DISNEYLAND

we're going to disneyland! tomorrow (sunday) we're headed up to disneyland for my birthday. we got the socal 2fer tickets so we're going to disney tomorrow and then california adventure on monday (my actual bday). i'm sooo excited to take the boys, and jade, but well she won't really notice much. ronan is at the great age where everything is so new and exciting and he loves mickey mouse. zander has been carrying around his mouse ears from the last time he went. its cute. he's telling everyone that we're going to disney and that he doesn't have to take a nap. ahhh the things he's excited for. we'll update you later!

a day in the life of ronan

me - ronan don't hit your brother
ronan hits zander again
me- ronan don't hit your brother
ronan hits zander again
me - ronan don't hit your brother
ronan hits zander again
me - ronan don't hit anyone
ronan hits zander, jade, and me.
grrrr.....

cute picture

ronan, crazy but smart

yes, ronan drives me crazy on a regular basis...but man that child is smart. i really think he hears what i say, and honestly thinks "yea, she doesn't know very much, i'm going to do what i want cause i'm smarter than her." and yes, i truly believe that he thinks that. and did i mention he's not even two yet and he's counting to ten?! i think zander was three....he's a scary smart little child. tonight he wanted to crawl up the top of his bed and i said no. so he threw his pacifier to the top of his bed and said, "where's paci?" thinking i'd let him go get it and go where i had already said no for. smart little devil! but on an adorable note, he has started singing with ben which is really really cute. he sings "goodnight sweetheart" and "eieio aka old mcdonald". he just only sings the eieio part. ben is making fun of me for calling the song eieio instead of old mcdonald.
so ben and i are still on our dumb diet and i swear i'm grumpy because of it. so not fun. grumpy me. wanting carbs....BLAH!

Today's Installment of the crap

well today was another not so fun day. we went to the zoo this morning with some friends. that was fine and all but when it was time to leave zander had an absolute mental meltown. he started sobbing and sobbing cause i wouldn't buy him a toy. he was crying so ridiculously that i couldn't help but laugh. the boy must have been really tired. on the way home, ronan fell asleep. good job ro. so we went thru a drive thru and jade started screaming cause she was starving. so i was rushing home! we got home and i got the boys out of the car and everyone to the front door. so the boys went inside, i went inside and then shut the front door. in the process, the bottom of the front door sliced thru the slide of my foot. i just about passed out. blood started spewing every where and i thought i was going to just die. i can handle your blood, but NOT MY BLOOD! ugh!!!! and mind you, jade is still screaming from hunger. i put her car seat down and tried to get a piece of toliet paper stuck to my foot to stop the bleeding. that didn't work so well, but i was trying! i quickly threw the boys at the table and gave them their food, jade was still screaming cause apparently ronan put his dog on her face to calm her down, and i was getting painfully lightheaded from my blood and lack of food. finally i got a bottle for jade, sat down and called my mom to please get over asap! so yea, that was not so good. my mom came over and took control of fixing my foot and getting me fed. thank you mom! then it was time for naps. i got everyone to bed and then for the next hour and a half i spent walking down the hall to put ronan back into his bed. i'd put him down, go lay down on the couch, and i'd hear him turn his fan off and start playing with his toys. SEVEN times i put that child back down along with some other disciplinary efforts....and nothing. finally he fell asleep. but by this point my poor foot was oozing blood out of the bandaid from walking on it. and it was THROBBING! but on a positive note, it was the first time jade slept solid through her nap without waking up so that helped me deal with ronan. but eventually the stubborn mule of a child went to sleep. the funny thing was that when he did finally wake up, he ran out screaming "i sleep! i sleep!" he was proud of himself. zander did sleep for 2 1/2 hours too so that was much better! but oh man my foot was still hurting by after dinner. and of course, today is wednesday so ben went off to worship practice at 8. :( it's always on wednesday that i have a bad day and off he goes. ok, i'm going to bed. goodnight all!

zander has gone crazy

yup, absolutely crazy. i am about to lose it with him. he has been sick, so i'll give him that. but all day he's been whiney as all get out and everything ronan did sent him into an absolute tizzy! so i thought he was going to take a great long nap cause he sure acted like he needed it. but NO!!!! every five minutes for three hours the child got up and came out and said "i slept mom". i tried everything. i even laid down with him and held his hands and legs so he'd stop moving. nope...didn't work. i finally gave up at 4:30 and let him stay up. all the while, i had been walking around with jade trying to get her to sleep so i was definitely a raw nerve. and if you're that person thinking, "oh zander's 4 1/2 and should be giving up naps soon", well his eyes were almost swollen shut because he was so tired. they had giant red rings around them. he was just being STUBBORN! grr...i blame ben for those genes. the rest of the evening was not much better. so i called ben and told him to he was going to stay home with the boys while i went to small group. there was no way i was going to stay home another moment with them. so like a wonderful husband he agreed! and when i got home from small group he had put the laundry away, taken the recycling out, put the dishes away, and done homework! what a good man. i guess i should have a breakdown more often!

Jade pics