Soccer is over

The boys had their last soccer game tonight. Whoopeee! I'll have to admit though, I think they had the best time this year than any in the past. They didn't win much, but they had fun playing. They both did great this year, but Chandler finally seemed to stick with it this season. He played hard & really went after the ball. He even scored a goal! Carter scored a couple goals as well. I'm just glad it over because it's so hard getting everything in on a school night and getting home late. Chandler starts golf next. I'm really anxious to see how he likes that.

Kensley was 31 weeks yesterday. I've really tried to stay on the ball & take a picture of her every Wednesday.... (I'm going to do a weekly album for her first year).

The shoes are in the trash

Praise the Lord!!! Carter has finally given up the old shoes he's been wearing that are too little & worn out. We've battle back & forth for several weeks over these old shoes & he will NOT wear any other ones without a fight. Well today was the breakthrough. Mom came to visit today & got both the boys some "Cars" skate shoes... they are tennis shoes, but are kind of designed like Heely's. They both loved them, but Carter even said that he was ready to throw his old shoes away. He picked them up & took them outside & threw them in the big trash can. No turning back now.

The boys had a soccer game tonight and Chandler scored a goal! First ever (if I'm not mistaken) in an actual game. I was so proud of him. Carter has scored a few goals this season, but I think most of them have been in the wrong goal. Oh well... at least he's trying :-)

Busy, busy day

I've been really busy today. I helped out at Chandler's school this morning, met some friends at the Y to walk after that, came home & mowed the front yard, took a shower, fixed lunch, took the kids to the library when I picked up Chandler, came home & did an hour & half of homework, fixed supper, bathed kids & put them to bed, working on some thank you cards for my sis-in-law (taking a break from that at the moment), did 2 loads of dishes, 4 loads of laundry & managed to sit down & nurse Kensley & play with her some in the midst of all of that. It's been a really LONG day. I think I'll go to bed shortly.

When we got home from picking up Chandler today, he was surprised to find that I had mowed the grass. He said "girls can mow grass???" When I responded with a yes, he said "I thought only men mow grass." Very cute. By the way, we watched the movie Borat this weekend. "Very nice" and "hi-five".... other than some funny sayings, I wasn't impressed.

Been too long

Okay, sorry everyone for taking a while since my last post. Things have been crazy, plus I've been having problems with my Internet Explorer. Hopefully, I've found a solution and can get back to my daily blogs. This is going to be long because I've got lots to say.

So, what's been going on. Kensley turned 7 months old on Friday. Her new thing this week is throwing her head back when you hold her or she's sitting down. Sometimes it's out of happiness & other times she's truly pissed off! She's also back to her growling noises this week. She has had a big temper this past week. She screams so loud it pierces your eardrums & they ring for a while. She's been waking up around 4 ish (am) and pooping.... (side note... it's taken me forever to actually get her poops to semi-normal again since starting solids and I'm so glad... just NOT at 4am!). I have to change her diaper. I'm not going to let her sleep in it for several hours. But she absolutely hates it! She screams so loud sometimes she looses her voice. Then she's cried so hard by the time she latches on that she can't eat without pulling off & gasping for air because her nose is so stopped up with snot. Then, I have to get out the boogie sucker & suck all of the gunk out. By the way, this makes me think. Has anyone seen that commercial for Huggies baby care lotions & stuff I think. It says something along the lines of "up for a midnight snack" and the mom is all happy playing with the baby & the baby is all happy & smiling & cooperating for a diaper change. A man had to come up with that. No Mom is happy to be up at that hour & no baby is happy & playing cheerfully. Reality is that they are screaming bloody murder because they are having to wait for you to get situated to nurse or wait for the bottle to warm. AND they big overhead light in on the the room. Another false. You do as much as you can with as little light as you can get by with. I refuse to buy their product because of that stupid commercial.

Okay so another drama in our house is Carter. I've mentioned he's been giving us problems for a while.. acting up, back talking, whining, etc. Well this week we had the mother of all "fits". To start off with, I washed the boys shoes on Wednesday afternoon. They were filthy, so I threw them in the wash thinking they would be ready by Thursday morning. I am trying to get him ready for school & his shoes are still wet... they took forever to dry for some reason... so I pulled out 2 other pairs of new shoes from his closet for him to wear. He has some "thing" with clothes & shoes. Pants fall down & shoes slip off... even though they really don't... he's just picky about what he wears. We already had one meltdown similar to this one 2 weeks ago about pants & thought we had accomplished getting through to him about what we buy for him he has to wear. So, I'm telling him that he can wear either of the pairs of shoes on the floor. He commences to crying. "Carter, you have to wear these shoes because the others are wet." (crying louder and screaming "no"). This whole scenario goes round & round for 45 MIN!!!!! All about freakin' shoes!!! It's not like these are bad shoes that we are asking him to wear. They are Stride Rite...good, comfortable shoes. I was really ill, Corby was ill, Carter is screaming crying with the heaves and red spots all over his face & it's time to go to school. He gets a spanking from both of us because of the way he's acting & it doesn't even phase him. Thank goodness Corby was home because I think I would have pulled all my hair out & left if I had been there by myself. I have never been that angry with one of my kids. He even starts in on "I don't want to go to school" (he loves school by the way). Finally, Corby gets him out the door & off to school, but he's snubbing the whole way. Then when I picked him up, he said he likes the shoes now. Give me a break!!! All that drama, for him to end up liking them.

So I've talked about 2 of my kids, I need to say something about Chandler too. He's growing up so fast & getting so tall. He has 3 teeth loose right now. He's already lost his two bottom teeth. Now the top 2 are loose... one is really loose & we discovered another bottom tooth is loose tonight. He's going to look so different when he looses those top teeth.

I've been so scatterbrained this week. I'm such a dip. I scheduled Chandler an eye appt for Tues for what I thought was supposed to be at 9:30. It wasn't. I kept him out of school that morning & went to the appt and waited for 30 min in the waiting room to find out that his appt was at 11:30 & not 9:30. Okay, simple mistake. It can happen. So we reschedule for Friday at 1:50. So I went to get him early from school on Friday for his appt. On the way there, I was thinking, "I hope I have the right time... that would be bad to make 2 mistakes". So we walk in & the same lady checked me in & remembered me from earlier in the week. When I told her the name, she looked confused. Then she asked "what Dr. is he seeing?" I told her. She's looking on the computer & says "his appt is next Friday". I could have just sunk below the counter & crawled out of the office. Are you serious! I messed up AGAIN! I know she thought I was an idiot. This time she gave me a card with the appointment & it's posted on my refrigerator now.