Some lady walks up to you in Walmart and tells you how cute your girls are.

Got it cut today.

My children chose today to drive me crazy.  Well, not just today, but today in particular.  They must know the best time to do horrid things or even little things that will drive me especially nuts.  How do they know that?  Is it a sixth sense that I passed to them through the umbilical cord?

We went to see the beautiful three week old Aidan today.  Man, is he sweet!  Luckily, my children were awful enough for his cuteness not to have too terribly much effect on me...  Not only did my hideous daughter who we unknowingly and unwittingly taught to talk and be herself not have a nap today, but she also didn't nap on the way home in the van.  Ephraim thinks it is very funny to throw a fit every chance he gets if something is even remotely not the way he thinks it should be.  The floppy syndrome is a very big part of this.

Right now they are both banished to their room.

I am proud of myself though, I refrained from telling them, "Just you wait until your father gets home!"

So, Keyzia escaped from her room because she said she had to go poo...  a common excuse to get out of her room, and she was crying for her puppy...

me:  You need to stop right now, you are a big girl, and you are almost three years old!!

Keyzia:  I'm not three!  I'm only a little two!!

Why oh why did we teach the child to count?

momma:  why are you naked, honey?

keyzia:  'cause it's a naked day today!

momma:  but, sharlene is coming over, so you need to get dressed.

keyzia:  it's okay, sharlene loves naked girls!

**pause**

keyzia:  I have a vagina, momma.

momma:  you do?

keyzia:  yup.  and so do you.  You have a vagina too.  But ephraim doesn't.  He has a penis.  and Daddy has a penis. 

momma:  That's right.

keyzia:  Ephraim just has little penis.  But Daddy has a big one!!

 

And finally, I have pictures!!  Well, just a few anyways...

Isn't he beautiful?  He actually looks just like his big brother Noah.  Only he's not as delicate as Noah was.  Perhaps because he was about two pounds heavier?  Aidan must know already the battle that it's going to be not to get lost with two older brothers!

Click on the pic or here for some other pics.

Don't you just want to nuzzle those cheeks???

***just as an aside, I really do have to apologize for all the boobage in these pics...  ((sorry, Russell!!))  But, really, I didn't take the pics, and even if I had, I don't know if I could have avoided all that boobage!!!  ((Russell, I love you!!))***

All of us bad momma's should unite!

Today I am having one of those days when I just wish my children would leave me alone.  And listen.  Is instant compliance really too much to ask?  I mean, really?

Today was one of those days when nap time was not long enough.  When nothing was where it was supposed to be.  When trying to go anywhere was a huge hassle.  That was the kind of day today has been.

And then, and then, after banishing my children to their room, I hear the musicality of them giggling at each other.  Keyzia comes out and tells me that she found a toonie and is going to buy me a "big big gigantous present!" with it.  Ephraim shouts "Momma!" when I come back from the bathroom and holds his arms open, as if I've been gone for years.

That, that's what makes bad days into good.  Bad mommas into good mommas.

I think it might be time to get down on the floor and play cars.

I spent the day at Jen's place yesterday, took Dalton to school and hung out with Noah while she was busy pushing a nine pound baby out of somewhere that will remain unmentionable.

Jen has satellite.  More than 600 channels, and there was still nothing on.  But, there was a neverending stream of kids shows to choose from.  From Barney to Rescue Heroes, we had the choice of them all.  And then the Little People's show came on. 

It is such a weird show!  Those of you who know my family and I know that we have a particular fondness for Fisher Price Little People, and we have quite a few sets.  But this show??  It creeps me out!  Their hands are so big!  And their arms are so long!  You can't really tell in this pic, but their arms are twice as long as their bodies, and their hands are about as big as their heads.  Add that to the really annoying singing (you can hear a bit of it here), and I the show quite plainly creeped me out.  I didn't really even understand the plot.  Was there a plot?  Who was the clown who went to clown school?

Unfortunately, my kidlets, especially my boob tube addicted daughter loved the show.  She also loves the extremely annoying Little People CD that we have. 

Why is it that our children love the things that drive us absolutely batty??