Blog? What Blog? I Have a Blog?

I know I've used this excuse a million times, but man-o-livin life is CRAZY around here!

First up: NASCAR. Uncle B joined us for 5 days of camping in dirt and watching rednecks! We wish Aunt J was there too but she joined us a couple days late due to work.

Even the dog loves NASCAR camping. She enjoys being the camp watchdog!

DJB liked to run in and out of the pop-up! Notice the snow cap? It was a might bit chilly during the night!

DJB stole the world's largest lollipop from one of his brothers!

Here's a portion of our camp.

Next up: Thanksmas! What? Didn't you know about that holiday? It's the 2nd or 3rd time we've combined Thanksgiving and Christmas. Since Uncle B and Aunt J were in town we decided to celebrate the holidays. We even put up the christmas tree-complete with only Vikings decorations! Ya know, we have to celebrate our team's fabulous year!

Here's P playing a little Clone Wars Wii with LOB.

Uncle B showing the boys how to operate the mini remote helicopters they bought for the boys!

DJB picked out this carniverous plant farm when Uncle B and Aunt J took them to Toys r Us.

Mini remote control helicopter!

Uncle Bent, as DVB calls him.

Aunt J in her new apron.

UB and AJ are THEEEE coolest evah!

The boys have wanted these for a long time and they didn't even know that when they bought them!

Next Up: An extra 5 days with Aunt J! She changed her ticket to spend some more time with us! We're planning on a not-so-crazy week. On Thanksgiving day we're going to a local zoo we haven't been to in years! Hopefully everyone else will be home eating turkey and we'll have the zoo to ourselves!

I planned on putting some more pictures up but my camera took a poop! Looks like we'll have to find some time this week to go camera shopping! Any suggestions?

Too Much Going On...

We are still around but there's too much going on to find time to write a blog post! And if I could find the cord to my camera, I could post some pictures from our fun weekend at NASCAR. It's probably buried in the bottom of the camping crap or maybe under the piles and piles of dirty laundry. But for this week, we're going to enjoy our company. Aunt J and Uncle B are here till Monday. Maybe next week we'll be back to normal....

The Great Toy Purge of 2009

Whew! The Great Toy Purge of 2009 is complete! 4 garbage bags of broken toys, misc. game pieces, and garbage later, all toy boxes are clean and the toy room once again organized! All baby toys were put away for a future niece or nephew (get moving you 2!) I feel like I've accomplished a major project today. All that work only to make room for more toys on the way for next month's festivities! Oh well, it will stay organized for at least a couple hours!

So as I'm cleaning and organizing away, I came across the HUGE set of Little People stuff we've accumulated over the years. Oh perfect, I thought! DVB will love these and since I put all his baby toys away he'll need something new to play with! And that he did for 1.5 hours straight! Heaven, I tell ya! I brought all the toys that were downstairs, back upstairs and I brought the entire set of Little People downstairs. I set them all up for him in their matching accessories and people/animals. I must say it was kinda fun! He was most attracted to the garage set-go figure! He's really into cars right now. Maybe after his nap he'll explore the farm, or the amusement park, or the zoo, or the pirate ship, or the race track, or the castle, or the airplane... I'm pretty impressed, I might add, that almost all the pieces were found to the sets. I'm sure if I dig out the in toy boxes in the garage or through LOB's bedroom, I'd find the rest. Nah, that would be too much work!

It was just like Christmas for DVB! Hopefully it'll keep his interest for at least a couple more days!

Babybook Entry Post

DVB you are growing so fast, it's time for another update! In the last two weeks your vocabulary has at least tripled it seems! You are even putting together 3 or 4 words. Most of your free time you spend following your brothers! I must say you keep up pretty well! You are a tough little bugger, sometimes even tougher than your older brothers!

Here's some of the things you are jabbering about:

peetza - You LOVE pizza! Thank goodness since we eat it at least once a week!

milky - The first thing you ask for in the morning is a cup of milk! We go through a gallon a day between all you boys, including Papa!

ju - aka Juice - Occasionally you'll accept a cup of 1/2 juice, 1/2 water.

turkeeee - We put the pookins (pumpkins) away and now the turkeys are out. You call the turkeys "pooky" like you did the Halloween decorations! I'm trying to teach you to say gobble gobble-we might get it down by turkey day!

ticken - You call the turkeys tickens! Aka chickens!

