In an effort to better myself in business and my personal life, I made note of some advice that our preacher spoke about one Sunday. Be interruptable. The gist being when somebody needs you or wants your attention, you should give them your full attention. My struggle is that I have 80 employees, countless, vendors, my boss, my boss's boss, a lovely wife and 4 kids all of which need my attention on just about any given day. Add on top of that the fact that I have self-diagnosed myself with a slight case of adult attention deficit disorder , and it makes for a real struggle with little time to complete my tasks or have much down time. The good news is that my commute home gives me some time to prepare for the kids daily information dump that begins immediately upon breaching the front door. This is actually the part of my day that I look forward to most. Nothing makes you feel than 4 kids running and greeting you enthusiastically after a long day of work. After a few minutes, I have to stop them because they are all 4 trying to tell me what happened that day, and no matter how much I pay attention it is impossible to keep up with 3 girls jabbering and the boy trying to throw each of them off of me so I can give him my full attention. My conscious efforts to be more interuptible are certainly not perfected, but when I make the effort I hear more of what is being said and find myself more patient with the kids as well.
Abby and Chloe are making strides in the right direction with their ability to not destroy a room in a matter of minutes. They have still yet to potty train, but they are increasingly becoming more interested. Both continue to make us laugh on a daily basis, and we are amazed how smart 3 years old can be and what they pick up on. Chloe is our rule Nazi and loves to make sure that Abby is doing the right thing. Abby is and will continue to be the emotional one and always lets you know exactly how she is feeling whether good bad or indifferent.
Lawson is mastering the art of the English language and does well to communicate in one sentence bursts. Along with that comes the frustration when he is not able to communicate his point. The boy has quite the temper, but then they all did at this age. The main difference is that he enjoys using his fists more to communicate his frustration. His appetite remains grossly disturing, and I am truly fearful of the future grocery bills.
Last night we all met up at that mall for dinner as Ms. Lauren has taken the kids over there to get out of the house. We have figured out how to get the kids to behave at dinner and eat all their food. Hold off on dinner until they are really hungry, and they won't say a word and will devour their food and ask for more. Lily wanted to ride with me on the way home as she likes to listen to the Ipod in the car and sing. She gets to pick a song from my Ipod and then I get to pick one. Lily chose Justin Bieber and she made fun of me for singing along with her. I went old school and busted out Phil Collins In the Air Tonight. If you have seen the movie Hangover you know what I mean when I say you cannot listen to the awesome buildup to the drums without picturing Mike Tyson playing air drums to the song. Lily thoroughly enjoyed this part as especially since I cranked the song up as load as I could. We had to listen to at least 5 times and she laughed hysterically as she played the air drum along with the song.
Kids are awake.....let the fun begin.
Jeff, Kasey, Lily, Abby, Chloe, and Lawson Boy
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Father Daughter Dance
My suspicion was that when we go to the dance, she would find her friends and go off and dance with them and I even told her it would be alright for her to do that. But Lily made me feel very special when she went to talk to her friends and then a song came on that she really likes and she came running over to me, grabbed my hand, and said "come on Daddy, I love this song." Words really cannot explain it.
After the dance we went for a nice dinner and ice cream. As I was explaining how boys are supposed to open the door and do other gentlemanly things, Lily reminded me of the movie Footloose (the original Kevin Bacon) that we watched when the boy opened the door on the date and his car door wouldn't shut so he had to kick it shut. She said, "Daddy, boys shouldn't kick the door shut, right?" So of course as we are leaving the restaurant, I opened the door for Lily and once she was in I kicked it shut for her. She got the biggest belly laugh and kept telling me how funny I am. I definitely want this documented, because in a few years, she will just be rolling her eyes at me, but for now I am still her fun Daddy, and I will enjoy it while I can.
It was a wonderful evening.
Have I mentioned how I tried to get Lawson out of his high chair at dinner? I went to grab his tray to take it off and apparently he was not done eating, because the boy grabbed on to the tray with a death grip and yelled, "I wan mo, I wan mo!"
