Oh Little Man

Little Man walking out of the bathroom after going this afternoon "mom when Mr Man gets home can we both pee in the potty at the same time cuz that would be soooooooooooooo cool"
Me "no you can't pee in the potty at the same time"
Little Man "why not"
Me "because it would make a mess"
Little Man "what kind of mess, it wouldn't make a mess.. we both just stand them and pee into the potty at the same time"
Me " pee would splatter everywhere"
Little Man "Ohhhhhhhh that would be sooooooooooo cool"


Next time in the bathroom today.. Little Man yells.. "mom the toilet paper is on the floor get it NOW"
I walk into the bathroom and say "Now are you to ask me to do something"
he gives an "ugh" and says "mom can you please pick the toilet paper up for me"
I did and hooked the roll back to the holder then look at him and said " So now what do you tell me after I do something for you?" He says "Thanks"
and I sort of ruffle his hair and turn to walk out and let him finish up... he yells at me "AND MOM you were to say Your Welcome after that and you didn't"

Weekend Recap Oct 17-19, 2008

Weekends just aren't long enough.. We seem to be able to fill them jam packed, but longer weekends would be a wonderful thing, don't ya think??
We really didn't have any big plans for this weekend, the kids had some places to go and people to see, but our big plans for this weekend was to sit around the house. Princess's friend Day, has been wanting to spend the day but we haven't had a free weekend for a while so this weekend sounded perfect for a sleep over.. Friday night was the plan for her to stay but on Thursday Princess asked if she could spend the whole weekend with us. "Please mom, if she can spend the night both Friday and Saturday it means she can go to church with us on Sunday" Now how do you say no to that?? So we had an extra girl living with us this weekend. Guess I should get started on the Recap.

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Friday Oct 17, 2008
I spent the morning cleaning the house, DH was kind enough to take Little Man and go do the groceries for me since I was in a project of doing spring cleaning in the fall. I have been looking for Sweet Pea's old cubbie vest for Little Man to use but I can't seem to find it anywhere so I have been destroying the place looking and since we had company coming for the weekend I needed to get the place back in order.
DH took Little Man to play at the lake while they were out getting the groceries and her are a few pictures he took with the cell phone while they were out Friday morning and early afternoon.

Friday after school Mr Man packed up his bags and went to spend the night with my grandparents(his normal Friday during fishing season thing to do) and Sweet Pea went and played at her friends house(grandma's neighbor) Princess went to her favorite coffee house with a group of friends and then came home and got ready for the football game. While she was getting ready I saw that the sun was hitting the leaves out in my yard just right, everything looked so pretty, so I got this idea in my head to get Little Man dressed nice and take him out and see if I couldn't get a nice picture of him to blow up and hang on the wall. All the school age kids are having there school pictures this month so I thought it would be nice to have a new one of him also... He was being so silly it was hard to get the perfect shot.. I think I took at least 75 pictures of him.. but I won't show you all that many LOL.. but here is a short slide show of some of the shots I got of him during our photo shoot in the yard late Friday afternoon/early evening.

After I had enough of trying to get the perfect shot I took him into the house and changed him into something he could play in and sent him and Princess out in the yard to play.

When it was time to go to the football game, we went and picked up Princess's friend Day and I dropped the girls off at the game, then I went and picked up Sweet Pea to come home. After the game I picked the girls up and that started the weekend with the extra kid.

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Saturday Oct 18, 2008
Bright and early Saturday Morning Mr Man, my Dad and my Grandpa took Dads boat and off they went to spend the day on the lake fishing.

