Tis Mumble Jumble with Playdoh!

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I am behind in my ICLW reading, I only got about 5 read yesterday, so I'm only on about 25 out of 130.. so I have some making up to do as soon as I can! 

There hasn't been an update on Natalie that I know of yet, but I'm anxiously awaiting one..

So I didn't get a Random Thoughts out yesterday ... but let me tell you, I have them!!  I just wasn't in the mood after my Ode to Early Mornings post...  So I caught up on my blogroll and had some WITTY banter through email with my friend (she told me I forgot the witty part so I had to come back and add it).....  Nathan had Speech Therapy where we taped 4 new videos which got put up on our YouTube channel yesterday!  He said "Banana" and "Ta-DA" and "Pepper" in some of the videos.  We pulled out the card table and Noah and Nathan played with Playdoh before lunch, then had lunch and nummer nummers...  then the whole house pretty much took shifts for naps!   Kaedyn went down, Nathan fell asleep then I figured I better too, since I had only had 2 hours the night before.... so I got about an hour nap that I woke up feeling horrible from.  Then we worked on dinner and the boys were ALL bickering and yelling and I had a bad headache.......... so my patients, unfortunately, were shot last night.   The MEAN Mommy came out........ oye.... and we had been having such a good day.

Today, I'm going to lock myself up in my bedroom here - in a few minutes - with my laptop of course (normally I am on the big computer off and on all day, it's in the living room) ...  I have a HUGE mountain of gifts to wrap yet, (I'll take a picture!!) ... and I have to figure out WHAT I still need to get so that when Dennis and I go out in the AM, I have a plan! 

So ...  my random thoughts at the moment..........

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Dennis and I are *thinking* super hard about moving to WA State where my parents live.  It was the last place my Dad was stationed (Navy Man) and so they stayed there.  So my Dad, Step-Mom and Sister live there (don't get me started on my Brother right now) ...  I also have 2 older sisters who live who knows where at this point.  All my siblings are via my Dad, in other words, half siblings.  I wish I had better relationships with them, I always longed for siblings.  I am the middle child of 5 on my Dad's side, and my Mom's only!  Anyway - off track ....  So my Mom met my Step-Dad online, he flew her out to Hawaii to meet! LOL... she looooooved it.  Funny enough - he was in Hawaii on business and lived in WA State just a few miles from my Dad.  My Step-Dad is a Navy Man too.  So things went so well with him, she ended up moving out there (to WA State), to be with him.  They've been together for a long long time now.  So it's just funny when I say "My Parents live in WA State" I always feel the NEED to add ...... "all 4 of them" on the end......

ANYWAY .......

We were talking about how we want our life to be and if we REALLY want to move out there.  Don't get me wrong, I so want to because I want to be by my parents, I long for family - I MISS having those family gatherings and just having someplace to go.  I know that Grandma Nancy and Nana (my mom) would LOVE to have their grandbabies right there - because it's the only Grandbabies there are!  I know my Dad and Step-Dad would too!  I know my Step-Dad just dotes on them.  I'm so tired of being just US on holidays!   It breaks my heart that we don't have "Grandma's" to go to tomorrow... or Christmas Day.  

Anyway - I was thinking expense again, and how fast paced everything is out there and how I long for the slower pace of the south.  Or what I imagine the south is.  I'm not a hustle and bustle type of person.   I loved living out in the country and I really want to be in a small town where everyone knows everyone  .....type of thing... 

So I was thinking, and talking to Dennis and funny enough, I said "Do you have a Bubba in your family tree?"  I think there was some song on or something ...  and it was a line in the song... and he goes "No, Cody (his nephew) was Bubba when he was little but not anymore" .... and I was going to make a comment that we really needed a Bubba in our family tree, just as long as WE didn't provide it........ then this face flashed in my mind.......

CRAP....... we already have a Bubba.  We provided him.....

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That same little boy, every time his diaper is taken off........ reaches right for his boy parts!  I don't know how many times I have lectured him with things like "Little boys don't play with those things so young" and "Don't you know you aren't suppose to play with that in front of your Momma!?!?!"  Yes I know, it's COMPLETELY normal...   But it doesn't matter........ the diaper comes off, the HAND goes DOWN THERE....... today, he immediately started to POKE it...   :: sigh ::: He is so seriously a boy!!  Oh and get this..... he shifted his weight and SCRATCHED HIS BUTT the other day.... I kid you not.......okay so the baby has excema (heehee) but still.. it's pretty funny to see your 1 year old scratch his butt... just like his Daddy!

It just starts way to early!!  My 4th Boy and I still don't know how to stop the "Male Process" ...next up, male selective hearing........ oh wait, that already started!

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Nathan has found a very ......... interesting ...... interest in his nose.   If it's small enough, he now attempts to STICK IT UP HIS NOSE......  We have glow stick bracelets ..... and he takes them apart and puts them up his nose until I catch him and take it away.  This morning... it was pretzels!   Stick pretzels.... don't need you thinking he's trying to shove knot ones up there........ ANYWAY ...  I turn around and look at him, and he's got one already up his right nostril ... he's attempting to put another one up the left one... and I yell at him.  At the same time I'm going "NATHAN STOP THAT" he sneezes and the pretzel in his right nostril flies out and he SCREAMS!  Now I don't know if it hurt, if he's screaming because it flew out, or because of my yelling at him.  I can only assume, based on his personality ... that it was the second!  He was mad it fell out!  Because he was COMPLETELY ignoring my "Nathan, Stop that, NATHAN STOP IT .. Come on Nathan  take that out" ...  that I managed to get out in the 10 seconds I was taking to get out of my chair. 

Seriously?  He's going to be that kid in that commercial where they keep going back to the DR because the kid keeps sticking stuff where it doesn't belong and they start calling him just by his first name because they know him so well they have an x-ray room named after him!  Yeah that one.....

I can just feel that it's going to all start soon......

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He (Nathan, that is) also brought me one of the Princess' (step-daughter's) dolls that has been hiding in the closet for her.  We buy her gifts each holiday and we want her to have stuff when we ever we manage to get some sort of custody thing going (another reason why we're not sure we really want to move out to WA) ...  Anyway, it's a Belle (Beauty and the Beast) doll we got her last Christmas and he was very INSISTENT that I open it.  So I did....I figured I'd get it away from him and back in her stuff once he lost interest. 

Well, he got that doll and he grabbed this brush & mirror set thing that had also been in there for her, and he started to brush Belle's hair.  LOL...  He has been brushing Belle's hair since last night. 

Dennis saw when he got home last night and he just laughed and made some comment about hoping he wasn't gay.  Don't get me wrong there - it was just a joke.  We would BOTH accept our children for whoever and whatever they are. 

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And with that ... I will leave you with some photos from yesterday!  If you haven't read my DEAR SANTA post yet, please do - I think it's quite funny!  And TRUE! LOL...  

Now - for playing with Play-doh!  My two small fries!  Noah (who was 1lb 12oz at birth, now almost 8 years old) and Nathan (3lbs 4oz at birth, only 18lbs - if lucky - at 2 1/2 .. he'll be 3 in April)