I had an absolutely great Memorial Day. I woke up with my little man wanting to mop the floor for me. Who was I to argue? And it just so happened that the day prior, Daddy and I just discussed how we needed to let Matty do what he wanted to as long as he wasn't hurting anyone. Well, this was the day to put the plan into action.
He mopped to his hearts content until he couldn't any longer.... and then he mopped again.
We had a long weekend because of Labor Day. It was an absolute blast and I will blog about it later. For now my knees are taking center stage.
I saw an orthopaedist today and had an x-ray done. After several minutes, the doctor came back and said there is no damage but he needs MRI to see what's going on. And since I indicated that my grandmother suffered from rheumatoid arthritis and my mom now suffers from it too, I also had lab done to check.
If you're a stay-at-home mom, you have to do what you have to do and get out of the house when you can. So head out to the garage and take out that filthy mower and go mowin' that 2-foot grass your husband is trying to pretend is part of the neighbor's property. It'll be nice for the neighbors to see that your husband hasn't really drugged you and burried you in the basement.
Don't forget the hat and the mp3 player! And don't forget to lock the doors behind you. You don't want the husband escaping when he realizes that it would have been easier for him to mow the lawn rather than stay inside and attempt to corral the kids.
I've been meaning to post these pictures for a while, but been so busy. This was lunch a couple of weeks ago. On the menu: steamed brocolli and carrots with Gerber toddler meatsticks. Did they like them? Oh you betcha, they did.
Katie didn't slow down until her tray was empty. Jojo slowed down and got distracted halfway through.
Katie loves her brocolli!
Katie
What can I say, Jojo is a comic in front of the camera!
Aaah. All done! Notice the bits of meat stick on her eyelashes.
I was spending time with the girls on the floor just having a great time. Katie now pulls up to full standing on her own and she enjoys trying to reach whatever she could get her hands on. Jojo is also pulling up, but she is not a pro at it yet.
Jojo was standing up holding on to the couch, and Katie was standing holding on to a wooden chair. Both their backs were against mine, leaning on me, using me to balance. But shortly after, Katie came tumbling back. I picked her up and saw blood in her mouth. She was crying, my sleeve was covered with blood, Jojo was crying because I had left her. It was insane!
When I finally got Katie's bleeding to stop, I saw that the frenelum (the connective tissue in the middle of the upper front teeth that connects the gum to the upper lip) was torn. I wasn't too terribly worried about it, but I thought I should call the pediatrician anyway. I don't want Katie to end up with a lisp or something worse because of it! The nurse took an hour to call me back and said this had just happened to her 3 year old son and everything should just be fine. I proceeded to describe the length of the cut and that I thought it looked deep. She then asked me if I thought she needed stitches. Um. Yeah, Ok. I'm not a doctor! Instead of answering, I kept on describing the cut. She told me to go ahead and bring Katie in.
The doctor took all of 1 minute to look at Katie's gum and said she'll be alright and sent us home.
Grrrr!! I knew that Katie would be OK, but I wasn't about to ignore a health professional. I just wanted to hear the nurse say "yeah, nothing to worry about". But in the middle of telling me that, she decided to call us in!
Interestingly enough, big brother's first bloody episode was 1 week before his 1st birthday. The twins are going to be a year old in 2 weeks.
The girls have started to want and take each other's toys. Though Jojo is crying in this video, don't feel sorry for her because she can handle herself. Sometimes they play intercept all over the living room floor trying to what the other has.
After I dove into the kitchen and my living room, I emerged victorious! It didn't take as long to clean as I thought it would. But it's now Monday, so the cleanliness is but a memory. I refused to clean on the weekends when we're all home together!
My knee still aches, and it's now having a new ache. I will call an orthopedic today. I really ought to see my family physician and request a blood work up since it's been more than 5 years or so since I find out what my cholasterol is.
My mother's day gift (which happens to be my husband's father's day gift . Love double-duty gifts!) arrived on Friday. On Friday night we were all playing bowling on the wii. My son loves it and loves the golf! He hits very hard even when he's just putting so he ends up missing the hole. But hey, he was having tons of fun with mommy & daddy.