Jeff, Kasey, Lily, Abby, Chloe, and Lawson
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Lawson Charming
Even before Lawson was born when we knew we were having a boy, I remember wondering what is it going to be like for him having three older sisters? After pondering the thought for some time, I came to the conclusion that this kid is probably going to have a unique insight to women that most men will never have. Whether he likes it or not he is going to be subject to many girly things around our household and if he is smart he will use that to his advantage. Even if its as simple as not being insecure around girls and being able to talk confidently with them or understanding proper respect for girls, he will learn something having 3 sisters. One thing is for sure, those sisters of his spoil him rotten and I pray for the girl he ends up marrying one day because he is going to expect to be pampered.
Now I don't know if any of that has to do with anything or not, but I will tell you that boy charmed his way out of getting his tail whipped this evening. Boys will be boys and he is too young to understand that he can walk up and smack daddy playfully and I will playfully smack him back, but you don't walk up to mommy and or your sisters and smack them. He also does not understand how rough and tough he can be because when he does walk up and smack you, frankly it hurts. Well he decided he would smack mommy on the head this evening while she was working on her computer and did not see it coming. Mommy did not like this. In fact mommy raised her voice and gave him a little swat on the leg, which initially just made him more honary. So he decides that he will get back at her by throwing the folded laundry off the couch. This obviously was not a good move on his part and mommy sternly told him "no!".
Of course I am sitting in the chair watching this whole thing go down and trying not to laugh which only made mommy more mad so now Lawson is on the verge of pushing her over the edge and he is about to get a licking. So he is standing there with a decision to make. Do I throw more laundry on the floor and take my lumps or do I turn on the charm and get out of this situation in one piece. I swear you could see the thoughts running through his head and all the sudden he throws his arms out, runs over to mommy and gives her the biggest bear hug you have ever seen. I've known this woman for over 10 years and never once seen her turn from her anger that fast. He just melted all that rage right out of her, and then turned her to complete mush when he went and picked up every piece of laundry he had thrown down. To say I was impressed is an understatement.
After all was said and done with him charming his way out of a smack down, I could swear as he walked by me he winked as if to say "that's how it's done old man".
Jeff, Kasey, Lily, Abby, Chloe and Rico Suave
Now I don't know if any of that has to do with anything or not, but I will tell you that boy charmed his way out of getting his tail whipped this evening. Boys will be boys and he is too young to understand that he can walk up and smack daddy playfully and I will playfully smack him back, but you don't walk up to mommy and or your sisters and smack them. He also does not understand how rough and tough he can be because when he does walk up and smack you, frankly it hurts. Well he decided he would smack mommy on the head this evening while she was working on her computer and did not see it coming. Mommy did not like this. In fact mommy raised her voice and gave him a little swat on the leg, which initially just made him more honary. So he decides that he will get back at her by throwing the folded laundry off the couch. This obviously was not a good move on his part and mommy sternly told him "no!".
Of course I am sitting in the chair watching this whole thing go down and trying not to laugh which only made mommy more mad so now Lawson is on the verge of pushing her over the edge and he is about to get a licking. So he is standing there with a decision to make. Do I throw more laundry on the floor and take my lumps or do I turn on the charm and get out of this situation in one piece. I swear you could see the thoughts running through his head and all the sudden he throws his arms out, runs over to mommy and gives her the biggest bear hug you have ever seen. I've known this woman for over 10 years and never once seen her turn from her anger that fast. He just melted all that rage right out of her, and then turned her to complete mush when he went and picked up every piece of laundry he had thrown down. To say I was impressed is an understatement.
After all was said and done with him charming his way out of a smack down, I could swear as he walked by me he winked as if to say "that's how it's done old man".
Jeff, Kasey, Lily, Abby, Chloe and Rico Suave
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Liar, liar
Let me start this weeks blog off with a congratulations to one of our devoted readers who was recently engaged and has asked Lily to be in her wedding. Congratulations Ashey and Todd on your impending nuptials, we could not be more excited for you. Ashey, sorry I spoiled Ms. Lauren's surprise, but in my defense my wife did not say anything about a surprise. The best advice I can give 2 soon to be newlyweds is don't have 4 children. Though we love every single one of them and could not imagine life without each and every one of them with their unique attributes, frankly they will drive to the brink of inanity at times. Lily is so very excited to be part of the wedding, but don't be surprised if she starts referring it to "her" wedding.