Toni - You finally got that T in Toni!

arrrgh! - Whenever I get mad at Toni, I make an arrrrgh sound in frustration! Now whenever you see Toni doing something naughty you make the sound too! It's hilarious! I guess it's better than saying a naughty word!

bank - aka blanket. You've cut back on your blankie fetish! But you still like to have about 3 of them in bed with you!

boots - You LOVE to wear your hand-me-down cowboy boots. You like to stomp your feet in them!

wanna - Wanna go ouside! Wanna milky!

cuz - The other day I asked you to do something and you replied No! So I said, why? And you said cuz!

shippy - You know the cupboard where the sippy cups are!

cup - Lately you've been asking for a cup instead of a shippy! :(

boke - aka broke! When Toni chewed up one of your wooden cars you said, Toni boke!

moob - If anyone or anything is in your way you say, moob! And whoever better respond quickly or you'll moob them!

moobie - The other day in my mini van you said, moobie on! How spoiled is a almost 2 year when he can watch a movie in the car?

oh, man! - This is another phrase you picked up from me! The other day you walked into LOB's messy room and you said, oh man! And OH MAN, you were right! Last Sunday when we were watching the Talledega NASCAR race, you said, oh man! big cash! when you saw Ryan Newman wreck!

Gog - aka LOB! For awhile you called him Go Go but now it's Gog!

Day - aka DJB! DJB doesn't like you calling him Day! He tries to tell you to call him D!

Guys - It's so funny when you call your brothers, guys!

Bampa - You know, Grammy probably was hoping you'd say her name first! Whenever Grammy asks you who's boy you are you say, Bampa! And sometimes all she has to do is look at you and you say Bampa like a little smarty farty!

mash cash - One of your favorite books is called SMASH CRASH! I think I've read it so many times I've got it memorized. Not to mention its been looked at and read so often that's it's missing a few pages!

iddy biddy spidey - Another one of your favorite books is a version of The Itsy Bitsy Spider! I always sing the words and all of a sudden you can sing it! Too cute!

monkey - You have a stuffed animal mouse but you call him a monkey!



I was trying to get a picture of you in your wild thing jammies that Grammy and Grandpa bought you!

Here's proof that you are always looking for trouble!

I can't believe you are almost 2 years old! Most of the time we laugh at your silly little antics! You are very entertaining! But there are times your strong willed attitude can be frustrating. Thankfully, you are usually in the entertaining mood!

Are we going to start seriously working on that potty training next?

Trick or Treat!

We had a super fun Halloween! We TONS of trick-or-treaters! I don't know how many pounds of candy we gave out, but it was a lot! GOB took the boys around the neighborhood while I handed out candy. I love seeing all the costumes! What I can't believe is all the rude, disrespectful kids! What ever happened to manners? Or how about actually saying "trick or treat"! Anyway the little kids were cute. And I found out that apparently LOB is very popular at school. It's funny how many kids said, "Are you LOB's mom?" It was pretty cute!

After we shut down the candy factory, we hung out with a bunch of neighbors till 1 am. It was a blast! They introduced us into a dice game called Left Right Center. GOB and I didn't win any rounds but had a great time playing! We are however, a little on the lazy side today! That's how much fun we had!


The boys were dressed as Star Wars characters. LOB's mask still creeps me out! DVB hates it too! He SCREAMS NOOOOOO when LOB has it on or even shows it to him!

Doesn't he make a cute little Yoda?

Next on our activity schedule is NASCAR. We're looking forward to seeing Uncle B and Aunt J and our WI cousins! More fun is coming right up!

Pooky Poonkin!

It's pumpkin carving time! DVB calls them "poonkins." And anything halloweeny he says is "pooky!" Too cute!

There's a few excited boys around here! To them, tomorrow cannot come soon enough! Both DJB and LOB had field trips to the high school for a play today. They also have their "Fall" parties this afternoon. I was kind of ticked that "the school" as a whole decided not to let the kids dress up for Halloween! For Pete's sake, can't kids have fun anymore? Sheesh!

