Ok, as perfect as it gets when you have three little kids!
Wake up, not too early today. All three kids slept in a little, and were happy when they woke up.
Get kids a decent breakfast... leftover toasted croissants with jam. Kids play outside in relative harmony while I get a decent shower!
Snack for the kids so they don't get the grumpies. Carrot-cake cupcakes, yum!
Blow up the little pool we bought yesterday with the pump that Daddy-J found for us this morning. Start filling it with water.
Lunch on the deck... not too windy, not too hot, not too cloudy, not raining, just right! PB&Js, cantaloupe I bought at the farm stand yesterday, chocolate milk!
Get some work done in the afternoon while the kids play in and out of the pool, in and out of their swimsuits, and go through at least 1000 towels! And oh how I wish I had a picture of Miss-D, buck naked, riding her scooter around the courtyard -- with her helmet on! Priceless!
Do some tidying in the kitchen and office while two kids watch movies in my bed and a third wanders the house, singing, playing, doing whatever.
Barbecue at friends' house -- kids behave beautifully! Food, of course, was awesome! Everyone fell asleep in the car on the way home (well, all the kids anyway!) and transferred to their sleepy beds quietly.
Now I'm going to bed too.
Hoping tomorrow it won't rain and Sunday we may get on the boat, finally!
Friday, June 26, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
One intense kid.
Ok, so let me start off with the usual bromides: I love my kids to death. I love each one of them just as much as any of the others. They are all wonderful and creative and unique and special. Good enough?!
Right now K-Wiggles is driving me off my rocker. It seems we have finally put to rest my latest issue with M-Moo, so of course, the minute that wanes, K-Wiggles enters a phase that is worse than any I can remember so far. I don't get headaches, I just don't, never have. But K-Wiggles gives me a headache from before she wakes up until after she goes to bed!
This child wakes up throwing a tantrum. She throws a tantrum if I say "no" to her in any form. She throws a tantrum if I say "wait" in any form. But that's not all... no... K-Wiggles will throw a fit when I tell her "yes" or "ok" or "yeah, sure." Seriously!
For just one example, I told them at dinner tonight that if they finished their dinner they could have a carrot-cake cupcake. Mind you, their dinner was bacon-wrapped filet mignon with cous cous and corn on the cob. Not so bad, huh? The minute I mentioned finishing dinner and having a treat, K-Wiggles launches into a tirade about how she wants a treat. This is, of course, said at full shriek volume (the only volume she has these days), and accompanied by thrashing of limbs and perhaps ultimately falling to the floor writhing! And what does she do when I say "yes, you finished your dinner so you can have a treat?" She doesn't miss a beat. Keeps shrieking that she wants a treat, keeps writhing on the floor. Seriously!
And this happens, at modest estimate, 50 times a day. Not exaggerating.
Can you say exhausting?
And of course, her sisters, especially Miss D, just seem to delight in antagonizing her right now. Any chance she gets, Miss D will say something "mean" to K-Wiggles just to see her start shrieking and flailing and writhing. It's enough to drive me straight to the funny farm, I swear.
Of course, in the midst of all this shrieking and flailing, etc., she comes up with the most darling, tantrumy, shrieky, "Mama I need a giant hug." I can't even tell when she flips over from the tantrum to the "I need a hug" phase because the tone doesn't change and neither does the flailing and writhing. But once I figure out that's what she wants, it does seem to defuse the tantrum, at least for the moment.
Sigh. Well, at least the kid seems to be figuring out what she needs to calm down. She's taken a bunch of naps lately (absolutely wrecking her bedtime, but whatever) and she's taken herself down to her room to sit in bed and look at books several times, just to get herself out of the spiral with her sisters and try for a reset.
We even did some deep breathing in the car this morning, and that seemed to help somewhat.
I know this too shall pass, but I didn't want it to pass without at least writing it down for posterity's sake.
K-Wiggles is one intense little kid. She's been that way since before she was born. Gotta love her... or kill her!
Right now K-Wiggles is driving me off my rocker. It seems we have finally put to rest my latest issue with M-Moo, so of course, the minute that wanes, K-Wiggles enters a phase that is worse than any I can remember so far. I don't get headaches, I just don't, never have. But K-Wiggles gives me a headache from before she wakes up until after she goes to bed!
This child wakes up throwing a tantrum. She throws a tantrum if I say "no" to her in any form. She throws a tantrum if I say "wait" in any form. But that's not all... no... K-Wiggles will throw a fit when I tell her "yes" or "ok" or "yeah, sure." Seriously!
For just one example, I told them at dinner tonight that if they finished their dinner they could have a carrot-cake cupcake. Mind you, their dinner was bacon-wrapped filet mignon with cous cous and corn on the cob. Not so bad, huh? The minute I mentioned finishing dinner and having a treat, K-Wiggles launches into a tirade about how she wants a treat. This is, of course, said at full shriek volume (the only volume she has these days), and accompanied by thrashing of limbs and perhaps ultimately falling to the floor writhing! And what does she do when I say "yes, you finished your dinner so you can have a treat?" She doesn't miss a beat. Keeps shrieking that she wants a treat, keeps writhing on the floor. Seriously!
