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Yesterday, while I was putting Erik down for his afternoon nap, Jake went into my craft supplies and took out some red acrylic paint. He then painted his bike - including the tires - and rode it around the loop our living room, dining room and kitchen makes.

I'm not too concerned about the living room carpet because it's god awful and we'll be putting in hardwoods as soon as we can anyway. The kitchen is linoleum and the dining room hardwood so it came up fairly easily in those. What I was upset about was the splotches he got on the chair I upholstered. I got it off as best I could, but with my carpet cleaner being borrowed by my SIL I can't really get it out until she's done.

So anyway, today I had a ton of errands to run. I'd already promised him a toy since besides a few accidents in the car we're potty trained (YAY!). I decided to get him some paint, brushes and glitter glue instead. All washable. Gods bless Crayola for their washable stuff.

I set him up at the dining room table with his 10 little bottles of paint, brushes and glitter glue. I bought him a pad of paper for markers and paint, and covered the table with newspaper. Then I spent the next hour putting up the groceries/looking after Erik while he had a great time. At one point he called me in there to help open some paint. That's when I realized he'd given up on the brushes and was just dumping the paint out by the bottle full onto his paper.

"Look what a mess you've made!" I said and laughed.

He gave me this totally serious look and said, "no mommy. I'm an artist."

Indeed.

Yesterday morning Jake and Erik woke up at 5:30am. Jake had passed out on the couch around 4 the afternoon before, and slept until he woke everyone up. I kept him in bed as long as I could and then brought him downstairs to watch TV and eat breakfast while I cleaned up myself and Erik and got Jason up.

We went to a local town center that has a fountain where we were meeting

greenstripe and her kids. We had fun for a while and then an entire daycare showed up the same time Lori did. I called another nearby town with a fountain that was more appropriate to play in but there were 2 daycares there. We decided to move anyway since the other town center has an ice cream shop.

Although it was very crowded the kids had a blast (Jake could literally stay there all day). It was in the low 90's and there's not much shade but I did what I could to keep Erik and I cool (without getting wet). After getting the boys in dry clothes we had ice cream. Overall a lovely morning.

Not long after I got home I realized I may have gotten too hot as a migraine hit me hard. Before long I was throwing up, with Jake in the other room asking me what that noise was. The third time I threw up he came in to watch and then told me how disgusting it was. LOL The fourth time he was telling me not to throw up and make that noise. *snort*

Then he disappeared for a while. I got up to get new ice packs and when I came downstairs I discovered a blanket of white over everything in my living room. EVERYTHING. Jake had gotten a full shaker of baby powder and emptied in the living room. The chairs, couch, floor, tv stand, all of his toys - hell even the CAT had baby powder on him. I kind of stood there, stunned, and then took what little remained in the shaker and put it up. Got my ice packs. Called Jason and told him I needed reinforcements and to come home. And then I went back to bed.

I wish now I had taken a picture, but I didn't. I asked Jason later if he had thought to but of course he didn't. Jason vacuumed a couple of times but I'm still going to have a lot of cleaning to do today.

I'm also going to see if I can find a neurologist. I need a new GP too. I hate Dr. shopping, but I seriously need to go see if they've come out with anything new I can try for these damn headaches.

This morning's plan went like this: Let Jason sleep in until around 11:30, then get him up so he could wake up and take the boys. Then run errands during the heat of the day child free, including getting a pedicure (heaven!). Come home and bake some banana bread and piddle around while Jason did the yard.

Here's how it actually went: Let Jason sleep in until around 11:30, when he woke up on his own and stumbled downstairs. Feed the kids and get Erik down for his nap. Pump some milk just in case. Leave Jake playing in his room upstairs while I finished up my shopping lists and Jason went poop. Jake comes downstairs and starts watching TV.

Get startled out of my gourd when Jason starts yelling "WHAT'S GOING ON UP THERE?" at the top of his lungs. Sprint back upstairs where I find the bathroom door closed. When I open it I am looking at an overflowing sink and about an inch of water on the floor. Jason's still bellowing from the downstairs bathroom, and I can finally answer him that it's under control. Jake has pulled the stopper on the sink, turned the water on, shut the door to the bathroom and blissfully come downstairs like nothing's going on. I relay this to Jason in stilted sentences as I throw everything that was on the floor into the bathtub (after turning the water off, of course) and grab towels to mop up the floor.