Here are a few pictures of our pookin carving! Next on my to-do list is to find a recipe to roast the seeds...

I swear the kid will eat ANYTHING! Even raw pookin guts! Ewwww!

Have a save and Happy Halloween!

Dear DVB,

Dear Little Devil DVB,

Today you totally embarrassed me in public! Today the old lady's who usually just want to pinch your cute little cheeks just shot your mother the most nasty dirty looks ever! Today I was just trying to ignore you but then the little old lady's would give me even dirtier looks! Today I just wanted to snap some dirty looks back at them and throw my hands in the air! Today in the hopes of making you semi-happy while shopping at the mall, I handed you a half a pack of gum! *GASP* And you ate every.single.piece! (I know I'll pay for it later) Today I even paid $1.25 for a bottle of"Coke" for YOU (thanks Grammy!) to see if that would shut you up! Today I could not find one thing to make you happy! Today you are taking a nice long nap to give your mom a much needed recuperation period. Today when you wake up from your 3 hour nap, I really hope you are happier! Today I still love you but please kick this attitude! I really hope tomorrow is not like today!

Love,
Momma

No More Snaggletooth!

We can't call LOB Snaggletooth anymore! Now we're calling him a vampire! How perfect for Halloween!



He went to bed last night and about 30 minutes later, came down and said, "This tooth has to go!" He wiggled it until it was hanging by a thread. I swear GOB should have been a dentist! He LOVES pulling the boy's teeth. Well maybe not LOVES it, but doesn't mind doing it unlike me who can't even stand to look at a loose tooth! And this one was a bloody one! I can handle other people's blood but not my CHILD's blood! NASTY!

So here's the funny part: LOB finally went to bed after looking at himself in the mirror for a half an hour and spitting blood all over the sink! Then I mentioned to GOB that I didn't have $5 (LOB specifically said he really wanted that $5!). All I had in my wallet was a 10 and a 1. So GOB scoured through his wallet and then checked out his stash in his truck. I scoured threw a few places and couldn't even find 5 - $1 bills! Then I came across LOB's leftover money from vacation and VIOLA there was $5! We both laughed that we had to borrow money from him to pay him! Now I need to replace that $5 before he notices!

I'll be gone for a couple days from blogging....it's Oktoberfest time in our house! Lots of work to do! See ya in a couple days....and I even have blogging material...LOB's basketball season, the almost finished counter-tops.....I'll catch up one of these days!

Fall Break Fun!

Here are a few pictures from the boy's fall break this past week! They have spent 8 days with Grammy and Grandpa up at the cabin! ALL 3 BOYS! It's been a wonderful Fall Break for GOB and I too!

LOB has been studying Native Americans in school recently so one day they took a road trip to a Navajo Reservation. I am told that this little hut is called a Hogan.

I'm not sure what this car has to do with Native Americans. I'm pretty sure Navajo Indians didn't drive cars. Notice both boys holding bags? Before they left, I gave each of them some money to spend on their trip. What they bought follows...

Rocks! They bought rocks! Oh well, I must say they are very pretty rocks!

Here's proof they visited some Indians!

Looks like LOB has the stitching gene! It counts as stitching doesn't it?

Now for some other pictures from the week...

Here's my baby with his new found obsession, hat wearing. Notice also that the poor kid was dressed with socks and sandals on! Nerd!

Here's my 3 cutie pies all sittin' in a row in their matching jackets! I have to match them while I still can! This picture was titled "soda break". You'd think G and G would refrain from inducing the already existing wildness with caffeine! I know better myself!

This looks like they spiced up the homemade swing set and club house. My guess is is that they fought over the ONE existing swing and Grandpa got sick of listening to the fighting over it! That Grandpa though, he can build anything!

Wearing other people's shoes is another obsessison of DVB's! Those look like DJB's cowboy boots!

This picture was titled, "Caged"! G and G figured out that sometimes DVB just has to be tied down! I don't blame them!

And one final picture...looks like supper time.

There were a couple other good pictures but Blogger wouldn't upload them. One was of a new shooting gallery they boys and Grandpa rigged up.

