I really really suck!!

So I haven't blogged in like 3 months because I've been cranky and incubating. So this is going to be a quick catch up post.

basically, I'm days away from birthing #2 (god willing its days and not weeks). G is beside himself excited. He keeps asking me lovely questions such as "Will your butt get even bigger after the baby comes out?" and "What are those big red marks on your belly?". The cribs been up for 2 days and he already tried to climb in it. Its going to be a bumpy road!

School kicked off with massive illness. First G got sent home with the stomach bug - FUN! this led to an obsession with throwing up and all sorts of questions about it. My favorite was "If the baby throws up in your belly, does it then come out your mouth?" Oh 4 year old curiosity! The last 2 weeks have been the Lice infestation which thank god so far we have been spared.

At the end of summer, I had to take G to the dentist for a checkup. It was great fun. First he didn't like the toothpaste so he spit it out at the hygienist. Then they did xrays for the first time. As she is explaining that they are just going to take a picture and trying to get him to bite down on the bite wing, he stops her and says "You know, if you put that thing in my mouth, I won't be able to smile and say cheese". 4 years old and already an expert smart ass. Pray for me.

thats the highlights - or atleast all my muddled baby brain can remember!

Sibling Love

G's new favorite thing to do is scream into my belly and tell me "I'm screaming at the baby".

Paybacks are a bitch kid

Yes, I know I have a blog

and I suck! I have been kind busy growing another little darling child inside of me. a child that G has told me many times will be a boy because "Thats what he ordered". He is so confident, he told a little boy at the beach that he had a little brother in his mommy's belly. We will all find out come November when the baby arrives!

Some funny one liners out of G the last couple months:

"I can't fall asleep because the baby is howling and keeping me awake"

Me: Why do you have so many questions?

G: I don't know Mommy, they just popped into my head when I was in your belly!

"Mommy, when this baby comes out, lets have another. Daddy can grow that one in his belly"

"Mommy, when you make that angry face, it makes me laugh" (this is followed with him imitating said angry face)

There was an incident in Shoprite with a Pool noodle toy that resulted in a 30 minute tantrum. But I won't tell that story. Mostly b/c I'd prefer to NOT relive that one!

G is currently obsessed with sausage. Could eat it every night. When I take him to Whole foods, he has a song he sings in the butcher aisle. "Sausage, Sausage Sausage, I love sausage!" He sings this until i agree to buy him some. I suppose I should just be glad he's not asking for candy!

2 weeks ago we were driving home and I was stuck behind an ambulance. I didn't move out of the way, b/c I was too lazy, and we were probably going a little under the speed limit. All of a sudden from the back seat I hear an exasperated sigh, and a little voice "Mommy, are you REALLY going to stay behind this ambulance?"

I promise now that I'm not as sick, I will try to blog more. Only until Nov of course b/c once I have 2 kids I'll barely have time to pee let alone blog!

Happy 4th Birthday G!

(Disclaimer: I know I'm 2 weeks late. whatev. I've been busy nursing a sick child and growing another one)

Dear G,

Today you turned 4! Oh what a year age 3 has been! It started off very bumpy, but ended a little smoother as your 3 year old emotions settled down. You are such a great kid! You are smart, inquisitive, handsome, charming, sweet, loving and funny. You love to snuggle with Mommy in bed, you love going to hockey games and baseball games with your Da, you love school, your friends, the beach and school. This year you started a new school and are learning so much, Mommy and Daddy couldn't be more proud of you!

Your absolute favorite thing? TRAINS. You live for trains. Thomas, Chuggington, Japanese high speed, the santa fe, the mag lev. You know more about trains than any other 4 year old boy. You don't just play with trains, you really study and learn all about them. Daddy and I think you are going to be an engineer one day because you are so interested in how things work and cause and effect. You've ridden more trains that I can count!

Your favorite foods are dino nuggets, pirates booty, Pizza, any kind of berry, pineapple, grapes and ice cream. Veggies are still a no go, but you are a pretty good eater so we are hoping they will come in time.