At this point Jake realizes he may have forgotten a detail about playing in the sink and is getting upset saying it was an accident. He alternates that with mimicking Jason yelling "WHAT'S GOING ON UP THERE?"

Jason appears in the upstairs bathroom door half soaked with his shirt off looking quite peeved. I asked him if it had come through the ceiling and he said yes, through the vent fan. Then he says "nothing like taking a shit in the rain" at which point I lose it and start laughing uncontrollably. I'm still giggling.

Jason's all about taking care of the house right now so he's peeved, but I can't help but laugh every time I get the mental picture of him in the downstairs bathroom happily pooping when water starts pouring down from the vent directly over him.

This is parenthood people, and it isn't always pretty.

His big present from us was a bicycle! We gave it to him Wednesday after Jason got home from work. He was so cute. His eyes got really big and he kept saying "what?!?" LOL He's been riding it around in the house and getting the hang of pedaling.

Then yesterday we had his race car/Disney Cars themed party. I made everyone a Pit Pass, but a lot of them got left behind. The parents thought they were cool, but apparently the kids not so much.

I also made these little foam race cars from a kit. This was the toy favor.

I also made reusable snack bags and filled them with snack mix. This was the big favor for all the kids.

Both of those were actually big hits. And of course the cupcakes. I had this idea to make little roads for each one from chocolate melts and then put a car gummy on each road, but that proved too time consuming and I cut it when I realized I was already going to be up really late the night before. So they ended up just having the car gummies as decoration.

All in all I think all the kids had fun which is my main goal for parties. :)

I didn't get many pictures during the party, but there are a few more on flickr.

I can't believe it.

The rest of the chair pics are on Flickr, and pretty funny since he will not sit still.

We went to the playground this morning and these are my two favorite shots. He needs a haircut, and he had chocolate for breakfast (it's his birthday) which is what's on his mouth. Haha.

See that space between Jake and Erik and above Pilsbury? That's where I slept for about half of last night. This amount of space it typical for me whether we're in Jake's bed or mine and Jason's. Only when we're in our bed, Lokai joins in as well. *sigh*

We went to the zoo today and had a good time. Sort of. It was stupid crowded with school groups making it really not fun for me. But Jake had a blast. Especially with the petting zoo and the playground. I'm not sure he was super keen on seeing the animals. He was excited to see the tiger before we got there, but of course the tiger was barely visible through the bamboo forest. I was trying to decide between a Botanical Gardens and a Zoo pass, but I think I'll go with the Botanical Gardens. And maybe the aquarium. Everyone I know with an annual pass to the aquarium has loved it and I really like that place myself.

I'm just not good with crowds. Jake is pretty good about staying close by, but it still makes me nervous as hell when he wants to get out of the stroller and walk when there's a ton of people. Not to mention it was hard just to get up to see the animals, and we missed seeing the cloud leopard altogether. I might give it another shot sometime over the summer. If for no other reason than to get more/better photographs. The lion and the sun bear were both asleep, so that was kind of a bummer.

Anyway, here are a few shots from today (with a few more on flickr):

Jake fell in love with this goat, and had quite the conversation with it. I wish I could've heard what he was saying, but I missed it. He's giving it a hug here.

Jake and Evan checking out the flamingos.

I like rhinos.

But the otters are my favorite.

This was one of those duck on a spring things, and Jake had a blast on it.

Driving the school bus.

I got Lori to take a picture of all three of us. :D

We had fun dying eggs. We didn't do a hunt because Jake had two already and that's enough chocolate. (More pics on Flickr, of course.)

I plan a big post about the new plantings, but I have to write down what all I bought. I can only remember a few of them. But the pictures are up on Flickr if you want to see.

In the car earlier today Jake piped up from the backseat:

Jake: Mommy, I need a bunny. ... No, I need a goldfish.
Me: Why do you need a goldfish?
Jake: Because I NEED it. (this is often the response to "why do you need ___?")
Me: Do you think you're ready for a pet?
Jake: What?
Me: You'll have to feed it.
Jake: No. I need to eat it.
Me: *blink* You want to eat a goldfish?
Jake: YES. The brown ones.