Thanks so much to Grammy and Boppa (as DVB calls him) for a wonderful, quiet, peaceful, productive, relaxing, eating out week for GOB and I! We are recharged and ready to resume life as usual! We are so lucky, aren't we?

What Should We Call Him?

So here's the post I've been meaning to get to for the last week or so!





DVB is a MONSTER! Or is he a DAREDEVIL? Or is he a WILD MAN? Or The WILD THING? Man-a-livin' this boy is full of spunk! In a 4 day span recently, he somehow eluded a visit to the Emergency Room multiple times!


Incident #1: After walking the older boys to school, DVB and I decided it was a perfect morning to climb around one of our neighborhood jungle gyms. He was having a blast climbing up and down, sliding down all the big slides like he has done it a million times before. Then as I look up at him from the bottom of a tube slide, he turned around lickety split and walked right off a 5 foot platform! Bam! Somehow he landed smack dab on his butt! He was totally unscathed! I don't get it!


Incident #2: Two weekends ago GOB took all the boys up to the cabin to go turkey hunting. As I am told, everyone was scattered throughout the cabin getting settled in. GOB then inquired if anyone knew where DVB might be. Then they heard the crash! My parents have a coffee table that they have had for years. It's half glass, half wood. I guess Triple D (Daredevil DVB) decided to lay down on the glass half and all of a sudden the glass gave out and broke into a million pieces, him landing on top! Totally unscathed once again! Incredible!


Incident #3: While still at the cabin, the boys were playing outside. DVB was practicing his balancing skills. Then he decided to JUMP off the railroad tie he was balancing upon! His 6 inch plunge did not keep him unscathed this time! He scratched up the whole right side of his head and cheek! It could have been worse!


Needless to say, I'm sure one of my future posts will be pictures from our first Emergency Room visit. I know, I'm jinxing myself! But it's just inevitable!

Snaggletooth!

I know I said I already had a post in mind for, hmmmm, let's see....Thursday probably! But life got in the way again! I ended up having to work and now I have some exciting news to precede the Daredevil DVB post!

We have a Snaggletooth in the house! LOB FINALLY lost one of his top middle teeth! I say FINALLY because they both have been loose since May! The Tooth Fairy even remembered to come and she left $5.50! (it helps when you set the alarm clock for oh say, 12:00 am!)

So I promise to get to that DVB post in a couple days. Grammy and Grandpa are taking all 3 boys for the whole week next week for Fall Break! So I know since I have a kid-free week I can't make any excuses about lack of time! Although my to-do list is quite long and I am working 3 days next week!

Squirrel Anyone?

There was a little excitement up at the cabin this past weekend. GOB took all the boys up to go turkey hunting while I stayed home because I had to work. There's lots of stories to tell from the adventurous weekend but I'll have to tell one story at a time. You know, I have to stretch out the blogging material!

Here's what Grandpa emailed me shortly after they gave up turkey hunting and switched to squirrel:


So this was a banner day for LOB and me. We decided to take the boys out after some tree rats . We packed a lunch and hit the woods. Didn't see any squirrels while we ate but we decided to road hunt. In short order we spied the first of 4. GOB chased it into the perfect tree, a dead pine with no needles. It went up about 15 feet and sat broadside. LOB sat in my lap and held the rifle himself and popped it. His practice this summer with the BB gun gave him skill to iron site this rat and knocked him out of the tree with one shot. His next one was a much bigger challenge. It went to the top of a 60 footer. He had to lean against a tree and took several shoots to hit it. He wanted to quit but his Dad was patient and they worked together and he got him. He wanted three so DJB and DVB could have a tail and so it was. The only help he got was finding the critter in the tree and loading the gun, He has a cricket single shot hand cock rifle just his size. No scope iron sites !!!!!

So I'm not sure who is more excited, Grandpa, Papa, or LOB!?!

Normally, they skin the squirrels and Grammy eats the poor little scampers! *GASP* I know, totally gross! But she said they were too scrawny to bother but they did keep the tails! LOB wanted to hang them in his room but I shot down that idea in a nanosecond! I told him to go staple them to the tree in the backyard!

Story #2 is on deck for tomorrow. I already thought of a title: Daredevil DVB!

Delinquent Blogger!

