Thunder and Hopscotch: Catching up ...

I've taken all the pictures - just can't slow myself down to get them on - so here we go. Our week in a blog! P.S. I have thoroughly enjoyed this so far, taking all the pictures. I'm not much of a photographer compared to everyone else - but it's fun pretending I am. It's therapy for me to slow my butt down to enjoy the tiny stupid things that really do make me happy, and to laugh about the chaos as it's happening instead of 5 years down the road. So thanks to anyone who might see this and waste their time enjoying my simple chaos!

Hello Fall! Last Saturday the boys and I were determined to enjoy the blustery morning ...

It was a bit windy - 26 miles per hour!

So we opted to be at home, filling the house with warm scents ("Leaves" from Bath and Body is my favorite fall sent!).

Enjoying the first donut and cider of the season! Yay for fall!

Little tiny pumpkins make me smile, and I especially love to find ones with the curly stems!

This is the little bit of color popping out in the neighborhood - I can see the red while doing dishes and it makes me smile!

What a great day for a nap, right? The quiet and calm lasted ... maybe enough time to change into dry warm clothes! Coziness sometimes brings sleepiness ... but not in my house!

Why am I just watching them and taking pictures? First, you need to understand that this is a daily battle. My boys think that getting from point A to point B needs to be a full adventure with pirates chasing them and scary monsters at their heels! So there are moments that I am learning to choose to pick my battle and save the freaking out for another moment ... You only have these moments once, so we can let a few rules slide once in a while ...

We have learned this week that although Hopscotch is not really into sleep lately ... if you let him romp around enough, as they say on the movie Daddy Day Care ..."What goes up, must come down!"

Hopscotch got real quiet later that night while watching a movie ...

... later this week after losing a nap battle to him again ... I found this on my bed! (Seriously, what is it with this kid and his diapers?)

The sweet sound of toddler snoring!

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Hopscotch: "I put it in there momma"

Momma: "Put what in where?"

Hopscotch: "In there"

Momma: "Show me"

Hopscotch leads me to my nightstand where my debit card and license HAD been. Now only lays my liscense.

Momma: "WHERE IS MY CARD?"

Hopscotch: "In there"

Momma: "SHOW ME!"

Screw driver in hand and a whole lot of prayer that what was in front of me wasn't some giant hole to China

Hopscotch: "You did it!"

Momma learned 3 things today:

1. The vents in our house are not giant holes leading to any parts of Asia!

2. Put your cards away for crying out loud!

3. I really need to open all of our vents and clean them before we rent our house! YUCK!

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Insert moose of a dog who eats and destroys everything he finds. Literally. Daddy thinks he's part beaver because he eats logs from the wood pile. Today he decides to catch butterflies with Thunders bug net ...

Bear is also not allowed on the furniture.

Who knew I'd turn into a softy?

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Momma: Where are you?

Hopscotch: "I got dog food!"

Momma: "Put the dog food away! That's for Bear."

Later on after an exhausting hour of dog food distribution ...

Don't you just want to kiss that tired baby!? Just look at those lips! This momma couldn't resist a smooch from her boy ...

Momma: "Hopscotch, did you eat dog food?"

Hopscotch (very sleepy): "Yeah, momma."

Laughing through the moment! What else you gonna do? Well ... maybe brush your teeth!

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Wednesday Hopscotch decided to go formal. He cried and cried after I got him dressed ...

Hopscotch: "I want it on, I want it on!"

Momma: "You want what on?"

Later that day Hopscotch was a big boy on his field trip ...

Momma attempted to make spagetti for dinner, the boys beat her to it.

The day couldn't stop there - why would it?

After dinner while getting ready for baths, the toilet got plugged. We quickly realized that Daddy had the plunger in the back of his truck, we had used it at the new house and forgot to bring it in. The problem was, Daddy was hunting at that moment ... 2 hours away! Soooo, I very clearly stated "LEAVE THE TOILET ALONE! Your dad will be home soon."

Then I ran to get towels from the dryer ... BIG mistake.

Thunder (screaming like a girl): "Momma Momma Momma Momma!

It's a disaster, it's coming, oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no!"

Hopscotch: "Water Comin!"

Momma: "Oh crap."

At this point in the story, I spare you the picture of what the scene was. I did for a moment - after splashing through the bathroom and turning the water off - I paused and thought I need to capture this. But then decided against it.

I will however share with you the LITERAL pose that my children struck after all was bleached and calm. There is nothing fake about this, I pinky swear!