Also Saturday morning Princess and Day had plans to go hang out at there friends J.L. house So that is what they did until Lunch time. But before they left they each showered up did there hair and make up and took more self photos of themselves with there cell phones Here are the shots they took... I want you to take a look at how straight as a board Princess's hair is, this is her normal hair it doesn't hold a curl all that well..(this info will come in handy later in this post)

While the girls were gone, Little Man and I went with my grandma out garage saleing. OH MY GOODNESS did I hit the jackpot.. I got about 12 or 14 new to me outfits. about 6 sweeter, 3 skirts, one blazer, about 4 dress tops, two pair of slacks, and much much more ALL for $12.50 mind you normally I don't go garage saleing with grandma and when I do I normally can't find a thing for myself.. but I'm just over the moon with all the stuff I found for Me this weekend.
At the same time I was out rummaging though stuff people didn't want anymore, DH took Sweet Pea out for some daddy daughter time.. Here are a couple of pictures he took while they were out.
About noon or noon thirty(yes that is a time!! LOL) Grandma and I were done and she brought me home.. Little Man wanted no part of leaving his Great grandma so she took him over her house to spend the rest of the day with her. I told her to call me when she had enough or he needed a nap, though she never called, and every time I check with her she said they were fine don't bug with him let him stay there.. So that is what I did.
About 1pm DH and Sweet Pea got home and shortly after that, Princess and Day got here ready for lunch. After lunch Day, Princess and I took off shoe shopping, Princess and Day had a Halloween party on Saturday Night to go to, and they were dressing as Prom queens or Princesses or something like that, and Princess needed dress heals, since she out grew her dress shoes from last year(found that out last Sunday) She had flats but no heels.. So we were on the hunt for something fancy enough to go with a prom dress(my sisters old one, is what Princess was wearing) yet something she could wear to church easily also. We found them(on sale too YEAH!!!) and it was time to come home and doll those girls up..
Princess wanted her hair curly and in an up do.. It took just about an hour to get that girls hair curly(with a curling iron) but after I did she saw the time and thought she better get her dress on and make up done forget about the up do or she would be late.. and you know that would be AWFUL!!!!!.
Here are some pictures of Princess and Day the "prom queen princesses"

Had to add this also, while the girls were getting dress and having there hair done, Sweet Pea needed some help with her hair, something about blowing a really big bubble and getting it stuck in her hair.

The girls got off to the party ok, and I went to grandma's where I took these pictures of Little Man and Doxie(grandma's dog)

I picked the girls up from the party at 10pm and got everyone in bed for church in the morning. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Sunday Oct 19, 2008

DH got up early and fixed a big breakfast for everyone of bacon, eggs and toast.. YUM.. don't you think everything taste better when your not having to cook it, Thank you Honey.. Then it was dress and off to Sunday school and AM Church.

After church Princess, Day and Sweet Pea rode home with my grandparents, and Mr Man and Little Man went home with my parents.. DH came home and set the crock pot to low(I had it on high thinking we would be doing the roast for lunch but plans had changed)

I needed to go to a viewing of an old friend and neighbor who had passed away on Friday, and I just found out what time the viewing was.

So after getting home we went and picked up the girls who went to my grandma's house and took Princess and Day to a football game where they were meeting up with friends then afterwards they went back to my grandma's house. Sweet Pea went with us and stayed at my MIL's house my mom picked me up and we went to the viewing. Afterwards we picked up the boys and Sweet Pea and came home.. I got Little Man down for a nap and started loading the pictures into the computer for this post.

Then I got the kids dressed and woke Little Man up and picked up Princess and Day and we were off to PM Church and youth group and Awana's.. after church we came home had a late dinner of pot roast and took Day home from her weekend with us.

Here is a picture I took of Mr Man at church tonight since I didn't have any of him this weekend. We ended the night with DH and Mr Man watching football

Princesses doing some extra credit homework to turn in tomorrow.. and Little Man and Sweet Pea and I working on learning the verses for next weeks Awana's. and then everyone went to bed except Me and Little Man, I'm working on this post and Little Man well bless his heart is still wide awake because of the late hour of his nap today.. here it is pushing midnight and the boy is still wanting to play.. UGH.. morning is going to come really early for me tomorrow I'm afraid.

That was our weekend.. I hope you all had a wonderful weekend also.

