Junk Drawer – Of The Ages

Okay, not really of the ages but I just needed to spice it up to make myself feel better.

My List

This list is more for me than for you. I need to write this down otherwise I'll forget what's coming out that I want to watch.  We watched A Good Day to Die Hard Saturday and approximately 75% of the movie was previews and mostly good previews.  So here's my list of must see movies.  Notice I didn't say WHEN I must see them but as long I as watch them before I expire I'll consider it a success.  You might call this my 2013 Movie Bucket List.

Man of Steel

Iron Man 3

Star Trek Into Darkness

The Heat

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

After Earth

FAST AND FURIOUS 6 (thought this deserved caps)

The Internship

I thoughtfully provided the links to IMDB for you so you can read about them or watch previews…whatever. 

Note these are only the ones I've actually seen the previews and that I actually remember that I want to watch.  I'm sure there are others.

Another Note, after Fast and Furious 6, which I WILL watch in the theater, even if it's the $ theater, I will probably be a maniac on the road.  Just warning you.

Are you kidding me?

My mamma's intuition tells me my kids are sick.  Again.  For the third time.  Since January.  The end of January.  Except for the runny noses, painful sounding hacking and inability to stay asleep at night I bet you wouldn't be able intuit that they were sick.  It's something only a mamma could know.  Well, daddy too since he told me last night Joey was getting sick again.  Joe Blow on the street probably could have told me too but Mamma's Intuition is a real thing, dagnab it!  And I won't listen to any blathering on about it not being. A real thing.

It's Been 21 Weeks

And 2 days.  Over half way done but while it's flying it's also dragging.  But really it's fly dragging.  I've got to start planning another first birthday!  It's going to be here before we know it and I'm not going to be ready.  And approximately 2-4 weeks (ish) later I'll go into labor and have another one (whose sex has yet to be determined, dang you work/Dr schedule!) who'll have a first birthday approximately 2-4 weeks after Joey's 2^nd birthday.

Which leads me to another question, has anyone seen my brain, my mind or my nerves?  My brain and mind has fled the scene and I think Jimmy and Joey (a little) has stomped my nerves into non-existence.  Maybe all three will regenerate in approximately 4 -18 years.  By then I'll have dementia.  It's all good.  Life is more exciting when you're not sure if you peed in the toilet or the fish tank.  I'm talking about me, not Jimmy, and we don't even have a fish tank.

Happy Day After Jump Day Folks!

Jimmy

I just love him so much I want to squish him.  And sometimes I want to squish him because he's so onery.  How can a little person be so cute, sweet, loving, thoughtful, funny, perceptive, observant, cute and cute but also be stubborn, onery, stubborn, and really just plain stubborn?

First the sweet, helpful, observant Jimmy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-SpNgusFMU&feature=youtu.be

I think some teenagers I know could take lessons from this two year old.  I was cooking dinner and trying to finish up the laundry at the same time and without me saying a word to him he came and started unloading the washer for me.  Blew my mind. 

Onery, stubborn Jimmy though – boy is he a doozy.  No videos or pictures of that side but yesterday was about the worst day we've ever had with him in his 2.5 years.  He was in trouble from the moment he got up until he went to bed – with some sweet moments sprinkled in to be sure.  I'm pretty sure it's all normal behavior for a two year old but it was a rough day for the ol' parents and for Jimmy.  He stubbornly refused to be obedient even with much discipline and whined all day.  Usually whining means "I need a nap" but he'd wake up from his nap whining and throwing a fit.

To top the day off while watching Dora in his room he apparently decided to check out his diaper.  Took his shorts off, then his poopy diaper and somehow or another got it smeared on his hands, foot, floor and the pillow.  After the day we'd had with him that put me over the edge.  I didn't even punish him since I was pretty sure he was just curious and maybe even trying to help out by changing his own diaper but the whole time I was cleaning the floor all I could think was "I DON'T OWN A DOG FOR A REASON!!!!!!!!"

