What to do

Here is what Noah has mastered this last week. 

I am so not ready for this, He needs to stay in his crib for a while longer.  I am thinking I need to get one of those crib tents.  I am undecided though it does seem a little mean but if it means that I get to sleep at night and it isn't an hour or longer process to put the kid to bed or down for a nap than I am game to try it.

Just kidding

Now a while ago I wrote how I finally thought that Noah was calming down and was mellowing in his daily fits.  Well as soon as wrote that he proved me wrong.  His fits are back with a vengeance, last night well actually it was early this morning I was woken up by Noah talking in his crib.  I figured he would go back to sleep and didn't think twice about it.  Think again, he starts screaming so both Jason and I did what we could for him and nothing worked so I told Jason to put a pillow over his head because he was going to cry this out.  There was no way I was letting him be awake at 4:30 in the morning. 

All of the sudden I heard a thud, I thought it was the sippy cup he had so I kept listening and then I heard his door open.  The little stinker figured out how to climb out of his crib.  I put him back in bed and he did it again.  I was so tired and just wanted to sleep so I did what any sleep deprived parent would do, I let him come to be with us.  This lasted for a little while, but he never really settled he was wide awake and moving all over the place.  So I put him back to bed and hoped he would stay there.  He did thank goodness, and when he woke up after 8:30 I was getting Ashton ready for pre school, I heard little feet come running he had climbed out again. 

I am not sure what to do about this Ashton never figured out how to climb out so I never worried about it.

Fast forward a few hours I had dropped off Ashton at pre school and I needed to go to the store for some milk so off we went.  I walked into the store and put Noah into the cart and he lost it screaming and carrying on.  I wasn't about to carry him through the store, so I tried to calm him down.  Nothing worked he even had a binky, then he dropped it and I wouldn't let him have it back (gross).  By this time he is screaming at the top of his lungs, people are staring at me left and right.  We haven't even been in the store for 5 mins.  It was so bad I had to turn around and leave.

He screams over everything, when it doesn't go his way.  As a matter of fact he is screaming right now because I took the remote control to the tv away from him.  This child is going to send me to the loony bin.  I am at a complete lost as to what to do with him.

Bear Lake

So I am not sure why this didn't post and I never notice till now, user error on my part I guess :) so here is what we did over Labor day weekend.

So a couple of weeks ago mom and I were talking about what we could do for Labor day weekend and both of us wanted to go somewhere but didn't want to spend a fortune.  I came up with the idea of going to Bear Lake, I have been wanting to go for some time now, so I got on KSL and found some cabins for rent and we found one that we liked and it was a great price so we decided to go for it. 

We left Friday about noon and headed up.  Mom and Myron took Ashton and Noah and we had Tyson and Aaron with us in our car.  It is a beautiful drive and only about 2 hours away it is awesome.  The cabin we stayed at was great, it had 4 bedrooms and  three bathrooms. 

We unpacked and decided to go and get dinner at one of the little drive in places, and of course we had to have a raspberry shake, you can't go to bear lake without having one. 

Ashton found a tire swing after dinner and had a blast playing on it.  Noah tried but he couldn't stay sitting on the tire, he kept falling off.

After dinner we decided to go check out the beaches so we knew where we wanted to be the next day.  Ashton and Noah had so much fun they quickly headed for the water.  I was prepared to let them get wet the first night so I just stripped them down to their diaper and underwear ( a little ghetto I know but they had so much fun I couldn't stop myself) 

Sat morning we got up and made breakfast and got ready for the lake.  We packed food for lunch and planned on staying most of the day.  We had a little mishap with the canopy we wanted set up for some shade, so mom and I went on a little shopping trip, we found to great umbrellas, a boat that we knew the boys would have a blast with. 

We had a great time the weather was perfect, it was a little windy but not bad, the water was cold at first you had to get use to it but once you were it wasn't to bad.  At about 2:00 Mom and Myron took Ashton and Noah back to the house to have a nap and the rest of us stayed for a while longer. Jason ended up getting sunburned pretty bad (I did offer sunscreen but he didn't want any) so we had to stay out of the sun for the rest of the day.  The older boys (Tyson, Aaron, Jason, and Myron) were thrilled when they  saw the grass around the cabin so they were able to get lots of croquet playing in. 

Sunday we were a little slower at getting to the lake, when we did manage to get there we only stayed for a couple of hours, it was really really windy and no one wanted in the water at all.  The wind was blowing so hard it was hurt when we got hit by the sand.  So we headed back to the house and just hung out for the rest of the day. 

