JJ is a Monkey

My son is now 3 years old and he is something else. We will tell him he is a Silly Goose and he will tell us:

"No, I'm a monkey, ohohahah"

Gotta love this kid.

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JJ cracks me up he says "Listen" all the time but he sounds like the fairy on Zelda. You know when she is trying to get Link's attention and she says Listen. Yeah J sounds just like that LOL

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The other day JJ is was in the dining room eating his dinner and I am in the living room on the phone I hear him saying "I'm a super HEROOOOOOOOOO, SUPER HERO!!" he kept repeating it like 3 times and then he says "AMEN" LOL so cute, oh how I love that 3 yr old son of mine :)

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JJ is going around singing Gotta get that Boom Boom Pow, Gotta get that Boom Boom Pow. LOL. You can't tell his mommy is a Black Eyed Peas fan. Haha instead of "The chicks jocken' my style" JJ says "Chicken Nuggets, gotta get that boom boom boom" ROFL

No David

JJ got this book for Christmas it is called NO David!! He loves it!! We have read it so many times since he got it and he is so good because he says back to me what I am saying when I read it to him. He also points out and says what things are in the picture.

Now when he does something he knows he shouldn't do he says "NO DAVID"

There is also a picture of David running naked down the street (I can so see JJ doing this) and when we get the that page JJ is always pointing and saying JJ's butt.

My kid cracks me up.

Pink Milk

I am a stay at home business owner mom, of now 3. I have added my 12 year old nephew to our mix. So during the day it is just my 30 month old son and I. I attempt to keep my house clean, most days it is not clean because I cannot do anything at all when my 30 month  old is awake. I swear I can be working my through, get an area clean, go the next, and turn around and the area that I just clean is no longer clean.
Today I was working in the dining room to get it clean. See I started a Tupperware business and I am trying to get partied booked and get some money coming in. So to help me get my business off the ground I am going to do cooking demos in my home, so I have scheduled one for tomorrow night, so I am getting the dining room cleaned and organized.

The 1st thing to happen was, JJ comes in the dining room holding the potato masher and says "Look, I'm cooking!" all excited and proud. So I am thinking OK he is mixing the spaghetti sauce that I had on the stove, with the potato masher. So a couple minutes later I walk in the kitchen and JJ is in the living room back towards me, I see aluminum foil, that my bacon was wrapped in on the kitchen floor. JJ must have heard me and turns around, there in the living room floor was a pot and beside the pot was the ketchup, open, and in JJ's hand the potato masher with ketchup on it. I walk closer, look in the pot and yes...........there it was, my bacon, covered in ketchup. And again he says, "I'm cooking."

**I did manage to save the bacon, a little water washed the ketchup right off and I wrapped it in a new piece of foil and put it back in the fridge.

Fast forward to about 15 mins later, after cleaning up the mess, I went back to cleaning the dining room (well more like getting all my Tupperware Stuff cleaned up that my cats so lovingly decided would look so much better on the floor). I go to check on JJ whom I heard in our computer/laundry room and he was in my chair with his daddy's helicopter and my big box of pencils. And in his daddy's chair was some of daddy's spray cans with no tops, not even the spray part. So I sent him in the living room to wait for his lunch. I opened the fridge and my milk (a little over a half gallon) is not in there. Wait, what?!? Where the heck is my milk. "JJ, what did you do with the milk?"

Then I see it........................

In the living room............................

The milk......................................

Is now......................................

PINK!!!!!!!!!

What?!?

"JJ, why is the milk pink?"

I go to get it and realize that he has decided that it needed some color, so he put my nephews crayons and markers in the milk!!

So I am dumping out and the markers and crayons are coming out and I notice the red one has no top and that is how we got pink milk.

I cannot possibly clean the house while the 30 month old is awake, because I need my eye on him all the time or I may just end up with more pink milk.

Gotta love it :) 

JJ's potty humor

Now that JJ is 2 and he is showing signs that he could be ready to potty train, we are working on it. With some humor along the way it is interesting.

So far it is not going so well. He will sit on the potty a total of, oh i don't know, 2 seconds (granted the boy NEVER and I mean NEVER stays still when he is awake).

