climbing monkeys

Brynden is my climber. He climbs out of the walker and he climbs onto the coffee table. He climbs into the man box(an 18 gallon tote) he climbs everywhere. Its becoming a problem when i put him into his crib for a nap (which he did not take) and instead of playing with his blocks which was naughty enough, he decides to climb out of his crib using Boston's dresser and i go into check on him cause he was too quiet and low and behold he was perched on the dresser two hands on the crib and one chubby leg falling off the dresser...... i about died. what if i wouldnt have checked on that naughty monkey??? and what do i do now?

cherrios attack

this is what i deal with. Brody begging for a late night snack of cherrios, i give in and tell him that he has to keep them in the kitchen. of course he takes them into his room where i catch him later, of course there were some on the carpet. which was my original argument to him and he promised to 'not spill' so i send him to the kitchen to put it away since he broke our deal and this is what happened...

once again MY MISTAKE when will i learn?

Putting away dishes

I was putting away some dishes and I went back to grab some more and this is what i found , talk about some heavy dishes to put away :)

hectic days : sunday

It seems like every sunday is a hectic day. But on the days that it is branch council it seems as though i am rushing that much more to be at church by 8 to have a meeting end by 9 just to go home(or not) just to come back by 10 for sacrament.

I have become resigned to this. Today though was even harder. Today Taylor had to be at work at 630am. Of course i didnt go to bed early. Because that would just be too easy. So alarm goes off, i am already awake, having fed Brynden 20 minutes ago, I rouse the sleeping monkeys and pile them into the car and drop Taylor off. It is 630am. I am off to the house where the marathon begins. I need to get the boys dressed and fed. Do my workout and shower, get dressed for church, make sure i have everything i need for the next 5 hours and the whole time Brynden is crying, screaming, wailing at the injustice. I make it to my meeting, late of course, but a few came in behind me so it wasnt so bad.

Cue in screaming children running amok for the next 3 hours till i dropped them at their classes.

then we have to have lunch get taylor and i am sleepy and grumpy finally falling into bed for a nap. woken up at 5 to start dinner where i tackle this fatty piece of pork that seems like it has more fat then meat and of course its marbled so the fat is really in there.

get dinner done kids still wont stop with the talking crying playing not eating food while i am trying to relax. I go to put the baby down for bed and walk into the dark bedroom and step on something cold and squishy. I immediately think CRAP! its a banana (they had them earlier) well taylor turned on the light ( i refused to move didnt want banana all over the floor) and i have a piece of POOP on my toe!!!!! Gross I am about to cry and trying not to drop brynden and trying to not put my foot back on the floor, cause taylor is trying to clean off the poop.

apparently earlier when Brody barely made it to the toliet, he took a pit stop in his room to grab his stool( play on words) so that he could get onto the toliet, not realizing that he left a bit behind........

MOving on, put the baby down
Get the bath going while i am washing dishes, thankfully taylor bathed brynden earlier and now they are both sleeping. Walk into the bathroom(it sounded like trouble) and lo and behold there is about an inch of water on the floor. Apparently it just jumped out. URGH, can this day ever end???

finally put them into bed and have a pile and i do mean PILE (think HUGE PILE) of smelly urine clothes to wash.. and instead i am playing on facebook with linda! Yippee for me. I did compromise. there are loads washing and drying while i am playing.

Maybe monday will be better

Cherrios

I love cheerios, all my kids love cherrios and the baby especially. So naturally I let the kids eat them whenever they want. My mistake!!!

Today Brody and Daila were playing in the back room and were playing so quietly and well that I let them play with out checking in on them for a while, once again MY MISTAKE

I got the lunch ready, put the littlest monkey down for a nap and went to call them to lunch and imagine my suprise as i opened the door to a floor covered and i mean wall to wall covered in cherrios!

argh!!! And then I cried.....