Monday we had to get up and tidy up the house and we headed home, it was an awesome get away.  We all left wanting to either buy or build a house there.  It is a perfect get away, it's not to far away, there is something to do year round, and it's not totally outrageously priced.  I am hoping that we can make this a yearly thing although I think I would like to go a little earlier in the year and stay a little longer.

Ashton's 1st day of preschool

Ashton was so excited to go to pre school this morning.  He woke up and the first thing out of his mouth was "Ashton go to pre school now?"  I had to remind him that we needed to get ready for the day and have breakfast then we would head to pre school. 

Daddy was home today also so he was able to walk with us while we dropped Ashton off. 

The second Ashton walked through the door, he was off playing with some toys, we had to remind him to hang up his back pack and then he could go play. 

We said our good byes and he didn't even notice or care that we were leaving.  Noah on the other hand was quite sad that he was not able to stay and play. 

While Ashton was at pre school, I headed to the store with Noah and got our shopping done for the week, and headed home and it was time to go and pick up Ashton.  That 2 hours went by in a huge hurry. 

The kids were outside playing and having a great time.  My conversation with Ashton on our walk home:

Me: Ashton did you have so much fun at pre school?
Ash:  Ya
Me: What did you do today?
Ash: played in the sandbox, jumped on the trampoline, read a book, and ate cookies
Me: sounds fun, are you excited to go back tomorrow?
Ash: Ya

I am so excited and happy that Ashton is loving going to pre school and Noah is going to get some undivided mommy time three days a week.

Just one of those days

I have laundry that needs to be done, a kitchen that needs to be cleaned, a trip that I need to start packing for.  But what am I doing sitting here at my computer and I can't quite get up the energy to get going. 

The boys are dividing their time between watching a movie and playing trains(which has taken over the living room and has been there for over a month now.  I don't love it but the boys will play for hours every day so I keep it there.  There is also the fact that there really isn't anywhere else for it to go.)  I have said it before but these GeoTrax have been the best investment we have ever made.  They get played with the most out of all their toys.

Pre School Countdown and my toe

So today we got to go and meet Ashton's teacher for Preschool, and to check it all out.  He was so excited to go.  We had bought him a back pack a few weeks ago and he likes to wear it around the house and say that he is going to preschool.  His teacher Miss Gail had a little open house today so we could go and meet her and check out the school, she also took  pictures of the kids to put on their baskets for their homework. 


Ashton and Noah both had so much fun playing with the toys and the other kids that were there, it was difficult trying to get them to leave.  Ashton actually cried and threw a fit because he wanted to stay at preschool.   He was so upset about wanting to go back to preschool, when we got home I quickly made this countdown for him,  so he knows when he gets to go back to preschool.  I am thrilled that he is so excited to be going, it is nice having a child that is so well adjusted that he will be excited to go to preschool and isn't worried that I won't be there with him.

I am so excited for Ashton to be embarking on this new adventure, it is going to be so good for him.

On a separate note, a few weeks ago I stubbed my toe pretty bad and thought that I was going to lose my toe nail.  It hurt for about a week and then seemed like it was going to be fine.  Then Sunday night I was putting the strollers away in the shed and I stubbed my toe again this time there was no saving it.  I had to go to insta care and have it taken off, it was only attached on one side.  Having the toe nail itself taken off was easy the part that hurt was the shots to numb the toe.  I will admit I cried it was awful, I am a baby.  So now I have a huge purple bandage and there will only be flip flops in my near future. 

Thanksgiving point

So I thought it would be fun to go to Thanksgiving point, they are having the 2 buck Tuesdays in August, so I called Korie and asked if she wanted to come too.  We met at our house and spent about 30 mins trying to fit all of us and two strollers in one car.  We finally got all the car seats wedged and buckled in and off we went.  Now we could of saved ourselves the struggle and taken two cars, but it was much more fun to all go together.

It was extremely busy the line to get into the dinosaur museum was ridiculously long.  I knew it would be so we were just going to farm country, to see all the animals.  The boys had a blast, Ashton saw other kids feeding the animals so he wanted to try it,  He did awesome with holding out his hand and letting the horses eat off his hand.  Noah even tried it but wasn't quite as successful.  Noah wasn't scared of them at all, he even tried to climb in with the horses at one point. 

Ashton loves to play with Ethan.  Sometimes I forget that Ethan is so much older than Ashton.  They are almost the same height.  I kept trying to get them to both look at the camera and smile at the same time, it didn't happen oh well.

The boys got to choose go on a pony ride or a wagon ride.  We ended up going on a wagon ride that was pulled by two horses.  The boys loved it.

And of course the battery died in the camera before I got a picture of all of us.  But who am I kidding my children cooperating for a picture, that is a laugh !!