Just when I thought he was old enough

Just when I thought he was old enought to let play in his bedroom while I was in the basement doing laundry. I come up to find This. Little Man.. Mommy Mommy, look what I did

As he so proudly turns his cheek towards me..



Little stinker got into his sisters room and got her nail polish out, and thought he would have a repeat of last weekend webkinz face painting.

A potty training first.

This post is Rated G.. but not for general audiences.. Rated G as in Don't read this if you get Grossed out easily. Don't say I didn't warren you..

So your still reading..
I have been a mother for about 12 1/2 years. I have successfully potty trained 3 children and working on the 4th.. What I have found is that going pants less has seem to work best for all of my kids.. So that is how one would have found Little Man today. He was wearing his older brothers shirt so it sort of looked like a dress on him and he had nothing on the bottom.. This was working well.. He ran to his potty chair and peed 3 or 4 times though out the morning and he even told me when he had to flower(LOL I couldn't help but put that one of my blogging friends uses that for the word well lets use numbers, #2) So we were doing well today.. I headed off to a different room to do some stuff leaving him laying on the floor watching TV and drinking his sippy cup.
Next thing you know I hear him screaming and crying and spitting.. Yes spitting.. I went to see what was wrong but he had already made his way to me still screaming, yelling and spitting..
Here is what I saw.

Me... Oh no honey did you spill your pop all over your (he calls everything he drinks pop)

I was thinking he was laying on the floor and maybe the took the lid off his sippy cup.

Little Man.... NO me pee mommy.. yucky pee, on no pee.

PEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YIKES... I don't even want to think about the fact that he kept spitting like something was in his mouth that shouldn't been... EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW..

He was soaked.. there was wet all over his cloths his face his hair... the very 1st thing I did was said come on baby lets get in the bathtub. then it hit me.. NO Wait we will want pictures to blog about this one LOL..

So there you have it.. A potty training first for me.

Saving money on lunch

It's party week... Are you ready to party??? You can find MY PARTY POST HERE.
If your looking for my Weekend Recap you can find that HERE

Today Little Man and I went out, while out we found a great way to save money on lunch.

Here are more pics from his lunch LOL

After this lunch and playing in the snow for 2 hours we came in and had ham and cheese sandwiches and grapes.. I think I will go put the boy down for a nap now.

Did he or Didn't he.. what's a mom to do??

Princess and Mr Man has a collection of those little super balls,(rubber
bouncing balls) Little Man loves to play with them.. I normally don't let
him because he throws them all over my house and then I can't find
them. Well tonight he found one under something I'm not sure what..
He was playing with it tossing it back and forth though the room.. I
didn't bug taking it from him because he was being good..
I go into the kitchen because my parent just got there and I was
letting them in the back door.. when Little man starts coughing alot. Sweet Pea
yells Little Man is choking.. only it didn't sound like he was it sounded
like a fake coughing.. but he was bent over and his eyes were
watering. I pick him up and ask him if he is ok he says yes so I
think he was fake choking he has done that a time or two. Sweet Pea
tells me "I think he ate the ball" I'm thinking there is no way he could have, he
would be turning blue because no one can swallow a rubber bouncing ball
right?? But I don't see the ball any where.. I ask Little Man where the
ball is and he opens up his mouth and points inside.. I said you
don't put balls in your mouth.. where is the ball now and he said "Me
ate ball" OH MY GOODNESS?!?!?!?!
I asked if anything hurts he says no.. I'm not 100% sure he ate this
darn ball.. but he is breathing fine and acting normal..

I thought about rushing him to the ER but then thought I'm over
reacting seeing as to look at him nothing seems to be wrong with him
at all. and I'm not even sure he ate the ball.. but this happened 4 hours ago and he is still fine. but when I ask him where the ball is, he still opens up his mouth points inside and tells me he ate the ball..
He has a doctors appointment tomorrow for a recheck of his ears so
I'll just mention this to the doctor tomorrow and see what he has to say.

Teeth mommy Teeth...

