Oh my goodness. I have no patience left. What was in the air today? Seriously?? I think what put me over the edge was that when i had told Austin to put his pj's on about 5 times, I went to check on him and he had 2 of everything on. Confused? let me explain. He had two socks on each foot, two pairs of underwear on, 2 shirts, 2 pants....you get the idea. He claims he was "cold". Huh. Lovely. Gabriella "forgot" to pull up her pants after going potty as I found her trying to get up the stairs with her pants around her ankles. I said, "Gab, pull your pants up". And she looks down, dumbfounded, and says, "oh". Yeah, I can totally understand walking out of the bathroom and just plain forgetting to pull my pants up - uh huh - makes perfect sense. Lucas is getting around all over the living room - oh my...I can't believe I'm back in that phase of having a little one that has to be chased 24/7. I think I am going to start drinking coffee - maybe that will get me through it. I've started making it to Ballys more often to work out which feels good - and sore. Shawn has started playing basketball on Wednesday nights which I think he is really enjoying (minus the shock his body went into when he hit the courts again!). Ashlyn and Austin are loving school - having a blast. Austin's teacher even said what a great listener he was!! HA! What??? Ashlyn is also loving her gymnastics lessons. She is doing awesome - a true little monkey. Absolutely loves doing flips - anywhere, anytime, off of any type of furniture (no matter how many times you tell her no). Gabriella got to go out to the Turner Farm for a few days - she thought she was the coolest grandkid ever, since she got to go all by herself. That girl LOVES being on her own and getting all the attention - it's so cute. She actually loves when we drop off the other kids at school and it's just me, her and Lucas. Of course when we go pick the kids up it's like they haven't seen each other in 10 years - pretty cute.
Labor Day weekend was superfun. We all went out to my aunt and uncle's farm in Cunningham with all my cousins and family. The kids loved every second of it. I don't think we saw them in two days - they just wandered around the farm - I think Austin spent most of his time building a "dinosaur trap". There's just something about hanging out on the farm - nothing better. I hope we can retire on a farm someday. Big thanks to Rich, RoseMary, Rhonda and Marvin for hosting us all - we are already trying to figure out when we can come back! (and we'll bring lots more beer this time).
Now it's time to focus on my two little ones who are about to be another year older! Austin will be 5 and Ashlyn will be 4 in a few weeks. We are in the process of party planning and can't wait for the big day. Hard to believe.
Now I'm off to bed with a good book, while Shawn is over at a friends house who has cable so he can watch football. Thanks to all of you for taking my husband in during football season while we try to survive without cable.
Hope you are having the time of your life!
ST
Next time I ask her to wash her hands I will simply say -
