Jump Around

What have we been up to you ask (so, you didn't ask, I just want to tell, SO listen)?

There has been lots of Jumping...

TOns of Falling....

An enormous amount of Water Spray and Stink-Face

Topped with more outragous Jumping...............




This is the best toy yet, and we love it enough to sleep with/on it.

(and it safely cages the wild beast (gage))

To Be or Not to Bee (x's 3)

A week ago......

To make matters (more entertaining) worse......3 DAYS BEFORE

Scene: Walking the neighborhood looking for the stupid cat

Daimen - "I have never been stung by a bee"

Mom - "Son, you better watch what you say, those are famous last words"

Free FuN 4 HourS

SHoot the perfectionisT

Alright so live has not changed since the previous entry, BUT i will not let my perfectionalitisic (is that word) personality alter my blog anymore. I am a ALL or nothing kind of person and I hate that it stops me from doing things. Yanno, sometimes you can't give something a 100% of what you want but that DOesn't mean it is not worthy of what you can give<------------me yelling at myself! So at the level to which life is functioning I know I can not keep up blogging like I did before, cute pictures with every post, funny stories, great use of punctuation (ha, just kidding) etc... However I love tracking our lives and sharing with all my family, friends, and bloggers our new experiences SO I am declaring right now that I will throw away my all or nothing attitude *that is stopping me from blogging* and just do my best! Deal?


Some updates:
Work is INSANE!! I am working long hours, 7:30am until 5pm, going home to do dinner and fun with the kids, bath and nightime rituals, put the kids to bed and go back to work around 8:30pm until 3:30am. I am doing a couple times a week and also a rigorous exercises program called P90X. If it was not for the intense workout everyday I would not have the energy to maintain the level I am at and so far it looks to stay intense through the summer. I am also happy to say that since Feb 2010, I have gone from a size 15 to a 9, I am LOVING it.

Daimen is brilliant as always and a complete Joy. He has had another Bday since my last post and It shocks me to admit I have a 12 year old son! Wow where did the time go? He is a superstar at school and tested into 9th grade level Allegra next year for high school credit (he is starting 7th grade).
I just got his final grades in and even moving 8weeks after the start of school into another district and Gifted classes he still managed to shock me....
Final Grade Averages for the year:
Reading 98
Math 95
PE 100
Band 95
Language 96
Science 97
Keyboarding 93
Social Studies 96
So Proud!!!

Gage is a rockstar....
he is growing out of his stomach sensitivities everyday,
eats like a champion,
is huge wearing size 3-4 toddler(only 17months people)
Loves going buhbye
has 16 teeth
says these new words: shoes, hi, buhbye really clear
says: where's Dada??? all the time lol, hmm where did he get that from?


That's it for now, will update more soon.

Spaghetti 4 Beginners

On top of spaghetti all covered with love.....

This is the first time I’ve seen you


So I am not sure what to do

My brother helped, he showed me how

So we stuffed our mouths

and posed like a cow

To his shock and everyone’s surprise ...

It took mere m.i.n.u.t.e.s.....

Until I sucked it to bits

Yummy

Love Gage

PS: Tomorrow is my 1st Birthday!!

Concert

Daimen had his first concert as a musician on December 8th. He plays the umm trumpet, no, trumbin, no,no,wait, it is the,... Trombone, right?

12/16/09 UPDATE: Um he plays the French Horn, ack um, cough, I KNEW THAT!

I am not talented in much of anything, including but surely not limited to music, but to Daimen's great musical outlook, Jer is a guitar rockstar, Pappy a retarded um I mean retired band director, all Jeremy's sisters play/played an instrument, Mu plays the flute and sings wonderfully, his aunt Sarah graduate last year and is a band directorish (or heading that way), her husband, Uncle Andy just graduated as a soon to be band directorish, so the moral is Daimen still has a GReat future in the musical area without his mom's help *whew*.

Anyway, his concert was great and so crowded that I will need to watch the video to really listen (Gage was not a fan of the noise). We are going to watch it at Christmas with M&P plus Family.