So last night he takes his diaper off, goes in the bathroom and gets his potty chair. He brings it in the bedroom and sits it down, he goes back to the bathroom and gets the toilet paper and his toothbrush. He comes back in the bedroom, pulls a small piece of toilet paper off the roll, sits on the potty. Then with one hand he starts wiping his butt and with the other hand is brushing his teeth.

At least I can say I have a multi tasked kid on my hands :)

Life with my kids

Life with my kids enjoyable, educational, funny, crazy, wild, silly, loud ...................................

Makes me wanna pull my hair out at times and scream "I'm running away"...........................

But it is filled with love, hugs, kisses, and laughter.

Does it get any better than that?


So my 8 yr old daughter, whom I can tolerate her screaming because it is not loud, has taught my 22 month old how to scream, his I could do without. See since he has learned to scream, he does it ALL THE TIME!!! Not only does he do a standard scream, he changes it up and screams in different ways, we have the high pitched squeal, your standard scream, the on and off scream, and the yelling.
*I think I need some ear plugs!!!*

My 21 month old, likes to get into EVERYTHING, which is normal for this age. But when I tell him no, he walks away, puts his hands behind his back, looks at me with his gorgeous eyes, smiles with his adorable smile and dimples and slowly backs up to what I told him not to mess with and messes with it, Like I can't see him!!

I am almost 35 years old and most people do not believe I am that old, because I look young, which makes me feel really good. My daughter however likes to tell me I look old. well Gee thanks, I love you too.

My son is starting to talk a lot now, which is great. He has the cutest voice, but all day I hear: Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty, Daddy Daddy Daddy Daddy, and Harley Harley Harley. Um seriously do I not exist because my name sure don't come up.

My son like I mentions earlier gets into everything, he always gets stuff that I 'think' is out of his reach, like.........................................markets................................
yes markets, so he will come to me with his artwork, that is always ON HIS FACE. I have to say, he draws a mean mustache on himself and they never look the same :)

My son is really sweet though and a few weeks ago he let a stray cat into the house, she has become a permanent member since, as my son puts it "My Kitty Kitty". He named her Kitty, probably because that is what he can say and he knows she is a cat. She is really sweet and she was around 8 weeks when she strolled into our house because my son let her in. He tries to communicate with her, he greets her every time he sees her with "Hi Kitty Kitty," and he follows her around holding a conversation. It is normally him talking and Kitty with throw in a meow every now and then. But really I do not mind the cat, as long as he does not start letting bugs, reptiles, and rodents in, we will be good.

I am truly blessed to have my kids and sometimes life can get crazy but I love them and would not change any of it. I just wish they would stay little longer so I had more time to enjoy it.

I am realizing it is going to fast because my daughter will be 9 in June and she is now at the age where she says "Mom I am to old for that," yet she is not old enough for the next stage so it is hard to buy for her. It just seems like yesterday that I was in the hospital giving birth to her at 24 weeks. I wish she was still little. I have my trails with her, everything with her has to be a fight, I just want my sweet little girl back that didn't want to argue about everything.

The cat did it

So this morning I was trying to watch a show that I had on my DVR and JJ kept turning the tv off, I had told him it is not a game and that the next time he turned the tv off he was going to be punished.

So about 5 mins later we watch him creep over to the tv and hits the lite up button (power) and off it goes, so I said

"Jeffrey Stuart M****** Jr, what did I tell you? You are in trouble mister."

He runs over to me and climbs up on the box next to the couch and says:

"The cat did it!"

Seriously, Jeff and I lost composure and I could not for one second punish him for it.

80s

So yesterday JJ pulled out of picture of me from when I was in high school, it was in 1994 and I was 18. Well Harleyann picked it up and says who is this and Jeff said it was me. To which Harleyann replied

"You look funny, what are you in your 80's!"

She meant to ask if it was in the 80's. I told her it was in 1994 and that I was 18. Now every time she looks at the picture she says I look funny and laughs.

Seriously it is a really good picture and I do not look funny.

Silly girl.