On Saturday morning I was playing around on the wii and found a memo function. I wrote "do chores" and posted the memo on my husband's name. Later that day he saw it and was puzzled. I pretended I didn't know what that was and that I didn't do it. LOL It was great! hahahahah
I tried the fitness training on the wii and now my arms hurt from playing the baseball and tennis.
The twins are sick with cough and drippy nose and gunky eyes (Jojo is worse than Katie). Jojo was not sounding well so the hubby suggested she sleeps with us. Well, she's never really slept with us so she just got so excited and was wide awake for a veeeery long time! Than she woke up in the middle of the night and started crawling around. I nearly lost her! Thank goodness I opened my eyes just in time before she took a nose dive to the floor.
I am going to attack the kitchen and living room. They've been neglected and left untamed for a week or so. That and I fear about my future!
My knee has been aching on and off for months. I've been complaining to the hubby, and though he sympathizes, he thought it's just a regular aches and pains. One day, I came up to him and made him listen to the sound my knee was making and it freaked him out, which in turn freaked me out! Now he's urging me to go to the doctor and tells me I may need surgery. YIKES!! Why do I need my husband's confirmation in order for me to want to see a doctor? I don't really know. I guess it comes with the territory of being a mother - everyone comes first and me last. That and I have a high tolerance for pain.
So... now I want to clean my kitchen and livingroom in case I have to dissappear for surgery. I know, I know, the thought of surgery is premature, as I haven't even seen a doctor yet! But it would be such a horror if I do go to the doctor and the doctor doesn't let me come home and then we have to call my in-laws to come help us out and she sees how horrible the house is!
I am going in. Call 911 if you don't hear from me!!!!
Okay the wife doesn't see the humor in testing if you can tell the twins apart. By twins, I am referring to our daughters not anything else. So here is the test, above is a set of 3 pictures of just the eyes of our daughters, and yes there is at least one picture of each. So the test is, which pics are of the same twin, i.e. is A & C the same etc. If you are a grandparent I expect you to use names, or else. Please note, you can add a comment below by clicking on "post comment" to give your answer.
My family subscribes to Netflix, an online movie rental company. Sometimes I rent a movie just for me, that hubby doesn't watch, and vice versa. And on the weekends, we rent a movie that we think our son would like. Renting for a 3 year old is not so easy though, if we hand't seen the movie before hand. So with movies we haven't seen before, we read a lot of reviews. Unfortunately ratings like PG, PG13, etc is pretty much useless for parents. Case in point, we rented Chicken Little this past weekend because our son requested it. While he enjoyed the majority of it, the alien shooting/zapping others in the end was too scary for him. This movie has a rating of G - good for all ages. Apparently, not for 3 year olds.
So today, I was looking at Netflix and happened to see a bright green button within the review page. I click on it, and was pleasantly surprised about the rating/review. And what's even more surprising is that I recognize it bing a Minti member: Commonsensemedia.
On their review of Chicken Little , they mentioned about the the alien mayhem toward the end of the movie. This would have been useful had I found out about this review beforehand.
As a parent, I find commonsensemedia very useful and the fact that they're working with Netflix is even nicer!!!
Thank you all for the hard work you've put in your articles this past week for the Minti Mother's Day competition, but only 3 will get m$10,000. And here they are!
The Minti Mother's Day Competition has come to a close. There were definitely a lot of great articles written!!! There will be 3 lucky members who will recieve m$10,000!
We are currently reviewing the articles, so stay tuned!! Great job, everyone!
I am ashamed to say it, but I am a yeller. Once I reach a certain frustration level, I yell. I feel awful about it, so I have empowered my son with what I hoped was something that would stop me in my tracks.
I told my son that instead of yelling and being mad at each other, we should just love and hug each other.
