I particularly like the eye monster on this work of art.

Mason drew this especially for Ben it’s Plankton from Spongebob with his mom.

This is Boo’s drawing it’s our little family inside a house.

This is Boo’s too again another family portrait.

I love to see them following in their daddy’s footsteps and being artsy…

Deciding how to decorate your house is hard.

I told her to get her house all set up because it looked like a small whirl wind had come through.  I was the mom as usual I always get stuck in that role.  Boo is usually the sister rabbit but she recently got these little dolls called Lalaloopsy they are creepy as all get out because they have buttons for eyes. But she loves them.

So sister rabbit was tossed aside for Lalaloopsy.  Pretty soon Robin showed up just to make things interesting.

I am sure Robin is not a good influence on Lalaloopsy

Especially when Robin is hanging out with people like the Penguin

Momma rabbit was a bit overwhelmed.

But soon they were all in bed.

And momma rabbit got to watch her favorite reality show.

You tell people your house is a mess and they never believe you. They say but when I was over it was clean and I think exactly when you were over I knew you were coming so I cleaned my house.   The thought of having people over to my house always makes me cringe b/c I  think oh no I have to straighten my house.

It’s not like I don’t like to visit with people I really do it’s just I always worry what will they think of my house or the way I do things.  Am I the only one that feels this way? The weird thing is I don’t ever think these things when I got to someone else’ house but for some reason I am convinced they think it when they come to mine.  I guess you could say on top of being lazy I am insecure.  =-)

As I type this there are toys strewn across the den floor, my sink is full of dishes and I need to make my bed.  And Easter is in two weeks yeah for Easter ug for having it at my house.  I really hate that I am this way.  I need to work on it.  So on this beautiful Monday morning I will attempt to clean my house and I will rope the Chickens into helping.  I will just take lots of breaks. I think I need to visit this website again.

I know I personally can get a little down if I am stuck in the house all day in this cold weather with two crazy Chickens and no adult to talk to. Sure I can chat with my husband when he gets home but do husbands really understand the craziness that is motherhood? How hard it is to keep up with the laundry and dishes and basically keep the house running? Not really they try but unless they have spent time doing it first hand they don’t really understand.

Which is why it’s so nice to have those times set aside when your kids can play with other kids and you get a chance to talk and connect with another adult that knows EXACTLY what you are going through and what your day to day life is like. It’s so refreshing to know that you are not alone.

So I encourage you stay at home mom’s if you find yourself stuck inside with just your kids to talk to. Find a local play group or reach out to that other mom at church. Just getting together for a couple of hours can be so refreshing and encouraging.

I was not really sure how he would react to to a sibling but when she came he called her ” his baby”.

Sometimes she was not so sure about this.

But he loved her from the beginning.

For a while it was really hard having a 2 year old and a new baby… I know Mason felt the change, babies take up more time. But at least at the time daycare was a constant for him he had the same teachers and his little classmates.  But that changed when I quit my job to stay home full time.  The adjustments were hard for both of us. I was suddenly with a toddler and a baby all day and he was without his little playmates.  He would  get frustrated sometimes that Kyboo could not play with him, he would try talking to her and then ask me why she would not talk back.  But as she grew they became closer. And in the past six months they have really interacted more  and it’s been so neat to see them  start to play together.

She adores her older brother she wants to do whatever he does. She dragged this chair over to sit right next to him.

It’s been so cute to see her try and be the little mommy to him when he cries or is sad she will rub his back and go “ohhh” it’s so sweet. Don’t get me wrong they fight and the sibling rivalry is really starting to crank up.

But I am so glad we have our Chickens……

and I am so glad they have each other….

We went to the zoo for the first time since Mason was 18 months old.. And as you can see he LOVED it.

And well Boo just looked longingly at the “kitties” aka lions behind the glass.

Some days this is how I feel.  I know I have it good not everybody gets to stay home with their kids.  I am thankful to be a SAHM but some days it’s just so hard.  I used to work full time and I thought that was hard. But somehow the house managed to stay cleaner because no one was in it all day. I am not one of those highly organized people to begin with and I am not self motivated  much to my husband’s chagrin.

So put me in the house all day with two kids 3 and 1 and well simply put the house gets trashed.  And toys, toys I HATE them they are everywhere and when you ask the 3 year old to help he says “oh it’s too hard.” So I end up doing it myself because he takes so long to clean up. Then there are days like today… Things are going pretty good  the house is trashed from the weekend I won’t even talk about that. But I was trying to clean it up as Kyboo  (18 months) drags everything back out that I  JUST put away.

So I decide to take a break an make some phone calls and all of a sudden Mason starts screaming bloody murder from the bathroom at the top of his lungs. Why are you always on the phone when they decide to either freak out or pee on the floor?

I tried to finish the conversation with the nice lady while my child is shrieking from the other room about pee on the floor. I get off the phone go in the bathroom and he has indeed peed a lake in front of the potty not IN it in FRONT of it. And then Kyra decides to take a stroll in the pee as I am scrambling around trying to find anything big enough to sop up this lake of pee. And I lose it. Yep impromptu baths ensue…and a little yelling…for Kyboo to get out of the pee for Mason to get in the tub it was a three ring circus.

So dear husbands when your come home and your wife is wilded eyed and the kids are in front of the tv eating junk food.  Don’t ask why just give her a kiss and be thankful you were not the one sopping of the pee.

I took this picture of Kyboo last week. She was headed off to some corner of our “front yard” by herself . Sniff.  She is only 18 months old but she is already asserting her own brand of independence. She can put her own shoes on well one pair of shoes she can put on by herself.  She can feed herself with a spoon and tries to put her bowl in the sink like her brother when she is done eating.  She tries to buckle herself in the car seat, when we come home she closes the front door and wants to lock it. These are all little things, but it seems like she is doing them so much sooner then Mason did.

Funny how with the first you can’t wait until they start to walk and talk because you want to see them do new things. But with your second you realize how quickly they change how FAST they learn to walk and talk . And you want them to stay small just a little longer…….

This is Kyra at about 8 weeks.

Ok I just had to post this picture first. I was at the computer the other day and Kyboo was really quite and Mason and I went and looked and she to my horror had climbed up on the chair and then the table and was rummaging around in Mason’s play dough. She of course thought she was the cat’s meow so I had to take a picture then quickly got her down and moved the chair. =-)

So I have been tweeting about how not clean my house has been lately.  I just have not been in the mood to clean, and it was just a huge disaster zone. I don’t think I have ever seen so many crumbs on floor. Yeah I know that’s nasty  but, it’s the truth.   So I promised… PROMISED my husband that the house would be clean when he got home yesterday. The dear man had had enough.  So I put it off almost all day and FINALLY got around to starting on it around 3: 30 and he gets home at 5 ahhh. But I got it done.

So to encourage myself and hopefully to keep from letting it get this bad again. I took before and after pictures. I am to embarressed to post the before pictures…..I haven’t decided yet if I will. But I did take after pictures. I could post those but they are not as interesting without seeing the before pictures.  Ok I will be brave and show  you my little nest.

These are the before:

These are the after:

Kyboo trying to crawl up on the sofa=-) 

I do have to say it was nice to wake up to a clean house. And we have not trashed it … yet… =_)