Speaking of Lily, she has another loose tooth and though she is excited, she is not nearly as excited as the first go around. I guess she figures she is an expert at this now though I am certain she will expect all the flare that comes with the tooth fairy. We sprinkled glitter on her pillow the first time and she thought that was pretty cool,so we'll probably be cleaning up a lot of fairy dust as these teeth start dropping put. Looking at her the other day, I realized how big she is getting so fast. She goes on sleep overs, talks about boys, knows all the latest songs and defends Justin Bieber when I make fun of him. The good thing I have noticed about Lily is she is an open book. She will tell you the truth and let you know what is going on at school with friends and boys. We are trying to encourage that so she stays that way, but I have to be careful when she starts talking about boys trying to kiss her. She has all the right answers and says that she asks them to leave her alone, but still some kid named Merritt snuck a kiss in on her the other day. Put Merritt on my list.
The twins, that is a completely different story. They will lie right to your face without an ounce of guilt. Chloe is the worst or best at it depending on how you look at it. The other day Abby ratted her out for drawing on the walls and already had my suspicion that it was Chloe who did it. When I confronted Chloe and asked if she wrote on the wall, she simply replied "no". I told her to look me in the eye and I asked her again. The child looked me straight in the eyes and without hesitation or looking away gave me the same answer. The child has no conscience. Well old dad here doesn't claim to be the brightest bulb in the bunch but I l can outsmart a 2 year old. So I rephrased my question and asked "when you drew on the wall, where did you draw?". She replied, "in the media room". AHA! Busted you little liar! No I didn't gloat that I outsmarted my soulless 2 year old daughter, but we did have a talk about telling the truth and emphasizes the fact that daddy isn't that dumb regardless of what the two of you sit around and say about me and then try to conjure up ways to prove it. Yes, I do believe that happens.
And then there is my sweet Lawson Boy. Well he is sweet as long as you keep him fed. We are recognizing new words every day from him. It is so fun to watch the innate difference between a boy and a girl. If you were to give one of the girls a toy car they would figure out how to incorporate it into the Barbie world. Give that same car toy to Lawson and he knows that he is supposed to make vroom vroom noises and crash into the Barbie world and make all his sitters start crying. He is also smart enough to know that daddy is a total sucker for his baby boy and if he senses those girls are going to retaliate he seeks refuge my arms.
Well the twins just walked into our room and I smell poop, so better sign off for now.
Jeff, Kasey, Lily, Abby, Chloe and Lawson Boy
Speaking of Lily, she has another loose tooth and though she is excited, she is not nearly as excited as the first go around. I guess she figures she is an expert at this now though I am certain she will expect all the flare that comes with the tooth fairy. We sprinkled glitter on her pillow the first time and she thought that was pretty cool,so we'll probably be cleaning up a lot of fairy dust as these teeth start dropping put. Looking at her the other day, I realized how big she is getting so fast. She goes on sleep overs, talks about boys, knows all the latest songs and defends Justin Bieber when I make fun of him. The good thing I have noticed about Lily is she is an open book. She will tell you the truth and let you know what is going on at school with friends and boys. We are trying to encourage that so she stays that way, but I have to be careful when she starts talking about boys trying to kiss her. She has all the right answers and says that she asks them to leave her alone, but still some kid named Merritt snuck a kiss in on her the other day. Put Merritt on my list.
The twins, that is a completely different story. They will lie right to your face without an ounce of guilt. Chloe is the worst or best at it depending on how you look at it. The other day Abby ratted her out for drawing on the walls and already had my suspicion that it was Chloe who did it. When I confronted Chloe and asked if she wrote on the wall, she simply replied "no". I told her to look me in the eye and I asked her again. The child looked me straight in the eyes and without hesitation or looking away gave me the same answer. The child has no conscience. Well old dad here doesn't claim to be the brightest bulb in the bunch but I l can outsmart a 2 year old. So I rephrased my question and asked "when you drew on the wall, where did you draw?". She replied, "in the media room". AHA! Busted you little liar! No I didn't gloat that I outsmarted my soulless 2 year old daughter, but we did have a talk about telling the truth and emphasizes the fact that daddy isn't that dumb regardless of what the two of you sit around and say about me and then try to conjure up ways to prove it. Yes, I do believe that happens.
