Thursday, October 29, 2009
I am sooo bored. I just am. Kyle is studying for a midterm, and David is here helping him with it. I FINALLY got both kids to bed. Sloan was tired and wanting to sleep but too easily distracted by little things like Adriel yelling Mommy from his bed every couple of minutes.
Now what? Usually Kyle and I watch something. Usually if Kyle isn't around to watch something I watch something by myself. I don't have anything to watch by myself, and it would appear that I'm too reliant on watching tv. It's just that I don't feel like doing other things like cleaning or organizing at this point of the day. Im just not in the mood. My kids are finally in bed and I want a break.
I got the santa fe chicken salad at Earls tonight, and it is still by far my most favourite salad ever. I'm not saying it would be your favourite, but it suites me fine. Things that are in it: spicy cajun chicken, avocado, feta cheese, sweet dates, corn and black beans in a peanut lime vinaigrette with mixed lettuces and crispy tortillas, and it is absolutely wonderful. Plus I feel like I'm being somewhat healthy you know?
Today Bethany called me (upon my request) and she asked me what was going on, and why the high energy. I wasn't sure what she was getting at, I mean we were just talking... She said "you're not getting cabin fever, are you?" It was weird. She detected it long before I knew it was there. I got off the phone with her to put Adriel to bed, which included reading his story in a weird voice some of the time, and other things. I felt the need to release the cabin fever, and I'm afraid Adriel dealt with the brunt of it. He seems to like my silliness though, so it was ok. I just thought that it was interesting that Bethany knew it was coming. She knows me well. As a fwuff having to deal with many a cabin fever outbreaks I guess it's a matter of instincts.
I just need a good massage, you know. I good long uninterrupted massage.
I need a good book to read too. Any suggestions?
Is it nerdy that I get excited about going to the gym? I like pushing my body hard, even though while I'm doing it I don't like it, I like the challenge and the way I feel afterward, having accomplished something. I like feeling the soreness in my muscles so that I know I worked hard, and it's nice to have a little break from the kids. Adriel loves the gym, he's made friends there, and Sloan, now that he's crawling all over the place tries to be a big kid too, and loves watching everyone play. It's good to get out of the house for a bit too.
I suppose I could go to bed. No harm in getting a decent nights sleep.
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Sarahstottle posted @ 9:44 PM
Monday, October 26, 2009
This morning while I was feeding my kids, I was thinking about how cute Sloan's chubby little mouth is when he has food stuffed into it, and how his dimple shows while he's eating and how I wish I could keep him as a baby for longer than I get to. I said "I love my little boys, I don't want them to grow up and not like me." Then Adriel said "I like you" and I said "that's because you're not grown up yet." He said "I already growed up." Adriel always talks about how big he is. If someone calls him a little boy, he corrects them. The other day we were talking about growing up and I told him when he grew even bigger, (because he think's he's grown up now) he could be a daddy one day. He was like "No! I want to be a mommy!" I told him boys were daddies. He didn't accept that. But then I told him it was fun to be a Daddy, you got to go to work, and have tools and trucks and fix things. Now he's ok with it. ha ha. It's so fun to talk to him right now.
Another funny story about Adriel: We were all at Doug and Delanie's house on the monday after thanksgiving just hanging out. Adriel will often find little pieces of debri such as a piece of kleenex, or a lint ball and he'll roll it in his fingers until it becomes a compact ball. He then carries it around with him, and will ask me to hold it for him if he needs to do something that requires both hands. So, while we were eating, Kyle and I were sitting on the floor, and for some reason Adriel asked Kyle to hold his "ball" Kyle took it naively. I asked Adriel what his ball was. He said "it's a ball" (obviously, how dumb of me:) ) I asked him where he got it. "From my boogie. I made it" he said matter-of-factly. At this time the ball was sitting the palm of Kyle's hand. Kyle promptly turned his hand over and let the "ball" fall onto the carpet. Adriel was horrified. He couldn't find it. He got quite upset and starting crying, a very loud and upset cry. "my ball, you lost it Daddy, you don't just drop it!!" We frantically searched the floor for his ball but to no avail. It's funny how he get's so attached to stuff like that. Kyle told him to make another one, but Adriel insisted he didn't have any left. ha ha ha!
I know it's kind of boring that all I talk about is my kids. Thanks for putting up with it.
We picked out some pumpkins today. A really huge one, and a little one. I told Adriel it was a mommy one and a baby one. That was a mistake because then he kept insisting we needed a big brother and a daddy one.
Pretty much add anything to cream cheese and it makes it yummy...