Do I still have any readers out there?


I know, I've been bad, very bad! Somehow this thing called life is getting in the way of blogging recently! Sheesh! I haven't even had time to read all the other blogs I love to read! Between refereeing, chauffeuring, cleaning, cooking, coordinating, shopping, working, socializing, practicing, refereeing, planning, fall tv watching, refereeing, my poor little blog has been on the back burner! (Not to mention my delinquentcy in seeing my god-daughters! I can't even remember the last time I saw them! Do you still love me?)


But I'm not giving up! Don't you worry about that! Until things settle down, you'll only get to hear from me a couple times a week! You know the holidays are coming up and as you can imagine it's CRAZY around here! I'm sure there will be some good blog posts to come from all that hoopla!


So here's a little funny I came across this weekend! LOB is in a weird stage right now! He's mouthy, sassy, non-compliant, ungrateful, stinky, and I think he thinks he's turning 16 or something! He wants alone time. He wants to listen to music. He wants to redecorate his bedroom. Who is this boy? My first born baby?


Here's what he's posted on his door...I put the stickers on that say "caution, keep out" and the skateboards but he added a few of his own....

I had been looking for this "No solicitors" sign I bought a while ago to keep those Church Knockers from ringing my door bell (that's a whole 'nother post!). I'm not sure where he found it or even if he knows what it means but at least he knew where to put it!

Please knock!!!!!!! Get it? Me? I don't knock, I bang!

Tony? Who is Tony? Tony Stewart? Or Toni, the dog? Frankenstein? I asked him if he even knew who Frankenstein was and he gave me a very accurate description! It's good to know that GOB and I are on the O.K. list. But notice DJB isn't? Yes, there's a little sibling rivalry goin' on over here! Remember me mentioning refereeing a few times earlier? Ugh!

I Have to Tell you About This!

This is so cool- all you pedicure lovers out there must click on this link!

http://www.minxnails.com/cylantscart/index.php?p=catalog&parent=10&pg=1

I did a patient this week that had THEEEEE coolest pedicure evah! Here I am supposed to be squishing her boobs and all I could look at were her toes! I always look at people's feet! You all know I'm a shoe lover so naturally looking at people's toes would be included! She had silver with the black fish net and it looked sharp!

Anyhoo, on the link above you'll see all the designs available. It's a film-like sticker-like dealy that a licesenced nail tech applies to your toes or nails with a special heat lamp. By the looks of the official website, there are only a couple locations in my state that do it but you can bet I'll be checking into it further. My patient said her tech charges $60 but it lasts 3 months! My toenails grow really fast but I think I could get 2 months out of it! But just think, no chipping, no dulling, just plain shiny and beautiful for weeks!

So cool! I can't decide on a design though~there's sooooo many cute ones! Polka dots, plaid, camo, zebra stripes, oh it goes on and on!

See This Cute Little Pumpkin?

See this cute little pumpkin?



Yes, he's cute today but yesterday was a whole different story and there's no photographic proof of it!

So I worked yesterday morning. At about 9 AM I got a text from GOB. Here's how it went:

GOB to me: Do you want to go pick up a new keg today?
Me to GOB: What? It can't be empty! (it was only 1 week old)
GOB: Oh yes it can!
Me: No way! I don't believe you!
GOB: While taking a shower
GOB: LOB sat on pot taking crap (he was supposed to be on DVB watch)
GOB: DJB glued to tv
GOB: Monster Man pulled the tapper

Yep, you guessed it! 3/4 of a barrel of Michelob Ultra was released onto the kitchen floor! I heard it made it to the oven so that's about a pool of beer 15 feet in diameter! Thankfully, I just had to give the beer scented floor a good scrub when I got home. The Boys did a pretty good job soaking it up with kitchen towels! Oh well, lesson learned! Save The Beer!

But today is a whole new day and the Little Pumpkin is as cute as can be! He LOVES this old old old Halloween costume! However, I don't think the older brothers are going to let it be his official costume this year. I hear they have plans of being 3 Star Wars characters and they plan on making DVB be Yoda! Oh joy!

A silly pumpkin has got to be cuter than ugly Yoda!

We'll let you know who wins!