other 2 just couldn't play nice or participate. Tristan wasn't nearly as crazy as Landon but what in the world!? Of course then all the sudden when 11 o clock hit and it was time to make lunch/pick up bryce and naps were close by... that's when they decided to finally play!! KIDS!

Pickup, lunch, and naps went smoothly. Everyone will be up by 3:30 so they can play (fingers crossed) until gammy comes.

Tristan finally pooped on the potty before nap time!! woohoo. All are in beds (even baby is napping)

Oh I won't be at mom to mom tonight :-( I have no voice and Kobe caught a cold (gee I wonder who from, maybe a 3 year old that won't leave him alone!) We'll be going to the mall for a little walk to get away from the house and let daddy spend some quality time with the big boys (I didn't want to take him to mom to mom and expose him to more germy ladies when he's already sick)

thursday

Good morning it was! Everyone ate well (cereal, whole grain poptarts, banana, milk for breakfast) (pb and white stuff (Lilly had spagettios), apples, cheese slices, yogurt, milk for lunch)

We got Bryce to school and then played up in the play room for a while (Tristan was trying his "I want to watch a movie thing" so I told him after nap we'll put one in) We then went down in the basement for a huge chunk of the morning and actually cleaned up a bit (toys were everywhere, so much that the kids acted like they didn't want to play) sure enough as soon as it was cleaned they wanted to play.

Jocelyn donated a barbie and a few other girl toys to my "daycare" so I was showing Lilly how to do Barbie's hair. She kept petting her, it was cute. We listened to music downstairs and I read some books to Lilly. The boys weren't interested in me today, Landon and Tristan acted like cats all morning and played in the castle play house (they were pretending to feed each other toys) at one point it got a bit out of control (hence why Tristan got a good wack on the head from a golf club) that's when I put golf clubs away and said no more kitties in the basement and Landon got a time out.

Lilly and Landon were much more calm around baby Kobe today (yeah!) I'm hoping the "newness" is wearing off. Landon seemed fine today had a bit of a runny nose so I'm thinking he's brewing something and when I put him down he said his head hurt.


We also colored for a while today. Picked up Bryce, ate lunch and then off to naps. I'm a drill sergeant these days with naps. No one (including Landon) threw any fits, there was no rocking or books read (I offered to read to Landon and Tristan a few times this morning and they didn't want to)

Mr. Kobe is a pig today! I'm trying to stick to the 2.5-3 hour feeding times, but he has eaten every 1.5 hours today!!! and they are full feedings, not much sleeping going on until right now, so hopefully I'll get a little break. It is so hard trying to stick to that baby book when you have a baby that doesn't want to follow the plan!

Bryce had a good day at school, I found out that he is allowed to bring a toy or 2 to play with but they need to know they could get lost or broken. Mrs. Knisely agreed that they make the kids "popular" with the other kids when they get to bring in something. She also said that if they are playing with them during structured time that then they have to put them on a special table for the rest of school time.

wednesday

The first part of the morning was great, but the hour before was not so great. For the first half the kids played so well (like crazy well) Jocelyn shared a car with Landon and Landon gave her one of his cars and Bryce shared and Landon gave him some cars as well. All was great, but then J decided she wanted her cars back and let's just say there was a lot of melt downs and chasing and on top of it I was feeding Kobe. We got through it and told them no cars out until Landon is sleeping for naps because it's hard for him to understand that sometimes he can have toys and other times he can't.

The funny part was, Jocelyn told me that it was her "brain" that didn't want to share, like she was having an argument between her heart and brain (because I kept telling her that it's nice to share toys with others) So that was very interesting.

Bryce and Jocelyn was very eager to get to school, drop off went well. Pick up went well also. They said it was a good day and Jocelyn got a lollypop from her friend Emma. We came home washed hands and had lunch. Oh by the way, she ate about half her breakfast and half of her lunch. Jocelyn said show and tell went good, Bryce said school was good and he played with Skylar and Brewer, I couldn't get Jocelyn to tell me too much about what she did or played with.

Bryce and jocelyn are playing great this afternoon (he really missed her) I know he really wants to play with her the entire afternoon, we'll see if he can last since he's still getting over his sickness (he's been fever free all day) I told him we'll try with no nap but then he's going to bed at 7 tonight.

Landon is up for nap (thank goodness, he's been a handful today!!!) So I think it's helping that the 3 year old who is having a hard time dealing with being the middle child is away from the 4 year olds.

Jocelyn hasn't had any fits like I saw her have yesterday (I have a feeling that was just for mommy :-) Aren't kids so sweet!

hope you are having a good day.