Son, I am not musically edumakated, but Daimen, I don't have to understand notes, breaks, pauses (whatever you call them) to know that I am Proud.

(what are these for?)

(MOM take the stupid picture, I have no idea what to do with my Hands)

My two fancysmancy men

Another of my fancy man getting ready for the concert with a snack!

Stuff-N-Junk

Some things worth noting...

Gage said Mama about two weeks ago, in the middle of snot covered Hell weeks. He even says Maaaaaaaaaaaaaa *screech* when he wants me to pick him up.

He also cute his 8th tooth during hell week and as you can imagine that only added to the Fun, ha festivities.

Gage is still army crawling but wants to walk badly.

Gage & Daimen both got most of their flu vaccines (finally), so if Jer and I get the flu it will be more of a restful vacation because the kids shouldn’t be compromised.

Gage has slept through the night in his OWN bed the last 3 nights for the first time in, um, how do you say…EVER! (he just got his own room when we moved but has been sick since)

We got a new, awesome, not leaking Freon, 50% off thanks to Jer’s amazing shopping skills on black Friday, Trio Fridge. It is so amazing I will write more later.

Gage got his first spanking on the hand on Thanksgiving. He was grabbing my hair and pulling with a strong growl, when I stopped him and grabbed his hands and repeatedly said no, he just growled harder and snatched faster, so, I hand spanked him and he stopped. He now understands what “No” means, he doesn't necessarily like hearing or obeying it and voices that with a frustrating fussy grown but he “Get’s IT”.

He knows how to kiss (I call it smooches), it involves a wide open mouth and he kisses you and say “muuwaaw”, it is very cute. I ask for smooches and he usually complies and sometimes he does it for no good reason and it melts my heart.

Daimen who used to love everything “PIE” (no not just eating it but more about saying and drawing the word) is now all about “TOAST”, even in artist 3D

Daimen taught him how to do “noggins”, Daimen asks for noggins and Gage slowly head-butts him. I hope so much head banging won’t cause to much Drain Bamage.

He knows how to give a “High 5” and his new favorite video is naturally by Baby Genesis, and is favorite baby songs.

We have had 3 total takes in the last two weeks regarding my previous post titled “So Close”, I guess the warm bath is good for moving bowels.
(let me outta here, Someone crapped in the tub!!)

Daimen got straight A’s on his report card, brilliant that kid.

We are still not fully unpacked or settled and the realistic goal for that is….when the kids graduate, ha, no really, it is in January…..2011
I need to find time to get our Christmas Tree put up and pray real hard the Jer might find some Joy in it this year.

Kollen will be here in less than 4 weeks and we are excited.

Gage will be 1 in 15 days (do you frigging believe it??)

Kollen will be 8 on January 1st and we will be on a mini family vacation on his B-day Day.

Ok that is enough updates for now….

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In another (long) note: I know most of you who read this blog (and never ever comment) are family/work colleagues and you are checking in on us, which is great and why I created it, however I feel like I need to write in a therapeutic way about some issues in life that are more personal in a diary kinda way. I do think family/work buds are the most amazing people in my life but not necessary always who you would want to or is appropriate to vent ALL personal issues.

I would like to include all aspects of my life on my blog, not just the rosy sunshine stuff and poop, but don’t think it is right to have a open forum when I am looking for opinions on events such as EX: when I am menstruating and how bad my cramps are??? How infertility still affects me mentally and ways I am trying work through it, any issues with work or my husband etc…..

I thought about making another blog to voice my embarrassing/personal views, experiences, issues, in regards to asking for advice on how to work on them without telling everyone I know in real life….

things such as “Jer and I got in a argument last night and I want a better way of dealing with my hot head towards his computer” , do you see how that would be inappropriate? I have come to the conclusion that I don’t want another blog, I want to write everything down in one place so when I am so old I can’t type, then I will publish it and read through my life. Sooo, in the most long winded explanation ever, you may see some posts that are password protected, and if you are family or a work colleague these are posts that You would not like to read as they will be asking advice on a issues to strangers so please don’t take it negatively because it is not meant to be. If you are one of the strangers out there that can give life’s advice please email me and I will give you the password.