And then there is my sweet Lawson Boy. Well he is sweet as long as you keep him fed. We are recognizing new words every day from him. It is so fun to watch the innate difference between a boy and a girl. If you were to give one of the girls a toy car they would figure out how to incorporate it into the Barbie world. Give that same car toy to Lawson and he knows that he is supposed to make vroom vroom noises and crash into the Barbie world and make all his sitters start crying. He is also smart enough to know that daddy is a total sucker for his baby boy and if he senses those girls are going to retaliate he seeks refuge my arms.
Well the twins just walked into our room and I smell poop, so better sign off for now.
Jeff, Kasey, Lily, Abby, Chloe and Lawson Boy
Sunday, January 8, 2012
My Worst Fears
Since the last post, Christmas came and went along with New Years and many crazy moments with the kids. Once again, I am kicking myself for not being more diligent posting some of these stories because they add up so quickly we just cannot remember them all. Kasey had off 2 weeks for Christmas so we gave Ms. Lauren a couple well deserved week off as well. After 2 weeks of being with our 4 kids, Kasey was very excited to get back to work, and there were a couple days I wasn't sure all those kids would make it through the day alive after hearing about some of their episodes.
All the kids had a blast leading up to Christmas and looking for Elf on the Shelf. It was the first thing they did every morning. We over heard Lily talking to the Elf on several occasions telling him what she wanted Santa to bring. The kids all thoroughly enjoyed the toys and gifts they received on Christmas. The only problem is they wanted to play with the toys that the other children received. This created some wonderful Christmas WWF Smack down.
Lily is excited to be back in school now and I think she really missed her friends during the break. You could tell she was getting bored and needed some interaction with others beside the twins. The only way I really know how to describe the twins now is "horrible". Their favorite pastime is to destroy their room. When I say destroy, I am not exaggerating. They go into their closet and tear everything off the hangars, throw all clothes that are neatly folded in baskets, and basically try to replicate what a tornado would look like if it flew directly into their room. We have tried talking, spanking, threatening, pleading, begging, bribing, and anything else you can think They could care less. They know the right answer when you ask them if they are going to make a mess, but once they do something and the other one thinks it is funny, well then it is game on. Anything and everything goes at that point regardless of what we have told them.
The twins personality differences are really starting to differentiate. Chloe is our more social one as well and tends to think things through more. Abby is a fireball of emotion. The best way to describe it is when Chloe is upset, somebody has usually hurt her feelings and you can usually calm her down with some reason. When Abby is upset, she gets mad and there is no reasoning or logical way of consoling her.
Lawson Boy becomes more charming every day. He has started using some words that are recognizable and even when you don't understand, he can communicate with pointing and grunting in such a way that we can usually figure out what he wants. It doesn't hurt that most of the time he just wants food. It make me very proud that he is such a Daddy's Boy. The couple days I had off over Christmas, that boy shadowed my every move. As much as I love that boy, I can still only take so much of anybody needing constant attention. While I was trying to cook dinner he kept grunting for me to pick him up over and over. After I finally had enough I encouraged him to go in the other room and let me finish what I was doing. And so I discovered Lawson's new talent of making you feel horrible if you don't give him what he wants. The boy can create the saddest face I have ever witnessed, and so Lawson helped with the rest of dinner.
Yesterday, I got a glimpse of my worst fear for my daughters. We were having a lovely lazy morning in which I slept past 7:00 for the first time in months. Lily came down to cuddle and then the twins came down and got in bed. While I was laying there, Abby points at my chest and asks, "what is that?" I responded, "that's my nipple." After a few seconds of Abby thinking about it, she lifts her shirt up and says, "I have nittles." Then Chloe, "Daddy, look at my nittles, I have nittles too." And so for the next several minutes I had to watch my innocent daughters lifting their shirts and talking about their "nittles".