This year you discovered your love of the beach at surfrider, our summer happy place! You also traveled to washington DC, London and Paris. You were such a great little jet setter, you loved the plane and loved the Eurostar between Paris and London. You met your new cousin Brian and had so much fun with cousin Sydney. You are a lucky boy to have so many cousins to play with and so many friends!

You are also completely in love with Ralphie, Mommom's dog. You get so sad when Mommom comes to visit and doesn't bring Ralphie. You are a very caring and nurturing boy.

Here's hoping Age 4 is a great year G! Its going to bring some BIG changes for you, but you are an awesome kid and I know you can handle it and will be great.

Love,

Mommy

99 problems and a train ain't one

So earlier today, Daddy took G to a local hobby shop to kill some time. While there, he saw a brand new batch of Chuggington trains and spotted Emery, his "favorite train ever". So because Daddy didn't want to be the bad guy, Mommy got a phone call from there. It went something like this:

G: "Mommy they have emery can i get it?"

M: "G, we have gift cards to the toy store from your birthday. lets check their first to see if they have it so we can use your gift cards."

G: "But I want it"

M: "Ok we will find it but lets shop around first"

so they come home and my darling boy proceeds to have a huge meltdown because to him, I might as well have said No, and he knew he got cash for his birthday so he thought we should just use that. (oh clever boy). So a little while later, we ventured out to the toy store for whom Mommy had coupons and gift cards. Did they have it? Of course not!

so back we go to the Hobby Shop. As we are pulling into the parking lot, we hear this voice in the back seat "You see Mommy, this is where my problem started...". My husband and I were hysterical! Oh to be 4 and have such problems!!! Of course he got the train and was happy as could be for like 20 minutes until he decided us going out to eat was an injustice. Oh to be 4.

Is it terrible?

That one year later and I still haven't done any of this

My poor kid is 3 and has no baby book. Not even a photo album. We have taken a ton of pictures but they are all sitting on shutterfly, waiting for me to finally make some photo books.

This year, I promise!!

Back to Reality

So we returned from a lovely vacation to find our refrigerator was warm. Well not so much warm as "Not cold". Upon further investigation, we discovered the temperature knob was turned off! After I furiously blamed my husband for a good 10 minutes and he continued to claim innocence, we called the young one in. This was the conversation:

Me: "G did you touch that dial?"

G: "No" while smiling sheepishly

Me: "Its ok, tell me the truth you won't get in trouble" (Yeah right)

G: "I touched it"

Me: "Why did you touch it?" (while gritting my teeth)

G: "Because I wanted it to be at 5 o'clock" (Damn school and their teaching of time)

Me: "Well G, you turned off the whole fridge and now all of the food in it is ruined and in the freezer and we have to throw it all out"

G: "Its ok Mommy, just go buy all new food"

Then my husband quickly escorted G out of the room while I emptied and cleaned the freezer and fridge (Did i mention the melted ice cream in the freezer? Good times!). I spent saturday doing massive food shopping to replace all the food and my previously stocked freezer. Fortunately, the time change had us all up at 5am so I was able to get a head start on all that!

One day I'll laugh about this, I will. Just not today. or tomorrow. or next week. You know when I'll laugh? When I have grandkids and teach them how to change the dial on the fridge so they can do it too! Thats when I will laugh.

My little jet setter

We just got back from a vacation to London and Paris to visit my brother in law, sister in law, niece and baby nephew. G spent the whole time happily playing with his cousin S (woo-hoo, a break for Mommy!). S is a girly girl, so G played with barbies, her doll house and her baby dolls. One day he even came out of her room wearing 3 headbands, 4 plastic necklaces and 2 rings! Daddy was THRILLED! (and wouldn't let me take a picture).

He made some keen observations during the week, the first was while playing with barbie, who for some unknown reason was always naked. "Mommy, he said to me, look, Barbie has boobs just like you!" Yes sweetheart she does, but why don't you think Barbie has a waistline just like me? Hmm?

Then later in the week "Mommy, tinkerbell doesn't have boobs, cause she is a fairy and fairies don't have boobies" Good to know kid!!

The Boy has more stamps in his passport at 3 then I did at 23, and what did he take from it? a lesson in dolls and boobs!