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Sarahstottle posted @ 12:45 PM
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Just so y'all know, Kyle finally wrote in his blog again. If anyone reads it...kylesnewlife.blogspot.com
On Tuesday, while I was taking Adriel to the bathroom in Subway he said "mommy, you're the best mommy ever." It was so sweet and cute. I love hearing things like that. I know it's not actually true, but I'm glad that's what he thinks. We went there after his soccer thing that he goes to. Kyle has a night lab and we don't have time to come home for dinner in between Adriel's soccer and Kyle's class. We went to subway. I tried a flat bread sub. It was delish. Kyle got a salad. He's back on his weight loss kick, where he can hardly eat anything. He tried to get me to do it with him. I just can't completely eliminate foods from my diet like he can. And frankly, I don't want to.
After subway, I went to Value Village where I couldn't resist some really cute shoes for Sloan's future feet, and I bought a cheep "tie-me-over" winter jacket for Adriel. It had been a really long time since I'd been to Value Village. It seems to me, that as far as kids stuff goes, there's way more things for girls. Probably because boys wear their stuff out, so it's not really all that reusable.
Every Saturday Kyle has had to work. It sucks. He doesn't work a full day, but it would be nice to just have a day off to spend together, do something fun with Adriel, you know? He's been so busy and he has several midterms next week, which means study study study.
The other night I was at our achievement activity. (by our, I mean Katie and I, she's the leader, I'm her assistant) We were doing this milk jug skeleton craft with Meriel Dykes. It was taking a really long time. There were all these cut outs that needed to be done. We were going over time, parents were showing up, girls were running wild and not paying attention. I was getting anxious because I told Kyle I'd be home at around 8 and I knew that was when Sloan was getting to his cranky "I need to nurse and go to bed state" Kyle doesn't handle that situation very happily. My phone rang and it was him asking me how much longer. I said I'd still be a while. I could hear Sloan screaming in the background, which is never easy for me to hear. He said "well I need you here now." I felt bad bailing on Katie. There was a lot of mess to clean up and stuff. I had to rush Emily home, because I was her ride, and I came home to find a half asleep Sloan with absolutely nothing on his bottom half in Kyle's arms with blood all over his face, shirt, bare legs...I didn't realize it was blood at first, I thought he'd eaten something messy, so I didn't really flip out. Kyle was just standing there looking at me with these eyes that said "you have no idea what I've been through." Sloan had a huge fat lip. Turns out Adriel had hit him hard with this metal rod thing he'd been playing with. My poor baby. When he saw me, he started crying again, and his voice was so hoarse from crying so long and hard. He wasn't too impressed that I still had to dress him and wipe him off before giving the ol' teat to the cheek. It was a dramatic experience for Kyle.
I'm excited for Halloween. Halloween is fun when you have kids, especially when they get old enough for trick or treating. You should know that Kyle insisted on buying the halloween candy last week, and it's been tempting me in my cupboard ever since. However, I have been strong and resisted. It's chocolate. Cadbury chocolate. Anything else wouldn't be as tempting. I know, we could have gotten something else, like a candy I don't even like so as not to tempt me, but for some reason I feel like I need to give out something good as a matter of pride or something. I never liked the houses that gave out raisins, for example, or peanuts, or those weird taffee candies that only come out in the Halloween season. I want to be a good house to the kids... I don't even know how many trick or treaters we'll get around here, or if we'll even be around for it, but there's also this trunk or treat thing that we're having at the church this Friday.
I'm rambling, and Sloan wants me, and as always, there's housework to be done. WHY does it never end?? It's me against three that's why. It's a losing battle.
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Sarahstottle posted @ 8:40 PM
Monday, October 19, 2009
I can't let this new skin go to waste, now can I?
The thing is, I don't really know what to write about.
Right now Adriel is in the kitchen playing with his bouncy balls. Every now and again he comes and asks me where it went because he bounces it and lets it go all crazy and it ends up under something. Then I get to scout out the whole kitchen looking for it. Fun times. He also has this toy from his happy meal. It's a ball and you push a button and wings come out. He calls it his "bad man" and that's the role it plays in his pretend games with his cars. The cars all have to watch out for the bad man. I think it's funny he named a ball that. Sloan just picked it up and he was like "Sloan! You found my bad man!" all excited.
On Saturday Kyle picked out a turtle costume for Adriel. I wasn't sure about it. But when we came home and tried it on it was so cute. It barely fits him so the hood part is all tight around his face and looks hilarious. It's basically a green one piece suit that zips up in the front, with a hood that has eyes on it and a plush turtle shell in the back. So it looks as if I'll have a duck and a turtle for Halloween this year.
ok so now that the duck and turtle are both on my lap I can't really type or think. So that's it for now.
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Sarahstottle posted @ 8:36 AM