Sometimes I can come across harsher than I mean to (ha, I Know News Flash, right!) so I am hoping that this time was not one of them. Love you guys

Where's Waldo/Daimen

hmmm where oh where arth my eldest son????

Oh there he be.............................................

It took several attempts with a broom, a exciting then disappointing appointment with the leaf blower, but finally, after a rake was purchased, the eldest "thing" was able to create a nice itchy leaf pile to inhabit.....

Musings

Some new happenings from our tiniest little man (who somehow has the capabilities to produce more snot and poo than anyone of us):

Last week Gage cut two more teeth through at the same time and a third is knocking on the pain inducing swelled red gums of his poor little mouth. His teeth come in so fast that his gums do not have time to respond and heal around the tooth as it moves down so as the tooth advances his gums just turn black and rip open, all red and sometimes bloody, NOT NICE TOOTH FAIRY. Here is a image of the teeth he has now

(this is not a actual picture in his mouth, but a recreation of the teething nightmare that has ensued)

He loves to play music with Daddy

Crawling - crawling is more like what... hmmmmm*how to put gently*, like a army crawl if your legs were broken and only your feet, elbows, and the side to side motion of your baby booty and over-sized melon propelled you forward. So cute and unique is my child...


He now has 3 "words" in his vocab that he uses in the correct manner

· Daddy ("DaDa") – he knows who dada is and acknowledges him when he enters the room
· Jabba ("Ja-Yaa") – he calls for the dog as he chases her in his walker
· Cat ("nuct nuct") - he calls for our cat Merlin by clicking his tongue and making the nuct nuct nuct sound. When the cat walks by, Gage clicks “nuct nuct”, if you ask “where is the (nuct nuct or the kitty)", Gage looks for him and clicks “nuct nuct…”. It is my favorite!!
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Onto the Largest of our poo producing offspring that harnesses the power or brilliance beyond his age.

I have to speak in code (what I can remember from my youth that is) just in case our other munchkins read this, I don’t want to blow it for them.

Daimen has come clean with his knowledge that
antaSay isA otNay ealRay
and he has known for two years when he
ustedBay isHay arentsPay uttingPay ouTay resentsPay hristmasCay Eva

2 Years Ago!
He played along so he would get more resentsPay from antaSay

What a little toot, we have been wondering when he would catch on, most kids ask questions years ago, mine just keeps it to himself because telling his parents is not in his benefit, oh boy!
He did to promise to continue the ecretSay for his brother’s sake and
help me with the resentsPay by hoppinSay, rappingWay, and Displaying

Looks like we have ourselves a new Elf-Say, what a visual difference from the Zombie child in the last post..

Trick or Treat 2009

Gage’s 1st Halloween
Daimen’s 11th Halloween
Kollen’s 7th Halloween (I wish he was here to see him in character)


Gage went to a pumpkin patch in his little monkey outfit sporting his favorite food on his head.

I do believe he is 1 of the 3 most handsome boys on this earth......

He first seemed thrilled about the bananna prop we brought and then seemed confused I wasn't opening it for him.

He was intrigued by the pumpkins and seemed to enjoy himself for the most part.

Instead of candy I gave my poor baby boy a nasty cold for Halloween.

He was a champ and tried to play along....

It took a bunch to get him and I to smile on Saturday but we did, long enough to get some cute pictures.....

And then it was back to our real feelings of the day.......

We talked to Kollen on the phone and I did not even get to ask him what he was for Halloween because he threw his Dad a curve ball when he asked to get his ears pierced. Jeremy said no, Kollen got mad, I was on damage control.

Daimen dressed like a Zombie, his step-mom did his makeup/costume and it looked great.

He had several events this year: The fall festival at the church, Trick or treating, and then he came home and hit behind our brick wall and jumped out and scared all our trick or treaters before giving them the goods.

(hehe looks like me in the morning)