Please tell me I'm doing the right thing...

Tonight Micah put his pull-up on to get ready for bed. Then I heard him mumble something about having to go to the bathroom while he was standing in his pull-up in the living room. I looked over and just knew... "Did you pee in your pull-up again?" I asked. "Yeah," he said with puppy-dog eyes (That DON'T work on me when he does this). "Go, take your pull-up off and wash yourself up. You're done with pull-ups." I said. I wasn't mean about it, but I'm done with his little games (peeing in his pull up to "try it out," telling me he doesn't have to go before bed and then getting up to go 5 minutes after we tuck him in). I know that for some boys it takes until they're like eight or something, but I am convinced that when he pees, he is awake. I believe that he's just lazy (I know that sounds harsh, but I really do).
So... here's the plan. He's wearing underwear tonight, and I fully expect to have to get up and clean up once or twice, BUT I'm going to have him help me take the sheets off, etc. I'm hoping it will convince him to acutally go to the bathroom before bed (He tells me nothing will come out when I know he hasn't gone since 3:00 or so), and then maybe I can find out if he really needs a pull-up for the rest of the night or not.

F.Y.I. I don't function with lack of sleep (like you didn't know this already).

Another new look?

This is what Micah was wearing when he got dressed this morning. Ryan and I had tears coming out because it was so hard to keep from laughing. What you can't tell is that he is wearing his cammo shorts backwards. He was completely serious about this uni. for today. He had no idea that we were taking picutes because he looked so funny. Ryan asked Micah if he could take a picture of him and then the kids were all ready for a photo shoot. Amelia wanted a picture of the back of her back.

Then they wanted a picture of their feet.
Wow! Never a dull moment around here.

This morning they were playing duck, duck, goose. Micah said, "Amelia, you sit down. I'll be the ducker and I'll pick you!"

Here is Amelia enjoying her pudding.

New look?

Here are my new glasses. What do you think? I asked one of my kids at school if she thought I looked smarter. She said, "Yeah! ... and pretty!" Is that a back-handed compliment, or what?

Kids say the darndest things

Amelia saw her pajamas sitting on the counter and she said, "Daddy, I like these pajamas! See, they have stars... and clouds... and bananas."

On Wednesday night, Micah went to Awana's with his friend. Earlier in the day I told him that we would be going. When Ryan pulled in the garage that night, Micah ran out and said, "Dad! I'm going to iguanas tonight!"

And for your listening enjoyment, here is Amelia singing "Jesus loves me."

Pumpkin patch take 3

Yesterday Micah and I went to another pumpkin patch with a friend from my school and her two girls. We had lots of fun. Here are some pictures from the day.

Baby Anna

The "Tractor Ride"

Micah and Katie

tooth fairy strikes again... and other amazing stories

Micah lost tooth #2 last week at a friend's house. He said, "Mom, look, its really really loose now." I said, "Oh, Micah, its time to pull it out before you swallow it." So he grabs the tooth and takes it out like he's taking a crayon out of a crayon box. "Look, Mom!" He's bleeding profusely, but it doesn't faze him. I'm thinking, who are you and what did you do with my son? He was very excited to put it in his tooth pillow to see if he would get another quarter from the tooth fairy, but then he remembered that the tooth fairy takes the tooth and he decided he wouldn't put it under his pillow because he wanted to bring his tooth to school for show and tell on his "Special Day." (I don't know if those quotes are right, but it reminds me that Ryan found a FUNNY blog called "Unnecessary Quotations.")So we convinced him that the tooth fairy might let him keep the tooth if she knew he wanted it so badly. Anyway, the tooth fairy left a really sweet note and said Micah could keep this tooth and she was sorry that she took the other one so soon.

We took a quick trip to Spokane to visit cousins Sammy and Noah and of course my brother and sister-in-law. Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of them, only of us and my parents at the pumpkin patch in Spokane.


Last weekend we went to Fir Point Farms in Aurora for their fall festival. We had lots of fun there.



We borrowed a friend's portable DVD player for the trip to Spokane. Here are Micah and Amelia trying it out.

About a month ago we went to the zoo. We thought it opened at 9AM, but it opened at 10 instead, so we walked around Washington park and the Vietnam war memorial for a little bit.


Here is Amelia with her food. She loves bringing us all kinds of stuff to eat. She says, "Mommy, you have to go 'fffff' so it not so hot."
As I started typing this blog, Amelia rearranges the little chairs and brings her stroller and babies over and tells me that they are waiting for the bus.

blog-worthy

Ryan picked up the kids from school today and when they came home, Amelia promptly peed on the carpet in the living room. (She never has accidents at school.) So he took her to the bathroom and she went a little more in the toilet, then she bent over so he could wipe her. He heard a noise and looked down at her... she was doing raspberries on the TOILET RIM!!! No, not the seat, the rim, the yucky part that gets peed on by the boys! Lets face it, people, I don't clean the toilets! Ryan said he wiped off her mouth with toilet paper. I'm thinking... is it time to introduce her to the soap bar? Needless to say, there will be no kissing on the lips for a few days. UGH!!!