I guess the day he'd had really wore him out though, as much as it did us, because right after I was done cleaning his floor I combed his hair out and he asked to go to bed.  He was out almost before I got out of the door.  I hope for his sake and ours that we don't have too many more days like that.  I told his daddy that his stubbornness could serve him well one day if he learns how to harness it but right now it's a pain to deal with.

Junk Drawer 2/15/2013

Matters of the Heart

Yesterday was Valentine's Day and for some people it's a really important holiday, it's even the measuring stick by which they judge the success of their relationships.  Some people are disgusted with it and feel it's a holiday created by Hallmark and wouldn't dare lower themselves to indulge in the chocolate-y decadence.

For me it was always more important to me when I had no one.  A day to be sad and miserable and for throwing pity parties, crying that I wasn't special enough to have someone to spend the holiday with.  Now that I'm in a wonderful relationship it's not nearly as important to me.  I do enjoy that we have an extra day each year to use as an excuse to get a babysitter and have some alone time but even if that doesn't happen every year it's more than enough that I have that special someone with me every day.

We didn't celebrate this year in the traditional Hallmark way.  No flowers, some candy, no romantic candlelit dinner but the focus of the day was still on the heart and the heart of the family.

How fitting is it that my dad had heart surgery on Valentine's Day?  Sure it was a little rough on the nerves as we waited but we were so thankful that he was finally having the surgery and getting that infection cleared up so he can get on the road to healing and a complete recovery.  And he started on Valentine's Day.

He pulled through like a champ and we were treated to dinner by my brother and sister in law at one of our favorite Mexican restaurants and stood as the example for all the mushy couples imbibing on a Thursday night with their partner of choice for the evening.  A table for 9 complete with THREE highchairs.  This is what you're in for lovers.  Of course our babies were on their best behavior even though they were Two, Sick and Teething.  So I don't think we really scared anybody off of their intended course for the evening.

Speaking of Two, Sick and Teething

Toddlers are disgusting.  But they don't know they are.  In fact God probably created them to be as gross and nasty as possible in order to help develop their immune systems.  So in a way they're functioning perfectly when they dip their hands in the toilet bowl cause you said they needed to wash their hands.  !!!!  They aren't misfiring or have a screw loose…we should probably be encouraging this type of behavior more often so that they'll never be sick as adults.  I think I'll start serving Jimmy's meals on the floor…the one I rarely mop. 

Sometimes though they take advantage of your failures as a mom (parent) to be even more disgusting than they normally would have been on their own.  I left the thermometer I used to check Joey's temp (you know, where the sun don't shine) on the end table.  I should have known that it would be the most interesting thing on the table this morning when I sat Jimmy on the couch to watch Dora while we finished running around like chickens with no heads.

Daddy came to put his jacket on him and, yep, he was holding it.  In his mouth.  Like a lot.  Daddy almost puked and my heart sank.  First of all it's disgusting to even think about.  Second, my faint hope that Jimmy wouldn't get sick with the stomach bug Joey has was shot dead.  It's almost a guarantee now.  Unless, possibly he's already done so many disgusting things in his two years, that I probably don't even know about, that his immune system is already so strong that sucking on his brother's rectal thermometer means nothing to him.  But as my brother likes to point out Jimmy is a Virgo and as a Virgo Jimmy is the cleanest little disgusting toddler I know. So he's probably gonna get sick.  Maybe I'll get to sleep next year.

Baby Daniel is teething and so is Joey.  It's one reason I thought Joey's stomach bug wasn't a stomach bug for 24 hours or so.  Teething brings on some wonky symptoms/side effects.  But while teething isn't fun for anyone to endure you're unbelievably proud of those pieces of enamel that finally poke through.

So to recap:

Jimmy is Two and unwittingly disgusting – just the way God made him.

Joey is Sick and Teething and the best little sick baby ever.

Daniel is Teething and a doll.

Pudding

I know this is at the end and the picture is at the top but I just had to share.  Jimmy fed himself a cup of pudding and only dropped a tiny bit on his clothes.  Of course his face and hair was a different story.  He was so proud of himself and we just had to capture the moment.