At this point the lightbulb went off and I realized he was talking about the chocolate goldfish crackers I put in his snack mix. Which also features cheddar bunnies. LOL

requested: the creek, horses and pics of me and the boys. The creek and horses were easy, but I didn't have my tripod so a proper pic of me and the boys will have to wait until next time. I also got pictures (and video!) of Jake driving the tractors. Unfortunately I managed to get a bit of dirt on the lens at some point so about half the shots I took have black spots on the right. :( All of this trip's batch are on flickr, but here are my 10 favorites.

Cox Creek, which runs through our property

Me and Erik

Dash

Ba Donk A Donk

Jake offering Czar a rock

Dad and Erik

Branding heifers

Controlled burning the pastures

Bones

Jake in the farm truck

Erik is two months old today! He's seriously cute and sweet.

Dimples!

Already too big to lay in the seat!

Not from today, but totally squee inducing. :)

And last night Jake got his first good war wounds. Our neighbors host a movie night and show family movies on their lawn every Friday night. We went to watch Megamind (which was really good - at least the first half I got to see) and Jake was running and playing with the other kids when BAM! He hit the sidewalk face first.

I was most worried about his upper lip and his left eye tooth, since they connected pretty good and he wouldn't let me get a good look at them. But his tooth seems fine and his lip isn't terribly swollen anymore. His wrist seems to be bothering him a bit, but not too bad.

I felt so bad for him, but he was back running around and playing quickly. Jason tells me I better get used to it, because boys are going to get scrapes and things, but I still hate it when he gets hurt and wince every time I look at him.

So. Damn. Cute.

I didn't get a good full length picture of him, but the two I got are up on flickr if you want to see.

9pm: get Jake in bed, read stories and settle down
10pm: Erik wakes up. Head into his room to feed him. Jake gets up 5 minutes later and goes downstairs where Jason is
11pm: Erik finally finishes eating, get Jake back in bed and actually fall asleep
3am: Erik wakes up again
4am: Finish feeding Erik, stumble into my own bed and pass out
4:30am: Jake wakes up screaming blue bloody murder, crawls into bed with me and continues to scream No and ask for things that are downstairs, in the car, etc.
5:30am: Jake finally stops yelling and passes out, so do I
6am: Erik wakes up
7am: I try to put Erik back in his crib, but every time I lay him down he wakes up crying
8am: give up and take Erik into Jake's bed where we both pass out
10am: Jake wakes up for the day.

And this is why I'm sleepy and look like hell.

Erik and Jake at one day old.

You know you need lotion on your feet when your toddler runs his hand down the sole of your foot, yanks his hand suddenly away and says "ouch! Sharp!"

It's still in progress as far as finishing decorating but he's moved in now so I figured I'd post some pictures.

The color is a really pretty blue. Not as dark as the Disney color he originally picked out, but not as light as I would have liked. I let him pick from a few choices after he said he wanted blue.

These decals were much easier than I imagined. And a lot of fun to do. It's just white contact paper. I realized the Earth was backwards, so it's Jupiter now:

And this is his little toy area:

He also has a new 4 drawer dresser (the Circo one from Target) and it makes getting him dressed so much easier since his clothes aren't jammed into the baby dresser anymore.

I have glow in the dark paint that I'm going to use for a border of different sized stars around the top of the room. I'm also going to add some robot decals to the wall with the dresser, and a wire hanger thingy to hang his artwork (eyelet screws, picture wire and clothespins or clips). Not entirely sure when that'll get done, but it'll get done eventually.

He says his new room is really "cool" and has slept in it since Mom left after the holidays. :D

As promised. :)

27 week belly pic. Ignore the face and hair. This was the only appropriate shirt I could squeeze in to. LOL

Our three pumpkins. Jason's on the left, Jake's in the middle and mine on the right.

Yoda Jake!

Making his Jack O Lantern.

Jake actually went trick or treating with Jason. He came home with a pumpkin full of candy. :) I have pictures I'll put up later, probably tomorrow.

At Mom's last weekend the leaves were raked into a huge pile in the front yard and the kids went to town. It seemed like fall even though it was about 85* out.