This morning I'm in the living room and I hear Little Man yelling, MOMMY MOMMY Teeth Mommy teeth.
Then he come running over to me and grabs my hand and starts to pull me out to the kitchen where he was playing, the whole time saying with amazement in his voice, teeth mommy teeth.
We get out to the kitchen he grabs one of the kittens holds it head down to the floor and starts to pry open the cats mouth till he could see the kittens teeth.
Then he looks up and says.. "see mommy see, teeth, cats teeth" LOLThen he had to grab each and every one of the kittens to check and to show me if that one had teeth also.

Things I never thought I would say #1 #2 #3 and #4

A few things I never thought I would say...

1)"Little Man We don't throw our potties, Put the potty down."

2)"NO NO Little Man we don't pee in Mr Man's shoes"

3)"STOP!!!!!!!!! don't pee on the kitty."

number 4 needs a little more back ground story to go along with it. I"m in the girls room tonight getting cloths picked out for the morning when Little Man comes in and lays 3 rocks by my feet and says "rock mommy, looks rocks" I said without looking down,"WOW thank you for the rocks". Then he started tugging on my shirt. "Look LOOK mommy rocks" I said "yes rocks" Then I looked down at the rocks and had to yell. the something I never thought I would say

4)"OH YUCK!!!!!!!!!! Ewwwwwwww NO Little Man NO oh gross those are not rocks, Yuck that's cat poop not rocks"

and just so you know all 4 of these things were said to Little Man today, It has been a fun day

A day at the fair.

Last Wednesday My grandma and I took the kids to the county fair. We got there around 10:30am and went and saw all the animals.
1st barn we visited was the horse barn, Here is a picture of Me and Little Man petting a horse. Below is a shot of my girls with one of the horses.
The next picture is of Mr Man and a goat.Here are some more goats.The photo below is of my grandma(the kids great grandma) and Little Man with the goats.We also saw some Cows.

And some chickens and ducks.
Here is Grandma and Little Man checking out some bunnies.
OHHHHHH the bunnies.. my three older kids kept saying look mom can we buy this one, OH mommy I want this one.. This happens every year as we walk though visiting the bunnies. After viewing the animals(we skip the pigs mommy can't stand the smell LOL) we washed up and got some fair food for lunch and ate it in the rain. Yes it was a light rain but was making Little Man fussy non the less. So when we saw a swingset I had to let him run and play a bit. Sweet Pea and Mr Man took part also. After that Princess and Grandma walked though all the buildings signing up for all the stuff they could win :) and I took the younger three to ride rides. Princess isn't big on rides so she didn't get a band. Here is Little Man on his very first fair ride, sandwich between his big sister and brother. Little Man wasn't acting like himself much and it was also close to nap time so two rides was all he did before I strapped him into the stroller because he was acting up so much.

Mr man and Sweet pea rode a few more rides and then I turned and found Little Man like this. so I laid the stroller back and let the kids ride more rides. We meet back up with Princes and Grandma and got some icees and Then Little Man woke up screaming and crying and smelling like the cow barn. I lifted him up and found out that my baby had some sort of tummy bug that his diaper wasn't big enough to hold. OH WHAT A MESS... up his back, down his legs into his shoes all over his only cloths and all over the stroller.. YEAH.. not very fun. I got him cleaned up and made a phone call to my grandpa to see if he could pick me and Little Man up and take us home, the other kids and grandma wanted to stay longer. He did.. Thank you grandpa. Princess had enough of the fair also by this point so she left with us this was about 4pm. Grandma and the middle two kids stayed at the fair till 6:30pm and then came home.

Poor Little Man has been sick ever since.. He continued to have those exploding messes up until yesterday afternoon.. So far today we are ok.. Well I should say we are Ok.. Little Man is ok.. but all these days of caring for my sick boy has now got me sick with his fever and tummy trouble also.. UGH I feel awful. If my poor boy felt like this it is no wonder he just sat around fussing the last few days..