Merry Belated Christmas and Happy New Year,
Jeff, Kasey, Lily, Abby, Chloe, and Lawson Boy
All the kids had a blast leading up to Christmas and looking for Elf on the Shelf. It was the first thing they did every morning. We over heard Lily talking to the Elf on several occasions telling him what she wanted Santa to bring. The kids all thoroughly enjoyed the toys and gifts they received on Christmas. The only problem is they wanted to play with the toys that the other children received. This created some wonderful Christmas WWF Smack down.
Lily is excited to be back in school now and I think she really missed her friends during the break. You could tell she was getting bored and needed some interaction with others beside the twins. The only way I really know how to describe the twins now is "horrible". Their favorite pastime is to destroy their room. When I say destroy, I am not exaggerating. They go into their closet and tear everything off the hangars, throw all clothes that are neatly folded in baskets, and basically try to replicate what a tornado would look like if it flew directly into their room. We have tried talking, spanking, threatening, pleading, begging, bribing, and anything else you can think They could care less. They know the right answer when you ask them if they are going to make a mess, but once they do something and the other one thinks it is funny, well then it is game on. Anything and everything goes at that point regardless of what we have told them.
The twins personality differences are really starting to differentiate. Chloe is our more social one as well and tends to think things through more. Abby is a fireball of emotion. The best way to describe it is when Chloe is upset, somebody has usually hurt her feelings and you can usually calm her down with some reason. When Abby is upset, she gets mad and there is no reasoning or logical way of consoling her.
Lawson Boy becomes more charming every day. He has started using some words that are recognizable and even when you don't understand, he can communicate with pointing and grunting in such a way that we can usually figure out what he wants. It doesn't hurt that most of the time he just wants food. It make me very proud that he is such a Daddy's Boy. The couple days I had off over Christmas, that boy shadowed my every move. As much as I love that boy, I can still only take so much of anybody needing constant attention. While I was trying to cook dinner he kept grunting for me to pick him up over and over. After I finally had enough I encouraged him to go in the other room and let me finish what I was doing. And so I discovered Lawson's new talent of making you feel horrible if you don't give him what he wants. The boy can create the saddest face I have ever witnessed, and so Lawson helped with the rest of dinner.
Yesterday, I got a glimpse of my worst fear for my daughters. We were having a lovely lazy morning in which I slept past 7:00 for the first time in months. Lily came down to cuddle and then the twins came down and got in bed. While I was laying there, Abby points at my chest and asks, "what is that?" I responded, "that's my nipple." After a few seconds of Abby thinking about it, she lifts her shirt up and says, "I have nittles." Then Chloe, "Daddy, look at my nittles, I have nittles too." And so for the next several minutes I had to watch my innocent daughters lifting their shirts and talking about their "nittles".
Merry Belated Christmas and Happy New Year,
Jeff, Kasey, Lily, Abby, Chloe, and Lawson Boy
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Keep your clothes on child
Christmas came early for me this year, and today's blog is coming to you from my new ipad. My lovely wife was kind enough to get it for me and because I have an ability to guess my gift before it even arrived, she let me have it early.
Lily had her kindergarten Christmas party this week so I was able to take a little time off from work to attend her party with her. We had lunch and she introduced me to all her friends, but the best part is how excited she was that I was able to come to her school and spend some time with her. It will be interesting to see how long it takes before she is embarrassed. I even wore my ugly Christmas sweater to the party, and she thought it was great. Now I plan to wear the ugly Christmas sweater every year and I know it won't take long before she thinks I am a complete dork.
It's been a big week for Lily as she is about to lose her first tooth. She has been waiting for this day ever since her friends starting losing theirs and she could not be more excited. She won't let pull it though, which is somewhat disappointing for me.
The twins are getting crazier and crazier by the day. We are really starting to experience the double trouble phenomenom. If you get one of them alone they are perfect angels, but let the, loose together and they just feed off each other. Where they come up with some of their ideas is beyond me, and they know the things they are doing are wrong but I guess they figure it is harder to discipline the two of them and at least they will go through the punishment together. Tey have torn their closet apart completely ripping all their clothes down. I wine tin during nap time the other day and Abby was standing on thE window while Chloe was jumping up and down on the bed not 5 minutes after I just been in there and told them not to get put of bed. I walked into the media room so they could Skype with mama and papa last night anD they were running around the room with Lawson chasing them except Abby literally did not ha
Lawson is testing his language skills and is trying to talk more and more. He keeps saying something that sounds like car, but we are not quite sure what the child us trying to say yet. The only thing we know for sure is that when he grunts he is hungry.......or pooping.