And this happens, at modest estimate, 50 times a day. Not exaggerating.
Can you say exhausting?
And of course, her sisters, especially Miss D, just seem to delight in antagonizing her right now. Any chance she gets, Miss D will say something "mean" to K-Wiggles just to see her start shrieking and flailing and writhing. It's enough to drive me straight to the funny farm, I swear.
Of course, in the midst of all this shrieking and flailing, etc., she comes up with the most darling, tantrumy, shrieky, "Mama I need a giant hug." I can't even tell when she flips over from the tantrum to the "I need a hug" phase because the tone doesn't change and neither does the flailing and writhing. But once I figure out that's what she wants, it does seem to defuse the tantrum, at least for the moment.
Sigh. Well, at least the kid seems to be figuring out what she needs to calm down. She's taken a bunch of naps lately (absolutely wrecking her bedtime, but whatever) and she's taken herself down to her room to sit in bed and look at books several times, just to get herself out of the spiral with her sisters and try for a reset.
We even did some deep breathing in the car this morning, and that seemed to help somewhat.
I know this too shall pass, but I didn't want it to pass without at least writing it down for posterity's sake.
K-Wiggles is one intense little kid. She's been that way since before she was born. Gotta love her... or kill her!
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Yet another catching up post.
What is with my life these days that I cannot keep up with this 'blog? Can it possibly be that I am not spending nearly enough time on my butt in front of a computer? If only!
Anyway, we left off with the reconstruction of our lovely home finally under way. At this point, we have accomplished the following:
1. Demolition complete.
2. Drywall repair complete.
3. Painting complete.
That's it. But it really feels like progress! We have gotten far enough along in the budget process that I think we'll have the money to do this, with enough left over for a nifty home theater where the exercise room used to be!
What else have we been up to? Well, swimming lessons started last week for the girls. Miss D almost immediately got bumped up a level, so she is now a Dolphin and the littles are Guppies. They are enjoying the heck out of swimming lessons! K-Wiggles especially is a total lunatic in the water. Today we finally got a chance to stay at the pool after swimming lessons and all three girls went down the slide by themselves (with me to catch them!). We had a rocking good time!
Work has been medium-crazy, but with everything else going on, it has been hard to keep up. Daddy J and I were in North Carolina (Raleigh) over the last weekend. There was a ReBath Vision Group meeting and the wives mostly spa'd and shopped. Jim and I did make it to the Outer Banks for two days, which was very fun!
I have not been on my bike in over 3 weeks now, which is a major bummer. G'ma Libby and G'pa Irv go home tomorrow, so maybe I will find some time between now and when we leave on our Yellowstone trip.
The girls are super excited to be going camping. I am hoping we will be able to get the boat on the water this weekend. We have had so much rain this summer... at least three weeks straight of gray, cold, rainy weather. Ugh! I'm thinking we'll pitch the tent in the yard this weekend and have a trial run camp-out to make sure the girls know what we're getting into and that we have everything we need.
And someday, I promise, I will get back to posting pictures. I know between my lackadaisical posting and lack of pictures, this blog is getting boring. *sigh* Hopefully my office will be put back together soon and I will get back into the routine of uploading and posting pictures. Someday, right?!
Anyway, we left off with the reconstruction of our lovely home finally under way. At this point, we have accomplished the following:
1. Demolition complete.
2. Drywall repair complete.
3. Painting complete.
That's it. But it really feels like progress! We have gotten far enough along in the budget process that I think we'll have the money to do this, with enough left over for a nifty home theater where the exercise room used to be!
What else have we been up to? Well, swimming lessons started last week for the girls. Miss D almost immediately got bumped up a level, so she is now a Dolphin and the littles are Guppies. They are enjoying the heck out of swimming lessons! K-Wiggles especially is a total lunatic in the water. Today we finally got a chance to stay at the pool after swimming lessons and all three girls went down the slide by themselves (with me to catch them!). We had a rocking good time!
Work has been medium-crazy, but with everything else going on, it has been hard to keep up. Daddy J and I were in North Carolina (Raleigh) over the last weekend. There was a ReBath Vision Group meeting and the wives mostly spa'd and shopped. Jim and I did make it to the Outer Banks for two days, which was very fun!
I have not been on my bike in over 3 weeks now, which is a major bummer. G'ma Libby and G'pa Irv go home tomorrow, so maybe I will find some time between now and when we leave on our Yellowstone trip.
The girls are super excited to be going camping. I am hoping we will be able to get the boat on the water this weekend. We have had so much rain this summer... at least three weeks straight of gray, cold, rainy weather. Ugh! I'm thinking we'll pitch the tent in the yard this weekend and have a trial run camp-out to make sure the girls know what we're getting into and that we have everything we need.
And someday, I promise, I will get back to posting pictures. I know between my lackadaisical posting and lack of pictures, this blog is getting boring. *sigh* Hopefully my office will be put back together soon and I will get back into the routine of uploading and posting pictures. Someday, right?!
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