F

     So we generally do not cuss around the kids. Every now and then a damn or a s*** may slip up but that is pretty much it. My sister whom is fond of the F word even is pretty good about not slipping up in front of the kids.

     So this past weekend JJ started saying "F", he uses it in the context that you would use the F word.

     Like for example the other day he was getting into something he wasn't suppose to when I was not looking and then when I caught him and said something he looks at me and throws his hands down by his side and says "F" and then sort of stomps off.

     I couldn't help but laugh.

Kids and food

     My husband and I are picky eaters, so why of course would our kids not be. However, why is it the stuff we like they don't like.

     Neither of them are big on meats, my husband and I love some meat.

     So JJ when ever he is given something he doesn't like you will start hearing little pieces of stuff hit the floor. "Really, you can't just leave it on the tray for me to clean up?" I am always asking him. But then again this is the same child whom throws his plate, bowl, fork, spoon, cup, or whatever in the floor when he is done. Sigh gotta love this age, hopefully soon it will pass because this mommy does not like living on the floor.

     Tonight I fixed a new dish Skillet Pork Chop Parmesan, it was delicious, both my husband and I loved it, Harleyann and JJ did not. JJ's ended up where else but in the floor.

Harleyann said "Mommy, I promise to never make this again."
M: "What?"
H: "I promise never to make this again, oh wait, i mean, promise me you want make this anymore."
A minute later
H: "Oh but you can make the noodles again."

     However, I think I liked it the first way when she said she promises never to make it again, LOL. I however did not promise to that because I liked it and I will make it again!! Her brother and her can eat just noodles!!

I am a women

Tonight sitting down together as a family Harleyann starts asking her daddy who's spaghetti he likes better mine or his moms. To which he replies he likes them both equally. So he askes her which was her favorite and she said "Nana's, but I am a meatloaf women. I mean a meatloaf kind of women. I am a women!"

Where does she come up with this stuff?? An 8 yr old women, I think not.

Hi Kitty

My 18 month old doesn't talk much, well at least to us. He can say hi, bye, mama, dada, occasionally you will hear him say sissy, he can say see and tickle, tickle, tickle (which sounds more like litle, litle, litle ~ but we know what he is saying), he also says kitty, yes and hey.

He loves our cat and he is always greeting Buddy with Hi kitty. So today while sitting in his booster seat waiting to be served his breakfast, Buddy (the cat) walks into the kitchen and this comes out of JJ's mouth:

Hi Kitty
Hey Kitty
What you doing Kitty?

I looked at him and was like where did that come from, of course he will not say that to us just the cat. Silly kid.

It has been too long

I have to first apologize for not posting in a while as I have been having issues dealing with the lose of my dad back in March. But I am getting back to my "new" self so to speak. So I will be getting back to my postings regularly and I hope that you all will enjoy.

Harleyann funny

So after about 50 times of asking Harleyann nicely to do her homework I got a little loud with her and told her she would not eat until she finished her homework. So while I was in the kitchen cooking and trying to take caare of JJ, Harleyann says something to me and I did not hear her so I asked her what she said so she sighs and says "TALKING TO YOU IS LIKE TALKING TO A BRICK WALL!!"

Seriously my 7 year old said that to me. I honestly did not hear her and I do not know where she got this from.

Silly girl.

Harleyann thinks shes funny

Well ok maybe it is funny.

Yesterday Jeff was off work but he and a friend of ours went out to go shoot and he was not home when Harleyann got here. Harleyann knew he was off and wanted to know where he was. I told her that he had went somewhere and would be back later. So she said I want to talk to him. So I texted him to tell him to call her on the house phone. This is what Harleyann did after he sent me a text backing saying ok:

H: "Ring phone ring, please. Please ring. Mommy why is he not calling me."
M: "He will call in a few minutes."
H: "Come on phone ring, please ring. Ring phone ring."

I texted him back telling him that she is begging the phone to ring and so he called her.

When she got off the phone with him she tells me that he is going to call HER back and that he NEVER EVER wanted to talk to me again.

A little while later he calls her back and when they get off the phone I asked what he said and she said "He said you were a dork."