Maybe my new toy will allow for some time to blog a little more often. We are trying to post more because I know we are forgetting some very funny stories. They may not be funny to us at the time but when we look back they will be.
Jeff, Lasey, Lily, Abby, Chloe, and Lawson Boy
Lily had her kindergarten Christmas party this week so I was able to take a little time off from work to attend her party with her. We had lunch and she introduced me to all her friends, but the best part is how excited she was that I was able to come to her school and spend some time with her. It will be interesting to see how long it takes before she is embarrassed. I even wore my ugly Christmas sweater to the party, and she thought it was great. Now I plan to wear the ugly Christmas sweater every year and I know it won't take long before she thinks I am a complete dork.
It's been a big week for Lily as she is about to lose her first tooth. She has been waiting for this day ever since her friends starting losing theirs and she could not be more excited. She won't let pull it though, which is somewhat disappointing for me.
The twins are getting crazier and crazier by the day. We are really starting to experience the double trouble phenomenom. If you get one of them alone they are perfect angels, but let the, loose together and they just feed off each other. Where they come up with some of their ideas is beyond me, and they know the things they are doing are wrong but I guess they figure it is harder to discipline the two of them and at least they will go through the punishment together. Tey have torn their closet apart completely ripping all their clothes down. I wine tin during nap time the other day and Abby was standing on thE window while Chloe was jumping up and down on the bed not 5 minutes after I just been in there and told them not to get put of bed. I walked into the media room so they could Skype with mama and papa last night anD they were running around the room with Lawson chasing them except Abby literally did not ha
Lawson is testing his language skills and is trying to talk more and more. He keeps saying something that sounds like car, but we are not quite sure what the child us trying to say yet. The only thing we know for sure is that when he grunts he is hungry.......or pooping.
Maybe my new toy will allow for some time to blog a little more often. We are trying to post more because I know we are forgetting some very funny stories. They may not be funny to us at the time but when we look back they will be.
Jeff, Lasey, Lily, Abby, Chloe, and Lawson Boy
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Just another Saturday
With all the social media and venues to keep in touch with one another and know each other's every waking thought, it has created yet another pet peeve of mine. It is just human nature but apparently everybody feels it necessary to share how busy and stressful their lives are. We all know the person who every time they post something on Facebook, it is nothing but drama and woe is me and my life. Makes me cringe every time I see they have posted something. You know who you are. Kasey would tell you I have no emotions, but I cry every time I watch the movie Rudy.
I say all that to preface my blog and state that I'm not complaining about our busy schedule. It goes back to the original motivation for starting the blog, which is to document the kids lives over the course of time. Some day when Kasey is changing my diaper and we can't remember all the crazy days, we'll have something to remind us.
So this is what our Saturday looks like today:
-Kasey woken up twice last night by screaming twins and not in a good mood today. I didn't hear a thing.
-All 4 kids waking up one a time are now up and watching Mickey which give me time to run out and grab some pancakes from McDonald's so we don't dirty the kitchen.
-Crap, Abby saw me leaving and insists on going and close to a big fit if I don't take her
-Kasey picking all the kids clothes out for the day since I will be dressing them and she doesn't trust that I will dress the appropriately. I make sarcastic comments and get the evil look
-Kids eating their pancake. Lawson finished first and grunting for more.
-While they eat, mommy showers and dresses as she has to work this morning.
-Mommy is out the door and taking my car as we will make a car switch later, and she informs Lawson has lost her keys, so we will have a scavenger hunt for those shortly.
