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Bonding brothers, car naps and birthday party fun!

Posted on December 24, 2007 11:10 pm by TheAngelForever

This part Saturday was a busy day. In the morning JL went outside to remove ice from the driveway since the temperature was going to get close to 45 degrees during the day. While he went outside the two boys were playing together. As mentioned before JSL loves to watch NHL and laughs at everything he does. NHL just eats this attention up.

Here are the boys hanging out on the couch together. NHL just loves to hug his little brother and JSL is tolerates SO much since he is a very easy going baby.

NHL is not the only one that tries to entertain. Here is the little guy trying to get his big brother’s attention. Instead of NHL laughing you can see JSL is the one about to laugh.

Can you tell the wheels are turning inside NHL’s head?

Please note who now likes a binky. JSL is trying to be shy while thinking about playing peek-a-boo with his buddy.

Soon after JL came in from outside it was time to get the boys ready to head to Chuck E Cheese. NHL decided that he wanted to go to his friend’s party that was there. Cool right? Well, we were a little hesitant because NHL is petrified of Chuck E Cheese. Still he wanted to go, so we opted to try it. Last time he went to a party there (over a year ago) he stayed in a corner in tears the entire time until we left. When we got in the car it quickly became very quiet. Here is how the boys looked when we got to Chuck E Cheese:

We decided to wake NHL up to head inside. BIG MISTAKE!!!! The kid was a mess. He had a full blown temper tantrum in the parking lot. I let JL go ahead while I told NHL to be a big boy and go in. He suddenly did not want to go inside where the costume would be. I practically dragged him inside. He immediately wanted to hide inside the bathroom. B’s mother knew about NHL’s fear. She told me that they promised to warn us when the costume would come out and it would only be out at cake time. We told NHL this and after a little while he eased into playing some games.

Getting him to the table (where the cake and Chuck E Cheese would later be) would be tricky, but he eventually went with JL standing nearby. As promised we told him when and where the costume would be coming and he was pretty calm. The poor birthday did not do as well. He was shaking and VERY upset by the appearance of Chuck E Cheese. JL and I were floored that NHL actually wanted to Conga around the place with the costume! At the end of the time NHL did not want to go. He loved it and kept talking about wanting to go back – WAHOO! Now I do not feel as bad about being a "mean mommy" – LOL!

Here are some sketches that we had made there using our tokens:

And here is NHL on a ride with Chuck E Cheese that takes a photo when you aren’t paying attention:

Now NHL keeps asking to go back – it looks like we may have created a monster. Mind you I reserve the right to wait and see if he goes in without kicking and screaming next time before I officially consider this a done deal.

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Tuckered out at Target

Posted on December 21, 2007 11:04 pm by TheAngelForever

Today must have been an exhausting day at nursery school! It also could have been all of the fresh air and anticipation of many days home with Mommy and JSL over break ;)

Poor NHL conked out in the car on the way to get his friend a birthday present at about 6:20. JL managed to take him out of the car, carry him into Target, put him into a cart and then we propped him up using JSL’s blanket. Here is what the tired 4 year old looked like.

Comfy looking isn’t it? Here’s a complete view including his lovely boots:

I’m not sure what was more priceless: (1) When a person passed by us and grabbed his friend and said "Man that dude is passed out!" or (2) The look on JL’s face and the woman helping him get glasses when I pulled out my camera and took the photos.

JL should have known I now have my camera with me at almost all times just in case (I learn from the best – JL himself). Mind you I goofed and did not have it the other day when JSL fell asleep and we plopped him into the supermarket cart. I did have my cell phone and took a picture that I now have to get off to view. Kids and their odd sleeping poses!

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It’s a MOOricle!

Posted on December 13, 2007 10:14 am by TheAngelForever

*THUD*

That would be the sound of my head (and probably JL’s too) hitting he laptop this morning. To say that sleep was rare last night would be the understatement of the century.

Last night JSL was really miserable. His poor nose had alien life forms escaping from it in large quantities. There was no doubt this was his first official cold and not from teething. He finally settled down to sleep and was up again before we went to sleep. JL managed to get him back to sleep fairly quickly, but that was just the calm before the storm.

At about 1:00 the congested, miserable monkey woke up. He came into bed with us and we decided to head to change his diaper. I was the lucky one that had the task of cleaning out his nose. After much snot sucking he sounded a little bit better. We were hopeful that he would come into bed with us and go back to sleep.

NOT!

He was still horrible congested. At about 2:00 I asked JL if I should try something that I heard someone from one of my mommy groups mention in the past (Hey N). She had used breastmilk to help her boys when they had pinkeye. I vaguely recalled people also mention using it for stuffed noses. I was willing to try anything at that point. JL was skeptical and tried to get JSL to settle with a steam bath. It helped a little. At about 2:30 I was asked to quickly pump some milk.

So off I went to pump about an ounce of milk to use for nose drops. I went back into our room and was greeted by a less than thrilled group of boys. I put a few drops of milk into each of JSL’s nostrils and then went back to bed. I took him into my arms and in about 10-15 minutes he was sleeping peacefully. WHOA! It worked!!!!

Since then I used it when he got up this morning so he would be able to nurse. Now I am going to do it again to try to get him to nap some. I joked with JL that I wanted to bottle my MOOricle milk since babies are not able to use anything when they are sick and this seemed to help a lot.

On that note I am off to help JSL before we have to brave the storm and pick up NHL from school. The storm is coming at about the same time he gets out of school.

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Off schedule kiddies = cranky boys

Posted on November 10, 2007 12:11 am by TheAngelForever

Yesterday we arrived at my brother’s at about 7:30 or so. By the time my parents arrived an hour later and everyone met my new niece it was VERY late. NHL was SO overtired he couldn’t settle. He was sleeping in a room with my parents and they were all still up close to midnight.

Fast forward to way to early this morning when he was back up and roaring to go. Then add no nap today to the mix and a very late night at temple for cousin S’s baby naming. Talk about way too tired to know what to do with yourself. The tired little guy is conked out with barely any fight at all.

Poor little JSL is a mess from his schedule being WAY off. He’s teething again and is coughing from too much saliva. He sounds like he is getting a cold, but I don’t think it is that. Now we just need to get his over tired baby self to sleep.

On that note I am off to try to get someone to sleep.

C’est Moi

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All boys are sleeping – PARTY!

Posted on November 3, 2007 4:27 pm by TheAngelForever

Right now all three boys (32 years, 4 years and 5 1/2 months) are sleeping!!! Wahoo . . . this does not happen often and likely will not last long.

Party at my house!!!!

When I went in to check on NHL before (he was avoiding sleep like the plague) he finally conked out. Here is what I saw from the door:

From far you could barely see his little butt hanging out from all of the things on his bed. I ventured in closer and took some more pictures. Here you can see a little more hanging out from under all of the pillows and blankets. Only a 4 year old could sleep like this, but remember he was NOT tired!

I went even closer and saw a belly button hanging out and a hint of ear.

Yes, there was definitely an ear in there!

**Update – now the littlest monkey woke up and I gave him to daddy in bed to try to settle. I knew it wasn’t going to last long, but assumed more than 15 minutes. GAH!

Here is what I did with JSL when he and I were up. Mind you to get this one good shot a bunch of others with his hands in his mouth and trying to eat his feet were mandatory.

Here are the other pictures from the photo shoot (remember the mosaic program does crop these funny – I had him perfectly in the shot and didn’t cut off his head in any):

5 1/2 month JSL photo shoot