Shortly after our conversation, we had an opportunity to test my theory. Matty wasn't listening to whatever I was saying and I was about to pop a vein. He stopped, looked at me, and ran toward me. "Let's hug each other, Mommy!" Not one to reject my son's need for affection, I complied.
With a smile on my face, I went from 60 to zero (well, maybe not zero, more like 15) in 3 seconds flat.
Now the problem is that the power has gone to the boy's head. When we got to warning #2 last night at the store, he used it to wipe the slate clean. Hmmmm.
I just finished watching the Martian Child. I'm such a sucker for sappy movies.
If you keep in mind that the movie is about a weird child, then it'll get you through the slow parts. But then again, if you're a parent like me who, as I've already mentioned, love sappy movies, then you're golden. It's about a child who has been abused and abandoned and has been passed down from foster care to foster care with no luck. Because he is a kid who thinks he is a Martian on Earth on a mission, he just doesn't fit with anybody. Until a science fiction writer comes along. It took a long time for the writer to get the child to feel comfortable with him and there were ups and downs. But in the end, the writer was successful in showing the Martian child that unlike his parents, he would never leave him.
Matty caught Pink-Eye from friends at school yesterday. It was a nice surprise when I picked him up. The doctor has given us eye drops and so today he is at home. The school doesn't want him in school for 24 hours because of it. But aside from oh-so-slightly puffy eyes, his eyes do not look bad at all. They aren't even red, either this isn't Pink Eye or the eye drop is working it's magic.
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Meet Coco, Katie's bear and Zoe, Jojo's bear They have been in our family for a couple of months now. And of course, Bubba (center) is Matty's bear. Bubba is 3 years old and he's been through many-a-tantrums, and of course he's been through a lot - drool, stains, and grime. He has been told many secrets, but he is trully loyal (besides, he's probably the only one who understands half the secrets Matty tells him).
(Click on the pictures to see an enlarged version.)
Katie and Jojo were having floor time this morning, barricated in the livingroom by the exersaucers, the couch, the chairs, and some pillows. But it didn't take Katie long to realize that she could escape by crawling under the exersaucers. And of course, after having done it once, she knows to keep coming back. We finally just let her explore the kitchen. She's so much faster on the kitchen than on the carpet!
It didn't take long before big brother joined in on the fun of crawling on all fours. He taught her the finer points of crawling by crawling under the table, the chair, the high-chairs. In the meantime, Jojo was all alone in the livingroom. She was content to just play by herself sitting up, until Daddy took her to the kitchen to join in the fun. She was a lot more restrained than Katie. She took in the new surrounding and took her time exploring one thing before moving on to the next.
With all these bodies on the floor, it wasn't long before there were casualties. Big brother slipped and somehow ended up with a busted lip, but the popsicle quieted him instantly. And then there was Katie, who was enjoying holding pulling up, but have yet to work out how to get her legs under her, so she ended up hitting her mouth as well.
It was a "free for all" morning, and I think it went quite well.
By the way, don't be thinking, "My, she's let her self go. Just look at those hairy legs!" Those are not mine. I swear!
The box says biter biscuits are great for self-feeders. Great for who? Certainly not for me. Biter biscuits = two unscheduled baths. I thought Jojo was dirty, but Katie proved me wrong.
I just saw on TV that Crocs pose dangers in escalators. The rubbery texture makes it easy to get stuck and get caught in the side of the escalator and mangling toes.
My 3 year old wears crocs and he loves to go in escalators (over and over and over again). He is always with either me or his daddy when gets on it, but I'm definitely not taking chances.
As Clay and Angieh recently announced, I am taking on the new role of Minti Community Administrator.
Angieh did an awesome job keeping our no-so-little-island of Minti in order and now the torch is being handed to me. Don't worry, you will all still get news of how I am coping (or NOT) with my 3 children.
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. Love double-duty gifts!) arrived on Friday. On Friday night we were all playing bowling on the wii. My son loves it and loves the golf! He hits very hard even when he's just putting so he ends up missing the hole. But hey, he was having tons of fun with mommy & daddy. 