-All 4 currently occupied watching Go Diego Go.....Lawson standing in middle of coffee table with finger in nose
-Twin just walked by and I smell Poop
-As soon as I'm done with the blog, we will change diapers, and start getting dressed
-At 10:30 the 4 monsters and I are going next door for a one year old birthday party
-All bags need to be packed before we leave because as soon as we finish we are piling in the car to go pick up Ms. Lauryn (probably be a couple more poops in their somewhere)
-Hopefully kids nap on the way down
-Upon picking up Ms. Lauryn, we are going to mommy's school to swap cars as I have to go to work for a few hours for month end inventory
-Mr. Lauryn will watch kids until Mommy finishes around 2:00
-They will pick up mommy and go to another birthday party
-I anticipate another poop and possible spanking along the way
-(Lawson still standing in middle of table but now crying, Lily and Abby yelling at each other over a balloon, and Chloe going blind 1" from the TV
-Hopefully I will be done with work in time to make the last part of the birthday party
-After the party, Ms. Lauryn can escape away from the monsters, and wouldn't blame her if that involved copious quantities of adult beverages.
-From the party, we have friends that are nice enough to still invite all of us over for dinner.
-Once the kids have done their best to destroy another family's home, we will depart to our home and immediately put everybody to bed.
-Everybody says their prayers, and we have a nice family moment and tell everybody how much we love them despite the fact that I almost drop kicked one or all of them at some point.
-Mommy and Daddy try to read a bit, but only get 2 page in before fading away.
I'm convinced this is the point where they all get together around Lawson's crib and conspire against us.
Have a great weekend, we are!
Jeff, Kasey, Lily, Abba (that's what Chloe calls her), Chloe, and Bruiser
I say all that to preface my blog and state that I'm not complaining about our busy schedule. It goes back to the original motivation for starting the blog, which is to document the kids lives over the course of time. Some day when Kasey is changing my diaper and we can't remember all the crazy days, we'll have something to remind us.
So this is what our Saturday looks like today:
-Kasey woken up twice last night by screaming twins and not in a good mood today. I didn't hear a thing.
-All 4 kids waking up one a time are now up and watching Mickey which give me time to run out and grab some pancakes from McDonald's so we don't dirty the kitchen.
-Crap, Abby saw me leaving and insists on going and close to a big fit if I don't take her
-Kasey picking all the kids clothes out for the day since I will be dressing them and she doesn't trust that I will dress the appropriately. I make sarcastic comments and get the evil look
-Kids eating their pancake. Lawson finished first and grunting for more.
-While they eat, mommy showers and dresses as she has to work this morning.
-Mommy is out the door and taking my car as we will make a car switch later, and she informs Lawson has lost her keys, so we will have a scavenger hunt for those shortly.
-All 4 currently occupied watching Go Diego Go.....Lawson standing in middle of coffee table with finger in nose
-Twin just walked by and I smell Poop
-As soon as I'm done with the blog, we will change diapers, and start getting dressed
-At 10:30 the 4 monsters and I are going next door for a one year old birthday party
-All bags need to be packed before we leave because as soon as we finish we are piling in the car to go pick up Ms. Lauryn (probably be a couple more poops in their somewhere)
-Hopefully kids nap on the way down
-Upon picking up Ms. Lauryn, we are going to mommy's school to swap cars as I have to go to work for a few hours for month end inventory
-Mr. Lauryn will watch kids until Mommy finishes around 2:00
-They will pick up mommy and go to another birthday party
-I anticipate another poop and possible spanking along the way
-(Lawson still standing in middle of table but now crying, Lily and Abby yelling at each other over a balloon, and Chloe going blind 1" from the TV
-Hopefully I will be done with work in time to make the last part of the birthday party
-After the party, Ms. Lauryn can escape away from the monsters, and wouldn't blame her if that involved copious quantities of adult beverages.
-From the party, we have friends that are nice enough to still invite all of us over for dinner.
-Once the kids have done their best to destroy another family's home, we will depart to our home and immediately put everybody to bed.
-Everybody says their prayers, and we have a nice family moment and tell everybody how much we love them despite the fact that I almost drop kicked one or all of them at some point.
-Mommy and Daddy try to read a bit, but only get 2 page in before fading away.
I'm convinced this is the point where they all get together around Lawson's crib and conspire against us.
Have a great weekend, we are!
Jeff, Kasey, Lily, Abba (that's what Chloe calls her), Chloe, and Bruiser
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