But he called me on my cell because he asked to talk to me and she wouldn't let him.

What a little stinker and GOD HELP ME when this child starts becoming interseted in boys!!

Harleyann's adventure of diaper changing

So Harleyann says "Mommy, JJ needs a diaper change and I want to change it. Can you get me a diaper please."
(I was cooking dinner in the kitchen)
So I go get her a diaper and she gets the old one off and JJ does not stay still at all. So as soon as that diaper was off he was off. He was all over the place and this is what I hear:
"JJ honey, you need to come over here and lay down so I can put this diaper on." trying to get JJ to lay down so she can put the clean diaper on.
"Honey, baby, I need you to lay down please."
"JJ, please baby, lay down."
"Mommy he want lay down."

So I give him a bottle so he will lay down and be still (I could have done it from the beginning but it was way funnier watching her try and get him to co-operate).

She gets the diaper on and this is what I hear next.

"JJ, I SEE YOUR BOY PARTS!!!!"
I turned around and the diaper was on but not right and his boy part was hanging out and the diaper was hooked across his thighs. I could not help but laugh. I ended up putting the diaper on him myself.

Broccoli

Harleyann asks me while I am fixing dinner what we are having so I tell her pot roast, potatoes, gravy and a veggie. So she asks me what veggie we are having so I tell her broccoli.

H: "I don't want broccoli."
M: "But you love broccoli."
H: "But I can't eat it."
M: "And why can't you eat it?"
H: "Because my brain said not to eat it."
M: "And why did your brain say not to eat it?"
H: "Because my brain is allergic to broccoli."


"Really mom I am serious, my brain is allergic to broccoli."

Silly Harleyann

My sister in law has 2 beautiful daughters, Macy (3) and Claire (1). Claire just turned 1 on Sat and Harleyann went down with her Nana and Pop-pop to help Claire celebrate. I am not sure the story around it but at some point while there she looks at Aunt Christy and says in regards to Macy, the 3 year old, "Is she new?"
Crazy kid.
This is a flashback to when Harleyann decided she was going to eat real food vs. baby food.
A little background info for those that do not know, Harleyann was born when I was 24 weeks pregnant. So she was really delayed and while some felt that I started her on baby food to soon since at 6 months she was like a newborn and if you go by that measure than she was only like 2 months old when she started baby food but actually she was 8 months. So on to the story.

At the time Harleyann was 10 months old (only like a 4 month old) and we had went to lunch a Ruby Tuesdays. She was in her carrier next to the table. We were eating burgers and fries and apparently she wanted a fry and took one off of Jeff's plate and started eating it, Jeff and I looked at each other and I said she wasn't suppose to have that yet so I took it from her and she got mad, real mad. So I figured if she is gonna take it then what harm can it do it is just a fry and she had been eating baby food. So I gave her a fry and she threw it across the restaurant. The girl has an arm. I was stunned and then started laughing that she threw the french fry. She did take several more fries off of mine and Jeff's plates and ate them like a champ and never looked back. The girl loves food and I believe that is when her love of food began.

Harleyann and cheeseballs

We had went to Sam's club to get a few things a couple weeks ago and Harleyann wanted some cheeseballs and a big thing of them was like $6.00 so we got her some and she had forgot about them I guess because she never asked for any of them. So she got home from school today, hungry as always. So I fix her some cheeseballs and she got excited about them.

So daddy is trying to get her to do homework and he is making her do so many problems before she can have a cheeseball. So she gets to one that she has to write a 5. She is not good at writing 5's so she tells her daddy that she forgot how he taught her to write 5's and she needs his help. Well a second passes and he is getting ready to help her when she says........................

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"Daddy, i'll let you have a cheeseball if you help me write this 5!"

My daughter is to funny, daddy taught her well.

JJ and the applesauce

Well half the applesauce ended up on me because JJ got all excited and hit the cup and it ended up on mommy and the couch. After a quick cleanup, I decided to sit in the floor and JJ on the couch, well JJ decided I was not giving it to him fast enough and he ended up face first into the applesauce, dang where is a camara when you need one.

JJ vs. The Napa Tools & Equipment Truck